HP ZR30w 30" IPS 2560x1600 LCD Unboxing + My First Impressions

[MarvieFrance]

what is the dimension ??? reply plss



[chadpowell98]

@MarvieFrance its in the video title you fucking idiot.

[MarvieFrance]

@chadpowell98 i meant the height,width. your the fucking idiot. poor you i think you mom and dad dint discipline you well or you don't have parents. that's why you act like that telling me i am an idiot. i dont even know you, i dont need you reply.

[Snotra]

Where is that great HP screen gloss? : (

[DejZant]

Stumbled on your minecraft vids through the YT suggestion bar, saw your channel, and this vid. Apparently this is the guy that was messing around with his 30"ers a while back on the forums. Of course, so many posts both on H and OCN about the topic, couldn't forget. Small world, huh?

[SirCrest]

@DejZant Yep, that's me. I try to go on those forums and tell people all my experiences with both monitors.

Funny how I'm seeing people from all over connecting through YT and those forums.

[GR3B3N]

Why you didn't get 120hz monitor? Or gaming is not the primary application you intend to use it?

Also, 2 gtx580 won't be enoff to render 60fps in some games @ native res, so you'll have to compromise...

[SirCrest]

@GR3B3N The only game that has yet to hit 60fps comletely maxed out was crysis 1 at 45fps-ish and Crysis 2 at 55fps in one area. My new overclocked 580's have been very good at powering games at native on max at 60fps. At this resolution AA isn't nearly as important so 2xAA with FXAA does a really good job.

I didn't go with 120hz because I wanted the better quality panel and color and cared more about resolution. I've been happy with 60hz for a long time.

[GR3B3N]

@SirCrest Uhm.. metro lol? Have you ever tried playing on 120hz? Try, it might change your mind. But again, if gaming is not a priority, then good choice. Enjoy. BTW, did you RMA it or decided to deal with that pixel?

[SirCrest]

@GR3B3N Gaming is a priority very much so, but I'm very much into photography and video editing, the single resolution and color accuracy is more important.

Metro runs fine as long as I'm on AAA and not 4xMSAA.

Also I did RMA and I got a new monitor the following morning and it's working just fine.

[DamnedTemplar]

What CPU do you have?

[SirCrest]

@DamnedTemplar i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz

[mic4rap]

is this ideal for video editing?



[SirCrest]

@mic4rap Either having muliple 1080p monitors or a single large monitor like this for video editing would be great. You can view a full HD frame onscreen while having all your tools around the image. Lots of room to edit with.

[SirCrest]

@SirCrest I'm late to replying but yes, I would like to have multiple monitors, but having all these pixels on one panel is just amazing. Games at 1600 look out of this world. I want to go PLP right now though.

If HP releases LED version I might sell this one and get 3 of the LED ones.

[crunkdaddy11]

how far away do you sit from this thing. Is it hard to see the whole thing at once?

[SirCrest]

@crunkdaddy11 About 2 feet. And no, it's kind of weird how people might see it during play. Think of eyefinity, people don't sit several feet back, you simply sit close and view the inside monitor. Imagine a monitorlike this is like 9 monitors. I mainly view the middle. The outside of the panel is so large I mainly enjoy it for peripheral depending on how far away I am from the monitor.

In web-browsing and office work it's much nicer since I can view two full size webpages side by side.

[SirCrest]

@crunkdaddy11 Not that far, during normal web browsing and gaming about 18" Might seem pretty close.

[ninjablue2011]

u are cool :) ♥

[t3hUBER]

What was your other monitor? It looks like a 23 inch, am I right?

[SirCrest]

@t3hUBER It's a HP 25" 2509m 1080p monitor.

[t3hUBER]

@SirCrest The 2___ line is really quite a nice line, though its price shows some obvious quality drops

[SirCrest]

@t3hUBER I spent a long time researching that 2509m and I'm happy with it. Wish I went for the 2709 though. I like big monitors, heh.

[Puzzoozoo]

I'll be getting one of these monitors, and twin EVGA gtx 580's around Christmas time.

As for testing games and straining your rig a good test will be to run GTA 4 at 2560 x 1600 with everything on max.

[proxythe1337]

Hey, Crest. Can I have your old monitor?

[nirvgorilla]

I just got my HP ZR30W and I'm blow away. It's the best PC gaming monitor and has only 7ms input lag. Combine it with a nice 1000hz mouse like the Logitech G400 and oh BABY you're blowing people up.

I ordered it from tech on web on October 25th and got it October 27th with free shipping spending $1094. Well worth it considering I upgraded from a Dell 2405FPW I spent $800 on in 2005.

[SirCrest]

@nirvgorilla Where did you get that 7ms input lag number?

[nirvgorilla]

@SirCrest h10010.www1.hp[dot]com/wwpc/us­/en/sm/WF06a/382087-382087-642­83-72270-3884471-4194577.html

anandtech[dot]com/show/3754/a-­new-30-contender-hp-zr30w-revi­ew

etc.

[SirCrest]

@nirvgorilla Aren't you referencing the response time number. The input lag is harder to test, but anand rated it at 10-11ms compared to his CRT. As far as blurring, it does blur, but it's one of the best looking blurs I've seen. Games look sharp as hell on it.

[overlord970]

if you have more money get 2 :P

[SirCrest]

@overlord970 I hope to do eyefinity/surround on this with my next build next year. Quad 680's hopefully.

[GunivXyrgoon]

grow back the burrrd

[halfpintstuff]

I'm wearing a shirt that is almost exactly the same as the one you're wearing in this video.

[Xenn000]

That monitor is bigger than most TVs... 0_o

[Dechristian3]

that's weird there's stuck pixels, what types of monitors you have. I've heard that the oleds don't have that problem

[slaterohm]

oh cresty.. you so crazy

[emomotorgeek]

I don't know if you want to do this with an expensive monitor, but when I used to have stuck pixels, I'd use a very fine point-y object on the stuck pixels, and 99% of the time they'd reset.

[watermelonpizza]

Aw, you are reallly unlucky with stuck pixels :( Hope you get it sorted out.

As usual your videos are very well done and profesionally edited, awesome unboxing!

Though you may want to add some more tags to the video, it would possibly appear in more search results = video views?

[SirCrest]

@watermelonpizza OH, nevermind, I had tags, but some how none of them showed up.

[tehd3m0l1sh3r]

This is an incredible monitor. So jealous

[martinii93]

Uh! You have a keyboard like mine! Do you think that there will be a BF3-app for the keyboard? :)

[SirCrest]

@Northgtabeast BF3 feels fine to me, the game has that smooth input delay for everyone. I mean some games have like a one frame buffer automatically.

Otherwise it feels super responsive.

[TysonSteele]

Excellent choice. I'm using the HP ZR24w, the older brother to your IPS monster. I really like the bezel/frame setup, and the panel quality is phenomenal. Hopefully you have a similar experience with this one.

[Reina18]

>hear price

>jaw falls through floor

[SirCrest]

@Reina18 It's an unbelievable experience. You won't see this kind of resolution or color from a normal monitor.

[Reina18]

@SirCrest I can imagine o_o

[AnAccountWithaName]

Woaw. Grats on your new screen, may it service you well.

[lemonsyay1]

With my monitor I have to have vsync on with every game or the screen tears to shreds.

[TheDanielHolt]

@lemonsyay1 That's not your monitor

[lemonsyay1]

@TheDanielHolt I thought it was because the monitor has a different refresh rate to the game so it overlaps one frame over another. What causes it than?

[TheDanielHolt]

@lemonsyay1 Well, what I really meant was, all monitors do that. I just force vsync on all of my games, works fine.

[lolzen2323]

Thumbs up if you hate advertisment >:I

[Nomeninja2]

that...that is overly big. rofl.

[ds2k15]

Cheez-Its!!!!!

[winddrunner]

OH MY GOD THAT SCREEN IS GONNA FALL OFF THE EDGE! i'lllllll take it :D...for safety

[Nomeninja2]

MEIN GOTT! :U

[321System123]

inputs*



[Aar0nDavenp0rt]

Sick monitor, I'm sure you're having a blast with BF3 right now. :D

[SirCrest]

@Aar0nDavenp0rt I can feel the lag in my eyes while playing.

[BrownCreature]

(O_o) so it does have noticeable lag =(.

[SirCrest]

@BrownCreature Not that I can tell. Some games I think I feel something, but it might be the game.

[klasbo]

@SirCrest "[...] but it might be the game. "

Take this from an amateur competitive FPS gamer: Bad company 2 is very sluggish and unresponsive. Test the monitor lag on something you _know_ will have good performance and responsiveness, which basically means any source engine game. Run the game at supersampled framerates, ie 2x/3x of what your monitor can do. That way all the variables of input and processing lag are eliminated.

Hope this works out for you. Big investment.

[SirCrest]

@klasbo I played Quake 3 arena on it. and it felt great. I'll load up CS:S and some other source games.

[klasbo]

@SirCrest Quake 3 works too :D

I just suggested source engine, because I've seen your playthroughts and whatnot. But if you can't feel any lag in such a fast-paced game as quake 3, then you know there's nothing wrong with your hardware. But once those frame rates start dropping...

Looking forward to hearing how this MONSTER of a rig runs BF3!

[SirCrest]

@klasbo Never seen it drop below 50fps on Ultra, 25601600, 4xMSAA while playing Conquest large on metro with 64 players and 100's of explosions. it's just breathtaking.

[klasbo]

@SirCrest I'll be damned. 50FPS at 4.44x the resolution of 720p. Something tells me my HD4870 will be running this on low settings. Because the money is headed towards a 70-200mm f/4 IS USM, and not yet another PC upgrade...

[bigtymerxg4]

lol you don't have facial hair. :( But that thing is a fucking monster. When you're super-duper successful, buy me one. K, back to fixing BF3.