BenQ XL2720Z 144Hz 1ms 27 inch Gaming Monitor with High Resolution Best for CS:GO Battlefield eSport

you’d usually have to pick between Image Quality and performance, but now you can get both., February 5, 2016

Gaming Ladies and Gentlemen, I bet you all are looking for a very nice monitor to game on, isn’t that right? I bet you’ve looked into Acer, LG, Dell, Samsung, Eizo and Asus Offerings, and I bet you want to improve your gaming experience without going bankrupt, am I right? Well, then keep reading. This is still expensive, but I can assure you that you wont be disappointing, just let me explain why.

I’m a hardcore gamer, and I want Blazing Fast reaction time, but that doesn’t mean I want my image quality to be all grey and poor, I also like some eye candy, which is why I have a Fury X and an overclocked 5820K, now I know what you’re thinking, eye candy on a TN, that’s a good joke… Is it?

The BenQ XL2730Z is the 2nd Monitor to be released featuring a TRUE 8 Bits Color Depth Panel, making those colors really come to life, I’ve owned BenQ Monitors in the past, the good Old BenQ XL2420TE, and even when they were the fastest around I was always kind of disappointed by their color reproduction or image Quality after calibrated, but no more.

First I swapped to an Acer XG270HU which is probably the best Bang for the Buck TN in the market at such low prices, this monitor handily bested my XL2420TE in color reproduction thanks to its 6 Axis Saturation calibration tool integrated into the Monitor OSD, although both BenQ XL2420TE And the Acer XG270HU Were 6 Bits panels with FRC Dithering, which is no match for this new BenQ Beast.

the BenQ XL2730Z handily beats down its old predecessor and the XG270HU thanks to its TRUE 8 bit Panel not using this disgusting Dithering (I always hated it) to simulate more colors by vibrating the pixels at a really fast pace, some benchmarks also suggest that dithering can increase input lag a notch, so not having it is a plus, I also have an Acer XF270HU which is a High End IPS Piece of Garbage with Good Color reproduction (The problem with the XF270HU is that the OSD Is broken, many features don’t work, but all in all its a beautiful display with great colors) comparing the XL2730Z with the XF270HU both calibrated its really hard to decide for a Winner regarding image quality, considering this BenQ is a TN Panel that’s definitely incredible, not long ago TN panels were frowned upon because their "Poor and Horrible image quality", but after the BenQ XL2730Z not anymore.

Also, comparing the XL2730Z and the XF270HU is easy to pick a winner regarding Input lag and Motion Clarity, the Overdrive on the XF720HU is broken when using DisplaPort, and there’s tons of Blur in moving images, the XL2730Z on the other hand have the best Motion Clarity I’ve ever seen when setting the overdrive to Premium, while only showing little overshoot artifacts.

Pros:

1-) It is BenQ, you can expect High Quality Components, robust support, and working features, everything just works perfectly.

2-) This specimen have Blur Reduction integrated into the monitor, its like ULMB but better because you can use it with any GPU, regardless if it is Nvidia or AMD as it is made by BenQ and it can strobe at 144Hz! Amazing feature that wasn’t found with Lightboost before, also you can control the clarity and intensity of the Strobing.

3-) Viewing Angles: Yes, this is a TN so it is bound to have poor viewing angles compared to an IPS Panel, but I must put this one into the "Pros" section because its got the best Viewing Angles of all TNs I have ever tried before, the side to side gamma shift is Minimal, although the vertical shift could improve a lot.

4-) No Glowing, As I said before, I also have an XF270HU and its IPS Glow is absolutely atrocious, don’t get me started with its Backlight Bleed, this BenQ have no Glow whatsoever making dark scenes a pleasure to watch, not so much as a VA panel, but that’s for another review I guess.

5-) No backlight Bleed, one of the main Problems with monitors like the XF270HU, Acer XB270HU, Or ASUS MG279Q is that they all exhibit general issues with backlight bleed, you just wont get a sample without Backlight Bleed, no matter how hard you try unless you’re very Lucky, I resent my XF270HU 5 times without luck, every sample had even worse Bleed than the last, with this BenQ monitor my first sample was 100% free of Backlight bleed, I did have a Bright Pixel though, but this is a Non-Issue for me it is not noticeable even when searching for it, I only noticed it because I had a white screen testing white saturation levels on a 255 background.

6-) The stand is the highest Quality Stand I’ve every tried, period. Would not change it for any other VESA Stand ever, its got marks as to where you set your monitor Height from 0 to 15 and a little pointer to leave it on even if you take the screen out for whatever reason like going into a gaming tournament. It also have (for me a t least) a useless headset thingy, I don’t use it because it tilt my screen…

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