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£32! I would hope it can cure cancer at that price
IIyama 40" 4k VA monitor
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£32! I would hope it can cure cancer at that price
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Could not agree more blazebadger but the problem with 4K at this point in time is that it can be very finicky. So having a known good quality cable removes some of the variables when trying to fault find.
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just use the cables that comes with the monitor? mine works fine with the cable provided.
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Champion! Thanks very much! £100 on monitor cables is never welcome, but sometimes it's necessary.
And to concur with Shamus21, if there was ever a case of "buy cheap, buy twice", digital cables handling bandwidth at the edge of spec would be it.
a66as: note the five metre requirement.
Is this confirmed to have HDMI 2.0?
Is this monitor confirmed to have HDMI 2.0? I see that it does 4k@60hz over HDMI but I think it's strange that no where does it use the HDMI 2.0 Branding as confirmation. It also says it's HDCP compliant but which version?
The reason I ask is that I'm considering the monitor but would like to make sure it's future proof for when I hook up SKY Sports in 4K or have an Ultra Blu-Ray player and that it will work.
In addition to it being a great PC monitor for PC gaming, which is my first priority
Any other lucky people that already got there monitor have any feedback on playing games? In particular RTS/TBS games and space sims!
Is this monitor confirmed to have HDMI 2.0? I see that it does 4k@60hz over HDMI but I think it's strange that no where does it use the HDMI 2.0 Branding as confirmation. It also says it's HDCP compliant but which version?
The reason I ask is that I'm considering the monitor but would like to make sure it's future proof for when I hook up SKY Sports in 4K or have an Ultra Blu-Ray player and that it will work.
In addition to it being a great PC monitor for PC gaming, which is my first priority
Any other lucky people that already got there monitor have any feedback on playing games? In particular RTS/TBS games and space sims!
I know Lindy is a reputable brand in this market, but have these cables actually been certified by VESA at that length? I can't see them on the VESA database.
The longest certified DP cables are typically 3m unless the database is out of date. Cables in excess of 3m do not apparently conform to spec and can potentially damage the monitor.
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I think the DisplayPort spec only goes up to 3 metres, but a well-shielded 5 metre cable obviously stands a good chance of working. I'm not sure how a passive cable is likely to damage a monitor?
Anyway, seems I need a bigger desk. (that's a full size pint glass, for scale)
There's quite a few gotchas, many my own fault. The bundled feet really do make the monitors lean in by a few degrees, so the bezels won't line up until I've found stands. I've set them all to DP 1.2 but only the middle monitor is doing 60Hz, the other two seem capped at 30Hz, not sure what to do there. And it turns out a desktop resolution of 11520x2160 is beyond the capability of Aero, doh!
Anyway, seems I need a bigger desk. (that's a full size pint glass, for scale)
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I think the DisplayPort spec only goes up to 3 metres, but a well-shielded 5 metre cable obviously stands a good chance of working. I'm not sure how a passive cable is likely to damage a monitor?
Anyway, seems I need a bigger desk. (that's a full size pint glass, for scale)There's quite a few gotchas, many my own fault. The bundled feet really do make the monitors lean in by a few degrees, so the bezels won't line up until I've found stands. I've set them all to DP 1.2 but only the middle monitor is doing 60Hz, the other two seem capped at 30Hz, not sure what to do there. And it turns out a desktop resolution of 11520x2160 is beyond the capability of Aero, doh!
Very impressive andrewprice. What graphic card are you using for all 3 monitors should be able to run 3 at 60Hz and how do all 3 compare for screen uniformity
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They're all plugged into the primary 980 Ti, which is very high clocked but otherwise normal. They don't seem to do 60Hz even using the short supplied cables.
I haven't had time to look at them in detail. My initial impressions are that they're excellent for the price, but not ideal if you need to stare at them all day. I've now realised that a 40" 4K flat monitor is fundamentally a bad idea: at that dot pitch, you need to sit about 30" away, which makes the corners quite distorted (and with this panel, they've lost a LOT of their brightness).
I haven't had time to look at them in detail. My initial impressions are that they're excellent for the price, but not ideal if you need to stare at them all day. I've now realised that a 40" 4K flat monitor is fundamentally a bad idea: at that dot pitch, you need to sit about 30" away, which makes the corners quite distorted (and with this panel, they've lost a LOT of their brightness).
- All three units are identical in every way, any faults I see aren't unique to one of them.
- Can't find a single stuck pixel (in 24883200 pixels!)
- Having come from IPS, colours are very disappointing. I've been trying to calibrate my way out of it, to no avail.
- Vignetting is very bad, comes out maybe 5mm on all borders. Photo below.
- Quite visible backlight clips. Photo below (two white marks underneath the Oculus camera).
- PWM seems a total non-issue. I'm quite sensitive and these seem fine, even at 75% brightness.
- White-black smearing is there, but you really have to look for it, and I haven't messed with the overdrive setting yet.
- Colour bar issue is there, but not as bad as the Philips.
They're all plugged into the primary 980 Ti, which is very high clocked but otherwise normal. They don't seem to do 60Hz even using the short supplied cables.
I haven't had time to look at them in detail. My initial impressions are that they're excellent for the price, but not ideal if you need to stare at them all day. I've now realised that a 40" 4K flat monitor is fundamentally a bad idea: at that dot pitch, you need to sit about 30" away, which makes the corners quite distorted (and with this panel, they've lost a LOT of their brightness).
- All three units are identical in every way, any faults I see aren't unique to one of them.
- Can't find a single stuck pixel (in 24883200 pixels!)
- Having come from IPS, colours are very disappointing. I've been trying to calibrate my way out of it, to no avail.
- Vignetting is very bad, comes out maybe 5mm on all borders. Photo below.
- Quite visible backlight clips. Photo below (two white marks underneath the Oculus camera).
- PWM seems a total non-issue. I'm quite sensitive and these seem fine, even at 75% brightness.
- White-black smearing is there, but you really have to look for it, and I haven't messed with the overdrive setting yet.
- Colour bar issue is there, but not as bad as the Philips.
thanks for the summary andrew - btw would you say the panel is the exact same as the philips (including how glossy it is?) - Im using a crossover 404k and would like a bit more gloss to my screen but not sure if Ill end up with the same thing by getting this panel (because Im not sure if mine is the same as the philips or not).
Try putting the monitors in portrait mode.
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Yes I'm confident it's exactly the same panel (including the gloss), just with slightly better electronics driving it. The problems inherent with the panel are still present just less pronounced, i.e. the voltage issue causing the banding isn't so bad.
Is this monitor confirmed to have HDMI 2.0? I see that it does 4k@60hz over HDMI but I think it's strange that no where does it use the HDMI 2.0 Branding as confirmation. It also says it's HDCP compliant but which version?
The reason I ask is that I'm considering the monitor but would like to make sure it's future proof for when I hook up SKY Sports in 4K or have an Ultra Blu-Ray player and that it will work.
In addition to it being a great PC monitor for PC gaming, which is my first priority
Any other lucky people that already got there monitor have any feedback on playing games? In particular RTS/TBS games and space sims!
Anyone? Is it proper HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2?
Hi Andrew. Just wanted to say would you be interested in selling one of your monitors? It exactly what i need abd any of the issues you have listed would most likely not affect my intended use of it.
Look forward to your reply,
Lou
Look forward to your reply,
Lou
just got this monitor there are some of my findings
1. you can overclock 1080p to 75hz via displayport or hdmi but no overclock in 4k (artifacts in picture)
2. contrast needs to be setted to 100
3. back screws creating that black line around edges pressing on panel if you loose them little its much better
4. working out of box on 290X 4k@60hz via displayport (set 1.2 in panel settings)
5. pwm backlight is not an issue for me
6. panel seems to be same as le4041uhs
7. got 2 stuck subpixels (not a big deal)
8. have 10bit colors (cant really tell difference
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9. colors from what i can say are perfect
1. you can overclock 1080p to 75hz via displayport or hdmi but no overclock in 4k (artifacts in picture)
2. contrast needs to be setted to 100
3. back screws creating that black line around edges pressing on panel if you loose them little its much better
4. working out of box on 290X 4k@60hz via displayport (set 1.2 in panel settings)
5. pwm backlight is not an issue for me
6. panel seems to be same as le4041uhs
7. got 2 stuck subpixels (not a big deal)
8. have 10bit colors (cant really tell difference
)9. colors from what i can say are perfect
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I've found that mine are very picky with the quality of DisplayPort cables. Anything less than a really good cable causes the panel to switch down to 30Hz or blank out constantly (or blank out on high detail images!?). Even the bundled DP cable doesn't seem to be quite good enough. Shamus21's recommendation seems to work fine though.
Loosening the back screens didn't fix the vignetting for me.
Loosening the back screens didn't fix the vignetting for me.