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Hi All,
Yes the monitor arrived today as promised by overclockers. So 5 stars for service guys and professionalism, you get my vote for Retailer of the year.
I really do not know where to start with this monitor because its plus points are astounding and the picture is better than my plasma TV.
Firstly, lets get the bad news out of the way first and you will realise when you read on, it is not that bad really.
The DVI-D and VGA cables supplied are very sub-standard and it does not come with a HDMI cable either. Despite that, I used the cables it came supplied with and the quality of vision in all modes, is far superior to anything I have seen before.
Then I decided to use my own cables, which are about 2-3 times thicker than the ones supplied, so as a tip to Overclockers staff you should offer better leads as an extra option when selling this monitor.
After using my own cables, the experience just got better. Maybe too much as the performance is so stunning. No shimmering, no broken pixels and the 2 ms response time is up to scratch. If you are a gamer, buy this, because the only problem I had with an X Box 360 that I borrowed off a friend was the xbox's inability to feed this monitors thirst of true HD!
Maybe that is why it was supplied with sub-standard leads... just a theory!
Alright, so now lets move on to the dreaded Linux and BSD issues according to windows users!
You must be very careful reading the horizontal and vertical refresh rates listed in the booklet, because what I thought would be easy actually is! It works perfectly. The tip here is not to use the highest setting set out in the instruction manual otherwise you will get "Out of Range" reconfiguring X.
Apart from that..This monitor is probably worth more than double its selling price. I almost forgot about the inbuilt speakers.... You can do far better depending on your taste, but I am just biased because I am bit of a hi-fi geek and my vinyl sounds better than anything you can produce digitally
Either way, to summarise; Asus have pulled off a coup here, which will shake every other manufacturer to the bone.
Yes the monitor arrived today as promised by overclockers. So 5 stars for service guys and professionalism, you get my vote for Retailer of the year.
I really do not know where to start with this monitor because its plus points are astounding and the picture is better than my plasma TV.
Firstly, lets get the bad news out of the way first and you will realise when you read on, it is not that bad really.
The DVI-D and VGA cables supplied are very sub-standard and it does not come with a HDMI cable either. Despite that, I used the cables it came supplied with and the quality of vision in all modes, is far superior to anything I have seen before.
Then I decided to use my own cables, which are about 2-3 times thicker than the ones supplied, so as a tip to Overclockers staff you should offer better leads as an extra option when selling this monitor.
After using my own cables, the experience just got better. Maybe too much as the performance is so stunning. No shimmering, no broken pixels and the 2 ms response time is up to scratch. If you are a gamer, buy this, because the only problem I had with an X Box 360 that I borrowed off a friend was the xbox's inability to feed this monitors thirst of true HD!
Maybe that is why it was supplied with sub-standard leads... just a theory!Alright, so now lets move on to the dreaded Linux and BSD issues according to windows users!
You must be very careful reading the horizontal and vertical refresh rates listed in the booklet, because what I thought would be easy actually is! It works perfectly. The tip here is not to use the highest setting set out in the instruction manual otherwise you will get "Out of Range" reconfiguring X.
Apart from that..This monitor is probably worth more than double its selling price. I almost forgot about the inbuilt speakers.... You can do far better depending on your taste, but I am just biased because I am bit of a hi-fi geek and my vinyl sounds better than anything you can produce digitally
Either way, to summarise; Asus have pulled off a coup here, which will shake every other manufacturer to the bone.
