BenQ ZOWIE XL2411 Gaming Monitor | quick review
Channel: Helmetman Gaming
Date: 2021-08-21

This is my quick review of the benq zowie gaming monitor.

This is the benq zowie xl2411 gaming monitor, and i'm gonna do a quick review of it. 

This zowie monitor retails on the benq website for 199 us, however it is more expensive on websites like amazon, where it currently costs 229 us. Benq is like the big-boi of esports stuff, with great displays, and legendary esports gaming mice. I had 3 benq monitors in the last few years, and had a decent experience with all of them.

Let's start with the design. It’s.. bland. Which i like. It doesnt look gamery, and it has a minimalistic aesthetic. What i dont like, is this massive almost 2.5 cm bezel on every side of the display. If this is your only display, you will be fine, but for  a triple monitor setup its not ideal. This monitor has more adjustments that even most premium displays; Up and down adjustment, rotation horizontally, rotation vertically, and tilt. It it vesa compatible. IN the bottom right corner, you have the convenient button style menu controls, which i prefer.
The rear IO is unimpressive, with one hdmi, one vga and one dvi port. No display port is available.

Now, color is something Benq has been struggling with. They’re bad. Really bad. The monitor comes VERY uncalibrated out of the box, and ever after calibration only covers about 92% of srgb gamut and 68 percent of the adobe rgb gamut. Games and movies will look either washed out, and blacks will be almost indistinguishable, or oversaturated. This panel does get surprisingly bright though. This monitor does not support g sync or freesync. It has a bunch of benq gamery features, like blur reduction.

This tn panel features a 144hz refresh rate and 1ms response time, which is great for FPS. it is in my opinion an irreplaceable resource if you play competitively, because it allows for quicker reaction times, and it just simply shows more information in a shorter period of time. Linus has a great video on this. There is very little ghosting/trails even without pixel overdrive. I was also able to overclock this monitor to 165 hz, but I would not really recommend it as its not worth the risk. I will never go back to 60 hz after using this.