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this video is brought to you by CM storm preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www.samhsa.gov/dtac 6 hlb ID this has a very uninteresting product name but it is a very interesting product for a couple of reasons number one is I think just under 23 inches or around 23 to 24 inches is the optimal size for a 1080p monitor I think when they get smaller I've seen 21 inch monitors or like 21.5 that are 1080p I think text gets a little bit small and you can say all day all while lightest you can just adjust the text size in your operating so you know what not every operating system handles it that well a lot of the time you end up with things just being tiny and unreadable and then when you go above 24 inch when you go up to something like a 27-inch pixels get pretty big it starts to look more like using your computer on a TV that's sitting on your desk so I think it's the optimal size I think surround gaming is very very cool but one of the things holding it back is the lack of monitors that have very slim bezels that I mean a big bezel in between your two monitors when you're playing a game is kind of ridiculous unless it's like a racing game and you can pretend to yourself that it's like part of the cockpit or something like that like unless it's something like that I think it takes away from the gaming experience and then as you guys probably know I'm not a huge fan of TN monitors I don't think they enhance the computing experience in any way and in surround so I'm bringing this all around to mice around gaming message in surround TN panels can be a bit of an issue because you can almost never get it so that every single monitor is facing directly at you which is the optimal way to use a TN so this all this my friends has a 0.08 inch bezel absolutely beautiful it is an IPS monitor it is 23 I think it's 23.6 inches or something like that there are maybe 20 maybe 23 choose whatever it is cannot remember yet 23 inches is a 23 inch monitor it is IPS it has a 5 millisecond response time making it still suitable for gaming even though it's an IPS and not like you know a fast TN and in surround this thing is going to be a whole new beast so we're going to assemble it we'll be back in a moment so the first thing you might notice about this monitor is something a little bit different it actually has a little magnetic spot on the base that allows you to store anything with iron content there without it sort of escaping from you so I'll be clap that was kind of cool the base also has a brushed plastic finish that as you guys probably know I'm a pretty big fan of because I like the way that looks it looks like brushed aluminum but it actually doesn't stain like brushed aluminum so that's great assembly simple so all you got to do is screw in one piece from the bottom here then clip the monitor onto the base station here so there's only three pieces Acer includes pretty much everything you need now due to the slimness of this monitor I'm going to pull up my iPhone for my trademark iPhone comparison there we go due to the sliminess of this monitor there wasn't much they could do about the positioning of bulky connectors like say for example DVI and they didn't want them sticking like right at the bottom of the monitor because there's not much of a bezel to hide it behind which is what they normally do so instead the connectors all come directly out the back of the monitor so it's got HDMI DVI and VGA as well as an audio out so it can process the HDMI audio you can plug in your headphones or whatever else and dcn so it includes actually every cable that it's compatible with come to the DVI cable VGA HDMI cable and the power brick that you need now let's also take just a closer look at the overall construction here so I showed you the sliminess already Acer has been talking about upping their game in terms of overall overall build quality and and sexiness of the products and slick and I were discussing this off-camera while we put the monitor together and they really do seem to be doing it between the s7 notebook the w7 hundred tablet and now this monitor the the naming schemes might not have increased in sexiness but the themselves look pretty fantastic now one of the things that was immediately sort of a move okay I'm not quite sure if I like that about this monitor was the glossy screen because particularly plastic glossy screens can be incredibly reflective and very distracting however if you have a glass core glossy screen and the panel is very close to the glass layer over top the reflectiveness is reduced once the screen is on this is indeed a piece of glass