experience with Dell U2311H

sybaris · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:55

Can anyone who has a experience with Dell U2311H tell me what they think of it? Good, bad or indifferent.

I am thinking of buying one for all round PC purposes and different games.

Was deciding between this and a 120hz panel but I don't online FPS games generally.

Garee · 1 Mar 2011 at 22:59

Good. I have two

PCM2 · 1 Mar 2011 at 23:03

It's a very nice general purpose and gaming monitor. It has low input lag and despite what the numbers may suggest in their notoriously misleading way it's actually a nice responsive monitor with relatively little trailing. Colour reproduction is also above and beyond most other monitors at the price (or below) with good accuracy once calibrated and pretty decent out of the box colours. I find that the anti-glare coating is a little aggressive for my tastes and this does tend to 'dull' the image slightly - but not everyone would have a problem with this. The consistency of range of colours really does add something to the experience and many people who have moved from a TN panel to the U2311H soon notice this aspect. I have also installed over 30 of these quite recently in some offices and they do suffer pretty poor luminance uniformity. It isn't noticeably worse than other monitors in the price range in this respect and the contrast is generally quite strong for an IPS panel. Overall; good monitor for the money, not perfect though.

sybaris · 2 Mar 2011 at 00:20

To get perfect I would have to go over budget.
I think this could be the one I go for, though I plan to get 3 eventually and build my home flight sim (already have 2 other screens)

Mr Krugga · 2 Mar 2011 at 00:33

It's annoying that it doesn't use a true 8bit panel.

sybaris · 2 Mar 2011 at 00:37

does that make a difference?

sybaris · 2 Mar 2011 at 01:02

hmmm the Samsung P2450H also looks enticing too

harenzo · 2 Mar 2011 at 04:33

I'm using a u2311H and it's been brilliant, even in FPS games. I am considering buying another. Side by side, my Samsung T220 TN panel (which I used for 4 years) doesn't cut it compared to the Dell.

PCM2 · 2 Mar 2011 at 07:12

sybaris said:
To get perfect I would have to go over budget.
I think this could be the one I go for, though I plan to get 3 eventually and build my home flight sim (already have 2 other screens)

No monitor is perfect

adamau5 · 2 Mar 2011 at 07:32

i have one, the step up from my old tn was amazing. out of the box calbration is pretty good.

rickh · 2 Mar 2011 at 11:58

adamau5 said:
i have one, the step up from my old tn

Just felt that it's worth emphasising the word OLD so people don't think this monitor is miles better than any TN panel..

I don't think it's a massive step up from more modern TN panels to be honest.
It's got a very 'dull' look and the AG coating is horrible. Whilst it's accurate it's not very vibrant (mostly due to the AG coating).

I've owned lots of IPS panels (nec's and apple cinema displays) and this is the worst one.

Its main benefit over my TN monitors is colour accuracy (grey's are very grey rather than bluey, which is excellent).

I maintain that for the typical user who surfs the web, plays games, watches movies - this is not the best monitor. I think everyone who hypes about it has not used more expensive IPS panels before.

Wegason · 2 Mar 2011 at 13:35

PCM2 said:
It's a very nice general purpose and gaming monitor. It has low input lag and despite what the numbers may suggest in their notoriously misleading way it's actually a nice responsive monitor with relatively little trailing. Colour reproduction is also above and beyond most other monitors at the price (or below) with good accuracy once calibrated and pretty decent out of the box colours. I find that the anti-glare coating is a little aggressive for my tastes and this does tend to 'dull' the image slightly - but not everyone would have a problem with this. The consistency of range of colours really does add something to the experience and many people who have moved from a TN panel to the U2311H soon notice this aspect. I have also installed over 30 of these quite recently in some offices and they do suffer pretty poor luminance uniformity. It isn't noticeably worse than other monitors in the price range in this respect and the contrast is generally quite strong for an IPS panel. Overall; good monitor for the money, not perfect though.

Would you choose the U2311H over say the Samsung P2450H?

~Mike~ · 2 Mar 2011 at 16:44

I've been looking at the Dell for my new build later on this year. There are some deals at the moment.

Have you read the review on TFT Central?

sybaris · 3 Mar 2011 at 09:15

Wegason said:
Would you choose the U2311H over say the Samsung P2450H?

In this case I am going to say no and buy a Samsung P2450

Wegason · 10 Mar 2011 at 18:43

sybaris said:
In this case I am going to say no and buy a Samsung P2450

Well I went out and bought the Dell U2311H and I am very happy with it, out of the box colours and settings were very good, and once I switched to custom RGB the picture was fantastic.

I've been gaming online in FPS games and I have not noticed any input lag or ghosting in my play, and having switched from a 17" 1280 x 1024, the widescreen 16:9 has really improved my ability online as I see more of the action and can respond better.

~Mike~ · 10 Mar 2011 at 19:01

Pleased you like it.

Good to know you didn't have any problems with input lag or ghosting.

I've read about people not liking the anti-glare coating on the screen (as in post #3), how have you found it?

sybaris · 11 Mar 2011 at 08:44

Now not going for Samsung, the iiyama looks good