The Fastest Gaming Screen EVER - 240Hz!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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750 words · ~3 min read
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online store or website at the link in the video
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description. Um, what is it? It's like it's like I
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got this guy watching me while I try and make my video here. It's weirding me
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out, but that's okay because nothing can ruin my mood right now. Okay, monitors
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used to be 60 Hz and then we got overclocking to like 75 85. Then we got
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120 Hz. Night and day difference. Then a couple incremental improvements. 144
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165. Now it's gamechanging again. And by
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game I mean gaming. A yes. This is the ROG Swift
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PG28Q. The first 240 Hz 24 1/2 in gaming
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monitor that I have had the pleasure of laying my eyes on. And holy cow, just
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sitting down and knocking things over and moving the mouse, it is immediately
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noticeable. And it's not like necessarily some other high refreshment
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monitors out there because even without ultra low motion blur enabled, this
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thing is actually doing pretty darn well
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in terms of not leaving motion trails behind the cursor. Now, obviously, I
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don't have it in the lab yet, but I've been informed we will be getting one
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very soon, but my initial impression is this is freaking impressive. So, it
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features NVIDIA G-Sync technology. You've got DisplayPort in or HDMI in,
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whichever you prefer, and it's got a built-in USB 3 hub. In terms of the
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styling, it's what has become kind of the ROG way. So, you've got a nice slim
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bezel, a couple kind of gamery accents,
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but the most sort of, let's say, u
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goddy, how you say, of which the underglow ROG logo thing, you can turn
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that off in the menu. Now, those of you who are wondering, it does support
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G-Sync, but the unanimous opinion from the ASUS guys in the room is that the
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real story here is not necessarily G-Sync, but rather the fact that now if
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you turn G-Sync off, you can run ultra low motion blur all the way up to the
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full 240 hertz, which is going to give
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you like super sharp, fastmoving images
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at an extremely high refresh rate, which is going to be critical for competitive
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gamers or filthy casuals like me who
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just like having the best possible experience even though they suck. It's
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got the full range of adjustments. And as we're making all these adjustments to
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the stand, you'll probably notice, yes, this is in fact a TN panel. But I got to
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tell you guys, outside of looking at it from the bottom, where really it does
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look awful. Uh side to side viewing angles very good. And colors again, just
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subjectively, I'm just out of show. Looking pretty good here. I am super
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excited about this one. Uh that is to say, uh as long as I can afford the
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approximately $500 price
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tag. I never said the resolution. Okay, hold on. Let me think
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for a second. Did I miss anything else critical? You know what? Let's just
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let's just do a totally awkward shot here. Um it's a 1080p monitor. I forgot
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to mention the resolution. Anyway, thanks for checking
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out our video you guys. Don't forget to get subscribed to Linus Tech Tips so you
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don't miss any of our CES coverage. And a huge shout out to Squarespace. I
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