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I've owned the DELL U2412M for a while now and found it to be excellent for general PC use. The picture and colours have been fantastic for my use, and I've really been spoiled by the 16:10 / 1980x1200 real estate.
That said, the lack of HDMI, lack of headphone jack and general unresponsiveness/ghosting for gaming has been leading me to look elsewhere lately. I'd love to hook my PS3, 360 and PC all to the same screen and have headphones directly out of the monitor for the consoles.
Not wanting to sacrifice the IPS image quality I'd become accustomed to, I plunged for the ASUS PA238Q. The general consensus of online reviews I read seemed to paint a positive picture. I bought it today, and sadly, it's going back to the store tomorrow.
This screen has without a doubt, the worst backlight bleed of any panel I've owned to date. I am 100% sure that I have a faulty panel, but to be perfectly honest I would rather get my money back than play UPS-tag with ASUS technical support until I finally get a half-decent panel.
On a pure black screen, the entire bottom left and upper right quadrants are washed-out grey. I fiddled around with the settings to try and lessen this, but it made little difference. Even in vivid games I could see a marked difference across the whole panel - the uniformity seems awful even to the naked eye. Finally I loaded up Skyrim, and the bleed was so bad I could barely make out the white-on-black Bethesda logo in the lower-left corner of the welcome screen.
In short - even if this has been discussed to death, I feel the need to shout "Buyer Beware!" for this screen. Despite all the good reviews, if you can't even see the screen due to ASUS and their pitiful quality control, well...that speaks for itself. Kudos to those who have a good panel and are enjoying it - back to the Dell for me!
That said, the lack of HDMI, lack of headphone jack and general unresponsiveness/ghosting for gaming has been leading me to look elsewhere lately. I'd love to hook my PS3, 360 and PC all to the same screen and have headphones directly out of the monitor for the consoles.
Not wanting to sacrifice the IPS image quality I'd become accustomed to, I plunged for the ASUS PA238Q. The general consensus of online reviews I read seemed to paint a positive picture. I bought it today, and sadly, it's going back to the store tomorrow.
This screen has without a doubt, the worst backlight bleed of any panel I've owned to date. I am 100% sure that I have a faulty panel, but to be perfectly honest I would rather get my money back than play UPS-tag with ASUS technical support until I finally get a half-decent panel.
On a pure black screen, the entire bottom left and upper right quadrants are washed-out grey. I fiddled around with the settings to try and lessen this, but it made little difference. Even in vivid games I could see a marked difference across the whole panel - the uniformity seems awful even to the naked eye. Finally I loaded up Skyrim, and the bleed was so bad I could barely make out the white-on-black Bethesda logo in the lower-left corner of the welcome screen.
In short - even if this has been discussed to death, I feel the need to shout "Buyer Beware!" for this screen. Despite all the good reviews, if you can't even see the screen due to ASUS and their pitiful quality control, well...that speaks for itself. Kudos to those who have a good panel and are enjoying it - back to the Dell for me!
