Out the box the colours were drab, this is well documented and I was aware of this even before the monitor arrived. Every review, even the 5 star ones pick this up, but I had the optimal settings ready to change straight away. These are available all over the place. Its just a few tweaks in the monitors on-screen display itself regarding the brightness, contrast, gamma etc etc. and after that it's perfect. It's absolutely, in no way, going to compete with a high end IPS panel for colour reproduction. Those who don't understand the main reason people by 144hz monitors don't quite seem to get their head around this. I have both ( a Dell 27" IPS, and they both have their place, I couldn't imagine gaming on it though)
I can assume hope he was joking, it's not really a viable option at all. This is more for people wanting to get a little more out their IPS panel opposed to someone wanting to but an out and out gaming monitor.
