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As someone once mentioned: Good VA panels start at 32". :bear: It's best not to look for the perfect monitor, but the one that's least annoying for your use case. Darker edges or black crush may be more tolerable than banding in shadows with the room lights dimmed for example.

I ordered this monitor from a discounter's online shop. It is a curved VA panel with FreeSync. The package comes with external power supply, audio cable (to be used for VGA connections) and an HDMI cable. Ergonomics Only tilt, about -1°/20°. In any case plenty unless you sit below the screen...

Some more testing with http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php revealed something to me. The C27HG70 can be set to 60Hz or 120Hz while the computer is set to 60Hz. When the monitor is set to 60Hz, the horrible overshoot is there, while at 120Hz it isn't. Apparently the firmware does internal...

You mean the old purple artifact issue? No that seems absent with this unit and firmware. What I meant was this picture: https://www.digitalmasters.com.au/Calibration_Print_sRGB.jpg (which I assume was carefully calibrated) showing shadows below the strings of the base and the red dress looking...

I have the C27HG70 here right now. A repaired unit made in September 2019 (date code "M9"), firmware 1023. I'm recalling all the stories of inverse ghosting, text inversion and dirty screen effect just now and didn't notice any of that here, though I didn't specifically check for dirty screen...

It's bits and pieces I found in reviews: "the manufacturer told us our calibration device isn't sensitive enough" - contrast was measured lower than expected, "we only have 2 digits after the decimal place"/"it might have been lucky rounding" - at 0.06 cd/m² measurements contrast calculations...

Be aware that not all equipment measures black levels for VA monitors very accurately and that a checkerboard pattern should be used instead of sequential measurements of a black and a white screen. PRAD and ExpertReviews measured a 3000:1 contrast for the Iiyama X2483HSU-B1 for example. A VA...

Now I get the full picture. I agree with you intuitively that reducing green gain should show as green being to low / red and blue being to strong. You'll have to ask X-Rite what's going on there. At the bottom of the panel it shows x,y coordinates where y should be almost proportional to green...

I don't own a calibration device to compare what that slider is showing. Are you just measuring the green or is this showing after calibration as a "remaining color difference"? Is the slider/bar showing "∆E 94" or "∆E 2000" color difference? What is the target color space? AdobeRGB, DCI-P3...

I'd like to make a correction after thinking about this a bit more. Mea culpa! There is a general benefit to a 120Hz refresh rate vs. a 60Hz refresh rate when playing 60fps. kalston was probably hinting in that direction: A monitor running at 120Hz receives pixels about twice as fast as a...

Left has better gamma, right has more balanced colors, IMHO. Black levels are fixed now by switch to display port it seems. Good luck picking the best. :p

And I always thought these socket types were applying a lot of pressure equally with those thick metal frames. Looks like the old "male" "female" connections were more solid than these new flat CPUs.

Either that or set the monitor to sRGB and play in SDR. :) Ok, I'll shut up already.

I meant 144fps on 144Hz, i.e. making "good use" of the monitor. Mainboards not detecting RAM is really annoying. :-/ Sounds like the 4GB stick is faulty? Try cleaning the pins with alcohol and a cloth that's not prone to static electricity. Or maybe it's a good time to find a matching 8GB stick...

Sure, all the HDR games should correctly use the wider color space.

Yes, and I couldn't have explained it better. He touched on everything important. Monitors slowly update their image from top to bottom. With VSync on, the GPU waits until the monitor is back at the top and ready to refresh itself so you get a clean image. With VSync off, monitor and GPU run out...

Ok, so that's working just as intended then without any color management since in HDR the games target the wide gamut DCI-P3 color space that your monitor natively supports to ~90%. As for RDR2: .

Are you saying that the games that look oversaturated turn good simply by enabling HDR in Windows? It's entirely possible that Windows is working its magic here converting the color spaces. Do those games run in windowed mode and/or use DX12?

You will miss that TN panel's response time in dark transitions when you get your VA. :p I've pretty much settled on 75Hz now even if accomplished via overclock. 27" 1440p high refresh is a different price category entirely (at least for the monitors I found tests for so far): 280€ and up, so...

I don't know a terrible lot about HDR, but I think the answer is no. The developers of Battlefield simply test their games on a number of consoles and TVs and look for any colors that seem wrong, so the game will appear right on the "average consumer device". It's kind of a reversed situation...

I never bothered before, but after watching a YouTube video on it, I was intrigued. It's one of those things you never knew you needed. You can play at 60Hz all your life, but once you try 75Hz and then go back to 60Hz, it is as if there is considerable input lag or your character is drunk. Of...

Haha, thx. No I'm not from prad.de and so I can't answer any of the review questions. But good to hear that you found a way for HDR and GSync to work together! In the diagram below (that I ripped and edited from here), you see the color temperature curve with some thinner orthogonal lines with...

G2G can't be to slow for a particular resolution. It can only be to slow for a particular refresh rate (which still doesn't cause any problems, it just nullifies the benefit of a higher refresh rate). The problem with basing a buying decision on G2G is that G2G doesn't say much to begin with...

Take a look at the color temperature curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature Color temperature is based on how a black body radiator looks when heated up to said temperature. This is a good way to describe the color of many traditional light sources that "glow", such as...

The one on the left looks better to me in terms of back light bleed and gamma. But I agree with DrLobotomy that you might want to switch the cables and see if it actually used PC range and gamma via HDMI. A blue dead pixel is generally not as bright as a red one. I have a dark blue pixel on a...

Yes, the monitor has to support Adaptive Sync, but AMD gfx cards can use it via HDMI and DP while NVIDIA cards are limited to DP. As you perhaps know, tearing can only happen when VSync is off in the game. This is independent of Adaptive Sync and in fact VSync on or off still matters when you...

Seems like a great option if you want to stay below $150. Without display port, adaptive-sync wont work on NVIDIA cards, which could be a minus. Don't rely on G2G too much as it varies between vendors and VA panels in particular have a weakness in transition from black to dark shades with the...

The advantage at higher FPS and Hz is that you'll feel more connected to the game world. You'll notice this readily when changing refresh rate from 75 to 60 with a game that has VSYNC on. Suddenly input feels laggy and everything is more blurry when you turn. The blur comes from our eyes always...

Exactly. If you have a good 60Hz model, there is nothing a 120Hz monitor can improve upon (short of inserting interpolated frames to turn 60fps into 120fps at the cost of some input lag).

I'm looking for a monitor coming from an aging BenQ FP93G X (1280x1024@75Hz TN) and 32" Toshiba TV (1366x768@60Hz VA). Having seen both technologies I hoped that "nowadays" there was a jack of all trades, but a reality check made me fluctuate between IPS and VA and ultimately settle on VA if...

As others said there is ghosting from pixel response times being too low. A 144Hz monitor only makes sense if the pixels response is strictly <7ms while at 60Hz the manufacturer can use more lax timings. So you'll usually be on the safe side with a 144Hz monitor in that regard. In general you...

It's hard to judge clouding on an overexposed picture of clouds, but if the dark spots were meant to look similar, I'd be as surprised as you are about the glaring spot in the center. The sides look somewhat normal for a VA panel at a steeper angle. At normal viewing distance I'd hope it...