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welcome to my unboxing of Ben Q's professional level RTS gaming monitor

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endorsed by the one and only these guys who play for Korean they

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are okay they are members of a um Korean

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Esports team we don't know which one it is and I don't know who they are so

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supposedly though they are probably pretty good because at this point in

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time I have not yet had my picture on the box of a product so if they can do

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it then they must be better at video games than me which is not saying much

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but I'm sure they're really good okay anyway so it's optimized for RTS What on

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earth does that even mean it has a couple features that you might find

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relevant so first of all let's get this out of the way this is a TN monitor so

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this is a speed optimized rather than

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color and um accuracy optimized Monitor

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and I shouldn't say accuracy because I mean a pixel is a pixel you don't

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exactly it's not like one monitor is like blurrier than another one but by

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accuracy I mean mostly the color accuracy the Vibrance um TN panels are

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usually plenty bright but you tend to have less contrast so your whites are

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darker your blacks are lighter um

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however what you get for all of that because you're doing very little

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processing to the image and you are using a faster less accurate panel is

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you get the quick gray to gray response times that Gamers often ask for so this

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panel is rated at 2 milliseconds gray to gray which means that for gaming if

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you're upgrading well it's hard to say that's an upgrade because a lot of those

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CRT guys are like no nothing is an upgrade to a CRT a CRT is the best

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technology ever um which it might be but

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it's hard on the eyes um if you are upgrading from a CRT to this particular

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monitor you are going to notice less input leg and less of a an overall delay

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between the screen refreshing and it not

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being as refreshed as it is now so that is to say that it is a 60 HZ panel and

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in between one of those flashes in a second and the next one you're going to

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see less uh less blurriness as well as less

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lag so here we go just going to take

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this off what else makes it RTS optimized you

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might ask and I would tell you that what's kind of cool about it and this is

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one of the reasons that Intel is actually using this particular display

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uh for tournaments is that it includes a mode that allows you to hereo uh blah

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blah blah black equalizer for Optimum visibility oh that's that's actually

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interesting okay this is a cool feature out of everything I'd say this is probably one of the biggest ones so what

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they've done is they've optimized the output of the display so while you're

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not going to get necessarily the best color or whatever else it's going to be

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fast and you're going to be able to clearly see details in the dark so

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they've tweaked it a little bit so that when you have like a you know let's say

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you're playing an RTS and you have sort of a fog of war or whatever type less

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visibility area of the map you'll be able to see the units what kind of units

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they are as opposed to just seeing sort of black shapes moving on top of a black

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background and then all of a sudden they're in your base and you're in trouble uh so that's kind of neat and

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then this guy right here so this is why Intel is and actually a lot of

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tournaments are starting to use these BenQ monitors

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right here so you can switch between display modes so you can virtualize a

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17in 19in 19inch wide 21 wide 22 wide or

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23 wide monitor on the surface of this

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one without actually changing the panel you're using so this will allow you if

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you are you know a competitive gamer and you're playing at home it will allow you

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to practice in the setting that you're going to be using at a tournament so at

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the resolution at the screen size you're going to be using this can be an

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advantage and it also allows them to have flexibility when they use these for

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tournaments to set it to whatever they want depending on the game that is being

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played so what else we got here 16 by9

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widecreen viewing height adjustment okay so yeah let's have a look at the overall

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aesthetic of the monitor so we've got our rotation we got our whoopsy

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daisies uhu

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so oh okay there we've got our I think

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this one's called pivot pretty sure it's called pivot it goes only one way so it

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goes this way so you can be in portrait mode and play like Starcraft in like

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Ultra stretched portrait mode if you want but that's stupid don't do that um

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we've also got a height adjustable stand this is nice BenQ is one of the honestly

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Ben Q really has I believe set the bar

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in terms of the overall usability of their monitors because even on their

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lower-end monitors and you can tell when it's a lower-end monitor because it'll

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tend to sort of not be as robustly built

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as the higher end monitors and I'm not knocking them I'm just saying you know

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you get what you pay for even on a lot of their lower-end monitors they're

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still including things like a highight adjustable stand and proper ergonomic

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adjustments and I think that is critical because everybody needs to be

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comfortable looking at their monitor and being able to adjust it oh yeah it also

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tilts this guy right here being able to adjust it is instrumental in that so I

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would rather have a slightly less builtup um stand that actually has all

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the adjustments versus having one that looks really great is like made of metal

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and is like beautiful and like brush finish but actually like you can't move

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anything so there you go there's my two cents about that uh includes a VGA cable

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would have liked to see a DVI cable included

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but yeah it's neither here nor there I suppose on the bottom we've got VGA DVI

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and HDMI in as well as a headphone outport so if you are using HDMI then

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you can uh listen to your audio and your headphones there we've also got an AC

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power adapter plug spot as well as a Kensington lock up here last but not

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least this is a Vasa compatible LCD so if you wanted to put it on something

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then you could do that you could just take it right off the stand that it comes with and put it on something else

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so I think that pretty much covers it for me at this point in time thank you

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