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[ne6togadno]

not this one
http://www.techpowerup.com/191474/iiyama-announces-prolite-xb2779qs-27-inch-wqhd-monitor.html

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Looks like an apple AIO wannabe tbh. Not keen on the silver/grey. There also seems to be mixed opinions of this monitor due to backlight bleed and build quality issues

 

[ne6togadno]

it's not backlight bleed. monitor has too high brigheness. use googletranslate and read prad review.
it also has 2nd color option but cant remember if it was full silver or full black with silver only infront below panel.

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"Ich habe mal folgen Text hinzugefügt, was Deine Frage klärt: Während der XB2779QS-S1, wie unser Testmodell, silbern ist, ist der XB2779QS-B1 schwarz. Ansonsten sind die Geräte absolut identisch. Aus diesem Grund verzichten wir im weiteren Test auf den Zusatz."

XB2779QS-B1 is black version

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Helligkeit Hersteller Gemessen Schwarzpunkt Kontrast
100 % 350/440 cd/m² 408 cd/m² 0,35 cd/m² 1164:1
50% k.A. 284 cd/m² 0,25 cd/m² 1134:1
0 % k.A. 159 cd/m² 0,14 cd/m² 1135:1

In the specifications for Iiyama XB2779QS a standard brightness of 350 cd / m² typical brightness of 440 cd and / m² is given. In the user setting mode , we measured a maximum brightness of 407.7 cd / m² . The Iiyama XB2779QS has an unusually high brightness for a consumer monitor, similar to the HP ZR24w . Reducing the backlight brightness to 0 percent , the luminance is still 158.9 cd / m² .

This high brightness also has a higher black point which moves result in the range from 0.14 to 0.35 cd / m² . In particular, for light-sensitive users , the brightness of Iiyama XB2779QS be a real problem . In a dimly lit room can be too bright even the lowest brightness setting. But may be too bright for the Iiyama XB2779QS not a natural and almost no artificial light source . Over the entire dimming range , the monitor achieves a contrast ratio > 1100:1 .

We investigate the brightness distribution and image homogeneity in a white test image we measured at 15 points . This leads to the brightness difference in percentage and the DeltaC (ie, the chroma difference) with respect to the central value measured.

Links: brightness distribution , right: a white color homogeneity test image .
When Iiyama XB2779QS the average brightness deviation is only 3.3 percent. The highest deviations in the upper left and right corner of the display are only about 7 percent . A very good result here that the Iiyama XB2779QS shows .In the color homogeneity , the result is similar to well . On the display edges we measure higher deviations , but all remain well below 3 DeltaC . With the naked eye, no stains are visible.

http://www.prad.de/new/monitore/test/2013/test-iiyama-xb2779qs-s1-teil6.html

 

[RCoon]

Any opinions on this?

DGM 27" monitor, we've got 27 of them at work. Very good quality, nice looking monitor, and does the job. Colour production on them is pretty ace too. You might scoff at the low price, as did we, we ordered just one to test out whether it was a trainwreck or not. It's been great for the past year, and I'll always recommend it.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-d...-dvi-dvi-vga-2560x1440-350cd-m2-80k1-6ms-vesa

 

[FreedomEclipse]

DGM 27" monitor, we've got 27 of them at work. Very good quality, nice looking monitor, and does the job. Colour production on them is pretty ace too. You might scoff at the low price, as did we, we ordered just one to test out whether it was a trainwreck or not. It's been great for the past year, and I'll always recommend it.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-d...-dvi-dvi-vga-2560x1440-350cd-m2-80k1-6ms-vesa

Ive heard of DGM - OcUK used to sell them by the boat load but they've stopped stocking them for some reason. Will most likely order one!

anyway - plugging my 8th year giveaway thread

 

[FreedomEclipse]

DGM 27" monitor, we've got 27 of them at work. Very good quality, nice looking monitor, and does the job. Colour production on them is pretty ace too. You might scoff at the low price, as did we, we ordered just one to test out whether it was a trainwreck or not. It's been great for the past year, and I'll always recommend it.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-d...-dvi-dvi-vga-2560x1440-350cd-m2-80k1-6ms-vesa

for that matter - what are the dead pixelitis rates on those DGMs? Ive read a lot about dead pixels and also the power brick or circuit at the back of the monitor blowing up and causing lots of dead pixels

 

[RCoon]

for that matter - what are the dead pixelitis rates on those DGMs? Ive read a lot about dead pixels and also the power brick or circuit at the back of the monitor blowing up and causing lots of dead pixels

None of ours have dead pixels on arrival. If they did we'd get Scan to replace them anyway. None of ours have exploded either

 

[FreedomEclipse]

None of ours have dead pixels on arrival. If they did we'd get Scan to replace them anyway. None of ours have exploded either

Does your educational establishment (cant remember if you teach in a school or college) get discounts from SCAN? or do you still pay full RRP?

 

[RCoon]

Does your educational establishment (cant remember if you teach in a school or college) get discounts from SCAN? or do you still pay full RRP?

Grammar school. And we don't pay VAT as we're registered, but besides that we pay full RRP.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Grammar school. And we don't pay VAT as we're registered, but besides that we pay full RRP.

Ok....

So lets just say you were browsing the interwebs and you came across this £600 monitor which you wanted to have for yourself. Would you be able to buy it through school to avoid paying VAT or would you not risk the people at the school who chase up invoices coming after you? Monitor is for your own personal use of course.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Ok....

So lets just say you were browsing the interwebs and you came across this £600 monitor which you wanted to have for yourself. Would you be able to buy it through school to avoid paying VAT or would you not risk the people at the school who chase up invoices coming after you? Monitor is for your own personal use of course.

That's called fraud

 

[RCoon]

That's called fraud

Yeah, this.

I believe there's a special discount code for staff to use on Insight Direct, but that was at my last school, and it wasn't much, just a few percent.

 

[the54thvoid]

Kudos to RCoon and Freedom for their recent giveaways and shit. However, just wanted you guys to know, I'm not stealing your ideas - it's what I was planning to do with my Titan shortly. Now I'm happy my 780ti Classified is a 'better' gaming card, I can offload my old trusty Titan. I'm planning on a sliding scale based on the TPU Thanks ratings. I figure it'll go on sale with a scale (maybe from £250- £500 max with thanks ratings of x to y) and I'll sell to the person with the most thanks after 10 days for sale.

Sound reasonable? That way I can deter the FST trawling bitches and reward pleasant TPU forum users. Hopefully get that done over the weekend.

 

[Bo$$]

Kudos to RCoon and Freedom for their recent giveaways and shit. However, just wanted you guys to know, I'm not stealing your ideas - it's what I was planning to do with my Titan shortly. Now I'm happy my 780ti Classified is a 'better' gaming card, I can offload my old trusty Titan. I'm planning on a sliding scale based on the TPU Thanks ratings. I figure it'll go on sale with a scale (maybe from £250- £500 max with thanks ratings of x to y) and I'll sell to the person with the most thanks after 10 days for sale.

Sound reasonable? That way I can deter the FST trawling bitches and reward pleasant TPU forum users. Hopefully get that done over the weekend.

I hate you

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Kudos to RCoon and Freedom for their recent giveaways and shit. However, just wanted you guys to know, I'm not stealing your ideas - it's what I was planning to do with my Titan shortly. Now I'm happy my 780ti Classified is a 'better' gaming card, I can offload my old trusty Titan. I'm planning on a sliding scale based on the TPU Thanks ratings. I figure it'll go on sale with a scale (maybe from £250- £500 max with thanks ratings of x to y) and I'll sell to the person with the most thanks after 10 days for sale.

Sound reasonable? That way I can deter the FST trawling bitches and reward pleasant TPU forum users. Hopefully get that done over the weekend.

Im tempted to answer your give away with another give away - GIVE ME your Titan and i will give away my 680s, You get to set the rules of the giveaway and I will mail it to the winners.

(tempted i said - but im not sure if i wanna do it)

 

[RCoon]

Kudos to RCoon and Freedom for their recent giveaways and shit. However, just wanted you guys to know, I'm not stealing your ideas - it's what I was planning to do with my Titan shortly. Now I'm happy my 780ti Classified is a 'better' gaming card, I can offload my old trusty Titan. I'm planning on a sliding scale based on the TPU Thanks ratings. I figure it'll go on sale with a scale (maybe from £250- £500 max with thanks ratings of x to y) and I'll sell to the person with the most thanks after 10 days for sale.

Sound reasonable? That way I can deter the FST trawling bitches and reward pleasant TPU forum users. Hopefully get that done over the weekend.

Im tempted to answer your give away with another give away - GIVE ME your Titan and i will give away my 680s, You get to set the rules of the giveaway and I will mail it to the winners.

(tempted i said - but im not sure if i wanna do it)

This sounds like an interesting idea xD That being said, I've recieved more thanks than Freedom for some obscure reason. Obviously I've been trolling the forums less than he has in his recent years
Does that mean you're just going to sell it to the person with the most thanks? Is it going to be EU only? I'm not personally interested, I just don't know exactly how that will go down.
Totally worth it though, I've noticed a lot of scumbags on the TPU BST forum which are literally out to screw some people over and seriously lowball on everything they can.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

This sounds like an interesting idea xD That being said, I've recieved more thanks than Freedom for some obscure reason. Obviously I've been trolling the forums less than he has in his recent years
Does that mean you're just going to sell it to the person with the most thanks? Is it going to be EU only? I'm not personally interested, I just don't know exactly how that will go down.
Totally worth it though, I've noticed a lot of scumbags on the TPU BST forum which are literally out to screw some people over and seriously lowball on everything they can.

I wouldnt say that im trolling but im more like Captain Commonsense or Captain Obvious. some of the posts/threads in this forum of the last few years have been pretty ridiculous and i got curb stomped for having a bit of an attitude when trying to correct them so idgaf no more. I dont get a lot of time to check the forums during the day anyway unless im on a day off. If mods want the overall level of IQ to go down in these forums then getting leary with the guy whose trying to keep things at a reasonable standard in his own functional way then they're going the right way about it. Its not my job to police the forums and I dont bother replying in stupid threads.

as for the Titan thing, Im porbably not gonna do the trade. 680s provide much more horsepower over a single titan and Im going to be getting a 27" at 1440 res soon enough so I'll need all the power i can get.

I could take the titan and buy another for SLi though - thats another option but a titan is way out of my budget.

 

[RCoon]

I wouldnt say that im trolling but im more like Captain Commonsense or Captain Obvious. some of the posts/threads in this forum of the last few years have been pretty ridiculous and i got curb stomped for having a bit of an attitude when trying to correct them so idgaf no more. I dont get a lot of time to check the forums during the day anyway unless im on a day off. If mods want the overall level of IQ to go down in these forums then getting leary with the guy whose trying to keep things at a reasonable standard in his own functional way then they're going the right way about it. Its not my job to police the forums and I dont bother replying in stupid threads.

as for the Titan thing, Im porbably not gonna do the trade. 680s provide much more horsepower over a single titan and Im going to be getting a 27" at 1440 res soon enough so I'll need all the power i can get.

I could take the titan and buy another for SLi though - thats another option but a titan is way out of my budget.

My 780 drives a 1440 +1080 just fine by itself. Only issue I have is scaling it down to 720p for my stream, squished text in strange ways

 

[FreedomEclipse]

My 780 drives a 1440 +1080 just fine by itself. Only issue I have is scaling it down to 720p for my stream, squished text in strange ways

youtube stream?

 

[the54thvoid]

...Does that mean you're just going to sell it to the person with the most thanks? Is it going to be EU only? I'm not personally interested, I just don't know exactly how that will go down...

Pretty much. Though I can make an exception for those with a high thanks to posts ratio. I've sent a couple of gfx cards to the states (to Norton in East Coast for a couple of WCG rewards) and the postage isn't as bad as you'd think. I'd have to ask the overseas buyer to pay shipping. Also, I wouldn't accept returns from overseas either but it'll all go in the description.
Will also check out the 'Who's Got Pie" threads from Norton and make a buying ratio rule for those guys too.

......as for the Titan thing, Im porbably not gonna do the trade. 680s provide much more horsepower over a single titan and Im going to be getting a 27" at 1440 res soon enough so I'll need all the power i can get.

I've got a gaming buddy with 2 680's and I told him not to bother buying my Titan. I would have given him mates rates but the two 680's are probably faster in most scenarios. I think it's a good single card upgrade but as an alternative to sli, I'd wait for Maxwell or the next AMD islands GCN.

 

[RCoon]

youtube stream?

Twitch. Using nvidias shadowplay as its better than every free alternative

 

[Jaffakeik]

ANyone knows why PS4, when I use twitch or stream option there is no sound just video when someone watch my streaming?

 

[RCoon]

ANyone knows why PS4, when I use twitch or stream option there is no sound just video when someone watch my streaming?

Are you trying to stream Dead Nation? There's a known audio bug in that game for streams. Besides that, from what I heard you need to have a headset plugged in and set audio to be shared in order to capture in game audio to a stream. If that's all A OK, I have no idea, cause I don't stream on a PS4

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Twitch. Using nvidias shadowplay as its better than every free alternative

Im honestly gonna start using shadowplay to record some of the games i play. Specially with ARMA II & III, there are a lot of wtf moments. Even with bf4

 

[RCoon]

Im honestly gonna start using shadowplay to record some of the games i play. Specially with ARMA II & III, there are a lot of wtf moments. Even with bf4

You actually play ARMA III normal multiplayer?