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    Monitor shopping; a slow descent into madness?

    There are so many monitors out there, and without seeing them with my own eyes, I am having a lot of trouble picking.

    I want it to be good for photo processing, and it will also be my only monitor.

    I have the Spyder 4 Elite calibration tool.

    I am reasonably sure I want an IPS monitor, though I read that with IPS the blacks are not all that black. I don't really need to show other people my screen so I am not 100% sure I need that 178 degree viewing angle uniformity if it is costing me unacceptable damage to my blacks?? OTOH, I am now looking at my old TN screen and I actually can detect pinky-orange cast at the sides. On a bigger monitor I would probably see that even more.

    I want a fast enough GtG response time to avoid really obvious ghosting, though I am not a big time gamer or anything so it does not need to be super fast. Is 6ms fast enough? 8 ms? 10ms?

    I want a 25" to 27" monitor.

    I do not want to spend more than at max $750.00, and preferably a little less. Or do I actually need to spend a grand?

    I have a pretty new NVidia card, so I do have Display Port, and I my computer is PC, not Apple.

    Looking at Dell U2515h, Dell u2715h, or anything else, really.

    General input? Specific suggestions?
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