Iiyama Prolite XB2779QS-S Calibration
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Sorry I can't help with your question but maybe you could help me.
How you enjoying the Iiyama? Been looking at these for a week or so and just waiting to pull the trigger on one.
I know the 27 inch 1440p is an excellent screen size to resolution ratio but what about the unit itself? I read about the bleed issues but according to some reviewers turning the backlight down to about 20% helps this considerably.
I purchased the Iiyama monitor, the first was returned due to backlight bleed it appears to affect the top right of the screen. Sadly no tweaking of the settings could reduce the bleed to satisfactory levels and therefore the screen was returned.
The replacement was much better, unfortunately, the retailer sent me the same monitor but in White! It looked quite good, however looked too out of place with the rest of my setup. Therefore this monitor was reluctantly returned. It's a shame because the picture was far better with only minimal backlight bleed.
My third Iiyama monitor I now own, quality wise is in between the two, not as good as the second which is gutting. I have opted to keep this monitor since messing about returning the screens is a pain and the positives, the overall picture is excellent, games such as Arma etc, look brilliant, it's just dark scenes in movies or a dark desktop wallpapers etc, that you notice.
Regardless of settings I have only been able to reduce but not eradicate the bleed in its entirety - I have tried several! It appears that it's the case design, for example, when you apply gentle pressure to the affected area the bleed reduces etc. The good news none of the three monitors have had any dead pixels or colour temperature variances.
It really depends if you are prepared to either take the chance of obtaining a good monitor, alternative, accept a degree of bleed (out of three monitors all three had bleed of varying degrees) an and you may be lucky - it is a good monitor and such a shame that there is a common problem. If the screen had no bleed, it would be superb.
Apologies for not answering the original posters question.
The replacement was much better, unfortunately, the retailer sent me the same monitor but in White! It looked quite good, however looked too out of place with the rest of my setup. Therefore this monitor was reluctantly returned. It's a shame because the picture was far better with only minimal backlight bleed.
My third Iiyama monitor I now own, quality wise is in between the two, not as good as the second which is gutting. I have opted to keep this monitor since messing about returning the screens is a pain and the positives, the overall picture is excellent, games such as Arma etc, look brilliant, it's just dark scenes in movies or a dark desktop wallpapers etc, that you notice.
Regardless of settings I have only been able to reduce but not eradicate the bleed in its entirety - I have tried several! It appears that it's the case design, for example, when you apply gentle pressure to the affected area the bleed reduces etc. The good news none of the three monitors have had any dead pixels or colour temperature variances.
It really depends if you are prepared to either take the chance of obtaining a good monitor, alternative, accept a degree of bleed (out of three monitors all three had bleed of varying degrees) an and you may be lucky - it is a good monitor and such a shame that there is a common problem. If the screen had no bleed, it would be superb.
Apologies for not answering the original posters question.
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Thanks for your thoughts Ninco! Very detailed. I read that the glass panel itself can exacerbate any bleed as it reflects it straight back so any bleed that does occur naturally is effectively doubled.
Dark scenes wouldn't annoy me TOO much as if I was sitting in to enjoy a good movie i'd just watch it on my 50 inch plasma.
It's decent for gaming then? I'm by no means a twitch gamer or require super refresh rates. I play far cry/crysis and quite a few racing games but casually at best.
Dark scenes wouldn't annoy me TOO much as if I was sitting in to enjoy a good movie i'd just watch it on my 50 inch plasma.
It's decent for gaming then? I'm by no means a twitch gamer or require super refresh rates. I play far cry/crysis and quite a few racing games but casually at best.
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Hi GMac,
For gaming I have found it to be fine, I play mainly sims, Assetto Corsa, Simbin and some FPS such as Arma. I have not noticed any ghosting. I run a GeForce GTX 760 and to be honest, not really tinkered with settings too much, since the games run at good frame rates. All the above are very playable with realistic settings, I tend to not go overboard and mess about with AA settings etc, since the screen resolution negates the need for higher AA (personal opinion) and the games look bloody good, hence keeping the monitor since the pros outway the cons.
Sorry for the thread hijack Sid and again not being able to answer your question.
For gaming I have found it to be fine, I play mainly sims, Assetto Corsa, Simbin and some FPS such as Arma. I have not noticed any ghosting. I run a GeForce GTX 760 and to be honest, not really tinkered with settings too much, since the games run at good frame rates. All the above are very playable with realistic settings, I tend to not go overboard and mess about with AA settings etc, since the screen resolution negates the need for higher AA (personal opinion) and the games look bloody good, hence keeping the monitor since the pros outway the cons.
Sorry for the thread hijack Sid and again not being able to answer your question.