Eizo Foris FS2735 144 Hz Review 22

Eizo Foris FS2735 144 Hz Review

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Value & Conclusion

  • The Eizo Foris FS2735 is available online for $1,500/£955/€1,000. It comes with a five-year warranty.
  • Excellent factory picture calibration
  • Exceptional gaming performance
  • Built-in Blur Reduction feature that works at 144 Hz, is vendor agnostic, and offers above-average actual brightness
  • Two different FreeSync ranges
  • Good backlight implementation
  • Great Windows software (G-Ignition)
  • Great gaming features (Smart Insight and Saturation Enhancer)
  • Intuitive OSD buttons and OSD layout
  • Five-year warranty
  • DisplayPort cable is supplied
  • Extremely expensive
  • Underwhelming monitor stand, aesthetics-wise
  • Stiff height and tilt adjustment mechanisms
  • Bluetooth feature and mobile app need refinement and more purpose
  • Mediocre cable management
  • The built-in speakers are rudimentary
While Eizo was never famous for cheap monitors, but rather high-quality ones, we need to start the conclusion by addressing the elephant in the room - the price. The price of the Foris FS2735 is extremely high, and there's simply no way around it. For that amount of money - we're talking about $1,500/£955/€1,000, which will vary depending on the exact place of purchase - you can get a 34" ultrawidescreen 21:9 IPS monitor equipped with G-Sync, or not one, but two 32" 144 Hz VA Quantum Dot models that support HDR and FreeSync 2. That's the reality and there's no point in pretending that the Eizo Foris FS2735 doesn't come with a price premium.

What you get for your money, though, is a feature-packed gaming monitor that's going to offer you one of the best gaming experiences at 1440p resolution and 27 inches of screen real estate. It comes with several technologies, such as Smart Insight and Saturation Enhancer, that make it a very interesting option for competitive gaming since they make it easier to locate and annihilate in-game targets. It also has a 144 Hz refresh rate that is backed by FreeSync in two possible frequency ranges, which makes FreeSync easily adjustable to a wide selection of gaming PCs.

Then there's the Blur Reduction feature, one FreeSync monitors usually don't offer. It's built straight into the monitor, which makes it graphics-card-vendor agnostic, and it also has the ability to do its job of destroying motion blur at the maximum supported refresh rate of 144 Hz, while keeping the brightness above 200 nits. A similar feature available on G-Sync monitors is called ULMB, and it's usually limited to 120 Hz and accompanied by low actual brightness (150 nits or lower), which renders it practically unusable.

The Windows software is also quite unique and full of interesting features, such as the ability to import monitor profiles that are used by professional gamers endorsed by Eizo. The mobile app falls behind in functionality and purpose, but nobody's forcing you to use it. The same could be the said of the built-in Bluetooth support for the sole purpose of enabling monitor control via the mobile app and translating smartphone notifications into on-screen prompts.

The aspects I'm impressed by the most are the gaming performance, both in terms of input lag and perceived motion blur, and the out-of-the-box picture quality. You really get a sense that someone at Eizo's Japanese factory thoroughly checked and fine-tuned each and every Foris FS2735 just to give you the peace of mind that comes from knowing that you won't have to bother with calibration and OSD settings to get great picture quality. Is that worth the hefty amount of money Eizo's asking for the Foris FS2735 - well, that's for you to decide.
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