Which 24" 144hz monitor?

Tom B

Tom B

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I've read the reviews over at pcmonitors.info and I just can't decide which one. I want 24" instead of 27" for various reasons.

From the reviews, the AOC looks best for the colours on the surface but suffers from the most input lag and slight ghosting. The Asus looks best for speed but the colours and uniformity seem worse. Of coruse that's from one test sample of each monitor.

Does anyone have any experience with these monitors? They all sound like a compromise of colours for refresh rate, which is somewhat fine and I'm happy with a TN panel but from the reviews all the available 144mhz monitors sound worse than the high end 60hz monitors.

I'm replacing an old Samsung 226bw (With the better "S" panel type as I remember) and I always struggled to get the colours to look good on this without losing light greys to white. Generally speaking, is it possible to know if the colours are likely to be better or worse than on my ageing samsung?

edit: I also don't have an nVidia GPU so the extra features of the Asus are useless.
 
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I have one of those AOC 24" 144Hz screens, I rather like it and as one of the online reviews suggest the stand is indeed excellent.

Never seen anything wrong with the picture while playing games.

The colours are rather vibrant and a bit oo bright when "out of the box" but there are plenty of options to take this away.

P.S you need to use the Duallink DVI for the 144Hz.
 
Until the display port issue has been resolved i wouldnt bother as its limited to 60hz and if you ever decide to eyefinity your stuck at 60 hz and resale value will be lower with a faulty unit.
 
Sorry before I started replying your post didn't have the eyefinity comment on it so I thought you were saying you needed display port for 120hz. My bad.
 
atomic7431 said:
with amd you need a display port connection for eyefinity......
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If you read back what you typed then you say you are stuck at 60Hz until DP is fixed.

This is not correct as Dvi works fine.

Perhaps the OP is not interested in a multi monitor setup.
 
What atomic said could be interpreted either way. It depends if you decide DisplayPort was the subject or the monitor. I think it's one of those monitors you just need to try for yourself. I hate saying that, but it has the easiest image quality to get on with of the 144Hz models. It may not be the most responsive but you definitely know it's 144Hz and it feels worlds away from a 60Hz model.
 
Thanks PCM2! Your reviews are great by the way :)

As you've tried both, is is possible to get the colours on the Asus similar to/the same as the AOC with tinkering?

I need multi-source input, not necessarily DP, so this could potentially be solved with a DVI switch although a quick google suggest's that these are unreasonably expensive for something which could potentially be a very simple piece of hardware.
 
Tom B said:
Thanks PCM2! Your reviews are great by the way :)

As you've tried both, is is possible to get the colours on the Asus similar to/the same as the AOC with tinkering?

I need multi-source input, not necessarily DP, so this could potentially be solved with a DVI switch although a quick google suggest's that these are unreasonably expensive for something which could potentially be a very simple piece of hardware.
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Thanks. :)

They are polar opposites really. It's possible to get what will look, on the surface, to be broadly similar colours on the ASUS if you properly calibrate it with a hardware colorimeter. There are some ICC profiles you can try that you can download from my review. There are a few problems with this.

- Firstly every unit is different and the corrections applied by the ICC profile won't necessarily be optimal.

- Secondly, as pointed out in this article, ICC profiles were never really designed for games. Different games use their own colour systems using the 'Windows defaults' as a base. When you create an ICC profile it changes the base that the game works from. Some games will sort of mix this with their own corrections (or only apply partial corrections) and others will ignore it entirely. If you enforce the profile things can get really messy. In extreme cases (like on the VG248QE) this profile is not exactly doing what it should but may well make some games look 'better' than what you can achieve without the profile. So they're worth trying, but it's better not to have to rely on them.

- Thirdly, the corrections made by the ICC profile on a monitor like the ASUS are extreme. When you make such extreme corrections it eats away at contrast and shade range and can completely mess up the balance for some shades. See our observations on Lagom, for example, when using the ICC profile.

So I'm not a fan of having to use ICC profiles for games and only really recommend them as a last resort rather than something that can be relied upon. The AOC has a pretty decent image (much more so than the ASUS) after tweaking away in the OSD and that is the case regardless of application. It's a shame about the DisplayPort issue, it really is. I'm about to review one of BenQ's new models (XL2420Z) due out in March and will see how this compares with the old BenQ models in particular. The XL2420T/11T certainly comes closer to the AOC's colours without correction, by the way, and if the XL2420Z can build upon this then that's really good. It's due out in March in the UK though.
 
Thanks for the informative response! I think I'll wait for at least your review of the XL2420Z before making a decision. I was hoping to use the backlight flickering of my 226bw as an excuse to upgrade, but there is a cheap fix available. I'll probably do that if it finally breaks before your review is out :)
 
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