yup it really is that good. It has prob. the best color vibrancy that i have seen, next to the sony f400, which costs 300 bucks more. I don't think that you can really go wrong with this monitor. However be forewarned, if you use this monitor with a crappy video card that has bad 2d you WILL SEE THE FLAWS. However if you have a good vid card then everything is great. You won't be disappointed.