27" Monitor Choice from Korea

My default reaction is the same, but the specs for the new QNIX AVHA panel look awesome to me.

I'm a noob at this so when I see 100% colour vs 72% colour, DCR of 1:2m to 1:1m, GtG of 4ms vs 6ms, virtual 4k and is overclockable anywhere from 60 to 120, I can't help but think I'm veering towards the wrong one.

How important are all these things? I am a visual gamer (basically a decrepit old man), rather than a fast one.

Has anyone ever seen one of these AVHA panels? I'm reading that it's newer tech than S-IPS, but that doesn't necessarily make it better.

Help! I'm sitting here with a loaded card ready to order...!
But which one?!

Thanks Presler.
I was hoping you'd convince me!
I've been staring at the specs for hours now, and I am going to risk the AVHA.

Yep, will do.

I appreciate the continuing interest!

I will be going with the AHVA panel, for no other reason that although the tech is new, it is not that new that some of the teething problems will have been fixed.

Anyway, I'm spending the extra forty quid for a perfect pixel, so we'll see what happens when it comes. There are several suppliers that offer perfect pixel, but add a rider that one or two dead/stuck pixels is acceptable.

Not to me it isn't!
So I've gone with the supplier that guarantees no stuck/dead pixels and will pay for return/replacement. Their reviews (>10,000) indicate that they live up to it.

Update to Mouldread:

I contacted the supplier and they said that they won't call it a gift because FedEx & IPS won't allow it. So I guess I'll be paying import duty. I've calculated that it will be about forty-fifty quid extra, but no VAT.

OK, I've got the QX2710 LED Evolution II DPmulti TRUE10.

Firstly delivery.
Unbelievable. I live in England. Ordered on a Sunday evening. UPS delivered at 09:17 on Wednesday Morning. Very well packaged.
The down side is that you have to pay import taxes or levy or duty or something. Forty five quid! So the monitor cost £275, delivery £45. Net £320.00.

I paid extra for Perfect Pixel and a warranty. If you take a risk, then you can take about forty quid off the price. It is important to note that Perfect Pixel means different things to different retailers. The retailer I chose says that Perfect Pixel means NO duff pixels at all. I don't think I am allowed to name them but their name rhymes with Haccessories hole! All the other retailers seem to think that Perfect Pixel means that one or two dead pix is OK. Not for me, it isn't.

I've checked and you can't get a 10Bit, 2560 x 1440 monitor for less than 600 quid, so if the monitor was any good, this is the bargain of the century.

Happy to say that so far, this IS the bargain of the century!

The monitor is excellent. I am testing it on my old GTX 260 to see how much of an improvement I will get when my 780 ti arrives. Don't ask for colour gamut, or any of that stuff. All I can tell you is that the screen I've got has no dead pixels, no bleed anywhere and despite what you read elsewhere, will overclock; AND it is the DisplayPort/HDMI/DVI input board.

My GTX 260 is running it at 1980 x 1020, 119mz. 32bit colour. It will cope with 2560 x1440, but only at 60hz, and only on standard profiles. Start mucking about and it just sulks until the clock winds down to reset.

Once I have thrown in the 780 ti, it should send these figures into orbit and I will certainly try it on the 4k option.

The monitor frame & standard are adequate. Nothing special. The stand is not very robust and has a small wobble if you push the monitor. (So I don't push it!). TBH, I don't care what it looks like, I care about what the picture is like.

And it's good. Clear, crisp, super fast on 119hz. Probably a bit too bright, but that's easy to deal with. The OSD is fiddly, but usable.

The manual is largely in Korean, but there are enough English explanation to make it usable. Comes with a Dual DVI-I cable, a power block and a and a 'kettle' power cable. The power cable is wired for Korea, but they supply a (rather flimsy looking) adapter that I wasn't brave enough to use.

Gaming
As I said, I am testing it on my 260. Tried a few old games on this. Avatar, NTW, Lord of the Rings and maxxed the settings. Really really impressed. Noticeably clearer picture, more detail, although my GTX 260 struggled with anti-alias x 4. When the 780 ti (finally) turns up, I'll throw Thief at it and see what it looks like.

Verdict:
You will find reviews on this monitor, ranging from mediocre to reasonably good.
All I can say is that, yeah it's a risk, because you aren't buying from a big retailer. But for the price? For the lighting fast delivery, quicker than Amazon? For a 10 Bit monitor with 100% colour range? 2560 x 1440 with 4k emulation? Multi input ports, incl DP? AND it overclocks to 120hz.

Take the plunge. This is a good monitor. I doubt it is the best, but it has got to be the best you can get for 320 quid.

Update:
I've now got it running off a Gigabyte 780 ti Windforce.

One month on, and physically, the stand is definitely the weakest part of the gear. It is crap and I'm considering ripping it off and getting a vesa mount

The monitor itself is the pups package, really good. I tested it through Heaven & Kombustor on max settings for a burn and although the 780ti started to cook (!!) , the monitor lapped it up on 2560 x 1440. Fps averaged at 50, but I reckon that even if I sli the GPU, this monitor can cope.

I have the Qnix permanently OC to 119hz. No issues or lag or nothing. Day to day I have it at 1080, but for big screen & fast games, it goes up to 1440. Doesn't break sweat, although I reckon that most cards under a 780ti would struggle to hit 1440 & 119hz.

Tried Thief. Epic stuff, fast, no ghosting, fantastic clarity.

Tried the 4k option. Interesting experiment, but not for day to day work. Bit of a gimmick.

I have identified a small bleed from bottom right corner on a blank screen, but this disappears when an image is up.

I have now seen some of the really expensive screens in action and tbh, the clarity of the screen on the Qnix is not quite as good. So my verdict is the same as before. It might not be the best, but you won't get better for the money. But spend the extra few quid on a PerfectPixel and get it from a company that regards even one dead pix as a reason to RMA.

Not sure what you mean?
I don't use crossfire as my GPU is NVidia. I don't even know th edifference between crossfire and SLI. When I've saved up the pennies, I'll be getting a second 780 ti on an SLI. You bridge the GPs and use only one of the outputs.

Two reasons.

Firstly, I am an old man. I need to see the screen!
2560 x 1440 on the Qnix, through a 780ti provides amazing breadth of vision, without any loss of detail. However for day to day computing (work, letters, web editing etc) I need less detail, but more clarity.

Secondly, the temperature on the GPU is raised by about 8 - 10 degrees when the screen is at 1440. Not a huge problem, but I have a heat paranoia! (push & pull fans on the H100i, 5 x 140mm case fans). Changing the res is very quick and so I change it to suit the job I am doing. The monitor doesn't care. It's brilliant. Barely notices when it is on overclock, maybe a slight increase in temperature? But very slight.

Yes, but I'm not the only user.

If everything was't just the way it should be, my missus would whine like a defective Seagate Hard Drive...