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Finally got everything to work at 60Hz. Had to remove the overclock on everything and update the chipset to the latest one on the asus website. I still get the black screen from time to time but it seems just like what other people were reporting here, it will flicker and then turn off for a moment then turn back on. However the longest black screen that I had did last for well over a minute. I'm gonna get a better quality cable like some have suggested before to see if this clears up the issue. If not then I may have return it despite how awesome things look in 4k.
 
Running mine on 1.2 @30hz the issue isn't 1.2 in and of itself - at 60hz it looks like there's serious signal issues somewhere in the chain. My assumption is the cable shipped with is junk (sure looks it) though at 10:30pm it's kinda hard to get a replacement :p

That being said even uncalibrated it looks pretty nice even in Win 7 - the scaling issues aren't nearly as bad as I thought they'd be. Firefox seems to handle font scaling pretty well too.

I have just left the windows scaling at normal, I don't have issue with the small writing. The way windows 7 does the scaling doesn't seem quite right to me.
 
Alright so it seems like there is definitely an AMD-related issue, think I've narrowed it down to something with CVT-R timings. Certainly it isn't specifically a problem with bandwidth - higher bandwidth modes work over lower ones that don't.

Code:
timings     mode name      pixels                pixel rate   
                           X      Y       Hz     MHz      GBps

CEA-861     2160p30       3840   2160    30      297.00   7.13 <- works
CEA-861     1080p60       1920   1080    60      148.50   3.56 <- works
CVT-R       2.30MA-R      1920   1200    60      154.13   3.70 <- bugged
CVT-R       WQUXGA        3840   2160    60      533.28  12.80 <- bugged

Definitely not a coincidence.
 
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AMD definitely are having more issues with these monitors than Nvidia are. I've read forums posts where people have x-fire 290x's and have problems but then swap in a 760 and it all works with out any problems.
 
Mine just arrived. My first impressions after an hour or so:

-Had to manually select DisplayPort1.2 in the OSD to get 60hz as others suggested
-No dead pixels as far as I can tell (although they're so small!)
-Colours look acceptable out of the box (perhaps a bit bright but it's very sunny today so probably making it seem less bright than it is) but I'll have a play around later
-Linux works great, I don't know if the font's are slightly larger than windows but I find the default scaling fine. I may bump it up to 110% as it's a tad on the small side but totally legible because of the excellent PPI :)
-Tried WoW at 4k, 2xAA and it runs between 40-75fps running around orgrimmar on my 750ti which is fine for me :)
-Haven't had any screen flickering issues yet, but it's only been an hour
-I think 4k would be a horrible experience without a high dpi mouse!

Overall, very impressed with this monitor, the 4k resolution is incredibly impressive.
 
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I have found one rather annoying issue, I get no BIOS output on displayport. Once the GPU driver is loaded I get a display but it means I'm unable to access any bios settings or see the boot process. Annoyingly this means I cant see my boot loader to select which OS to boot.
 
I have found one rather annoying issue, I get no BIOS output on displayport. Once the GPU driver is loaded I get a display but it means I'm unable to access any bios settings or see the boot process. Annoyingly this means I cant see my boot loader to select which OS to boot.

what motherboard are you using?
 
I have found one rather annoying issue, I get no BIOS output on displayport. Once the GPU driver is loaded I get a display but it means I'm unable to access any bios settings or see the boot process. Annoyingly this means I cant see my boot loader to select which OS to boot.

I had same issue before because due bios settings I left UEFI compatibility off
 
Fastboot or something probably? On a reboot it won't take as long to get through the checks as a clean startup. Some bioses actually have options to slow it down but that's a bit silly.

Your options are mostly just either assume everything works unless it pauses for an error or if you need to change something mash the relevant button :)

I assume nobody with one of these and an AMD card has found a solution yet? I got another cable coming tomorrow and I might go out and get some ferrite beads for the power and DP cable see if it helps but I don't have much hope due to not actually thinking it's cable signal related explicitly but will report.
 
Alright so it seems like there is definitely an AMD-related issue, think I've narrowed it down to something with CVT-R timings. Certainly it isn't specifically a problem with bandwidth - higher bandwidth modes work over lower ones that don't.

Code:
timings     mode name      pixels                pixel rate   
                           X      Y       Hz     MHz      GBps

CEA-861     2160p30       3840   2160    30      297.00   7.13 <- works
CEA-861     1080p60       1920   1080    60      148.50   3.56 <- works
CVT-R       2.30MA-R      1920   1200    60      154.13   3.70 <- bugged
CVT-R       WQUXGA        3840   2160    60      533.28  12.80 <- bugged

Definitely not a coincidence.

DisplayPort 1.2 effective bandwidth to 17.28 Gbit/s
 
Just had the screen flicker/signal loss issue. One in two days isn't *too* bad but I'll have to see. This is using the supplied DP cable.
 
DisplayPort 1.2 effective bandwidth to 17.28 Gbit/s

Missing my point - I was saying that higher bandwidth modes (2160p30) are working over lower bandwidth ones (1920x1200@60) on my setup. Which is not to say necessarily it can't be signal strength/qaulity related - a specific type of noise for example might potentially cause more issues with CVT-R or something.

Somebody at ASUS/AOC/etc needs to send AMD one of their 4k SST monitors is the problem here.
 
Just to bring you up to speed, had my screen replaced (Saturday) - same issues. :(

Asus are replacing this one tomorrow - hopefully 3rd time lucky :D

Hi that's not very good. I've got the Aoc 4k and no issues like I had with my Asus although it did make the speaker like pop sound which I resolved by uninstalling the nvidia audio software
 
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