Help with buying new IPS monitor for Texturing work

#2

I don’t know about your conversion rates, but this is just about the best monitor you can buy for texturing and graphics for under $1,000 US right now.

https://www.amazon.com/ViewSonic-VP3268-4K-Frameless-Monitor-DisplayPort/dp/B0731LYY9P/

#3

Thank you for replying, this monitor is extremely out of my budget :slight_smile:

#4

Dell P2414H would be a good choice or P2417H for a little less.

#5

Only 96% sRGB! Are you sure you can’t find something with at least 99%sRGB for the same price?

#6

I think with my budget i can only buy this one- Dell SE2416H. Specification here - https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/999c751
What percent is theRGB for this one, will this work for texturing.

#7

It’s out of my budget unfortunately :slight_smile: Should i wait and increase my budget or this Dell SE2416H - https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/999c751 will work?

#8

Sorry, cant help, theres very little info on the net about that model.

#9

Will check youtube later about that model.

#10

Bought Dell SE2416H, excellent budget monitor :slight_smile: Thank you guys for your inputs !! Bought for 150$ or 9500 Indian rupees.

#11

If you can find a used HP ZR30w, try to get that. I got one and its great. Retail price 5 years ago 1300 dollars, i got mine for 300 dollars which is close to your budget. It is 30 inches, 2560x1600 resolution, IPS, and a real 10 bit panel through displayport and a quadro or firepro, from GTX it is 8 bit. It is probably one of the best quality monitors if you can get it cheap. All new monitors at 300-800 dollars, are not as good of an image quality as this (in my view) and the new HP models that replace this are also over 1000 dollars a piece.

#12

Current GeForce cards support 10 and 12 bit output.

#13

Thank you, HP ZR30w is way out of my budget, next year i will buy better monitors when upgrading my PC. As of now i have Acer S231HL as secondary monitor and the new Dell SE2416H as primary.

#14

Where can i check in windows 10, current bit mode?

#15

Your monitor doesn’t support 10 or 12 bit :wink:

#16

Yes it’s 8 bit only(better than 6 bit panel :)), but only 149 USD(9499 Indian rupees) which fits my budget of only 155 USD. Good color reproduction, build quality and 3 years onsite warranty. Next year i will upgrade both monitors to 4k, when upgrading my whole setup.

#17

Only full-screen directX in computer games. Not OpenGL in Photoshop etc. For that you’ll need a Quadro.

#18

Any source for that? All my searching only mentioned directx is currently limited to 10-bit when fullscreen.

#19

Your wording is inaccurate. Geforce will do 10-bit, maybe more for computer games, ie full-screen directx but not for OpenGL applications. So not “Limited” in full-screen directx applications.
The source was on Nvidias website. Do I have a link? Of course not, the website changes often.
Mere logic would allow you to believe this to be correct. The more expensive card, for a smaller user-base that need 10+bit for photo-editing for print.
This debate is really irrelevant though because proper 10±bit monitors are really, really expensive. Dell sells some “10 bit monitors” but they are shite. They might do 100%SRGB, but they will fail in other areas as to make the 10-bit a waste of time. Most people really don’t need 10-bit anyway.

#20

To clarify, Dell don’t make anything, they source parts from other manufactures. The money isn’t in 16:10 desktop monitors, its in 16:9 TVs. So most manufactures don’t care about desktop monitors and thus Dell monitors are now merely TVs that are repackaged. Fine if you want a cheap display, but not ideally suited to the task.
Most of their “Professional” monitors don’t even do 100% sRGB! Not even STANDARD colour space! Let alone AdobeRGB.

Dell didn’t go down hill in quality, they jumped off a fucking cliff!

#21

Well colour me skeptical, but nvidias website has had misleading and grossly out of date information about their product range for quite a while; their “what advantages does the quadro have” pdf file is still hilariously outdated, virtually everything it mentions as quadro specific features can be done with a geforce:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_geforce.html

So, still happy to see literally any source on the entire internet which says a geforce cannot out put 10/12 bit to the standard desktop, and im not saying it can, I literally do not know.

Regarding Dell monitors, whats wrong with the UP3216Q ? 32 inch screen, 4k res, 60Hz, 10-bit, 99.5% AdobeRGB, IPS, 6ms. I’ve never seen one in person but it seems pretty good on paper. Or the U2313 for the same thing in a 24" size.