Can you help? - Asus VG278HE, Benq XL2720T or Benq XL2720z

[sgtourism]

Hey everyone, I'm in need of some advice. I'm looking for a 27" 1080P monitor with 120hz+. I'm not interested in the Yamakasi's, etc.

As of Monday this week, I narrowed my search to the Asus VG278HE or the Benq XL2720T. I haven't had a "light boost" enabled monitor in the past, so my plan is to use the LightBoost HOWTO page to eliminate the motion blur.

Then yesterday happened. I found out about the Benq XL2720Z. Naturally, I searched here and found this thread which talks a lot about the firmware bug.

I'm really trying to figure out what the best option is going to be.

Is the 2720Z's built in motion blur reduction better than equipping either the 278HE or 2720T with Blurbusters' solution?

IF I get the 2720Z, can I fix the firmware issue myself?

I see that Blurbusters is releasing a Strobe Utility. Is this used to fix the firmware issue? OR is this used to just fine tune the settings?

Thanks so much for any advice you guys can give me.

[striker333]

My knowledge is almost zero in monitors so in a tech point of view I cant be useful but i had the 2720z . ofc in its time it was a very good monitor but now I think no it is an old production . I bought a new monitor every thing is better on it color and performance and even on the blur thing it is better . look for new production monitor better I think . good luck .

[striker333]

btw forgot to say difference in response time even is big . I am playing fps games like apex legends so i can notice this . but to be honest I updated my VGA card with this new monitor but tried the 2720z with it still bid difference and I still have the 2720z

[Falkentyne]

Hey everyone, I'm in need of some advice. I'm looking for a 27" 1080P monitor with 120hz+. I'm not interested in the Yamakasi's, etc.

As of Monday this week, I narrowed my search to the Asus VG278HE or the Benq XL2720T. I haven't had a "light boost" enabled monitor in the past, so my plan is to use the LightBoost HOWTO page to eliminate the motion blur.

Then yesterday happened. I found out about the Benq XL2720Z. Naturally, I searched here and found this thread which talks a lot about the firmware bug.

I'm really trying to figure out what the best option is going to be.

Is the 2720Z's built in motion blur reduction better than equipping either the 278HE or 2720T with Blurbusters' solution?

IF I get the 2720Z, can I fix the firmware issue myself?

I see that Blurbusters is releasing a Strobe Utility. Is this used to fix the firmware issue? OR is this used to just fine tune the settings?

Thanks so much for any advice you guys can give me.

The VG278HE and XL2720T are from the same generation. I would avoid any of those as I think they are over 10 years old now?
Out of the choices you mentioned, the XL2720Z is the best of the bunch, plus there are overclocking tricks with ToastyX CRU and the S-switch trick to run at custom refresh rates up to 180-220hz (although I wouldn't go above 165hz as then the panel will switch to pure 6 bit color even if you use the lowest horizontal and vertical totals possible). Also you don't want to use Lightboost mode on the XL2720Z either (even if you had a 3d vision kit or inf workaround with an Nvidia card to unlock it, as Strobelight won't work)--there is no benefit at all on this compared to the 24" panels. (Lightboost on the XL2420Z and XL2411Z arguably looks better with less ghosting artifacts than Benq blur reduction does on it, but this is not the case with the XL2720). You absolutely should use the high vertical total trick with this monitor, as that reduces the strobing crosstalk to the same levels as lightboost mode does natively, but at odd refresh rates and timings, you will need to test carefully VT 1497-1502 range and look for monitor caused frame stutter, which can happen at non-native timings at specific vertical totals.

(For example, at a custom 85hz refresh rate at 1080p, I found the only VT that doesn't cause random frame stuttering (particularly when using the S-switch) was VT 1501. All others were unreliable. At 120hz, with reduced horizontal total (to keep the panel under 360 mhz pixel clock, so it doesn't switch to 6 bit color), the best vertical total is either 1498 or 1499, but I don't remember anymore. It's different depending on if you have an AMD or Nvidia video card though, but 359.94 mhz or lower maintains 8 bit (6 bit+FRC) color.


The Asus VG248QE has probably the best looking lightboost mode (least ghosting) of any of the lightboost monitors, but that monitor is ancient now.

A modern panel with no ghosting at all is the Alienware QD-OLED monitor, which, due to there being literally no excessive smearing, the only motion blur you have is from direct frame pixel persistence. Unfortunately there is no blur reduction mode on this monitor. A QD-OLED with strobing would completely take down the entire house.