I'd recommend a Korean one form ebay such great prices for great monitors had mine almost a year and it's perfect
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I'd recommend a Korean one form ebay such great prices for great monitors had mine almost a year and it's perfect
Thanks to the lack of non-reference coolers for the R9 290 I've still got time to consider monitors
I'm not too familiar with the Korean IPS monitors Laminator
Ixis -
I re-read the EH article and this one from PCmonitors.info http://pcmonitors.info/reviews/benq-bl2411pt on the Benq BL2411PT
In the comments (EDIT - P2414H comment thread) PCmonitors.info compare the BL2411PT and the P2414H - they say that the the build quality is pretty good on both - the extra desktop real estate boosts the BL2411PT - but they do say that as most games are designed to run at 16:9 that 16:10 reduces the FOV
"It’s worth remembering that the vast majority of games scale horizontally based on aspect ratio (Hor+). In other words you gain extra FOV horizontally on a 16:9 monitor whilst maintaining exactly the same FOV vertically as on a 16:10 monitor." PCmonitors.info
I think im going to stick with the P2414H or the U2414H (if that launches at the right price in December). But the BL2411PT looks like an awesome monitor too
Thanks for the input guys
That's a good point. I think I value the extra vertical height because I'm not really buying it as a gaming screen, I will use it for a lot of browsing and documents etc
Hey guys,
Well I've got my new monitor, and its not an IPS - I got the Benq XL2411T Rev 2 in a black friday deal......
I re-read all the discussions in the forum, watched the posted videos, and took into account the edit: £30 discount - I'm rather impressed, this monitor is far better than the old ones I had, and its running at 144hz (out of the box) on my old computer.
Thank you all for your help - I could not have come to this decision without you - and finally my apologies for my flakey decision making
mrsqueezy
Make sure the XL2411T on amazon is the revision 2 (9H.L9SLB.DBE) version (its flicker free) - it doesn't look like it is however I could be wrong
I've been having the same problem which choosing a new monitor, however I'm more stuck between the BenQ XL2411T or the Dell U2713HM. Ignoring cost totally, I just can't decide whether a larger screen and resolution is better so I can game from further away (when using a game pad for certain games) and appreciate the higher pixel count when up close, or a 24" 144Hz screen. I've been lucky enough to see 100-120Hz on TVs and can really tell the difference in video quality. Although now a heavy FPS player, I play a lot of racing games which rely on fast moving scenery, so I'm swinging towards the 144Hz panel over a larger screen... But 2560x1440 resolution... ARGH!
You've got to be careful with this - the Hz that the TV manufacturers are throwing around is usually talking about something else. Specifically the rate at which it 'uprates' the footage to.
I don't know of any TV panels that are pure 100/120Hz in the same way that it applies to monitors. It's really a very nasty bit of confusion on the market right now. A 120Hz monitor is totally different to a TV which claims that.
Thanks for that info. All I meant was that I've seen the effects of a better refresh rate on images when you go above 60Hz, so know roughly what to expect. I am awaiting a time to go view a friends BenQ monitor so get a fair comparison. Either way, I need a better GPU first!