Very disappointed in Asus VG248QE monitor. Read this before you buy.

[N3rdR4ge]

I have had a single VG248QE for about a year and a half and it's been great (right monitor old). The whites are clear, the blacks are dark and the monitor works like a charm. I ordered two more of these for triple portrait surround and they looked like different monitors! One was slightly less white (left monitor new) and one was off white/tan (middle monitor new). All three were on the same factory default settings and I had tried switching the display cables with no luck. Asus told me to send them in for rma or return them to the store after a half hour of troubleshooting.

Anyone else ever see this issue? I spent hours debezeling these and setting up my system just for this huge disappointment.

Here is the a picture. At least i've been working with the good one all this time...

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Hello,

Calibrate the displays, no monitor is going to match even at default, not even IPS's (even though you're using TN). Windows has got a built in calibrator you should use, just type in "calibrate" in the Windows search bar or control panel. I always recommend a white piece of paper infront of you, on the bezel so that you know the difference between white and grey. Also, the middle monitor actually isn't perfect, the left one is closer to that than the center and right.

 

[giantbucket]

+1. calibrate each monitor separately. nvidia control panel does it i think, though if you're picky you really should buy a proper calibrator (spider) for your screens.

 

[N3rdR4ge]

I did try windows calibration. I couldn't seem to get a pure white out if it. Another thing that was annoying is when I use Nvidia surround, both Nvidia control and win calibration treat all 3 monitors as 1 and calibrate them all. I can deal with them being close and needing adjustment, but that middle one really off. I asked Asus if they could have came calibrated very differently from the factory but he was no help. Never heard of a calibration spider. I'll look at that.

 

[giantbucket]

pro photo editors use one - it's a 3-legged thing you hang on the screen for calibration process. not cheap, though, probably $150 but if you want/need accurate colours especially across multiple screens, it's probably worth it.

want a cheap solution? get a digital camera, and set up the little rear screen to show you a color histogram, and get each monitor to show a white desktop background. zoom in the camera and point it at each screen, and you should be able to see how the R/G/B histogram shifts from one monitor to the other. then manually adjust each screen to try to get the RGB histo to match from one to the next.

 

[N3rdR4ge]

can't afford another $150 for these monitors unfortunately. I broke them back out of the boxes and attempted to re-calibrate all of them with windows and nvidia off of nvidia surround. also tried loading a new color profile. still cannot get the other two as white as the original. I did notice that my original monitor has older firmware. The two newer monitors have an option for "Blue Light Filter".

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Like I said, monitors, regardless what panel type, never come calibrated to match each other. Also, the monitor to the left is the best looking one. The middle is too saturated, etc. Also, you're using 3TN panels, which can't achieve perfect colors, ever. That's a limitation of the TN technology. Another problem is the viewing angle, things are gradually going to look more washed out. This is why TN panels shouldn't be used in surround setups. Regarding NVIDIA control panel, contract them and see what they have to say. Monitors OSD overrides the control panel, not sure why you're experiencing that.


giantbucket, if you don't mind... I'll start telling people to use your calibration tip with a camera. I usually just tell people to eyeball it using a white piece of paper as starting point... ;-)

 

[aceini]

I have had a single VG248QE for about a year and a half and it's been great (right monitor old). The whites are clear, the blacks are dark and the monitor works like a charm. I ordered two more of these for triple portrait surround and they looked like different monitors! One was slightly less white (left monitor new) and one was off white/tan (middle monitor new). All three were on the same factory default settings and I had tried switching the display cables with no luck. Asus told me to send them in for rma or return them to the store after a half hour of troubleshooting.

Anyone else ever see this issue? I spent hours debezeling these and setting up my system just for this huge disappointment.

Here is the a picture. At least i've been working with the good one all this time...

I have the exact same problem, I bought my second VG248QE monitor today 2 years after my first monitor. N3rdR4ge did you found any solution?

 

[N3rdR4ge]

never did. tried every method i could to get em to look right. even bought a monitor calibration spyder. ended up returning the two i added and got a pg278q. the one in the middle still looked too yellow no matter what.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Outsourcing then. Your monitors use different panels, only one that doesn't do this is LG.