Benq BL3200PT (32" 1440p)

New to forum...first post. I've been following this BenQ post for some time secretly...lol

Today I'll be receiving my BenQ monitor..after setup I'll take some video's of gameplay and post them back up. I'm pretty excited about this new monitor. I'm coming from a surround setup of 3x24's. 5760 x 1080.
I'm getting pretty old (46) and I need the larger size and better picture now....lol.
Pictures of my setup now: http://imgur.com/a/NJTyU

This going to be a drastic change for me. I still plan on using 2 additional monitors on the sides(not in surround) and eliminating the top monitor...I hope this works out..wish me luck..

was that the UPS guy????? no just the paper....lol.
 
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imyourzero said:
It's going to be pretty hard to get an accurate picture of that with just a video.

By ghosting, do you mean blur? Or possibly overshoot ghosting? If you mean blur, we've already indicated that it does have some blur. It's a VA panel, after all. The question you have to ask yourself is, is it acceptable to you? Some people don't really notice it or aren't bothered by it; others won't tolerate much of it at all.

I switched from a 120hz TN panel to this and I have found gaming to be very enjoyable on it. Sure there is more blur than with the TN but I'm not bothered by it. Don't even really notice it once I get immersed in the game, which doesn't take long at all with the size of this thing.
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It's basically the BenQ's premium mode permanently. Shows up on everything, drove me nuts. I now have the BenQ (refunded the Acer) with the AMA set on high, MUCH more tolerable.
 
After having gone through three different units from different production batches, I CANNOT recommend this monitor.

The vertical bands on this monitor are absolutely atrocious. You wont notice too much if you are dealing with dark vibrant colors but as soon as you have light colors, they are noticeable. Surfing the web pages with light background was driving me nuts.

Open up Lightroom in full screen mode with the light gray background and your screen looks like a bad paint job. The smears stare you in the face. If you are thinking about using this monitor to do some photo editing, you might want to re-consider the option.

I also did not like the fact that no matter how much I changed my practical viewing distance, the colors on the two sides were different than the colors at the middle of the screen. Its the panel tech. and the only way to view uniformly across the screen is to get too far back from the screen.
 
nanobeast said:
After having gone through three different units from different production batches, I CANNOT recommend this monitor.

The vertical bands on this monitor are absolutely atrocious. You wont notice too much if you are dealing with dark vibrant colors but as soon as you have light colors, they are noticeable. Surfing the web pages with light background was driving me nuts.

Open up Lightroom in full screen mode with the light gray background and your screen looks like a bad paint job. The smears stare you in the face. If you are thinking about using this monitor to do some photo editing, you might want to re-consider the option.

I also did not like the fact that no matter how much I changed my practical viewing distance, the colors on the two sides were different than the colors at the middle of the screen. Its the panel tech. and the only way to view uniformly across the screen is to get too far back from the screen.
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As genuine as your complaints are (which I agree mostly with), there doesn't happen to be much alternative for a QHD monitor at 32"+, unless you could recommend any?
 
I don't want to hear this shit; mine is coming tomorrow. :p
 
Megalith said:
I don't want to hear this shit; mine is coming tomorrow. :p
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It's a great monitor. Otherwise, this thread wouldn't be so popular.

It's not perfect of course, but what panel is? I've owned and used dozens of LCD/LED monitors and not one of them has been perfect or without some type of flaw or thing that I could nitpick. Some have come closer than others, of course.

As I've said before, I don't notice the vertical bands on mine during normal use, and I'm really picky. The viewing cone is present I guess, but in my opinion it's overblown. I'm just thankful to finally have a monitor with beautiful colors and deep blacks without any sort of backlight bleed. This monitor is truly a joy to use in the dark (or any time of the day)!

I was really looking forward to getting my LG 34UM94, but this thing may have spoiled me. I think that the extra horizontal space will be awesome to have, but I'm afraid it'll seem vertically narrow after using this and Dell 30" monitors. And I'll be honest, I'm not really looking forward to large amounts of IPS glow, although I think that monitor will make up for that in other respects.
 
Megalith said:
I don't want to hear this shit; mine is coming tomorrow. :p
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I love mine! As long as you don't get these banding issues I think you will love it too. The unit I received is great. Some people have obviously been very unlucky but hopefully you won't be one of them! ;)
 
Has anyone tried removing the bezel from one of these? I want to use multiples of these in portrait mode but the bezel being larger on the bottom seems like it will be rather distracting
 
Like i said I got mine today...no bad pixels...no lines...bands anything....pretty nice....colors are awesome..I'm happy..

Played some flatout tonight with friends...no sound but I took this video with my phone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOQvDBALAlg

I hooked it up with the supplied display port cable....and it does run at 75 hz.

I know it's a phone video but trust me ...the game looks awesome....
 
75? So is it or not o/c-able at the end? Like i said, i don't care about o/c it myself, but seems weird to see opposite claims about same monitor.
 
Church said:
75? So is it or not o/c-able at the end? Like i said, i don't care about o/c it myself, but seems weird to see opposite claims about same monitor.
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it does run at 75Hz, but it drops frames. had 3 units, all did.
 
Church said:
75? So is it or not o/c-able at the end? Like i said, i don't care about o/c it myself, but seems weird to see opposite claims about same monitor.
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I did not have to overclock this monitor. BF4, Flatout and a Call of Duty game all defaulted in the settings menu to a 75 Hz.

I didn't overclock anything.
 
POPTART2014 said:
Like i said I got mine today...no bad pixels...no lines...bands anything....pretty nice....colors are awesome..I'm happy..

Played some flatout tonight with friends...no sound but I took this video with my phone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOQvDBALAlg

I hooked it up with the supplied display port cable....and it does run at 75 hz.

I know it's a phone video but trust me ...the game looks awesome....
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Glad to read more and more folks are having mint screens with no issues. I must have been the first and only one without any issues for months.
 
jzodda said:
I love mine! As long as you don't get these banding issues I think you will love it too. The unit I received is great. Some people have obviously been very unlucky but hopefully you won't be one of them! ;)
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I love mine too. It's the purchase of the year for me; and I do buy lots of things. ;)
 
I got my monitor yesterday and after all the reading of this thread I was a little worry I am coming from a short story with 27 ips hazro but I've returned it after a week of constant trouble! before that I had for a years a dell 2408wfp with va panel and I was really happy with it but lets back to the current time
First of all the monitor is huge! and I love it!!!! the quality of plastic and all construction of the monitor, osd is absolutely perfect in my opinion! I've calibrated it with spyder3 hardware and basiCColor software combination and the colours and blacks are awesome but, my unit have very bad vertical banding mostly noticeable in mac os login screen and also what even worse the right side of screen has a little bit of pink tint while the left is going to be a little greenish this is only visible at the white backgrounds, I have a little bit to dark room so I like to use my screen in 7000k colour temperature if the colour temp is a little bit higher as recommended 6500k the colour tint pink/green is much lighter and almost invisible. Is anyone who own it can confirm this is problem with my screen only or its a kind of standard with this panel? I think if you didn't use anything higher then 6500k you probably didn't noticed it, I thinking about to replace it but hard decision as I have no bad pixel and no light bleeding at all, really like this monitor we are a good friends now, don't know what to do :)
 
Obecny said:
I got my monitor yesterday and after all the reading of this thread I was a little worry I am coming from a short story with 27 ips hazro but I've returned it after a week of constant trouble! before that I had for a years a dell 2408wfp with va panel and I was really happy with it but lets back to the current time
First of all the monitor is huge! and I love it!!!! the quality of plastic and all construction of the monitor, osd is absolutely perfect in my opinion! I've calibrated it with spyder3 hardware and basiCColor software combination and the colours and blacks are awesome but, my unit have very bad vertical banding mostly noticeable in mac os login screen and also what even worse the right side of screen has a little bit of pink tint while the left is going to be a little greenish this is only visible at the white backgrounds, I have a little bit to dark room so I like to use my screen in 7000k colour temperature if the colour temp is a little bit higher as recommended 6500k the colour tint pink/green is much lighter and almost invisible. Is anyone who own it can confirm this is problem with my screen only or its a kind of standard with this panel? I think if you didn't use anything higher then 6500k you probably didn't noticed it, I thinking about to replace it but hard decision as I have no bad pixel and no light bleeding at all, really like this monitor we are a good friends now, don't know what to do :)
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I'd say keep it, like imyourzero said you wont ever get perfect. You never know the replacement might be worse. If it's REALLY bad sure replace it, However if it's just first world problems and your happy with it for the most part then hold onto it, its got 3 year warranty anyway replace it in the second/third year if you must, by then these technical niggles would have been hopefully ironed out with later batches (if you still have the monitor by then that is) lol.
 
Bloodflowerz said:
I love mine too. It's the purchase of the year for me; and I do buy lots of things. ;)
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Even though my monitor has some visible banding, it is the purchase of the year for me too! I absolutely love the BenQ BL3200PT! I had to get used to the enormous size in the beginning, but I can't ever go back to a smaller screen now. It is great for work, web browsing, gaming, movies, you name it.

Like others have said already, no monitor is perfect. Try to find another 30 inch or 32 inch screen without issues. It simply doesn't exist. Every monitor is a compromise and every monitor has minor or major issues. That will perhaps change with OLED or QD-LED screens, but even those suffer from burn-in.

The only monitor that seems to approach flawlessness is the Eizo FlexScan EV2736W. Relatively fast, great viewing angles and hardly any IPS glow. But it is only 27 inch and it has just a 1000:1 contrast ratio. Personally, I wouldn't trade my imperfect BenQ for it. I like the BenQ's size and contrast a lot.
 
What the FUCK is wrong with the stand on this thing? The instructions say to simply turn the arm 45 degrees, but it doesn't turn enough for the screw holes on the bottom to line up so you can put in the thumb screw.
 
Oh my god, so they expected you to use force. I had to stand on the base and twist the arm as hard as I could. Ended up putting a small dent in the base earlier in the process.

Who the fuck designed this?
 
I already packed everything back up because of a stuck/dead pixel, but the monitor is absolutely amazing. I am currently using a 27" but this BenQ is the first time where things really felt huge. Readability was also excellent; I remember trying out a 27" 2560x1400 and things were painful to read, so 32" seems like the ideal size. Colors, brightness, and contrast were also excellent right out of the box.

The only obvious issue I saw with the display was shadowing at the edges and corners, but a lot of that was probably due to distance. Can't wait to get my replacement and hope it's free of defects.
 
Megalith said:
What the FUCK is wrong with the stand on this thing? The instructions say to simply turn the arm 45 degrees, but it doesn't turn enough for the screw holes on the bottom to line up so you can put in the thumb screw.
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Had no problems with mine, and didn't even glance at the instructions. Sorry you had so much trouble.

Hopefully your next one is better!
 
Megalith said:
Oh my god, so they expected you to use force. I had to stand on the base and twist the arm as hard as I could. Ended up putting a small dent in the base earlier in the process.
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I remember almost dropping the arm in surprise first time I'd picked it up because it's a lot heavier than it looks.
I had to use a bit of effort to swing the arm into alignment, but nothing crazy.

Hmm. There was clear protective plastic layer over the blue teflon-ish ring that the arm swivels upon that you should take off?

I guess if that was left on, maybe it could make attaching the arm harder.
Anyway, once it's attached, I think the BenQ stand is great.
Sure, check back in two or three years and we'll see how well it lasts....
 
cswiger said:
I remember almost dropping the arm in surprise first time I'd picked it up because it's a lot heavier than it looks.
I had to use a bit of effort to swing the arm into alignment, but nothing crazy.

Hmm. There was clear protective plastic layer over the blue teflon-ish ring that the arm swivels upon that you should take off?

I guess if that was left on, maybe it could make attaching the arm harder.
Anyway, once it's attached, I think the BenQ stand is great.
Sure, check back in two or three years and we'll see how well it lasts....
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had 3 units, zero problems while assembling. even with all protective plastics on.

i think the problem is "between the keyboard and the chair" as the saying goes :D

no offense.
 
I got a unit from Amazon a month ago and have been pretty happy with it except it was causing some strain in my right eye only. I guess this is what is known as "clouding" on VA panels and it's only a problem on the left side of my monitor. Amazon is supposed to be shipping a replacement today and hopefully I'll get a better one this time as the reason I chose this one was to get rid of the eye strain I was having from an old Dell 2007fp with PWM and heavy anti glare.

Kind of upset though, as I had no problem paying a little extra from Amazon for their easy return process but now this monitor is listed at $629 free shipping and no taxes at B&H. That's $100 difference or 14% cheaper. Amazon policy is to only price match TVs and cell phones but I thought I had seen them in the past adjust prices on HDD, SSD and other products to stay competitive. Not sure what to do. Guess I'll have to wait and see how the new panel looks. If i get another bad one I might have to give the 27" Asus PB278Q a shot and hope the PWM isn't too bad.
 
You should try this program:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux

It improves not only your sleep quality, but it can alleviate eye strain too. With F.lux, it is very easy to adjust the color temperature and the amount of blue light.

If your eyes are easily strained, you should also lower the brightness as much as possible and perhaps increase the size of everything a bit. I use the 125% setting in Windows.
 
[X]eltic;1041026209 said:
You should try this program:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux

It improves not only your sleep quality, but it can alleviate eye strain too. With F.lux, it is very easy to adjust the color temperature and the amount of blue light.

If your eyes are easily strained, you should also lower the brightness as much as possible and perhaps increase the size of everything a bit. I use the 125% setting in Windows.
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Thanks. I'll look into that. Maybe I'm not using the right word with "clouding", maybe its actually banding or smearing, but it's much worse on the left side of the display. I've been using just the right half since it's so big until the replacement comes and I've not been having problems. Hopefully, I'll get a better one this time since I really like it otherwise.
 
for those who own the Benq BL3200PT monitor, does the stand provided allow you to rotate both right AND left into portrait mode(360 degree rotation) or does it only allow rotation to the right(90 degrees)?
 
I decided to buy one of these from Amazon. It should be here tomorrow. I've been wanting to get another VA screen for a while. I like the colors on VAs more than any other monitor type. So when this thing dropped to $629 on Amazon it was a no-brainer.

I'm currently using a Korean 27" IPS. It suffers from bad glow in one of the corners and bleeding at the top of the screen. I've just dealt with it since the monitor was so cheap, but I'd been looking for a replacement for a while now.

I'm hopeful...
 
slai50 said:
for those who own the Benq BL3200PT monitor, does the stand provided allow you to rotate both right AND left into portrait mode(360 degree rotation) or does it only allow rotation to the right(90 degrees)?
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It only rotates right; you can't rotate it towards the left....
 
Well, I don't know exactly what was wrong with the last unit I got, but the new panel they sent is just about perfect. The old one was a May something revision and this new one is June something.

Edit: Amazon also refunded me the price difference. Pretty darn happy.
 
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Just a question about the built in SD Card reader, does anyone know if it's SDHC/SDXC compatible? I tried a Micro SDXC in an adaptor and couldn't get it working, just want to confirm if it only works on the old low capacity SD cards only?

If that's the case, then it's a pretty bad design choice.
 
acccc said:
Just a question about the built in SD Card reader, does anyone know if it's SDHC/SDXC compatible? I tried a Micro SDXC in an adaptor and couldn't get it working, just want to confirm if it only works on the old low capacity SD cards only?
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Seems to be: I plugged a 16GB SDHC ("class 10") card into the reader, and it works fine.
 
acccc said:
Thanks for confirming, I'll try another adaptor and see if it works. ^^
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Sure, dude-- most welcome. Anyway, the manual claims it does all three-- SD / SDHC / SDXC.

Have you checked that USB daisy-chaining a mouse or something thru the BenQ is working? When I first put the SDHC card in, Win 7 popped up a "installing new driver for SDHC card reader" bubble for a moment, about ~5 seconds it was mounted.
 
So can anyone confirm whether the Benq overclocks to 75hz? I'm wondering if i should go with the Qnix since they seem to be stable overclocking to 80-something hz, and just buying a stand for it.

I don't mind paying more for Benq's name (very good experience with them) but i'm pretty sensitive to refresh rate.
 
Marm0t: as few had written here - benq can accept such mode, but there is no sense using it, as it will drop extra frames, if you analyse output picture. I'd also double check if Qnix really overclocks, after all, it has same panel. No clue how much o/c support depends on panel type and how much on local vendor board/firmware, but i'd double check. Well, not really, as for me benq is acceptable as is at stock modes. :)
 
For real, I had to abort my purchase here in Europe (Netherlands). They do not have it in stock nor are they able to get it for me. Shame. Will wait till there is new stock. ANNOYING.
 
cswiger said:
Sure, dude-- most welcome. Anyway, the manual claims it does all three-- SD / SDHC / SDXC.

Have you checked that USB daisy-chaining a mouse or something thru the BenQ is working? When I first put the SDHC card in, Win 7 popped up a "installing new driver for SDHC card reader" bubble for a moment, about ~5 seconds it was mounted.
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Yea that works, I reckon it's just a bad adaptor. :/
 
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