Behemoth Monitor (Iiyama Vision Master Pro 510)

Member Name: anthonystevens

Product:	Iiyama Vision Master Pro 510
Date:	16/02/05 (2113 review reads)
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Advantages: Big Screen Display, Picture Quality, High Refresh Rate

Disadvantages: Heavy, Very Big, Price

This is big, and it’s heavy, don’t break you’re back picking it up, and hopefully you have a table strong enough to support the weight of this beast. In the box you get the monitor and stand which you attach, a d-sub video and a power cable. Also on the back of the monitor are 5 BNC connectors for a different type of video cable. Setting up is straight forward, only thing to consider is do you have the desk space available to put this monitor. Windows automatically detects the monitor, no drivers necessary, though you do get a disc with the monitor.

This monitor is capable of displaying a resolution of 2048 by 1536, but 1280 by 1024, or 1600 by 2000 is the recommended resolution you can really work at efficiently on this, without causing your eyes strain on a 22” monitor.

Screen quality is excellent, colours are bright, text is crisp, screen refresh is very quick, I use 1280x1024 at 85Hertz to no problem at all. When you switch on the monitor, or you degauss, you will know about it, its load. Monitor has 4 buttons on the front, menu, plus and minus, and big power button. Iiyama menus have always been simple to use to calibrate your monitor compared to other manufacturer. Very easy to change brightness and contrast levels, and alter screen positioning and stretch to fit whole.

Does feel like your sitting in front of a TV, not a bad feeling I guess. The Monitor can be rotated or tilted ok but you need to give it a little effort to start it off, but if you do prefer to look up at monitor screens compared to looking ahead or looking down, you will need to get a monitor stand, and once that can support the weight and wide enough to support the monitor stand itself. I also have this monitor next to a 19” LCD Panel and a 15” TV, and there appears to be no interference to the monitor screen, picture stays rock solid.

Nothing much else I can say on this apart from I could not do my work if it was not for this monitor. I use 3D computer modeling packages, and the size and colour accuracy of this monitor is highly important to me, plus I am looking at the monitor almost 9 hours a day, and because of the high refresh rate, I do not suffer from monitor fatigue as much on the less quality ones.

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