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if you're looking for the best bang for the buck high refresh rate panel then the asus v g2 for 8qe has to be on your shortlist now let me start by saying that this is not a review about products sent to me for review this is a review that has been months in the making with my own dilemmas on what to do about panels now I scoured the Internet I've checked Amazon review new aid review I've reached out to my Twitter followers quite often and just could not make up my mind on panels and many of you guys said that you have the VG - for 8qe and you highly highly recommend it so I went ahead and took your guys's advice I picked up three of these bad boys and let me tell you right now the worst thing I ever did to my setup was GIMP it with sixty Hertz panels now before I go a little bit deeper into that let's go ahead and talk about the specs of the monitor really quickly it is a one millisecond refresh rate so that means there's no tracing there's no ghosting it is an extremely fast refresh rate to kind of put that in perspective my Acer panels which I was using prior to this have a 5 millisecond response rate making these panels a 5 times faster response rate now I've always said that response time is not a big deal when it comes to gamers but holy the movement is so smooth on the screen if you have the horsepower to push those high frame rates that I just didn't realize what I was missing out on all this time now the VG - for 8qe is 144 Hertz panel that means it can display 144 frames per second before we start getting any sort of image tearing and that is massive when you have 3 GTX 780 s overclocked like I'm running so I was gimping them with these 60 Hertz panels and I never even realized it it is a backlit LED it's got 3d content support DisplayPort vga although for the love of God please don't plug anything into the VGA just pretend it's not even there it's even got built-in speakers now does have HDMI support however do not plug in anything in the HDMI port if you to take advantage of the 144 Hertz refresh rate HDMI is capped at 60 Hertz so please don't just ignore HDMI I don't even know why it's there to be honest I guess that would be for console but then again if you had a console you wouldn't be able to take advantage of the 144 Hertz anyway when you open up the box you greeted with some hard foam but it's very very thick hard foam protecting your investment well in transit are being shipped or dropped or whatever it's I don't think anything's going to happen to this panel with the amount of foam that's in here now the back stand is actually already mounted to the monitor but it does have VSA 100 by 100 mount which is what I'm planning on using once my ergo Tech 3 monitor stand arrives we'll talk about that a little bit later in the future now the stand has already mounted like I said all you've got to do is take the stand thing and put the base thing on and turn the screw and next thing you know you're mounted up and ready to go now it is a four-way ergo designs you can actually rotate the monitors portrait mode if you want it easily moves up and down with effortless effortlessly it's got spring load in there it's actually really really cool I really like the base it's got some built-in cable management but there are some things I don't like about the actual design of the monitor and that is that Asus used a glossy piano finish everywhere on this on the base on the front on the back and I'm personally not a friend a piano finishes whatsoever they tracked us a check fingerprints and I personally wish that they had gone with a matte plastic but I digress is the minor thing you guys may love the elegance of a piano polished plastic me personally I don't but I live in a dusty area and that's why I hate piano finishes and it seems like all the monitors have that now so whatever that may be I'm the maybe I'm the weird one who doesn't like those now it's got a nice ventilated a well vent on the top of the monitor and that's because this has an integrated power supply it is not like other LED monitors where the power supply is a separate power brick now with that said pretty much got everything you need for connectivity for a high refresh rate low response time gaming monitor and that's exactly who this is tailored to now this monitor comes in under $300 most places in fact I put an Amazon link down in the description guys can look up most current pricing as you know pricing is always going up and down though these are I have the 24 inch model and I couldn't be happier with it in fact as you can see behind me I've got three of them now let's go ahead and talk about what it's like to game 144 Hertz monitors and maybe you've been wondering if it's for you and the question is if you take first-person shooters seriously this is something you owe it to yourself if you have a high-end gaming rig like I do if you've got the horsepower to push more than 60 frames per second on a consistent basis you owe it to yourself to at least go and look at these monitors now the color correction does need some work out of the box it comes very faded the blacks are not deep at all they look very grey the colors are kind of muddied but that's because they come not like a dynamic setting like TVs tend to come from the store nice bright popping colors they're very flat but the cool thing is you can go online and download different profiles and different user settings and you can go online and find what other people are using and calibrate it yourself it's got multiple scenery modes or whatever you want to call it on there that make it very easy to tune this to your liking so if you give it some time and you actually calibrate it you can get some pretty decent colors now it's going to it's not going to come anywhere close to IPS or VA panels I mean it is a TN panel so that means the off angle viewing does have a little bit of that foiling effect does have a little bit of that negative viewing angle so that when you get above or below the panel it starts to invert a little bit but as long as you're looking at it with at least a 30 degree angle or flat or a single monitor most of the time TN isn't going to be an issue but that again TN panels or what have the massively high refresh rate low response time and that's exactly what I was after these panels are really really cool I've been using them in battlefield 4 and I was just amazed at how smooth they are and even in my 3-way surround setup we're staying well above 100 frames per second usually sitting right around 140 frames per second so I had the horsepower to push it and I couldn't be more happy I thought about going with 1440p monitors but because I'm on three gigabyte gddr5 cards I'm already getting up to 2800 mega bytes utilized on my ethics cards just in 1080p so 1440 would have turned into quite a bit of a bottleneck and I can't believe I said the word bottleneck I have to go banned myself now I'm just gonna ban coconut monkey back there he's that's fine he can take it but everything is so smooth and it brings your game to the next level you can just cut it you can turn so fast and you could turn on fools you can cat faces and just be gangster I think I think that's how I think that's what the kids say these days I don't really know but all I can say is that so frickin awesome your friends will come over and they'll take over your system and they won't let you play anymore speaking of which can I play now guys it's in the asus v g2 for 8qe oh and one other thing I forgot to mention it's apparently moddable with gia sync I don't know I better start freshing up on g-sync I hadn't really cared a whole lot but now that it's a something I can actually consider hmm but I would like to play my game no I see you back there soon bitch and help what you do I'm gonna start a video now okay I think maybe I'm gonna start the video all over Thanks so we're patient when you start filming in order to do that