Battlefield 5 on the New Monitor: A Responsive but Imperfect Gaming Experience

I've been playing Battlefield 5 on my new monitor, and it's definitely been a pleasant experience. The monitor now runs at 144 HZ, which feels nice and snappy. It's a very responsive feeling monitor that's perfect for fast-paced games like Battlefield 5. However, I did notice some motion blur with fast movement. While it's not terrible by any stretch of the imagination, it's nowhere near the crystal smooth image of a 240 HZ OLED display panel. Those displays do come at a price, though.

In my gameplay sessions, I couldn't really see any kind of Bloom happening, which is a common issue with monitors that struggle to handle high contrast levels. However, I did find myself in games that are much darker and more contrasting than Battlefield 5, and even then, the void seemed to have descended around me, making it harder to distinguish between certain elements. This made it clear that the monitor's backlight performance was not ideal.

The reason for this became apparent when I started moving around the display off-axis. That's when I could very clearly see that Halo showing up, which pretty much invalidated one of the other benefits of a mini LED backlight – improved black levels. The IPS panel seemed to be the limiting factor here, rather than the backlight. It just looked like a wildly bright IPS display, which wasn't bad by any means.

Despite my reservations about the monitor's performance, I was impressed with its measured contrast ratio for an IPS display. However, the main benefit of the mini LED backlight in this configuration is the wild brightness it provides. The max brightness on this display is very impressive, and I did find myself turning down the brightness to make it more comfortable. But when compared directly to the OLED display that Corsair recently sent over, the difference became clear.

The first thing I noticed aside from the inkier black levels on the OLED was just how much less bright it was than my new monitor. Even at 100% brightness, the OLED seemed dull in comparison to this mini LED display. When playing DOTA on my Titan Army Monitor, it was way brighter than the OLED at 83%. This really puts into perspective the power of that mini LED backlight.

I did get a bit carried away comparing the two displays, but I think that's because I've been spoiled by the brightness and image quality of the OLED display. The factory color calibration on my AliExpress special was more accurate than the OLED, though. Aside from the significantly darker black levels and lack of IPS glow, the image seemed way clearer on the mini LED display.

I've been surprised by how good gaming displays can be found on AliExpress, despite the risks involved. Apparently, you can get pretty good gaming displays on this platform, although we still need to discuss price, which is a very interesting topic with this display. I paid around $500 for it, which for a mini LED display seems relatively affordable. However, considering that this technology is quite expensive, $500 does feel like a lot of money.

In conclusion, my experience with the Titan Army display from AliExpress has been largely positive. It feels like a normal IPS display but on steroids in terms of brightness. I'm sold on the value of insane peak brightness that's something that OLED displays really need to figure out over the next coming years.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enif you're in the market for a gaming monitor there are two ways you can go about it.  the first boring way is head to whatever local reputable Hardware Source  you have and buy a well-reviewed monitor or you can be a real badass who doesn't live  by life's Petty reasonable rules and take your chances buying a random high-end gaming monitor  from a brand you've never heard of before off AliExpress I wonder which one I wentwith the monitor in question is this Titan Army 27 in 1440p high refresh  rate gaming monitor which uses a mini LED backlight something that I've wanted to try  for ages considering it can reproduce the kind of brightness used to down commercial airliners and  as you can tell by the writing on the box this is clearly not intended for the Canadian Marketin terms of accessories we get this 150 W power brick with an adapter for us to use in the North  American Market which is a really nice touch it's cool that they thought of that uh cuz  this cable is for China some standoffs for Vasa mounting a display port and HDMI cable and this  is a monitor calibration Factory report that looks like it was pulled out of my eighth grade school  backpack I don't know what happened to it uh but it's cool that they include this cuz it shows that  with the Adobe RGB space for example it's quite accurate although I will test it myself I'm not  just going to take their word for it uh oh they did actually test for two other color spaces aswell oh that is some Christmas doily quality plastic right there that is about as  much IO as a non- psychopath would ever need I think these are HDMI 2.0 ports it's prettygood ooh so much staing now that looks exactly how I'd imagine a gaming monitor off  of AliExpress would look it is real plasticky we've got some Titan Army font going on here I  think from the listing it does say that some of this lights up around the back the stand  adjustability is pretty good so you can kind of swivel it like that you can height select it I  like that it's not super sturdy but you know it's it's it's a usable stand and you can go portrait  with it but it's like barely tall enough to clear the stand you kind of have to turn it out to get  it to swivel around but still that is a decent stand and little bit of C routing hole it does  seem to have quite thin bezels and the Titan Army doesn't look great but you know it looks fine it's  plain enough that I wouldn't be humiliated if the in-laws saw it the green and orange does bother me  a bit though let me quickly see if I'm justified in my outrage over the color matching yeah I I'd  say my outrage about the the color matching is Justified here with that vital bit of information  covered let's power it up and see what it looks like ooh what a graphic wow this is already very  bright I wonder what brightness setting this is at that looks like an old Alienware menu wao this is  50% brightness now while I struggled to navigate the OSD menus using the terrible little buttons  on the bottom of the monitor let me tell you why I was so fascinated to try a mini LED gaming monitor  now mini LED as the name suggests uses small LEDs behind the display to illuminate it which  has the advantage of retina searing brightness this monitor in fact apparently has an HDR 1000  certification but considering that we're not at the point where mini LED backlights can have an  LED per pixel we do run into some problems in fact this 27in display only has 384 zones of  lighting which is a lot less than the millions of pixels that this display has now the reason  this is potentially a problem is if you have a very bright thing and a very dark thing right  next to each other sharing the same lighting Zone what does the backlight do then well struggle but  struggle in an interesting way but let's see if the problem presents itself with the first gaming  impression now this is Battlefield 5 running in HDR because you know HDR 1 million and all that  uh it's something I've not seen before and well it it looks like Battlefield 5 the monitor now  running at 144 HZ feels nice and Snappy it's a very responsive feeling monitor but there  is some motion blur with fast movement it's not terrible by any stretch of the imagination but  it's nowhere near the crystal smooth image of like the 240 HZ OLED algae panels but those do  cost a lot more with Battlefield 5 I can't really see any kind of Bloom happening and that's with  me specifically looking for it uh but there is a game that's a lot darker and more cont rasty than  this which may have a problem with it so the void has descended around me now so we can more clearly  tell kind of backlight performance and even in the very contrasty menus of escape from takov  I'm struggling to see any halo around any of the the contrasty bits and I think the reason for that  is because this monitor has pretty bad IPS glow which means that the black levels aren't really  deep enough for me to see the haloing I think that's the problem here which is something that  becomes clear when you start moving around the display off axis you can start to very  clearly see that Halo show up which pretty much invalidates one of the other benefits of a mini  LED backlight improved black levels because the backlight isn't the limiting factor here  the IPS panel is in this configuration it just looks like a wildly bright IPS display which  isn't a bad thing it measures very interestingly the measured contrast is crazy high for an IPS  display despite everything I just said but to my eye the main benefit is the wild brightness  and the max brightness is very impressive if a little redundant I did turn it down quite a bit  cuz it was almost uncomfortably bright but then I decided to quite unfairly compare it to the OLED  display that Corsair recently sent over which is unfair cuz that display is a lot more expensive  who the first thing that I noticed aside from the inky black levels on the OLED is the OLED is so  much less bright than that Titan Army I was just playing DOTA on that Titan Army Monitor and at 83%  brightness it is way Brighter Than This OLED is at 100% brightness and a direct comparison between  these two displays really puts into perspective how powerful that mini LED backlight is and I  think even the factory color calibration is more accurate on our AliExpress special but because  of the oled's lack of ips glow aside from just the significantly darker black levels and lack  of backlight glow the image seems way clearer the Titan Army in comparison almost seems like it's  got a grainy filter over the image but on that note I've gotten a bit carried away comparing  mini LED and OLED Willie sizes the point of this video was um oh AliExpress gaming monitors now  I'm actually very surprised by this Titan Army display from the sample size of one apparently  you can get pretty good gaming displays on Ali Express although we do still need to discuss  price which is a very interesting topic with this display I paid about 500 us for it which for a  mini LED display is actually not that much money it's a very expensive technology but for a gaming  display it is quite a lot of money and considering that this feels like a normal IPS display just on  a bit of steroids in terms of brightness I feel like it's too much for what the monitor  is but either way I was quite impressed with the display and it's really sold me on the value of  insane Peak brightness that's something that OLED displays really need to figure out over the next  coming years um yeah let me know in the comment section down below what you think of the display  and I think that brings me to the end of the video thank you for watching until the next one bye-byea