When did overclocking monitors become a thing? Any sane monitor should just reject a refresh rate outside of it's specs outright.
Regardless, if you're worried about overclocking your monitor, this really isn't the monitor for you. The entire point of a monitor like this is color accuracy, and if you're going outside of its supported specs, all bets are off.
>When did overclocking monitors become a thing? Any sane monitor should just reject a refresh rate outside of it's specs outright.
Vendors can choose to lock in certain resolution/refresh combinations, but they often do not because its useful to be able to program in custom ones in certain applications and because it doesn't really accomplish much besides annoying customers.
>The entire point of a monitor like this is color accuracy, and if you're going outside of its supported specs, all bets are off.
Not correct. Changing the refresh rate doesn't change the display's calibration (which is actually due to a combination of the LUT in the display and the exact spectrum of the backlight and the transmission spectra of the panel's color filters). The speed of the pixel clock doesn't change any of those things, so the calibration is independent.
Interesting that they claim Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 ports over USB-C DisplayPort 1.2 alternate mode when as far as I know that's completely impossible on a 4k display.
Do they expect professional users will be upscaling to have enough bandwidth, or what?
Displayport 1.4 can do 4k60p over two lanes using HBR3, leaving the other two for USB, and they just put a hub there with gige chip hanging off of that and three ports.
I can confirm that DisplayPort 1.2 doesn't support the full capability of the usb-c dock in the monitor. The display is dialled back to 4K @ 30hz. In the monitor you can set it to USB 2.0 mode. I still receive Gigabit Ethernet and then get 4K at 60hz. This works for me as the only things I have permanently plugged in are USB 2.0
HDCP isn't mentioned anywhere in the web or pdf documentation, so you either have to assume that they just neglected to mention implementing the current industry standard (2.2 came out in 03, 2.3 only in feb 08) or that they didn't implement any version crippling the product. Only one of these is reasonable.
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Always_winter - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
sounds like a great monitor wonder if it could overclock to atleast 75mhz affordable with great color and hdr no gsync :(imaheadcase - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Well its not a gaming monitor so, yah. :P It would be fine for lots of indie games though.ajp_anton - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
75MHz, I wonder if that will happen, ever, like in a million years.Death666Angel - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
More like milli Hertz. :)Lord of the Bored - Saturday, September 22, 2018 - link
Horizontal refresh rate, maybe.chaos215bar2 - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
When did overclocking monitors become a thing? Any sane monitor should just reject a refresh rate outside of it's specs outright.Regardless, if you're worried about overclocking your monitor, this really isn't the monitor for you. The entire point of a monitor like this is color accuracy, and if you're going outside of its supported specs, all bets are off.
saratoga4 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
>When did overclocking monitors become a thing? Any sane monitor should just reject a refresh rate outside of it's specs outright.Vendors can choose to lock in certain resolution/refresh combinations, but they often do not because its useful to be able to program in custom ones in certain applications and because it doesn't really accomplish much besides annoying customers.
>The entire point of a monitor like this is color accuracy, and if you're going outside of its supported specs, all bets are off.
Not correct. Changing the refresh rate doesn't change the display's calibration (which is actually due to a combination of the LUT in the display and the exact spectrum of the backlight and the transmission spectra of the panel's color filters). The speed of the pixel clock doesn't change any of those things, so the calibration is independent.
jhoff80 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Interesting that they claim Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 ports over USB-C DisplayPort 1.2 alternate mode when as far as I know that's completely impossible on a 4k display.Do they expect professional users will be upscaling to have enough bandwidth, or what?
psychobriggsy - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Dual inputs - USB for the ethernet and hubs, HDMI/DP for the video?timecop1818 - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
Displayport 1.4 can do 4k60p over two lanes using HBR3, leaving the other two for USB, and they just put a hub there with gige chip hanging off of that and three ports.jhoff80 - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
Except the article says that the USB-C port only has DisplayPort 1.2 support, unlike the actual DisplayPort on it.Randle - Thursday, November 1, 2018 - link
I can confirm that DisplayPort 1.2 doesn't support the full capability of the usb-c dock in the monitor. The display is dialled back to 4K @ 30hz. In the monitor you can set it to USB 2.0 mode. I still receive Gigabit Ethernet and then get 4K at 60hz. This works for me as the only things I have permanently plugged in are USB 2.0bill44 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
HDCP 2.2 missing!HLG support would have been nice too.
DCI P3 calibrated?
chaos215bar2 - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
Where do you see that? Releasing a 4k monitor today without HDCP 2.2 would be insane.DanNeely - Monday, September 24, 2018 - link
HDCP isn't mentioned anywhere in the web or pdf documentation, so you either have to assume that they just neglected to mention implementing the current industry standard (2.2 came out in 03, 2.3 only in feb 08) or that they didn't implement any version crippling the product. Only one of these is reasonable.Impulses - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
I've been trawling old Anand display news while pondering a deal today, you still rocking the Acer XB321HK?speculatrix - Saturday, November 3, 2018 - link
If it was a true 10bit panel I'm sure the marketroids would be making a big fuss about it!