In recent years, with the development of e-sports industry, it not only promotes the revival of game peripherals such as mechanical keyboards, but also promotes the great upgrade of computer hardware. Sales of various CPU, SSD, memory and other hardware increased greatly. At the same time, with the fire of "eat chicken" game, more and more high refresh rate monitors needed by FPS games have been mentioned by everyone, and many manufacturers have begun to greatly improve the performance of monitors.
As far as the current display market is concerned, 24? Yourself 7? What happened to the wine? According to the analysis, you can click here to learn), although 1080P is still the mainstream at present, 2K resolution is bound to come, so we chose these five high-end esports monitors with 2K resolution for this display evaluation. They are all high-end monitors. How do different brands perform?
As a high-end e-sports display, the appearance is also a very important part. In fact, a large part of such a high price is paying for the appearance and brand premium. Next, let's look at it one by one. Due to space reasons, we spliced the pictures. Friends who want to see high-definition big pictures can click to see them.
(Base, earphone holder)
(OSD button, interface)
(back design highlights)
The biggest feature of HP's appearance is the thin metal base and diamond+chamfer design, which echoes the square of its own shadow elf LOGO. There is an LED light at the bottom of the front of the display screen, which can realize multi-color lighting through the OSD button on the screen. The LOGO hit on the base causes reflection, which is very eye-catching.
Moreover, the top of the all-metal bracket on the back is also designed with a simple earphone bracket, which is the only player in the audience who designed this way and deserves extra points. There are also highlights in the back design. Most of the plastic cover plates are arranged in a dense triangle, and the left and right sides are decorated with highlighted LOGO.
The bracket can only tilt and lift, and the OSD button is designed on the back of the screen, which is not easy to control; There are 1 DP, 1 HDMI, 2 USB and 1 uplink USB interfaces, and the variety and quantity are complete.
(base, bracket)
(OSD button, interface)
Dell's monitor is very similar to the mold of its own design in appearance, which is the old model we are very familiar with. Dell doesn't seem to plan to spend too much time in the field of e-sports display, but the bracket is fully functional: tilting, two-way rotation and lifting.
The OSD button is placed at the bottom of the screen, but the control simplicity is ok; In terms of interfaces, there are 1 DP, 1 HDMI, four USB interfaces, and 1 uplink USB interface, two of which are arranged on the side for easy use. The audio interface is missing.
(base, bracket)
(OSD button, interface)
Macro? The most striking thing about this monitor is undoubtedly the base, which is red and black, angular and very e-sports.
There are also red elements on the back shaft. The back of our monitor is the signature of the e-sports player, which is generally not sold, and the bracket is fully functional. The OSD button is set on the front, which is not as integrated as the machine on the back, but the maneuverability is improved a lot. It's up to you to choose good-looking or good-handling.
There are 1 DP, 1 HDMI, 4 USB, 1 USB uplink interfaces. There is no audio interface, just two USB interfaces on the side of the screen for easy use.
(base, bracket)
(OSD joystick, interface)
Asustek's ROG "defeated country" is the most religious of the five monitors, but it's a pity that such a high-end positioning is not made of metal, but ASUS's plastic surface treatment process is exquisite, and a red circle on the base can also be lit, which can be added as HP.
The function of the bracket is tilting, unidirectional rotation and lifting; Although the OSD button is set on the back, it has a rocker, so it has good maneuverability. There are 1 DP, 1 HDMI, 2 USB interfaces, and 1 uplink USB interface. The interface is complete, but it's all on the back, so it's not easy to plug in.
(Base, support handle)
(OSD button, earphone holder)
BenQ, the biggest feature of this monitor is the bracket. There is also a handle on the metal bracket, which is really convenient for Bian Xiao to lift these days. There are also red scales, which are very eye-catching, but you have to spit.
The base is specially placed, and the handling is undoubtedly the best in the audience. Plus the red circle of the bracket, it is also very e-sports. In addition, you don't want to use an independent controller, but also have a front OSD button, which is also very handy. There is also a pop-up earphone bracket, which is designed with great care.
The bracket has the functions of tilting, unidirectional rotation and lifting. The interface is 1 DP, 2 HDMI, 1 DVI, 2 USB, 1 uplink USB interface, which is the most complete, and the USB interfaces on both sides are also very convenient to use.
The importance of appearance value for e-sports displays, especially high-end products, is self-evident. Separately, the cardinal numbers are HP and Acer? The best, the bracket is the best from HP and BenQ, ASUS is generally quite satisfactory, and Dell has the least feeling about e-sports. It is worth mentioning that only Acer is among the five players. Asus is equipped with two speakers, and the other three players are not, which is worth voicing. Based on the six scores in the comprehensive table, we deliberately put out the scores of each event and rationally and objectively tell us that the ranking is like this. Maybe you will give some parts more weight in the above scoring system. Of course, our grading system is just to provide you with a reference. , macro? Because there is no short board, it is undoubtedly the first; BenQ's missing angle ranks second; Dell ranks third because of its full-featured stand and easy-to-use interface; Hewlett-Packard ranks fourth because the base can't rotate and there are no speakers. Asus also ranks fourth because of the small number of plastic base brackets and interfaces, which are not easy to insert.
In terms of e-sports performance, the display size will have a great impact on the e-sports performance of the display, and refresh rate, response time and synchronization technology are the core keys of e-sports performance.
Because all the monitors with 2K resolution are selected this time, everyone's scores in resolution are the same, with slight changes in refresh rate, response time and synchronization technology.
In terms of refresh rate, it is generally 144Hz. Only HP Shadow Wizard Omen27 and ASUS ROG player country PG278QR adopted a higher refresh rate of 165Hz. Although the higher the refresh rate, the less likely the afterimage will appear, and the smoother the picture will be. However, since it is above 100Hz, in fact, many 2 165Hz monitors have not been greatly improved in actual use, and ordinary people do not feel such improvement, but it still reflects the high game performance of the monitors, so here we still give two 165Hz monitors a slightly higher level.
In response time, as a high-end e-sports display, in addition to macro? Predator XB27 1HU adopts IPS panel, and the corresponding time of the other four monitors with TN panel has reached the limit of 1ms at present, at the cost that the display effect of TN panel will be slightly weaker than that of IPS panel, but the gap between 1ms and 4ms is actually very small in experience. We will elaborate on this issue in the next screen quality link.
As for synchronization technology, there are currently two display synchronization technologies (aside from vertical synchronization), one is NVIDIA's G-Sync, and the other is AMD's Free-Sync. The function of synchronization technology is to coordinate the consistency between the display screen of the monitor and the output screen of the graphics card, and reduce the appearance of "tearing feeling" and "stuck feeling" of the display screen. At present, G-Sync has a better adjustment effect than Free-Sync because it has both software and hardware blessing.
According to the above analysis, we give the above scores to the display performance. HP Shadow Wizard Omen27 and ASUS ROG Player Country PG278QR got a high score of 30 points because of the refresh rate 165Hz and the response delay 1ms, while Dell S27 16DG got a slightly lower refresh rate of 0.5 points because of 144Hz. Predator XB27 1HU got a response time of 4ms and a score of 28.5 because of using IPS panel, while BenQ's ZOWIEGEARXL2730 got a score of 28 because its Free-Sync was slightly weaker than G-Sync and its refresh rate was 144Hz.
In fact, among the three core performance influencing factors, the difference of refresh rate and response time will not have much experience difference, but the synchronization technology will have great experience difference, so in this round, due to the difference of refresh rate and synchronization technology, HP and ASUS got the highest score in this major, while BenQ got the lowest score in this major because he didn't adopt G-sync. Although the data looks slightly different, the overall experience is not much different.
If the sewer tests the conscience of the city, what I want to say is that the screen quality tests the conscience of e-sports display manufacturers. Due to the natural characteristics of the panel and the difference in the arrangement of liquid crystal molecules in IPS and TN panels, it is more difficult for IPS screens to achieve high refresh rate and low delay. Therefore, most of the e-sports screens on the market are TN screens, and TN screens have been criticized for their screen quality, so it is very necessary to test the screen quality in this chapter.
At this point, of course, we still have to invite the familiar Starscream 5 professional colorimeter to appear. Next, we will judge from five aspects: color gamut, tone response, brightness contrast, uniformity and color accuracy to see whose screen is the most "beautiful". Of course, the first thing to note is that for the e-sports screen, we can't excessively demand the screen quality.
Test environment:
For e-sports screen, we can get 100% sRGB color gamut, while AdobeRGB can get 78%, which is a very good level.
On the color gamut of the monitors, all monitors are relatively good, close to 100%sRGB. The five monitors are only slightly different and belong to the same level. Besides using IPS panel macros? Except for the Predator, which has the best performance, the other four models are equally matched.
In the hue reaction, the closer the actual luminosity is to the standard value of 2.2, the better.
In terms of tone response, except for BenQ's gamma value, the other four models performed very well. The gamma value affected the dark details of the display screen, and it still had an impact on the dark scenes of the game. We hereby declare that in the early stage, we thought that the test error caused the BenQ test value to deviate too much. Then we re-tested the monitor in BenQ twice and tested other machines, and found that the test results were still consistent. Therefore, it was determined that the gamma value of this monitor in BenQ was indeed high, so BenQ scored the lowest in this item.
The test process of color uniformity is to divide the screen into 9 equal parts, and measure the area of 9 small blocks with a red spider colorimeter to show the uniformity of color display of each small block. The darker the red color in the picture, the worse the uniformity. Similarly, the darker the gray of the lower brightness uniformity part, the worse the uniformity.
In terms of color uniformity and brightness uniformity, Dell and BenQ stand out, and the color and brightness display are very uniform; Generally speaking, the uniformity performance of the five monitors is in the excellent range, and the maximum color uniformity of ASUS E is 8.6, which is slightly worse. While HP is around 6, BenQ and Dell are around 3, which is excellent.
It is also easy to understand that the color gamut indicates how many colors are displayed on this screen, and the color scale indicates whether the color display is accurate or not.
(From left to right: HP, Dell, Acer? , ASUS, BenQ)
In terms of color scale detection, Dell's excellent color scale control has achieved the best color accuracy, with an average E of 0.89, while HP and BenQ's color accuracy is slightly worse, with an average E higher than 3 and close to 4. And ASUS 1 2 are also excellent.
Because of macro? Because IPS screen has the best viewing angle, the other four TN screens are not so good. Based on the above points, we rated the screen quality of five monitors on one screen. No accident, macro? Because of the highest comprehensive attribute of screen panel quality, BenQ displays scored the highest in this major, while BenQ displays scored the lowest in this major because the gamma value exceeded the chart.
I finished the screen quality on the previous page, and then I will look at the real sample of the monitor. Because most e-sports screens on the market use TN screens, even if the color goes up, the viewing angle is mostly not as good as IPS screens. This phenomenon also appears in the five players evaluated today, and of course there are VA screens with performance and screen quality in between. In the color part, we use three samples of "color, night scene and portrait" to get a glimpse of these five pictures. The quantity is not much, but it can also effectively see the color difference of each family.
In the daytime color proofs, the differences of color adjustment of each monitor can be most intuitively reflected. This group mainly looks at the color adjustment of each monitor. First of all, the overall impression is good, and there is only a slight gap between the families. If you look closely, you can see that there is a slight color cast. HP and BenQ are red, ASUS is white, and Dell and Acer are? Reduction is more accurate; , just formed the RGB primary colors, you can see that Dell is the most natural, macro? High color saturation and contrast, HP and BenQ are red. Finally, I want to explain once again that there is not a big gap in color reproduction, and the conclusion of "color cast" we give is only a slight color cast visible to the naked eye.
In the night scene sample, test the expressive force of the light and dark parts of the display. Let's look at this group. At first glance, except for the other four, the bright parts of BenQ are brilliant enough, and the dark buildings are layered, without darkness, which is not bad on the whole. Next, let's find fault. BenQ has outstanding style in night scene performance, with the highest brightness and tolerance, but the lowest contrast, and has a tendency of night vision; Again, HP's golden yellow is the most eye-catching and macroscopic? On the contrary, there was silence; Dell and ASUS are quite similar, but they are also slightly pale and "golden" is not strong enough. The above conclusions are also carried out under the premise of being very critical. Generally speaking, except for the radical adjustment of BenQ, the night performances of the other four companies are only slightly different.
Because we are much more sensitive to the color perception of human face than other objects, portrait proofing tests the ultimate adjustment ability of each display. It's the same as taking a selfie. It is not pleasing to the eye to accurately restore the face shape, but it is even more pleasing to modify it a little. In this sample, the color of skin and lips is the easiest to see the difference. HP's lips are redder, ASUS's face is greener, and BenQ directly changed his mouth red number, and his face is slightly redder. Dell and Acer? The most accurate; Look at the green leaves on the right. Generally slightly green, ASUS and BenQ are colder than the other three.
Some netizens may say that my esports monitor is mainly used for playing games instead of looking at pictures. Bian Xiao, are you really picky? But I want to say, after all, all five models are high-end monitors that sell for 4500 yuan. The performance has gone up, and the screen quality can't be lost, right? Besides, people who buy e-sports monitors don't play FPS, a game that requires high refresh rate, all day, do they? There are too many games with beautiful pictures, such as bioshock, and the quality special effects need excellent monitors to present. Of course, if you really only play FPS games, it is ok to focus on performance instead of screen quality.
PS: Isn't Buddhism popular recently? Bian Xiao has always been fascinated by FireWatch firewatch slow-paced and beautiful stand-alone game. It doesn't matter whether it can be unlocked or not, just enjoy the beautiful scenery in the game (funny laugh). Because there are some subjective factors in the real shooting part, it is not graded separately.
Having said the general performance of so many monitors, let's summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each monitor, show the prices of these monitors, and score the affordability index of the monitors by combining the advantages and disadvantages with the prices.
In the purchasable index, Dell has no special belief bonus in the e-sports industry, which leads to a slightly lower score, while the other four monitors have high belief bonus scores of 14- 14.5, which are also very close. However, when it comes to nudity, Dell still scored the highest. I recommend buying this Dell S 2766. And if you value appearance, you can consider HP Omen27 and Acer? Predator XB27 1HU, you said you believed in "a country without a family"? Then I have nothing to say.
Synthesize the above four dimensions: appearance &; The total score system of expansibility, e-sports performance, screen quality, price, *** 18, and our total score table is obtained rationally and objectively.
Through the scoring system of 18 of the above four items, the final total score table is given rationally and objectively, in which the representation-expansion part may be obviously different from intuition, so the detailed single score is given just for everyone to score rationally and objectively. Finally, briefly talk about a few players who performed well.
Finally, to sum up a wave, it can be seen from the above items that as long as the same panel is used, the e-sports performance will not be much different; In the appearance part, we see the high design level of various companies, such as HP and Acer. BenQ's base and bracket can blossom in appearance, creating more differentiated aesthetics for the e-sports market. Whether it's praise or spit in your mind, it's the unique personality displayed by "e-sports" in this era. The above is all the contents of the horizontal evaluation of five 27-inch high-end esports monitors of 20 17. I hope it will be helpful for you to choose an e-sports monitor.