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Cooler Master is Readying 27-inch 1440p Mini LED Monitor with 576 Zones

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With a bunch of new OLED displays launching from several major brands, it's been very quiet on the Mini LED front. This is despite several panel makers having showed off new Mini LED panels this year. That said, it now looks like Cooler Master is getting ready to launch a new 27-inch model called the Tempest GP2711, according to TFT Central. Looking at the base specs, this is a standard 165 Hz 2560 x 1440 monitor that's built around a VA-type panel with a sub 4 ms grey to grey response time.

However, what makes it stand out from the crowd is the fact that it has a 576-zone Mini LED backlight, which helps deliver an SDR brightness of 600 cd/m². Furthermore, Cooler Master has gone with a Quantum Dot coating, which should make colour pop. It should also have a 3000:1 contrast ratio and a colour gamut that covers 95% of the DCI-P3 reference space. Gaming features include FreeSync Premium Pro support. Connectivity wise the Tempest GP2711 is said to sport one DP 1.4 and two HDMI 2.0 ports, as well as a USB Type-C with DP Alt mode support and 15 W power delivery. There are also two downstreams USB 3.0 ports and an audio out, as well as presumably another USB input, as the monitor is said to feature KVM support. The stand supports standard tilt, height and swivel adjustments. According to TFT Central, the Tempest GP2711 should retail for around US$449 when it arrives early next year.



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$279 for this mini-LED monitor. 180hz 1440p 27"

amazon.com/AOC-Q27G3XMN-Adaptive-Sync-DisplayHDR-Zero-Bright-dot/dp/B0C8ZJKPWC/
 
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$279 for this mini-LED monitor. 180hz 1440p 27"

amazon.com/AOC-Q27G3XMN-Adaptive-Sync-DisplayHDR-Zero-Bright-dot/dp/B0C8ZJKPWC/

It has nearly 250 less diming zones and in my experience looking a mini led displays to get anywhere near oled they need around 1000 which the AOC has 336 and the CM has 576 not really enough. Although both could be worlds better for single player stuff vs edge lit but my guess is both are pretty slow unlike the high end Neo Samsung models.
 
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hmmmm 1440p for $600CAD? yes the 576 FALD backlighting is nice, and the refresh rate, however for that price it be nice if they went a bit further with true 10-bit color and DP 2.0

Just seen the LG UL550W 27" 4k screen on sale today for $300CAD
 
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It's still a VA panel which historically only Samsung knows how to use without a lot of black smearing
 
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1:1 pixel-level backlight dimming
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Full self-emissive MicroLED displays
 
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PSUs, coolers, monitors,... is there anything they CAN do?
 
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1:1 pixel-level backlight dimming
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Full self-emissive MicroLED displays
Fine, this will be $10000.

On topic:
Hopefully CM will do better job at:
- QA before launch (to avoid issues that were seen with their last local dimming displays), people want their displays to be plug and play not plug and hope for firmware update,
- improving availability in various markets.
 
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I would rather get an IPS black, mini LED are ok for TVs not so much for monitors.
 
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I would rather get an IPS black, mini LED are ok for TVs not so much for monitors.
IPS Black is still limited to 60 Hz only because of poor pixel response times.
 
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IPS Black is still limited to 60 Hz only because of poor pixel response times.
Yeah annoying.
Though how about those mini led, I don't think the backlight is fast enough either, unless it's always on defeating the purpose of FALD.
 

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The biggest flaw and problem with LCD is backlighting. Sadly its needed.
The problem with tons of dimming zones for monitors is that it ads input lag like crazy.
This is why most/all decent LCD TVs with FALD disables most of the zones in game/pc mode and image quality suffers alot.

OLED keeps the picture quality in game mode. Self emitting pixels are the way to go really. Can't wait for 2nd gen OLED panels for PC monitors. Time to leave my last LCD panel behind. Have been using OLED TVs and phones for 5+ years at this point.

It's still a VA panel which historically only Samsung knows how to use without a lot of black smearing
There's still smearing on Samsung VA panels. Tried many of their VA gaming monitors. Biggest flaw of VA really. Even the fastest VA panel has too much smearing for me. Tried the Samsung Odyssey G9 49 inch a few weeks ago..

If VA did not have smearing and good viewing angles, VA would have replaced IPS and probably TN as well (considering VA dominates lower end now, not TN anymore).

VA have good contrast but speed is a problem. Pixel transitioning is just slow.

Absolutely no-one playing fast paced games (and doing well) are using VA for this reason. Simply not good enough for fast paced games.
 
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