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so today with the assistance of my cameraman who is seated in a very

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comfortable chair I will be unboxing Acer's 23in 3D Vision ready monitor so

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this is a 120 HZ monitor it's widecreen

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full HD resolution but what's special

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about it I mean more special than the you know striking stunning good looks

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orange accents and excellent response times you know all that good stuff is

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the 120 HZ refresh rate so so that means

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that even if you aren't using 3D Vision

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the 120 HZ refresh rate gives you the benefit of twice as many updates on your

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screen every second as a conventional 60

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HZ LCD so besides the fact that you're able to run at HD resolution you're able

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to run it sort of um with with twice as

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much information going through the monitor as you would otherwise have access to so it means that every image

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that changes you're going to see it just that much faster than if you were using

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a conventional 60 HZ LCD so I'm kind of

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digging out some of the accessories here and I'm going to show you all of this in

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just a minute this is a bit of a precursor to a video that I'll be doing

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shortly on 3D Vision surround so if you actually you can see if you sort of pan

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around here I've got three of these bad boys that I'm going to be using to run

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NVIDIA's 3D Vision surround so that means I will have one monitor in the

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center giving me my Crosshair as well as uh whatever's going on right

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in front of my character if I'm running an FPS game and then with the two other

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monitors I'm going to have peripheral vision going and there goes the stand okay and

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so that's going to give me that uh that immersiveness that is has not been

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possible in the past with any gaming technology unless you get out into the

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really really extreme Boutique stuff

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that realistically the average consumer can't afford so everything that's

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included first we have an HDMI cable

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next we have an audio cable so there is actually an audio outjack on the bottom

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of the monitor next we have a dual link DVI cable and the reason you need a dual

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link DVI cable is that when you're running even at a 1920x 1080 resolution

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if you're running at 120 HZ versus 60 HZ

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the computer has to send twice as much data to the monitor so you can't use a

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single Link cable next we have a VGA cable and then we've also got a power

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cable so let's have a look at the monitor that I've already assembled over

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here rather than waiting for me to assemble it although the assembly

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process is quite simple all you need to do is take the base which you can see

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comes on a metal stand with little rubber feet so that it's not going to

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move it's got a little clip on the back you just drop the monitor right onto the

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base the monitor itself has ah here we

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go it has tilt adjust M but no other

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adjustments so you're not you don't have any pivot or any swivel or anything like

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that but let's have a look at the overall uh back of the monitor so I've

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already got a couple things plugged into this one but you can see we've got a

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pretty good a fair number of options for input so we've got VGA in as well as DVI

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in so that's the one that I'm using DVI dual link and then we have HDMI in so

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you can use any one of those three then we have one audio outport as well as the

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power in the back also features a Vasa Mount so if you are lucky enough or um

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wealthy enough I guess to buy three of these monitors you can also have the

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option of buying a triple armed stand so

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that rather than having them all sitting on their little stands here you can actually just have one stand on the

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center monitor have an ARM reaching out to mount each of the monitors on their

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sides I don't actually have the benefit of one of those unfortunately but that

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would be a very very cool way to mount these monitors in terms of the onscreen

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display but the onscreen display is controlled by the power button here as

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well as 1 2 3 four five buttons positioned just under the monitor they

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are a little bit recessed and maybe I can lean this back so you can have a look y there they are so five buttons

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indicated by little dots so you can find them quite easily and other than that I

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mean really what I what I like most about this monitor personally is the

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Striking styling so it's got see this is

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how it's done right actually I want to sort of harp on this a little bit you

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see so many companies releasing LCD monitors that have like a a black and

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some color they're adding like some kind of a a design element to the bezel and

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while I appreciate sort of a style and

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uh and a bit of flare put into a product

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I like it somewhere where I can ignore it or even cover it up if I don't like

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it so while I do like the orange accents on this monitor particularly actually

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here I want to show you the base here this one is actually made of metal here

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it's got kind of a brush looking finish on it it's quite shiny looks great these

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ones are plastic but they still look all right too I could just paint over these

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if I felt like it and then it becomes a black monitor whereas a lot of the time

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you're not really left with the option of covering it up somehow if you don't

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like it so I really like that about this monitor I think one thing I haven't

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mentioned yet is that it has a 2 millisecond response time and that's

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part of what enables it to refresh the image completely every 120 times per

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second so please stay tuned on my video blog I'm going to be doing lots more

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updates on these monitors as well as NVIDIA surround gaming without 3D and

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then additionally with NVIDIA surround gaming with 3D so thank you for checking

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out my video blog don't forget to subscribe and that's all for now