gaming monitors what exactly is it that they bring to the uh figurative table
here faster processing times so that's
the speed at which it can take that signal that comes in from your video
card to draw a new frame and turn that into something that the panel can
understand and faster pixel response times so that's the time that it takes
an individual pixel to go hey you're supposed to change to this color and
then actually flip to a different color so that the image changes but until a
couple of years ago all gaming monitors
were still held back by one key factor
the refresh rate and in fact many gaming
monitors today including this one are
still running at 60 refreshes per second
or 60 HZ meaning that some of the information on the screen can be up to
16 milliseconds old depending on when
the video card put it the PG 258 Q kicks
all of that in the teeth boasting the highest true refresh rate of any gaming
display on the market
240 HZ bringing that maximum Delay from
refresh rate down to about 4
milliseconds so let's check it out then shall we
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video description now to be clear there have
been displays in the past that have advertised 240 htz 480 htz or even
960 htz refresh rates but those have
been different typically this has been found on televisions where what they're
actually doing is taking a regular old 60 HZ signal and processing it to
approximate what the frames in between would be every TV manufacturer has a
different name for it but that technology is totally unsuitable for
gaming for a number of reasons the main one being that it adds a ton of
additional processing time where on a TV it doesn't really matter but in a game
where the user is actually interacting with what they see on the screen it's a
totally different ball game so for this to happen on a gaming monitor there are
a couple of key advancements that had to be made number one we needed faster
processors for our displays because 240
HZ you know 40 Mill seconds later with a
bunch of you know guesses as to what might have been in between is not the
same as real time you know
submillisecond processing of frames streaming over from a graphics card and
number two is that we needed a better
display interface so DisplayPort 1.2
saves the day again it's capable of carrying 4K 60 HZ which if you you know
do some fairly simple math is four times
the number number of pixels as 1920x
1080 or 1080p which is what this display does so it stands to reason then that
you would also be able to do four times the refresh rate at this resolution
number three is we needed faster panels so it wasn't until now that we would
even be able to get any benefit out of 240 refreshes per second because if the
pixel response times weren't good enough
then sure you might be pushing out 240 images per second but you'd end up with
a big ugly blurry mess instead of a
clean crisp image okay so we managed to
cover the refresh rate and the resolution so far but let's talk about
the rest of the monitor uh first up is the Bas this is going to be a love it or
ha it thing it's got kind of this uh black and sort of rust orange kind of
thing going on and then they include a couple different ones of these little
Rog illumination logo dads here that you
can swap out if you want so they include two Rog ones and then they also include
a few blanks so you can customize it if you want or you can turn the light off
entirely in the onscreen display next up
is IO now originally gsync monitors did
I mention this is g-sync by the way so that's uh that's cool if you're into the
whole variable refresh rate technology thing only had DisplayPort in now we
get DisplayPort and HDMI although it
should be noted this was interesting the HDMI port only operated at 64 Hertz when
I tried it so I'm not sure what the deal
with that is cuz that's not even the best that you could normally do on an
HDMI 1.4 connection also down here is a USB hub
power in and a headphone pass through as well as a little Dad here for cable
management and then the whole thing goes through this guy right here you've got
all the normal adjustments so you can go portrait you can twist you can go up and
down and you can tilt like that and take
these ugly stickers off it as well and getting down to the panel itself what
has become an Rog staple these super thin bezels on the right and left as
well as the top making it ideal for a surround gaming setup if you're into
that sort of thing I personally am not and as for the panel itself you can use
this handy test image that I got over on AVS forum to find out if it is true 8bit
or if it's 6bit with FRC so that's a technique that approximates Shades that
6bit panels can't reproduce by reproducing nearby ones and alternating
them and it looks like it does use f FRC so that right side has kind of a modled
appearance to it so let's fire up a game then shall we so at
first Ed wasn't sold um we went straight
to 240 HZ and tried with g-sync and with
without g-sync and thought that maybe
whether it's the computer and the game engine struggling to maintain steady 240
FPS or just the the limitations of human
perception it seemed like it was just more numbers more Hertz numbers for the
sake of more numbers without the obvious benefit that going from 60 to 120 or 144
Hertz had but obviously based on some of
the shots being made wasn't hurting matters either then we decided to try out the
ulmb mode which necessitated a switch to
144 HZ Max and something wasn't quite
right he was complaining about not having audio and complaining about this
and complaining about why shots weren't being made but but those flick shots
they were happening before so back to
240 Herz we went they're back it looks
like just like the SSD upgrade of half a
decade ago it's one of those things where it might be a little hard to tell
the difference until you've had it and
had it yanked away so that leads pretty
well into the conclusion for this display here um I did run it through my
usual range of color tests and as I
would expect from someone who cares about attention to detail like a seus in
srgb mode it's actually not bad consistently Delta ease of less than
five across the board is it suitable for Content creation no but were we really
expecting that out of a TN monitor not really overall pretty good but on to the
gaming argument it's like a $500 monitor
for someone like me would I say it's worth it no I'm not going to get the
most out of a piece of Machinery like this but for someone who actually has
more skill do I think that 240 HZ
technology is the way for for Competitive Gaming
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