welcome to a very exciting unboxing my only complaint about benq's 2420 tx
which if you guys do or don't recall i'll tell you either way uh is the 3d
monitor that we use for all of our 3d vision testing because unlike most other
3d monitors that i've ever tried i don't get a headache using the 2420 tx because
it's all about pixel response times when it comes to a smooth 3d experience i
mean with that said no lcd is perfect um
and something like a dlp projector or you know hopefully at some point in the
future like an OLED display i really wish sed had taken off anyway uh the
point is the 2420 tx is the monitor we
use for our 3d testing because it's awesome and my only complaint about it
was that it's 24 inch as opposed to 27 inch which uh benq's competitor ASUS has
had on the market for quite a while so in the top we find a stand i realized i
should have been showing this to you as we run what's the point of an unboxing if i don't even show you what i'm
looking at here's their little control module so you can control the on-screen
display with a little wheel and a click and a back and a 1-2-3 for profiles and
things like that there's also a dust cover we'll show you that later as well as some cables you know what i give up
i'm not even gonna bother showing you guys that okay moving right along we've
got uh oh yeah
see you always know a monitor is like better when it comes in more pieces
trust me on this you guys if a monitor comes in one piece it's because it's
like super low profile which means it probably has no height adjust it
probably has like no uh no swivel or
anything like that it's probably a super basic monitor so
this packing material up here um
it's kind of scary for unboxers because at some point everything you unbox has
to be re-boxed and look at all these compartments
nice thick foam though overall so i'm not too worried about the product being
damaged in any way even though it is a bit of a a bit of a weaker style of foam
and it can only take one serious impact unlike
a softer closed cell foam the good news about it though is that this was shipped
just in this box alone and nothing inside even the foam itself was damaged
so here's the lcd panel itself which has about an inch of foam around the outside
edges here you can see there's less than an inch here but there's like there's a
gap there so it's it's fine it's not actually the monitor up against the edge
of the box and then it sits face down in this guy right here
27 inch monitors some people find that the dot pitch of a
1080p monitor at 27 inch is a little bit
a little bit low that is to say that the pixel density isn't quite high enough it
depends how close you sit to it personally i love large format high
resolution monitors but many people also don't mind it and even
find it more enjoyable because what it does and this is just it's kind of an
indirect side effect is it makes text larger it makes everything generally
larger so particularly if you don't see well a larger monitor with not necessarily a
super high resolution can be a very good choice all right so the default picture
mode on this monitor is FPS which is designed for FPS games if you do not
intend to play FPS games press any of the control keys on the right of the
monitor and select picture mode to change the setting huh okay so we can go
ahead and pull that off this is the official monitor of the Intel xtreme
masters gaming tournament which is kind of cool so i'm sure some kind of validation was
done somewhere along the line that it's uh that it's good mind you if it's anything like the 2420t
our tx which are basically the same monitor one with a transmitter one with
not then it should be pretty good and we're going to go ahead and assemble it and then we'll be back in a moment
assembly is pretty straightforward align the arrow on the bottom of the stand to
the arrow on the base right there
well you can try to do that
simple as long as you're not me there you go rotate it to put it in place
then twist in the screw on the bottom either with your hands or with a phillips head
screwdriver no video would be complete without one
of my classic phone size comparisons so this is the htc one it's not a
particularly slim monitor however the electronics that go into these high
speed displays necessitate a little bit of a thicker form factor with more
ventilation so you can see there's actually ventilation holes all along the
back here that are covered in a plastic until you remove them
there we go let's go ahead and do that and then we can mount it to the stand
which is as simple as aligning it correctly which is easier to do when
you're on the other side okay apparently it's really easy to do because i got it just aligning it and then letting it pop
into place you can then remove the monitor by pressing this button and
picking it up just like that once it's all assembled you have a lot of
different options in terms of adjustments so you have height adjust
there you go well that's good that's about six inches of height adjust you've got tilt
just like that and you've got swivel
no pivot on this one pivot remember guys is when you can change it oh okay it
does have pivot nevermind okay so it has pretty much the entire range of
adjustments although i really can't imagine anyone actually gaming like this
but but one thing that i do use the pivot on my monitor for is plugging in my
connectors and then putting it back so there you go it might be handy for
you
included accessories wise things are pretty straightforward here's that dust cover that i showed you guys before so
if you're worried about dust on your monitor then you can use it there you go
we're just going to take that off for now though uh let's talk a little bit about the features so it's a 120 hertz
monitor which is required for 3d it is also better for not 3d particularly if
you're worried about the maximum responsiveness remember any 60hz monitor
no matter how little lag there is in the rest of your gaming setup whether it's
your mouse or whether it's your graphics card or any other delay in something
happening to reaching your eyes on the screen a 60hz monitor at best can do
16.6 milliseconds assuming it's perfect
um of sort of bet of worst case scenario
uh latency to getting the image to your eyes a 120 hertz monitor cuts that in
half it will bring you more images so that the worst case scenario for an
update will be not as bad by half so there you go that was a very convoluted
explanation but i hope you understand display modes can be changed to 17 19 19
why 21 and a half wide 22 wide 23 wide 23.6 wide and 24 wide this is handy
because what it allows you to do is practice at a different aspect ratio or
a different monitor size before sort of walking in blind to a tournament setting
where you're required to use a different monitor smart scaling for fine-tuned
picture sizes that's basically the same thing as display mode and their black
equalizer for optimum visibility will pull details out of blacks rather than
crushing them so what it does do is it makes the blacks a little bit less deep
a little bit less true but you're compromising that for the sake of being
able to see someone crouching in a shadow or being able to see a unit in an rts that's kind of hidden in the fog of
war or whatever else or outside of your visibility or something like that so
you're able to see details that you couldn't otherwise uh been key is rating it at a one millisecond greater grade
response time and it does support light boost which is 3d vision 2 sort of
we're going to be back in a moment because our lighting just dramatically changed
more handy features it comes with a handle as well as a headphone hook which
i personally think is kind of cool it's nice to have somewhere to keep your headphones as well as a built-in usb hub
hub so there's your headphone output on the side of the monitor as well as two
usb ports so you could actually plug all of your peripherals into the side of the
monitor down here we find all of the i o so it
supports there's more usb hub so there's your usb in which is going to give you
three usbs out between the one on the bottom and the two on the side dual HDMI
in which is cool because if you're a console gamer and you don't have like
maybe you're in a dorm or something like that you don't have you know a monitor and a tv and like another tv then you
can just switch the inputs and you can go okay xbox input pc input and switch
between them just like that so dual HDMI dual link dvi this is important because
this one is going to be the one that's going to run NVIDIA 3d vision you have
to have 120 hertz support and HDMI at
1920x1080 does not support it it's not fast enough
vga seriously if you're using a monitor like this was vga that's a problem
there's the last usb output which goes to that little controller which actually
clips to the side of the monitor on whichever side you prefer using a little
magnet so you can put it right there and then run this up to that output and last
but not least it supports displayport in
there's your power in right there and
included cables are dual link tvi use this one
power vga and usb a to b which is what will power
and provide data for the built-in hub last but not least touch sensitive
controls but not the bad kind of touch sensitive controls these ones have audio
audible feedback so you press them they go beep and then they also light up
which is really really cool and the menu pops up right here i actually found
using these more convenient than using this one but that's just me also it
looks like this monitor does have a built-in 3d emitter much like the 2420
tx as opposed to the 2420t which means
you don't have to have the little pyramid-shaped 3d vision emitter i
thought maybe i had one handy but it looks like i don't don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more
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