ASUS 27MXAQ IPS Glow

[Parchon]

I bought this monitor 1 week ago, but since then i get headaches and eye strain and i can't figure out what is the problem. I've tried all kinds of combinations of settings. At first I saw flickering on white/very light backgrounds, so I decided to lower the brightness. Still got eye strain. Now I've upped the brightness to 85, contrast to 60 and installed Iris which lowers the brightness and filters the blue light. I think whites are ok now and I don't notice that much flicker. Today I noticed something different. On black/super dark backgrounds I've noticed some kind of a reflection, like a glow, which again cause more discomfort. Lowering the brightness to 30 doesn't help and I can't lower it cause then the whites start to flicker. I've taken a picture of the monitor in a dark room doing the Backlight Bleed Test. Is it normal to be like that ?



This monitor is advertised as super good and with positive reviews, especially about picture quality and its really strange that it causes so much discomfort. Or maybe I got a faulty one? My super old Samsung S23B300 (no clue if its IPS or what) has much terrible picture quality but I can stick me head inside of it and feel no eye strain. Also the screen itself doesnt reflect anything, not like the ASUS one, which is almost like a mirror.

 

[Parchon]

I think i discovered a new bug in my monitor, unless its ok for an IPS panel. When I look my monitor from slightly above (even while sitting) and focus on the bottom of the monitor (where the windows task bar is), a black line starts to appear and grows bigger the more I increase the angle. The icons are cut in half, and the date in the bottom right corner is covered as well. I don't believe an IPS panel has so poor vertical visibility. And this happens only on the bottom, not on the top. I hope I've described the issue right. Anyone experienced something similar ?

 

[Parchon]

I am not talking about gloom, but solid black appearing in the most bottom of the monitor when you look from the center to the bottom and the more you move your head above the center point the more the task bar gets covered. My super old Samsung monitor doesn't have this.