Samsung 2233RZ 3D 120Hz 22" LCD Monitor Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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711 words · ~3 min read
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so today we'll be unboxing the Samsung 2233 RZ Monitor and what's important
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about this monitor 3D Vision okay so
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this is the 3D monitor we actually did a tech tips on 3D Vision uh about a
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million years ago and you can check it out here click this link if you want to
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learn all about 3D vision technology so it says right on the front it's a 22-in
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monitor it is 3D ready and in order to
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be 3D ready it must operate at 12 Herz
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now that has advantages for other users
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as well beyond just 3D users because if
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your monitor runs at 120 HZ it means
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that even with vsync enabled you can still run at 120 frames per second
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versus only 60 frames per second on a traditional LCD monitor so I'm actually
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opening this because we're going to be doing a 3D Vision demo at our new store
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that we're going to be opening shortly so we figured well we're going to need a
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monitor in order to demo 3D and right now this is the only one that you can do
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it with so first of all we have a quick start guide that's instructing you the
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sad angry and happy ways that you can put together your monitor okay so make
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sure you do everything the happy way and then we will find a driver DVD I can't
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imagine why you could possibly want to install a driver for a monitor um a
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flower oh this is for organizing your
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cables pretty cool okay then a power cable just your standard computer power
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cable and what I thought was the quick setup guide clearly was not because this
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is the quick setup guide but we're not going to look at that today okay this is
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a dual link DVI cable so the reason you need dual link you can see all the pins
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are here you need dual link for this monitor because it runs at 1680 by 1050
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which normally would be fine and you can do with single link except that you're
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running twice the data rate because you're running at twice the frequency
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120 Herz so it's sending information to
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the monitor twice as often for fear of
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sounding like a broken record okay here is the stand it is shiny and if I point
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it this way the cameraman's going to freak out cuz you'll be able to see him
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he's gesturing to me to cut that out okay here you will find piece number two
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of the stand okay so this is uh pretty
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special looking yep right there so I'm guessing this goes in here
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yeah just like that awesome okay so then
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let's get the monitor itself out I'm assuming this is going to look like a
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fairly standard 22in monitor but ooh
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okay well hopefully the foam is really
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protecting this monitor really well because I dropped it just like is likely
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to happen in shipping and so far I don't
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see any obvious damage but that won't become apparent until we actually try to
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turn it on so there is the monitor
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itself that is is one shiny shiny monitor so you can see it has a 20,000
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to1 Dynamic contrast ratio it is 3D
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Vision ready as I mentioned before and then at the back you see you got your h
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four screw holes for the Visa Mount and here's where that flower design seems to
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have come from down at the bottom you will find two plugs one for power one
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for the dual link DVI connector that will power this bad boy and then let's
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put this box down right in the way of
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the camera and oh I see how this works so this
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piece goes in here and there's an arrow
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on okay you know what I'm not going to try and assemble this real time because
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I'm probably just going to end up looking stupid but thank you for
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checking out my video blog on the 3D
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Vision monitor