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13 people found this helpful
Great 144Hz monitor for a very reasonable price
By JOSHUA on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2022
Let me open up this review by saying, yes, you should get this. It's good. I like it. I don't regret my purchase in any way whatsoever and you probably won't either. I'm now going to complain because something this good shouldn't have some of the weird nearly-inconsequential flaws that it does. Input auto-switching is finicky. You occasionally have to do it by hand when it should be obvious to the monitor which input is active. The slim bezel is a double-edged sword. I love that it's comfortable to use in a pair. I also wish it had a little more top bezel to clamp a camera to. FreeSync works great and there's an extended compatibility mode that is intended to make it work with G-Sync if you monkey with your drivers a little. That isn't as consistently reliable as I wish it were, but once you get it going it's mostly fine. It urgently wants to go into sleep mode if there's no signal. This isn't really a problem at all unless you have multiple systems hooked up to the monitor. If you do, you will often find yourself in a situation where you switch inputs, turn on your other machine, and if it doesn't boot like lightning the monitor will assume there's no signal and switch back. It's really only annoying if you want to get into the second machine's setup mode or EFI menu. The back of the monitor is not flat. It's curved toward the mounting post. Remember that camera I wanted to clamp to it? The back of the monitor is not parallel to the front, so the clamp is a little wonky. I read every slip of paper that came with the thing and carefully assembled the mounts. There's still a small plastic clip in one of the parts bags that I have no idea whatsoever what it's for. It's shown on the parts diagram with no description and I've probably spent a good hour trying to puzzle out where it's supposed to go. Maybe one day I'll figure it out but until then the little clips sit in a drawer. Here's my big one, though, and I'd almost call this half a star off the review if I didn't really like this monitor: Two identical monitors from the same shipment sit at different heights. The height is adjustable just fine (although one post is a little stiffer to move than the other). If you bottom out both of my monitors, though, one sits about a quarter of an inch higher than the other. This wouldn't really be a problem for anyone who doesn't have a kind of high desk. I have a kind of high desk so I have to bump the other monitor up by that quarter of an inch. In any case, it's still a great monitor and I'm super happy with these things. No regrets. Despite the fact that 80% of this review consists of complaining, all the things I didn't talk about are fantastic. Picture's great. Price is terrific. Easy to put together. Doesn't take up a ton of space. Has a bit of cable management in the back for multiple inputs and it's pretty easy to reach back there and blindly mess with plugs if you have to. Power cord is acceptably long. It'll actually show a scaled picture if sent a 4K signal, although by default it will complain that you're in the wrong resolution. I dumped the EDID and it's pretty accurate; it's not faking that it's a 4K monitor, it just happens to not fail outright if you get a high resolution signal. All the good stuff. Oh. Right. The stand is kind of ugly. It's got these "cool gamer" red stripes on it that are a bit tacky and dated. If you put the monitors on a swing arm you can avoid having to look at the stand's feet. So, yeah, buy it.
Top critical review
20 people found this helpful
Fast gaming panel with great color. Some issues resulting in a return.
By MrCommunistGen on Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019
Bought the display for an excellent price on Prime Day. Loved it for some things and couldn't stand it for others. Of the issues, at least one was an attribute of the kind of panel being used in the monitor and would not have been resolved by swapping for a replacement, so I ended up returning it. Part of me still regrets returning it, but I know that unless I was able to get a panel that didn't have any of my 3 issues, it'd drive me crazy and I'd be dissatisfied with my purchase. Pros: 144Hz, FreeSync, and LFC were amazing in games. I'd never used a high refresh rate display before and it was absolutely buttery smooth the way I'd heard - even for just basic computer usage. The display came color calibrated for sRGB with a calibration report in the box, so colors were very accurate out of the box. The display was easy to assemble and the stand is certainly a step up from what you get on cheap monitors. A bit of a small-time feature that most probably won't use or care about -- the headphone jack on the back of the panel is fed by HDMI or DisplayPort. This is GREAT! Most other displays I've used in the past use a passthrough port where you plug in a 1/8" cable from your computer to the display. Paired with low quality amplifiers, these have always led to low quality sound with a lot of background hiss - which drives me crazy. While not amazing quality, I'd say that the headphone jack was perfectly usable. Cons: I ended up returning the monitor. I had 3 minor to moderate issues with the panel. If the monitor I received had only 1 of the issues, I probably would have kept it and lived with it, but having all 3 was driving me crazy most of the time. 1. Blurry text Immediately after setting up the display and setting it next to my older HP Omen 32 (32", 1440p, 75Hz, VA) I noticed that text looked blurry. Almost like there was a smudge on my glasses. Yes, the panel was running at the native resolution. Since both panels are 32" and 1440p, it wasn't a pixel-pitch issue. It also wasn't the anti-reflective coating -- I have a Dell U2412M which has a rather heavy AR coating and that monitor was still sharper looking. I found and tried increasing the "Sharpness" setting, but the text remained blurry -- just with oversharpening/ringing artifacts around all the text. Gaming or watching video was fine, but I read a lot of code on my machine and having blurry text wasn't going to work out for me. Based on reading some other reviews of this and the similar 850F, it seems to be an attribute of the kind of VA panel they're using and not a "manufacturing defect". I tried getting side by side pictures, but when trying to take macro shots of a monitor with a camera, you just start seeing the pixel structure and I really couldn't tell from the pictures which monitor was blurry and which was sharp. 2. Banding The top ~1" of the panel had horizontal banding. Slightly darker lines across the whole top of the display. This was very noticeable with solid-color menu-bars in applications made them look like they were striped when they weren't. It was also still visible in photos and in games, though not as noticeable. Not that I expected the issue to go away, but I tried different cables and tried connecting the display to a different computer, but the banding remained. I would imagine that this issue was a manufacturing defect. 3. HDCP issues ~1 in 4 times I'd open Netflix or any other application that utilized HDCP the display would go black, then the panel would flicker on and off over and over for 30-45 seconds before finally figuring life out and bringing the picture back. I'm not sure if there's a design issue or if this was a 1-off defect with this particular display -- but I'd really hope that the HDCP handshake process was something that they'd have nailed down by 2019. This issues could have had something to do with not playing nice with an Nvidia 1080Ti + FreeSync/"G-Sync Compatible". I did not test this with another machine or video card, but frankly this was not a determining factor in returning the display, just *another* nuisance on top of the other 2 issues.
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