The Zowie XL2586X+ is by far the product I've most wanted to keep hold of and have been the most reluctant to hand back. It's also one I'm certain I won't be buying any time soon. And that just about sums up this monitor, because it's fantastic for competitive shooters but it's very much only fantastic for those games and, more importantly, comes with a great stonking price tag.
Whether I actually fit the monitor's use case is a question I found myself returning to over the three weeks that I put it through its paces. It is, of course, a monitor aimed solely at competitive FPS gaming, and I do consider myself to be a competitive FPS gamer. But am I enough of a competitive gamer to justify spending $1,000 to eliminate every sliver of pixel persistence and max out on motion clarity?
It's a tough call. To give some context, I'm a lifelong competitive gamer who sometimes goes through stints without playing such games but who always inevitably returns to them. After maining Starcraft 2 and Quake during my teenage years, for a long time my main game was Counter-Strike. As of this week, I've amassed over 1,800 hours in it (most of these being back in CS:GO rather than CS2,...
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