Dell U2713HM - Unbeatable performance out of the box
by Chris Heinonen on October 4, 2012 12:00 AM ESTDell U2713HM Input Lag and Power Use
As I stated on the Nixeus review, since I don’t have a CRT that can do 1440p resolution I’m stuck testing these higher resolution displays at 1080p. Because of that the scaler gets involved, and that can lead to extra delays that you might not see if you run at 1440p. The pixel response should be the same, but the lag could vary from being the same to perhaps the low 1-2ms we see from some displays like the HP ZR2740w.
Here the Dell performs almost identically to the Nixeus that we recently reviewed, which means bad things for gamers. We have over a full frame of input lag, and then 11ms of pixel response time to bring our total lag up to 29.5ms, which is nearly two full frames on a 60 fps game. While the U2713HM is fine for everything else, for games that require fast reflexes and can’t deal with two frames of lag you’ll probably need to look elsewhere. I know some consider two frames to be acceptable and some consider anything over one frame to be unacceptable, so you will have to decide what you can live with.
On the power use side, I don’t know what Dell did to this display but it is stingy when it comes to energy use. Even with the backlight at maximum and the screen pure white, we see only 45 watts of power being used. With the backlight at minimum this drops down to 18 watts of power. No 27” display in here has come close to this yet, and there are 23” and 24” class displays that almost use as much power as the 27” Dell does. I guess the eco consciousness at Dell goes beyond just packaging to the actual power use of the monitor as well.
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p05esto - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
One problem with the Ausus is they use that stupid PWM backlight flashing to set the brightness. It can tire your eyes and some people are sensitive to it. This Dell monitor is one of the very few that don't use that old backlight technology.Read more here:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pulse_width_m...
I wish I knew in real life how this felt. The PWM is supposed to be even more noticable with PED backlit monitors, so I'm leaning towards the Dell right now as a result.
johan05156150 - Friday, November 2, 2012 - link
I had a major backlight bleeding:http://i.imgur.com/YqH5e.jpg
Fartunately I could retourn it.
July 2012, Rev A00
anuprav - Saturday, November 10, 2012 - link
On 07.11.2012 I have ordered DELL U2713HM after doing lots of survey over the net and found this Monitor to be good choice.Eagerly waiting for the delivery and will write comments about it.
Calon - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - link
Expires Thursday, December 13, 2012 this sale, but it is now $630 at dell's site:http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.a...
with coupon code: GXGR7B6RJP354G
And ironically on the sales page they quote this review of the product from this site, "Unbeatable performance out of the box", lol.
Calon - Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - link
clicked the submit button too fast before editjwardell - Monday, December 24, 2012 - link
Costco.com is selling it for 649.99 inc shippingandreas12941 - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - link
The YCbCr problem can be fixed by overriding the EDID data of the display:http://embdev.net/topic/284710
Bodo - Sunday, February 3, 2013 - link
Hi,I use the monitor with a macbook pro and in the sRGB mode. With the EDID override method I get RBG colors. So far so good.
But it seems that some light grey colors are more yellow. I notice this first as I look at the Apple website. They use a lot of shadows and these shadows have a yellow tinge. So the shadow effect is looking really bad. WIth the MacBook display everything looks fine and grey is grey. On every other display I have tested the Apple website and the grey tones look normal.
In the multimedia mode there is no yellow tinge.
Is this normal for the sRGB mode?
Or what could be the problem here?
I have also tested the monitor with a windows laptop. The same problem. So it has nothing to do with
the macbook pro and the RGB problem.
davidm71 - Friday, March 29, 2013 - link
I just did my own unboxing and as impressive on how they packaged the monitor I suffers from some serious weaknesses such as IPS glow and backlight bleed that is out of control!alesgola - Thursday, August 21, 2014 - link
Thank you for a great and very usefull review. I would like to make shure what " These only apply to the included sRGB mode in the display, so you should make sure to use that, and reset your video card LUT, to achieve these results." in case of my mac mini (late 2012). Do I understand i correctly, that I should go to Display/Profile menu of MacOs and select the option "Adobe sRGB ..."? Thank you in advance for your reply.