It's not THAT obvious. =S To be fair.
Especially not to the untrained eye.
SPECIFICATIONS:
- Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Professional
- CPU: i5 3570k
- Cooler: Corsair H80 with 2x Enermax Magma
- RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Dominator GT
- GPU: ASUS Radeon 7970
- SPU: ASUS Xonar DX
- SSD: Samsung 830 128GB
- HDD: Western Digital: Caviar Blue 750GB
- PSU: Corsair AX750 with Corsair Sleeved Cables (Red)
- Case: Silverstone Fortress FT02 Black/W
- Controller: Lamptron FC9
PERIPHERALS:
- Monitor: DELL U2711
- Headphones (Gaming): AKG K242 HD
- Headphones (Music): Grado SR80i
- Microphone: Zalman ZM-MIC1
- Keyboard (Gaming): Corsair K90 (Cherry MX Red)
- Keyboard (Typing): Filco Ninja Majestouch-2 (Cherry MX Blue)
- Mouse: Mionix Naos 5000
- Mouse-pad: Mionix Propus 380
Last edited by mmoc7c6c75675f; 2012-05-25 at 10:59 AM.
Man, I just went ahead and submitted a link to Silverstone's facebook profile via their messaging. That stuff is absolutely awesome, Marest.
Cusco, I am disappoint. You are a photographer, using a TN-panel. And a 16:9 1080p 27".
Either way, I'll have to follow suit soon, then.
It's a matter of economy and practicality. I am a photographer, but an amateur one. I also play games, in which 2560x1600 would highly affect the performance. IPS is, indeed, much more suitable for displaying graphical aesthetics in all its forms, but they're generally much more expensive (even rather so at 1080p) and I work part-time. I also think that I have a gigantic lot to learn when it comes to achieving optimal colors in PhotoShop in the first place and the people viewing my pictures, I would assume, are most often using 1080p TN-panels themselves. So my practical and realistic needs for 16:10 IPS is not worth the impact on my economy.
I understand that you aren't all too serious in your disappointment, I just have a habbit of responding with walls, or at least lower fences of text.
The U2312HM is a very respectable e-IPS monitor, which is also quite suitable for gaming. If you need something to look out for.
/shameless marketing for the monitor being used
LG has a very good and rather cheap 23" IPS screen range ;-) Cheap enough that they are price competitive with TN-panels.
Well, I could either get this 27" screen with speakers No, they'll never be as good as actual brand speakers and I have such too, but I do "attend LAN-parties" (never figured out the English term) on a monthly basis and there it's convenient, or I could get a significantly smaller screen without speakers, but with more colors....that I don't need yet, and most people can't see, because they haven't got IPS-screens themselves.
Case - Fractal design refine R3 (USB 3.0 edition)
CPU - i5-3570K @ 4.3GhZ
RAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance
PSU - Coolermaster GX650W
SSD - 120GB OCZ SSD
HDD - 2TB HDD
Mobo - Asus P8Z77-V
GPU - GTX 670
CPU Cooler - Coolermaster hyper TX3
I'm happy with it. Built it a couple of days ago.
But not for photowork, since it's a 6bit panel, meaning it has to simulate a portion of its colours anyway, and while the representation is better, it's still not as good as an 8bit or a 10bit. Or even a 12bit simulating 10bit!
Either way, the PA238Q is an 8bit, 1920x1080 monitor that is affordable and 'good enough' at that level (ie, really good, but not literally the best).
Or maybe I'm just too much of a perfectionist.
The lighting makes my laptop screen not blend well with the rest of the setup *grumpy* Either way.
Going to upload a few pictures tomorrow. Street-hockey time.
Well, while we are on the subject...
I found out after purchasing my U2711 that it isn't actually a "true" 10bit monitor, but rather 8bit with AFRC. It's a bit of a let down because DELL themselves say this (U2711 specifications):
Anyway, it will display 16.7 million colours accurately (natively?) and paired with ADRC it can emulate 1.07 billion (?) colours.1.07 billion colour panel (10-bit), 12-bit internal processing, 102% NTSC colour gamut
My new rig:
Mobo: Asus Maximus V Gene Z77
CPU: Intel Ivy Bridge i7 3770k @ 4.8ghz - 39° celcius idle - 70° celcius load after an hour of prime95 - Δ levels are minus 21°
Memory: 8gb Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 Low Profile @1600mhz
CPU cooler: Corsair H100
SSD: Intel 520 120GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001, 3TB * 2
GPU: Asus GTX670-DC2T-2GD5
psu: Zalman ZM850-HP
Chassis: Corsair Obsidian 650D
Mouse: Corsair M90
Keyboard: Corsair K90
Only thing I don't like is the stupid side window, it feels so childish. Anyway, they didn't have any 650D without a window so I took it as is.
Last edited by nocturnus; 2012-05-25 at 10:56 AM.