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We have collected 2 reviews of the BenQ RL2240H. Experts rate BenQ RL2240H 9/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the BenQ RL2240H and BenQ LCD monitors.
You're a gamer, you're on a tight budget and you need an LCD screen. Five years ago, we'd have pitied your predicament. Whatever you ended up with, it wasn't going to be pretty. Fast forward to today and the BenQ RL2240H gaming-optimised 22-inch panel is yours for just £110. And it's full HD. Yippee. That's right, a full HD screen from a proper brand for £100 and the cost of a packet of fags. Ish. Give it up for globalisation and preposterously low electronics prices – but we digress. Cost and relatively modest screen diagonal aside, this BenQ also claims to improve your gaming prowess in RTS games. What you're actually getting is an operating mode with colours and contrast tweaked for the demands of RTS games. If we're really honest, as with most preset modes, we probably wouldn't bother. The difference is marginal at best, and where it is noticeable, not unambiguously for the better. It's better to concentrate on the screen's traditional TN virtues when it comes to gaming. Okay, it's a classic TN panel, and that means black tones are corrupted with the slightest hint of blue, and there's a bit of bleed around the panel edge. Inevitably, you'll discover some compression of whites if you can be bothered to fire up the Lagom scales.
The BenQ RL2240H is the perfect gaming monitor for those on a budget, costing just £113. The 21.5-inch LED backlit display is of an extremely high quality and there’s also a wide range of display modes for you to choose from. Also, with the ability to hook the monitor up via HDMI, you’re definitely getting one hell of a monitor for around the £100 mark. Let’s take a closer look… Our first impressions of the BenQ RL2240H were that it looked very sleek with its glossy white design. It was also very lightweight, meaning that it was easy to move around. This could be seen as a problem for the accident-prone among us, but we feel that the overall weight of the monitor isn’t a problem due to it being fairly far back on our desk. If we move around the sides and edges of the monitor, you’ll notice that we’ve got the BenQ logo in the centre, and also the menu buttons on the right-hand side of the monitor. Now, you’ll most likely be wondering which button is which. After you press one of the buttons the menu will pop-up in the corner. Each button corresponds to a certain action or movement, just like a standard monitor. We’ll cover this in slightly more detail during the testing stage. In terms of connectivity on the RL2240T, you actually receive a decent amount of ports, with the power socket and headphone jack on the left, and the HDMI, DVI and VGA ports on the right.