New Monitor's - U2414H?

DJ_Bucho · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:20

Bad_HatHarry said:
DJ ive not had any probs with response time in battlefied 4, most settings are on high, no aa, or any other game, if i feel a game is struggling then i just drop some settings down.

The dells only have hdmi and displayport connections, My understanding is that the newer AMD cards do not rely on adapters anymore, so if i change to say maybe a 290x that has dvi dual x2 out, 1 displayport, 1 hdmi, i can simply connect dvi to displayport, displayport to displayport, or hdmi to displayport.

Nice one buddy, I think I might have to get myself some of these then. Just out of interest what cables are you using to connect to all 3 monitors, and are you using any adaptors. It's the 7970 Matrix has 4 full size display ports so I assumed you'd just use a displayport to displayport cable???

wildest_jjk · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:25

So you haven't noticed any problems in games?

I'm also thinking of hooking one up to my Xbox.

Thanks

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:25

The daisy chaining is clever idea, i enabled the 1.2 on mine to see if it worked on my 7970, and it did, I wonder if the daisychaining works for eyefinity?

PCM2 · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:27

Bad_HatHarry said:
The daisy chaining is clever idea, i enabled the 1.2 on mine to see if it worked on my 7970, and it did, I wonder if the daisychaining works for eyefinity?

Yes it does.

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:29

DJ yes displayport 7970 to mini displayport monitor, this was the cables that came in the box.

DJ just incase you did,nt know the first displayport on the 7970 is not used.

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:30

thanks pcm2

beejjacobs · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:30

PCM2 said:
Yes it does.

Does the daisychain work from the miniDP?
As Bad_HatHarry said it comes with DP->miniDP.

So DP from GPU, to miniDP on monitor.
Then DP from 1st monitor to miniDP on second.

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:33

thanks beej thats great, are try it later on.

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:34

wildest_jjk said:
So you haven't noticed any problems in games?

I'm also thinking of hooking one up to my Xbox.

Thanks

Only the backlight on my left monitor so far.

DJ_Bucho · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:36

Bad_HatHarry said:
DJ yes displayport 7970 to mini displayport monitor, this was the cables that came in the box.
DJ just incase you did,nt know the first displayport on the 7970 is not used.

Awesome mate, thanks very much

Ah right that's because of the DVI Dual link or something isn't it. Cheers buddy, I'll have to start looking at prices for these monitors now

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:39

Does anyone know if the ps4 or new xone does triple screen

PCM2 · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:48

beejjacobs said:
Does the daisychain work from the miniDP?
As Bad_HatHarry said it comes with DP->miniDP.

So DP from GPU, to miniDP on monitor.
Then DP from 1st monitor to miniDP on second.

It's a regular DP 1.2 out for MST. You can connect that to a MiniDP or DP input on the next monitor in the chain, so you can use a regular DP-DP cable or DP-MiniDP.

One of the monitors will of course need to be connected to the GPU for which you can again use either the MiniDP or DP input on the monitor. You can therefore get away with only using the cables supplied with the monitors.

wildest_jjk · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:49

Bad_HatHarry said:
Does anyone know if the ps4 or new xone does triple screen

Slightly going off the topic of my thread? Lol

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:52

wildest_jjk said:
Slightly going off the topic of my thread? Lol

Yes your right wildest_jjk

Bad_HatHarry · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:54

pcm2 is big displayport to big displayport any better at signal

beejjacobs · 5 Mar 2014 at 16:58

PCM2 said:
... You can therefore get away with only using the cables supplied with the monitors.

That sums up my question, thank you!

wildest_jjk said:
Slightly going off the topic of my thread? Lol

I've been using the monitors most of the afternoon and am very happy.
No issues with backlight and gaming (CS:GO) was great!

I downsized from a 27" and actually I think this is the sweet spot for me.

wildest_jjk · 5 Mar 2014 at 17:00

Bad_HatHarry said:
Yes your right wildest_jjk

No problem , don't want to be mean

beejjacobs said:
That sums up my question, thank you!

I've been using the monitors most of the afternoon and am very happy.
No issues with backlight and gaming (CS:GO) was great!

I downsized from a 27" and actually I think this is the sweet spot for me.

There are a few people interested in the monitors and to hear from someone that has them is always good

I would agree with you in terms of the 27" monitors as well. I am so close to buying two of these

Thanks!

beejjacobs · 5 Mar 2014 at 17:09

wildest_jjk said:
There are a few people interested in the monitors and to hear from someone that has them is always good

I would agree with you in terms of the 27" monitors as well. I am so close to buying two of these

Thanks!

If there's anything you want me to test or try let me know

I'm hoping by going to daisychain DP I can eliminate the HDMI/Nvidia issue with colour.

PCM2 · 5 Mar 2014 at 18:16

Bad_HatHarry said:
pcm2 is big displayport to big displayport any better at signal

It's the same.

David Bisset · 6 Mar 2014 at 09:42

wildest_jjk said:
So you haven't noticed any problems in games?

I'm also thinking of hooking one up to my Xbox.

Thanks

Just to echo what others have said, they're good for gaming. Came from a lower response time TN to the U2414H and the IPS wins hands down - presumably better overdrive or maybe the TN was being a bit deceptive with it's quoted 4ms response time but the Dell has less blur on fast moving objects. It also has very low input lag, though to be fair so did my old TN.

(If you're a pro FPS gamer you probably want to be looking at a 144Hz TN or something, but for a 60Hz monitor I'd not worry about that response time figure at all)