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I've had a Dell U2312HM for a while now. As soon as I got it I calibrated it according to a guide, which used professional tools like a spectrophotometer to get some convincing color settings.
I've been pretty satisfied with it so I decided to get another, but after giving it the exact same settings it looks very different and wrong. On the old monitor white looks white. On the new one it's dim.
I tried correcting it by increasing the brightness, but I feel that throws other colors off. I also tried swapping cables to see if it was the GPU port, or the cable itself, and I made sure they had the same settings in the Nvidia control panel.
Is it normal for the same panels to have such variance? Do monitors need a break-in period? Or is one not functioning properly?
Louis
Posted 2013-03-16T17:06:10.747
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Absolutely the same problem with two indetically setup new laptops Dell Latitude E5570, one is more yellowish then the second one. – Vojtěch Dohnal – 2016-04-11T11:32:30.627
2No two monitors are the same. Even if they are the same manufacture and model. However, you will have better luck with two monitors that are the same model and from the same batch. As the monitor gets used, there will be more and more noticeable differences due to the different use on the monitors. – kobaltz – 2013-03-16T18:06:56.943
Digital and analog connections on the video card can also have an effect. I have one monitor on an analog connection and another on a digital connection. Even though the monitors are identical the colours are noticeably different. No amount of tweaking will make them the same. – Wayne Johnston – 2013-03-16T23:05:44.120