BenQ GL2480 Review: Great Budget Monitor

I wanted a faster-than-60 Hz monitor for smoother gaming but all the 144 Hz monitors in my budget have AWFUL colour and AWFUL contrast. I decided to try a 75 Hz (25% more frames than 60, eh?) and went for a Benq because my current monitor is a Benq that I was able to calibrate to a very high accuracy.(My experience includes calibration with a colourimeter, but some settings can be eyeballed with apporpriate test patterns available online.)+Fantastic value for money.+Decent contrast ratio – would probably get the quoted 1000:1 with the right settings.+White point got within 20K of 6500.+Gamma and greyscale ended up at reference levels – less than 1 dE thoughout the whole range.+Overclocks to 77 Hz (2 Hz is 2Hz, and it’s free).+Respectable pixel response/low smearing with HIGH overdrive setting.-Very disappointing gamut – it can’t reach all the way to any corner of the sRGB triangle, leaving full-stimulus colours under-saturated (best I was able to get was 91% sRGB – blues are noticeably purplish)-75 Hz only available on the HDMI, for some reason.-If I put the contrast at 50 or higher there was a HUGE change in white balance and a HUGE off-axis colour shift – it’s literally 49 = OK but 50 = too much.I wouldn’t call this a “gaming monitor”, but it’s a cheap monitor that lends itself to gaming – the difference between 60 Hz and 75 Hz is definitely noticeable. Do I prefer it to a “true” gaming monitor? At this price, absolutely – I care more about colour reproduction than frames, and I could spend twice as much as this and still not match the GL2480’s picture.