Hp monitors
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It got discussed a little while ago:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...a-light-in-the-quality-control-dark.18748010/
Short version, a few people bought one and found it fine. 75Hz only works for AMD cards, nvidia users have to drop to 60 due to frameskipping issues that I don't think ever got resolved.
I eventually decided not to get one because I do graphics work and it wasn't getting good colour accuracy results.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...a-light-in-the-quality-control-dark.18748010/
Short version, a few people bought one and found it fine. 75Hz only works for AMD cards, nvidia users have to drop to 60 due to frameskipping issues that I don't think ever got resolved.
I eventually decided not to get one because I do graphics work and it wasn't getting good colour accuracy results.
Aww nuts to it, imma jump on the bandwagon. Too good a price to refuse.
Planning on getting me a Dell Canvas in a couple of weeks anyway, that will become my graphics screen so it really doesn't matter if it doesn't have super accurate colours
Plus I can blame @jigger if it's not perfect
Planning on getting me a Dell Canvas in a couple of weeks anyway, that will become my graphics screen so it really doesn't matter if it doesn't have super accurate colours
Plus I can blame @jigger if it's not perfect
Just looking at them. If they come from HP through the place we can't speak about you might be able to get the HP care pack. Wait until the first year is almost up then extend for another 4 years with a door to door exchange warranty. Not bad for a price we can't discuss.
No idea, hasn't been dispatched yet :/ Good job I've already waited years for a 32" screen or I'd be getting quite upset
*edit* Ooo, "preparing for dispatch," arrival tomorrow! Fingers x'd!
Initial impressions very positive. No BLB, no dead pixels, couple of very, very slight stripes running top to bottom, but nowhere near as bad as the previous VAs of this format I've tried, which were like looking through a dirty window. After a couple of days I'm going to totally lose track of these, since I have to hunt to find them and my brain will screen them out quite quickly.
Colour calibration revealed that the whitepoint was spot on out of the box, though full brightness was a bit much so I dialled that down to 85%. RGB now at 254, 254, and 255 respectively for a perfect white, which is very little adjustment on the whole. Colour gamut reads as full sRGB, and for a monitor that's usually picked on for poor accuracy, the colour profile after calibration makes very little visual difference. I'd give it a "good for everything but professional use" right off the shelf. With calibration it's looking really quite respectable.
Spyder 4 just before letting it do its thing and make a colour profile. Easy to attain a perfect whitepoint at a modest brightness. No discolouration visible around the edges. Very faint vertical banding visible to my eyes, but vastly better than other monitors of this ilk.
75hz... lulz, nope Using the UFO test page https://www.testufo.com/#test=frameskipping I can immediately see some columns do not flash white, so I'm guessing this is the frameskipping issue that's been raised with this model and nvidia. Shame, but I didn't buy it for 75hz anyway, so 60hz will do, and it's performing fine at this. Maybe if AMD manage to make a good gpu next generation... or if nvidia ever stopped being arses and allowed freesync on their cards... but such things are equally wishful thinking.
Viewing angles are not bad, but colours do wash out a little when off to the side - but who cares, it's a monitor, for a pc, not a tv for a living room.
There is a little black crush when viewing straight on, down below the #0b0b0b hex range, but unless you're massively into your dark, dark games, then this really won't be a thing. Weirdly you get better contrast off-angle, but this may be an illusion because the panel appears all around lighter from the sides.
Viewed head-on, the darker scales in this dinosaur almost vanish into hide, and the dino itself is almost indistinguishable from the sky. Not alleviated by 100% brightness. On the other hand, I usually punch up the gamma when night falls in Ark because this level of darkness is stupid and I don't think I have any other games that expect you to play blind.
Gaming seems reasonable for a 60hz screen. I won't pretend there's no smearing at all, but nothing worse than I've seen with a 60hz Dell IPS, so I'm used to that much and it does not bother me. Not really ideal for serious fps games, but you know that by the 75hz/60hz limit anyway. For the stuff I like, Kerbal Space Program, Cities Skylines, Minecraft, Ark Survival, it's going to play just as well as the screen I had before, only bigger
*edit* I've just discovered a calibration option to compensate for black crush. I'll re-run it and see what the profile it produces ends up looking like.
Colour calibration revealed that the whitepoint was spot on out of the box, though full brightness was a bit much so I dialled that down to 85%. RGB now at 254, 254, and 255 respectively for a perfect white, which is very little adjustment on the whole. Colour gamut reads as full sRGB, and for a monitor that's usually picked on for poor accuracy, the colour profile after calibration makes very little visual difference. I'd give it a "good for everything but professional use" right off the shelf. With calibration it's looking really quite respectable.
Spyder 4 just before letting it do its thing and make a colour profile. Easy to attain a perfect whitepoint at a modest brightness. No discolouration visible around the edges. Very faint vertical banding visible to my eyes, but vastly better than other monitors of this ilk.
75hz... lulz, nope
Using the UFO test page https://www.testufo.com/#test=frameskipping I can immediately see some columns do not flash white, so I'm guessing this is the frameskipping issue that's been raised with this model and nvidia. Shame, but I didn't buy it for 75hz anyway, so 60hz will do, and it's performing fine at this. Maybe if AMD manage to make a good gpu next generation... or if nvidia ever stopped being arses and allowed freesync on their cards... but such things are equally wishful thinking.Viewing angles are not bad, but colours do wash out a little when off to the side - but who cares, it's a monitor, for a pc, not a tv for a living room.
There is a little black crush when viewing straight on, down below the #0b0b0b hex range, but unless you're massively into your dark, dark games, then this really won't be a thing. Weirdly you get better contrast off-angle, but this may be an illusion because the panel appears all around lighter from the sides.
Viewed head-on, the darker scales in this dinosaur almost vanish into hide, and the dino itself is almost indistinguishable from the sky. Not alleviated by 100% brightness. On the other hand, I usually punch up the gamma when night falls in Ark because this level of darkness is stupid and I don't think I have any other games that expect you to play blind.
Gaming seems reasonable for a 60hz screen. I won't pretend there's no smearing at all, but nothing worse than I've seen with a 60hz Dell IPS, so I'm used to that much and it does not bother me. Not really ideal for serious fps games, but you know that by the 75hz/60hz limit anyway. For the stuff I like, Kerbal Space Program, Cities Skylines, Minecraft, Ark Survival, it's going to play just as well as the screen I had before, only bigger
*edit* I've just discovered a calibration option to compensate for black crush. I'll re-run it and see what the profile it produces ends up looking like.
Frame skipping with Nvidia seem a bit of a problem with anything other than the generic 60Hz. Maybe a driver will sort that out at some point.
You can play around with the response times in the settings.
You could have bought the 60 Hz HP desire 32 you know.
You can play around with the response times in the settings.
You could have bought the 60 Hz HP desire 32 you know.
Follow up note, I re-calibrated using black crush compensation, and now basically it's only the stuff below #040404 that vanishes. There's still a loss of detail down in that low low range, but it's a minor improvement nonetheless. For the sale price of £300, I consider this screen pretty darn decent
I also don't know what a HP Desire is... there's the Envy, which has big ugly speakers on the side, which I very much didn't want because of that. I like to have 2-3 monitors on the desk and not a 4" gap between them
I also don't know what a HP Desire is... there's the Envy, which has big ugly speakers on the side, which I very much didn't want because of that. I like to have 2-3 monitors on the desk and not a 4" gap between them