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now this isn't my first kick at the 5k can I actually spent well over a month with the 5k Retina iMac and while I did at one point install windows on the Mac using bootcamp thanks to the IMAX let's say lack of upgrade ability there were some experiences that I couldn't properly evaluate the first time around the most important of which being gain performance on enthusiast grade hardware at 5k something that won't be an issue in today's video about the Dell u p27 15k monitor the 5k display you may plug in in any way as long as you can afford to pay sounds ok let's get started Corsair h adi GT and h100 IG TX all in one liquid coolers improve both the appearance and cooling of your PC click my face now to learn more we'll start with the physical overview it comes packed in an environmentally conscious cardboard packaging with the panel the stand and a metric wack ton of cables two mini DP 2 DP 2 DP 2 DP 1 mini DP although that's 4k only more on that later and one USB 3 a 2 B also a power cable assembly is simple just click the confidence-inspiring ly well-built metal stand onto the back of the monitor where you'll also find the option to use a standard base amount if you want and then you're good to go good to go with what you might ask good question let's do the physical tour inspect stuff now starting at the front the u p27 15k is a 27-inch 16 by 9 aspect ratio display that runs at the other-worldly resolution of 50-120 by 2880 the 218 pixel per inch IPS panel sits behind an edge-to-edge sheet of glass that helps distract from the monitors relatively large bezels in a world where the mantra seems to be slimmer is better but then I doubt most folks will be distracted by the bezels when they've got that screen to look at it boasts a contrast ratio of a thousand to one a hundred percent sRGB color space and 99% Adobe RGB coverage with a true 10 bit panel and a 12 bit 3d lookup table to back it up oh and on top of all that it features the full gamut of adjustments tilt height swivel and auto rotating pivot hmm moving to the left we find a Harman Kardon logo that by itself is completely meaningless but combined with the surprisingly decent onboard speakers built into the bottom of the display impressed me then further around an SD card reader whose type is not specified in spite of the amusing amount of detail in the Dell manual about completely irrelevant things like the pin outs of DisplayPort and USB 3 ports but I have to assume it's SDXC since they do say it'll handle up to 1 terabyte cards either way it's a welcome addition which brings us around to the back where there are some simple things like the charging only USB port here on its own power in the uplink and for data USB 3 ports one with a bit more clearance for larger connectors and a very unusual input configuration the first thing you'll likely notice is the absence of anything but DisplayPort ports with the next probably being the weird color coding on one of the full-size ones here's how this works if you're insane or just doing it temporarily I guess then you can plug a single DP cable into the big blue port or the mini one but you'll be limited to 4k 60 Hertz hence the insanity if that's your long-term plan for this monitor if you value your money at all and you realize that if you'd wanted to run 4k you'd have been better served by a native 4k display then you're going to want to plug 2 DisplayPort 1.2 compatible ports off your AMD Nvidia or Intel graphics card into both of the full sized ports make sure you've got the latest drivers with 5k support and you're going to be ready to rock my gtx 980 sli test bench required no extra configuration plug-and-play baby which I legitimately wasn't expecting my early experiences with tiled displays you may have guessed by now that there are effectively two separate monitors in here with two side-by-side tiles since unlike Apple Dell couldn't create their own t-con and display interface since I had to work with standard video cards was not to positive with the U P 2715 K other than an occasional half-width bio screen and longer than normal delay when all tabbing out of applications I didn't notice any issues yeh but at this price not noticing issues isn't good enough it has to knock your socks off I'll start by saying I was pretty impressed by the on-screen menu lots of modes including a low blue light reading mode and adjustments including sixaxis color sliders for the custom calibration modes although if the included calibration report is anything to go by most people likely won't need them since my monitor managed Delta ease of less than 2 pretty much across the board indicating excellent color accuracy and I didn't notice any backlight bleed either which was pretty nice and while I was disappointed that dynamic contrast ratio cannot be turned off the built-in dead pixel checker absolutely blew me away I noticed while I was digging around in there that the only options for pixel response time are normal and fast although I couldn't tell the difference between them at all anyway but I actually don't mind that for a couple of reasons first I never really recommend cranking overdrive since I personally find the artefacts on the leading edge much more distracting than motion blur behind a moving object and second because the motion blur on this monitor is surprisingly good for an IPS monitor and while I couldn't test input legs since my tester relies on HDMI the gaming experience as far as either of those things are concerned is great mate but what about trying to game at that 5k resolution Linus well great question one word rekt actually okay not quite that bad it's it's not that bad but forget about running games at max details our Tomb Raider 2013 was run at Ultra with no motion blur ultimate with tress-fx was a stutter ii mess Crysis 3 managed very high textures and medium settings across the board and shadow of Mordor did ok and very high without motion blur and at medium textures it should be noted that in all of these games I turned anti-aliasing off manually if it wasn't already for two reasons number one are you in my 9 80s were already suffering and number two is that while at 4k I like two times anti aliasing at 5k I really don't see the point at all I seriously cannot tell the difference and I guess the word seriously is a great segue into this conclusion this monitor is a serious piece of gear for serious users at least the ones who are serious about accepting the limitations of it that come along with its astonishingly sharp pixel density at 32 inches on the Acer b32 6hk I found 4k barely usable but usable without scaling so you will need scaling on this one 150 percent was borderline and 200 percent was great for me and in Windows I feel like that single-handedly defeats the purpose of the upgrade in the old days we upgraded monitors to get more pixels to put stuff on it made our virtual workspace is bigger but with 200% scaling there is no advantage in this regard over a 1440p 27-inch monitor so when steams game list looks like it's full of you know titles about 14 4k warfare it feels like a bit of a poor investment for such a steep asking price when you consider that Apple includes a computer in the package for a few hundred more bucks if you're willing to give up some flexibility in terms of upgrades and that by the time scaling is pretty much fixed across the board maybe another couple of years much more affordable options will be available so this one professionals only need apply which can't necessarily be said about Squarespace Squarespace is the website creation and hosting tool that is powerful beautiful and simple to use they offer 24/7 support via live chat and email which is great if you're one of those not necessarily a professional web designers and they're available starting at only $8 a month with a free domain thrown in if you by Squarespace for the year their whole concept is web site should be beautiful 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