welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS VG
278 144 HZ LED back lit LCD monitor this
is 3D Vision ready with light boost and
is basically for twitch gaming whether you're playing like I don't know
whatever the kids are playing these days Counterstrike go
or I was going to say League of Legends cuz I know l people play that but it's
not exactly a twitch game so he's giving me that look it's like you have no idea
what you're talking about I do know what I'm talking about and I do know that
League of Legends isn't a twitch game but I also know that if you were at an
elite level in League of Legends it would be more twitch and he's getting me the nod now so see there I do know what
I'm talking about he's not giving me the knot anymore um so I'm going to go ahead
and take out some foam here they're using oh this is like a semi soft foam
it has some Flex to it however if it did take a serious you know beating at any
point in time then it would probably break and lose some of its structural
Integrity however what you guys will notice about the monitor is that there's
a lot of foam around it so a lot of LCDs
see the LCD actually only goes to here so there's a huge gap here a lot of LCDs
these days only have a tiny gap between the outside of the box and the front of
the panel which if your name is Linus and you worry about packaging is a deep
of deep concern to you because if anything were to hit that box hard
enough to it it basically go right through your brand new LCD I mean odds
are excellent that your shipping carrier as long as you've got insurance is going
to like deal with it and everything but why take that risk if you don't have
to there's the base and everything's
unpacked so I'm going to assemble the Monitor and we'll be back in just a moment now actually before we assemble
it I want to show you all the parts that come with it so you've got an ASUS VIP
member notice as well as your warranty information ASUS has a fairly unique
warranty policy for their LCDs which
apparently is not outlined on the box at all but they do have a zero bright dot
guarantee so that means yes zero whereas
a lot of their competitors will not necessarily have zero bright dots
guaranteed I want to go over the specs as well so 2 millisecond response times
and it's going to need them if it's going to be operating at 144 Herz if you
have slow pixel response times that is to say that when the color changes the
pixel takes a while to register it you can put whatever refresh rate you want
on the monitor it won't make any difference to how blurry and ugly the image looks so you're going to have to
have a super fast panel to achieve this 50 million to one high contrast ratio
probably optimistic but you know okay uh full HD 1080p HDMI although you're not
going to want to use that if you're going to want to get those High refresh rates you want to use dual link DVI
actually yes dual link DVI tilt swivel and height adjust Splendid video
intelligence technology and NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 with light boost which makes a
huge huge difference although you'll only be using 120 HZ for light boost the
1440 the 144 HZ feature is more for 2D
non-stereoscopic gaming because it gives you just that little bit of extra time
to react to something because it'll give you the information a little bit sooner
than a monitor that is taking that okay here think of it this way you got a 60
HZ panel there's going to be up to 1 160th of a second for it to show you
something that your video card already knew about okay whereas if you have a
144 HZ panel it will be less it will be
okay at at worst case scenario it will be 1 144th of a second to show you the
new information that the graphics card has obtained so think of it that way it
is giving you the information a little bit faster okay um so wherever that guy
is it's more accurate there included accessories so we've got a couple of
screws for assembling it nothing special there audio cable for pass through uh
DGA cable BL don't worry about that uh
power cable dual link DVI cable got some heft to it as well as the base station
now we'll put it together and we'll show you the completed monitor now that we've
assembled everything we're ready to go ahead and have a look this is pretty similar to ASUS's other 27 in
1080P 3D Vision 2 ready monitor okay and
that it's got all of your usual adjustments so I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys going to pop
that pin out at the back in order to enable the height adjust just like that
so you got a lot of hide adjust here you've also got your tilt you got your
pivot okay which is done actually under the under the base here there's a
rotating piece right there and then oh yeah no we don't have that one you got
your cable management right here speaking of cables all the different
cables that you can plug into it are located down here at the bottom so
you've got your audio pass through as well as your headphone jack your HDMI in
DVI in BGA in as well as your power in
there right there overall on the other side of the uh of the pillar at the
middle so you can see tactile buttons along the bottom here for all of your
basic uh monitor controls I still prefer tactile buttons except in very rare
cases where I like you know uh I like the 2420t from from BenQ that one's kind
of cool with the touch sensitive buttons but other than that tactile is good lots
of cooling on this monitor which is important because in order to achieve
the 144 HZ refresh rate ASUS has essentially overclocked the engine
inside this monitor in order to get it to process pixels and process the images
faster than it's actually I guess supposed to which isn't to say that
they're not going to throw all of their warranty support behind it and they're going to stand behind the product but
they're pretty much tuning the monitor
before they release it to Market so that's the key difference between this one and the 120 HZ version so if you're
looking for the fastest LCD monitor to
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