I really would like IPS, since most of the games I play are more colour than speed dependent.

Another feature that I'd like, is to be able to display a 1920x1080 resolution with black bars on top and bottom. Eizo Flexscan ev2455 stretches it (thought it properly keeps aspect ratio of lower resolutions). It's even mentioned in the specifications:

https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2455/
"Images of 1920 x 1080 resolution are forcibly enlarged to full-screen (1920 x 1200)."

I use DELL P2417H 23.8 inch 6ms , I bought it for colors, it have almost calibrated colors from fabric(I tested myself with i1Display Pro), I use more for Photoshop work, but I watch movie and play some games, Witcher 3, Mass effect 1,2, 3 , Andromeda, Starcraft 2, and so far I never have a problem with response time. it is not a gaming monitor, but it do a good job for gaming too.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The only problem is... *sigh* I've spent 7 and a half years working for a corporation and we used Dell monitors. Now whenever I see "Dell" I think work.

Let me read up some reviews. I'll keep this suggestion in mind. Hey, since you're using it, could you do a test for me? If you change the resolution to 1920x1080, does it stretch it or does it allow you to have black bars?

You can adjust that in your GPU control settings. In my Display settings I turn on GPU scaling and I have 3 scaling options:
- keep aspect - this stretches the image, but keeps the aspect ratio.
- full panel - this stretches and fills entire screen.
- center - it doesn't stretch, just puts the image in the center for perfect pixel match and looks sharp. I think this would be what you want.

I don't have a 1920x1200 screen, I use this when I play 4:3 games on my 16:9 monitor.

1920 x 1200 IPS gaming monitor. Damn I've fallen so much behind. Before I bought my current monitor, I did so much research that I could give advice about panels and what models had what features. Since then... things have changed. What do you mean, it keeps the aspect ratio, but "...forcibly enlarged to full-screen"

That would mean that it zooms in on the image, effectively discarding pixels on the left and right of the image. That can't be true! As far as I know Eizo is a premium monitor producer. They wouldn't make such a bonehead decision, without adding an option in the OSD to turn it off. Or, as antrad88 mentioned, it's actually an option from the GPU settings.

It have 1920x1080 native resolution, so no stretch.

I have a Eizo CS240, it's a few years old but still no issues at all. Generally I would recommend ColorEdge series from Eizo and for response time I try to find one with 8 ms or less. CS240 has a 7.7 ms response time and that's good enough for me even for fast pace shooters.

I know all that. And for the Eizo monitor it works for most lower resolutions, except 1920x1080 which gets stretched to 1920x1200. See the OP. That's what the specifications say (see link). What it did in practice is stretch the image.
For the other resolutions it works perfectly, either the 1 to 1 pixel, or maintaining aspect ratio, but for 1920x1080 it would stretch it to 1920x1200. Ah, I see. I need specifically 1920x1200.

So, you already have that monitor and have tested this ? It's just weird that one specific resolution is causing problems.

I know... I do so much research when buying hardware I could write a book on the subject. Then 5 years later when it's time to buy again it's no longer relevant.


Anyway, I went with Asus PA248Q.

The choice was very limited, given it had to be a monitor available on amazon. Eizo and Dells would stretch 1920x1080, HP had worse reviews. So the Asus was left by default.

I can't believe how hard it is to find a gaming 1920x1200 resolution. Supposedly "16:9" is the resolution for gaming. But 1200 vertical pixels matter so much. It's not just the extra 120 pixels, it's the fact that you can scale so nicely 800x600 older games, simply by having 2x2 pixels replace one, and even play the 1600x1200 4:3 games (early 2000s, e.g. Warcraft 3, HoMM5...), pixel-perfect with black bars on side, something not possible on 1920x1080. Yes. But it had part of its screen chipped, so I'm returning it. I know. I find it weird that the GPU couldn't add those black bars and send the whole 1920x1200 to the monitor, with the black bars.
Interestingly, when I ran a game in a 1920x1080 resolution on that monitor, the cutscenes played with black bars, but the game itself ran stretched.

So I got the Asus PA248Q and it seems to work pretty fine.

I still wonder why the 1920x1200 (and 16:10 in general) is supposedly not suitable for gaming. There is no TN monitor with such resolution... Actually in the NVidia control panel, you can select whether you want the GPU or the monitor to do the scaling. I had it set on GPU before, but I think connecting the new monitor changed it to Display. I think had I changed it to GPU, it would have worked fine even with the Eizo monitor.
(Still weird that the Eizo monitor couldn't handle 1920x1080 in particular; this Asus one handles it nicely.)

Anyway, since I can't choose my own post as solution, and the OCD in me hates unanswered threads, could anyone please quote this?

I don't like unfinished business.
Because I got an older graphics card, and 1920x1200 is good enough for the games I play.
Yes. Read above.

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