Whether you are a serious, competitive gamer or a couch slinger, such as myself, Benq gaming monitors are one of the top choices by gaming pros for e-Sporting events. e-Sports refer to electronic sports, or competitive gaming.

No matter how tough a gaming PC you own, or how sweet your console, if your monitor is not up to the giving you tons of lag free input along with low refresh rates and fast response speeds, your gameplay will be anything but stellar.

In this BenQ RL2455HM review, you’ll become acquainted with one of the top gaming monitors in the world today.

Benq RL2455HM Review with Features & Benefits

Introduction to the BenQ ZOWIE eSports Monitor

The world of competitive gaming is serious business, with tournaments, accolades and online betting. The RL series was specifically created by BenQ for e-Sports, or competitive gaming.

The RL2455 HM Gaming Monitor is part of that series, and has been developed for the competitive gamer in mind, striving to give players excellence in gameplay, by giving them real time strategy abilities.

Designed specifically with tournament gamers in mind, to best games such as Battlefield, HALO, Street Fighter, Call of Duty and more, the RL2455 is a eSports gamers choice.

Reasonably priced for the power and top notch service it provides, this is a solid, high performing monitor for gamers whether professional or casual.

The RL2455 HM offers gamers a convenient, easy to use screen interface, game modes and includes features designed to reduce eyestrain and promote comfort for extended game play sessions.

All this makes the RL2455 HM by BenQ a fantastic choice for gamers, video fans, as well as graphic designers.

Resolution and Response Time

Stylish and simple with a modern, black matte design, the BenQ Zowie RL2455 has a 24 inch TN panel with 1920 x 1080 resolution. This gives you the vibrant colors you’d expect from a TN panel, so its perfect for your gaming needs.

The nice size screen encourages game immersion, and has added features to reduce eyestrain during hours of extended gameplay, graphic design work or video viewing.

First Person Shooters and Fighting Games, require that the monitor match the players reflex speed, so the monitor has to be quick. Fast response time is critical and can make the difference between a win and a loss, so a monitor with a high lag time is of no use to a serious gamer.

The developers at BenQ know this, and have incorporated the RL series with its own brand of Lag Free Technology. The RL2455 has a quick 1 millisecond response time, and a refresh rate of 60 Hz, which makes it virtually lag free.

Input lag for the RL2455 averages between 3 milliseconds and 10 milliseconds, which makes it perfect for gamers who are into the intensive world of games requiring a fast response time, or animators looking to see real time renders.

As a result you get a high performance monitor that consistently displays each and every move without any lag whatsoever, which means that your movements are seen in real time display.

Picture Modes and Basic Features

The RL2455 HM has a selection of basic picture modes. Standard mode is designed for simple surfing, word processing and spread sheet work, movie mode is for video viewing, and photo mode is for viewing still imagery.

For graphic designers, sRGB mode allows for greater color accuracy, and ease of color representation when you need to use a printer or uploading from a digital camera.

Eco mode saves you electricity. The rest of the picture modes are rounded out by functional Senseye demo mode, dynamic contrast mode, smart scaling, display and overscan.

Excellence in Gaming and Gaming Modes

e-Sports is growing across the world and pro gamers who use the RL2455 HM will be pleased to know that every monitor is equipped with first person shooter and fighting game modes. If you need to switch modes quickly, BenQ has made it as easy as tapping a hotkey.

The Fighting mode is specific for fighting games, the FPS mode is for First Person Shooters, RTS1 is for playing real time strategy games, and RTS 2 is for playing DOTA2 games.

There is also a Gamer1, Gamer2, and Gamer3 mode, which are all user customizable settings. Black Equalizer feature is central to BenQ’s monitors.

This feature gives an excellent contrast level, so your blacks are more solid, and increases visibility in scenes with low light, which is useful in horror games such as the Silent Hill series.

BenQ also offers flicker free technology, and low blue light, which are both designed to reduce eye strain during extended hours of gameplay.

Smart focus is an interesting feature that is designed to allow the player to highlight a certain area and focus on it, determine the size, position and then scale.

Connectivity

For gamers, graphic designers and all manner of multi-media users, connectivity is important as players and graphic artists need to connect to a variety of devices, such as their gaming consoles, peripheral devices and PCs.

The RL2455 comes with with the following standard set of input/output connectors: DVI, dual HDMI, D-sub, but does not have a VGA connector listed in its official specs, so if your PC is older, make sure you can connect it to this monitor before purchase.

For your listening pleasure, there is also a headphone jack and line in. The RL2455HM comes with the ability for VESA wall mounting, as well.

Summary (The Final Words)

As you can see from our BenQ Zowie RL2455 Review, this is a fantastic piece of hardware, complete with a rapid response of 1 millisecond, low input lag technology, and superb visual clarity make it a top contender for pro gamers all over the world.

It comes with useful display modes, several of which are devoted to gamers, such as first person shooter and fighing games. As for comfort, the RL2455 is able to tilt, reduces glare and eye strain with its ZeroFlicker and Low Blue Light features, plus is VESA wall ready, and comes with a 3 year, standard limited warranty.

All in all, for the price, you can’t beat this monitor for overall quality and performance, we heartily approve and give it a high rating.

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