32" monitor choices?

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Looking to upgrade my 24" monitor. Mostly watch Youtube, play strategy/sim games and amateur photo/video editing. Current GPU is an AMD R9 200 so probably can only do 1440p. Don't want a curved monitor. Speed not important but color accuracy out of the box would be nice.

Shortlisted to:
  • Corsair XENEON 32QHD165 £549
  • ASUS ROG Swift PG329Q £649
 
32" is rather neglected size with not that many 2560x1440 choises.
(not that high end 3840x2160 situation is any better with delays after delays)
But at least stragety/sim games don't demand the best response times.

Anyway at least that Corsair is good for gaming with fast overdrive mode well balanced for use at all framerates.

Here's review of Asus:


Both can do AdobeRGB gamut covering CMYK print process colours.
But as minimum you need to install's monitor's "driver", which is actually ICC profile telling Windows size of monitor's native colour gamut.

Though as rule for accuracy you would need hardware calibrator like Spyder for making profile of individual monitor.
Even if review found good enough emulation modes to do away with colour management in OS/software, there's little guarantee that newer production runs are same.
Unless manufacturer has specifically payed attention to that by testing and adjusting firmware.
(=extra cost they don't want when they can't charge just released product price)
 
There's no mention of upscaling on any 4K monitor. I cannot watch Youtube 4K as I have slow internet so how good will 1080 look?
 
There's no mention of upscaling on any 4K monitor. I cannot watch Youtube 4K as I have slow internet so how good will 1080 look?

I find 1080 looks fine on most 4k monitors as its a perfect 4x uplift eg each pixel in 1080 becomes 4 pixels in 4k. Its much worse viewing 1080p on a 1440p monitor as there has to be "guessing" work done on the upscaling.
 
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