Would this monitor be great for photo editing, gaming and watching movies?
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Not so great for photo editing. Only a few LED-backlit monitors have even color across the whole screen. Also, this monitor is quite bright, and is operating outside of its comfort range when turned down to 80 candelas/square meter, the standard photo editing brightness. Good for the other things though. I think the requirements for movie-watching and photo editing are quite dissimilar, especially in the brightness department. Jim
1807894
I purchased the monitor to hang on a trade show booth. It has served its purpose well. The speakers leave a lot to be desired if you're expecting an enveloping experience. However, the video is excellent.
1807895
Not so great for photo editing. Only a few LED-backlit monitors have even color across the whole screen. Also, this monitor is quite bright, and is operating outside of its comfort range when turned down to 80 candelas/square meter, the standard photo editing brightness.Good for the other things though. I think the requirements for movie-watching and photo editing are quite dissimilar, especially in the brightness department. Jim
1807896
Yes, to the first two, I don't watch movies on my pc. I do gaming a lot and both my wife and I have this monitor. Very pleased and would recommend it. Good luck.
1383460
I agree. I purchased the monitor as a gift to couple with a quad-core android TV box. It worked very well. The fast video response time gives a very clear and fast High Definition picture.
418930
Mine serves me admirably for photo editing. I don't do gaming or watch movies on it, so I can't comment on those areas.
626773
I wouldn't recommend it, no. The resolution isn't very high, and brighter is the refresh rate, at least not in turns of gaming. Finally, I'm pretty sure the processing power for its video feed forms from the CPU, even with a dedicated GPU.
1700312
Brett, I am a professional photographer but don't really do any video editing on this laptop. As far as photo editing, I think it's pretty great, especially for the price I paid for it. I second-guessed the screen calibration but checked it to be fairly spot-on. I am using Photoshop CS5 on it, and it runs just fine with the RAM and decent processor speed. My priority on a laptop purchase was the screen size, this one being 15.5" it was about as small as I wanted to go. All in all I am pleased with this machine, and I purchased it specifically for image editing and transmitting as I work for local news media and sporting teams here. Hope this helps.
1587239
Personally, I think it's gorgeous. Crystal clear for sure. No JPEG-type compression shading issues, very accurate color. I do professional photography and the color response of this monitor is good enough to use for my printing. Very accurate, great color range. Better than my MacBook Pro built-in display.
778382
the monitor is great for gaming, I don't have ghosting or tearing. Pixel speed is fine.You need decent video cards to use it although. 3840x2160 is tough with 16xAF, 4xMSAA, occlusion, parallax and all the other visual candy. Also you need a video card that can specifically talk to the monitor with supporting drivers, both aspects. display port 1.2 is the only connection that will give you 60fps, dvi and hdmi can't push it at 60, only 30.To get decent frames over 60+ I use 2 Titanz sli.
1597732
Yes, I have it overclocked to 4.0GHz in my system and it runs great for video editing and rendering in addition to gaming, definitely worth the money.
1343197
Yes! It makes a great monitor, I have my computer hooked up via HDMI cable. Thats all you'll need.
128237
Yes, this should do more than fine for gaming. I own it and haven't had any problems.
1374840
Sure , its almost overkill for movies use . Newer games will run but you will have to scale down the graphic settings . But for movies and videos its fine.
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This laptop is works great with programs like photoshop, running smoothly even when I use tons of high resolution layers. I have not had any experience with video editing but I do not foresee it being problematic. It has the i7 processor which is something that would be very helpful for video editing and also has the very nice GTX760 graphics card, which though not the best out there, is still not shabby and I would expect it to be at least sufficient for video editing. It also has two slots for RAM so if the 8 GB doesn't end up being enough you can replace the RAM it comes with to get up to 32 GB of RAM. This laptop is works great with programs like photoshop, running smoothly even when I use tons of high resolution layers. I have not had any experience with video editing but I do not foresee it being problematic. It has the i7 processor which is something that would be very helpful for video editing and also has the very nice GTX760 graphics card, which though not the best out there, is still not shabby and I would expect it to be at least sufficient for video editing. It also has two slots for RAM so if the 8 GB doesn't end up being enough you can replace the RAM it comes with to get up... » Read More This laptop is works great with programs like photoshop, running smoothly even when I use tons of high resolution layers. I have not had any experience with video editing but I do not foresee it being problematic. It has the i7 processor which is something that would be very helpful for video editing and also has the very nice GTX760 graphics card, which though not the best out there, is still not shabby and I would expect it to be at least sufficient for video editing. It also has two slots for RAM so if the 8 GB doesn't end up being enough you can replace the RAM it comes with to get up to 32 GB of RAM. « Show Less
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I doubt it would be good for your purposes. It's OK at 1080p but can bog down/stutter at times with a LOT of rapidly moving objects on screen - such as some parts of Guardians of The Galaxy. As for video editing - it could work .. but it sounds like you need a more robust card.
1130104
I think this laptop is designed for playing games and watching movies or sth, so it is good for games, but not the biggest ones which need very high hardware configuration. For normal work, I think it is suitable too.
1452512
Don't use it for gaming. I notice color ghosting when I'm just moving windows around on screen so I think it will look pretty bad if you try some high fps gaming on it. This monitor was built for superb color accuracy (and it does it really well) and that comes at the expense of things like response time. Asus makes other monitors that are specifically for gaming, I suggest you go with one of those.
1976935
If all you're doing is editing pictures, I'd recommend a cheaper laptop, but if you're going to be using this for games, rendering, large video projects, ect. This is what you want.
1833556
I am primarily using it with a professional hi-res monitor and photo work. While it certainly performs at this level, I believe you would want to go with a higher end model for 3D rendering. It will do the work, just too slowly for it to be practical in many cases.