ViewSonic VX2705-2KP-MHD Review – 1440p 144Hz IPS Budget Gaming Monitor

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This is the Viewsonic VX2705-2KP-MHD, and despite it’s clearly catchy name, it offers a pretty impressive spec sheet and budget price tag. It uses a 27” 1440p IPS panel, runs at 144Hz, offers Freesync/Adaptive Sync and comes in at just £270. That’s an excellent price tag for that sort of display, but as we all know the spec sheet never tells the whole story so is this deal just too good to be true? Let’s test it and find out.

I want to start with the panel and its response time. I’m working on a tool to let me measure this more accurately and in depth but for now I’m happy to say that thanks to overdrive this isn’t horrible, although it’s painfully slow going from lighter to darker shades. The best I got was 3ms going from black to white, which is pretty good amongst the other panels I’ve tested. It’s a lot slower returning to black though, clocking in at more like 16ms. Luckily in the highest overdrive mode, that doesn’t translate into too much ghosting. It looks like 2-3 frames worth in the central band which while not fantastic isn’t the absolute worst I’ve seen. There is a touch of overshoot in certain scenarios but on the whole it looks alright.

On the lower overdrive modes it’s not as fast, adding a frame or two more of ghosting. Interestingly, since the Hardware Unboxed review of this model, it seems like Viewsonic may have adjusted the firmware to change the overdrive mode settings as this “Ultra Fast” mode seems to be a touch more reserved while still providing a decent performance boost.

When it comes to input lag, my time sleuth reported just 1.6ms at the top of the display, making it a reasonable performer. Most other 1440p high refresh rate displays I’ve tested with this clock-in around the same. As for full system or click to photon latency, that’s fine. It averaged 35ms with a pretty consistent pattern, bar a single shot that took a little longer.

In games it’s a decent experience, the ghosting is visible in fast motion and I found it was a touch difficult to settle a shot quickly as rapid movement adds blur making it hard to pinpoint exactly what you are aiming at. But, unless I was planning on tryharding CSGO or Modern Warfare, I can’t say that would be a deal breaker for me. For the average gamer, it’s still an enjoyable experience. The more discerning gamers might want to steer clear though, but for the price tag I’m not sure I can offer a suggestion for a significantly better display that doesn’t also cost more.

Of course, gaming isn’t the only thing you’ll get up to with this, so what’s it like for everything else? For content consumption it’s a good experience. It’s nice and crisp thanks to the size and resolution, you’ve got plenty of brightness available for standard usage, and to the eye the colours look nice and vibrant. For content creation it’s not bad either, covering over 100% of the sRGB spectrum, 89% of AdobeRGB and 95% of DCI P3, and remarkably accurate out of the box. If you do a bit of content creation or 3D modelling on the side, I think you’ll enjoy using this.

Now to help hit that budget price tag, they had to cut corners somewhere and if the panel is pretty good and there is relatively little input lag, it can’t be that or the scaler. No, it’s the stand. You only get tilt adjustment, albeit a remarkable range, and my god does it wobble. Any little movement on your desk and it’ll be shaking for an hour. Ok not an hour, but longer than I’d like.

It does have a VESA mount on the back though so that issue is easily remedied, although that’s pretty much the only thing you have on the back thanks to it’s rather sparse design. The stand’s foot, while wide, is pretty simple, as is the chin bar on the front. Hardly stylish, but who cares. You do get both a DisplayPort input, and 2 HDMI ports, with both HDMI ports now being HDMI 2.0.

As for the on screen menu, it’s controlled by separated buttons on the bottom right of the display. I’d much rather see a little joystick here as it makes navigating the menu much easier but oh well. The menu is pretty tiny, and the options you have are strangely laid out. The overdrive settings are listed under “Manual Image Adjust”, under the name “Response Time”, which I suppose I get, but the backlight strobing option they call “1ms Mode” – which I couldn’t ever enable by the way, I tried Freesync on and off, 60Hz and 144Hz, in a game “View Mode” like “FPS”, nothing. Anyway that is in the “Setup Menu”, the next tab over, along with Freesync.

So, is this deal too good to be true? Not really. It’s a decent option especially considering the price, and while other options like Gigabyte’s M27Q are fantastic and potentially worth the extra cash, if your budget is strict this isn’t a bad shout. There is one catch though… The Acer VG271UP seems to have an almost identical panel, response time, input lag and colours, and also costs the same. It, however, seems to have slightly better overdrive modes and uses a thumb stick for it’s much more normal menu system, so if I could only pick one personally I’d opt for the Acer. If the VG271UP is more expensive where you are, or is out of stock, this VX2705 is still a decent option if you aren’t willing to splash out a bit more for something like the M27Q.