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over the years my expectations have really changed for Ben Q in the early

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days their stuff was cheap and I was basically pleased if the copy on the

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packaging was devoid of spelling errors and the display powered on but over the

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last few years BenQ has surprised me a number of times most notably with the

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xl24 te a monitor that I declared to be

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the best gaming LCD that I had ever seen when I checked it out about a year ago

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and with their prices having risen along with their status as an incredibly

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well-regarded gaming monitor maker today's look at the

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xl2420g will be from the perspective of a YouTuber who really needs to see Ben Q

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take things to the next level to really be impressed and who has a video coming

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soon about whether it's possible to fake the performance results of one CPU with

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another completely different one so stay tuned for all of that

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more physically I hoped for more from the

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xl2420g just like every other XL series gaming monitor it's got all the

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functionality you could want the Basse is adequately sturdy and wide enough

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that you can't tip it over there's a two Port integrated USB hub there's a cable

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management hole through the stand to keep keep your desk tidy there's a

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headphone hook and a solid carrying handle that Adorn the top of the stand

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on the back and it's got the full range of ergonomic adjustments height tilt

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swivel and pivot along with a toolless

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mechanism to detach the panel from the stand and screwed into a vase amount

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should you so desire well all that sounded great lonus what more could you

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want the answer lies in the just like

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every other XL series bit back there BenQ is asking for a lot of money for

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this display only a couple hundred less than a susa's Rog Swift 27in Monitor and

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it feels like they didn't invest in many improvements to the ID or really any at

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all even just thinner bezels and maybe upgrading the USB hub to USB 3 could

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have softened the blow a little bit here as far as the sticker shock is concerned

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but you could also argue that this monitor is not about the looks this is

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an Esports and Competitive Gaming targeted product and should be treated

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more like a tool than a fashion accessory to which I would reply touche

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so let's get into the functionality then shall we at the front is a 24in 1920 x

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1080 144 HZ TN display with basically no

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input leg pixel response times in the 1 millisecond or less range support for 3D

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Vision stereo gaming with optional active shutter glasses and shockingly

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strong performance when it comes to color vibrancy contrast and viewing

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angles espe especially horizontal viewing angles to the point where if I

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didn't let you tilt the monitor way down or way up you may not actually realize

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it's a TN panel so far so good on the performance front the onscreen menu can

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be navigated either with the included control module that snaps onto the side

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of the base with a magnet or with the on-screen touch buttons and contains

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basically all the options I'd expect from a high-end consumer grade monitor

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brightness contrast and color temperature including a custom mode with

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RGB adjustments and then there's also some fun stuff custom Keys gives you one

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touch access to functions that you use most often black equalizer is basically

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a monitor level gamma boost to give competitive players an edge when trying

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to spot opponents in dark areas would suggest that casuals leave this one off

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for a more atmospheric gameplay experience it's got a low blue light

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mode which theoretically works with the flicker-free DC backlight to reduce eye

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strain and finally the really cool stuff

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first is ulmb or ultra low motion blur mode it uses backlight modulation to

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fire bursts of light at the panel only when the pixels have finished

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transitioning to reduce smearing on fast moving objects it works at 85 100 or 120

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htz with pulse width adjustments to find your optimal balance between image

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Clarity and screen brightness and it works so well that you can actually read

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text as you drag a window across the screen try that with your monitor right

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now good luck but it does have the drawback of reducing overall screen

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brightness and on my sample at least introducing a little bit of noise in

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dark areas of the image that look kind of like very faint scan lines or

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something with that said with how well this monitor performs in the fast gaming

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picture mode the only drawback of which is slightly subdued colors I didn't find

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it worthwhile to turn on ulmb due to the

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brightness trade-off and the fact that the second feature doesn't work at the

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same time and that second feature is g-sync if you need a primer on g-sync

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click here but if the summary is enough for you then basically it works with

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your modern NVIDIA graphics card to get all the benefits of vsync so no ugly

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screen tearing with the benefits of vsync off so very low input latency and

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no stutters awesome and then finally the

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thing that really caught my attention about this monitor forcing me to revise

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my list of the only g-sync monitors that matter which previously contained only

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the ASUS Rog Swift and Acer xp28 HK to

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include this one as well unlike other

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g-sync monitors the xl2420g contains a normal display processor to which allows

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it through the use of their classic mode to enable some of benq's usual modes

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that aren't supported by the g-sync module and to accept other inputs other

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than DisplayPort 1.2 specifically dual

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link DVI and dual HDMI a feature that is

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bound to be a must for anyone who doesn't have the space to set up their

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game console on a separate display somewhere else and wants to easily

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switch between multiple input devices Bravo Ben Q while this isn't a feature I

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personally need on my gaming monitor on my rig it's something that I recognize

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as the potential to be incredibly important to a great many other folks

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out there so this is a fantastic gaming

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monitor it's tremendously responsive phenomenally beautiful considering it's

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a high spe TN panel that is one of the best performers I've seen when it comes

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to motion blur even with AMA turned off altogether in like srgb mode and it's

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got a feature set that makes lesser displays tremble but it's not perfect

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the price is going to be a major turnoff for some Shoppers because I have a hard

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time imagining much overlap between the then diagrams of folks looking for 1080p

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monitors and folks looking to spend this much on a display unless portability is

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a Factor like if you would be regularly transporting your PC to lens so that's

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the conclusion it's an awesome display but I think the number of Shoppers

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interested in it will increase dramatically when g-sync module pricing

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