WEBVTT 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:12.719 the fractal designed toine R4 case gets featured on the wow build logs of the 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:17.279 week section more than any other case click now to learn more about it welcome 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:23.599 to my unboxing an overview of the latest and greatest from BenQ this is the 2420 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:25.480 te whose main advantages over the 00:00:23.599 --> 00:00:29.640 previous Flagship 2420t 2420 TX for the one with the 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:38.000 built-in transmitter is the fact that it's capable of a 144 HZ refresh rate 00:00:33.559 --> 00:00:39.960 versus 120 HZ so while the 144 HZ 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:45.640 refresh rate isn't necessarily needed for something like 3D Vision if you just 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:49.760 want as many frames displayed on the 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:52.920 screen per second as freaking possible 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:54.760 then you'll want that uh it also has 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:58.800 what they're calling their zero flicker technology which means that at any 00:00:56.680 --> 00:01:02.559 backlight setting you're not going to have annoying flick in which can be 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:06.760 fatiguing on the eyes particularly during long gaming sessions and those 00:01:05.119 --> 00:01:12.040 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 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:16.400 Windows 8 compatible I should sure as bloody heck hope so it's NVIDIA 3D 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:21.240 Vision ready including light boost technology which dramatically improves 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.079 the 3D Vision experience making it much brighter and less blurry and sort of 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:28.920 gross in general they're the official tournament monitor of Intel extreme 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:35.880 Masters and I believe this is also an MLG endorsed model as well so it has 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:40.520 some gaming sort of optimized features including the ability to set different 00:01:38.119 --> 00:01:45.040 profiles for particular games in fact it comes pre-loaded with a couple of 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:49.600 different FPS modes optimized for CS 1.6 and CS source of all things there are 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:54.880 other fpss that people play these days but whatever um and then you can also 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:59.520 download profiles from your favorite Gamers which is kind of neat it comes 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.680 with a little controller here so you can either use the redesigned onscreen 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.560 display or and with the buttons on the side of the monitor to control it or you 00:02:05.039 --> 00:02:10.319 can actually thumb through things with the wheel here select things go back and 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:14.959 press different profiles and change things on the fly with the controller it's actually kind of a good 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:21.640 implementation we've used it before on the 2420 t uh it comes with a disc so 00:02:19.760 --> 00:02:27.080 you know what to do with that a dual link DVI cable because this runs at 1920 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:32.239 x 1080 with a high refresh rate it does need a dual link DVI cable for optimal 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:38.040 per performance it comes with a built-in USB hub so there's a USB to usbb Cable 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:42.280 as well as a power cable VGA cable you can throw that away with the disc as 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:46.680 well and then we've also got the height adjustable stand and a dust cover which 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:51.440 they include with many of their premium grade gaming monitors these days they're 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:55.640 using a hard foam however it is extremely well packed and extremely 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:59.319 thick hard foam with lots of cushioning around the corners so you can see right 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:04.040 there that they've got about a good inch and a half of corner protection which is 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:09.200 extremely important because that is where things like this tend to get 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:14.480 broken so we'll walk you through the assembly process here really quickly 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:17.760 line the three holes with The Notches here there's a little arrow that 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:22.040 indicates where you want it to end up facing front so we'll go ahead and put 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.040 that in 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:30.280 there and then turn it until it locks 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:35.560 and once it's locked you can go ahead and rotate it freely just like that to 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:41.239 lock it in place you can either use your hands or a flathead screwdriver to go 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:44.280 ahead and tighten that next up we peel 00:03:41.239 --> 00:03:46.159 all the plastic off of it I really wish 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:50.280 they'd just stop putting glossy surfaces on these things entirely because it's 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:53.560 more work to protect them with plastic more work to take the plastic off when 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:57.319 I'm putting it together and then more work to keep it clean later on after the 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:01.760 fact and it just doesn't look any better but whatever okay so let's go ahead and 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:06.400 and show you the final assembly step which is to go ahead and click it into 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:09.959 place like that and you might have gone Linus how are you going to show me all 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:12.760 the interfaces on the bottom if you've gone and assembled it first it's going 00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:17.239 to be more difficult no no don't worry I'm getting to that so it has height 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:20.320 adjust so actually a fairly wide range of height adjust quite nice indeed 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:24.840 you've got your tilt okay you got your 00:04:22.840 --> 00:04:30.360 swivel okay which I showed you before already and finally aha yes there we go 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:34.360 pivot love to see pivot it's something I actually only really use to access the 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:37.280 ports because I'm not a photographer and if I was a photographer I wouldn't be 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:42.320 using this monitor because as far as color accuracy goes and color depth this 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:47.600 is not going to compare very favorably to an IPS VA or PLS panel it's mostly 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:52.680 optimized for Speed which is great for gaming but not uh professional sort of 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:56.560 video or photo work here's the built-in Hub so there's the input for that as 00:04:54.759 --> 00:05:00.000 well as a single output and then the other two are actually sorry I'm going 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:03.520 to go ahead and do this to you are on the side of the monitor right here as 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:08.600 well as a headphone pass through if you're using HDMI in which is kind of 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:11.880 nice to have you've also got two HDMI in so that's another thing that makes this 00:05:10.039 --> 00:05:15.400 kind of gaming optimized is that you can have your PS3 and your Xbox and your PC 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.440 all kind of hooked up to at the same time switch between them pretty easily you've got that useless VGA port please 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:23.880 please for the love of whatever you believe in don't plug anything into that 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:27.840 and finally you've got DisplayPort which is not dumb and then last but not 00:05:25.960 --> 00:05:31.840 least you've got the little control pod thing that actually docks um with 00:05:29.919 --> 00:05:36.600 magnetically to the side of the monitor which also has plastic on it there you 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:39.560 go so it sits there held in by like a little magnet thing and you go ahead and 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:44.560 plug that in if you do decide to use it but you don't have to it's completely 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:47.960 removable should you prefer that approach last but not least you've got a 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:52.120 Kensington lock which I think is more for like tournament people than actual 00:05:50.440 --> 00:05:54.680 like regular people who don't usually lock down their monitors but if you have 00:05:53.600 --> 00:06:00.000 a whole bunch of these set up at a tournament that's not necessarily a bad idea to have implemented and then check 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:03.440 this out another gamer optimized feature is the headphone hook on the back of a 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:08.880 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 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:13.000 boom so that way you can have your headphones hanging behind your monitor 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:17.160 instead of on the front of your desk if you wanted them oh yeah it also has a 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:20.720 carrying handle so the carrying handle is kind of sturdy well well not kind of 00:06:18.960 --> 00:06:23.520 sturdy it's very sturdy but the thing I don't like about it is it's not very 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:26.759 well balanced so you can see when I hold it like this it kind of hangs like that 00:06:25.039 --> 00:06:29.960 but I don't really know what else they'd be able to do about that other than 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:34.400 repositioning it to the top of the panel for example which might cause it to lose 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:37.720 some of its strength so I think that pretty much wraps it up for the actual 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:43.960 unboxing portion so stay tuned guys we'll be right back holy crap it's the 00:06:40.599 --> 00:06:46.199 first 120hz monitor that doesn't have 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:52.880 color depth then color accuracy that looks completely balls unbelievable I 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:55.280 actually love the 2420 te I'm extremely 00:06:52.880 --> 00:07:00.360 impressed by this monitor normally the compromises that get made when you amp 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:05.680 up the refresh rate is generally with respect to image quality particularly in 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:10.120 terms of color depth now color depth refers to that banding that exists when 00:07:08.479 --> 00:07:13.720 you have similar colors that aren't quite the same and the monitor just 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:16.960 isn't capable of reproducing enough in between so you end up with like these 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:21.039 chunks of colors you'll see this a lot of the time with movies and things like 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:26.000 dark scenes you'll see like big blocks of like slightly lighter brown and Big 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:29.599 Blocks of slightly darker brown because either the uh bit rate of the file is 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:34.240 very low or the display you're watching on isn't very good so that is not a 00:07:32.840 --> 00:07:38.720 problem on this monitor which I'm extremely impressed by not only that but 00:07:36.440 --> 00:07:44.800 this is more than a 120 HZ display this is a 144hz display and it's really the 00:07:42.440 --> 00:07:52.400 first one that I can recommend without an asteris because before I'd say yeah I 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:56.919 recommend 120 HZ monitors if the refresh 00:07:52.400 --> 00:07:58.879 rate is really important to you if it's 00:07:56.919 --> 00:08:04.000 really important and then what I would always say is I personally prefer higher 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:06.720 resolution and better color accuracy for 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:10.319 a more immersive gaming experience now I'm only actually left with one of those 00:08:08.599 --> 00:08:14.120 points are you going to be doing any professional you know Photoshop work by 00:08:12.840 --> 00:08:19.080 the way we have the Star Citizen hanger module I'm running on here are you going to be able to do any professional 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:24.039 Photoshop or like color correction work on here the answer is no it's not that 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:28.840 good but it's so much better than the typical TN gaming monitor that I'm going 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:33.039 to take that caveat away from my recommendation so the only thing that's 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:37.080 really left is you still can't get high resolution monitors that are also High 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:40.440 refresh rate and this is due to a limitation in the bandwidth that can be 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:46.160 delivered by most of the display interfaces we have today so something 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:47.880 like HDMI 2.0 or better DisplayPort 1.2 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:52.839 implementations could address this in the future but for now this is what 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:55.920 we've got and as far as the 2420 te goes 00:08:52.839 --> 00:08:57.880 I am extremely impressed guys I 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:03.279 wholeheartedly recommend this monitor it's expensive but it is so much better 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:04.680 than the last generation T and TX just 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:09.720 due to the fact that the color reproduction is dramatically improved 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:12.760 that uh I mean I other than just kind of gushing about it for another three 00:09:11.079 --> 00:09:16.560 minutes I don't know what else to say benq's got a winner on their hands here 00:09:14.839 --> 00:09:21.200 and compared to other 3D monitors that I've seen this is hands down the one to 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:24.160 get don't forget to subscribe to's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.360 other computer videos like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked 00:09:25.959 --> 00:09:33.680 it leave a comment if you're as freaking surprised as me that this thing doesn't 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:35.200 look bad I mean no offense to you know 00:09:33.680 --> 00:09:40.320 everyone else who tried to build a 3D monitor that was high refresh rate but 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