Is lightboost possible with a triple Benq XL2720T setup

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Billy Pilgrim
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Is lightboost possible with a triple Benq XL2720T setup

Post by Billy Pilgrim » 08 Apr 2014, 09:14

Hi
Great website!

I've got a triple monitor setup with three Benq XL2720T monitors, with two nVidia GTX 780 GPUs.

I've been reading through this site and I saw this page here http://www.blurbusters.com/zero-motion- ... dware-mod/ with info for how to do a hardware mod to enable lightboost permanently for three monitors.

Isn't there any other solution than that? There's no way I'm going to make permanent changes, nor am I going to start pulling my monitors apart to modify the interior (scared of messing something up).

Any other solution possible for me to enable lightboost on my triple-monitor setup?

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Re: Is lightboost possible with a triple Benq XL2720T setup

Post by Chief Blur Buster » 08 Apr 2014, 22:14

Billy Pilgrim wrote:Hi
Great website!
Thanks for the compliment!
Billy Pilgrim wrote:I've got a triple monitor setup with three Benq XL2720T monitors, with two nVidia GTX 780 GPUs.
Triple monitor setups have been difficult to enable LightBoost on lately.
Before a certain NVIDIA driver version, it was easy enough to do with ToastyX Strobelight.
After a certain driver version, it became almost impossible without the hardware mod.

Have you ever considered replacing your XL2720T's with XL2720Z with Version 2 firmware? Sell your XL2720Ts on eBay, buy XL2720Z Version 2. It has BENQ Blur Reduction that is superior to LightBoost (brighter, no gamma bleaching, no crimson/blue tinting) when combined with Blur Busters Strobe Utility, and works on all graphics cards, and even on other video sources (game consoles, HDTV settop boxes) rather than being vendor-limited to NVIDIA and single-monitor mode.

Before doing so, I did hear from at least one person who successfully re-enabled LightBoost without a hardware mod, with newer drivers, albiet with some difficulty. This was posted in one of the forum threads.
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