I read somewhere where the person plugged the monitor into an AMD graphics card and said that there was no vertical lines. But I haven't tried it first hand so I don't know.
I was able to pick up one manufactured in Oct 2014 on the 21st of this month, but I think they are mostly going to people who back ordered or preordered and wasn't able to get one off the first shipments. I guess you best choice is to back order one...
I can see a bit, but I have to bring my eyes to like few inches away from the screen to notice anything, and since my head is usually around 3 feet away I do not notice anything. Asus's other 27inch 1440p monitor's seems more apparent though. Go to a...