ASUS PA238Q Pro Art Series 23" 1080p Pre-Calibrated LCD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,483 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the PA 238 Pro
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art series LED backlit monitor from ASUS that has been around the world you can
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see it's covered in shipping labels and
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packing tape and yes this is not the first time this product's been unboxed
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but it is a cool product and it is here
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in the lab so we might as well do a video about it now I did do a video a
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while back about the proart 24in monitor
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which we are actually still using to this day for the very important task of
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monitoring our our filming while we shoot so it's actually in there in the
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techtips room y so it's going to go get you guys a shot of it no that's fine
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that's good enough it's there trust me um so the reason we use it for that is
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because PA series monitors come factory
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calibrated for the best possible outof
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box uh color accuracy so an IPS panel helps
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with color accuracy but a non-calibrated IPS panel can be just as inaccurate as
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as anything so that is why for professional users as Seuss came out
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with this line of products that comes pre-calibrated so that oh there's lots
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of accessories in there so you know what here we're going to put that there hope
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it doesn't fall apart we're going to cover the accessories so that professional users who don't necessarily
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have access to color calibration equipment or anything like that can have
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something that works out of the box it is DisplayPort ready so there's a DisplayPort cable that's included we
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probably won't need that or maybe we will need that I don't know let's settle
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on we might need that we have a power
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cord we have a USB A to B USB 2
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cable we have a DVI
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cable a VGA cable which we definitely
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won't need okay user manuals okay support CD
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as well as aha the calibration report so
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here it is this is the one that actually
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was run on your monitor serial number this test equipment this r scale
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tracking gamma values and there you have
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it so they guarantee an average Delta e of less than five that's what they're
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going for and that is the Delta e values
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for all of these different colors so
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that is the point of this monitor although with that's not to say that
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it's not great for gaming as well a lot of people ask me what's the best monitor
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for gaming to which I reply well a good monitor is good for gaming it's like
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when people ask me what's the best headset for gaming a good headset is
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good for gaming when it comes to sound and it comes to images I mean yes there
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have been monitors in the past that are
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just you know color accurate but
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phenomenally slow and therefore terrible for gaming um although with the uh with
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the headset example there's no such thing as a headset that's terrible but
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uh but good for gaming or vice versa um so while there have been monitors in the
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past that have been pretty terrible for gaming it's not really the case anymore
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with most modern VA or IPS or PLS panel
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so this is an IPS panel and it has a 6 millisecond respon time I have
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personally used the 24in version for gaming it is a very satisfactory
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experience two thumbs up and I
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personally find that the improved color accuracy and and vividness of the image
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is a definitely an acceptable trade-off for any minute difference in input leg
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or in response time of the pixels compared to a TN panel which if you guys
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follow me on Twitter you know that I am not a huge fan of T panels anything but
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a TN panel is sort of My Philosophy so in terms of inputs we've got a ton of
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inputs that are supported in side by side or picture in picture um except you
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can't do HTMI and DVI at the same time so you can do VGA and DVI picture and
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picture you know these and these these and these these and these uh so display
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port HDMI DVI VGA we've got an audio
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pass through as well as USB 2 in that supports two off here and two off here
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with the internal Hub we've also got an internal power supply in this monitor I
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do like to see that and uh power switch
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all right what makes proart series special
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well it is highly styrofoam
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resistant as you can plainly see so is my shirt snowing in the tech tips
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lab there we go that looks a little bit better now okay has a couple cool things
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this is called quick fit so you got inches here and here centimet here and
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here and then you can actually press the quick fit button which is this guy right
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there and what it does is it brings up a variety of different documents or a
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variety of different things that you might actually have to scale something against which is very convenient if
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you're creating something that is intended to be printed out a particular size or if you're working on something
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that is going to be an A4 document you can really preview it in the actual size
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that it will be and you can even have grid lines that'll help you line things
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up according to how big you want them to be if you've ever tried to like print a
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greeting card or something on your computer you know how frustrating it is
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if you actually don't have any idea what the scale of it's going to be like once
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you actually print it out very robust stand the pro art series monitors have
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awesome awesome stand so you've got all of this T um whatever this is called
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swivel right you've got height adjust up to here again little marks you can
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measure how far your height adjusting should you so desire uh so there you go
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just like that you've got um swivel tilt
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I don't know what this is no this isn't tilt this is uh whatever goes into
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portrait mode okay just that way like that you've also
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got tilt this one's tilt okay and it is
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very well built it's made of plastic but it's not like made of plastic it's just
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made of like pretty solid plastic okay got lots of ventilation holes here on
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the back once again you can actually measure like how many degrees off you
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are with the dilon markers on the back
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very adorable um I think that pretty much covers everything I want wanted to
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say about it so what's the advantage well it's uh it's got oh great it has a
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10 bit 10 bit lookup table so what that means is that it can actually produce um
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more accurate and more smooth gradients of color so on really horrible TN panels
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and I'm not going to name any names over here but we're actually going to go look
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at one um you know not naming any names
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but uh you know what this demo isn't
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going to work this time unfortunately because
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uh yeah okay 3D 3D monitors tend to be
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the worst worst offenders for this but I for whatever reason I had um I had a
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different color scheme on the start menu and you know how the colors kind of fade
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along towards the end of the start menu I could actually see blocks of color
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like this like they didn't fade smoothly on a monitor like this I mean that's an
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extreme example the other way but this is an extreme example in terms of like
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not going to be blocks of color so everything will fade very very smooth smoothly it can actually produce more
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colors in addition to being accurate than a standard monitor can I think I
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mentioned the LED backlight already so it's Mercury free and therefore more
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environmentally friendly and I think we're pretty much
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done so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pa8 238 Q from ASUS
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videos yeah it's a 1080p monitor in case you guys are wondering 1920 x 1080 I
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don't think I ever mentioned that