Not too happy with the way this item is shipped. To begin with it was not sealed at all with shipping tape. It arrived on the porch upside down by UPS. Judging by the wear/dirt marks it spent most of the time on its back instead of being placed in the upright position like it is clearly marked on the box. To get to my town in NV it made multiple stops (8) from TN to get here.Once I got the monitor started up I noticed the image went from filling entire monitor to a shrunken image. So I put the disk in and added the drivers that are supposed to accompany this monitor. What I had noticed that was very obvious and disappointing right away was the text appeared to be quite blurry and the images did not seem to appear correct. After a couple hours of tweaking and fiddling with it I came to the conclusion I would return this because the image and appearance was just not acceptable. After going into windows help and looking on the community pages I discovered that blurry imaging and text is a common problem on computers which reminded me I had experienced this years ago.What was going on is the "scaling" was not set right and this corrected not only the blurry text but it filled the image back out to the edges of the monitor. What a ginormous difference this made! The clarity and sharpness on this monitor is absolutely fantastic. It is too bad that VS does not include a Tips/Troubleshoot page in with the quick start guide as I am sure I am not the only person that has experienced this issue.A word about HDMI- The reason I decided to purchase this monitor was because it has a DisplayPort connection in addition to HDMI and VGA. From what I have heard and read about DP is a newer better connection than HDMI and is totally free as opposed to a royalty/proprietary setup like HDMI. For this reason a DP cable is included while an HDMI cable is not. Turns out I had to go with a HDMI/DVI cable out of BestBuy because the back of my computer which is not that old (3/14) only has DVI and VGA. As you recall VGA connection is the old fashioned analog which is ironic because the signal generated from computers is digital to begin with and the whole point of VGA is to step down to analog to accommodate the old CRT monitors. While you can hook up a DP/DVI cable it is only one way. The DP has to be at computer end and DVI at monitor end not the other way around.A word about MS updates. I assumed that when MS sends out an update for say your video card that it is the best update. Not true. I went to The AMD site and got a card driver update that was current (2014) while the MS update was over two years old. Had made the mistake of believing the MS update to be the better and proper update and had noticed a significant reduction in image quality.Hope all this information is helpful.