Let me open up this review by saying, yes, you should get this. It's good. I like it. I don't regret my purchase in any way whatsoever and you probably won't either. I'm now going to complain because something this good shouldn't have some of the weird nearly-inconsequential flaws that it does.
Input auto-switching is finicky. You occasionally have to do it by hand when it should be obvious to the monitor which input is active.
The slim bezel is a double-edged sword. I love that it's comfortable to use in a pair. I also wish it had a little more top bezel to clamp a camera to.
FreeSync works great and there's an extended compatibility mode that is intended to make it work with G-Sync if you monkey with your drivers a little. That isn't as consistently reliable as I wish it were, but once you get it going it's mostly fine.
It urgently wants to go into sleep mode if there's no signal. This isn't really a problem at all unless you have multiple systems hooked up to the monitor. If you do, you will often find yourself in a situation where you switch inputs, turn on your other machine, and if it doesn't boot like lightning the monitor will assume there's no signal and switch back. It's really only annoying if you want to get into the second machine's setup mode or EFI menu.
The back of the monitor is not flat. It's curved toward the mounting post. Remember that camera I wanted to clamp to it? The back of the monitor is not parallel to the front, so the clamp is a little wonky.
I read every slip of paper that came with the thing and carefully assembled the mounts. There's still a small plastic clip in one of the parts bags that I have no idea whatsoever what it's for. It's shown on the parts diagram with no description and I've probably spent a good hour trying to puzzle out where it's supposed to go. Maybe one day I'll figure it out but until then the little clips sit in a drawer.
Here's my big one, though, and I'd almost call this half a star off the review if I didn't really like this monitor: Two identical monitors from the same shipment sit at different heights. The height is adjustable just fine (although one post is a little stiffer to move than the other). If you bottom out both of my monitors, though, one sits about a quarter of an inch higher than the other. This wouldn't really be a problem for anyone who doesn't have a kind of high desk. I have a kind of high desk so I have to bump the other monitor up by that quarter of an inch.
In any case, it's still a great monitor and I'm super happy with these things. No regrets. Despite the fact that 80% of this review consists of complaining, all the things I didn't talk about are fantastic. Picture's great. Price is terrific. Easy to put together. Doesn't take up a ton of space. Has a bit of cable management in the back for multiple inputs and it's pretty easy to reach back there and blindly mess with plugs if you have to. Power cord is acceptably long. It'll actually show a scaled picture if sent a 4K signal, although by default it will complain that you're in the wrong resolution. I dumped the EDID and it's pretty accurate; it's not faking that it's a 4K monitor, it just happens to not fail outright if you get a high resolution signal. All the good stuff.
Oh. Right. The stand is kind of ugly. It's got these "cool gamer" red stripes on it that are a bit tacky and dated. If you put the monitors on a swing arm you can avoid having to look at the stand's feet.
So, yeah, buy it.
| Standing screen display size | 32 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 2560 x 1440 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 2560 x 1440 Pixels |
