XG2560

EDIT: Original review date: August 7th, 2018. This edit update is on June 5th, 2020. I just wanted to quickly drop in to say this monitor is still going strong, i have had zero issues with it, literally no problems, and i love it just as much as the day i got it. Reason i wanted to update is to say nowadays, there ARE more options in this price range. I do however, strongly recommend that you consider this monitor when shopping, almost 2 years with it, and it is still perfect!Start of ORIGINAL REVIEW written on August, 7th 2018:Let me start off by saying that $400-$500 for a computer/gaming monitor is by no means cheap. I was specifically looking for a 240hz G-sync monitor, so that I could use my overclocked GTX 1070 Ti to it’s full potential. And if you take a good, long look at what the market has to offer right now, you would conclude the same thing that I did, that there really arnt many options to choose from that had everything that I was looking for. I believe I had 5 options, one of them which did not have G-Sync nor even free sync for that matter. The monitor that I almost purchased, and by almost I mean I was on the “complete order” page about 10 times just staring at it, was the Alienware 240 hz display, but with free sync, solely due to the great price at the time.To be 100% honest, I saw this monitor from the very beginning, I just basically told myself it wasn’t even an option because I’ve never owned ViewSonic before, and right before I was about to click that finish order button for the Alienware monitor, within 30 seconds I said forget it, added this to my cart and clicked finish order as fast as I could to prevent anymore hesitation, and let me tell you I am beyond happy that I did. Right out of the box, the colors are a bit off and it honestly doesn’t look that great. But once you calibrate it and everything, this is an extremely beautiful TN panel. I seriously love everything about this monitor, my ONLY gripe with it, which is completely subjective, is the menu. I find the menus to be a little tedious and annoying, not difficult, but annoying to navigate. But once I calibrated the settings and all that, i haven’t had to enter the menu since, so there’s no way I’m going to take a star off due to that.If any of you are in the market for exactly what i was looking for, please do yourself a favor and just pick this monitor up. This is the cheapest 240 hz, G-Sync monitor on the market, but it sure as heck performs and looks like the most expensive one, honestly. Like I stated earlier, I almost bought the AW free sync monitor due to the cheap price, but for only 75$ more (at the time) I opted for this 240hz, G-sync View Sonic. That is seriously unheard of. G-Sync costs much more than just $75 extra, in the hundred(s) even.I am telling you, and please listen to me since there really isn’t many more reviews out there for this monitor so you really don’t have much of a choice, just purchase this monitor and make yourself and your wallet, extremely happy. There is no such thing as perfect anything, but gosh darnet this thing is about to cross that line into perfection. I really hope this has helped you make a decision. Feel free to ask me some questions if you’d like, I know it’s a huge purchase and big decision. But it’s a good one, this thing is so future proof, I won’t need a monitor for a very long time! Thanks for reading, hope it helped :)

My initial out of the box thoughts were amazing. What a beautiful monitor. The colors were great, I found the quality to be very structurally sound, doesn't feel like a cheap "gamer-y" monitor with obnoxious styling like most. This is also my first official gaming monitor, so I was delighted to see it standing up well to the high price tag. However, about four months into owning the monitor, it no longer would function properly at high refresh rates (or anything above 60hz for that matter, far from the advertised 240hz., couldn't even handle 144hz, and I have a more than capable GPU). The screen would continuously black out and flicker, with a message in the upper right hand corner that looked to indicate that the display port cable was not functioning properly. I purchased a new display port cable. This did not resolve the issue. I tried other display port outlets on my GPU. This also did not resolve the issue. I dealt with it for a while, until the center pixel shift started occurring. I have tried using other monitors to confirm it isn't my own hardware. It isn't.It's a little hard to explain, but, basically, this error consisted of a line of pixels down the exact center of the monitor being displaced to the far left hand side. This occurred with G-sync on or off, high or low refresh rate, high or low graphics settings on the monitor, after power cycling, etc. etc. So I thought, okay, time to send it in.I reached out to customer support and had to wait five days (wow) to receive an email suggesting I power cycle the machine (no surprise, it didn't work). The next day, I sent it in according to their RMA process.The website says the process can take 10-15 days upon receipt of the monitor, and offers a nice link to check the status of the repair. This is cool and all, but for the entirety of the 10 day RMA process, my monitor's status was listed as "Awaiting repair" until one day, it was just sent back. I even called Viewsonic to ask for more details on it, which I did not receive.I finally received the monitor back (over a month after my first correspondence with the company), and opened the box to reveal the exact same monitor I sent in with no (visible) changes made to it and the error persisted. I called in, requesting to know what was actually done to the monitor, and the phone representative told me he couldn't answer that (I'll take this as they didn't do anything, for lack of better evidence). After waiting so long to have a working monitor that I paid quite alot for, I was pretty frustrated. Eventually, after telling me my money couldn't be refunded, the phone representative offered to send me a fresh monitor in advance so long as I send this one back in (and they offered to cover shipping), which I have agreed to do. I have not yet received the new monitor, should it prove satisfactory, I will update my review accordingly. Although the company has some very nice and understanding individuals working for it, everyone I talked to on the phone handled my issue expertly and considerately, I am incredibly dissatisfied by their lack of transparency as well as their untimely resolution (or lack thereof) of my issue. I am excited to receive a new monitor, however I have lost all confidence in this company. Maybe my issue was a freak incident, sure, but to be unable to respond in a timely fashion, not offer updates on my repair process, and send me back a monitor that is still broken without being able to inform me what they actually did to "repair" my monitor (a simple "we didn't do anything" would have sufficed), I have lost all confidence in this company and will most likely not be purchasing from them again.EDIT as of 4/9/19: I have just received the new monitor. All works great, haven't experienced any issues. I suppose we'll see in four months time, though. But of course, not even this could be easy. The monitor they sent me didn't come with the base of the stand, the part that you actually need to sit the monitor on the desk. I've just about had it with this running joke of a company. Called them and told them the situation, so they told me I could keep the old stand base from the previous monitor before I send it in. I told them to please note this so that I won't be charged when they receive the old monitor without the stand, and they assured me I won't be charged (hopefully they can at least get that right). Glad this journey is finally (?) over, but man, receiving an incomplete product replacement was the final nail in the coffin. Not even angry at this point, just laughing. Maybe I'm just the most unlucky Viewsonic customer in the world, but man, this is really, truly, absurd.

I won't write too much.Overall, I liked the display; it has a very good picture and an excellent response time. I do play primarily shooters.I have been using this display for years, but all of a sudden, today, I spent a couple of hours figuring out why the display port does not work.My setup is simple: Home PC, Working MacBook.Home PC -> Display Port directlyMacBook -> HDMI via KVMI chose input mode each time manually, and it's fine by me, I just could not find a KVM with DP support.I have already experienced sudden turn-offs, but it usually solved by power on/off, sometimes it did require turning off and pulling off the power cable for a second. But not today.I have tried the same workaround, I've been trying to keep the display plugged off for a dozen minutes, I have tried a new DP cable, no success.Well, I am quite disappointed, this display served me less than 5 years, which means quality is very average, or even below the average.Sorry ViewSonic, but I think this is our first and last rodeo.

Pretty dang good monitor. All of the game modes create a tiny ammount of ghosting and it was too much for my eyes/brain, but with all of that turned off it’s really noce monitor to play Classic WoW on. Good response time and amazing colors for a TN display, even out of the box (after you turn off game mode)Oh, and it’s not too bright at night!! Web browsing white pages at night is a joy compared to my old asus TN which was always too bright at zero brightness.

Vi demasiados reviews y cuando lo probe por primera vez no me emocione tanto, luego despues de jugar unas partidas empeze a notar que como que era mas bueno y apuntar es mucho mas facil, luego use mi viejo monitor que es 1080p 60hz y es impresionante la diferencia tmb 120 fps bajando los fps en el monitor, como que al principio los ojos tardan como 20 o 15 minutos en acostumbrarte pero una vez que te acostumbras ya no hay vuelta atras, jugar en 60 fps ahora se siente como si antes jugaria en 15 fps cuando solo podia maximo 60 hz

This monitor is definitely worth buying it’s refresh rate is so good it makes my games look super smooth and with g sync it’s even better

I ordered this monitor to play FPS games on at 240hz.I used it for 1 hour on the first day that it arrived. So far, so goodFrom day 2 onward, the screen started having green lines across any black color every time it woke up from sleeping, usually for around 10 minutes and then the green lines went away.After about 5 days (I haven't returned it at this point because I was messing around with video drivers and googling to see if the problem was on my end) the screen turns on and ALL colors are a massive blur and the screen looks like it would give anyone who is epileptic a seizure.Today, I was using the monitor (still dealing with these other problems) to research how to return the monitor, and the screen turned off randomly and hasn't turned back on since. Posting this from my laptop.Depending on how ViewSonic deals with this I will change my review, but for now this is a firm DO NOT BUY

IO Had this screen for like 2 month already 2 dead pixel... very disappointed for a 800$ monitor... other than that excellent !