BenQ XL2730Z Freesync Owners Thread

Scramz · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:29

I cant believe how good this is with Freesync! Made the monitor from great to unreal.

Raviolay · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:30

I think it is settled I will be putting my Eizo Foris "240"hz on gumtree to off set for one of these bad boys. Since you can unlink a Amazon account for finance.

Astatine · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:19

It's lovely, but the 40Hz cutoff is very stark. I play lots of GW2 and the game runs at 50-60 fps in busy cities, 100ish out in the wilderness, but can drop as low as 25 in a world boss zerg and going too low for FreeSync is terribly noticeable:

- 100fps: butter smooth
- 70fps: still butter smooth
- 45fps: butter with a few toast crumbs in
- 35fps: suddenly CRUNCH!

But 45fps on this screen feels like the 60fps max on my old one, so I can hardly complain, right?

rare · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:20

Guys what do you make of the ghosting? It looks quite bad in the pcper review, that's the only thing holding me back at the moment.

Ayahuasca · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:43

We need to find out what settings were used on the monitor for their review.

Astatine · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:57

I haven't noticed any ghosting. Of course, it might be one of those can't-unsee-it-once-you've-seen-it things...

Ayahuasca · 22 Mar 2015 at 18:56

Well I've managed to get freesync working on my 295x2 by shutting off the 2nd core with a profile.

Freesync is nice for what it does, the image was butter smooth but coming from using the screen with blur reduction enabled ghosting became really apparent.

I'm starting to wish I'd just sent this back when I got it now, every review of the screen has showed ghosting with freesync on and after reading into it, it seems freesync doesn't compensate for ghosting like gsync does and this is why although the Swift and BenQ use the exact same panel, one shows ghosting and the other doesn't.

Skel Nonch · 22 Mar 2015 at 19:52

No ghosting here either. I noticed things smoother with AMA off though.

easyrider · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:19

I cant find hardly any reviews for this monitor which I find odd.

shankly1985 · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:28

easyrider said:
I cant find hardly any reviews for this monitor which I find odd.

Reviews should be this week, Most waiting for the AMD driver reason for Delay.

Phixsator · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:31

So are you peeps enjoying your BenQ monitor? According to PCPer.com its a ghosting mess due to freesync but then again who are trusting them these days. Please comment with your own experiences im curious.

shankly1985 · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:35

Phixsator said:
So are you peeps enjoying your BenQ monitor? According to PCPer.com its a ghosting mess due to freesync but then again who are trusting them these days. Please comment with your own experiences im curious.

Its nothing to do with Freesync mate! They is some Ghosting on Stock preset config. But once you tweak the settings I have zero ghosting so far..

The Ghosting at first was with or without FreeSync!

My Setting
Game Settings
Blur Reduction - Off
Black EQ - Off
Colour Vib - 10
Low Blue Light - Off
Instant Mode - On

Picture Settings
Mode - Standard
Brightness - 100%
Contrast - 40%
Sharpness - 5%
Gamma 5
Color Temp - Normal
AMA - High
Dynamic Contrast - Off

So far am loving it, Right away you can notice the difference is games feel and motion fluid..

Phixsator · 22 Mar 2015 at 20:54

shankly1985 said:
Its nothing to do with Freesync mate! They is some Ghosting on Stock preset config. But once you tweak the settings I have zero ghosting so far..

The Ghosting at first was with or without FreeSync!

My Setting
Game Settings
Blur Reduction - Off
Black EQ - Off
Colour Vib - 10
Low Blue Light - Off
Instant Mode - On

Picture Settings
Mode - Standard
Brightness - 100%
Contrast - 40%
Sharpness - 5%
Gamma 5
Color Temp - Normal
AMA - High
Dynamic Contrast - Off

So far am loving it, Right away you can notice the difference is games feel and motion fluid..

I know it has nothing to do with Freesync cause Gsync certified screens also have it including the SWIFT before calibration. I was taking a stab at PCPer.. they get more and more on my nerves, well Ryan and Allyn does..actually like the Walrath dude.

Chipper500 · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:06

Do we know when TFT will be doing their review?

They are loving the Acer equivalent

Baddass · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:10

Chipper500 said:
Do we know when TFT will be doing their review?

They are loving the Acer equivalent

Won't be for a few weeks. We've got it with us already but I'm actually on holiday now so it's on hold until I'm back.

Chipper500 · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:22

Baddass said:
Won't be for a few weeks. We've got it with us already but I'm actually on holiday now so it's on hold until I'm back.

Thanks Baddass

Been waiting for a solid review on this before pulling the trigger

Any chance u can cut that holiday short a few days? :cool:

Just joking!

darkjk · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:27

iv not seen any ghosting and all i can say is the monitor is just amazing, runs realy well on my Amd 290, iv not seen any weirdness

easyrider · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:33

Do you think the one ghosting is faulty ?

Ayahuasca · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:50

The monitor definitely has ghosting, the guy who works for pcper did the test with the AMA setting off, high and premium and said it was still there on all 3. Looks like AMA is either not working or the panel BenQ picked is bad and has been confirmed to be different to the one in the swift. The video was done with it set to high anyway which is default and is usually the best setting for BenQ screens.

Just tried it here. AMA options are off, high, and premium. Default is high. Changed between all three settings with the FreeSync windmill demo running and saw no change in ghosting at all (it still does it).

Even the 60hz IPS LG with freesync showed better results :/

easyrider · 22 Mar 2015 at 21:54

You sending it back ?