Second HP Omen X 25f
Posted: 01 Nov 2019, 11:51
After the first X 25f (which had serious problems (that I know now)) I bought a second one and this exemplar is nearly perfect (for me).
No dead pixels, I like the uniformity, the contrast, the blacks and greys, the colours, almost no backlight bleeding, minor clouding (only visable in a dark room), good overdrive/overshoot ratio at level 3 shows very little motion blur in game or when scrolling on webpages, for now I use the colour settings and icc-profile from rtings as a baseline for further calibration (if needed).
In game (cs:go) movement is smooth and fast almost without any blur, no tearing or stutters and the screen is responsive with a good connected feel on the mouse.
Comparing with the few monitors I used before the Hanns.G hs233 120hz, Viewsonic XG2402 144hz, LG 24gl600 144hz, the X 25f is on allmost all aspects a step forward, I'm very happy with this monitor.
It's a 240hz TN gaming monitor which also can used for daily tasks like webbrowsing, office use, movies, photo editing of course with all respects being a TN panel but very acceptable,
I don't like two screens on my desk or connected to my computer so that is a big pro for me.
Considering the large possibility of (quality) differences in all properties (more or less) between the panels I assume every panel is unique same for all us humans (having a unique physical body and mind, perception, experience, etc.) so those are mine unique experiences with this monitor.
The attractive sales price at the moment (I think it's a bargain) was the trigger to try a second X 25f (I was not intended to do so), some people have to buy 3 or 4 times a monitor before getting luck in the panel lottery and that scared me a bit off but at the end I'm glad I did so.
I liked this monitor from the start despite the problems the first one had I could feel the underlaying performance from this monitor and the second one is almost perfect for me now, with that said I don't know how this monitor performs in other more demanding games at lower framerates/refreshrates with adaptive sync enabled, there is a discussion about that, no problem with games like cs:go, overwatch and a few others titles but if you play also more demanding fps games I would take note the above.
Which panel is used in this monitor is still a mystery, according rtings; "they assume it's the new AUO M250HTN01 panel" but there is no confirmation about that.
No dead pixels, I like the uniformity, the contrast, the blacks and greys, the colours, almost no backlight bleeding, minor clouding (only visable in a dark room), good overdrive/overshoot ratio at level 3 shows very little motion blur in game or when scrolling on webpages, for now I use the colour settings and icc-profile from rtings as a baseline for further calibration (if needed).
In game (cs:go) movement is smooth and fast almost without any blur, no tearing or stutters and the screen is responsive with a good connected feel on the mouse.
Comparing with the few monitors I used before the Hanns.G hs233 120hz, Viewsonic XG2402 144hz, LG 24gl600 144hz, the X 25f is on allmost all aspects a step forward, I'm very happy with this monitor.
It's a 240hz TN gaming monitor which also can used for daily tasks like webbrowsing, office use, movies, photo editing of course with all respects being a TN panel but very acceptable,
I don't like two screens on my desk or connected to my computer so that is a big pro for me.
Considering the large possibility of (quality) differences in all properties (more or less) between the panels I assume every panel is unique same for all us humans (having a unique physical body and mind, perception, experience, etc.) so those are mine unique experiences with this monitor.
The attractive sales price at the moment (I think it's a bargain) was the trigger to try a second X 25f (I was not intended to do so), some people have to buy 3 or 4 times a monitor before getting luck in the panel lottery and that scared me a bit off but at the end I'm glad I did so.
I liked this monitor from the start despite the problems the first one had I could feel the underlaying performance from this monitor and the second one is almost perfect for me now, with that said I don't know how this monitor performs in other more demanding games at lower framerates/refreshrates with adaptive sync enabled, there is a discussion about that, no problem with games like cs:go, overwatch and a few others titles but if you play also more demanding fps games I would take note the above.
Which panel is used in this monitor is still a mystery, according rtings; "they assume it's the new AUO M250HTN01 panel" but there is no confirmation about that.