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Great looking monitor
Edit 2: the bezel isn't aluminum. It's silver painted plastic. It still looks great.EDIT: I forgot to preface this review by stating I DID NOT purchase these from Amazon. Sorry about that. These were shipped in their product boxes and wrapped in a foam wrap. I don't know how packaging from Amazon will be (although I read reviews on other monitors that said they were shipped in the same manner). Also don't necessarily assume you will receive the same cables I did. Contact the seller to verify what's included if it's important to you. It did seem like the packaging was designed to contain the mentioned accessories. ANYWAY...I'd been looking into these Korean monitors for a while. My general impression is that they can be hit or miss, regardless of company (although most reviews led me to believe there are far more hits than misses). It was important to me to A) Get good panels, and B) get an attractive bezel that doesn't look like plastic garbage. I was also only interesting in the 2560x1440 monitors with multiple inputs (I believe these are the ad board models). The models I mainly looked at were the Crossover Black Tune and Achieva Shimian QH2700. They both appeared to have aluminum bezels and looked quite nice. Then I found this one that mentioned 120Hz and it piqued my interest. I did a little research on it (not much out there) and decided what the heck and bought 2 of them. I just received them today and set them up, so here's my initial impression.First off, the monitors are gorgeous to look at. The aluminum bezel looks great. Nice and clean without any garish logos. Just a faint zebra logo on the bottom center. These are Apple panels. There is even an empty space where the FaceTime camera would go. The colors are great and images are crystal clear. I can't find any dead pixels, so hooray for that. Like many reviews on these Korean monitors, there is moderate light bleed at the edges, mostly in the corners. One has some in every corner, the other only seems to be excessive in one corner. I don't notice it at all under regular use, but it's evident when watching a letterboxed movie. However, I found myself not being overly distracted by it and I expect to not notice it at all once I get used to it.They were rather bright out of the box, although they seemed to be fairly well tuned. There are options to adjust color balance and brightness, and it seems they have a light sensor function, but I noticed one screen seemed to fluctuate quite a bit so I turned it off and just turned the brightness down on both. The menus were all in English. Easy peasy.Like reviews I read on the other panels, the stands seem rather flimsy, although the tilt mechanism is nice and stiff. I'll be putting them on a dual monitor mount once it arrives, so it's a minor concern.They came with a DVI-D cable and an RCA audio cable for connecting the built-in speakers (I didn't use them so no comment on their quality). I used DVI to connect so I don't know if HDMI audio works. They also came with standard US plugs so no adapters needed.Right now I'm extremely happy with this purchase. If any issues come up I'll be sure to update this review. Right now my initial impression is that these are great monitors and I'd highly recommend them. I'll be uploading some pictures also.
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hmmm. not 120hz and not 1600p?
First, this is a 1440p monitor. I tested one that the sellers said was 120Hz too, but then when I tested the overclock with my GTX 780 it dropped every 4th frame, so it's not real 120Hz and it looks terrible. No multi-input 1440p monitor can overclock. Only single input 1440p monitors can.Now, this monitor has beautiful color. Good menu settings and is generally a good value, but my unit had terrible backlight bleed or IPS glow whichever it was, in all 4 corners. So bad they made a little pinched "v" in each corner. The housing seems too tight.
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