my monitor is dull... what should I do?

kaptainmarc · 31 Oct 2017 at 14:25

I got a new fairly cheap monitor last christmas as mine died a death.

what I purchased was this:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...g-widescreen-led-monitor-black-mo-093-as.html

(apologies admin posted the wrong link)

the picture is lovely and clear and performs well in game. However its just dull really lifeless with its colour spectrum.

I am currently wanting a second monitor I would like them to match. its either buy another one of these or get 2 new monitors

budget of ~£300 for both.

edit: I'm running a 970gtx if that makes any difference

DomBruv · 31 Oct 2017 at 14:29

for that price I'd look at getting a ultrawide screen LG

kaptainmarc · 31 Oct 2017 at 14:35

DomBruv said:
for that price I'd look at getting a ultrawide screen LG

I like to browse the internet whilst gaming, driving me mad alt tabbing all the time hence wanting 2 screens

DomBruv · 31 Oct 2017 at 15:27

kaptainmarc said:
I like to browse the internet whilst gaming, driving me mad alt tabbing all the time hence wanting 2 screens

That's fine just don't expect the best for £150 a piece mate

your better off looking at second hand

kaptainmarc · 31 Oct 2017 at 16:17

DomBruv said:
That's fine just don't expect the best for £150 a piece mate your better off looking at second hand

thinking about it you are probally right, I will just end up with 2 monitors that don't quite do it for me.

can always get the LG like you said and use my current monitor as the spare for browsing

DomBruv · 31 Oct 2017 at 17:05

kaptainmarc said:
thinking about it you are probally right, I will just end up with 2 monitors that don't quite do it for me.

can always get the LG like you said and use my current monitor as the spare for browsing

for the price that would be the best option

panyan · 31 Oct 2017 at 18:43

kaptainmarc said:
my monitor is dull... what should I do?

jazz it up with some tinsel?

mistersprinkles · 1 Nov 2017 at 03:52

It'll do some garish things to some images , but you might want to try jacking up the digital vibrance in Nvidia control panel colour settings. Works a treat (mostly). Somethings will look awful, but most things will look better. I suggest you also play with gamma and contrast, and download an IPC profile for your monitor that was made by somebody who knows what they were doing. All this is free and will help a lot.

jaffveyda · 1 Nov 2017 at 08:33

mistersprinkles said:
It'll do some garish things to some images , but you might want to try jacking up the digital vibrance in Nvidia control panel colour settings. Works a treat (mostly). Somethings will look awful, but most things will look better. I suggest you also play with gamma and contrast, and download an IPC profile for your monitor that was made by somebody who knows what they were doing. All this is free and will help a lot.

What he said.

kaptainmarc · 1 Nov 2017 at 08:37

mistersprinkles said:
It'll do some garish things to some images , but you might want to try jacking up the digital vibrance in Nvidia control panel colour settings. Works a treat (mostly). Somethings will look awful, but most things will look better. I suggest you also play with gamma and contrast, and download an IPC profile for your monitor that was made by somebody who knows what they were doing. All this is free and will help a lot.

Thanks I shall have a look at those.

i plyed with a few settings last night which made gameplay vibrant but everything else looked utterly horrendous!

mistersprinkles · 1 Nov 2017 at 19:34

kaptainmarc said:
i plyed with a few settings last night which made gameplay vibrant but everything else looked utterly horrendous!

This is why screwing with display settings is a double edged sword. It's hard to find settings that look good for everything. But it can be done.

Adding about 5% to digital vibrance, screwing with brightness, contrast, gamme, and getting a good ICC profile helped my display a lot.

of course, a quick and painless solution is to get a quality IPS display that is pre-calibrated for very accurate color and does at least full sRGB but those are expensive. If you have the money to burn though this would be your best solution.

kaptainmarc · 2 Nov 2017 at 09:48

so speaking to the mrs she asked why I don't just drop a decent amount of money on a monitor.

my reply.... well I think I will

bring on black friday sales hopefully grab myself a bargain.

noticed with the IPS panels that a lot have around 5ms response. would I even notice the difference going from 1-5?

I'm not very clued up on monitors its all quite confusing