WEBVTT 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:17.039 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS VG 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:20.039 278 144 HZ LED back lit LCD monitor this 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:22.199 is 3D Vision ready with light boost and 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:25.240 is basically for twitch gaming whether you're playing like I don't know 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:29.480 whatever the kids are playing these days Counterstrike go 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:32.880 or I was going to say League of Legends cuz I know l people play that but it's 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:35.879 not exactly a twitch game so he's giving me that look it's like you have no idea 00:00:34.360 --> 00:00:39.239 what you're talking about I do know what I'm talking about and I do know that 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.039 League of Legends isn't a twitch game but I also know that if you were at an 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:47.800 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 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:51.440 I'm talking about he's not giving me the knot anymore um so I'm going to go ahead 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:56.239 and take out some foam here they're using oh this is like a semi soft foam 00:00:53.760 --> 00:01:00.359 it has some Flex to it however if it did take a serious you know beating at any 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:03.600 point in time then it would probably break and lose some of its structural 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:09.720 Integrity however what you guys will notice about the monitor is that there's 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:11.920 a lot of foam around it so a lot of LCDs 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:16.920 see the LCD actually only goes to here so there's a huge gap here a lot of LCDs 00:01:14.479 --> 00:01:21.479 these days only have a tiny gap between the outside of the box and the front of 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:27.360 the panel which if your name is Linus and you worry about packaging is a deep 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:32.079 of deep concern to you because if anything were to hit that box hard 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:37.159 enough to it it basically go right through your brand new LCD I mean odds 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:41.079 are excellent that your shipping carrier as long as you've got insurance is going 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:48.560 to like deal with it and everything but why take that risk if you don't have 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:49.600 to there's the base and everything's 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:54.439 unpacked so I'm going to assemble the Monitor and we'll be back in just a moment now actually before we assemble 00:01:53.240 --> 00:01:59.119 it I want to show you all the parts that come with it so you've got an ASUS VIP 00:01:57.399 --> 00:02:05.520 member notice as well as your warranty information ASUS has a fairly unique 00:02:01.320 --> 00:02:08.319 warranty policy for their LCDs which 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:14.040 apparently is not outlined on the box at all but they do have a zero bright dot 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:15.599 guarantee so that means yes zero whereas 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:19.160 a lot of their competitors will not necessarily have zero bright dots 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:22.080 guaranteed I want to go over the specs as well so 2 millisecond response times 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:26.599 and it's going to need them if it's going to be operating at 144 Herz if you 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:30.160 have slow pixel response times that is to say that when the color changes the 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:33.160 pixel takes a while to register it you can put whatever refresh rate you want 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:38.200 on the monitor it won't make any difference to how blurry and ugly the image looks so you're going to have to 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:43.760 have a super fast panel to achieve this 50 million to one high contrast ratio 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:47.120 probably optimistic but you know okay uh full HD 1080p HDMI although you're not 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:53.159 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 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:56.879 actually yes dual link DVI tilt swivel and height adjust Splendid video 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:01.000 intelligence technology and NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 with light boost which makes a 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:08.280 huge huge difference although you'll only be using 120 HZ for light boost the 00:03:03.519 --> 00:03:10.480 1440 the 144 HZ feature is more for 2D 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:15.360 non-stereoscopic gaming because it gives you just that little bit of extra time 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:20.159 to react to something because it'll give you the information a little bit sooner 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:24.200 than a monitor that is taking that okay here think of it this way you got a 60 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:28.560 HZ panel there's going to be up to 1 160th of a second for it to show you 00:03:26.760 --> 00:03:34.920 something that your video card already knew about okay whereas if you have a 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:36.920 144 HZ panel it will be less it will be 00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:42.400 okay at at worst case scenario it will be 1 144th of a second to show you the 00:03:40.959 --> 00:03:45.879 new information that the graphics card has obtained so think of it that way it 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:52.239 is giving you the information a little bit faster okay um so wherever that guy 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:56.239 is it's more accurate there included accessories so we've got a couple of 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:02.959 screws for assembling it nothing special there audio cable for pass through uh 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:05.920 DGA cable BL don't worry about that uh 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:09.319 power cable dual link DVI cable got some heft to it as well as the base station 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:13.280 now we'll put it together and we'll show you the completed monitor now that we've 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:22.360 assembled everything we're ready to go ahead and have a look this is pretty similar to ASUS's other 27 in 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:23.680 1080P 3D Vision 2 ready monitor okay and 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:28.199 that it's got all of your usual adjustments so I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys going to pop 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:32.000 that pin out at the back in order to enable the height adjust just like that 00:04:30.479 --> 00:04:37.880 so you got a lot of hide adjust here you've also got your tilt you got your 00:04:35.479 --> 00:04:41.320 pivot okay which is done actually under the under the base here there's a 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.520 rotating piece right there and then oh yeah no we don't have that one you got 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:47.880 your cable management right here speaking of cables all the different 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.240 cables that you can plug into it are located down here at the bottom so 00:04:49.320 --> 00:04:58.520 you've got your audio pass through as well as your headphone jack your HDMI in 00:04:53.880 --> 00:05:00.039 DVI in BGA in as well as your power in 00:04:58.520 --> 00:05:05.080 there right there overall on the other side of the uh of the pillar at the 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:09.919 middle so you can see tactile buttons along the bottom here for all of your 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:14.800 basic uh monitor controls I still prefer tactile buttons except in very rare 00:05:11.919 --> 00:05:19.160 cases where I like you know uh I like the 2420t from from BenQ that one's kind 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:22.680 of cool with the touch sensitive buttons but other than that tactile is good lots 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:27.520 of cooling on this monitor which is important because in order to achieve 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:32.319 the 144 HZ refresh rate ASUS has essentially overclocked the engine 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:38.000 inside this monitor in order to get it to process pixels and process the images 00:05:35.039 --> 00:05:41.080 faster than it's actually I guess supposed to which isn't to say that 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:47.680 they're not going to throw all of their warranty support behind it and they're going to stand behind the product but 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:48.960 they're pretty much tuning the monitor 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:56.639 before they release it to Market so that's the key difference between this one and the 120 HZ version so if you're 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:59.199 looking for the fastest LCD monitor to 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:02.520 date right there thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look don't 00:06:00.919 --> 00:06:05.160 forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.160 computer videos