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The Asus is a True 8 bit color panel correct?
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The Asus is a True 8 bit color panel correct?

Yup. http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_pb278q.htm
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Thanks I just read that article :-) Very good read. One thing that worries me though is the PWM for backlight. I usually like my monitor to be bright. So I usually set my brightness around 50-60 I'm worried about flicker I hope I don't see it. I had a Dell U2412M which also uses PWM and when I set it to that brightness I didn't notice it at all really I hope the Asus is the same..I just ordered it from Amazon for $700 should have it Weds with 2 day prime shipping. Also can you turn the power led off?
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can you turn the power led off?

Someone said that you can turn the light off through the control panel. You don't need to turn it off though, it's almost invisible, at least by the angle I view the monitor from.
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Yes, you can turn off the power led
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Hello people.

the monitor is really nice, the resolution and with some tweaking the colors too.

But has anyone noticed gradient banding or is it my monitor faulty? its slight but uts there. it surprizes me, because my cheap laptop monitor performs better in gradients.
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But has anyone noticed gradient banding or is it my monitor faulty? its slight but uts there. it surprizes me, because my cheap laptop monitor performs better in gradients.

It's the panel.

http://www.cnet.com.au/asus-pb278q-339342332.htm#performance

http://www.cnet.com.au/samsung-series-8-syncmaster-s27a850t-339336768.htm#performance

That said, it is the rare monitor that doesn't have gradient issues, as you'll see if you take a look through some of the other reviews.
Edited by zinfinion - 11/12/12 at 6:00pm
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I see. Thank you for the answer and links.! well perfect gradient then 10bit monitor, (expensive and gfx card supporting 10bit etc)

What connection do you prefer ? i tried them all, and it seems that hdmi 1.4 performs slightly better. (with asus gtx670_4gb), although in most forums dual dvi is suggested.
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What connection do you prefer ? i tried them all, and it seems that hdmi 1.4 performs slightly better. (with asus gtx670_4gb), although in most forums dual dvi is suggested.

Two reasons DVI-D is the oft quoted preferred connection:

1) HDMI prior to 1.4 or 1.3 (not quite certain which) could not support a 2560x1440 60Hz signal. With 1.4 and recent GPUs this is a non issue.

2) Lots of claims of input lag when using HDMI but I have no idea if these claims are true. It seems a lot of this concern comes from TVs which do further processing to the HDMI signal. Desktop monitors obviously don't do this so HDMI, DP, and DVI-D should all presumably fare the same.
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Hello people.
the monitor is really nice, the resolution and with some tweaking the colors too.
But has anyone noticed gradient banding or is it my monitor faulty? its slight but uts there. it surprizes me, because my cheap laptop monitor performs better in gradients.

I don't know if this is an example of it, but I first noticed something yesterday at the Metro screen (probably didn't notice it because I never use it). I have gray tiles, and it looks like there's some banding on the tiles compared to the U2713HM, so maybe the Dell is a little bit better in that regard. I only see it when the tiles are gray, however, and not when I use different color themes.
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