XG2431 24 Inch 1080p Gaming Monitor with 240Hz, 0.5ms, FreeSync Premium, NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible, Advanced Ergonomics, Eye Care, HDR400

Okay so I got this because of the strobe mode. I am a gamer at heart, but I got into actually testing monitors on my free time especially when companies like RTINGs has a stupid vote system instead of just buying all and working hard.... I mean their job is reviews but they still limit themselves which doesn't make sense. Then you have youtubers which will lie about a product because they got it for free, calling a bad monitor "good" for the sake of not making the monitor maker "overlord" mad at them for a bad review. "no more free products if you say this monitor is crap" type of deal. Which generally gives RTINGs the upper hand as they buy all their displays for testing. No way for manufacturers to influence the review process with a heavy hand. So, where to start. Its an "fast IPS" 1080p 240hz display. The fit and finish is nice. I had zero dead pixels. The color is quite bad, but I have a tuning device which allows me to get more accurate color! So I color calibrated using my x-rite iDisplay pro (you can buy them here on amazon like me!) and got that sorted out.... You can find a post on BlurBusters forums where I did 240hz pixel response testing. Its pretty good. Not as fast as say an $800 LG nano-ips monitor, but fast enough compared to other monitors even some 200-300 bucks more expensive. FOR THE PRICE, this monitor is an absolute champ. I also took the blurbusters advice on the flicker backlight. This monitor, you can download a custom program from the viewsonic website which is in collaboration with blurbusters, where you can tweak the purexp settings, you can not only run through the preset modes, but you can also run a custom mode where you are given varying degrees of adjustment that most other monitors do not give you. WITH THAT IN MIND, I tried out the factory 240hz mode with the purexp enabled. Didn't seem all that special. To me, it felt like my old Alienware TN panel at 240hz without flicker backlight. I would say you probably don't even need purexp at 240hz. If you are someone who cannot use flicker backlight due to sensitivity, then don't. This monitor even without flickering at 240hz is pretty good. BUT, I also tried the 120hz mode using "large vertical pixel totals" using a custom resolution. This is to test to see if the custom mode works well enough or not. AND I HAVE TO BE HONEST, the 120hz with a custom flicker setting, works BETTER than 240hz with and without purexp enabled. I can say the motion CLARITY is amazing using this custom mode. However, you have to know how to setup a custom resolution to get this mode to work. Anyway, the motion clarity is INSANE. Its just that good. I can't believe how good it is! Playing FPS titles like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Halo, its way better than 240hz. I mean way better. Now on that note, and yes I am splitting this part, this is a warning. The 60hz mode for flicker. Don't use it. I don't care how much blurbusters boasts how amazing it is for console gaming. The 60hz flicker WILL hurt your eyes. Even doing the "large vertical pixel totals" to further tweak 60hz strobing, doesn't help. I enabled this mode and sure enough, my eyes started hurting INSTANTLY. I LITERALLY could not look at the monitor. I would wince and recoil at how bad the flickering is. Now don't get me wrong, I can handle flicker. I used to party with people with tons of strobe lights in the room listening to house/dubstep/trance/dnb/etc. This is WORSE. Your eyes just don't want to look at the screen. I even started having my eye water it was so bad. The 120hz mode, no issue, but 60hz mode, killing me. So don't use it. This is a warning. On the whole, for about 300-330 this monitor is amazing. I could honestly say I would pay MORE for this monitor if they included the "large vertical total" mode as part of the EDID information so users wouldn't have to go through the trouble of running a custom resolution to do it. The motion clarity you get is just THAT AMAZING. I could see in the future when Display Port 2.0 finally releases both in monitors and graphics cards, that we could get large vertical totals for 240hz which would make that even more amazing (need the higher bandwidth to do it. currently you are locked at about 120hz to 144hz with large vertical totals due to bandwidth limitations of HDMI2.0 and DP1.4). I would highly recommend this monitor to anyone in this price bracket. If you can afford more, obviously there are better displays out there. But for the price, amazing.

This product is best in class in terms of performance and price. Upgrading from 165hz to 240hz was very noticeable. Reaction times tests are about 15ms faster on average and general clarity in game is improved. this has a great build quality monitor stand is solid and the cable bungee works well, only flaw here is that the monitor buttons are a bit hard to use. For most power users, this would be an excellent choice if you’re looking to upgrade the feel of your games, it’s motion blur technology has been specifically engineered to be best in class for gaming, the only drawback is that pushing this setting to the extreme will decrease backlight brightness dramatically. however, the monitor on its light or normal setting is completely useable and works very well.

I’ll give Viewsonic praise for their excellent packaging and overall build quality, but most everything else is downhill. The ViewSonic XG272-2K-OLED is a great example of releasing a product at a specific price because the competition has already done so. Yet, in Viewsonic’s case, nothing about this monitor justifies the asking price or your consideration. The UI is both slow and unintuitive. I had issues with settings randomly resetting or being entirely non-functional (BFI in particular). Additional firmware support seems non-existent, so it’s a case of what you see is what you get. I did contact customer service to see if there was a firmware update and they confirmed that I had the latest. The warranty is just odd and clearly rushed. I contacted Viewsonic customer support for clarification and was able to confirm that warranty information is shared between LCD and OLED panels. Specifically, there is no burn-in warranty. Based on customer support’s answer, you will send your monitor to Viewsonic and they will decide if the burn in was intentional or not. I was unable to find the typical burn-in care features in the UI. So there is no burn in warranty nor panel care features. You’re paying the same price as other OLED monitors, and getting much less. The big feature of this panel is support for BFI. I own Viewsonic’s XG2431, it’s a dream for people who prioritize motion clarity. I assumed this OLED panel would have the same level of tweaking, with the benefit of being an OLED. This is not the case. Instead you pretty much get an on and off button where none of the BFI related options seem to do anything. I’d call it broken outside of the fact that it does function. This could have been marvelous if it had the same level of customization as the XG2431. Overall, the ViewSonic XG272-2K-OLED is overpriced, has a rushed feature set, and a non-existent panel burn in warranty. There are way better options available. P.S. The text fringing is REALLY bad. So bad that I was wondering if this is an old 1st Gen LG panel.

This monitor is a godsend to anyone who values motion clarity and their wallet. For people who play competitive games I really don't think this can be beat. You could go with a 360-390hz monitor and you would probably get a "noticeable" improvement in smoothness but those monitors are a lot more expensive and still don't come close to matching the amazing lack of ghosting this monitor has achieved. Two (rather small) caveats: #1: Brightness, enabling the backlight strobing (called PureXP in the monitor settings) will remove the users ability to control the brightness of the display and lowers the overall brightness. For the bright and normal settings this is not that bad and was still perfectly usable in my well lit room, however, the two higher modes make the monitor way too dim, this is a normal side effect of using backlight strobing. Luckily the bright and normal settings for backlight dimming work amazingly so I would recommend just setting PureXP to bright and calling it a day. #2: The stand is a little big, as someone who values my mousepad space this was slightly annoying, however I don't think most people will care and if you really do care I would recommend also picking up a monitor arm to make this a non-issue. tldr: great monitor, great motion clarity, pick it up you won't regret it.

You must use large vertical totals and adjust the strobe width, strobe phase, and overdrive using the strobe utility ViewSonic makes available to get the magic out of this monitor. The motion performance is fine without doing anything but enabling PureXP, but at that point you could consider other options. Once the LVT and strobe have been adjusted however, there is no choice but this monitor. Comparing a CRT (GDM-FW900) at 85Hz side by side with the XG2431@85Hz, the picture on the XG2431 is arguably better. The CRT still has motion trails from bright white while the XG2431 has no trails and only the smallest, faintest blurring at the top and bottom of the screen. You will not notice these artifacts in game. The picture is also obviously sharper than the CRT. Otherwise the motion clarity is identical and in that way obsoletes the CRT whose advantages are now only deeper blacks in a dark room and smoothed low resolutions. You will however pay for motion clarity with brightness just like on a CRT. Adjusting the strobe width about 3/4 of the way with a very slight amount of additional blur vs the ideal 1/2 strobe width is a good sweet spot since it's so faint and relegated to the top and bottom of the screen. If your main priority in buying a CRT monitor is motion clarity don't even bother. Just buy this monitor and save yourself 80lbs and a significant amount of money. On that note however it should be made explicit. I would not have bought this monitor had it not been for the included utility. Without the additional adjustments from the utility the monitor is average. It's clear but it's not CRT clear and therefore not worth purchasing when I could compromise with other monitors or TVs that have motion problems too but higher resolutions, better colors etc and use a CRT when motion clarity matters. Monitor manufacturers take notice and allow full strobe/overdrive adjustment. There is no reason to not to allow it and furthermore, it should be adjustable through the OSD rather than through a program. The fact that ViewSonic isn't releasing a utility for every monitor they make, or at the very least the gaming monitors, is unbelievable because it is the only reason I even considered purchasing a monitor from them. Why bother when you could buy monitors with 4k resolution, bigger screen, or OLEDs with way better color? If monitor manufacturers on a wider scale would do what was done with this one monitor CRTs could finally be retired.

Grabbed on sale, this makes for an excellent product for its MHz and vibrant image, but there's one odd issue keeping it from a perfect score. After a prolonged period of troubleshooting and trial and error, I've found that this monitor will fully disconnect from an AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card run on a Windows 11 operating system, connected via the "display port cable" (not HDMI) if you depower the monitor while leaving the PC itself active for a prolonged period of time (multiple hours). Yes, this is a bad habit to get into, though that does not absolve the issue of it occurring in the first place should the end user wish to make bad choices with their own purchased products. This issue has thus far only been resolved via fully rebooting the PC (no need to reconnect the "display port cable" or power cable; neither does doing so resolve the issue itself without rebooting), and leaving the monitor powered if making the poor decision to leave the PC station powered on.

BUY THIS OVER ALL OTHER CHEAP 240hz MONITORS. This is the first monitor I have ever used that its fastest response time did not cause inverse ghosting (aka The image is really clear with the 0.5ms fastest mode). The screens colors are really vibrant because of the IPS panel and thankfully my monitor has barely any blacklight bleed (this is lucky). The monitors image clarity is top tier even competing with OLEDs and 360hz+ IPS and TN panels way above its price point. In other words this is the best 1080p 240hz monitor you can buy. Other than the display itself the stand is premium and works really well. The control buttons are trash but once you have the best settings dialed in your good to go. 5/5 100% recommended.

This is a phenomenal upgrade than my previous monitor. Previously, I've been playing on a 27in, 75hz monitor that had some motions problem, but now, getting my hands on two sets of XG2431. I was astonished at how clear and smooth the monitor was. Even though, my PC isn't of the best of spec, this monitor allows me to make the most of what my PC can handle.