monitor choice

Nobody here with a dell ultra shap sees ghosting I can tell you that.

Most important thing about a monitor is its panel, right now there are 2 major ones, TN and IPS, IPS has superior picture quality/clarity.

1. response time is a bs number, its there to fool you and does not represent the true response time of the monitor, there is no real way of truly finding what response time is, the closest to it is white to white but you don't see that, you see grey to grey or black to black cause they give small numbers to fool users but they don't mean anything, there are different methods to get these numbers also, and each will give a different number as results, therefore you can even compare one to the other, cause we don't know what method was used for which, and even if we did, still GTG or BTB don't mean anything.

2. contrast ratio is also bs number.

the led of Dell is going to be superior, it has a higher res because its a wide screen monitor, its also a class one lag monitor which means that its great for fps games. Keep in mind this panel is made by LG.

that lg monitor I know nothing about nor can I find anything on it, I would stay away from that monitor.

Edited by DST4ME - 11 Mar 2013 at 11:05pm

I went from a 20" 1920x1080 Ultra Sharp, to a 24" 1920x1200 Ultra Sharp with the 20" as a second monitor. I can't remember the exact temp increase that I got from going from 1920x1080 to (1920x1200 + 1920x1080) but It was not much. I thought I had it written down somewhere but I can't seem to find it, I think it was around 1.5-2.5C. I have SLI 580s. I do not game on both monitors, but the secondary monitor always has stuff pulled up on it while gaming.


Edited by Tidgxor - 12 Mar 2013 at 9:57am

ended up getting the 24 ultrasharp...not happy with it at all.
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Yeah , im getting it switched out, new one coming tomorrow and ill see what happens. i was aware of the glow that happens with different viewing angles but this one had the bleeding while sitting straight at it.

Its the dell you have an issue with? which one did you get? dell is very good with replacing.

@Aw777

1. response time is a bs number, its there to fool you and does not represent the true response time of the monitor, there is no real way of truly finding what response time is, the closest to it is white to white but you don't see that, you see grey to grey or black to black cause they give small numbers to fool users but they don't mean anything, there are different methods to get these numbers also, and each will give a different number as results, therefore you can even compare one to the other, cause we don't know what method was used for which, and even if we did, still GTG or BTB don't mean anything.

Input lag you should never go by what the manufacture says.

Edited by DST4ME - 14 Mar 2013 at 1:27pm

LOL I can't which model that is.

and what IPS glow? I never see a glow lol.

Edited by DST4ME - 14 Mar 2013 at 1:28pm

Looks like the U2412M.

Definitely got some back-light bleeding issues from the looks of it, hopefully Dell was easy to work with. I've had great results with their support people in regards to monitors in the past.

Yeah it was the U2412M, ill be getting a replacement sent today and ill receive it tomorrow. I also noitced on the bottom, right above the DELL logo, the bezel piece is very lose and comes away from the screen.  so hoping its all good tomorrow

I have the u2413, u2410 u3011 and they have all been great right out of the box.

Ya please do

what model number is it? im running a U2711 27inch and ive never heard of the glow. Ive only heard of the ultrasharps shipping with dead pixels, and static lines across the screen.

ive never seen that before in an IPS monitor..... kind of reminds me of the early days of Flat panel TV's when some thing went wrong magnetically and gives off a faint green glow on a corner.

HELL YES! lol you payed money for a QUALITY product. Not a Quality product with orange glow on a black screen. Did they send you back the same monitor u had? or replace it?

ive heard of manufactures sending back the same product untouched, or "refurbished" and its like they never touched it. However i have to say this is a new issue to me. Also reminds me of the "OPOD" orange pixel of doom during the SWTOR betas lol.

Yeah i ended up  calling and have another coming tomorrow..1 day shipping again. they are being great so ill just keep doing this lol. i went through 7 tv's before because of issues like this...i was pretty upset but like Solidus said im paying for a quality product. I played around with the settings for about 2 hours this morning..and nothing worked. i noticed with these monitors the brightness out of the box are way to high


Edited by kernols - 15 Mar 2013 at 12:14pm

mine came in at 50 and i dropped it and the contrast to 45