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Thought i would say that having picked up this monitor as an all round gaming screen for 4k PC and Wii U, XBone and PS4 use i am very pleased with it. Initial impressions are that the styling is superb and has a very thin bezel and a nice red edge under the bottom of the bezel. The monitor comes factory calibrated with an sRGB preset which works superbly. Headphone out connected to my desktop speakers.
The 4k image looks as crisp as my 28" model which was surprising and the scaling of 1080p content for the consoles is excellent (tested with blu-ray DVE sharpness test patterns. No ringing or unwanted scaling nasties and using vivid pixel at setting 25 makes the console games look great some of the best monitor scaling i've seen since my IIyama 1440p for non native 1080p monitors. Vivid pixel is on by default but is not needed for native 4k only for sub resolutions, 25 is the max to use though. The size is perfect for PC 4k and even at only a few ft away the only issue is a bit of IPS glow as usual for these panels but otherwise no backlight bleed or dead pixels.
I will probably calibrate user 1 & 2 presets myself but the calibrated sRGB preset will be great for now. You can calibrate RGB low & high, 6 axis colour, saturation and hue and pick from 3 gamma presets.
The input lag at 1080p full screen for console gaming measured using the Leo Bodnar device 9.7 - 10ms (part lag, part response times). It is also this good at 4k obviously. This makes it as good as any 1080p monitor. The overdrive has 5 settings as well as off. Tested using the blur busters UFO scrolling images shows that you can use the max of 100 overdrive and only get some slight light overdrive issues in the brighter shades, the darkest shade is free of this but also has no ghosting either. The slight light overshoot is hardly noticable on games at all and only on a few slight occasions, very impressive IPS result.
I can use displayport and 3 hdmi (one of which is 2.0 for possible future use) to plug everything in direct for hassle free gaming.
After a day of testing i am very pleased and although i will miss g-sync this monitor offers an all round solution with great quality and a really nice 32" size.
The 4k image looks as crisp as my 28" model which was surprising and the scaling of 1080p content for the consoles is excellent (tested with blu-ray DVE sharpness test patterns. No ringing or unwanted scaling nasties and using vivid pixel at setting 25 makes the console games look great some of the best monitor scaling i've seen since my IIyama 1440p for non native 1080p monitors. Vivid pixel is on by default but is not needed for native 4k only for sub resolutions, 25 is the max to use though. The size is perfect for PC 4k and even at only a few ft away the only issue is a bit of IPS glow as usual for these panels but otherwise no backlight bleed or dead pixels.
I will probably calibrate user 1 & 2 presets myself but the calibrated sRGB preset will be great for now. You can calibrate RGB low & high, 6 axis colour, saturation and hue and pick from 3 gamma presets.
The input lag at 1080p full screen for console gaming measured using the Leo Bodnar device 9.7 - 10ms (part lag, part response times). It is also this good at 4k obviously. This makes it as good as any 1080p monitor. The overdrive has 5 settings as well as off. Tested using the blur busters UFO scrolling images shows that you can use the max of 100 overdrive and only get some slight light overdrive issues in the brighter shades, the darkest shade is free of this but also has no ghosting either. The slight light overshoot is hardly noticable on games at all and only on a few slight occasions, very impressive IPS result.
I can use displayport and 3 hdmi (one of which is 2.0 for possible future use) to plug everything in direct for hassle free gaming.
After a day of testing i am very pleased and although i will miss g-sync this monitor offers an all round solution with great quality and a really nice 32" size.
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