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Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 06 May 2022, 18:04
by paradox404
Hi guys, got a durty cheap xl2546 the other day and it has 20k on "monitor on time" and 7k on "backlight on time" according to the service menu. So my question is how many hours the display has been working for, is it 20k or its 7k? Here is a pic of the menu -

Re: Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 06 May 2022, 18:10
by Chief Blur Buster
About ~20K hours plugged in and powered (but not necessarily awake)
About ~13K hours in a sleep mode (i.e. automatic-shutoff Windows screensaver)
About ~7K hours displaying something
Re: Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 06 May 2022, 18:16
by paradox404
That's what I thought as well. Thanks for the post.
Re: Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 07 May 2022, 11:13
by Ziehesh
What the settings u use in fps games on this monitor?
Re: Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 07 May 2022, 15:28
by Chief Blur Buster
Ziehesh wrote: ā07 May 2022, 11:13
What the settings u use in fps games on this monitor?
Most just use 240Hz VSYNC OFF.
However, further improvements depends on if you need to use DyAc or not, and whether you decide to use the refresh rate headroom tricks (e.g. 182Hz) to reduce strobe crosstalk. Strobing does look even better at framerate=Hz, and crosstalk can go down (while GPU requirements become easier) when refresh rate is slightly reduced to improve the quality of DyAc. Not everybody uses that trick, but it is one of the many tricks possible.
Re: Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 07 May 2022, 16:01
by Ziehesh
Chief Blur Buster wrote: ā07 May 2022, 15:28
Ziehesh wrote: ā07 May 2022, 11:13
What the settings u use in fps games on this monitor?
Most just use 240Hz VSYNC OFF.
However, further improvements depends on if you need to use DyAc or not, and whether you decide to use the refresh rate headroom tricks (e.g. 182Hz) to reduce strobe crosstalk. Strobing does look even better at framerate=Hz, and crosstalk can go down (while GPU requirements become easier) when refresh rate is slightly reduced to improve the quality of DyAc. Not everybody uses that trick, but it is one of the many tricks possible.
color settings with dyac 240 hz
i play pubg and cant find best color settings for me to visible enemies
Re: Zowie xl2546 work hours
Posted: 13 Sep 2024, 10:56
by robto
Hi, how did u check the work hours on the zowie xl2546