Which monitor is best for color grading?

I am new to Editing & color grading,i am working for films,using Adobe CS6 & davinci resolve now i am looking for 2nd monitor(reference or preview purpose) which one is best to choose in budget.
my monitor is dell 27 inch ips monitor,and what to choose second one ,is it a broadcast monitor or one more ips monitor is enough? broadcast monitor is expensive then which is best budget monitor to choose?plz help me

Hi all,
I've got a DeckLink 4K Extreme and Premiere Pro CS6. I am wondering what is the best monitor to plug it into for colour grading (via Speed Grade or Da Vinci Resolve Lite), as are the rest of you, it seems. As 4K monitors are now coming out I wondered about the Dell UltraSharp UP2414Q, connected via HDMI:
http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=8452 18
What do you good people reckon? This is bang on my budget of £1000 + VAT. Or is there a better bet?
The colour support says:
Colour Gamut (typical): Adobe RGB 99%, sRGB 100%
1.07 Billion colours (8 Bits +AFRC)
The much larger (and double the price) UP3214Q is here:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dell-up3214q?c=uk&l=en&s=dh s&cs=ukdhs1&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=0&~ck=baynoteSearch
The colour support says:
Colour Gamut (typical): Adobe RGB 99%, sRGB 100%
1.074 Billion colours (10 Bits)
Is that difference between 8bit and 10bit going to seriously hamper me? Is there a 10bit 4K monitor in my price range or should I go for a 10bit 2K monitor?
(And yes, I know the DeckLink 4K Extreme is a hefty piece of kit for plugging into a 'relatively' cheap monitor but rather nice circumstances meant I ended up with one, albeit with no suitable monitor.)
Thanks.

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