Monitor for Photo Editing

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Looking for suggestions for a replacement monitor for photo editing. I currently have a Dell 20" 2007WFP. Very occasionally the backlight starts to flicker, which suggests replacement sooner rather than later!

I won't be gaming on the monitor, any suggestions for around £250 max? Preferably less. Ideally I want something around 24 - 27", I take it i'd be best going for something with 1440p resolution rather than 1080? Much as I'd love a twin screen setup, there isn't enough room for such a setup.

With regards to colour reproduction will I be best going for am IPS panel type, or a VA panel type? I know TN panels have very poor viewing angles.

Thanks in advance
 
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Reviews are pretty solid:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2515h.htm

Might be something newer out there nowadays, not looked much this year.

Reading that review, I think I may have hit a stumbling block already. My system uses onboard graphics (AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics), with only an HDMI / DVI / VGA Dsub connection available... No DisplayPort! However I had been thinking about adding a discrete graphics card to the system, for better performance, so something I'll need to bear in mind...
 
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The U2515H will take an HDMI input. You’d have to check what version your mobo supports but I suspect it’ll be HDMI 1.4 which supports 1440P 60hz.

Sadly the specs for my motherboard (Asus A88XM-A) state this:

Integrated AMD Radeon™ R/HD8000/HD7000 Series Graphics in the A-Series APU
Multi-VGA output support : HDMI/DVI/RGB ports
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz / 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz*1
- Supports DVI with max. resolution 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz
- Supports RGB with max. resolution 1920 x 1600 @ 60 Hz
Maximum shared memory of 2048 MB
AMD® Dual Graphics technology support *2

So a discrete graphics card may well be on the agenda first.
 
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