Gaming monitor

[tontainas]

Hi, guys. I'm about to buy a gaming monitor and I doubt between Asus VX238H and BenQ RL2455HM. I don't care one is 1 inch bigger. I only care about which one performs better. Both are 1080p, HDMI, TN and have a response below 1 ms. Can you help me?

I have also noticed a 5 ms IPS for gaming which seems very interesting: Asus VS239HR.

I don't want another. I just have to decide myself from any of the 3.

Thanks.

[SlimRock]

IMO Go For SAMSUNG S27B750V OR S27C750P !!!

Edited July 31, 2013 by slimrock

[tontainas]

IMO Go For SAMSUNG S27B750V OR S27C750P

That's not useful. I need to chose between one of the three I posted.

[Nima]

For a high-end gaming monitor, in my opinion, there are some very important factors:

Also, the technology in itself is high-end and latest, I mean LED monitors, although they are not so different from LCDs, but they are better in general.

First factor is Resolution which is prefered to be (at least) Full HD 1080p, higher resolutions are better but they need also more powerful system to give you high performance, also, they are less common, for example, 16:10 is much less common than 16:9.

Second one is Frame rate, which should be at least 60Hz, and if you want it for high performance movie and video, too; it should support 23.976 Hz, 24 Hz, 29.97 Hz, 30 Hz and 59 Hz, too; also 72p for extreme performance and if you want a real challenging one, it's better to support 120 Hz which is standard frame rate for UHDTVs.

Third one is Refresh rate, which I strongly recommend to get a 2ms or lower to achieve the most smooth picture both on gaming and high-performance movie playback.

Forth one is Brightness, which is better to be higher than 250 cd/㎡ to smoothly show even the brightest pixels.

Fifth one is about Contrast, both dynamic and static, although almost all companies lie about the real contrast value and trick people with some very high numbers, but it's still important.

Another important factor is the cable and output of the monitor, which should be HDMI (preferably v1.4 or newer) or DisplayPort; it's needed to supply bandwidth for high resolution and refresh rate.

Another factor which is not very common is Display colors and bit-depth; currently in the market, almost 100% of monitors are 32-bit and able to show 16.7m colours, but there are also some Dell high-performance monitors which are able to show more than 1 billion colours; but they are not very much common and also not designed for us, they are mainly for extreme photo/video editing or very big photo and image projects which need to produce many more colours than we need.

Anyway, I will go for ASUS VX238H over BenQ; ASUS is a more advanced and more experienced company with a very beautiful history in computer market, it wins many awards each year for their high-end products, and also, in my opinion, the specification of that monitor is so perfect and awesome, I really liked it; although the BenQ was almost the same as ASUS, but I prefer ASUS because I really trust this company for it's high-performance products.

You should also check some Samsung LED Monitors, too; they are also very good, some high-end Samsung models are really amazing and awesome. ;)

Regards,

Nima

[SnakeMasteR]

I had an BenQ, it's gone - *poof*. So only because of that experience i would go for the Asus too. :P

[SemiDemented]

For a high-end gaming monitor, in my opinion, there are some very important factors:

Also, the technology in itself is high-end and latest, I mean LED monitors, although they are not so different from LCDs, but they are better in general.

First factor is Resolution which is prefered to be (at least) Full HD 1080p, higher resolutions are better but they need also more powerful system to give you high performance, also, they are less common, for example, 16:10 is much less common than 16:9.

Second one is Frame rate, which should be at least 60Hz, and if you want it for high performance movie and video, too; it should support 23.976 Hz, 24 Hz, 29.97 Hz, 30 Hz and 59 Hz, too; also 72p for extreme performance and if you want a real challenging one, it's better to support 120 Hz which is standard frame rate for UHDTVs.

Third one is Refresh rate, which I strongly recommend to get a 2ms or lower to achieve the most smooth picture both on gaming and high-performance movie playback.

Forth one is Brightness, which is better to be higher than 250 cd/㎡ to smoothly show even the brightest pixels.

Fifth one is about Contrast, both dynamic and static, although almost all companies lie about the real contrast value and trick people with some very high numbers, but it's still important.

Another important factor is the cable and output of the monitor, which should be HDMI (preferably v1.4 or newer) or DisplayPort; it's needed to supply bandwidth for high resolution and refresh rate.

Another factor which is not very common is Display colors and bit-depth; currently in the market, almost 100% of monitors are 32-bit and able to show 16.7m colours, but there are also some Dell high-performance monitors which are able to show more than 1 billion colours; but they are not very much common and also not designed for us, they are mainly for extreme photo/video editing or very big photo and image projects which need to produce many more colours than we need.

Anyway, I will go for ASUS VX238H over BenQ; ASUS is a more advanced and more experienced company with a very beautiful history in computer market, it wins many awards each year for their high-end products, and also, in my opinion, the specification of that monitor is so perfect and awesome, I really liked it; although the BenQ was almost the same as ASUS, but I prefer ASUS because I really trust this company for it's high-performance products.

You should also check some Samsung LED Monitors, too; they are also very good, some high-end Samsung models are really amazing and awesome. ;)

Regards,

Nima

Great information to have! Thanks for the info :D

[DKT27]

Something that is not known just by the specs, the color of the LED lights the monitor use. When I bought my kinda cheap Samsung monitor (S23B370), first thing I noticed was that it's blues appeared purplish. Later I found out that cheap monitors use blue colored LED back lights and good monitors probably use white. This of course, may not relate to a good monitor, however, it's worth checking out how the monitor looks in real or even on youtube.

[nIGHT]

For a high-end gaming monitor, in my opinion, there are some very important factors:

Also, the technology in itself is high-end and latest, I mean LED monitors, although they are not so different from LCDs, but they are better in general.

First factor is Resolution which is prefered to be (at least) Full HD 1080p, higher resolutions are better but they need also more powerful system to give you high performance, also, they are less common, for example, 16:10 is much less common than 16:9.

Second one is Frame rate, which should be at least 60Hz, and if you want it for high performance movie and video, too; it should support 23.976 Hz, 24 Hz, 29.97 Hz, 30 Hz and 59 Hz, too; also 72p for extreme performance and if you want a real challenging one, it's better to support 120 Hz which is standard frame rate for UHDTVs.

Third one is Refresh rate, which I strongly recommend to get a 2ms or lower to achieve the most smooth picture both on gaming and high-performance movie playback.

Forth one is Brightness, which is better to be higher than 250 cd/㎡ to smoothly show even the brightest pixels.

Fifth one is about Contrast, both dynamic and static, although almost all companies lie about the real contrast value and trick people with some very high numbers, but it's still important.

Another important factor is the cable and output of the monitor, which should be HDMI (preferably v1.4 or newer) or DisplayPort; it's needed to supply bandwidth for high resolution and refresh rate.

Another factor which is not very common is Display colors and bit-depth; currently in the market, almost 100% of monitors are 32-bit and able to show 16.7m colours, but there are also some Dell high-performance monitors which are able to show more than 1 billion colours; but they are not very much common and also not designed for us, they are mainly for extreme photo/video editing or very big photo and image projects which need to produce many more colours than we need.

Anyway, I will go for ASUS VX238H over BenQ; ASUS is a more advanced and more experienced company with a very beautiful history in computer market, it wins many awards each year for their high-end products, and also, in my opinion, the specification of that monitor is so perfect and awesome, I really liked it; although the BenQ was almost the same as ASUS, but I prefer ASUS because I really trust this company for it's high-performance products.

You should also check some Samsung LED Monitors, too; they are also very good, some high-end Samsung models are really amazing and awesome. ;)

Regards,

Nima

Need badly to reqoute this for easy searching. This is one of the best advice for led tv. Thumbs up Nima! ;)

I do hope DisplayPort will also be supported alongside hdmi(in ledtv and pc/laptop). This will enable us to connect multiple monitors of our desktop and gaming viewing interface.

Edited August 1, 2013 by nIGHT

[tontainas]

Thanks for the info. The BenQ monitor I posted is retired from the competition :-) due to your info. I think I am going to get the Asus VS239HR because it's IPS (newer and in theory better than TN), though I mainly want it for gaming. I hope I won't notice the difference between 5 and 1 ms and I won't regret my decision.

[Nima]

Thanks for the info. The BenQ monitor I posted is retired from the competition :-) due to your info. I think I am going to get the Asus VS239HR because it's IPS (newer and in theory better than TN), though I mainly want it for gaming. I hope I won't notice the difference between 5 and 1 ms and I won't regret my decision.

Yes, IPS panel is newer and of course better, but it's not that worthwhile and not that much better than default panels, if I were in your shoes, I would go for that other monitors which was 1ms, mainly because you want it for high-performance gaming and playback; difference between 5ms and 1ms is noticeable in very high speed motion changes, like in racing games and especially sports movie.

The best way is to physically go to the market and compare them in real-time, in this situation, you can easily select the one which best suits you, though both of them are really high-end.

Edited August 2, 2013 by Nima