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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the soos VG 278 144 Hertz LED backlit LCD monitor this is 3d vision ready with light boost and is basically for twitch gaming whether you're playing like I don't know whatever the kids are playing these days counter-strike go or I was gonna say League of Legends because I know lots of people play that though it's not exactly a quick game so you clicks giving me that looks like you have no idea talking bug I do know what I'm talking about and I do know about League of Legends in the twitch game but I also know and if you were at an elite level League of Legends it would be more twitch and he's giving me the unknown so do you see there do you know what I'm talking about he's not giving me the knight anymore um so I'm gonna go ahead and take out some phone here they're using oh this is like a semi-soft phone it has some flex to it however if it did take a serious you know beating at any point in time then it would probably break and lose some of its structural integrity however what you guys will notice about the monitor is that there's a lot of foam around it so a lot of LCDs I see the LCD actually only goes to here so there's a huge gap here a lot of LCDs these days only have a tiny gap between the outside of the box and the front of the panel which if your name is Linus and you worry about packaging is a deep of deep concern to you because if anything were to hit that box hard enough to puncture it it basically go right through your brand-new LCD I mean hogs are excellent that you're shipping carrier as long as you got insurance is going to like deal with it and everything but why take that risk if you don't have to there's the base and everything is uh packed so I'm going to assemble the monitor we'll be back in just a moment now actually before we assemble it I want to show you all the parts that come with it so you've got an Asus VIP member notice as well as your warranty information Asus has a fairly unique warranty policy for their M LCDs which apparently is not outlined on the box at all but they do have a zero bright guarantee so that means yes zero whereas a lot of their competitors will not necessarily have zero bright dots guaranteed I want to go over the specs as well so two millisecond response times and it's going to need them if it's going to be operating at 144 Hertz if you have slow pixel response times that is to say that when the color changes the pixel takes a while to register it you can put whatever refresh rate you want on the monitor won't make any difference to how blurry and ugly the image looks so you're going to have to have a super fast panel to achieve this 50 million to one high contrast ratio probably optimistic but you know okay Full HD 1080p HDMI although you're not going to want to use that if you're going to want to get those high refresh rates you want to use dual link DVI actually yes doing the DDI tilt swivel and height adjust splendid video television technology and video 3d vision to light boost which makes a huge huge difference although you'll only be using 120 Hertz for light boost the 144 T the 144 Hertz feature is more for 2d non stereoscopic gaming because it gives you just that little bit of extra time to react to something because it'll give you the information a little bit sooner than a monitor that is taking that go get here think of it this way you've got a 60 Hertz panel there's going to be up to one sixtieth of a second for it to show you something that your video card already knew about okay whereas if you have a 144 Hertz panel it will be less it will be okay at at worst-case scenario it will be one one hundred and forty fourth of a second to show you the new information of the graphics card has obtained so think of it that way it keeps giving you the information a little bit faster okay so where that guy is it's more accurate there included accessories so we've got a couple of screws for assembling it nothing special there audio cable for pass-through vga cable blue don't worry about that power cable dual link DVI cable got some heft to it as well as the base station now we'll put it together and we'll show you the completed monitor now that we've assembled everything we're ready to go ahead and have a look this is pretty similar to a sis's other 27 inch 1080p 3 vision to ready monitor okay and that is got all of your usual just I'm just going to go ahead and show you guys it's going to pop that pin out at the back in order to enable the height adjust just like that you've got a lot of height adjust here you've also got your tilt you got your pivot okay which is done actually under the under the base here there's a rotating piece right there and then uh we don't have that one you got your cable management right here speaking of cables all the different cables that you can plug into it are located down here at the bottom so you've got your audio pass-through as well as your headphone jack your HDMI in DVI in vga in as well as your power in there right there over on the other side of the of the pillar at the middle so you can see tactile buttons along the bottom here for all of your basic monitor controls I still prefer tactile buttons except in very rare cases where I like you know I like the 24 20 T from from Ben q that one's kind of cool with the touch sensitive buttons but other than that tactile is good lots of cooling on this monitor which is important because in order to achieve the 144 Hertz refresh rate asus has essentially overclocked the engine inside this monitor in order to get it to process pixels and process the images faster than it's actually I guess supposed to which isn't to say that they're not going to throw all of their warranty support behind it and they're going to stand behind the product but they're pretty much tuning the monitor before they release it to market so that's the key difference between this one and the 120 Hertz version so if you're looking for the 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