Philips Evnia 25M2N3200W Gaming Monitor Review
Peter Donnell / 3 months ago
Performance
Right away, the default settings on this monitor look great, with vibrant colours, good brightness, and good contrast. The monitor is rated for NTSC 101.5%, and sRGB 120%, and claims a brightness of up to 300cd/m, which is certainly more than enough for most users.
The panel features a 10bit colour via an 8bit + FRC system, and with a 3000:1 contrast ratio, the benefits of the VA panel speak for themselves. Being Full HD and fairly compact, the pixel density is pretty decent too at 89.91 PPI, so your media looks nice and crisp.
It’s a good enough size and pixel density that two windows side-by-side still look nice and clear, even if you zoom out a little on web pages to fit a bit more text into the frame.
Again, the colour pops, but doesn’t look over-saturated and looks very natural, making it a nice display to consume some media on, be that YouTube, the occasional movie, or just browsing through your family photos.
I can attest to this, as I’ve spent a few hours this morning watching cartoons on it, and I have no regrets. Again, the brightness is great though, the panel looks bright and clear in this dim room, but wouldn’t have any issues if it was brighter in here either.
For gaming, that 240Hz refresh rate is freaking awesome, but keep in mind you’ll struggle to hit such a whopper of a refresh rate in the most graphically demanding games, even with high-end hardware. I’m getting 140-180FPS using an RTX 4090, but that is with all the ray tracing turned on. You’ll need ray tracing turned off, and a powerful CPU to ensure you can hit the max refresh rate.
Palworld was enough to max out, but again, less demanding games will be easier to push faster. This is especially true of a lot of F2P and eSports titles, such as CS:GO, Apex Legends, Fortnite, etc.
I really can’t fault the gaming experience though, it’s pretty faultless, with no latency or blurring issues, and I didn’t notice black-smear issues that can often be an issue on VA panels, but it’s clear there’s still life in the older VA technology!
