Benq BL3200PT monitor

[KeyboardDemon]

I have been offered one of these at a good price, has anyone on here had any experience with one of these monitors.

I know it is a VA screen but it offers a 10 bit panel with 1.07 billion colour support, although I just need it to fully support sRGB.

I don't know how well it would perform in a gaming environment, for games such as BF4, Elite: Dangerous, Gauntlet, driving games and Solitaire (just kidding about the Solitaire) so some useful feedback on this aspect would be helpful.

Thanks.

[KeyboardDemon]

I've been dragging my heals on what monitor to buy for the best part of 12 months maybe even longer and haven't come to a decision. Whilst on the brink of ordering a Yamakasi 30" 2560x1600 model I came across a review of the 32" Benq. In the end I have decided that I would be better off getting a 'known' brand from a UK supplier in case I have any issues and having decided I have finally placed an order today.

I hope I haven't made a mistake!

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Has anyone got a Benq BL3200PT from a UK supplier that doesn't have any banding or flashing issues?

[KeyboardDemon]

I ended up returning my BL3200PT as I couldn't even get smooth playback on the end credits of films, the scrolling was jerky and it was absolutely terrible in games. I thought it was meant to be a 4ms response rate but my old LG at 8ms was much better. I have an Asus ROG Swift PG278Q now which is much better for video and gaming but doesn't offer the same colour reproduction of course.

[MrRockliffe]

Didn't think that was to do with response times but rather the refresh rate. Response time is how long it takes to display the signal sent from the PC (or so I thought). Sounds like a refresh rate issue. I think it might be the monitor where you have to set it from DisplayPort 1.1 to 1.2 in the settings.

[KeyboardDemon]

Didn't think that was to do with response times but rather the refresh rate. Response time is how long it takes to display the signal sent from the PC (or so I thought). Sounds like a refresh rate issue. I think it might be the monitor where you have to set it from DisplayPort 1.1 to 1.2 in the settings.

Oh, well it's a bit late to check that now, I thought it would automatically go straight to DP1.2 if the GPU supports that. How would I check this?

[MrRockliffe]

It'll be on the OSD (on screen display) on the monitor

[Kumo80]

It'll be on the OSD (on screen display) on the monitor

any new updates.. am interested in getting this monitor too.. would appreciate any new feed back on how it handles gaming ...thanks

[MrRockliffe]

Check out linus' video on it on YouTube. I'm sure he covers gaming on it.

[KeyboardDemon]

Check out linus' video on it on YouTube. I'm sure he covers gaming on it.

I was just having a look at the video here, it's one I have seen before but somehow missed what I spotted just now. Fast forward to 05:00 on the video and watch the bit with the boat on the screen, and again when he does the side by side comparison with a 27" 2560x1440 Asus panel at 06:30ish. Even on what initially looks like fairly smooth playback of the Unigine benchmark software, I was spotting what looks like stuttering in the clouds. This is what I was getting with any form of on screen motion and it would give me an intense headache after a few minutes of use which is why I sent it back.

[MrRockliffe]

I couldn't notice any stuttering in the video - but maybe that's because I'm on my phone. If I remember correctly, you have a 780 Ti, which is, as you know, more than capable than pushing those pixels. Might possibly have been a faulty monitor, or maybe even a bad driver for the graphics card?

How's G-Sync by the way? I'm very tempted to get a monitor with it enabled, but can't bring myself to spend that much, when I could get a 970 and have money left over...

[KeyboardDemon]

I couldn't notice any stuttering in the video - but maybe that's because I'm on my phone. If I remember correctly, you have a 780 Ti, which is, as you know, more than capable than pushing those pixels. Might possibly have been a faulty monitor, or maybe even a bad driver for the graphics card?

How's G-Sync by the way? I'm very tempted to get a monitor with it enabled, but can't bring myself to spend that much, when I could get a 970 and have money left over...

I think in balance the 970 and money left is a better way to go right now. After getting the BenQ and sending it back I was without a monitor and didn't have the luxury of asking for my old monitor back once it had been given. If it wasn't for that I would have done things differently.

I didn't really get a lot of tearing at 1080p if any at all, I guess I'll have to experiment playing with G-Sync off and on to see which seems better, right now it is on all of the time but without trying to play games with it off I don't really have a very good basis for comparison.

[MrRockliffe]

Problem is, I now have an XBOX One, and it looks weird on a 1440p monitor. Battlefield 4 just gives me a headache after a while, and hurts my eyes where it's so unclear and blurry. Looks fine on a 1080p monitor.

I'm tempted to get a big 1080p monitor for gaming (no room for a TV) as 1080p still looks sharp, but is less demanding on my 760. Far Cry 4, for example, will get me 40 ish FPS on medium settings, if I remember correctly. If games are heading in that direction, I won't have the money to game at 1440p.

[KeyboardDemon]

Is the blurry video a result of playing BF4 with your XBOne at 1440p? I thought it should look ok at 1080p on a 1440p monitor, I don't have that issue when I play games on my PC at 1080p, but that may be because my GPU scales better but I don't know for sure.

[MrRockliffe]

Well that's the thing - games look fine on my PC, and so does Forza 5, but all the other games have a bluryness to them on edges of shapes, and in some cases (like bf4) general bluryness, to the point where it looks like it's running on a 360 at 720p. Could just be the poor optimisations?