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question where exactly do you go wrong with a 300 dollar IPS monitor with a good amount of connections and herbal options if your answer was something to the effect of by including really bad passive 3d you'd be getting warm and I'll get to that later hi I'm Eric Franklin and today I'll be taking a first look at the Asus VG 2 3 aah the Isuzu sports back tilt height adjustment and swivel for connections it has two HDMI ports DVI and VGA and thankfully the ports it off to the side of the neck and not directly behind it as they normally do on some other asus monitors they still face downward though and not back like I would prefer overall build quality feels ok but I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel a bit plasticky and even with this pretty wide foot stand it still wobbles like a crazy weeble when not from the sides the OSD array uses a Seuss's typical OSD design where the Menu button acts as the inter button which is kind of annoying and takes some getting used to but it does have useful options like 6 different presets red green and blue adjustments and of course brightness and contrast with the IPS panel you'll see wide viewing angles from pretty much any direction when you're using the theater preset movies look pretty much how movies should with full deep colors and deep blacks it's hard to see dark gray details but that's what the night view preset is for games look fine nothing really special and I wasn't offended by their performance there is a bit more green tint that would like but seriously I could throw a pair of 3d glasses and easily hit several monitors that have this problem speaking of 3d the passive 3d performance is bad there's tons of ghosting the depth level is low even when turned up to max and since its passive games run at only half the resolution that's not something too noticeable on every monitor but here it definitely is the Asus cost about $300 which is a great price for IPS and the overall performance is good so I don't have trouble recommending it based just on that you also get some useful ergo options and the OSD navigation design is but the options are useful look if you're excited about 3d or if you've never experienced it before don't make this your first experience because you likely won't be excited about it anymore check out my full review for more info once again I'm Eric Franklin and this has been a first look at the Asus bg2 3/8