Yes ! I managed to score a masterstroke. Upon a LOT of discussions with current Crossover monitor owners, I came to a conclusion that the Crossover 27QHD is the same as Crossover 2795QHD, and it is rebranded as the 2795QHD and sold at a higher price. Both overclock just fine, and the only real difference is the abscence OSD in the 27QHD, which is not a dealbreaker to me, while the difference in the price is about $70-85 USD. I bit the bullet and ordered the 27QHD at $265, which came approximately to Rs 18,500, since it also includes Paypals’ currency conversion fee. The monitor was dispatched in 12 hours by greensum (Ebay) and was in India in the next 12 hours. There were a ton of updates that I could track on the DHL site when the shipment went from Korea to Hong Kong to Delhi. Once it reached India, the number of updates just diminished. I received a call from a DHL representative stating that I had to upload KYC documents on their site. which I did in the next 3 hours, since I wasn’t at home. After I uploaded them, it took DHL 6 hours to approve them, and there was no more update on the shipping on that day. The next early morning, it reached Mumbai and was out for delivery by 9.30 AM, and had me looking out the window for the yellow DHL van. 2 hours later, the van turned the curb and stopped downstairs, and of the delivery guys opened the door and revealed a wonderfully bubble wrapped huge box to my utter surprise. A 27" monitor can be pretty friggin huge for someone used to a 21.5" incher for the past 5 years. I opened the door and waited for the guy to reach. He informed me that I had to make a payment since the customs fee was paid by DHL on my behalf. I was prepared for that, and was expecting a huge amount to be told. I was yet again surprised when the amount turned out to be Rs.2944. This was because I had asked greensum to undervalue it at $150 instead of $265. Total spent = Rs, 21,500. I didn’t have the exact change for the custom fee, so I gave 3k to the delivery guy and said he could keep it. I was dizzy with happiness after all. I rush inside and rip off the bubblewrap and open the packing out to reveal the glorious 27" behemoth. At this point, I’m praying to Gabe Newell that the monitor not have any dead/stuck pixels or backlight bleed, or that would just suck and kill the entire mojo after all. The bezels were a bit glossy, and so felt the screen as well, very different from what I was expecting since the listing stated it as a Matte screen. Next, I attach the infamous stand and power it on. Lo and behold, what a sight it was to see. My eyes had an orgasm. The resolution was intense and crisp and I was already in love with it. Next, I checked for dead/stuck pixels and did a few tests and found a total of zero of them. So damn lucky. There also was zero backlight bleed as well. I had scored a wonderful piece after all. I’m not waving my little win in front of everyone here. Just saying that I had a great experience so far. The next thing to obviously do was to check if this monitor was overclockable at all. I powered up the Nvidia control panel and created custom resolutions and went from 60 to 75 to 85 to 96 to 110 to 120 Hz. At 120 Hz, I saw a lot of disturbance noise, so I backed up onto 110Hz which seemed quite stable. I powered up Rocket League and found minor texture flickering which was quite acceptable to me, but surely it cannot be considered to be a stable overclock. I backtracked to 96Hz and it seemed stable at that and I settled for it. It has been 48 hours now with this monitor and I’m in love with it now. Also, I had a visit from the DHL guy today. When I saw him, in my head, all I could think of was, NOOOOO ! YOU CAN’T TAKE IT BACK FOR WHATEVER REASONS YOU MIGHT HAVE !! Yes, I was paranoid about owning. The guy returned 56 bucks back to me, for which I didn’t have change for 2 days ago. Wow ! That was quite something ! Good job delivery guy from DHL !
So, there it is. My half baked fanboy review that I had promised earlier in this thread.
If anyone out there is on the fence about getting one of these bad boys, I’d say GO FOR IT. Luck plays a good part in getting a flaw free monitor and I lucked out this time. I rarely do, so it is a big deal for me.
Ask me any questions that you may have and I’ll try to answer them if possible.
For brevity purposes, this is the monitor I went for - Pardon Our Interruption...