ASUS VG278HE 144Hz 3D LED LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the ASUS VG
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278 144 HZ LED back lit LCD monitor this
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is 3D Vision ready with light boost and
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is basically for twitch gaming whether you're playing like I don't know
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whatever the kids are playing these days Counterstrike go
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or I was going to say League of Legends cuz I know l people play that but it's
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not exactly a twitch game so he's giving me that look it's like you have no idea
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what you're talking about I do know what I'm talking about and I do know that
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League of Legends isn't a twitch game but I also know that if you were at an
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elite level in League of Legends it would be more twitch and he's getting me the nod now so see there I do know what
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I'm talking about he's not giving me the knot anymore um so I'm going to go ahead
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and take out some foam here they're using oh this is like a semi soft foam
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it has some Flex to it however if it did take a serious you know beating at any
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point in time then it would probably break and lose some of its structural
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Integrity however what you guys will notice about the monitor is that there's
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a lot of foam around it so a lot of LCDs
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see the LCD actually only goes to here so there's a huge gap here a lot of LCDs
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these days only have a tiny gap between the outside of the box and the front of
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the panel which if your name is Linus and you worry about packaging is a deep
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of deep concern to you because if anything were to hit that box hard
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enough to it it basically go right through your brand new LCD I mean odds
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are excellent that your shipping carrier as long as you've got insurance is going
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to like deal with it and everything but why take that risk if you don't have
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to there's the base and everything's
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unpacked so I'm going to assemble the Monitor and we'll be back in just a moment now actually before we assemble
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it I want to show you all the parts that come with it so you've got an ASUS VIP
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member notice as well as your warranty information ASUS has a fairly unique
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warranty policy for their LCDs which
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apparently is not outlined on the box at all but they do have a zero bright dot
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guarantee so that means yes zero whereas
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a lot of their competitors will not necessarily have zero bright dots
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guaranteed I want to go over the specs as well so 2 millisecond response times
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and it's going to need them if it's going to be operating at 144 Herz if you
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have slow pixel response times that is to say that when the color changes the
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pixel takes a while to register it you can put whatever refresh rate you want
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on the monitor it won't make any difference to how blurry and ugly the image looks so you're going to have to
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have a super fast panel to achieve this 50 million to one high contrast ratio
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probably optimistic but you know okay uh full HD 1080p HDMI although you're not
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going to want to use that if you're going to want to get those High refresh rates you want to use dual link DVI
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actually yes dual link DVI tilt swivel and height adjust Splendid video
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intelligence technology and NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 with light boost which makes a
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huge huge difference although you'll only be using 120 HZ for light boost the
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1440 the 144 HZ feature is more for 2D
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non-stereoscopic gaming because it gives you just that little bit of extra time
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to react to something because it'll give you the information a little bit sooner
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than a monitor that is taking that okay here think of it this way you got a 60
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HZ panel there's going to be up to 1 160th of a second for it to show you
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something that your video card already knew about okay whereas if you have a
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144 HZ panel it will be less it will be
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okay at at worst case scenario it will be 1 144th of a second to show you the
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new information that the graphics card has obtained so think of it that way it
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is giving you the information a little bit faster okay um so wherever that guy
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is it's more accurate there included accessories so we've got a couple of
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screws for assembling it nothing special there audio cable for pass through uh
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DGA cable BL don't worry about that uh
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power cable dual link DVI cable got some heft to it as well as the base station
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now we'll put it together and we'll show you the completed monitor now that we've
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assembled everything we're ready to go ahead and have a look this is pretty similar to ASUS's other 27 in
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1080P 3D Vision 2 ready monitor okay and
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that it's got all of your usual adjustments so I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys going to pop
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that pin out at the back in order to enable the height adjust just like that
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so you got a lot of hide adjust here you've also got your tilt you got your
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pivot okay which is done actually under the under the base here there's a
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rotating piece right there and then oh yeah no we don't have that one you got
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your cable management right here speaking of cables all the different
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cables that you can plug into it are located down here at the bottom so
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you've got your audio pass through as well as your headphone jack your HDMI in
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DVI in BGA in as well as your power in
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there right there overall on the other side of the uh of the pillar at the
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middle so you can see tactile buttons along the bottom here for all of your
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basic uh monitor controls I still prefer tactile buttons except in very rare
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cases where I like you know uh I like the 2420t from from BenQ that one's kind
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of cool with the touch sensitive buttons but other than that tactile is good lots
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of cooling on this monitor which is important because in order to achieve
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the 144 HZ refresh rate ASUS has essentially overclocked the engine
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inside this monitor in order to get it to process pixels and process the images
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faster than it's actually I guess supposed to which isn't to say that
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they're not going to throw all of their warranty support behind it and they're going to stand behind the product but
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they're pretty much tuning the monitor
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before they release it to Market so that's the key difference between this one and the 120 HZ version so if you're
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looking for the fastest LCD monitor to
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