High refresh rate
With the rapid development of the e-sports industry, the performance of e-sports monitors has also become one of the focuses of gamers. Among them, a high refresh rate is considered to be a very important parameter to bring players a smoother gaming experience. In order to meet the market demand, upstream panel manufacturers are also constantly improving their technical level and constantly increasing the refresh rate of display panels.
Since the early days of 144Hz, the refresh rate of gaming monitors has continued to increase, with 240Hz, 360Hz, and even 600Hz now. Currently, the maximum refresh rate has reached 540Hz on desktop monitors, and 600Hz on laptops.
Among desktop monitors, the Acer Nitro XV242F is one of the only 2 high-refresh rate gaming monitors on the market with a high refresh rate. It uses the M241HTN01. from AUO0tn panel with a screen size of 241 inch, the resolution reached 1920 1080@540hz. In addition to its high refresh rate, the Acer Nitro XV242F also has a 1ms GTG (grayscale) response time, which can quickly respond to players' commands and avoid game stuttering. At the same time, it has a peak brightness of 400 cd m, which makes the picture brighter. In addition, it supports NVIDIA G-Sync technology, which effectively reduces screen tearing and stuttering, so gamers can enjoy smoother gameplay.
The Acer Nitro XV242F is one of the only 2 540Hz high-refresh rate gaming monitors on the market.
BOE went even further, launching the world's first notebook screen with a refresh rate of up to 600Hz, which uses BOE's self-developed ADS Pro panel and uses an oxide backplane process. This panel process combines extremely high electron mobility and fast response LCD technology to bring users an extremely smooth operating experience, especially suitable for competitive gaming.
BOE has launched the world's first notebook screen with a refresh rate of up to 600Hz.
At the same time, the display also has all the characteristics of an IPS panel and is better than an IPS panel in terms of color performance. Its DCI-P3 color gamut covers 100% of the area, enabling richer, more realistic colors.
Backlit partitions
Mini LED displays have an increasing number of backlight zones, and a higher number of zones means better picture quality and detail. The number of backlight zones determines several factors directly related to image quality, such as contrast, shadow detail, light control, and black level. Backlight zoning refers to dividing the screen into multiple independent and controllable areas, each with its own backlight. In this way, the brightness of different areas can be adjusted independently, resulting in richer contrast and shadow detail in the frame. Therefore, the higher the number of backlight zones, the better the image quality. It is worth mentioning that the higher the number of partitions, the corresponding partition backlight delay will also increase slightly.
The higher the number of partitions, the better the rendering.
However, on the premise that the number of backlight zones is sufficient, the number of lamp beads is also a factor to consider. The number of lamp beads determines important parameters such as brightness and uniformity of the TV. More light beads means higher brightness and a more uniform backlight effect, resulting in brighter images and clearer details. Therefore, the higher the number of lamp beads, the better the image quality performance.
In addition, the degree of subdivision of the backlight partition can also affect the image quality. Subdivided backlight partitions improve the matching between the backlight adjustment area and the LCD pixels, allowing for more accurate brightness control. In this way, the HDR (High Dynamic Range) effect will also be more prominent, and the brightness and shadow details of the image will be better displayed. However, the more partitions and the more lamp beads, the corresponding cost will also increase. Due to the small size of the Mini LED chip, the number of dimming zones (local dimming areas) can be arranged more finely to achieve a wider dynamic range (HDR) and achieve better contrast results. In addition, the use of Mini LED backlight combined with local dimming technology can control the switch and brightness adjustment of the corresponding backlight area in real time according to the brightness of each part of the picture in the output signal, so that the black is deeper, the white is brighter, and the color is more natural and vivid, providing users with the best immersive visual experience.
At present, the display with the highest number of backlight partitions on the market has reached 5088, which comes from the Red Devil. This monitor uses a 27-inch AUO 70 fastips panel, backlight module has 5088 mini led lamp beads and partitions, which is equivalent to 1 lamp bead in 1 partition. The display supports 4k@160hz, has a peak brightness of up to 2200cd m2, a response time of just 1ms, is HDR 1400 certified, and is compatible with both FreeSync and G-Sync technologies. In addition, it has 99% SRGB, 99% DCI-P3, and 99% Adobe RGB color gamut, and has been professionally calibrated, with a ΔE color accuracy of less than 1.
Red Devil's newly released gaming display backlight module has 5088 mini LED beads and partitions, which is the first in the world.
oled
In the last year, OLED technology has only been used on a small scale on displays, and it is generally high. However, this year, OLED displays on the market have begun to be widely available, and while users have more choices, there has also been a significant decline.
In addition, OLED technology is becoming more and more mature, solving the "burn-in" problem that people are worried about. For example, many brands of monitors include technologies such as screen savers, pixel movement, pixel refresh, and panel refresh in their menus. It can be seen that display brands have taken into account consumers' concerns about OLED displays, and have taken some measures to avoid the emergence of the "screen burn-in" problem as much as possible.
There is not just one type of OLED, there are many sub-versions, such as WOLED and QD OLED, which are widely used in TVs and displays. Although both OLED screens belong to OLED technology, there are some differences between them in terms of characteristics.
OLED panel structure.
WOLED (White Organic Lighting Emitting Diode) is similar to many current WLED backlight technologies. It uses white organic light-emitting diodes, with a layer of RGB filter covering every 3 or 4 diodes, and some even add a white subpixel to increase the brightness. In this way, WOLED solves the problems of low brightness, easy "screen burn-in" and high cost of traditional OLED screens, and also solves the problem of low service life of OLED.
QD OLED introduces quantum dot technology to make OLED's color performance better. By using quantum dot material instead of WOLED's filter film, combined with blue organic material diodes and quantum materials to emit red and green light, the filter film on light is eliminated, while improving color saturation and maintaining excellent brightness.
There are many types of OLED, and most of the mainstream OLED displays on the market use WOLED and QD OLED panels, and there are certain differences in the structure between the two.
With the improvement of upstream OLED panel production capacity and technology, the ** of OLED display is also decreasing. Compared with last year's OLED display, which was generally priced at seven or eight thousand yuan, most of this year's OLED displays are around 5,000 yuan, and even some second- and third-tier brand products have dropped below 5,000 yuan. It is foreseeable that the price of OLED displays will be further reduced in the future, allowing users to have more choices.
Back plugged
This year, the hardware industry has undergone an important change: the use of back-plug technology. In the past, all kinds of hardware devices we used were connected by means of front plug-in cables; Now, with the use of a back-plug design, the user's installation experience has been greatly improved. The implementation of back-plug technology requires the joint efforts and mutual compatibility of various hardware manufacturers, just like the convergence of many planets in the galaxy, back-plug technology also forms a large group. At present, hardware manufacturers such as Rainbow, Asus, Xingu, and Qiao Sibo are actively involved in the development of back plugging.
We know that DIY computers are made up of a combination of many different hardware, so there are high requirements for compatibility. With the back-plugging technology, there may also be new compatibility issues, after all, this is a completely new structure. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary for various hardware manufacturers to work together to become a member of the back plug system.
Rear plug-in chassis have more openings in the backplate than regular chassis.
So, which hardware does the back-plug scheme have the most impact? The conclusion is the motherboard, chassis, graphics card, and power supply. The first is the motherboard, because the motherboard is the foundation that carries all the hardware, and a lot of the hardware needs to be powered and performed through the motherboard. With the back-plug technology, all the front connectors on the motherboard have been moved to the back, which means that the fixtures used to produce the motherboard also need to be redesigned, such as re-molding. At the same time, the design of the interface involves changes to the motherboard circuitry, which may reduce the yield and yield of the product, and increase the production cost. Overall, motherboards are the most affected.
The back plug makes the sea view room case look more refreshing and tidy.
The second is the chassis, because the back-plug motherboard designs the interface on the back, the chassis also needs to open corresponding holes in the backplane in order to connect the power cable. If you use a regular chassis, it is likely to cover the connector on the back. At the same time, the back-plug technology also has certain requirements for the cable slots of the chassis.
Again, the graphics card, the interface of the ordinary graphics card is designed at the end of the tail, which has certain requirements for the length of the power cable, and the power cord of the graphics card has a great impact on the aesthetics of the chassis. The current graphics card back plug scheme adopts a hidden design, and the power cable is threaded out from the side (near the side of the chassis backplate), which also requires changes to the PCB and shell of the graphics card, which increases the production cost.
Finally, there is the power supply. Although ordinary power supplies can also be used in back-plugged hardware, there are certain requirements for the length of the cable. The ordinary power supply adopts a forward and backward out design, that is, the power switch and AC power supply interface are in the front, and the cable module is in the back. For back-plugged hardware, the cable module is moved to the side of the AC interface, in the same direction as the chassis backplane, which facilitates the plugging and unplugging of the interface and does not require high cable length.
The back plug is a whole, and it requires the joint efforts of motherboard, graphics card, chassis, and power supply manufacturers to continue to grow and develop the back plug market.
The ** of back-plugged hardware may be slightly higher than that of ordinary hardware, because manufacturers need to increase the cost of mold opening and design, and also increase the cost of product yield. At present, the number of hardware manufacturers involved in the back-plug design has begun to increase, and the pricing is also different, which has a lot to do with the pricing strategies of different manufacturers. There may be imperfections in the design of the back-plug hardware in the early stage, but the development of any new thing must be continuously revised and improved to finally reach the state of meeting the market demand, and perhaps there will be a more perfect back-plug in the future. Version 0 of the back-plugging scheme. We believe that there will be more and more back-plug hardware in the future, and the back-plug market will be more mature.