I Bought a Cheap Monitor :-)
I really didn't want to spend a fortune on a new screen. I'm in the process of spending large on a 7900X build, and have just paid to have a cataract op, and I am just not hung up on perfect Eizo like screen performance (sorry Dag). But my aging Dell 2709W is too bad to put up with any longer, so I had no choice. I was looking at the HP Z30i because I like 16:10 screens, but that was going to cost me >NZ$2400 and I didn't want to pay that much. So I thought that if I went to 32 inch, then maybe a 16:9 screen would be OK — it certainly increased the choice by a huge factor.
Dag will be crying in a minute, because I have now bought a BenQ PD3200Q. It's 32 inch, 2560, 1440 which I think gives you a pixel density of about 92dpi. That's as small as I would want to go. It only cost NZ$877, so I can get a Volta GPU for my new build when they come out.... eventually... fingers crossed.
BTW This is what my Dell looks like after it has warmed up for 10 minutes or so. It never gets any better than this, and has been like this for about a month.
And this is what it looks like when it first wakes up. It has been like this for about a year, but used to fade to almost nothing until recently.
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