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my review of the Samsung u-20 8590 D marked the beginning of reasonably priced 4k displays but while the Asus PB 287 q took an extra six weeks or so to arrive I guess it goes to show what a little bit more incubation time can do for a product because this is one heck of a monitor a global leader in tech recruiting is celebrating geek pride by giving away ten amazing tech prizes for more info visit the modus Facebook page or modus com this 28 inch display actually uses the same panel as the Samsung one that I just mentioned so that means that yes it is 10 but with its thousand to 1 contrast ratio and support for 10-bit color using frame rate control dithering it's one of the best TN panels I've ever seen it is still not IPs so there's noticeable color and contrast shift when looking from the top or bottom and I even noticed a subtle color shift with pure whites turning a bit yellowish at the edges when using the monitor normally but frankly it's the kind of flaw you'll notice for a few hours then completely forget about unless you go looking for it once you're actually using the thing let's just put it this way a su thought it was good enough to put their PB branding on it and I agree with the decision that is to say the monitor looks pretty darn good but while it's a godsend for video and photo editors who want to spread out all their tools with all them pixels it's not suitable for professional color work the added TN benefits though of better than average ghosting performance and only around 11 milliseconds of total display leg including input and pixel response is a big bonus though for gamers get ready for a beautiful gaming experience with less than one frame of total display leg another thing that comes along with the PB branding is robust build quality the bezel is reasonably thin but much more importantly it has a durable matte finish hold on not that durable but but durable so it won't get covered in fingerprints then instantly get covered in micro scratches when you try to wipe them off compared to the Samsung value 4k asu's is offering is an obvious bye for me for this reason alone but it actually gets better but PB 287 Q has 15 centimeters of height adjust a hundred and twenty degrees of swivel 25 degrees of tilt and even 90 degree pivot and if that isn't enough for you it has a vase amount on the back so you can mount it to a wall or a multi display arm or whatever else you want and all of that is without costing extra being able to position the monitor correctly is not only great for ergonomics but also for countering the inherent TN viewing angle limitations well done a soos on the back behind the removable cable cover will find power in an audio input for the unexceptional built-in speakers and a headphone pass through a DisplayPort 1.2 input which supports 4k at 60 Hertz with a single tile and by the way the SLI issue with single tile 4k displays is now resolved as of today and two HDMI inputs that are limited to 30 Hertz because HDMI is just too slow for 60 Hertz speaking of which for a laugh I ran this monitor at 30 Hertz for the first two days to see if I could get used to 30 Hertz I can't it's horrible do yourself a favor and don't buy any of the 4k monitors that run at 30 Hertz it'll be fine for movies but it's just not enough for gains or for me even general desktop use where there are simply better options available like this one one interesting thing about the HDMI inputs is that this monitor supports picture in picture and picture by picture if you really like having a separate computer for things instead of having another window running on the device that you're already using for some reason and it also supports MHL so you can play content from your phone if you feel like doing that neato now before we dig through the otherwise excellent on-screen controls I'd have something to get off my back Asus this rear mounted button nonsense is the worst thing ever LG's joystick is better been cues capacitive buttons are better and heck so is this it's hard to figure out which button is which without feeling out the entire row or shifting my head to the right to align it from straight on to clean yeah please stop otherwise it's really excellent this is splendid video modes range from very useful with srgb being my face these days as a content creator but standard also looking pretty good all the way to totally useless with reading mode being unfortunately horrible but don't worry guys darkroom mode is a good alternative it also reduces the blue light output just like reading mode but doesn't monkey around with the sharpness so it looks quite a bit better the usual brightness contrast etc options are in here and under image we get some really cool stuff including five levels of overdrive control and four levels of sharpness enhancement with the all-important off option available for both of them very nice under system setup you can dim the backlight to save power turn off the power LED lock the power button on overlay a crosshair for noscoping all them noobs and seriously though this is basically cheating and no competition will let you use it but I mean I guess it's cool to have it on there and you can change the display port mode from 1.1 to 1.2 which is basically the first thing you should do when you get the plotted her 1.1 doesn't support 4k at 60 Hertz now because I had a bit more time with the PB 287 Q compared to Samsung's offering I decided to try using it a few different ways I already mentioned that I tried it at 30 Hertz but what I also tried was with a hundred and fifty percent scaling and with no scaling at all for a couple of days each and this is where I feel like for the first time in a while the software guys Microsoft and application developers have a lot of work to do to catch up with the hardware unscaled the extra screen real estate is really nice but it felt like I was doing it when I exam the whole time because I was straining a little bit and without LG's handy virtual screen splitting app using stock Windows multi window management tools like arrow snap either gave me tons of white space or didn't leverage the extra pixels other than in applications that support zooming really nicely where the fonts look like really great and really smooth I'd recommend picking up something like display fusion though so you can create your own virtual desktops if you're planning to use it unscaled but most people won't want to anyway particularly without vivid pixel which I bumped up to 25 to improve text sharpness a touch I could use it but it just wasn't comfortable like that and this is the double-edged sword of a whopping 157 pixels per inch in supported applications like games the image is so crisp that you can't even really see anti-aliasing beyond 2 to 4 X I mean man it's beautiful so it hurts that much more when you turn on scaling to 150 percent to make text sizes comfortable but then many applications don't scale correctly causing their text to be blurry and crummy looking but when she looks good man she looks good and the applications that work correctly are coming slowly but surely now that the flood of 4k desktop and other high-density displays has really started picking up speed and truthfully going with Windows 8.1 can actually help with that already one of the you know for some of the purists out there are a few things that Windows 8.1 truly does do better than previous operating systems now one thing that actually helped make the non scaled scenario somewhat usable for me with this monitor was the DC LED backlight versus the more traditional PWM control that causes subtle flickering at anything about a hundred percent backlight I've only seen this on a few monitors so far but it really does make the display less tiring to look at which for me means my vision is less likely to blur as the day wears on particularly when you're using very large monitors I find my eyes do get quite tired normally now the conclusion for this product is pretty simple as you'd expect it uses the same panel as Samsung's offering which means it's good enough for any general consumer but not good enough for serious color work and has some subtle but occasionally noticeable inconsistency on uniform light backgrounds but it has a very long list of great features and improvements over the Samsung model that earn it a must buy rating for anyone looking for a reasonably priced 4k monitor it's flicker free backlight genuinely makes it more comfortable for me to use than PWM controlled monitors and at the same price you get 60 Hertz support base a mounting a solidly built ergonomic stand with all the usual adjustments better gaming performance and outstandingly comprehensive on-screen display and a three year warranty with one year of zero brite coverage which is pretty solid not as dell's three-year brite warranty but a lot better than samsung's basic one-year warranty so I feel like it's a really well-balanced package so there you have it my feelings about 4k versus 3440 by 1440 21 by 9 monitors like the LG 34 um 95 haven't changed but right now the 34 year 95 is the only option available in that form factor and while its IPs and I prefer the lower pixel density its poor included stand and input lag of around 17 to 25 milliseconds our definite point against it not to mention it's much more expensive so from the perspective of a gamer or a value shopper who's looking for an 8 megapixel 4k monitor this is it folks it's time to go buy one speaking of going and buying one do you have any idea how long it took for my sales guy to go by this fedora for me today the stores like seven minutes away by Google Maps and he was gone for an hour apparently due to traffic although I suspect he was probably goofing off but none of that changes the fact that when you run to the store for a quick errand it always takes longer than you think and that my friends is why we have Dollar Shave Club 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