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Bluesun311
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Got a Yamakasi Catleap "2B OC Extreme "in yesterday from ol' Green-Sum.
They shipped it UPS and double-boxed the sucker. I paid for perfect pixel, but it does have 1 stuck white "hot" pixel that turns colors depending on what the rest of the screen is doing. GreenSum offered to pay for return shipping but I like my unit fine and the pixel is near enough the bezel I really don't notice it, so I took a partial refund instead. At least she didn't tell me to pound sand since it's not technically a dead pixel.
So the monitor itself is fantastic. It has one common flaw of S-IPS which is a horizontal strip of slightly darker shading near the bottom. It's not noticeable unless scrolling on a white background and it doesn't bother me.
The coating is excellent. Glossy yes, but not to the point of reflective madness. I have a matte Qnix here to compare and it's sad to say but true: the pixels on the Qnix look big because of the crystaline effect its AG film causes. I thought the semi-gloss on the Qnix was good enough for me but it isn't--this is way better. You can see the individual pixels, instead of their aura. I don't think you could possibly capture the difference in a photograph but in person the Catleap is eye-popping in a way the matte Qnix just isn't--at all. Also, both the matte Qnix I've tested could not go above 100Hz without distorting the color in exactly the same spot, upper right center. The Catleap is crystal clear at 120Hz.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that Overclocking was "easy" with the Catleap, but right out of the box, with the supplied cable it goes to 120Hz using auto Nvidia CP timings and acts pretty normal until I start doing some testing. In the end, in order to get the Overclock completely stable with zero scanlines while also allowing my GTX 780 to idle as normal, I had to do a really wacky set of timings:
These timings will NOT work on the Qnix, but they should on the Overlord. Totally stable. And I'm using a 6foot 28guage cable.
Things pretty badass and has me wondering if the Overlord can possibly match it.
The pixel response on these is faster than the Qnix already (enough so that you can tell by scrolling a webpage), add to that the OC difference and the 120Hz Catleap looks more like a 1440p FG2421 without Turbo240 on. Which is exactly what I wanted. Post calibration Contrast ratio was 850:1 and the colors out of the box were a bit off on red and blue. Green was close. Calibration results are better than the Qnix. Less banding and fewer gradients.
There's also a driver that allows the custom refresh rates to be used in fullscreen games with Vsync set so that fps = HZ. Pretty damn cool. See absolutely no need for native support at this time:
They shipped it UPS and double-boxed the sucker. I paid for perfect pixel, but it does have 1 stuck white "hot" pixel that turns colors depending on what the rest of the screen is doing. GreenSum offered to pay for return shipping but I like my unit fine and the pixel is near enough the bezel I really don't notice it, so I took a partial refund instead. At least she didn't tell me to pound sand since it's not technically a dead pixel.
So the monitor itself is fantastic. It has one common flaw of S-IPS which is a horizontal strip of slightly darker shading near the bottom. It's not noticeable unless scrolling on a white background and it doesn't bother me.
The coating is excellent. Glossy yes, but not to the point of reflective madness. I have a matte Qnix here to compare and it's sad to say but true: the pixels on the Qnix look big because of the crystaline effect its AG film causes. I thought the semi-gloss on the Qnix was good enough for me but it isn't--this is way better. You can see the individual pixels, instead of their aura. I don't think you could possibly capture the difference in a photograph but in person the Catleap is eye-popping in a way the matte Qnix just isn't--at all. Also, both the matte Qnix I've tested could not go above 100Hz without distorting the color in exactly the same spot, upper right center. The Catleap is crystal clear at 120Hz.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that Overclocking was "easy" with the Catleap, but right out of the box, with the supplied cable it goes to 120Hz using auto Nvidia CP timings and acts pretty normal until I start doing some testing. In the end, in order to get the Overclock completely stable with zero scanlines while also allowing my GTX 780 to idle as normal, I had to do a really wacky set of timings:
These timings will NOT work on the Qnix, but they should on the Overlord. Totally stable. And I'm using a 6foot 28guage cable.
Things pretty badass and has me wondering if the Overlord can possibly match it.
The pixel response on these is faster than the Qnix already (enough so that you can tell by scrolling a webpage), add to that the OC difference and the 120Hz Catleap looks more like a 1440p FG2421 without Turbo240 on. Which is exactly what I wanted. Post calibration Contrast ratio was 850:1 and the colors out of the box were a bit off on red and blue. Green was close. Calibration results are better than the Qnix. Less banding and fewer gradients.
There's also a driver that allows the custom refresh rates to be used in fullscreen games with Vsync set so that fps = HZ. Pretty damn cool. See absolutely no need for native support at this time:
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