HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor has 24.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080p) resolution that produces a mesmerizing gaming experience. Synchronizes the refresh rates of your GPU and display, NVIDIA G-SYNC technology delivers gameplay that’s sharp, fluid, and stutter-free with minimal input lag. Prevents eye-strain with ambient lighting for long gaming sessions. Reveal more in HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor review.
Specifications – HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor
| BOX CONTENTS | |
|---|---|
| What’s in the box | AC power cord DisplayPort™ cable USB cable USB Type-A to B cable |
| CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIONS | |
| Ports | 1 analog and digital audio-out 2 USB 3.0 |
| WEIGHTS | |
| Weight | 6.16 kg |
| DIMENSIONS | |
| Minimum dimensions (W x D x H) | 55.75 x 9.87 x 33.06 cm |
| DISPLAY SPECIFICATIONS | |
| Display size (diagonal) | 62.23 cm (24.5″) |
| Native resolution | FHD (1920 x 1080 @ 240 Hz) |
| Contrast ratio | 1000:1 static 12000000:1 dynamic |
| Resolution (native) Note | The video card of the connected PC must be capable of supporting 1920 x 1080 at 60 Hz and include 1 DisplayPort™ or 1 HDMI output to drive the monitor at the Preferred Resolution. |
| Resolutions supported | 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1280 x 720 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1600 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1080 640 x 480 720 x 480 800 x 600 |
| Tilt | Tilt: -5 to +23° |
| Panel technology | TN with LED backlight |
| Onscreen controls | Back Color control Down Exit Gaming Image control Information Input control Management Menu Minus OK Plus Power |
| Horizontal viewing angle | 160° vertical 170° horizontal |
| Display features | Anti-glare On-screen controls Plug and Play User programmable AMD FreeSync™ NVIDIA G-SYNC™ |
| Resolution (maximum) | FHD (1920 x 1080 @ 240 Hz) |
| Aspect ratio | 16:9 |
| Aspect ratio footnote number | [1] |
| Display area (metric) | 54.3 x 30.2 cm |
| Brightness | 400 cd/m² |
| Height adjustment range | 300 mm |
| Display Input Type | 1 DisplayPort™ 1.2 in (with HDCP support) 2 HDMI 2.0 (with HDCP support) |
| VESA mounting | VESA mount compatible (mounting plate ships in the box) |
| Pixel pitch | 0.283 mm |
| Pixel pitch footnote number | [4] |
| Response time (typical) | 3 ms on/off 1 ms (with overdrive) |
| Display scan frequency (horizontal) | Up to 255 kHz |
| Display scan frequency (vertical) | Up to 240 Hz |
| Brightness (typical) footnote number | [1] |
| Contrast ratio footnote number | [1] |
| Native resolution footnote number | [4] |
| SECURITY MANAGEMENT | |
| Physical security | Security lock-ready |
| Physical security footnote number | [3] |
| BATTERY AND POWER | |
| Power | Input voltage 100 to 240 VAC |
| Power consumption (on-mode) | 21 W |
| Power consumption (annual) | 30 kWh |
| Power consumption (standby) | 0.34 W |
| Power consumption Note | Energy consumption 30 kWh per year, based on the power consumption of the unit operating 4 hours per day for 365 days. The actual energy consumption will depend on how the unit is used. |
| Power consumption (off-mode) | 0.22 W |
| Power consumption | 65 W (maximum), 30 W (typical), 0.5 W (standby) |
| CERTIFICATION AND COMPLIANCE | |
| Energy efficiency class | A |
| WARRANTY | |
| Warranty | 2 year parts and labour limited warranty. |
Who is this for?
The HP Omen X 25f is a gaming monitor for a specialized group of players: folks who play games that can reliably and regularly push hundreds of frames per second. The number of modern, popularly played multiplayer titles that can reach this frame-rate grail is small (around 10 in all), but their fanbase is so feverish, dedicated, and competitive that an entire genre of monitors has sprung up to support them.
Games of this ilk, notably CS:GO, DOTA 2, League of Legends, and Overwatch, are so well-optimized that some PCs equipped with muscular video cards can push 200fps or 300fps, or even all the way up to 900fps in the case of CS:GO. If you want to have the best chance of staying competitive in those titles on a serious, more-than-a-hobby level, a 240Hz monitor is the only way to go.
So, is HP’s Omen X 25f the gaming monitor that’s going to get you there? It’s certainly a good option if the screen size is right. If you’re like me and are super-finicky about your keyboard’s placement relative to your screen, you might be better off going with a display of the Acer Predator’s design ilk. (All the displays in that line are equipped with stands that accommodate any keyboard angle.) But aside from that small complaint, the Omen X 25f does what it sets out to, giving gamers the edge with ultra-fast refresh rates at a price that remains competitive with other monitors in its category.
HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor comparison
| Omen X 25 Gaming Monitor with NVIDIA G-Sync | Alienware 25 AW2521HF 24.5 inch Gaming Monitor (Dark) | Dell S-Series 27-Inch Screen LED-Lit Gaming Monitor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 | — | 16:9 |
| Display Resolution Maximum | 1920 x 1080 pixels | 1920 x 1080 pixels | 2560×1440 pixels |
| Screen Size | 25 inches | 25 inches | 27 inches |
| Item Dimensions | 10.63 x 22.05 x 19.29 inches | 20.71 x 21.90 x 9.92 inches | 24.00 x 7.20 x 15.50 inches |
| Item Weight | 0.32 ounces | 7.81 lbs | 13.34 lbs |
| Refresh Rate | 60 hertz | 240 hertz | 155 hertz |
HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor review
Design
HP’s Omen X 25f is a 24.5-inch, TN-based gaming monitor that joins the ranks of dozens of others in providing extremely high-refresh gameplay at the smoothest, most buttery speeds possible. The panel is rated for a tip-top maximum refresh rate of 240Hz.
Build quality
Build quality is top-shelf with an all metal base and upright. The 5.2-inch height adjustment is very smooth and firm with no play at all. The panel tilts 5 degrees forward and 23 degrees back with the hinge mechanism hidden in the panel. At first glance, you’d think there is no 100mm VESA mount, but the carton includes a solid aluminum plate that fits in place of the upright to provide that function. There is no swivel adjustment, but the base is small enough that turning it left and right isn’t difficult.
Ergonomics
To start my look at the Omen X 25f, I fiddled with the ergonomics of the monitor to see how well it holds up for ultra-specific gamers like myself. When I play first-person-shooter (FPS) games (my primary genre of choice), I like to keep my keyboard rotated on the desk at around a 60-degree angle (relative to the plane of the screen). That is to ensure I have the best ergonomic access to all the necessary keys for this kind of game.
The reason this is important on a monitor like the Omen X 25f is due to its smaller size. High-refresh 240Hz monitors of this relatively compact panel size are created and suited for games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends, where the smaller screen is a competitive advantage—as long as you can keep your eyes as close to the screen as possible.
Stand
To sit in this type of position and still play comfortably, you need to be able to tilt the keyboard either underneath the monitor stand, or at least be able to position the stand so that the monitor can still swivel into a straight-on position while the keyboard is at your desired angle.
Monitors like the Acer Predator XB3 handle this requirement perfectly, in my opinion. By creating a stand where the keyboard can actually be slotted in underneath the monitor at any angle (and the screen further adjusted with the addition of a swivel), you can find the perfect ergonomic setup for your gaming style.
Height- and tilt-adjustable
While the HP Omen is height- and tilt-adjustable, there’s no ability to swivel the monitor independently of the stand. Without that option, you’re forced to either stick to the angle that the diamond-shaped HP stand allows (45 degrees) or mount the monitor separately to another surface using a VESA mount.
Outside of that gripe, the monitor is adjustable up and down, to a maximum height of 11.8 inches, with a vertical tilt of minus 5 degrees to plus 23 degrees. The monitor also leaves just enough space on the back of the stand and a protruding tab for the stand to double as a headphone hanger. That’s not a necessary touch, but a welcome one and cleaner than a headphone hanger on the side of a PC chassis.
Ports
All ports for the Omen X 25f are on the bottom edge of the panel. The loadout comprises one DisplayPort 1.2 and two HDMI 2.0 video inputs (strange to see the older DisplayPort interface version here, but it doesn’t matter for a 1080p panel, so no loss of points), one upstream and two downstream USB 3.0 ports, and a headphone-out jack to re-route your digital audio to a pair of headphones, if you so choose. That last item is especially well placed given the hanger on the stand.
How to control HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor?
You can control the settings on the Omen X 25f using either the five-way joystick found on the back of the unit, or through the HP Omen Command Center software. Depending on which control approach you choose, though, some strings are attached.
The main onscreen display (OSD) menus on the monitor itself are very feature-rich, allowing you to acutely control everything about how the monitor behaves, from adjusting customized RGB-gain values, all the way down to superimposing a speedrunning timer on the top-right of the screen. (Such timers are used in the speedrunning niche of gaming, in which the objective is playing games all the way through as fast as possible.) Other notable additions include a frame-rate counter, and a hardware-based crosshair that you can configure directly through the OSD, changing vital elements like its shape and its size, as well as its relative position onscreen.
That caveat we mentioned earlier? Controlling the monitor through the HP Omen Command Center lets you change only a fraction of these settings, mainly the RGB lighting on the bottom of the unit, the response-time overdrive level, and the picture mode. Normally, software-based display-configuration tools match their hardware-based OSDs 1:1, so to see such limited functionality available from the desktop-software version was a bit of a bummer.
Graphics card
With a PC running an AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics card, the best we could manage was around 100-120 frames per second (fps) in Tomb Raider and Call of Duty: WWII. Not shabby at all. With a system using an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE graphics card framerates in both Tomb Raider and Call of Duty: WWII stayed above 150 fps, with many scenes topping 200 fps. Setting the overdrive on level 4 eliminated all traces of motion blur, and we saw no ghosting. Control response was uncannily quick with no perceptible lag.
Color
HP Omen X 25f Calibration Settings
- Picture Mode: Standard
- Brightness 200 nits: 29
- Brightness 120 nits: 11
- Brightness 100 nits: 6
- Brightness 80 nits: 2
- Contrast: 80
- Gamma: 2.2
- Color Temp User: Red 254, Green 255, Blue 254
While color-gamut coverage results aren’t as important on a gaming montor like the HP Omen X 25f as they would be on a monitor like the Asus ProArt PA34VC, I was surprised to see the monitor still held up pretty well under the scrutiny of our CalMAN color-accuracy testing.
The sRGB chromaticity results give you an idea of how general internet content will look on your monitor, and in this test the HP Omen X 25f passed above the grade, with a result of 99.5 percent coverage.
Next there’s Adobe RGB, which helps to determine how good a monitor will be for creative applications (like Adobe’s own seminal Creative Suite). As a strictly made-for-gamers display, I wasn’t expecting much in this test, and unsurprisingly the HP Omen returned results of just 77 percent coverage, one of the lower results on a recent gaming monitor.
Finally there’s the DCI-P3 color space, which gives you a general idea of how good a monitor is for watching movies and TV shows. Here the HP Omen also fell somewhat flat, clocking in at just 78.3 percent coverage. For reference, other recent gaming monitors have topped that, such as the Acer Predator XB3 mentioned earlier, which scored 90.1 percent on the same test.
In our brightness testing, the Omen X 25f came within a hair’s breadth of the 400-nit specification set by HP, with a score of 393.9 nits. Divided by its black-level reading (0.39), that gave us a measured contrast ratio of 1,010:1, bang-on with HP’s rating of 1,000:1.
Uncalibrated out-of-the-box color-accuracy results were relatively strong, at 3.18 DeltaE, though, as we mentioned above, this monitor isn’t made for precision-color creative work, so any minor slips on tests like these are forgivable.
Is it worth buying – HP Omen X 25f 240HZ full HD gaming monitor?
With those numbers out of the way, now it’s time to see how this monitor holds up under the most important testing of all: gaming performance.
Overall gaming performance on the HP Omen was as expectedly snappy as all get-out. Everything from daily browsing to gaming feels absolutely buttery at 240Hz, and the sensation is something that has to be felt to be understood. Just be careful: You might never be able to return to 60Hz after you experience 200Hz-plus for the first time.
In that vein, I rolled out our HDFury Diva for some input-lag testing. The input-lag results were just as fast as I suspected they would be, at only 1.7ms, a mere hair slower than the fastest monitor we’ve tested to date, the MSI Optix MPG341CQR (which logged 1.4ms).
As an Nvidia G-Sync Compatible monitor (it also works with AMD FreeSync), the HP Omen X 25f may not have the G-Sync certified badge that its brother, the HP Omen X 25, does (notice the lack of the “f” in there), but in our testing I didn’t find that the monitor suffered from any extra or more noticeable screen-tearing issues than other certified G-Sync displays that we’ve tested.
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