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welcome to my unboxing of Ben Q's professional level RTS gaming monitor endorsed by the one and only these guys who play for Korean they are okay they're members of a Korean eSports team we don't know which one that is and I don't know who they are so um supposedly though they are probably pretty good because at this point in time I have not yet had my picture on the box of a product so if they can do it then they must be better at video games than me which is not saying much but I'm sure they're really good okay anyway so it's optimized for RTS one earth does that even mean it has a couple features that you might find relevant so first of all let's get this out of the way this is a TN monitor so this is a speed optimized rather than color and accuracy optimized monitor that shouldn't say accuracy because I mean a pixels a pixel you don't exactly it's not like one monitor is like blurrier than another one but by accuracy I mean mostly the color accuracy the vibrance TN panels are usually plenty bright but you tend to have less contrast so your whites are darker your blacks are lighter however what you get for all of that because you're doing very little processing to the image and you are using a faster less accurate panel is you get the quick Grady gray response times that gamers often ask for so this panel is rated at 2 milliseconds grade of gray which means that for gaming if you're upgrading well hard to say that's an upgrade because a lot of those CRT guys are like neuro nothing is an upgrade to a CRT CRT is the best technology ever um which it might be but it's hard on the eyes if you are upgrading from a CRT to this particular monitor you are going to notice less input lag and less of a overall delay between the screen refreshing and it not being as refreshed as it is so that is to say that it is a sixty Hertz panel and in between one of those flashes in a second and the next one you're gonna see less less blurriness as well as less lag so here we go just gonna take this off what else makes it RTS optimized you might ask and I would tell you that what's kind of cool about it and this is one of the reasons that Intel is actually using this particular display for tournaments is that it includes a mode that allows you to your real ah bah blah blah black equalizer for optimum visibility oh that's that's actually interesting okay this is a cool feature out of everything I'd say this is probably one of the biggest ones so what they've done is they've optimized the output of the display so while you're not gonna get necessarily the best color or whatever else is gonna be fast and you're going to be able to clearly see details in the dark so they've tweaked it a little bit so that when you have like a you know let's say you're playing an RTS and you have sort of a fog of war or whatever type less visibility area of the map you'll be able to see the units what kind of units they are as opposed to just seeing sort of black shapes moving on top of a black background and then all of a sudden they're in your base and you're in trouble so that's kind of neat and then this guy right here so this is why Intel is and actually a lot of tournaments are starting to use these BenQ monitors right here so you can switch between display modes so you can virtualize a 17-inch 19-inch 19-inch y 21 Y 22 wide or 23 wide monitor on the surface of this one without actually changing the panel you're using so this will allow you if you are you know a competitive gamer and you're playing at home it will allow you to practice in the setting that you're going to be using at a tournament so at the resolution at the screen size you're going to be using this can be an advantage and it also allows them to have flexibility when they use these for tournaments to set it to whatever they want depending on the game that is being played so what else we got here sixteen by nine widescreen viewing height adjustment okay so love yeah let's have a look at the overall aesthetic of the monitor so we've got our rotation we got our lips today's huh okay we've got our I think this one's called pivot pretty sure it's called pivot it goes only one way so it goes this way so you can be in portrait mode and play like Starcraft in like ultra stretched portrait mode if you want but that's stupid don't do that we've also got a height-adjustable stand this is nice Ben Q is one of them honestly Ben Q really has I believe set the bar in terms of the overall usability of their monitors because even on their lower end monitors and you can tell what it's a lower end monitor because it'll tend to sort of not be as robustly built as the higher end monitors and I'm not knocking them I'm just saying you know you get what you pay for even on a lot of their lower end monitors their still including things like a height adjustable stand and proper ergonomic adjustments and I think that is critical because everybody needs to be comfortable looking at their monitor and being able to adjust it oh yeah it also tilts this guy right here being able to adjust it is instrumental in that so I would rather have a slightly less built up stand that actually has all the adjustments versus having one that looks really great and is like made of metal and it's like beautiful and like brushed finish but actually like you can't move anything so there you go there's my two cents about that I include the VGA cable would have liked to see a DVI cable included but yeah it's neither here nor there I suppose on the bottom we've got VGA DVI and HDMI in as well as a headphone out port so if you are using HDMI then you can listen to your audio and your headphones there we've also got an AC power adapter plug spot as well as a Kensington lock up here last but not least this is a visa compatible LCD so if you wanted to put it on something then you could do that you could just take it right off the stand that it comes with and put it on something else so I think that pretty much covers it for me at this point in time thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the RTS monitor from Ben Q don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos