HP Pavilion 32-inch QHD Wide-Viewing Angle Display (V1M69AA#ABA)

This review is for Model# V1M69AA#ABA. Thats the 16:9 32" QHD with no speakers (Please separate products with their own reviews Amazon). Anyway, this monitor seriously rocks! Been gaming on a huge 4K TV @ 4K and my Single GTX 1070 sits at about 30fps playing most games at 4K. That said, on this beast I get to game at a smooth 70Hz @ 1440p, which looks really incredible! Was only expecting a 60Hz monitor so, BONUS lol. Also, if you have an AMD card it supports FreeSync. So if you dont mind 7ms response time (tv is usually around 50+ms!) Then at this price entering the realm of 1440p, you cannot go wrong! UPDATE: Been using daily since it arrived and noticed that there might be a display port issue or cheap cable? Once a day the monitor disconnects and resets, which can really suck in the middle of a game, especially if that game causes all kinds of crashing when your resolutions start cycling all over the place when the monitor reconnects. Maybe Ill give the HDMI a shot instead. LAST UPDATE! A while back after learning a lot about monitors, I learned how to test skipped frames due to a lack of processing power. This monitor sure does skip frames when set to 70hz. Dont know why that is an option when it cant keep up. So all in all for the low price this monitor is "decent" but cheap Korean monitors offer better bang for your buck! Also, the display port cable that comes with it was garbage and caused intermittent disconnects. Over and out!

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Does not wake up properly as instructed by Mac Pro. If you put your Mac to sleep the monitor will wake up. However, it will not wake up when the Mac Pro is started up cold. You must manually wake up the monitor first. Then turn on the Mac. I have purchased over 100 Macs and many displays. I have never seen this problem before. An excellent display otherwise. Almost as good is my 11-year-old Apple 30” Cinema Display. Using with a 2012 Mac Pro. After 11 years, my 30-inch 11-year-old Apple Cinema Display konked out. My old Apple Cinema Display had 2560 x 1600 resolution. The HP Pavilion 32-inch QHD, has almost as good at 2560 x 1440 resolution. The Mac Pro has both the older DVI output and the newer Mini DisplayPort. I purchased a cable that goes from Apples Mini DisplayPort to the (Windows style) DisplayPort. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5RY8D7/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I plugged everything in and my Mac Pro immediately and automatically recognized the display and it powered up in the maximum resolution of 2560 x 1440. The Mac OS also automatically configured Color output to match the HP Pavilion 32-inch QHD display. I never took the owners manual out of the shrink-wrap bag. For Mac users, youll find some of the aspects of this display to be A LITTLE “old school”. The power supply is the good old fashion “Black Brick” with the typical round barrel connector that Apple quit using 20 years ago. Nevertheless, (almost) everything works as before and the display is SPECTACULAR. Naturally, the very first thing I did was check for stuck or damaged pixels using PiXel Check 1.3. They were all perfect. My main disappointment is that you cannot adjust the brightness using your Mac keyboard, you have to use a couple of buttons on the back of the display to set brightness (how quaint). Also, there appears to be no automatic brightness changing for ambient lighting conditions. I was shocked to discover that Hewlett-Packard has no driver to add using the keyboard to adjust brightness functions back in. The HP display has no USB hub like Apple has. The display does go to sleep as programmed in the Apple power settings but not as cleanly as you might be used to with an Apple display. With the HP display, it simply goes to sleep when the video output shuts down as opposed to Apples method of sending a shutdown command. Anyway, it does go to sleep. In my situation, I am eagerly awaiting for Apple to start making professional desktop computers again. So this display was a life-saver to try and get a another year out of my Silver Tower Mac Pro, until the 2019 Mac Pro is available. (The black trash-can looking Mac Pro is NOT an option.) The HP display is blue LED free, (blue light is possibly unhealthy). When operating, there is a low brightness white LED in the lower right corner. This turns to a low brightness Orange color when the display is asleep. The short-comings I mentioned are minor. I recommend this display to anyone, including Mac users.

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