welcome to my unboxing of Ben Q's professional level RTS gaming monitor
endorsed by the one and only these guys who play for Korean they
are okay they are members of a um Korean
Esports team we don't know which one it is and I don't know who they are so
supposedly though they are probably pretty good because at this point in
time I have not yet had my picture on the box of a product so if they can do
it then they must be better at video games than me which is not saying much
but I'm sure they're really good okay anyway so it's optimized for RTS What on
earth does that even mean it has a couple features that you might find
relevant so first of all let's get this out of the way this is a TN monitor so
this is a speed optimized rather than
color and um accuracy optimized Monitor
and I shouldn't say accuracy because I mean a pixel is a pixel you don't
exactly it's not like one monitor is like blurrier than another one but by
accuracy I mean mostly the color accuracy the Vibrance um TN panels are
usually plenty bright but you tend to have less contrast so your whites are
darker your blacks are lighter um
however what you get for all of that because you're doing very little
processing to the image and you are using a faster less accurate panel is
you get the quick gray to gray response times that Gamers often ask for so this
panel is rated at 2 milliseconds gray to gray which means that for gaming if
you're upgrading well it's hard to say that's an upgrade because a lot of those
CRT guys are like no nothing is an upgrade to a CRT a CRT is the best
technology ever um which it might be but
it's hard on the eyes um if you are upgrading from a CRT to this particular
monitor you are going to notice less input leg and less of a an overall delay
between the screen refreshing and it not
being as refreshed as it is now so that is to say that it is a 60 HZ panel and
in between one of those flashes in a second and the next one you're going to
see less uh less blurriness as well as less
lag so here we go just going to take
this off what else makes it RTS optimized you
might ask and I would tell you that what's kind of cool about it and this is
one of the reasons that Intel is actually using this particular display
uh for tournaments is that it includes a mode that allows you to hereo uh blah
blah blah black equalizer for Optimum visibility oh that's that's actually
interesting okay this is a cool feature out of everything I'd say this is probably one of the biggest ones so what
they've done is they've optimized the output of the display so while you're
not going to get necessarily the best color or whatever else it's going to be
fast and you're going to be able to clearly see details in the dark so
they've tweaked it a little bit so that when you have like a you know let's say
you're playing an RTS and you have sort of a fog of war or whatever type less
visibility area of the map you'll be able to see the units what kind of units
they are as opposed to just seeing sort of black shapes moving on top of a black
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
then this guy right here so this is why Intel is and actually a lot of
tournaments are starting to use these BenQ monitors
right here so you can switch between display modes so you can virtualize a
17in 19in 19inch wide 21 wide 22 wide or
23 wide monitor on the surface of this
one without actually changing the panel you're using so this will allow you if
you are you know a competitive gamer and you're playing at home it will allow you
to practice in the setting that you're going to be using at a tournament so at
the resolution at the screen size you're going to be using this can be an
advantage and it also allows them to have flexibility when they use these for
tournaments to set it to whatever they want depending on the game that is being
played so what else we got here 16 by9
widecreen viewing height adjustment okay so yeah let's have a look at the overall
aesthetic of the monitor so we've got our rotation we got our whoopsy
daisies uhu
so oh okay there we've got our I think
this one's called pivot pretty sure it's called pivot it goes only one way so it
goes this way so you can be in portrait mode and play like Starcraft in like
Ultra stretched portrait mode if you want but that's stupid don't do that um
we've also got a height adjustable stand this is nice BenQ is one of the honestly
Ben Q really has I believe set the bar
in terms of the overall usability of their monitors because even on their
lower-end monitors and you can tell when it's a lower-end monitor because it'll
tend to sort of not be as robustly built
as the higher end monitors and I'm not knocking them I'm just saying you know
you get what you pay for even on a lot of their lower-end monitors they're
still including things like a highight adjustable stand and proper ergonomic
adjustments and I think that is critical because everybody needs to be
comfortable looking at their monitor and being able to adjust it oh yeah it also
tilts this guy right here being able to adjust it is instrumental in that so I
would rather have a slightly less builtup um stand that actually has all
the adjustments versus having one that looks really great is like made of metal
and is like beautiful and like brush finish but actually like you can't move
anything so there you go there's my two cents about that uh includes a VGA cable
would have liked to see a DVI cable included
but yeah it's neither here nor there I suppose on the bottom we've got VGA DVI
and HDMI in as well as a headphone outport so if you are using HDMI then
you can uh listen to your audio and your headphones there we've also got an AC
power adapter plug spot as well as a Kensington lock up here last but not
least this is a Vasa compatible LCD so if you wanted to put it on something
then you could do that you could just take it right off the stand that it comes with and put it on something else
so I think that pretty much covers it for me at this point in time thank you
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