so today with the assistance of my cameraman who is seated in a very
comfortable chair I will be unboxing Acer's 23in 3D Vision ready monitor so
this is a 120 HZ monitor it's widecreen
full HD resolution but what's special
about it I mean more special than the you know striking stunning good looks
orange accents and excellent response times you know all that good stuff is
the 120 HZ refresh rate so so that means
that even if you aren't using 3D Vision
the 120 HZ refresh rate gives you the benefit of twice as many updates on your
screen every second as a conventional 60
HZ LCD so besides the fact that you're able to run at HD resolution you're able
to run it sort of um with with twice as
much information going through the monitor as you would otherwise have access to so it means that every image
that changes you're going to see it just that much faster than if you were using
a conventional 60 HZ LCD so I'm kind of
digging out some of the accessories here and I'm going to show you all of this in
just a minute this is a bit of a precursor to a video that I'll be doing
shortly on 3D Vision surround so if you actually you can see if you sort of pan
around here I've got three of these bad boys that I'm going to be using to run
NVIDIA's 3D Vision surround so that means I will have one monitor in the
center giving me my Crosshair as well as uh whatever's going on right
in front of my character if I'm running an FPS game and then with the two other
monitors I'm going to have peripheral vision going and there goes the stand okay and
so that's going to give me that uh that immersiveness that is has not been
possible in the past with any gaming technology unless you get out into the
really really extreme Boutique stuff
that realistically the average consumer can't afford so everything that's
included first we have an HDMI cable
next we have an audio cable so there is actually an audio outjack on the bottom
of the monitor next we have a dual link DVI cable and the reason you need a dual
link DVI cable is that when you're running even at a 1920x 1080 resolution
if you're running at 120 HZ versus 60 HZ
the computer has to send twice as much data to the monitor so you can't use a
single Link cable next we have a VGA cable and then we've also got a power
cable so let's have a look at the monitor that I've already assembled over
here rather than waiting for me to assemble it although the assembly
process is quite simple all you need to do is take the base which you can see
comes on a metal stand with little rubber feet so that it's not going to
move it's got a little clip on the back you just drop the monitor right onto the
base the monitor itself has ah here we
go it has tilt adjust M but no other
adjustments so you're not you don't have any pivot or any swivel or anything like
that but let's have a look at the overall uh back of the monitor so I've
already got a couple things plugged into this one but you can see we've got a
pretty good a fair number of options for input so we've got VGA in as well as DVI
in so that's the one that I'm using DVI dual link and then we have HDMI in so
you can use any one of those three then we have one audio outport as well as the
power in the back also features a Vasa Mount so if you are lucky enough or um
wealthy enough I guess to buy three of these monitors you can also have the
option of buying a triple armed stand so
that rather than having them all sitting on their little stands here you can actually just have one stand on the
center monitor have an ARM reaching out to mount each of the monitors on their
sides I don't actually have the benefit of one of those unfortunately but that
would be a very very cool way to mount these monitors in terms of the onscreen
display but the onscreen display is controlled by the power button here as
well as 1 2 3 four five buttons positioned just under the monitor they
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
indicated by little dots so you can find them quite easily and other than that I
mean really what I what I like most about this monitor personally is the
Striking styling so it's got see this is
how it's done right actually I want to sort of harp on this a little bit you
see so many companies releasing LCD monitors that have like a a black and
some color they're adding like some kind of a a design element to the bezel and
while I appreciate sort of a style and
uh and a bit of flare put into a product
I like it somewhere where I can ignore it or even cover it up if I don't like
it so while I do like the orange accents on this monitor particularly actually
here I want to show you the base here this one is actually made of metal here
it's got kind of a brush looking finish on it it's quite shiny looks great these
ones are plastic but they still look all right too I could just paint over these
if I felt like it and then it becomes a black monitor whereas a lot of the time
you're not really left with the option of covering it up somehow if you don't
like it so I really like that about this monitor I think one thing I haven't
mentioned yet is that it has a 2 millisecond response time and that's
part of what enables it to refresh the image completely every 120 times per
second so please stay tuned on my video blog I'm going to be doing lots more
updates on these monitors as well as NVIDIA surround gaming without 3D and
then additionally with NVIDIA surround gaming with 3D so thank you for checking
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