Depends on what variables you measure.Haste wrote:Given the info I gathered thanks to this site. I would have imagined that in terms of motion performances the order would rather go like this:
Clarity? Colors? Brightness?
When I play Bioshock Infinite -- guess which monitor I use?
I move my other monitor to the other table, and push the my ASUS GSYNC monitor to the side, and put the Eizo FG2421 in its place. Although it uses a medium-persistence strobe with a very minor (annoying) double-strobe, the deliciously saturated 5000:1 color out-saturates LightBoosts' 500:1 contrast ratio by an order of magnitude more colorfulness, darker blacks, with a brighter image of >200cd/m2 during strobe-mode. I find solo games, 120fps@120Hz massively more enjoyable. Yes, the FG2421 would be EVEN better if the dumb double-strobe wasn't there, and I could adjust the persistence of the main strobe. But at the end of the day, the combination of brightness+colorfulness+contrast+strobing wins out. I have to send the FG2421 back soon (it's a loaner), but I will likely be personally buying it, at least as a strobed VA example to compare against.
Now, if you want low persistence and low input lag, the FG2421 gets moved to the side, and I'm putting my ASUS GSYNC monitor or another monitor such as BENQ XL2720Z back into its place. If I adjust the XL2720Z to 1-millisecond persistence, it is literally 5 times dimmer than the FG2421, square inch per square inch. But if set to equal persistence (~2ms-ish), it's still dimmer than a FG2421 Turbo240 at maximum brightness.
And the strobe crosstalk (double-image effect issue) on the XL2720Z(fixed version) / ULMB / LightBoost is surprisingly actually not significantly worse from the strobe crosstalk of a warmed-up (45+ minutes) EIZO FG2421, since the VA pixels start responding much faster on a hot panel. (Hint to future 120Hz VA monitor manufacturers: add a 10 watt heater coil behind the panel -- yes I know monitor manufacturers read Blur Busters Forums nowadays. Some of them even registered, too (e.g. ASUSTECHMKT)....) The EIZO FG2421 has more lag, but surprisngly small difference in strobe crosstalk for top/bottom edge, something I can't say for LightBoost/ULMB/BENQ (even firmware-fixed) which actually sort of compensates for the minor double-strobe effect, which creates only a much fainter double-image effect that's only 1/2 the separation (due to 1/240sec offset of strobe). I wish that double strobe wasn't there, but at the end of the day, the Eizo FG2421 has become my favourite solo gaming monitor, as the motion clarity is the most CRT-like in overall appearance (colors+brightness+strobe), if you can tolerate other panel quirks (e.g. VA gamma uniformity issues during dark colors, slightly more lag than others). There's no perfect panel, so you have to choose what you are the most sensitive to (e.g. colors vs clarity, etc).
Definitely. The BENQ controversy has distracted me quite a bit, and the sudden arrival of GSYNC in December did delay things. But I've got the long-overdue EIZO FG2421 review 75% complete now (finally!). It will be even better had I released the BENQ XL2720Z review too, but that's still on hold until the newer-firmware is in ambundance.Haste wrote:(subtle hint to Mark for a new article )