Ok, so I'm now on my second Aorus FI27Q-X...and it still isn't right! 
The first one arrived, and had two stuck pixels - one green, in the very far left corner; and one red, a few inches from the top right. To be fair, backlight bleed was actually very low.
Naturally, I sent it back. The monitor is supposed to come with a zero stuck pixel guarantee. Quite honestly, I've never had more than one stuck pixel right out of the box - even on far cheaper monitors. So, for £600+ (and a guarantee of no stuck pixels) it should be perfect. I was actually quite surprised - as I figured no company would attach that kind of guarantee to something unless they were pretty confident in their product (how naive of me!).
Re-ordered a new one (annoyingly, the monitor had gone up a further £28 in the mean time), and the new one - as well as having more bleed - still has a single stuck red sub-pixel. It only shows up on blue and black screens in dead pixels tests...although it's still visible on some other colours when using the monitor normally.
Looking at reddit (granted, never the best idea
), there seem to be lots of comments from people getting 3+ stuck pixels on this monitor. With the general consensus being that there seems to be little in the way of QC from Gigabyte (or Sharp, if you want to blame the panel manufacturer).
At this point, I have no idea what to do. I've tried the usual stuck pixel videos on YouTube, JScreenFix, etc - but they've made no difference (do these ever work?).
As far as I'm concerned, I've paid for a monitor that shouldn't have any stuck pixels...but I'm getting increasingly tired of packing up/unpacking monitors. I don't especially want to take this up with Gigabyte while I'm still within my 30 days - as I'm worried they might just fob me off with a refurb, or something. That said, I have absolutely no faith at this stage that I'll get a decent sample, if I order a third.
What are other peoples' experiences with Gigabyte/Aorus monitors? Even though it has no sRGB clamp (which will probably annoy me), I'm beginning to wonder if I should try ordering the Alienware AW2721D instead. Or is Dell's QC terrible these days too? The AW2721D is also (supposedly) guranteed to have no stuck pixels...but perhaps that's meaningless, given my experiences with the FI27Q-X. I'd kind of ruled out the 27" Odyssey G7 (mainly just because of the curve, and I tend to prefer IPS to VA), but how do those fare QC wise?
Any suggestions welcome! Although I kind of have a feeling maybe all gaming monitors are now in an even worse state than when I last bought one...
The first one arrived, and had two stuck pixels - one green, in the very far left corner; and one red, a few inches from the top right. To be fair, backlight bleed was actually very low.
Naturally, I sent it back. The monitor is supposed to come with a zero stuck pixel guarantee. Quite honestly, I've never had more than one stuck pixel right out of the box - even on far cheaper monitors. So, for £600+ (and a guarantee of no stuck pixels) it should be perfect. I was actually quite surprised - as I figured no company would attach that kind of guarantee to something unless they were pretty confident in their product (how naive of me!).
Re-ordered a new one (annoyingly, the monitor had gone up a further £28 in the mean time), and the new one - as well as having more bleed - still has a single stuck red sub-pixel. It only shows up on blue and black screens in dead pixels tests...although it's still visible on some other colours when using the monitor normally.
Looking at reddit (granted, never the best idea
), there seem to be lots of comments from people getting 3+ stuck pixels on this monitor. With the general consensus being that there seems to be little in the way of QC from Gigabyte (or Sharp, if you want to blame the panel manufacturer).At this point, I have no idea what to do. I've tried the usual stuck pixel videos on YouTube, JScreenFix, etc - but they've made no difference (do these ever work?).
As far as I'm concerned, I've paid for a monitor that shouldn't have any stuck pixels...but I'm getting increasingly tired of packing up/unpacking monitors. I don't especially want to take this up with Gigabyte while I'm still within my 30 days - as I'm worried they might just fob me off with a refurb, or something. That said, I have absolutely no faith at this stage that I'll get a decent sample, if I order a third.
What are other peoples' experiences with Gigabyte/Aorus monitors? Even though it has no sRGB clamp (which will probably annoy me), I'm beginning to wonder if I should try ordering the Alienware AW2721D instead. Or is Dell's QC terrible these days too? The AW2721D is also (supposedly) guranteed to have no stuck pixels...but perhaps that's meaningless, given my experiences with the FI27Q-X. I'd kind of ruled out the 27" Odyssey G7 (mainly just because of the curve, and I tend to prefer IPS to VA), but how do those fare QC wise?
Any suggestions welcome! Although I kind of have a feeling maybe all gaming monitors are now in an even worse state than when I last bought one...
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) with dust inside the panel and in addition in some cases pixel failures. In one case (G9 Neo) scratch in polarisation film + white spot.
. Used them for huge amount of pixel failures. Each 15 minutes or more. Nothing changed. Only for a Dell S2716DG massage with a cleaning cloth helped for a subpixel failure until i shipped it and then it appears again 
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