Wide Gammut or Standard IPS for 27"

[RLCCM]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to choose predominantly between two monitors:
Dell UP2716D - with a wide gammut, will this actually make day to day computing look better? Or does it actually cause strange colour saturations in unexpected places? It's supposedly the more premium panel of the two but cheaper at $450

Dell U2717D - newer and very sleek, I like that it will look better in my living room, but is a little more expensive $567.

I'm using the PC for general daily usage/tv streaming/youtube and some strategy style gaming (only limited amount of fps gaming as I usually use the xbox for that) but no professional applications, nor movies on the pc. I really want the best image quality in this price range, to be pleasant on the eyes. I'm also considering the possibility ofthe 5k UP2715K at $800 - for the supposedly amazing image quality, but will I actually benefit? and can win 7 handle the scaling properly?

If there are any other suggestions than I would gladly hear them, but my primary concern is for general image quality - and understand that Dells currently are well considered in this area (and I rather like my dad's U2414H). The reason I haven't looked at 4k so far is because I think the scaling at 200% would give the wrong sizes for me... (I like how they are at a native 1440p - which would be the same as 200% on a 5k monitor).

Thanks in advance!

 

[why_wolf]

both are factory calibrated so the colors will be correct. If you see weird colors it's because the source program/game/movie/whatever used a weird color. Lower quality monitors with smaller color gamut and no factory calibrations are the ones that will throw up strange banding, saturation or off colors.

For day to day usage you'll really see no benefit other than you initially noticing the colors are better compared to your old monitor (assuming your old monitor isn't that good). These monitors are really meant for people who are doing color accurate work, artists. They need to be sure the red they see on their monitor will be the same shade/color on everything else.

Scaling in Windows is terrible due to Microsoft not enforcing a mandatory scaling scheme until Windows 10. So some programs won't recognize scaling commands at all, some partially and a few correctly.

They are nice monitors though, I have an older model myself.

 

[RLCCM]

Thats quite useful indeed thank you! So that confirms to avoid any larger resolution monitor.

Would you say therefore also it's safe to get the up2716d? it should by what you say have marginally better colours and is cheaper (and also somewhat faster in response time apparently for the few times I will use it for some faster moving things).

 

[why_wolf]

there's no reason to avoid them just know that it won't always work right for some programs. Stuff like video games it doesn't matter as they use their own scaling. It's also not usually a problem till you hit 4k because if something doesn't scale right then, it can appear tiny on the screen.

Either one will be fine.

 

[RLCCM]

I'm actually coming off a dell U2711 - which I never quite loved, but for the text/icon scale when on 1440p resolution. I found the monitor felt a bit washed out with IPS glow when it was at its best, certainly compared with say my fathers U2414 - which looks overall crisper. My screen developed a fault and so only now runs at 1080p and with a poor colour reproduction. I dislike the scale at 1080p (items are just too large). Obviously I don't want the occasional problem of windows scaling incorrectly - I want to avoid the annoyance causing stress (this is an important point to me).

In that respect - to avoid possible future annoyances - I'm veering towards the U2717d, I've done a bit more research, and read that the two monitors will largely have a very similar image quality but that though in many cases the wide-gamut UP2716d is marginally superior, it will still show up some obvious over-saturation in places that can be distracting/annoying.