- Dec 23, 2015
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My turn to make a thread, yay!
So I bought 2 x 27'' 1080p Acer monitors yesterday. I arrived home and realised they only had VGA cables included with them. First of all, I think that's a weird move on Acer's end, because VGA lost their appeal when we moved away from CRTs, but anyway. My GTX 970 doesn't have any VGA ports and only has 1 HDMI output. I had a DVI cable lying around so I used it coupled with an HDMI, thinking the latter would look better or the same.
To my surprise, the DVI one seem to have pure blacks and whites, while the HDMI one looks like it has some sort of filter on it, making blacks and whites kind of greyish. I played with the settings like contrast, color saturation and all that for about 2 hours, but I failed to replicate the results I got on the DVI monitor. They are both the exact same monitors, with the same settings.
I don't know how it'll look on the link, so I hope you guys can see what I mean.
My set-up
PS, the snow and the clouds are where it is mostly apparent.
Is that normal though? I'm puzzled.
So I bought 2 x 27'' 1080p Acer monitors yesterday. I arrived home and realised they only had VGA cables included with them. First of all, I think that's a weird move on Acer's end, because VGA lost their appeal when we moved away from CRTs, but anyway. My GTX 970 doesn't have any VGA ports and only has 1 HDMI output. I had a DVI cable lying around so I used it coupled with an HDMI, thinking the latter would look better or the same.
To my surprise, the DVI one seem to have pure blacks and whites, while the HDMI one looks like it has some sort of filter on it, making blacks and whites kind of greyish. I played with the settings like contrast, color saturation and all that for about 2 hours, but I failed to replicate the results I got on the DVI monitor. They are both the exact same monitors, with the same settings.
I don't know how it'll look on the link, so I hope you guys can see what I mean.
My set-up
PS, the snow and the clouds are where it is mostly apparent.
Is that normal though? I'm puzzled.
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