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1440 one millisecond response 120 hertz refresh rate six millimeter thin bezel design right you know integrated USB 3 hub and then on top of that you a dingy sink and you're just like wow you just built the ultimate gaming log it sort of feels like Asus said oK we've built the ultimate component line now our bottleneck is the monitor and that's that's actually how we look at it I mean if you look at our entire kind of component division everything from our motherboards toward GPUs to our sound cards to our routers to you know our monitors we carefully really evaluate everything that we're looking at to try to give you the gamer the absolute best experience possible and we had already done an outstanding job with a range of monitors the VG series has really become well-received you know across the gamer demographic but here we really wanted to give something that gamers had been heavily asking us about which was q HD resolution that ultra-low response and how to achieve that actually required a huge amount of investment this panel didn't exist we actually had two specially develop and source the panel for these specifications and actually was slightly delayed because you know about 50 60 % into the course of development Nvidia told us g-sync and all of a sudden we said hey that's the only good make this that much sweeter but it required even more time to optimize and design and work with the panel to get logistically everything working right and we still also wanted to ensure that we had a great experience regardless if you were an AMD user or an Nvidia g-sync I think is an absolute game changer if you're a first-person shooter guy and you're looking for the absolute best in terms of response and an overall fluidity in gameplay but at the same time for taking advantage of the latest generation Radeon cards you're still gonna be able to take advantage of that qHD that ultra-low response and that high refresh rate yeah I mean you guys heard it here I saw some comments of people saying well this was just a rebranded g-sync Nvidia g-sync no guys has a GC component in there but the monitor was developed from the ground up from from the ROG engineers to bring you the ultimate gaming monitor now you guys can't really see it this monitor here is centering really really bad I'm sure the camera can't pick it up but this is smooth as glass right here now what's powering these monitors right now this resolution they're actually the same exact systems here so we've got of course Nvidia based graphics cards in here but you're pretty much running parity but you're just seeing of course the the frame rate differential that is occurring due to the fact that the g-sync panel of course is running a synced refresh rate between the GPU and its frame buffer to what's being displayed on screen whereas here of course with the vsync enabled you're getting that tearing you're getting that inconsistency you're getting over all that that not great gaming experience that you're looking for now one thing I do also want to touch about on the swift monitor and we've had some people ask about well I'd love to see something that's IPS and that was another question I asked is that IPS what was asked of and it's it's not IPS because once again like I said to be able to meet all the characteristics that we wanted to it had to be TN derived but we had to like I said specially tuned the actual panel to meet the criteria of it being an RG monitor because energy monitor didn't exist and if you know RG products we take them very seriously so the actual performative gamers truly prefer a TN panel over IPS at least from my experience IPS if you're doing video production photography you want that cut that accurate color correction but a lot of people gamers want their their colors to pop and TN panels seem to be really widely accepted so yeah I think I think that's the other thing you know I'm definitely a prosumer you know I've got IPS I've got TN both of them but you know we did spend a lot of work to actually have this be a very very good quality performing it's comparable to an IPS based display in terms of its color reproduction it's addressing its tonality and I definitely feel that anybody that's been really satisfied with our VG series of panels is gonna be even more impressed by what the quality that we have with this panel so I definitely think that you know don't be worried that it's not an IPS you know if you're a hundred percent an absolute diehard guy in terms of the absolute best color reproduction the best plaque levels then of course we still have great IPS base panels and we've got evenly got other panels that aren't IPS based like the 4k panel that we were talking about earlier that you always want to keep in mind that the panel is only one part of the process there's things like the electronics package the firmware tuning that all affect image quality as well so panel gets you a certain percentage there but there's always a bit more to the layering process so don't always just go by that baseline specification there's a lot more to the process right it is a whole there's a whole world when it comes to monitors and it's more than just what you see on the spec sheet because you can have identical monitors from two different brands with identical specs that look completely different source panel and you can have different pictures and different response due to the different firmware packages and electronic packages that are used by the vendors and so there you go guys JJ is showing us here the rog gaming monitor here from asus make sure you check it out and as always make sure you're following us on Twitter for all of your insider exclusive coverage here at CES 2014 and I'll see you in my next video