U3011 Review

Disclaimer: This is a review based on my opinion alone, but there are some things you should know when dropping 1,400$ on a top-of-the-line monitor. Note: I've had to RMA this monitor twice. Once due to shipping damage (the box this monitor ships in has NO PROTECTION on the side of the monitor inside), and the second due to the hue-coloring being different on the bottom area of the monitor.

Pros:

- Gorgeous colors, huge!, so much room for activities (pun intended) ! Looks amazing during gaming sessions, the bezel is small.

- This thing is like a TV! Photoshoppers will love this thing.

- The viewing angles are crisp. . . as if viewing directly at it.

- It's nice and sturdy, no gloss bezel. I could go on for days about this monitor..

Cons:

- Well if you're looking into buying this monitor be warned, there is a problem with the hue-coloring being different on certain areas of the monitor. Now this problem disappears if you turn up the brightness to 100%, but if I turned up the brightness on this thing to 100% I'd go blind. I sent the monitor back for RMA replacement. The second one came back with out the hue-coloring issue.

- It's only 60hz. . while most people will not notice the refresh rate on this. . .  I for one prefer a monitor that can pump out 75+hz. 12ms~ obviously with a 30 inch monitor you're going to have high latency.  Now is it to an extent where this is a bad product? Absolutely not. . .

This is Dells trump card monitor, their flagship. If you're willing to fork out 1400$ and money is not an issue, you should look into NEC's 30 inch monitor. While the Dell U3011 is still a wonderful, amazing monitor. . . the issues I've had make me wish I forked up the extra 800$ for the NEC's 30 inch.

While this is only my opinion, I wanted to inform the peeps of some first hand usage.

Zangetsu, when you game on it, do you notice any input lag? From what I understand, the scaler hardware in that monitor cannot be turned off, which supposedly adds around 16ms of input lag, while HP's previous-gen and current-gen 30"s doesn't have a scaler at all (the downside being that then you can only do 2560x1600 native or 1280x800 in-monitor-pixel-doubling, while your graphics card needs to do the scaling for all other resolutions before the image goes to the monitor, meaning no consoles or standalone blu-ray players will work with it).

this is great to hear. I my self didnt want to risk spending 1000$ on a monitor and notice ghosting or some of the issues ive heard. Probaly by the time im ready for another monitor IPS will be much more solid for gaming and not being a case to case basis.