2560x1400 Monitor

As in other post, the Yamakasi catleap are a gamble at best and I believe your money would be best spent elsewhere. What is your budget on a monitor ?

I have personal experience with the Yamakasi catleap Q270, if that is something you are considering.

Its a definite no if you plan to do any high-level photoshop work, or anything professional color level. The stand is also horrible.

That being said, as a gaming monitor, and with proper modifications to the stand (dependent on your particular unit, they all seem to slope different directions), it could be a good monitor for the price alone.

Normally I'd never recommend one, but if your looking to keep the price as low as possible its worth considering, just understand the limitations of what you are purchasing.

ok so i've narrowed down my options to the asus pb278q and dell u2713hm. Which is better?

hmmm... this a tough choice to make. If you guys had the choice which would it be?

I would choose the Dell.




Edited by Tidgxor - 01 Dec 2012 at 8:26pm

If there is a store near you where you could see both side by side that would be ideal.  If that isn't posible then I would go with the Dell.  The Dell UltraSharps are well known and get really good reviews. 

Congrats on your new monitor.  You are going to love it.

IPS is a better panel, dell has a better brightness, and I'm not sure what kind of a color depth that ASUS PB278Q has, so just keep all of that in mind.

I vote dell also.

but go with what makes you happy.

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Edited by DST4ME - 10 Feb 2013 at 10:48am

That is not correct Max.

the u2410, u2413, U2713H, u2711, u3011, u3014 and some other models have 1.07 billion colors and better brightness then the asus, I know my u2413 is much better then the asus in brightness/color.

Now whether its 8-bit +FRC or true 10-bit I have not researched it yet but the color support is 1.7 billion

Edited by DST4ME - 20 Feb 2013 at 5:24pm

That tft quote you put up there max is not all the facts IMHO, something on there are assumptions.

most users here have a highend gpu to take advantage of the higher color, the apps could be doing it already for all we know, but if we gonna use the argument that we dont' know, then it goes both ways, we don't if its being used or not then.


at the end the the dell monitors are capable to produce 1.7 billion colors and asus can't, whether I have use for it or not is dependent on each user, of course the colors will make the image look better so IMHO everybody has use for that if its available and possible for them to use.

as for what brightness you/me use or not use, its irrelevant, that for your use or mine, we are not talking about what you have use for or I have use for, we are talking about what the monitors can do, just because you or I have not use for this and that, does not make the monitors equal.

I also believe the gb-led of the dell is a little better then the w-led from what I understand.

So in short the mentioned Dell monitors have higher color and better brightness and higher processor then the asus, now that may not mean much to you but to others and myself it does.

this 8 bit vs 8 + frc is easily crushed, put a dell u2410 next to a u2411m and you can see the difference clearly.


Don't get me wrong, I already knew, see and understand your argument, but that argument is more toward your use then the capability of each monitor, which in this case the mentioned dell monitors can do much better, and to say that the asus is the same as the mentioned dell would be a flat out false statement.

I like to add while some info on TFT Central is good I find bad info there all the time and I would not base anything on the review of tft alone, back in the day If I lisened to tft, I would not have my wonderful pio elite.

I leave you with quotes from tft on both monitors.

Originally posted by tft The Asus PB278Q shows a moderate level of input lag. This was measured at 16.6ms average. Note that this is the overall display lag, and so accounts for the signal processing time + an element of the pixel response time. We performed these tests at various 'Trace Free' (overdrive) settings, and settled on the tests in the fastest 100 setting as it returned the lowest average lag and should get us closest to the signal processing lag on its own. The input lag of this screen has been categorised as CLASS 2 as detailed above as it is basically 1 frame. It should be ok for a lot of gaming but perhaps not for some high end gaming or FPS.

Originally posted by tft When switching to the 'game' preset mode on Dell u2413 We measured an overall display lag now of only 9ms, and so the signal processing was estimated at a much lower 3.6ms. This game mode provides an overall lag which can be graded as CLASS 1 as described above and should be fine for most gamers.

Originally posted by anadtech Overall the center of the PB278Q scores very well for uniformity, but once we get to the outside edge there are issues with bright corners and light fall-off on the edges that leads to worse overall results. I don’t think that any of the issues are deal breaking, but they seem to indicate an issue with the backlighting system in the PB278Q.

Edited by DST4ME - 21 Feb 2013 at 8:13pm

running a U2711 dell ultra sharp 2560x1440 and worth every penny of the 700$ price tag.