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MagneticHelmet
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Today I rushed home from school in anticipation that I would have my newest purchase from newegg waiting on me. Sure enough, there was a cardboard box on my porch labeled Benq. I had it out and hooked up within 10 mins and was basking in its 20.1 inch widescreen glory. Formerly I had a samsung 710N 17'' that did very well for gaming, but knowing my dad would need another monitor for his visual web development, I offered to give him it if he helped pay for the new monitor. So, here I am with the best looking monitor I have seen in quite a while.
The first thing I noticed when i opened the box is that they included a dvi cable (and thus saved me 20 bucks or so
) and a vga cable. I unpacked it and had to put the base on, but this was merely a matter of pushing it on and waiting for a snap. It has a somewhat thick 3/4'' bezel (not that thick, but not great for dual monitor setup) and in its black frame looks pretty sexy. The control buttons are on the right hand side and are a little hard to get to, but after some fumbling around, i would figure them out.
I unplugged the pre-inserted vga cable and moved it to my room in order to hook it up to the comp. Once the DVI cable was hooked up and the power plugged in, I was up and running. Windows automatically set me up with my 1680x1050 resolution. First impressions were as follows: there are zero dead pixels, it has the blackest blacks I have ever seen on an lcd, and the colors, after selecting movie mode were simply brilliant. I had to go into my display settings in order to manually set the refresh rate for 75Hz.
It was time for the ultimate test for me. Being an avid gamer, this display cannot have very much ghosting at all. I fired up counterstrike and behold! there was almost zero ghosting (at least there was less than my last 8ms samsung 17'') I fired up several more games like nfsmw and morrowind and, after some tweaking, was running in full 1680x1050 glory.
I will update with some pics and some further impressions later, but as of now I cannot recommend this monitor more. I have played on the dell 2005fpw and the 2405, both had much more ghosting and backlight bleedthrough. This BenQ is flawless in comparison. The only issues I have are as follows: Button placement, the lack of height adjustment, and lack of component inputs. I do not believe a gamer could do any better for performance/size/price on anything else.
Model FP202W
Product Color Black
Panel Spec * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LCD Size 20.1"(510.5mm) wide
Display Area 433.4 × 270.9 (mm)
Pixel Pitch (mm) 0.258
Brightness (typ.) 300 cd/㎡
Max. Brightness 350 cd/㎡
Contrast (typ.) 600:1
Max. Contrast 800:1
Viewing Angle (L/R;U/D) (CR>=10) 140/130
Viewing Angle (L/R;U/D) (CR>=5) 170/170
Response Time(rise+fall) typ. 8 (5+3) ms
Display Colors 16.7 million
Monitor Spec * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Resolution (max.) 1680x1050(WSXGA+)
Hor. Frequency (KHz) 31-81
Ver. Frequency (Hz) 56-76 (for 1680x1050, max 60Hz)
Video Bandwidth (MHZ) 25-165
Input Connector D-Sub/DVI-D
Power Supply Built-in(90~264 AC)
Power Consumption On mode: 60W (max)
Power saving mode: 1W /120V, 2W /240V
Color Temperature Reddish/ Normal/ Bluish +user mode
OSD Language 8
i Key Yes
Kensington Yes
CTN Dimensions (HxWxD) 570x456x170 mm
Dimensions(HxWxD) 396.7x479..6x169.9mm
Dimensions with wall mount (HxWxD) 317.1x
Net Weight (kg) 5.7
Gross Weight (kg) 7.7
Special Feature * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Senseye Yes
Speaker No
USB No
VESA Wall Mouting 100x100mm
Pivot No
Swivel (left / right) No
Title (down / up) -2/20
High Adjustment (mm) No
Included Accessories * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Signal Cable VGA and DVI cable
[img=http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6602/dscn01387ek.th.jpg]
[img=http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8926/dscn01406aa.th.jpg]
The first thing I noticed when i opened the box is that they included a dvi cable (and thus saved me 20 bucks or so
) and a vga cable. I unpacked it and had to put the base on, but this was merely a matter of pushing it on and waiting for a snap. It has a somewhat thick 3/4'' bezel (not that thick, but not great for dual monitor setup) and in its black frame looks pretty sexy. The control buttons are on the right hand side and are a little hard to get to, but after some fumbling around, i would figure them out.I unplugged the pre-inserted vga cable and moved it to my room in order to hook it up to the comp. Once the DVI cable was hooked up and the power plugged in, I was up and running. Windows automatically set me up with my 1680x1050 resolution. First impressions were as follows: there are zero dead pixels, it has the blackest blacks I have ever seen on an lcd, and the colors, after selecting movie mode were simply brilliant. I had to go into my display settings in order to manually set the refresh rate for 75Hz.
It was time for the ultimate test for me. Being an avid gamer, this display cannot have very much ghosting at all. I fired up counterstrike and behold! there was almost zero ghosting (at least there was less than my last 8ms samsung 17'') I fired up several more games like nfsmw and morrowind and, after some tweaking, was running in full 1680x1050 glory.
I will update with some pics and some further impressions later, but as of now I cannot recommend this monitor more. I have played on the dell 2005fpw and the 2405, both had much more ghosting and backlight bleedthrough. This BenQ is flawless in comparison. The only issues I have are as follows: Button placement, the lack of height adjustment, and lack of component inputs. I do not believe a gamer could do any better for performance/size/price on anything else.
Model FP202W
Product Color Black
Panel Spec * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LCD Size 20.1"(510.5mm) wide
Display Area 433.4 × 270.9 (mm)
Pixel Pitch (mm) 0.258
Brightness (typ.) 300 cd/㎡
Max. Brightness 350 cd/㎡
Contrast (typ.) 600:1
Max. Contrast 800:1
Viewing Angle (L/R;U/D) (CR>=10) 140/130
Viewing Angle (L/R;U/D) (CR>=5) 170/170
Response Time(rise+fall) typ. 8 (5+3) ms
Display Colors 16.7 million
Monitor Spec * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Resolution (max.) 1680x1050(WSXGA+)
Hor. Frequency (KHz) 31-81
Ver. Frequency (Hz) 56-76 (for 1680x1050, max 60Hz)
Video Bandwidth (MHZ) 25-165
Input Connector D-Sub/DVI-D
Power Supply Built-in(90~264 AC)
Power Consumption On mode: 60W (max)
Power saving mode: 1W /120V, 2W /240V
Color Temperature Reddish/ Normal/ Bluish +user mode
OSD Language 8
i Key Yes
Kensington Yes
CTN Dimensions (HxWxD) 570x456x170 mm
Dimensions(HxWxD) 396.7x479..6x169.9mm
Dimensions with wall mount (HxWxD) 317.1x
Net Weight (kg) 5.7
Gross Weight (kg) 7.7
Special Feature * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Senseye Yes
Speaker No
USB No
VESA Wall Mouting 100x100mm
Pivot No
Swivel (left / right) No
Title (down / up) -2/20
High Adjustment (mm) No
Included Accessories * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Signal Cable VGA and DVI cable
[img=http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6602/dscn01387ek.th.jpg]
[img=http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8926/dscn01406aa.th.jpg]
