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Built-in speaker is "meh". Not that great. But in a pinch it works. Honestly nobody expects built-in monitor speakers to be used for anything other than mediocre. It is just nice to have when you mainly use headphones anyway -- and like the option to go speaker-mode for sharing some video clip sound with others temporarily. Has headphone out too!
Since the 2022 range, the C2 and C3 includes a far more sensible 42″ sized option making it more suitable as a cross-over monitor/TV and more comfortable for PC usage as well as movies and consoles. Thanks for the tip! I hope i did it right! Alright, i think im going to go for the xl2540k. Ill probably give er the night to see if anyone els chimes in but if not im buying one tomorrow morning! Thanks again! Tested displays: ASUS VG259QM/VG279QM (280 Hz IPS) • Zowie XL2546K/XL2540K/XL2546 (240 Hz TN DyAc) • Dell S3222DGM (165 Hz VA) • Dell Alienware AW2521HFLA (240 Hz IPS) • HP Omen X 25f (240 Hz TN) • MSI MAG251RX (240 Hz IPS) • Gigabyte M27Q (170 Hz IPS) • Acer Predator XB273X (240 Hz IPS G-SYNC) • Acer Predator XB271HU (165 Hz IPS G-SYNC) • Acer Nitro XV272UKV (170 Hz IPS) • Acer Nitro XV252QF (390 Hz IPS) • LG 27GN800 (144 Hz IPS) • LG 27GL850 (144 Hz nanoIPS) • LG 27GP850 (180 Hz nanoIPS) • Samsung Odyssey G7 (240 Hz VA)I still miss my XG2402, 2.9ms non-gamma corrected in a 7.2ms refresh window with the avg total transition at 6.9ms was truly something else. The percentage of the approximate area, taken by the active part of the screen, to the total front area. The native Freesync range of this monitor is limited to 48-240, you need to manually set it to 48-280 with CRU to make it work above 240hz.
Updated to Test Bench 1.2, resulting in changes to the results and scores with the Response Time and Input Lag. Added tests for Console Compatibility and macOS compatibility and made minor changes to other tests, which you can see in our Changelog. I'm still wondering if I prefer it over the 2546K with Dyac, I can see that I play better with the Omen x 25 compared to the XV252QF(which was also the case for the BenQ) but I'm not sure that with the X25 I play better than with the XL2546K.DyAc/DyAc+ is Zowie's strobing technology, it basically fights off all or most of motion blur on the expense of strobe crosstalk artifacts (more or less visible for me depending on the game). I'd rather buy XL2546K instead of XL2546 right now (better panel, better tuned strobing supposedly). If you don't need strobing and still want a TN panel, I'd choose XL2540K or the upcoming ASUS. I don't have an Nvidia GPU so I don't know if you have to manually enable 10 bit after this, if you have an AMD card open the Radeon Software -> Display-> Color Depth and make sure that it's 10bit (if you want to use it for games go into Games -> Global Graphics -> Advanced -> ENABLE 10 bit Pixel Format. Approximate width of the display. If the manufacturer does not provide such information, the width is calculated from the diagonal and the aspect ratio. in size offering a 1440p resolution combined with a high 360Hz refresh rate, the first of its kind to market. New ‘Ultra Fast IPS’ panel technology with very good response times and motion clarity. Now includes ULMB 2 blur reduction mode, and also NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer. Note that any profile has a different OSD Brightness and Area and Intensity setting for each DyAc setting (which can be saved to the S-switch)
Adaptive Sync OFF (It truly comes down to personal preference, I find that at 280hz tearing is very very hard to notice, much less than at 240hz) Information about the number of pixels on the horizontal and vertical side of the screen. A higher resolution allows the display of a more detailed and of higher quality image.
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Key specs: 27″, 1440p, IPS, 360Hz, Native G-sync (+FreeSync support), 1ms G2G, ULMB 2 blur reduction, Reflex Latency Analyzer Személyre szabott hirdetések Ezeknek a sütiknek köszönhetően mi és partnereink az Ön vásárlásai, viselkedése és preferenciái alapján releváns és személyre szabott termékeket és szolgáltatásokat tudunk Önnek felkínálni. FPS Mode (saturation 47) (or alternatively Racing Mode with RTings icm profile if you care about color accuracy)
As a premise I want to specify that this secret overdrive, as far as you might erroneously tell by the name, doesn't scale linearly in terms of overshoot, it actually provides less overshoot than OD80 and OD100, this is extremely good at 280hz, at this refresh rate OD60 provides no overshoot with the downside of slow dark transitions and OD80 has no ghosting but suffers from noticeable overshoot.
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As such, we’d opt for ELMB over HDR. Turning off ELMB lets you use the overdrive and works well but it isn’t as good as using ELMB. If you only need one reason to buy the VG259QM, it’s for the ability to run Adaptive-Sync and ELMB together. Level 2 is enough, going higher is pointless unless you use Shadow Boost to have a competitive advantage, I used Frog Pursuit's traffic light to confirm that LvL2 completely deny color inversion due to overshoot, making OD120 with Shadow Boost LVL2 both ghosting free and overshoot free, this is the perfect overdrive tweak. We spent about 1/2 hour playing around with all the different settings... saturation, blue levels, contrast, etc... trying to achieve the best look we could, then we decided to try the HDR setting in Windows 10 and WOW what a difference, everything looked amazing, so we kept the HDR setting on. My brother did find the monitor very bright, in fact he turned the HDR brightness setting in Windows down to 27 (out of 100) so it wasn't so hard on his eyes. He was coming from a low budget TN panel and he couldn't believe the difference an IPS panel can make, he said he noticed details in his games he never saw before, and the colors where so much more vibrant, a massive improvement. I'm currently in the process of getting a Omen X25 since I want to compare the (reportedly) clearest 240hz TN on the market with this 390hz IPS. I tested 2x XL2546K units last year and I gotta say that although I wasn't impressed by unstrobed motion performance I still feel like I play better with TNs.
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