Why VA Gaming Monitors Kinda Suck...

over the last while I've been living with some  va-based gaming monitors and I quickly came to   the conclusion which is my opinion of course  that VA monitors despite many strengths kind   of suck for gaming now if you want a very  condensed reason why I think that here is   some motion being displayed on an IPS gaming  monitor whereas here is some motion being   displayed on a va-based gaming monitor oh look  at that smearing now as is always the case with   life it's not quite as straightforward as  VA panels give you cholera and IPS panels   give you belly rubs so we're gonna have a  closer look at gaming on VA panels in this   video to see how we feel about it by the  end of it but before we get into that it's   time for a word from today's video sponsor  that helped buy some monitors for the video in a world dominated by garbage  trash fans one fan Rises to the   top with uncompromised build quality  and a dedication to Performance the   be quiet silent Wing fours lay waste to  the competition no unicorn vomit gimmicks   just silent performance and dependable  reliability the be quiet silent Wing Force foreign experience with a VA panel was earlier this  year with a Samsung g302 and I was really   excited to try it out because VA solves one  of the biggest shortcomings of ips displays   contrast ratio IPS displays really struggle  to display deep black levels and VA is much   better at it although my excitement evaporated  quickly for the g302 because the motion rendering   was very blurry which in a game like escape  from tarkov which I was playing a lot back   then it makes it really difficult to spot enemy  players far off in the distance because every   time you move everything just kind of blurs  together it didn't look very good so I sent   it back quite quickly and replaced it with a  24 inch LG IPS display which despite having   very similar response time and refresh rate  specs had motion rendering that didn't feel   like it was rubbing Vaseline into my eyes every  time I touched my mouse and this was my first   disappointing experience with VA you can have  black levels deeper than the Mariana Trench   but if the monitor has built-in heavy motion  blur it's not going to be a good gaming display now my second experience with a VA panel was  by far the longest and most disappointing and   it was with this Cooler Master gm34 cqargb  what a beautiful name now don't get me wrong   this monitor has a beautiful image it's bright  contrasty the colors pop and are really amazing   but that's with static images the moment that  there's movement things all fall apart really   badly it has a pretty serious black smearing  problem with movement that picture that I showed   you in the beginning of the video of the smury  asteroid yes that one that was from this display   the smearing problem is so bad on this monitor  that in the video where I first looked at it I   was convinced the panel was damaged in shipping  but a lot of people commented on that video   saying nah that's just what VA looks like now in  the displays menus there are a lot of settings   to help combat this things like overdrive and  Clarity settings but that smeary asteroid picture   was with the best settings I could find for the  monitor in terms of motion rendering having said   that it is better in some games than others  Battlefield 5 for example doesn't have an   immediately obvious smearing problem at least  depending on the map so despite having very   impressive response time and refresh rate specs  this monitor has a really bad motion artifact   which after spending a month using this monitor as  my primary gaming display I just couldn't get used   to it it's so distracting so I decided to go out  and buy a comparable IPS alternative to this VA   Ultra wide so that they can battle it out it's a  surprisingly light big monitor now for this video   I went out and bought this GN 850 by LG because  aside from two characteristics it being an IPS   as opposed to a VA and it having a slightly less  aggressive curve to it specs wise this monitor   is remarkably similar to that Cooler Master  VA panel I've been using it's even got a nano   IPS panel compared to the quantum.va on the other  monitor so it's like gimmick IPS versus gimmick VA   and first impressions were very positive yeah  the motion is so much better than it is on the VA   panel like it is a remarkable difference between  the two actually but remember earlier in the video   I said Battlefield 5 wasn't nearly the worst  offender when it came to the smearing on the VA   panel so let's get to some other comparisons first  I tried out some high contrast CS go with the IPS   display in its stock configuration compared to  the VA panel in the best motion settings now   this is by no means a perfect test but it does  help to illustrate the difference the VA panel   has a lot more overshoot and the edges of the  gun is quite a bit more blurry and despite being   said to the same refresh rate and having similar  response times to my eye in person the VA looked   a lot blurrier I then moved over to No Man's sky  where initially subjectively I didn't notice much   of a difference between the two displays which  I found really weird considering that I noticed   really bad smearing while using the VA panel  at home so I got into my ship flew around a bit   it and eventually found some smearing on the VA  and the inconsistency of the smearing intensity   in no man's sky made me realize something which I  quickly confirmed playing around in Photoshop the   extent to the black smearing on this Cooler Master  VA panel varies massively depending on the color   palette of the scene which is why some games smear  more than others on this display and considering   the worst defending color palette it's real bad  news for people who like to use dark mode browsing   even just scrolling through a dark Mode YouTube  feed on this Cooler Master VA looks pretty rough   which shows it's not only a problem for gaming  but don't get me wrong even motion that is in a   color palette that doesn't offend this monitor is  still pretty bad looking but at least it doesn't   have that deep black smearing in it but is that  the case for all VA monitors are they all good   unless you like movement and gray well to find  out I guess I've gotta go buy another monitor now I also bought this LG 32 gk60 for a couple of  reasons first off I wanted to display that price   wise landed between The Cooler Master and the  Samsung display that I tried a while ago also   it is one of the few VA panels that I've seen  around at the moment that isn't curved that's   that's quite rare for some reason so let's  plug in this LG V8 Monitor and see if it's   any better now my first impression is actually  that I really like this screen size 32 inches   awesome although this one's 1440p which you know  the pixel density is not great but at 4K this   would be amazing anyway that's not really why  we're here so let's get into some of the games   that we used earlier for motion rendering  tests oh another player that's very rare   um anyway aside from that even even not in a  scene where the monitor is offended by Gray's   ah the motion rendering is really bad on these  displays bye player and after that excitement I   launched my spaceship and very quickly realized  that the smearing was definitely a problem on   this monitor as well oh it's so bad and with  this shot that looks like it's from footage of   a Bigfoot sighting there's the smearing clear  as day having said that the smearing on this LG   VA isn't quite as bad as the smearing on that  Cooler Master VA but honestly it still looks   pretty terrible so at the end of the day both IPS  and VA each have one main shortcoming IPS doesn't   have particularly good contrast ratio whereas VA  has pretty terrible motion rendering one of those   is a bit of a shame the other is a complete deal  breaker at least to me now I am quite sensitive to   this kind of thing so maybe it's not going to be  as big a deal for you let me know in the comment   section down below if you have a VA panel that  you use for gaming where you don't really mind   about the smearing or haven't noticed all also I  have seen some Hardware unboxed reviews of some   high-end new Samsung VA panels which apparently  mostly solve the problem however I haven't had   any first-hand experience with either of those  monitors so I can't really comment on that which   neatly brings me to the closing thoughts on this  video something may seem very promising on paper   but it doesn't mean that it won't attack your  eyes with dessert Forks the moment you get it   behind closed doors anyway until the next  video thank you for watching bye thank you

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Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 15 2022