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so I just bought a 32 in 1440p Monitor

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and I love it but it cost me like $800

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now ASUS sponsored this video to check out their ASUS tough VG 28u it's a 28 in

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4k 144hz display it's really nice and

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it's about $800 did I make a

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mistake yes jonno seems to think so um I don't

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know the pixel density I've been looking at is okay but if 4K 28 in that's a lot

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of PPI so let's unbox it open it up and take a look and see if I really did

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screw up J actually just point it out that doesn't say 4K anywhere uh at least

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not on the front which is kind of where you're looking for like a bunch of specs and stuff I'm surprised because normally

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it's a huge selling feature right every oh it's 4K oh it's 144 Hertz like all

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we're seeing is the screen size ASUS tough gaming in the model um this side

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has like nothing on it what does this side have on this got everything oh yeah

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here we go 4K HDR 90% DC3 coverage what

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is that it can cover 90% of the DCI P3

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color gamut elmb Sync It's got this 1

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millisecond Trace free response time so

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this is actually rapid IPS um IPS has actually gotten a little better over the

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last few years and Rapid IPS is kind of one of the newest ones what else I miss

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anything else got gsync like everything it's got HDMI 2.1 ports even though

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though that's like not a thing anymore what is I think all 2.0 is 2.1 now I

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don't know what's going yeah it's a really stupid thing it was on wano last

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week I flip this thing over 28 in all

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right that's fine that's just cables don't worry about

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that don't worry about these it's okay oh you can do this vertical so I

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actually have um the vg27a something

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it's their 27in 1440p 144 well it's 165 overclock but

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144 monitor at home and I love that thing so now I have a guy like this

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that's 27 in and I've flipped it vertically and it's awesome I mean it's

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not for everyone and it it's kind of weird you have to it takes some getting

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used to but it's really nice having that super long uh screen space for like

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lists or just browsing or like if you've got chat and then like Discord up here

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and then your game on your main monitor it's awesome any more destruction you want me to throw the monitor on the

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ground yeah I don't think ASUS would like that

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very much I kind of open this upside down you're for most monitors you're

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supposed to try to get panel side down and then you can attach the stand and

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then you just pull the whole thing off like that um but I mean this has got

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actually a surprising amount of like protective foam so I'm just going to put

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it like this on the uh star foam it'll wiggle around

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but it's fine so this is awesome it's toolless you can just slide it on screw

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this guy down did I mention ASUS sponsored this video thank IUS I love

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how they've got basically almost no bezel on the side and the top actually

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there's a bit of a small one on here but whatever that's fine one other thing I

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kind of like is that this part of the stand came attached this was packed like

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right on there which is great it just eliminates a whole step you have to do

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these are probably screws that you can just pull out just show me the screws oh

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look at how easy yeah cool so thanks to joho and her handy dandy I fix a kit um

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yeah they're screws so you just pop those guys out and then you can probably

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just unscrew this whole thing take it off and then put this on a mount if you

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really want to you know I this is a lot easier in vertical here's the other nice

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thing about vertical monitors boom wow

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now I can just reach the io so much easier like I just plug it in that's not

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the power plug this is HDMI is this 2.1

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it says 8K did it come with display

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port yes okay so yeah we've got two USB

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3.0 and then there's two HD 2.1 and then two HDMI and then a display

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port and then there's a headphone jack at the very top I think which is great I

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do like that they've labeled everything on here so you can look at this instead

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of trying to go underneath but like I said if you're plugging in a bunch of stuff and setting up your monitor highly

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recommend if it can go vertical just do it all like this turn the whole thing

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cable manage it put it on your desk you're basically done we're done look

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you cable manage it looks nice from the front most of these cables are up high

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enough that you don't really see them um and then it just runs straight out the

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back we had a little trouble getting this to clip in quite the right way but

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we're also in a rush so um so it's this thing's great ASUS tends to put in a lot

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of like uh swivel and tilt so you've got

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a fair amount of motion that way and then how much can it yeah it's got quite

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a bit 20° back 5° front it's not

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terrible yeah honestly the fact that it can go vertical really also helps that a

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lot there's also a bunch of control buttons like here's your main navigation

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nipple as we like to call it and then it's got these four probably like

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selector buttons here I don't know like

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you can just this thing has side to side

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functionality you could just do everything on the nipple I honestly don't understand oh yeah so menu that's

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an X so that's go back that's like forward one or forward two I'm not sure

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what that means and then that's a power button I still think you could have done

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it all just on the navigation nipple but whatever so this is basically the setup

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that I've got at home right now I've got one vertical monitor that's 27 in so I

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think it's a little bigger than this do you know what size this is 24 all right

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well this is a vertical widescreen monitor um and then I've got my main

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display right here except mine is like 32 so it's kind of like this it's just a

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little bit bigger 1440p but it's 1440p

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so the pixel density is worse and 4K 28

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in like don't get me wrong this is nice and I can't see like any pixels like

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there's no screen door even when I'm right there which is great but the reality is

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there's not much screen door when I'm on my 32 in 1440p so screen door screen

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door effects when you see pixels like you can see cuz you know when you you

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know when you're looking at a screen door and you can see like the individual

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spots where the screen intersects you can see the same thing with pixels kind

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of when it's a low uh pixel per inch density we're limited by HDMI 2.1 uh to

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4K 120 so let's actually get the DisplayPort in there and see if it does

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natively do 144 or if it'll go straight

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to um just 120 and then you have to actually overclock it to 144 so another

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um small complaint that I have is that HDR 400

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it's really hardly HDR but you know what

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it's better than not having it at all and 4K 144 so it does do 144 native

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which is cool but you'll need a DisplayPort cable for that cool so we've got to

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install some games cuz we moved our library and uh things got messy when

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that happened so we're just going to look at the onscreen display while Things download yeah see I really wish

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it was down here I hate when they're on the side it's just a like even if I

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wasn't filming um and trying to like show you guys the stuff and keep my hand

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kind of out of the way even just this is a lot more annoying than just like right

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here this is just so much easier just just just put it down there every time

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yeah it's got adaptive sync on gsync compatible variable OD you can add like

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Crosshair and timer this is actually pretty cool you can do like an FPS counter and display alignment which is

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nice ooh Dynamic frame rate

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graph that's cool ASUS gaming HDR so you

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can choose Cinema HDR console mode I don't know what console mode does you

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should probably have that on if you're using a PS5 or something um Cinema is

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probably just more color accurate and gaming is probably just either there's

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some like low latency stuff enabled in it or um it's just more uh vibrant

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probably the it's got some extra features um that are a few years ago a

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lot of the stuff would actually be like really impressive these days it's it's

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stuff that you kind of just expect to have if you're spending more than you

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know $400 or $500 on a display it feels

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great 4K you know 120 HZ 144 Herz like

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you really can't complain um and at $800

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like it's not a bad price considering um

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the screen size and resolution and everything you're getting wow look at that yeah it looks

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pretty I wish it would get a little brighter like like I said HDR 400 isn't

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going to get too bright but it does look really nice yeah so contrast ratio is

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about 1,000 to1 which is okay we're seeing um displays reach higher than

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that these days but like honestly for this price you're not not going to find

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much better R tracing Ultra textures

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High field of view 80 no 100 I want to

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see everything in 4k I don't want to I don't want to upscale or down scale

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anything I just want to be straight native 4K we'll keep the 90 degree uh

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field of view cuz come on 80 is not enough and then we're going to go down

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to let's just do the big retracing

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medium 24 yeah see I think you have to

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play right like you basically need at higher resolutions you basically need D

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LSS cuz 4K even with a 3090 is just too strong I'll try turning this back to 80

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I just there's a couple settings that really make a huge difference like anisotropy uh can go down to like four

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and it'll still look pretty good but here's what I'm getting at is like this

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is not even a new game anymore and yeah it's not very well optimized sure but a

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lot of brand new AAA games aren't well optimized um especially when they're

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ported to PC is like a secondary thing

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and with dlss on and some stuff turned down to like high or medium we're only

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getting like 55 60 FPS it's okay but you know we want the

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120 we want the 144 Herz so let's get out of cyberpunk you know what it looks

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beautiful on this thing and you know what 300 okay well it's Deathmatch so I

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mean I'm just going to get shot from every angle but 200 FPS 250 FPS if you

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play anything competitive like Counter Strike or Rainbow Six Siege would

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probably also see pretty good frame rates it's a really good size like 28 in

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is I went from 27 to 32 um and 32 is

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fine but 28 especially when you're gaming like this close to it is a really

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really good screen size I don't have to turn my head to look at anything I can

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just use my eyes and it's all like within my field of view I don't have to

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worry about something going on in the bottom left corner or something like

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that I think for anyone looking for an upgrade um especially if you're running

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1080p you should probably get something like this because you are future

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proofing especially especially with the high refresh rate you're not stuck with

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like oh it's 4K 60 okay well that's great I know that not a lot of games can

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run past like 60 HZ and 4K but for I

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mean hey you play counter I'm getting 300 frames per second here yeah it's a 3090 but whatever this thing can do it

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you want to buy a monitor that can match your Hardware so if you spent a lot on

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your computer a 4K 120 HZ display at

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$800 it's a pretty good deal thanks for watching guys it's the as VG 28u 4K 144

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HZ really gorgeous display um if you

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like this video check out the 360 no

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sorry 390 HZ Acer video we did um you

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know 120 is a lot but it could always be better