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we've all seen the can you identify 240 Hertz tests on YouTube in my case I'll keep it short and sweet that answer is yes and even if we assume your PC can't push out those kinds of frames yet assuming you have the audacity to purchase one of these in the first place you're still likely to sit comfortably above 100 Hertz which is leaves and pounds on both 60s I know in whose game but anything about 60 and they'll tell you that so meet the BenQ Zoe Excel 2546 we have two of them there are 240 Hertz 24 inch 1080p e-sports monitors they are literally designed for intense first-person shooters like csgo and things are looking pretty intense right now and who better to have deliver impressions of the panel and then a professional csgo player this is my fiance Lisa catty no I met her in Taiwan for Computex last year and asked her to marry me a little over seven months later so yes say hi to YouTube hi everyone my name is Lisa I was a professional csgo player for Team expert in Germany Coulomb sa in Thailand and Penta eSports in Germany I've been playing Counter Strike for just over 10 years and my monitor choice of course is very important the XO 25:46 has an extremely high refresh rate at 240 Hertz but this is not the only thing to consider in the game every weapon has a recoil some more than others for example the ak-47 my favourite weapon by the way so if your spray with you against something called dynamic accuracy reduces the blur you would otherwise see with the screen moving really fast black equalizer is also packed into this model which brightens dim areas of the map so I can easily spot enemies in dark places for example in the cobblestone map or does two tunnels you can also quickly swap between various display calibration with the included s which if darker maps show up or you feel like playing a different game I can click on one of these buttons without talking through the on-screen display I like to place these go with high saturation while I play for example patchy or League of Legends with default settings one other concern many people tend to have is in regards to DTM technology high refresh rates are easier to obtain but viewing angles can be trashed what I experienced with panels of this size however is that you won't notice those color distortions if you face it from the front which is probably what you should do anyway when you play games you can check out Greg's video about TN technology in this card right here I had to watch it before talking about this stuff to GT me I prefer smaller monitors when I play first-person shooters and I especially don't like curve monitors for them this is another way companies tried to fix the viewing angle issue associated with TN once at a tournament we were all forced to play on court monitors and it was a big surprise because as far as I know almost everyone plays on the flat panel even in practice and if it's ultra white the fixed points of grenades and games are changed because of the stretch resolution C's go gamers aren't used to anyway I'm talking out of my experience based on play Counter Strike as a professional so of course for other games the effects and experience can be different meanwhile what's going on everyone so these are been qxl 2546 --is in a nutshell their 240 Hertz monitors they are TN panels I believe they're 1080p and we have two of them actually because well she needs them for what she does she is a twitch streamer she used to be a professional csgo player she's still a pro trust me I tried beating her and I didn't go well so she's got a pretty like it's an okay setup I mean this is this is an excellent monitor from a Seuss's 1440p 165 Hertz but she needs two monitors and she's been using her iPad as like her second screen and we all know yeah how difficult it is to use Apple products with Windows so we just went to Bank you and said hey we need some kind of solution that that she's gonna love of course all the pros use Behnke monitors and they sent us literally their best like their best gaming monitors especially for csgo so we're gonna set both of those up we have a custom like dual monitor stand we're gonna put up there wow that was a really crooked angle just now and hopefully we can clean this up because I'm telling you like this just looks terrible back here like you have this ugly gap between the monitor and the tower and the cables are just everywhere and we're gonna we're gonna clean this up okay so here's the vivo dual monitor decimal we're talking about these are good for I believe up to 27 inch monitors and these from BenQ are 24 inch I should say Zoe Ben Q and Zoe are like thank you is the parent company but so is the professional eSports brand and we're gonna be mounting both on to this so basically she's gonna be doing all the work and I'm just gonna be holding the camera so I wasn't sure about quality this thing's pretty sturdy it's well built I was really loud and it's a pain to bend the hinges that's for sure of course when the monitors are on there you have a bit more torque so that won't be a problem she is uh just now setting up the base and if you notice see this is this is an actual base that you place on top of a desk this is not one that you kind of like mount to the back with a you know a vise or anything like that this is just something you place gently on the desk and that should be pretty sturdy to see how heavy this thing is that's all it's like ten pounds or so I opened up one of the Benki monitor boxes I kind of want to walk through what you get inside here so DisplayPort cable of course no way to run 1080p 240 Hertz USB cable so you can plug peripherals into the monitor directly I presume power cable so it looks like we have an integrated AC adapter which is nice we have a switch mode this is where you can switch modes on the monitor fairly quick it's like a dedicated switch I think this plugs into the USB port to be honest and this is a stand of course we're not gonna need this though because she's working on that over there looking nice alright so we got them lined up but almost perfectly I guess horizontally and she is taking care of cable management the kid actually includes some like little straps that wrap around the poles at the rear I've got to say these monitors look pretty sexy from behind and have a shame you're not gonna be able to see them and so you can run DisplayPort and the power cables through these it keeps some you know suspended that we don't see them from the front so they're all lifted above the base of the monitors in my experience with monitors over the years I can say that I'm impressed with what this one has to offer at its price point these are thin panels packed with i/o support and OSD options and of course we rockin at 240 Hertz refresh rate this panels biggest selling point by far but I also want to discuss hardware requirements to reach these frame rates something that many people are bound to overlook obviously to have the full 240 Hertz experience at your PC will need to pump out that many frames per second putting serious load on especially the CPU Vanek you does briefly touch on recommended system specs by outlining bare minimum graphics card requirements but this isn't actually the full story in fact it's very likely you'll be limited by your CPU in these scenarios not your graphics card or cards it's the GPUs job to draw and render frames and it's the CPUs job to group commands and calculations and the handoff process between the CPU and the GPU GPUs can handle high frame rates because they're packed with up to thousands of cores stream processors and AMD side and CUDA cores on Nvidia's but CPUs can struggle to sorting these functions at the draw calls from the graphics card continue to arise so really what bank you should put in place of these recommendations are AMD and Intel CPU one since the CPU being used will likely be the limiting factor here and since in-game graphics can always be lower to alleviate the stress on the GPU it makes sense to you know put the thing that's gonna be the vault when I go on the website now while I'm certainly no pro gamer I can say that the TN technology implemented here is satisfactory I mean it's teen it's about as good as teens gonna get 24 and a half inches is a good diagonal size since the viewing edges from a roughly two foot distance and doesn't incite a sharp angle from the center which means the colors won't be distorted on the edges the included monitor stands are actually pretty intuitive and allow for the full swivel motion but you can always swap to custom stands since these panels are vase amount Abul so what we've done right here behind me hello reproduction on the XL 25:46 is excellent as well to my surprise things tend to be a bit on the warm side out of the box though so that will Beck in a simple calibration or to jumping from this panel to my Asus 165 Hertz TN is actually a night and day difference which I did not expect I don't even notice much of a difference in resolution since one slightly larger despite being 1440p on a suicide the XL 2546 mind you is also considerably cheaper so if I deem it a better solution overall for the intensive FPS gamer and what they have to say is true jumping back down from 240 yards to something like 120 which is still a substantial jump in and of itself from 60 mind you is a drastic setback once you go up to something this high you'll have a very tough time working your way back down if for whatever reason you need to do that my condolences if so you can find this monitor along with a few others that are semi similar to it linked in the video description along with our Amazon and Newegg affiliate links if we do get a small kickback we decide to purchase a monitor or anything else via those links we appreciate it be sure to give this video a like a thumbs up if you thought it was cool dislike if you feel the complete opposite about it be sure to click Subscribe 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