Help Please choosing monitor

Which Monitor is better for gaming on WoW?

  • Samsung C570 S23C570H 23-Inch

    Votes: 4 80.0%
  • BenQ RL2455HM (24-Inch LED)

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Total voters
    5


I am getting everyone saying the Samsung. What is the biggest reason over the benq? benq is what most gamers on pro circuits use but maybe that is just because of sponsor?

Thank you all for the help
 


75% of the parts used on those circuits are due to manufacturer sponsorship, and it doesn't mean they are the best. Samsung uses better components and typically has better warranty support, in my experience. Make your own decision, though.
 


That sounds completely correct. I mean most of it is based on sponsorship. Just wanted to see where you thought the samsung was better based by color quality? I just don't see where it has better color over the benq. I am for the samsung because that is what I have had in the past I just want to make sure it does have better color

thank you all very much for your help

 


Can you help me figure out why the samsung is better in color range. Like where are the specs that show that?

Thank you
 
It's not about specs - it's about panel type. IPS panels are universally superior to TN panels in this regard. Like I explained in your previous thread about this it's like SSDs vs hard disks. There is no overlap point where the best TN will deliver more quality than the worst IPS. They are in separate leagues. And I wasn't actually talking about colour range (gamut) - you can infact get 6 bits/component (+FRC) IPS panels. They're usually called e-IPS. Preferable is true 8-bit (or higher).

But I'm talking more about colour shift and uniformity of colour across the panel with no loss of detail in dark areas. That's what I mean by colour quality. I'm getting the strong impression though that on some level you've decided you want the BenQ and are just looking for people to confirm/validate that decision. If it's the BenQ you really want then buy it, otherwise you'll regret your purchase.
 


Thank you very much for your reply. I bought both and they are here today from amazon. I am going to test them both out and return the one I don't want for free. I will let you know tomorrow which looks better on wow. I am guessing the samsung. I just like the have a clear saying on which is spec wise better and the way you put it really cleared that up.

Thank you
 
Glad to help 🙂 There are absolutely numbers you can put on this stuff to quantify, but get those numbers from professional reviews (not from the manufacturer). Even then, accurately measured numbers are still no substitute for seeing it in person. My black levels are really important to me and I bought a monitor which has excellent measured black levels. In person though they were nowhere near as low as the numbers would suggest at the minimum brightness possible before loss of colour vibrancy.

Buying both is an excellent idea anyway - I've done that myself before when I was unsure. I avoid using the term "viewing angle" when talking about this stuff because people instantly say "oh it doesn't matter because I sit infront of the screen and nobody else needs to see". But vertical viewing angle is what I mean when I talk about colour shift.

Sitting infront of a TN panel, there is no eye level at which all colour on screen is consistent and correct. As you move your eye level lower and closer to the base of the screen, you'll see colour at the bottom becomes much stronger and more vibrant, while colours towards the top of the screen become faded and washed out. BUT you'll also see (if there's dark areas at the top of your wallpaper with dark details in) that that detail really comes out and becomes far more visible as the colour fades.

Moving your eye level to the top you'll see the opposite - the bottom of the screen becomes too dark and detail in dark areas disappears both at the bottom of the picture and at the top (where detail was exposed previously). Either slouching down or straightening up you'll see significant colour shift in the picture. Obviously in practice you're not gonna moving your head up and down constantly - eye level will be 1/4 from the top or 2/3 or whatever. But wherever your eye level is:

- colour above eye level will not be consistent with colour below
- colour above eye level will lack vibrancy relative to lower down
- color below eye level will be stronger and more vibrant but dark area details are compressed into black

When reviews talk about grey/black compression by the way, this is what they mean (except possibly when a PVA panel is being reviewed since they suffer from a different though similar flaw at the centre of the screen).