Euxxy_Menidez88 wrote: ↑19 Aug 2022, 12:12
I made an account just to ask this since Mark seems to directly answer questions on here and I can't find any information about this online, so I would appreciate if anyone's able to offer me any insight. I'm not any sort of enthusiast and I don't frequent these forums or know too much about motion blur/ghosting or the technology behind it, but coming from simply a consumers perspective, and from someone who plays games somewhat competitively, I'm personally very sensitive to ghosting on monitors or any sort of distortion in image quality.
Since my old Benq 144hz TN panel broke I've been looking for a replacement for months now and through research, watching countless youtube reviews and my own testing, I've decided the XG2431 is the perfect monitor for what I'm looking for, an IPS panel unapologetically focused on performance.
But to keep a really long story short, I'm up to purchasing my 4th IPS panel now as I've already purchased 3 and returned all of them due to their ghosting and general "blur" with several issues I didn't even know existed coming from a TN panel. Such as their backlight strobing modes just looking embarrassingly bad, (yes I capped fps at the refresh rate), so bad that I don't know why they would add the feature to begin with when it very clearly shows doubles and triples of the image, and with strobing off just using the basic overdrive modes (AMA for Benq for example) when I would turn this setting above 1, the picture would not only distort but also pixelate, as in become little squares while scrolling on web pages/moving my camera in games. Very minor and perhaps most people won't notice/care, but surely this isn't normal? Testing the same settings on a 144hz Benq TN panel gave me mind-blowing results of motion clarity. So, from thinking the monitors must be broken/to trying different brands and returning all of them, I ended up here at the XG2431, which is actually similarly priced to the 165/144hz options I've been testing and the only IPS in the world that can apparently live up to the performance of a TN, but this will definitely be the last stop before I give up and go back to TN panels. I say the only IPS in the world, because I also understand that higher hertz does not guarantee good ghosting/motion clarity. 240hz feels "smooth" enough, and my priority now is motion clarity alone.
In saying that, the question I have about this monitor is, is this really the only IPS currently on the market that can reach this level of performance? And do you think the XG2431 will suffice for a very fussy TN user or will those problems I just mentioned persist in every IPS panel?
What about the new Elite series from Viewsonic?
This monitor for example -
https://www.viewsonic.com/global/products/lcd/XG250
The Viewsonic XG250, is that basically just a better version of the XG2431? Though that monitor is not being sold in Australia right now, is there any point for me not to wait for that monitor to be sold as a 24.5 inch variant with an overclockable extra 40hz?
I know it's not "blurbusters approved", but surely they've made that with the same tech/knowledge you collaborated them with? Would you say they're exactly the same, or is the 23.8 inch panel of the XG2431 still better at speed and clarity? I know Mark says that he's really just focused on perfecting "strobing" but if you look at tests done with strobing off versus even the Benq XL2546K, the clarity with strobing off is still superior to any IPS I've seen and on par with the TN.
Which is why I'm wondering if the XG250 will be a viable option, with the same performance? Because I really would prefer that extra inch and frames, why not, right? But of course not at the sacrifice of any performance.
Speaking of Blurbusters approved", do any other monitors exist with that approval, or just the XG2431? I saw some were coming from a year ago? But I don't see any.
I'll mainly be using the monitor in normal overdrive modes which it still seems to excel at over any other monitor, but I would like the option of strobing for when I need it.
Apologies if the questions are amateur and for the long write up, I just don't upgrade monitors until I have to once I make the right decision. I really appreciate you taking the time to read this and if you have any better suggestions I didn't mention here for what I'm looking for please feel free to advise me.