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This gaming monitor is built with FPS players in mind, with it targeting best-in-class motion, high Hertz supports, and all on a FHD screen.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another Gamereactor Quick Look.
This monitor is called the BenQ Zowie XL2586X Plus.
I know, that's a really dumb ass name."
"And I don't understand why companies want to utilize that kind of naming convention to sell their products.
Because there is no way I would be able to help you remember, even if you thought this would be very interesting and you'd be going right out to buy one, you wouldn't be able to remember that this is called the BenQ Zowie XL2586X Plus."
"But here we are.
But the monitor, luckily, is actually rather interesting.
So as you can probably tell, this is a small monitor.
It is pretty small, I mean smaller than most, I would go as far as to say."
"You might also think that these edges around the screen are a little bit thick, compared to the sort of, let's say, glorious mid-rangers which have thrown themselves deep into OLED territory and provide these nearly borderless 1440p high refresh rate monitors for general usage."
"So you might be playing a little bit of 007 First Light, then you might be throwing yourself into a League of Legends casual game with a friend, then you want to play Terraria.
It is for most things to most kinds of consumers.
That is not this."
"This is made pretty solely for the esports crowd, for the people whose gear they want tuned in such a way that there can be absolutely no doubt that your results are only held back by your ability to perform, not the gear that you're using.
So it's a 1080p, 600Hz monitor, and it uses a fast TN panel, it's called a fast TN panel, alongside a whole host of different technologies that BenQ themselves are championing."
"So that is DIAC 2 for one, which is a dual backlight dynamic accuracy module, meaning that you will get the most responsive, not just refresh rate, but the fastest kind of color response and sharpness in high motion cases.
So that means that if you are pushing your game to 600Hz or even beyond, then the rest of the monitor's way of providing you with your picture will keep up."
"There is also something called a vivid color film.
It is essentially a way to combat a TN panel's known compromise, which is just bad color accuracy.
So thanks to vivid color film, you should be able to get something like 99% sRGB color gamut coverage, which probably doesn't mean that it's good for video or correct photo editing, but it'll definitely mean that it's a lot better than other TN panels that you might find."
"Now, is it any good?
Now what I can tell you is that it is surprisingly, well, I would say, borderline pretty.
And if you don't think pretty, then perhaps anonymous.
I think that a lot of BenQ SoE panels in the future or in the past have been borderlining ugly and almost derogatory in the way that they think gamers want their monitor to look."
"But this looks rather sleek.
And I would say this is one of the best tilt swivel functions that I've ever seen.
It is so smooth.
It is so immediate and nice."
"And the amount of freedom you have is very neat indeed.
Now compromises.
There is a reason why you get a lot of freedom to swivel and tilt in the way that you want.
And that is because viewing angles on a TN panel are known to be horrendous."
"And even though BenQ have solved part of this, my gut feeling will tell me that this is a known issue for TN panels.
Again, I cannot say whether or not this is the case yet, but we're not talking about viewing angles in terms of whether or not it's visible."
"We're talking about color bending on off axis or off angle viewing angles.
So that means that if you are not sitting directly with it in front of you, if you just stray a little bit, then the colors will warp or they will look not right.
So whether or not that's the case here, I'm very interested to find out."
"But what this is known for is accuracy, first and foremost, that the response rate of everything that goes on inside this monitor is said to be amazing.
So is it worth a lot of money?
Because this costs a lot of money, way more money than you perhaps thought."
"And you might be thinking right now then about what I said at the opening intro, which is that these types of monitors, like competitive monitors, can also come now in OLED dual mode monitors where you can get maybe, let's say, 360 Hertz refresh rate OLED 1440p that can basically be reverted into a 1080p 540 Hertz monitor."
"You might also know that it costs less than this one.
So this needs to perform.
Whether or not it does, we'll figure that out.
See you on the next one."
