Beautiful design, plenty of ports
Excellent speakers & built-in microphone
Intelligent HDRi
Great in games and productivity
Weak local dimming
No KVM Switch
Demands a sizeable investment
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While so many TVs in the last two years have shipped with HDMI 2.1 for 4K120 gaming, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best gaming monitors haven't really kept in step. So if you wanted to have a desk setup that includes a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, you didn't have much choice. The new BenQ Mobiuz EX3210U is a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:4K monitor for gaming at the precipice of a wave of neꦕw monitor♐s that support this feature.
Retailing at $1,100/£1,100 the EX3210U comes with two HDM1 2.1 ports perfect for the blessed few who have both next-gen consoles and all the ports you need for your PC/laptop and peripherals too. The intelligent HDRi system really makes a difference in games and media and the built-in TrueSou𓃲nd by TreVolo speakers are the best I&📖rsquo;ve heard on any monitor (granted, that isn’t a very high bar to begin with).
The EX3210U is one of the best looking monitors around, falling a close second behind 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alienware’s offerings. The entire back is a clean white with four angled LED backlight strips which you can adjust to your f🧔ancy. The front has thin bezels that are offset by a chunky chin that houses the TreVolo so🍒undbar.
Embedded into the soundbar is the HDRi quick button while the rest of the OSD menu buttons live on the bottom edge which is great for accessibility. The EX3210U also comes with a handy little remote which has common actio༒ns like swapping video inputs, adjusting volume, picture and game modes.
The ports at the back include two HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, power port and four USB Type-A for all your peripherals. These are 💖powered by a Type-B Upstream but sadly, thꦡere isn’t a KVM switch built into the EX3210U which would have been really great.
The stand is a solid affair whose angled f🍰eet don’t take up much desk space and keeps the massiv𓆏e 32-inch panel from wobbling. You get the usual height, tilt and swivel adjustment but no rotation to portrait mode. You can VESA mount it though which would give you more flexibility.
The EX3210U uses a flat IPS panel with a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels in standard 16:9 aspect with a 144Hz refresh and 4ms response time. It also supports HDR10 and VESA DisplayHDR 600 🐎which alludes to its positioning as a console monitor too. It’s also got fabulous color accuracy of 98% DCI-P3 and 99% Adobe sRGB. Colors are punchy and vibrant.
As a professional designer of over 20 years, I’m very sensitive 𝄹to color changes and oddities and I am very pleased with the BenQ. There are a few professional color modes in the OSD but you can also dial in your own, preferred settings with ease. Generally, content from web browsing to movies to games look wonderful on the EX3210U.
I played a ton of Destiny 2 The Witch Queen, Assassin's Creed Origins on PC as well as Ghost of Tsushima on the PlayStation 4 Pro (it's ideal as a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 monitor or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X monitor for new-gen 4K120Hz gaming). The clarity and sharpness of 4K gaming is absolutely beautiful and they also run smoothly with no juddering or tearing thanks to adaptive sync. Addition🅷ally, the monitor automatically switches to settings you saved for each individual device.
HDR performance is decent but not mind blowing. This is mostly due to the limited local dimming. The EX3210U uses edge dimming which can't achieve the contrast needed. In fact, the corners on screen often look washed🐬 out in dark content especially when viewed off-center.
That said, the HDRi Intelligent HDR feature is impressive. It automatically determines the best settings for the kind of content on screen. Impressively, HDRi will work on SDR content as well &🤪ndash; essentially faking HDR for you. It does a great job pulling out detail and contrast in the image with separate modes for Game, Cinem🌜a and Display HDR. I found Display HDR mode to have the best color and contrast range that suited my taste.
As for sound, the 2.1 channel TrueSound TreVolo speakers actually sound really good. They are rich with good body and decent bass — thanks to a 5W🌃 woofer. It’s not going to win you any Apex Legends matches but for most games, it’s pretty great with excellent staging and can get very loud.
At slightly over the four-figure mark, this isn’t a cheap monitor but that seems to be a market-wide problem rather than an indivuidal problem. If you want a single monitor for your consoles, PC and Mac, then the BenQ Mobiuz EX3210U is an easy recommendation. I’ve really enjoyed using it over the past few weeks thanks to its gorgeous 4K gaming and productivity chops. The built-in speakers and microphone were a big surprise and handy too. The poor dimming zones compromise the HDR experience but not enough to be a deal breaker. A much better versions of this would be a model with Mini-LED (like the even-more expensive 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:AOC Agon PRO PD32M) or OLED.
The BenQ Mobiuz EX3210U replaced my monitor as my daily driver. I had it connected to a gaming PC with an RTX 3080 as well as MacBook Pro 16 𝕴and either Xbox One X or PlayStation 4. I did all my daily professional design work, writing, web browsing on this screen. I also watched a ton of high-res, HDR streaming content and, of course, all of my gaming in 4K at the highest settings. I started and finished over 40 hours of Assassin's Creed Origins as well as the entire Destiny 2 Witch Queen campaign.
Since I'm one of the many unlucky ones who've been unable to get their hands on the PS5 or XSX, I tested 4K120 gaming over HDMI 2.1 using a powerful MSI ga☂ming laptop that easily matches those new consoles for performance. I listened to a host of content over the speakers to get a sense of how loud and clear they performed.
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