Affordable 1440P, When ?

Dicehunter · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:30

So with the introduction of £500-£600 4K monitors when will we see affordable 1440P monitors ?, By affordable I mean in the £200-£300 price range.

I would love to get the Asus PB278Q 27" at £479.99 but when put next to the likes of the Hazro HZ27WiE 8-Bit 27" which is also 1440P but at only £299.99, Having seen both side by side the picture quality is identical and to be honest I'm not sure where the extra pounds are going with the Asus model, Warranty support maybe ?

Anyway back on track, Whats the general consensus, How many more years until we see 1440P be as cheap as some 1080P monitors ?

pgi947 · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:32

Ocuk have some of the dgm 1440 IPS screens in b grade for £199...

Rroff · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:33

Still atleast 18 months off IMO - once 2nd generation of 4K monitors start hitting the sub-4K panels will probably drop a bit in price.

Dicehunter · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:35

pgi947 said:
Ocuk have some of the dgm 1440 IPS screens in b grade for £199...

I've dabbled with DGM before and their power bricks died twice so no thank you never again

Rroff said:
Still atleast 18 months off IMO - once 2nd generation of 4K monitors start hitting the sub-4K panels will probably drop a bit in price.

Makes sense, Thanks your the insight

Rroff · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:37

Strictly I guess its 3rd generation of 4K panels but the testing the waters MST panels don't really count.

Ayahuasca · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:39

Dicehunter said:
I'm not sure where the extra pounds are going with the Asus model, Warranty support maybe ?

Straight into their pocket.

Their warranty is nothing to shout about.

Rroff · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:41

Are they using the same grade of the panel?

whyscotty · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:54

Ayahuasca said:
Their warranty is nothing to shout about.

Is this from first hand experience?

I've used them twice, excellent both times

Geeman1979 · 27 Jun 2014 at 19:56

whyscotty said:
Is this from first hand experience?

I've used them twice, excellent both times

I've used them 3 times and they've been poor

Dicehunter · 27 Jun 2014 at 20:10

Geeman1979 said:
I've used them 3 times and they've been poor

I sent back a faulty motherboard to Asus last year as the LAN port was DOA but I didn't realize this at the time as I was using a wireless network card and by the time I noticed I couldn't return it to the place I got it from *Not OCUK*

But it took them 3 months to return the working one, I phoned them up once a week and they gave me the same spiel every time "It's still in the pipe line"

Not even an exaggeration on the time there

They did give me a free 8GB USB stick for waiting so long though haha

whyscotty · 27 Jun 2014 at 20:12

Geeman1979 said:
I've used them 3 times and they've been poor

In what way?

Geeman1979 · 27 Jun 2014 at 20:20

whyscotty said:
In what way?

By sending out 3 replacement monitors, each being in worse condition than the last. Probably down to the company they contract out to called "Let me send you unchecked dog ****.

whyscotty · 27 Jun 2014 at 20:33

Geeman1979 said:
By sending out 3 replacement monitors, each being in worse condition than the last. Probably down to the company they contract out to called "Let me send you unchecked dog ****.

As you say, not Asus's fault but the company they used.

Point taken though

Geeman1979 · 27 Jun 2014 at 20:38

Yea shame really, as Rma turn around on the monitor side of things is quick.

A week tops.

Ayahuasca · 27 Jun 2014 at 21:42

whyscotty said:
As you say, not Asus's fault but the company they used.

Point taken though

Still ASUS fault for using companies like that to try and keep costs down. With the premium you pay for most of their stuff you'd think at the very least you'd get good customer service and quality control.

Rroff · 27 Jun 2014 at 22:19

whyscotty said:
As you say, not Asus's fault but the company they used.

Point taken though

Similar story for me albeit quite a long time ago now and AFAIK was through Asus directly - 3 replacement refurbished motherboards each worse than the one before, none lasting more than a few weeks. Turn around was quick but it ended with a hammer and buying other brands for motherboards.

I've not really had any issues with other Asus hardware though aside from an "8800GT" that was actually an 8800GS but badged, labelled and boxed as a GT* which was a nightmare to get sorted as the retailer would keep testing it and returning it as "working" as obviously it worked but it needed someone a bit more technical really to spot what was wrong with it:

http://aten-hosted.com/images/8800GTGS.jpg

http://aten-hosted.com/images/8800sticker.jpg

Sticker was worn and tatty on an otherwise completely new, clean, retail boxed card. goodness knows what happened there.

In the end the retailer finally caught on and did adequately compensate me but it should have been Asus that made amends.

* Even had GT BIOS and all 512MB VRAM physically on the board but above 384MB was inaccessible and the extra SPs has been "laser cut" - later turned out was actually a GS core on a GT PCB.

rolypolyman · 27 Jun 2014 at 22:21

Ayahuasca said:
Still ASUS fault for using companies like that to try and keep costs down. With the premium you pay for most of their stuff you'd think at the very least you'd get good customer service and quality control.

This to be honest, if you are charging top dollar, and Asus are, then the warranty\rma\customer service has to be top notch.