Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “PIXIO PX248PA Review”.
Are we entering the era of affordable 1080p High frame rate gaming well, pixio seems to think so. At least 144 HZ 1080p yeah on offer today is the pixio PX 248 PA comes in the big red box. What do you get in the Box? Get a very simple stand: this is a Visa mount monitor. It’S 100 mm vount, no problem! You got dual display port 1.4 as well as HDMI. It comes bundled with an inexpensive display port 1.4 cable that just barely passes display port 1.4 on our cable tester. Probably not a good cable to use with a KVM or an extension or a right angle, adapter, but it’ll get the job done for just this particular monitor with most gpus also comes with a Phillips head screwdriver for mounting the foot to the stand, the stand’s pre-installed. You can take it off if you’re going to use a Visa Mount. It’S got a four-way hat switch for your onscreen controls. This is a free sync premium monitor, which presumably means that AMD has evaluated the freesync capabilities of this Monitor and with the Leo bodar, we can see that the input delay it’s on the order of about 1.5 milliseconds give or take. We can also measure that this panel out of the box is not in mprt mode, which means that the panel is not running at 144 HZ all the time, regardless of the input signal, uh black Fame frame, insertion, that’s a whole Rabbit Hole to go down. We’Re not going to talk about that for this, because this is not a super highend monitor. Similarly, if you look at the spec sheet, this monitor is capable of HDR, but it’s a very basic HDR. The manufacturer data on my particular monitor, even though I just got it – is December 2021, which is not a big deal, but that sort of says, hey pixio is trying to get rid of these because the Technologies is moving on. This is an IPS type panel and you can see that in our color gamut, our Adobe srgb color coverage. It is a pretty good, accurate, color monitor out of the box in the onscreen settings. You do have overdriver capabilities and it comes on low by default. It also comes with freesync premium disabled, so I enabled freesync premium and I’m happy to report that you know everything is picked up normally and adrenaline for a test setup here, I’m using it with the GPD win Max 2023 and an external 8 GB 7600 XT. This is a pretty capable graphics card and a pretty capable gaming setup. I’Ve also enabled the onscreen display to tell us how many frames per second we’re running out in the corner. Um. You can also get to that information.
If you just you know, bring up the info here and you can see there, it says 144 HZ, not bad real world gaming. With this okay Doom Eternal, it’s a little bit of a twitch shooter, I’m going to know if something isn’t right with how the monitor behaves playing a game like that and playing Doom maternal. It’S pretty enjoyable experience the HDR option. I mean you, you can turn on HDR in Windows and it functions, but it’s not really not really.
An amazing HDR experience. It’S a much better gaming experience. If you go in and out of HDR mode for watching a movie versus your desktop Windows, browsing experience yeah, I might be a little spoiled because I’ve experienced hdr on OLED type displays, which is a whole other experience and OLED is a completely different panel technology, wherein The panel actually does run really insanely fast for doing this kind of panel with Chase squares, it’s kind of an unofficial way to just get a baseline, so you use a high-speed camera. That’S set for like 1 300th of a second shutter speed and you take pictures of a square on the panel.
So you can, you know, see how quickly the panel is changing. If the panel could change in 1 millisecond that’s 1,000 times per second, then you would only ever capture one square, because every frame frame only has one square on in the chase Square setup. But in this we can see that yeah. There are some frames that have two squares on and doing the napkin math on how quick the panel actually is H.
It’S on the order of about 3 four five milliseconds, depending on how lit up or how not lit up the square. Is you want to count that it’s a really really good result for an IPS type panel in the olden days you would have uh. You know this kind of an argument where it’s like. Is it a VA type panel? Is it just TM panel? Is it an IPS panel and it’s really hard to compare tnva and IPS, especially over a period of years, so like this monitor design dating from 2021 has one of the best IPS panels that I’ve ever seen and certainly versus an older, VA or TN panel? There’S no disadvantage here. Usually an IPS type panel is slower, but this particular IPS panel combination size 24 in 1080P resolution, whatever overdriver Magic, that pixio is doing in their Hardware. You get a very similar experience to what you would have have from a TN type panel. Just a few years ago, so you wouldn’t buy a TN panel over this and lose out on the color accuracy because of response time, because the response time here is actually pretty good. Generally, it’s getting to be the case that the real differentiator and response time is going to move up to a wildly more expensive display type like OLED anyway and at around 50 us. This is a pretty good deal. That’S about all.
There is to say about the PX 248 PA check out pix’s website for that uh. The panel behind it is a px 329. I’M a bit of a fan of pixio.
I’Ve bought some of these displays to use around the office. I’M thinking about using two of these to replace the uh, the older OEM monitors on megadesk, because I’ve got a nice OLED, 4K display, and then I’ve got two secondary displays on top of it, kind of a fan of that monitor, layout for productivity, gaming and just Keeping an eye on all of the chaos so setting myself up with two of these displays in the upper left and upper right High refresh rate, I mean you get used to high refresh rate even on the Windows desktop and you miss it when it’s not there And just dragging Windows around the desktop at 144 HZ, you really can feel the difference. Even on this IPS type panel pixio has done a pretty good job, putting this together and because it’s got 100 mm Visa mounts, I’m going to be able to use it with my monitor arms, so no complaints there, I’m M.
This is level one I’m signing out. If you have any questions or anything that I missed or something you want me to take a closer look at, let me know all right, I’m signing out and I’ll see you there .