Haha, thanks jbltecnicspro & Absalom, I appreciate it. I can assure anyone reading this that I have no skin in the game and am merely just giving the community a heads up on a potential issue to look out for should anyone decide to buy this panel. I'm a filthy casual who is far from a hardcore enthusiast, and my tech prowess is mediocre at best. I'll try to explain the issue I had in a bit more detail incase it is of any help to other users:
It is so subtle that you wouldn't really notice it unless you were looking for it; I actually didn't notice it for the first 8 or so hours that I used the monitor. My MS-Paint picture is a rudimentary representation of how it looks to me when the monitor is OFF. The phenomenon is somewhat hard to describe... When on, I wouldn't say that the pixels within the grey rectangular portion in my drawing appear any differently in color than the rest of the pixels on the panel... instead, the best way I could describe it would be a subtle distortion. It's a shift in texture rather than color; there arn't actually two vertical lines that form the sides of the grey rectangle that I drew, but the shift in texture caused me to visually perceive these two areas as a distortion taking the rough form of a vertical line going down the panel. When the monitor is ON, I cannot actually distinguish anything besides an extremely subtle distortion where the vertical lines that form the sides of the rectangle are; the area between them looks completely normal and unchanged in texture.
Comixbooks, In games, I was only able to notice this distortion when looking for it specifically or when there was a brightly lit area being depicted on-screen (think, a sunny sky or sun coming through cloud). It is extremely subtle and honestly something that is super liveable-with, I just personally didn't feel like living with it given the pricepoint of the monitor. With the monitor off, though, it was readily apparent; it took the BestBuy employee conducting my return only a single glance to recognize it when I told her where to look and what she was looking for after pulling it out of the box.
It is almost as if some internal rectangular component of the panel was ever so slightly showing through from inside the monitor. It seemed too symmetric, centered, and not random to be a one-off defect to me (unless the defect is infact the outter surface of my monitor being out of spec opacity-wise / too transparent). Personally, I never perceived it as a defect, it struck me as more likely to be an aspect of the panel that was overlooked. I'd be curious to see an engineering diagram of the panel; it wouldn't surprise me to see a large vertical rectangular component in the same exact place as where I'm perceiving this artifact to be. Of course, that is my own uneducated opinion and my sample size is but one. Nonetheless, that is why I did not bother arranging an exchange or replacement. If there are panels shipping without this issue; that is awesome, because it's an amazing screen and I enjoyed it thoroughly (a LOT!) otherwise. I likely would've kept it if it weren't for this issue; I put about 18 hours of use on it and really enjoyed it! The only other reason that that I would've returned it is because I simply am not really able to take advantage of the 240hz refresh rate due to the games I play and my current hardware. I'm sporting a 2080 Ti + Ryzen 3900X and only able to achieve about ~140 fps average in COD: Warzone with the panel at it's native 2K resolution. Warzone is the only game I play these days, and there are other 144hz / 165hz options in the 27" / 2K variety that would meet my needs at a lower pricepoint.
It's an awesome panel, but I wanted to give people a heads up about the possible issue all the same.
It is so subtle that you wouldn't really notice it unless you were looking for it; I actually didn't notice it for the first 8 or so hours that I used the monitor. My MS-Paint picture is a rudimentary representation of how it looks to me when the monitor is OFF. The phenomenon is somewhat hard to describe... When on, I wouldn't say that the pixels within the grey rectangular portion in my drawing appear any differently in color than the rest of the pixels on the panel... instead, the best way I could describe it would be a subtle distortion. It's a shift in texture rather than color; there arn't actually two vertical lines that form the sides of the grey rectangle that I drew, but the shift in texture caused me to visually perceive these two areas as a distortion taking the rough form of a vertical line going down the panel. When the monitor is ON, I cannot actually distinguish anything besides an extremely subtle distortion where the vertical lines that form the sides of the rectangle are; the area between them looks completely normal and unchanged in texture.
Comixbooks, In games, I was only able to notice this distortion when looking for it specifically or when there was a brightly lit area being depicted on-screen (think, a sunny sky or sun coming through cloud). It is extremely subtle and honestly something that is super liveable-with, I just personally didn't feel like living with it given the pricepoint of the monitor. With the monitor off, though, it was readily apparent; it took the BestBuy employee conducting my return only a single glance to recognize it when I told her where to look and what she was looking for after pulling it out of the box.
It is almost as if some internal rectangular component of the panel was ever so slightly showing through from inside the monitor. It seemed too symmetric, centered, and not random to be a one-off defect to me (unless the defect is infact the outter surface of my monitor being out of spec opacity-wise / too transparent). Personally, I never perceived it as a defect, it struck me as more likely to be an aspect of the panel that was overlooked. I'd be curious to see an engineering diagram of the panel; it wouldn't surprise me to see a large vertical rectangular component in the same exact place as where I'm perceiving this artifact to be. Of course, that is my own uneducated opinion and my sample size is but one. Nonetheless, that is why I did not bother arranging an exchange or replacement. If there are panels shipping without this issue; that is awesome, because it's an amazing screen and I enjoyed it thoroughly (a LOT!) otherwise. I likely would've kept it if it weren't for this issue; I put about 18 hours of use on it and really enjoyed it! The only other reason that that I would've returned it is because I simply am not really able to take advantage of the 240hz refresh rate due to the games I play and my current hardware. I'm sporting a 2080 Ti + Ryzen 3900X and only able to achieve about ~140 fps average in COD: Warzone with the panel at it's native 2K resolution. Warzone is the only game I play these days, and there are other 144hz / 165hz options in the 27" / 2K variety that would meet my needs at a lower pricepoint.
It's an awesome panel, but I wanted to give people a heads up about the possible issue all the same.
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