BenQ XL2420Z 24IN LED 144HZ 1MS GTG FPS Gaming Monitor HDMI DP DVI VGA HAS 3D Ready w/ Lightboost

Cons: none

Pros: You can tilt it, up and down side ways left and rightContrast is good

Cons: expensive

Pros: 3d vision capable, 144hz

Cons: - Regular price is way marked-up here. I had a PM at 393$ but then of course you have to add the big +12.25$ eco-fee bs, thank to Canada. It's been on sale though for 420$ which is decent but do not buy it above that.- Right now as of mid April 2014, all current XL2420Z should be shipping with firmware v2.0 unless NCIX didn't send back the current monitors they had in their warehouse as all of those that was written on the box (Manufacturer Date: January 2014) and even some February according to the 27" review from TFTCentral, still came with v1.0 from November 2013 and the firmware isn't flashable on your own! I've been the first and unlucky guy to buy one here or at least to review it and to fall on a 1.0 model. At least NCIX staff was super nice and BenQ is sending me a replacement for free but I still find it dumb that they took almost a week to ship me a new one then give me a pre-paid stamp to send them back from Quebec to Ontario my current monitor while I could have just drove 2x30min to their repair center in Montreal and have it flashed under 5 minutes but no, why do simple when we can waste more time, money etc?- I wish the panel would had been at least semi-glossy rather than average matte, for better colors in order to squeeze the most out of this ugly TN panel.- Oh ya default settings on the monitor is just horrible. That "FPS Mode" is pure garbage, put this back to standard, lower a lot the brightness and keep AMA to (High) as (Premium) offer 0% speed improvement but vastly increase the amount of overshoot so I seriously don't understand why it's there as a choice.

Pros: - The ergonomy of the monitor is the best I ever owned. You can make all kind of ajustement which is really nice even if mostly pointless as it's not even an IPS/MVA panel so why would you rotate it all around as you ain't gonna be editing photos on this, trust me! The stand is very sturdy and the bezel thank god isn't glossy! I'm so sick of glossy bezels that gets dusty and ugly within 1 houre of unboxing. They still added a lot of glossy behind the monitor, don't even ask me why. The touch buttons are the best I've used so far and since I also worked 6 months at CC and that I owned the monitor section, trust me I did unbox a sh*tload of them! It's the first time I see touch buttons that are easy to use and don't make me rage within 10 seconds like those on Asus monitors.- That's it for the ergonomy, as for the performance it is the main reason to buy it. First, trust me 144Hz is just marketing bs and you prolly ain't ever gonna use it unless you play cheap games like Counter-Strike only. Since the best motion clarity happens when the Hertz of the monitor matches exactly the frame rate of your game, it is best to set it at 100Hz because even with a SLI of overclocked 670 and a i7 4770K at 4.2Ghz, you definitely won't hold 100% of the time a cosntant 120fps at Battlefield 4 with everything maxed out in 1920x1080! Anyway with strobbing technology that simulate CRT monitors and Plasma tvs, you'll get MUCH better clarity even at 75Hz than non-strobbed 144Hz.- The rest of the monitor is 1ms GtG and have no input lag at all so paired with a 1000Hz mouse, you get the best gaming experience possible! You can even improve even further the (BenQ Motion Blur Reduction) aka strobbing, with the utility on BlurBusters.com though you'll need firmware v2.0 for that. The highly reputated owner of that website even said it that it was even superior to G-Sync's ULMB mode which is G-Sync way of strobbing the monitor.