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everyone knows that at high levels of competition the slightest advantage can

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be the difference between chicken dinner and a sloppy second place sandwich so

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competitive gamers should be really excited by the ASUS pg259q

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this is the first 360 hertz gaming monitor

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but can this fast ips panel even take advantage of

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that kind of high refresh rate without becoming a blurry mess can any pc games

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even run at 360 frames per second

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and if they can will you a common gamer be able to properly

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appreciate the difference between this and an already insanely fast 240hz

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you've probably heard or even experienced that upgrading from a gaming

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monitor that refreshes at 60 hertz up to one that refreshes at 100 plus hertz is

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a much more noticeable jump than say going from 120 or 144 up to 240. that's

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because 60hz displays are showing you a new frame about every 16 and a half

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milliseconds whereas 120 to 144 hertz

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that's a new frame about every seven milliseconds

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that means that whatever you're looking at in that comparison is going to be

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twice as up to date then when we jump

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from 144 to 240 that only shaves three

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more milliseconds off and finally going from 240 to 360

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that's an extra 120 refreshes per second

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above the existing fastest monitors around for a whopping savings of just 1.4

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milliseconds each frame to find out if that's an improvement that can even be

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perceived by the average gamer we set up a blind test with the pg259q next to not

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one but three competing 240hz monitors

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to see if anyone including me

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could tell the difference

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i'm excited i really don't like this monitor this is good this one feels good

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yeah i'm guessing just purely off of how many of like this block i can see at

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once when i go like this i think i can see more of it 70 sure

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that this would be the highest refresh rate one really having a hard time even

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picking out the difference because these games are running at about yeah about 700 frames

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per second or above so i will say this is the 360 and everything else is the

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240. i have no clue if i can do this uh you can see here like i'm basically just

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creating circles with this thing on all of them so it doesn't really matter if

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you have more frames if it's all just kind of a smeary mess anyway i think i

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might guess this one just because i feel like there's a bit more like

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trails behind the objects when i move it i want to say that the second one might

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be 360 hertz but that's kind of just a guess at this

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point honestly it's number three damn it really uh it really doesn't feel any

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different to me you think you're gonna bamboozle me eh not a chance i'm a pro

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gamer i need more wood i'm gonna say

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it's that one but i i i'm probably wrong so

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you're wrong cool i'm going with my gut feeling i don't even i don't even i can't

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like i can't tell but not only did i kind of feel like it

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was this one i scored the best on this one i'm saying it's

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one it's subtle he's this like yes i gave an answer

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yes it was correct don't read too much into it there were

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quite a few learnables here starting with that none of our gamers even the

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ones who guessed correctly were confidently able to identify the 360hz

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monitor from gameplay but is it just because the refresh rate jump

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is too small another factor could be the pixel response times remember guys if

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the pixels can't change color fast enough smeary motion blur could hurt the

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experience no matter how many times you refresh the picture per second by the

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way you should try refreshing ltteststore.com where the pictures are

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always clear wow we really shoehorned that one in anyway

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early 240 hertz monitors like the ASUS pg258q

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used tn panels the lcd technology with the fastest pixel response times by

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contrast the pg-259 pg259q uses an ips

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type panel which is traditionally known more for color accuracy and wide viewing

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angles rather than for speed so to see how the pixel response times

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of this new monitor compared to its 240hz tn predecessor we put together a

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blurbuster's pursuit camera setup which helps us capture the motion blur

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produced by the monitor without the blur introduced by persistence of vision you

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can see here the old tn has less ghosting but is actually a bit less

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clear with thicker lines and a bit of image doubling compared to itself

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running at 240hz the pg259q at 360 looks

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only slightly more clear but with a similarly slight increase in

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inverse ghosting caused by pixel overdrive and a lot more smearing on the

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dark background which suggests that the panel struggles with light to dark

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transitions and for bonus points by the way here it is compared to the samsung

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odyssey g7 which uses a va panel

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interestingly the clearest image we got from the pg259q was when it had ulmb

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turned on which is only available at 144hz

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and 240hz nothing more nothing less you know i'd actually love

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to see a pursuit camera setup of a high refresh rate OLED since they supposedly

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have instantaneous pixel response times which actually we can do when lg's cx

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120 hertz OLED tv arrives make sure you guys sub so you don't miss that

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anyway with all that in mind is there any point

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in paying that's more expensive two to three

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hundred dollars more for the pg-259q

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compared to a last-gen 240hz monitor

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well probably in our video investigating

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how refresh rate affects the performance of pro gamers we discovered that it

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depends on the in-game scenario so even if this monitor doesn't offer much more

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motion clarity than existing offerings the higher refresh rate could still give

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you an advantage in situations like our csgo double door hallway test where

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having the most up-to-date information can make a huge difference and there are

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actually other ways that this monitor is just plain better than its predecessors

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take a look at this color accuracy yeah that's that's for real you could

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legitimately use this thing for gaming by night and creative color critical

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work by day as long as you're working in the srgb color space that's because as

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an 8-bit panel its gamut coverage isn't the greatest and unfortunately that

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doesn't change even if you use a graphics card that supports display

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stream compression rats that also plays into its HDR

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performance i mean hey it's hdr10 compatible

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but its low peak brightness keeps it from really

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shining in this respect and like most hdrint monitors as we call

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them it can look sometimes worse in HDR mode than in sdr it also has g-sync

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though and that is standard real g-sync not compatible or ultimate which means

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that its variable refresh rate range is completely unlimited and it means it has

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variable overdrive meaning less noticeable coronas at lower frame rates

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than you would get if it was overvolting the pixels the same across all frame

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rates it does have limitations as mentioned earlier it's got ulmb but

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notice the use of NVIDIA's acronym here ASUS usually calls their low motion blur

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e-lmb and might you expect it to have elmb sync

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that is backlight strobing while g-sync is on well sorry it doesn't you'll have

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to turn variable refresh rate off if you want that motion blur reduction that

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gave it that amazing clarity

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back to the bottom line though should you buy this monitor

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i for one think it's absolutely fantastic

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but only for a very specific gamer so if

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you're a competitive player and you play games that your pc can

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actually run at frame rates above 300 FPS and you don't need more than 1080p

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then this is one of if not the best 240hz monitor on the market and oh it

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can also run at 360hz if you're sensitive and skilled enough

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to well if not benefit from it at least

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watch an obvious one is checking out the big collab we did with shroud mr grimms

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but with some caveats you definitely have to watch the video