BenQ EX2780Q 27” 1440P IPS 144Hz Gaming Monitor | FreeSync Premium | HDRi | Speakers

For some dumb reason, amazon groups reviews and questions.This is going to be coming from a photographer enthusiast and a gaming enthusiast. I’m not going to nit pick every fiber wrong with the monitor but rather what I have noticed on a day to day basis. I’ve owned the monitor since April 2020First and foremost, this is a great monitor. I picked up photography while I was a senior in high school and I have quickly fallen into it with expensive gear and now expensive set ups. I need color and I need accurate color. This monitor checks that box pretty well. I enjoy everything about it in that regard.The fact that its a high refresh rate screen really helps. I built a PC with a 2070 super in it and a Ryzen 5 3600, I can hit high frame in my games and I can do heavy photo manipulation - I wanted a high refresh rate screen as well to accommodate the PC and this thing delivers. I seriously enjoy this monitor and everything it brought to the table. Its on the pricey side but I recommend either waiting for this to dip into the sub $500 range or look on bhphoto for its sales.The only thing that would drive me away from this monitor is its small port hub. It has 2 HDMI 2.0 (just good enough to drive that 2K144) and 1 DisplayPort 1.4. I suppose thats enough but I certainly would enjoy more. Its not that big of a deal at the end of the day. The monitor stand is also a bit lackluster with no real movement from it. VESA mounts are inexpensive and I highly recommend getting one anyways so at the end of the day, that is easy to disregard as well.The speakers, although its monitor speakers, blow me away. I say that in relation to other monitor speakers. I already use headsets and earbuds for media use but whenever I have someone over, its nice to have a pretty decent set of speakers.The HDRi is nice. Playing Modern Warfare 2019 allows the colors to pop more and keeps the shows I watch a little more lively. It is set to 400 nits I believe so its just barely hitting the marker for legitimate HDR but its great and I see nothing wrong from it. I enjoy it.Pros -Great picture fidelityGreat sound fidelityLove the buttery smooth 144hzMeh -Response time is 5 seconds gtg but thats okay. Nothing to write home about but nothing thats subparPort HubCons -Monitor StandAll in all, for gaming, this delivers. For its picture quality/fidelity, this thing delivers. Its bright. Its color accurate. Its beautiful. Its clean. I love it and i’m sure anyone who buys it will love it as well.

I didn't want the hassle of buying and creating desk space for speakers in my setup, but I also know monitor speakers aren't the best. That's when I ran into this thing. After doing quite a bit of research on RTings especially, I decided I'd take the plunge. I don't have anything negative to say about this monitor though I did get it at $350 and not at its original price.Pros:- Built-in subwoofer. What immediately stood out was the sound quality. The speakers are better than my 43 inch 4K gaming tv speakers (which I sold after I started using this monitor). I thought it was all purely hype. Couldn't be that decent I thought. Well I thought wrong.- FreeSync Premium is glorious. Everything is way smoother at 144hz like browsing and every day application use, but my gaming has gone up a few notches. No more vsync for me. This set has a FreeSync range of 40fps - 144fps. As long as your fps is within that range, FreeSync is gonna work, and it works great. It feels and looks smother than vsync for sure.- Monitor has a lot of useful settings for blue light and tired eyes. The IPS panel looks vibrant and gorgeous. Obviously this is an IPS so blacks aren't as black as black can be, but it's good enough to get a pass from someone like me who really cares about deep blacks.- It comes with a remote and you wouldn't think this would be worth talking about, but the moment you stop having to reach behind or at the side of monitors for buttons, you never want to go back.- Good build quality all around. Not disappointed by that at all, and it came professionally packaged.- Great for gaming. No issues with input lag, motion blur or ghosting.Cons:- No built-in USB 3.0 ports. There are some very, very capable monitors in that price range ($350), even less, that can match this set in performance but they have USB ports. Extra ports are always a huge welcome. Obviously those don't have a built-in subwoofer, so go with what you need. I cared more about great sound out of the box so I picked my poison.- Very limited ergonomics. The screen can tilt back and forward, that's it. No rotating, spinning, raising and dropping, nothing. If you're gonna buy this, do your homework. I have absolutely no problems and do not need to adjust anything, but I already factored in the height of my desk, chair, and the monitor, so I knew what it would feel like having it in front of me.- Could be brighter. It's bright enough don't get me wrong, but I don't ever run my backlights at 100%. I usually do 60 - 65% to extend the life of my screens, and at 65% I've owned brighter panels. It's not a deal breaker at all, just thought I'd let you know everything.- Because of the panel, expect some sort of backlight bleed somewhere. Mines is a tiny spot on the lower left hand bottom of the screen, like how the sun looks when it's halfway under the horizon. It's extremely light and not visible at all in the vast majority of cases but if you focus, you can see a little white light. Room usually has to be extremely dark, and you shouldn't be staring at a screen in a room that dark anyways. No dead pixels though thank gawd.As usual, if it goes haywire at any time I'll return here to absolutely sink it in this review, but so far so good. Been using it heavily every day for a month with no issues.