Adding/Including Memories
I lost my dad last year (2023) and have been finding ways to include keepsakes/memories in my workstation. I've dabbled here and there with doing small woodworking projects and attempted a wrist rest from a piece of oak I picked up with him from my great uncles wood shop. I milled it to fit a 60% keyboard as I hadn't decided what keyboard I would be using it on and thought that's where most of my wrist would be in contact even typing on a full keyboard. I gave it a torched/burn appearance as I really was lost in what to do. I found an old shell casing from going hunting with my dad in my hunting pack and decided to imbed it into the end of the wrist rest so it would just have a little difference and a small story behind it as well. I have other things around my workstation from family and friends, but it just feels a little more special having worked on it and adding something small that has a memory for me to it. (Purple was my grandmothers favorite color and I have kinda now...
Apr 8, 2024
The Nixeus uses an AHVA panel, which means even a bad calibration will give it an overall better look than the best calibrated TN in most cases, and the BenQ is far from a well calibrated TN out of the box. I'm a "wait for reviews" kind of guy, but I expect the Nixeus to wipe the floor with the BenQ given the underlying panel technology.
All that said, this is a different type of panel. It's very fast for it's type, but it isn't 1ms like the TN panels above. The colors should be way more vibrant and consistent across the panel though and the response time should be quite good.
What does this mean exactly? Freesync aside, as a gaming monitor, it should be quite good despite the 4ms response rate. Freesync and Gsync aren't really that great when it comes to 144hz monitors anyway. Both techs basically make sub 60fps look smooth on a panel by never delivering partial frames. If you are getting over 100 FPS at 144hz, it doesn't really matter if there are partial frames in there. You can't see them.
The strengths of this monitor are pretty great on paper: IPS with 4ms response Bargain Price Freesync for sub 60fps gaming 144hz for high fps gaming Gamut and lighting should blow away the aforementioned monitors.
The only con of this monitor is that isn't technically as responsive as the TN panels, but TN is always going to win in this regard.