27-30 Inch monitor

[p_monks33]

Does anyone make a 27-30 inch monitor that is 3d and 2560x1600 or 2560x1440? I would like 120Hz as well, but thats not a killer if it doesnt happen.
I thought about looking more into the catleap. Catleap!

 

[Nebor]

Hard to find 3d without 120hz.

 

[kevinsbane]

Even the overclockable versions of the Catleap are hard to get to 3D status; and highly unlikely to be actually useable at 3D settings even if they do.

As far as we can tell, you require a GTX 680 if you want to get above 100hz at 1440p; at least one person has done 120hz at 1080p. Even if you have a GTX 680, you are not garunteed 120hz; mine caps out at 116 hz. Finally, the response times of the pixels as I've tested with PixPerAn, although not definitive, suggest that you'd experience too much cross-talk for useable 3D. Seems the pixel response times are just a hair too slow, with some of the transitions being at or slightly above the required 8.3ms response times.

Oh, and you can only do single card 120hz; seems that going SLI caps your refresh at 100 hz.

That being said, passive 1440p might very well be the future; with the increased vertical resolution, you won't notice the halving of the vertical resolution as much. But none are on the market as of yet...

 

[p_monks33]

It's about time to see some new monitors with higher resolution than 1080p. My hp is from 07 and I still haven't found a suitable replacement.

 

[postmortemIA]

n/m

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I think one the biggest issues with 120hz @ 2560x1600 or 2560x1440 is the bandwidth required over the cable. I think only the very latest revisions of HDMI and maybe display port can handle the kind of bandwidth you need to transmit that.

2560x1600 already requires DL-DVI connectors or higher revisions of HDMI even @ 60hz. Not to mention that any image processing going on inside the panel is going to have a similar issue with keeping latency down when processing that much data, a problem that's cropped up in some 30" panels in the past which have scalers etc.

 

[grundledib]

I think one the biggest issues with 120hz @ 2560x1600 or 2560x1440 is the bandwidth required over the cable. I think only the very latest revisions of HDMI and maybe display port can handle the kind of bandwidth you need to transmit that.

2560x1600 already requires DL-DVI connectors or higher revisions of HDMI even @ 60hz. Not to mention that any image processing going on inside the panel is going to have a similar issue with keeping latency down when processing that much data, a problem that's cropped up in some 30" panels in the past which have scalers etc.

This, and the limitations of current generation graphics cards, are the problems.

At the moment, it's simply not possible/ practical to have a 1440p monitor running at 120Hz without running into serious difficulties with the bandwidth of DP/ DVI (though I suppose it should be possible to double up, like with the IBM T221) and the processing power of GPUs. As has been said, SLI is limited to 100Hz, and AMD don't properly support 3D yet.

IMHO, though, 3D simply isn't worth it. I find gaming at high resolutions on good screens (like the Catleap or U2711 etc.) far better than 3D.