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description. Um, what is it? It's like it's like I
got this guy watching me while I try and make my video here. It's weirding me
out, but that's okay because nothing can ruin my mood right now. Okay, monitors
used to be 60 Hz and then we got overclocking to like 75 85. Then we got
120 Hz. Night and day difference. Then a couple incremental improvements. 144
165. Now it's gamechanging again. And by
game I mean gaming. A yes. This is the ROG Swift
PG28Q. The first 240 Hz 24 1/2 in gaming
monitor that I have had the pleasure of laying my eyes on. And holy cow, just
sitting down and knocking things over and moving the mouse, it is immediately
noticeable. And it's not like necessarily some other high refreshment
monitors out there because even without ultra low motion blur enabled, this
thing is actually doing pretty darn well
in terms of not leaving motion trails behind the cursor. Now, obviously, I
don't have it in the lab yet, but I've been informed we will be getting one
very soon, but my initial impression is this is freaking impressive. So, it
features NVIDIA G-Sync technology. You've got DisplayPort in or HDMI in,
whichever you prefer, and it's got a built-in USB 3 hub. In terms of the
styling, it's what has become kind of the ROG way. So, you've got a nice slim
bezel, a couple kind of gamery accents,
but the most sort of, let's say, u
goddy, how you say, of which the underglow ROG logo thing, you can turn
that off in the menu. Now, those of you who are wondering, it does support
G-Sync, but the unanimous opinion from the ASUS guys in the room is that the
real story here is not necessarily G-Sync, but rather the fact that now if
you turn G-Sync off, you can run ultra low motion blur all the way up to the
full 240 hertz, which is going to give
you like super sharp, fastmoving images
at an extremely high refresh rate, which is going to be critical for competitive
gamers or filthy casuals like me who
just like having the best possible experience even though they suck. It's
got the full range of adjustments. And as we're making all these adjustments to
the stand, you'll probably notice, yes, this is in fact a TN panel. But I got to
tell you guys, outside of looking at it from the bottom, where really it does
look awful. Uh side to side viewing angles very good. And colors again, just
subjectively, I'm just out of show. Looking pretty good here. I am super
excited about this one. Uh that is to say, uh as long as I can afford the
approximately $500 price
tag. I never said the resolution. Okay, hold on. Let me think
for a second. Did I miss anything else critical? You know what? Let's just
let's just do a totally awkward shot here. Um it's a 1080p monitor. I forgot
to mention the resolution. Anyway, thanks for checking
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