Do i upgrade my NEC Multisync 24WMGX3

4Qman · 28 Apr 2014 at 09:15

Hey,

Ive had this monitor for quite a while now.

Am i going to see a marked improvement upgrading to a 27" Monitor.

Ill be using for gaming and media tasks/browsing.

any recommendations please

Arcane · 28 Apr 2014 at 10:40

I'd wait if you can and see how the Asus ROG Swift turns out, it seems to be the "next big thing" people are waiting for and would be a worthwhile upgrade, 2560x1440, 120hz, gsync, ulmb, etc etc.

RavenXXX2 · 28 Apr 2014 at 12:15

Asus ROG Swift is a TN panel, coming from the quality IPS panel of the NEC might leave you a bit disappointed.

eggcup · 28 Apr 2014 at 16:08

I had 2 Nec 24wmgx3's , I now have 2 Asus pb278q's, they are excellent, dont go TN what ever you do.

Arcane · 28 Apr 2014 at 16:45

RavenXXX2 said:
Asus ROG Swift is a TN panel, coming from the quality IPS panel of the NEC might leave you a bit disappointed.

The NEC uses an 8-bit AMVA panel, so he's not using IPS?

eggcup said:
I had 2 Nec 24wmgx3's , I now have 2 Asus pb278q's, they are excellent, dont go TN what ever you do.

The Swift uses a custom 8 bit TN panel as opposed to the 6bit panels used in all the current gaming screens, meaning 16.7 million colours as opposed to 262000 colours with dithering, apparently comparable to e-ips.

I owned a Hazro 27" ips monitor and it sat gathering a layer of dust once i'd used 120hz.

mattyg · 28 Apr 2014 at 17:31

4Qman said:
Hey,

Ive had this monitor for quite a while now.

Am i going to see a marked improvement upgrading to a 27" Monitor.

Ill be using for gaming and media tasks/browsing.

any recommendations please

Been thinking the same. Mines got a red stuck pixel right in the centre and suffers from image retention. Been hovering over 2 Dell 27" for a while now.
to replace my NEC and samsung

peterwalkley · 29 Apr 2014 at 12:07

Watching this with interest as I have the NEC as well. So many of the possible replacements get ruled out for me as the vertical resolution is only 1080 compared to the 1200 on the NEC. I am coding quite a lot - and its vertical rather than horizontal I'm interested in.

Desk space is a bit tight, so using two monitors in portrait mode would be pushing it and 4K is a jump too far in terms of cost (2 cards etc).

4Qman · 29 Apr 2014 at 20:49

Thanks for the reply guys.

I am going to wait a while and consider more options. Ill see how the Asus ROG performs.