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the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the

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week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it welcome

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to my unboxing an overview of the latest and greatest from BenQ this is the 2420

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te whose main advantages over the

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previous Flagship 2420t 2420 TX for the one with the

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built-in transmitter is the fact that it's capable of a 144 HZ refresh rate

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versus 120 HZ so while the 144 HZ

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refresh rate isn't necessarily needed for something like 3D Vision if you just

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want as many frames displayed on the

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screen per second as freaking possible

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then you'll want that uh it also has

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what they're calling their zero flicker technology which means that at any

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backlight setting you're not going to have annoying flick in which can be

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fatiguing on the eyes particularly during long gaming sessions and those

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are kind of the key differences here but we'll walk through the rest of it as we keep going here so it's LED backlit it's

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Windows 8 compatible I should sure as bloody heck hope so it's NVIDIA 3D

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Vision ready including light boost technology which dramatically improves

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the 3D Vision experience making it much brighter and less blurry and sort of

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gross in general they're the official tournament monitor of Intel extreme

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Masters and I believe this is also an MLG endorsed model as well so it has

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some gaming sort of optimized features including the ability to set different

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profiles for particular games in fact it comes pre-loaded with a couple of

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different FPS modes optimized for CS 1.6 and CS source of all things there are

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other fpss that people play these days but whatever um and then you can also

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download profiles from your favorite Gamers which is kind of neat it comes

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with a little controller here so you can either use the redesigned onscreen

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display or and with the buttons on the side of the monitor to control it or you

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can actually thumb through things with the wheel here select things go back and

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press different profiles and change things on the fly with the controller it's actually kind of a good

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implementation we've used it before on the 2420 t uh it comes with a disc so

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you know what to do with that a dual link DVI cable because this runs at 1920

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x 1080 with a high refresh rate it does need a dual link DVI cable for optimal

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per performance it comes with a built-in USB hub so there's a USB to usbb Cable

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as well as a power cable VGA cable you can throw that away with the disc as

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well and then we've also got the height adjustable stand and a dust cover which

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they include with many of their premium grade gaming monitors these days they're

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using a hard foam however it is extremely well packed and extremely

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thick hard foam with lots of cushioning around the corners so you can see right

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there that they've got about a good inch and a half of corner protection which is

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extremely important because that is where things like this tend to get

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broken so we'll walk you through the assembly process here really quickly

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line the three holes with The Notches here there's a little arrow that

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indicates where you want it to end up facing front so we'll go ahead and put

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that in

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there and then turn it until it locks

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and once it's locked you can go ahead and rotate it freely just like that to

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lock it in place you can either use your hands or a flathead screwdriver to go

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ahead and tighten that next up we peel

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all the plastic off of it I really wish

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they'd just stop putting glossy surfaces on these things entirely because it's

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more work to protect them with plastic more work to take the plastic off when

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I'm putting it together and then more work to keep it clean later on after the

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fact and it just doesn't look any better but whatever okay so let's go ahead and

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and show you the final assembly step which is to go ahead and click it into

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place like that and you might have gone Linus how are you going to show me all

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the interfaces on the bottom if you've gone and assembled it first it's going

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to be more difficult no no don't worry I'm getting to that so it has height

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adjust so actually a fairly wide range of height adjust quite nice indeed

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you've got your tilt okay you got your

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swivel okay which I showed you before already and finally aha yes there we go

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pivot love to see pivot it's something I actually only really use to access the

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ports because I'm not a photographer and if I was a photographer I wouldn't be

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using this monitor because as far as color accuracy goes and color depth this

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is not going to compare very favorably to an IPS VA or PLS panel it's mostly

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optimized for Speed which is great for gaming but not uh professional sort of

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video or photo work here's the built-in Hub so there's the input for that as

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well as a single output and then the other two are actually sorry I'm going

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to go ahead and do this to you are on the side of the monitor right here as

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well as a headphone pass through if you're using HDMI in which is kind of

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nice to have you've also got two HDMI in so that's another thing that makes this

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kind of gaming optimized is that you can have your PS3 and your Xbox and your PC

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all kind of hooked up to at the same time switch between them pretty easily you've got that useless VGA port please

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please for the love of whatever you believe in don't plug anything into that

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and finally you've got DisplayPort which is not dumb and then last but not

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least you've got the little control pod thing that actually docks um with

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magnetically to the side of the monitor which also has plastic on it there you

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go so it sits there held in by like a little magnet thing and you go ahead and

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plug that in if you do decide to use it but you don't have to it's completely

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removable should you prefer that approach last but not least you've got a

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Kensington lock which I think is more for like tournament people than actual

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like regular people who don't usually lock down their monitors but if you have

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a whole bunch of these set up at a tournament that's not necessarily a bad idea to have implemented and then check

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this out another gamer optimized feature is the headphone hook on the back of a

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monitor so I'm going to run and grab a pair of headphones so I can show you how that might work in a real world scenario

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boom so that way you can have your headphones hanging behind your monitor

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instead of on the front of your desk if you wanted them oh yeah it also has a

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carrying handle so the carrying handle is kind of sturdy well well not kind of

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sturdy it's very sturdy but the thing I don't like about it is it's not very

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well balanced so you can see when I hold it like this it kind of hangs like that

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but I don't really know what else they'd be able to do about that other than

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repositioning it to the top of the panel for example which might cause it to lose

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some of its strength so I think that pretty much wraps it up for the actual

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unboxing portion so stay tuned guys we'll be right back holy crap it's the

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first 120hz monitor that doesn't have

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color depth then color accuracy that looks completely balls unbelievable I

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actually love the 2420 te I'm extremely

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impressed by this monitor normally the compromises that get made when you amp

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up the refresh rate is generally with respect to image quality particularly in

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terms of color depth now color depth refers to that banding that exists when

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you have similar colors that aren't quite the same and the monitor just

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isn't capable of reproducing enough in between so you end up with like these

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chunks of colors you'll see this a lot of the time with movies and things like

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dark scenes you'll see like big blocks of like slightly lighter brown and Big

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Blocks of slightly darker brown because either the uh bit rate of the file is

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very low or the display you're watching on isn't very good so that is not a

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problem on this monitor which I'm extremely impressed by not only that but

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this is more than a 120 HZ display this is a 144hz display and it's really the

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first one that I can recommend without an asteris because before I'd say yeah I

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recommend 120 HZ monitors if the refresh

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rate is really important to you if it's

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really important and then what I would always say is I personally prefer higher

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resolution and better color accuracy for

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a more immersive gaming experience now I'm only actually left with one of those

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points are you going to be doing any professional you know Photoshop work by

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the way we have the Star Citizen hanger module I'm running on here are you going to be able to do any professional

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Photoshop or like color correction work on here the answer is no it's not that

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good but it's so much better than the typical TN gaming monitor that I'm going

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to take that caveat away from my recommendation so the only thing that's

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really left is you still can't get high resolution monitors that are also High

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refresh rate and this is due to a limitation in the bandwidth that can be

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delivered by most of the display interfaces we have today so something

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like HDMI 2.0 or better DisplayPort 1.2

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implementations could address this in the future but for now this is what

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we've got and as far as the 2420 te goes

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I am extremely impressed guys I

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wholeheartedly recommend this monitor it's expensive but it is so much better

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than the last generation T and TX just

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due to the fact that the color reproduction is dramatically improved

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that uh I mean I other than just kind of gushing about it for another three

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minutes I don't know what else to say benq's got a winner on their hands here

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and compared to other 3D monitors that I've seen this is hands down the one to

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it leave a comment if you're as freaking surprised as me that this thing doesn't

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look bad I mean no offense to you know

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everyone else who tried to build a 3D monitor that was high refresh rate but

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what can I say and uh I think that's pretty much it