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Everything looks smoother on the world's first 240Hz gaming monitor. The fluid motion combined with low input lag and color presets from professional gamers ensure a can't-miss experience whether you play first-person shooter, fighting or other fast-action genres.
Experience fluid gameplay free from motion blur with the gaming industry's first 240Hz monitor. EIZO's Turbo 240 converts 120Hz input signals to 240Hz for a refresh rate double that of conventional gaming monitors, so you can enjoy the smoothest motion display yet for first-person shooter, racing, and other fast-action genres.
Input lag, or the time it takes for commands from a keyboard, mouse, or controller to appear on the screen, can be the difference between hitting your target and missing it. EIZO developed its own integrated circuit to ensure your commands appear onscreen without delay.
Play like the pros with gaming presets from pro gamers such as Counter-Strike legend Patrik "cArn" Sättermon and Dota 2 player Johan "n0tail" Sundstein. Use the bundled software, ScreenManager Pro for Gaming, to download these and other presets from gaming.eizo.com or to export your own presets.
The FORIS FG2421 uses a new VA (vertical alignment) panel with a native contrast ratio of 5000:1. This is five times more than what other gaming monitors offer and increases the visibility in dark scenes so you can spot enemies more quickly.
The rear cabinet design features an LED backlit EIZO logo on a glossy surface surrounded by a vermillion frame. The logo glows brilliantly in a dimly-lit room or in a tournament setting. The front cabinet has a simple design so you can focus on the screen.
Pros: First, the good parts. The color, contrast, and viewing angles on this monitor blow away the other gaming monitors due to its superior VA panel. Other 120hz gaming monitors such as the popular offerings from Asus and BenQ are inherently limited by the TN panel technology. When I tried the Asus and BenQ gaming monitors, it looked like someone had put a gray film in front of the monitor - the colors looked washed out, and the blacks never appeared quite black. Not with the Eizo. The contrast on the FG2421 is 5 times better than the closest competitor, and it shows. The black is very black, and the shadow details are amazing. The increased contrast really adds a lot of depth to 3d objects and makes them pop a lot more. Dark scenes in movies and games were no longer a gray, dull mess but detailed, immersive, and realistic. In lagom.nl test/calibration pages, the TN panels had a lot of trouble rendering all of the black/white shades and even showed noticeable dithering. The Eizo had no trouble rendering all of the shades. The colors are very good - although not up to the standards of better IPS panels, they are still miles above any TN panel. After a bit of calibration, still images and photographs looked almost but not quite as good as my IPS and PLS panels. However, in my opinion, this is more than made up by the superior contrast. Completely accurate colors are good if you're a graphics professional, but as long as the colors are very good and pleasing to the eye, good black levels and contrast will go further to immerse you in the game or movie you're viewing. The viewing angles are good, though again, not as good as an IPS panel. There is also a slight gamma shift related to the VA panel technology in that the area of the screen directly in front of you will appear slightly darker (hard to notice in motion or complex scenes). Again, compared to TN panels where the colors on the top of the screen looked completely different from the colors on the bottom of the screen, the difference is night and day. The other huge selling point of this monitor is that it does hardware-level backlight strobing for motion clarity (Eizo calls it "Turbo" mode or 240hz mode). With "Turbo" on, the monitor inserts a black frame between each normal frame to get rid of the LCD motion blur. The difference in motion clarity in a fast-moving first-person shooter or on a moving image test is amazing. The Asus and BenQ 120hz monitors can do this by using a Lightboost hack, but the Eizo's is easier in that you can just do it straight from the monitor's OSD menu regardless of your graphics card or driver. The best part though, is that turning this mode on doesn't destroy image quality like the Lightboost monitors do. Lastly, the monitor has a nice semi-gloss matte finish that doesn't seem to suffer from the anti-glare sparkle or glow effect, and the response time/input lag are also good, hovering around ~1 frame's worth of ms when added together.
Cons: Now the bad part - the units I received had horrendous backlight bleeds, dead pixels, and very noticeable cross-hatching (diagonal lines that go across the entire monitor, very noticeable in panning scenes or when you have grays, skin tones, walls, sky/clouds, etc on your screen). I have seen $150 monitors with better screen uniformity and quality control than these Eizos. To have these kinds of widespread problems on a $600 monitor is inexcusable. First the backlight bleeding - all four edges of the screen had bad backlight bleeds, especially the right side (other people have reported the same severe right side bleed). The bad areas are about half an inch on the top, left, and bottom, and about 2-3 inches on the right side, which is very noticeable. It's especially distracting since the monitor has such good black levels, because in dark scenes you'll see a very noticeable halo around the whole scene. Mind you, I'm using this monitor at around 22 Brightness, so it's not like I have it cranked up high. Dead pixels - the first unit I received had 3 dead/stuck pixels. Two were off to the sides, but one of them was right around the middle of the screen and was extremely annoying and distracting. The second unit I received had a small area of dull pixels (appears gray on a white background) right around the right center of the screen, which actually looked like it could be a foreign object that got stuck under the screen during the manufacturing process. And then there's the crosshatching and general screen uniformity. This is really bad. There are diagonal cross-hatching marks going all across the monitor at several different places. It's especially noticeable in any kind of panning scenes or scenes with a lot of skin tones, mid grays, skies, clouds, walls, etc. It looks like someone took a tiny paint roller and streaked it across the screen in multiple areas. In addition to these, there are some smudges under the screen and just very uneven screen uniformity in general (there are pictures from other users on hardware forums). Basically this makes the monitor look like there's dirt all over the screen at all times, which is very distracting. The worst part is that these defects seem system-wide. Countless other buyers are reporting the exact same problems all over the internet. I'm not sure if it's Eizo or Sharp (who makes the panel), but there's a serious problem in their manufacturing process or quality control (I suspect it's Sharp, as I've bought a Sharp Aquos TV some years back that suffered from some major horizontal banding issues and other screen uniformity problems). Some even speculate that Eizo takes the rejected panels from their premium monitors and sticks them into the FG2421, which wouldn't really surprise me.
Overall Review: Summary: Without defects, this monitor is by far the best gaming monitor out there currently, with 120hz, hardware strobe mode for motion clarity, and a VA panel with colors, viewing angles, and contrast that blow away every other gaming monitor on the market. However, most of these monitors currently out there seem to suffer from major, glaring defects such as cross-hatching, backlight bleeding, and dead pixels. Pros: ++Incredible contrast ratio, deep blacks and great shadow details ++Built-in “Turbo” strobe mode that’s much better than Lightboost ++Great, near-IPS quality colors and viewing angles ++120hz vertical refresh rate +Low response time and input lag +Attractive semi-gloss matte finish Cons: --Horrible, horrible quality control and screen uniformity. Cross-hatching, dead pixels, smudges, huge backlight bleeding especially on right edge of the monitor --Quality control issues not limited to just a few select monitors but rather, system-wide. Do your research. You're gambling and playing the lottery with this monitor. -Slight VA panel gamma shift -No VESA mount, can't rotate display -Slight ghosting on some color/background combinations due to VA panel -"240hz" is misleading as it's not true 240hz But do not just take my word for it. If you’re spending this much money on a monitor you’ll be using for years, do your research! Google the monitor name and read hardware forum threads dedicated to discussing this monitor. You’ll find countless others who have gone through multiple FG2421's and have experienced the same problems and disappointment. I've owned and used all kinds of monitors ranging from CRTs to 1440p LCD using IPS, PLS, VA, and TN panels. Before purchasing the Eizo FG2421, I had a Dell Ultrasharp and a QNix PLS panel that I usually run at 96hz or 110hz overclocked. I tried the latest Asus and BenQ 120hz Lightboost panels, but could not stand the TN panels' washed out colors, horrible viewing angles, and lack of good contrast and black levels even after hours of calibration. I liked the Lightboost hack for getting rid of motion blur, but that destroyed the gamma levels and made the colors look even worse. So when I found out about the Eizo FG2421, I was ecstatic. The initial couple of reviews looked good, and I thought I had finally found a 120hz gaming monitor that didn't compromise on image quality like all TN panel gaming monitors do. I really wanted to love this monitor, and still believe that it's the best gaming monitor out there were it not for all its defects. In fact, I would gladly pay $100-$200 more for a very good sample of this monitor, not even a perfect one, just one that doesn't have such severe bleeding or cross-hatching issues. I love this monitor and want to keep it, but I can't. It's just not worth all the defects and headache I've gone through. I've always held Eizo in high regard as they have a reputation of making quality high-end monitors, but I've completely los