BenQ GL2580H Gaming Monitor 24.5 inch 1080p | 1ms (GtG) Response Time | Optimized for Home and Work with Low Blue Light technology

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This review is for the GC2870C. There are hundreds of reviews, but I wanted to add my perspective. After researching monitors over several weeks, I bought the BenQ for a very bright office at work. My IT department is the worst because they just dont care what workers need; I was using very old 19 inch Dells with terrible viewing angles and low resolution. They also supply very glossy Dell monitors that are practically unusable in a room with a window. What an upgrade is this BenQ monitor! Since I bought this with my own personal funds for use at work, price was an issue, and this monitor for around $160 fit the budget. My office is extremely bright, with a south-facing aspect in a very sunny climate. The south wall of my office is 100% window horizontally, and vertically, there is only three feet at the bottom that is wall and not window. So its very, very sunny. I do have a black screen I can pull down, but it doesnt black out the room and the sun still shines through it. Plus who wants to sit in a black room for eight to 10 hours a day? This monitor is fabulous in such a bright setting, even without the shade closed. There almost no glare, and images and text are crisp and easily viewed. The wide viewing angle helps tremendously, too. I was having terrible eye strain and headaches with my last monitors due to the glare and the awful viewing angle. So far after half a day, Ive noticed a huge difference. Im no longer squinting to read text. Keep in mind that this model (GC2870H) does NOT have speakers. Not an issue for me in an office where I use headphones. Overall, this is a great value and works well in a very bright office setting using a web browser and office applications. (I played HD video to test it out, and that looks great, too!)

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This seemed like a great budget gaming monitor, and i really like some of the features BenQ offers, like low-blue-light settings. But a core feature of this product -- the speakers -- simply do not work, and havent since the day it arrived! There is no useful guidance I can find online, from BenQ or anyone else, to fix this problem. Other people have run into it, but most of them advise just accepting that youll get no sound from this monitor and moving on. Other than that, its a fine monitor for the price. But I expect a basic level of functionality from products, and this experience makes me very cautious about buying any BenQ products going forward.

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Gotta be one of the most reliable monitors Ive ever used. Very good price for what you get. There is HDMI, VGA, and DVI allowing for multiple devices at once, and it automatically switches input when you turn off one device and connect another. The low blue light mode is a must have, especially when trying to reduce eye strain at night. Would recommend!

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This was my first real monitor purchase and I didn’t want to overspend on anything high end. I was a little skeptical because I wasn’t familiar with the brand but overall I’m very impressed so far. I’ve got two setup side by side and they’re perfect for it, no little bottom edge pieces sticking out like others I looked looked at so they fit seamlessly. The border around the picture is also very minimal. I plan on getting a VESA mount however I was surprised how sturdy the bases are and overall they seem like well built monitors. Definitely a good value and I recommend!

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I had been using a 24" dell monitor that was gifted to me by a friend and was curious to take a dip a little further into the world of monitors because I do quite a bit of gaming on my PC. This was an immediately noticeable upgrade in picture quality and the tearing in my games has gone away completely without having to enable vertical sync. The low blue light modes are an excellent added bonus for heavy night-time users and there are 4 different levels of it which is great. If there were a spectrum of picture quality starting at my old dell lcd monitor and ending at my macbooks retina display I would put this one smack dab in the middle if not leaning a little towards the retina. And at this price point its pretty hard to pass that up.

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Overall, the screen is good. Using it with my Macbook Pro. Interestingly, the resolution is much better when I have the display set on the Mac display rather than the BenQ display; I dont know why, but when the computer is set on the BenQ display, it looks very pixelated.

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love this monitor! I am using MacBook Pro 13" and usually read PDF and do surfing internet. My eyes feel comfortable with this monitor. I received perfect condition which doesnt have any damaged pixel. I also like the screen is not glossy then it does not reflect lights!! I definitely recommend this monitor to someone who has to watch monitor every day.

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seems nice at the moment, beautiful picture, colors are perfect, its only 2 days old, we shall see how reliable it is, my better half can break an anvil

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Very nice monitor if you want good color reproduction and only 1080p. Its nice and large, easy to see. I would have liked to have had a Display Port input for my Lenovo, but other than that, it is a very good buy.

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BenQ describes how many colors this monitor displays, etc. etc. I get its a TN monitor but for $130 you can do so much better in terms of product material quality and display quality. Games are unplayable because the screen is not bright enough and changing the gamma wont solve a thing. For this price range, you wont regret an IPS Asus or Acer monitor. BenQs IPS monitors might be better but the display quality of the TN monitors are atrocious. Stay away from them.

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