Simply the best monitor in its class on the market. This had low input lag, beautiful and accurate color reproduction, sharp text, and great thin bezel. If an IPS, 24inch, 2K monitor without costly g-sync is what you want this is THE one to buy. Its great for office use, artist use, and gaming. Good for gaming a long as you are content with 60hz. I am, and given I do digital art and game, this is fine compromise for me.

Its IPS so the viewing angles are amazing. There is absolutely zero color shift when viewing this monitor at any sane angle.

It has a best in class refresh rate and less than 10ms input lag meaning you will have decently responsive gaming. You might not win a CSGo tournament using one of these, but if your idea of fun is slapping on an action RPG or even playing an FPS in anything less than hardcore competition mode you will do fine. Again this monitor does compromise as its an all-around performer rather than a single-focused product. Still I game on this and I'm quite happy. I even play racing sims on this and I'm happy.

Its got DC violate controlled backlight LED's Thus 100% flicker free and NO headaches from s***ty PWM lighting. The backlight its not 100% uniform but from what I've seen scouring reviews nobody's is. These have found to have no more than a 5% variance in luminescence across the panel in the two I own. There is IPS glow, its inherant to the IPS technology. Until we get affordable AMOLED displays this is just the price of getting good color.

Its not a perfect monitor, but in terms of an all around great 2k display this one wins. This monitor also quite acceptably down-scales/interpolates to deliver a 1080p source. Their is only a minor blur effect, and most of the fuzziness is inherent to having a 1080p source on such a large display. So this will be able to drive Blue-ray or console content with a quite an acceptable experience.

I could go into great detail about this montor's color reproduction but its easier just to say I'm a digital artist with far better than average-joe's color sensitivity. Not only do I not have color blindness but I've carefully trained my perception to pick out very subtle changes in color. Trust me when I say this is an *accurate* colored monitor. Mind you accurate is less saturated than most people think. Most display (like your samgsung phone that every gushes over, are over-saturated. But these can easily be tuned with a colorimeter or spectrometer to produce print-accurate color. With these I can produce paintings and order a finished print that is exactly what I expected. I use a colormunki colorimeter and use displayCAL to tune my color profiles.

The slightly matte screen prevents glare and doesn't produce any graininess that I can see.

Display port in and out lets you daisy chain in case your graphics card (like mine) only has 1 DP and you want dual monitors. Its a modern monitor that only supports modern ports, which thank god. VGA needs to just die already. That being said it doesn't have VGA or DVI connectors so plan accordingly.

And hooray for VESA mounts. It uses 100mm mounts. I'm able to mound them monitor arms and free up desk space for more junk and clutter!

As a final thought. IMO, eventually the VESA standard Adaptive sync will end up winning the format war between AMD and NVidias absurdly priced, proprietary G-sync. But I think we are several product generations away from a GPU-montior synchronization technology becoming standard on all mid-range and up monitors. Thus its a safe choice to buy one these today if you cannot afford an Acer predator. For anybody who doesn't game at all, this is a no-brainer. This is the 2k monitor you have been looking for.