De-bezel BenQ XL2420t

dobertron · 9 Aug 2012 at 20:36

Interested in buying a few XL2420t's for an upcoming nvidia surround build, only thing that puts me off them is that the bezels seem pretty big. There's plenty of guides around for debezeling monitors, but I can't find any mention of anyone removing the bezel from these.

Has anyone been brave enough to remove the bezel from their XL2420t, or seen somebody who has?

ItzMar · 9 Aug 2012 at 22:44

I would also love to find out about this.

crinkleshoes · 10 Aug 2012 at 11:20

The bezels are not big :confused:

You can even tuck the side monitors behind the primary center monitor to hide their bezels... so you effectively have only the 1 bezel between each monitor.

I'd still like to de-bezel, but these bezels most certainly are not big - perhaps you haven't been using computers for very long?

StonedPenguin · 10 Aug 2012 at 11:23

I agree the bezels on the 20T are not big, I'm considering buying 2 more of these. Whats it like for surround in bf3 crinkle? (When non haxing

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crinkleshoes · 10 Aug 2012 at 11:33

Love it - just aching to get back up to 120Hz!

With only a single GTX670 - don't expect any more than ~40-45FPS on low settings with no antialiasing

I get 80-90FPS

dobertron · 10 Aug 2012 at 15:33

crinkleshoes said:
The bezels are not big

Yeah okay, they're not big.
It's just that any bezel at all will be doubled between the monitors, and I want to get the screens as close to each other as I could.

crinkleshoes said:
You can even tuck the side monitors behind the primary center monitor to hide their bezels

Well yes, of course you can, I'm just curious to see if anyone has had any luck removing the bezels. That's why I asked.

crinkleshoes said:
perhaps you haven't been using computers for very long?

what's that got to do with anything? I was only asking if anyone had tried to remove the bezels. Sorry if you thought it was a silly question.

crinkleshoes · 10 Aug 2012 at 16:39

dobertron said:
Yeah okay, they're not big.
It's just that any bezel at all will be doubled between the monitors, and I want to get the screens as close to each other as I could.

Well yes, of course you can, I'm just curious to see if anyone has had any luck removing the bezels. That's why I asked.

I'd be interested too... I'd like to get rid of mine... they're not as intrusive as other bezels i've had in the past, but they're most certainly noticeable - edge-to-edge monitors would be awesome!

what's that got to do with anything? I was only asking if anyone had tried to remove the bezels. Sorry if you thought it was a silly question.

Sorry, it was a reference to you calling the bezels large... compared to TFTs of the past ~10 years, they're actually quite thin... that's why I assumed one possibility was you hadn't been in "the game" very long

Not meaning offense, just a curiosity. I have a "good" habit of phrasing things in ways that offend without intending to

Rusty0611 · 10 Aug 2012 at 16:48

StonedPenguin said:
I agree the bezels on the 20T are not big, I'm considering buying 2 more of these. Whats it like for surround in bf3 crinkle? (When non haxing )

Very good if you let the periphery screens settle into the corner of your eye.

If you place centre screen in front of two periphery screens then bezel isn't too bad.

It's not the thinnest in the world though.

fantasticCG · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:54

crinkleshoes said:
The bezels are not big

You can even tuck the side monitors behind the primary center monitor to hide their bezels... so you effectively have only the 1 bezel between each monitor.

I'd still like to de-bezel, but these bezels most certainly are not big - perhaps you haven't been using computers for very long?

Just out of interest what case do you have to house the 690

crinkleshoes · 11 Aug 2012 at 00:03

Xigmatec Elysium

The 690 is barely any bigger than a gtx580

dobertron · 11 Aug 2012 at 18:30

crinkleshoes said:
Not meaning offense...

Ah, sorry - maybe I did take offense a bit easily. Apologies, and no hard feelings.

You mentioned that you "couldn't wait to get back to 120Hz", I was hoping to get 120hz accross three screens with the gtx690, I take it that's not going to happen?
Do you have any idea what kind of a setup it would take to run surround at 120hz?

Rusty0611 · 11 Aug 2012 at 18:51

dobertron said:
Ah, sorry - maybe I did take offense a bit easily. Apologies, and no hard feelings.

You mentioned that you "couldn't wait to get back to 120Hz", I was hoping to get 120hz accross three screens with the gtx690, I take it that's not going to happen?
Do you have any idea what kind of a setup it would take to run surround at 120hz?

You can run at 120 Hz easily enough. All you really need is a DVI-D cable with the monitor into a supported graphics card. So for a 690 you'd have two connected via DVI-D and the third by Displayport (about £3 for the cable)

But what he means (I think) is running at 120 FPS or near to it to be at the maximum smoothness. To be fair, 60 FPS on a 120 Hz screen is smoother than 60 FPS on a 60 Hz screen.

680 SLI which is fair amount (not massive) faster than a 690 when overclocked to 1280 like I am currently am cannot run MSAA at more than 2x to get decent FPS across 3 screens.

crinkleshoes · 11 Aug 2012 at 19:17

You'll need at least 3x GTX680 to manage 120fps across all three screens on low settings.

4x GTX680 or 2x GTX690 for anything more than low...