photoelectric
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Ah, do you normally use 220V sockets or does your country use 110V? I was hoping 110V to see which brand of 110V power bricks AW ships out.
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Thanks! It looks like I have the Frontek 220v PSU. I have it strapped behind my desk so I can't read the label in its entirety.
Hopefully I don't run into any issues down the line.
What sellers should I look to buy from?
Or does it not matter?
If you're in the US or another country that uses 120v, order a replacement now or be prepared to be without a monitor at some point for about a week while you wait for the replacement from Ebay. That or get a step-up transformer rated for at least 100w.
Doesn't really matter. bigclothcraft seems to be faster shipping out than dcsamsungmall at this point. Not sure about redcap. There are a number of others.
Do any of these monitors support HDCP?
Could owners of any of the monitors in this thread check to see if HDCP is supported or not?
Example of if you have a nvidia card:
Make sure you get a power brick with the correct polarity on the pins. Some sold are the reverse of the PSU these come with, so you can't just find any 24v 5A 4 pin tip PSU.
The problem of the Shimian QH300 is that there is no possibility to reduce the backlight brightness. Brightness and contrast regulators are "classical". They only affect black and white level although the contrast regulator isn't implemented well and has a great effect on the black level (=> lowering leads to clipping in the shadows) too. The RGB gain controls can be used as workaround to lower the light density. The brightness of black will of course remain the same at any rate.-Mediocre Contrast/blacks (700:1 only at the max brightness...30" IPS pretty much always have mediocre contrast)
ppi is relative to viewing distancewhile the 30" has +80px top and +80 px bottom vs the 27" -- the 30" does not have any more pixels across the width than the 27" , its pixels are just that much larger.
The 80px top and bottom size 'gap' would be much smaller size-wise at the same pixel sizes --> .75 inches top and .75 inches bottom (3/4inch top and bottom) 1.49" total to be exact if both were 108.8ppi.
Another way to look at it on more equal terms is that if you moved the 30" panel back enough until its width (and ppi) looked equal to the 27" to your viewing perspective, there would be .75" peeking out top and bottom (about the diameter of a dime coin) in relation to the 27" screen, 80px tall each.
A 27" 2560x1440 panel sized up to 30" 2560x1600 sized ppi would be 29.19" diagonal.
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A 30" 2560x1600 panel sized down to 27" 2560x1440 sized ppi would be 27.75" diagonal.
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27" 1440p = 108.8 ppi 0.2335 mm
30" 1600p = 100.6 ppi 0.2524 mm
The speakers have repeatedly been reported to be pretty horrible, in line with bad laptop speakers.
So do you guys think 'pixel perfect' is a must?
Most of the untested ones are fine, and most of the "pixel perfect" ones don't include stuck, only dead pixels.... so probably not worth the extra cost unless you're extra paranoid.
Some sellers include any kind of pixel defect, so go with them if you're worried.
So what are the odds of getting a screen with a oc'able board. And I'm not talking over the overclock.net edition. I mean just the regular $300 screen from eBay. I could see this screens being the best deal ever if you could get them to 100hz but no so much if they are stuck at 60hz...
AIUI most if not all of them are considered decent, but there are three or four eBay vendors who are generally considered the most reputable: bigclothcraft, red-cap, dcsamsungmall and dreamseller. I'd have to go back through the thread to be sure, but I think it's bigclothcraft that supposedly has the best overall purchase-to delivery times as of late (2-4 days).
Most of the dells have scalers which introduce more input lag (hp zr30w notably doesn't have a scaler though), and all of the 30" have over-aggressive AG coating.
I figured what I am posting below out a long time ago. I think its accurate. I thought I would post it here since you might not realize it in relation to your "lost" 3 inch statement on 2560x screens.
ppi is relative to viewing distance
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I had a westy 37" a long time ago and personally anything much over 27" - 30" is way too big at a desk since the scene, HUDs, notifications, pointers, etc all get pushed out of your focal gaze and way into the periphery at desk distances resulting in eye-bending to the periphery. The only setup that gets around this, albeit in a primitive way and highly dependent on games supporting it - is landscape (LLL) eyefinity. In games that fully support LLL eyefinity the central monitor maintains the main scene elements including the HUDs, notifications, pointers, chat, etc. The side monitors are peripheral by design, sort-of like "blinders" blocking out your physical room and filling it with game world to trick your brain into feeling more immersed.
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I have a 27" ACD (2560x1440, 10ms+) and a 27" samsung 120hz (1080p, 2ms + aggressive RTC). They each fill a lot of my perspective singly at a few feet away.