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welcome to a very exciting unboxing my only complaint about Ben Q's 2420 TX which if you guys do or don't recall I'll tell you either way is the 3d monitor that we use for all of our 3d vision testing because unlike most other 3d monitors that I've ever tried I don't get a headache using the 24 22 X because it's all about pixel response times when it comes to a smooth 3d experience I mean with that said no LCD is perfect and something like a DLP projector or you know hopefully at some point in the future like an O LED display I really wish sed had taken off anyway the point is the 24 20 T X is the monitor we use for our 3d testing because it's awesome and my only complaint about it was that it's 24-inch as opposed to 27-inch which Ben Q's competitor a soos has had on the market for quite a while so in the top we find a stand I realize I should have been showing this to you as we run but somewhat of an unboxing if I don't even show you what I'm looking at here's their little control module so you can control the on-screen display with a little wheel and a click in the back and a 1 2 3 4 profiles and things like that there's also a dust cover we'll show you that later as well as some cables you know what I give up I'm not even going to bother showing you guys that ok moving right along we've got oh yeah see you always know a monitor is like better when it comes in more pieces trust me on this you guys if a monitor comes in one piece it's because it's like super low profile which means it probably has no height adjust it probably has like no noble or anything like that it's probably a super basic monitor so this packing material up here it's kind of scary for unboxers because at some point everything you unbox has to be reboxed and look at all these compartments nice thick foam though overall so I'm not too worried about the product being damaged in any way even though it is a bit of a bit of a weaker style of foam and it can only take one serious impact unlike a softer closed cell foam the good news about it though is that this was shipped just in this box alone and nothing inside even the foam itself was damaged so here's the LCD panel itself which has about an inch of foam around the outside edges here you can see there's less than an inch here but there's a gap there so it's it's fine it's not actually the monitor up against the edge of the box and then it sits face down in this guy right here 27-inch monitors some people find that the dot pitch of a 1080p monitor at 27-inch is a little bit a little bit low that is to say that the pixel density isn't quite high enough it depends how close you sit to it personally I love large format high resolution monitors but many people also don't mind it and even find it more enjoyable because what it does and this is just it's kind of an indirect side effect is it makes text larger makes everything generally larger so particularly if you don't see well a larger monitor with not necessarily a super-high resolution can be a very good choice alright so the default picture mode on this monitor is FPS which is designed for FPS games if you do not intend to play FPS games press any of the control keys on the right of the monitor and select picture mode to change the setting okay so go ahead and pull that off this is the official monitor of the intel extreme masters gaming tournament which is kind of cool so I'm sure some kind of validation was done somewhere along the line that it's that it's good mind you if it's anything like the 24 20 T r-tx which are basically the same monitor one with a transmitter one with not then it should be pretty good and we're going to go ahead and assemble it and then we'll be back in a moment assembly is pretty straightforward align the arrow on the bottom of the stand to the arrow on the base right there well you can try to do that simple as long as you're not me there you go rotate it to put it in place then twist in the screw on the bottom either with your hands or with a Philips head screwdriver no video would be complete without one of my classic phone size comparison so this is the HTC One it's not a particularly slim monitor however the electronics that go into these high-speed displays necessitate a little bit of a thicker form factor with more ventilation so you can see there's actually ventilation holes all along the back here that are covered in a plastic until you remove them there we go go ahead and do that and then we can mount it to the stand which is as simple as aligning it correctly which is easier to do when you're on the other side okay apparently it's really easy to do because I got it just aligning it and then letting it pop into place you can then remove the monitor by pressing this button and picking it up just like that once it's all assembled you have a lot of different options in terms of adjustments so you have height adjust there you go now let's go that's about six inches of height adjust you've got tilt just like that and you've got swivel no pivot on this one pivot remember guys is when you can change it okay it does have pivot never mind okay so it has pretty much the entire range of adjustments although I really can't imagine anyone actually gaming like this but but one thing that I do use the pivot on my monitor for is plugging in my connectors and then putting it back so there you go it might be handy for you included accessories wise things are pretty straightforward here's that dust cover that I showed you guys before so if you're worried about dust on your monitor then you can use it there you go we're just going to take that off for now though let's talk a little bit about the feature so it's a 120 Hertz monitor which is required for 3d it is also better for not 3d particularly if you're worried about the maximum responsiveness remember any 60 Hertz monitor no matter how little lag there is in the rest of your gaming setup whether it's your mouse or whether it's your graphics card or any other delay in something happening to reaching your eyes on the screen a 60 Hertz monitor at best can do sixteen point six milliseconds assuming it's perfect of sort of bet of worst case scenario latency to getting the image to your eyes a 120 Hertz monitor cuts that in half it will bring you more images so that the worst case scenario for an update will be not as bad by half so there you go that was a very convoluted explanation but I hope you understand display modes can be changed to 17 19 19 y 21 and a half Y 22 Y 23 wide 23.6 wide and 24 wide this is handy because what it allows you to do is practice at a different aspect ratio or a different monitor size before sort of walking in blind to a tournament setting where you're required to use a different monitor smart scaling for fine-tuned picture sizes that's basically the same thing as display mode and they're black equalizer for optimum visit we'll pull details out of blacks rather than crushing them so what it does do is it makes the blacks a little bit less deep a little bit less true but you're compromising that for the sake of being able to see someone crouching in a shadow or being able to see a unit in an RTS that's kind of hidden in the fog of war or whatever else are outside of your visibility or something like that so you're able to see details that you couldn't otherwise then Keys rating it at a 1 millisecond grade of gray response time and it does support light boost which is 3d vision to sort of we're going to be back in a moment because our lighting just dramatically changed more handy features it comes with a handle as well as a headphone hook which I personally think is kind of cool it's nice to have somewhere to keep your headphones as well as a built-in USB hub hub so there's your headphone output on the side of the monitor as well as 2 USB port so you could actually plug all of your peripherals into the side of the monitor down here we find all of the i/o so it's support there's more USB hubs so there's your USB in which is going to give you 3 USBs out between the one on the bottom and the two on the side dual HDMI in which is cool because if you're a console gamer and you don't have like maybe you're in a dorm or something like that you don't have you know a monitor and a TV and like another TV then you can just switch the inputs and you can go okay Xbox input PC input and switch between them just like that so dual HDMI dual link DVI this is important because this one is going to be the one that's going to run Nvidia 3d vision you have to have 120 Hertz support and HDMI at 1920 by 1080 does not support it it's not fast enough VGA seriously if you're using a monitor like this with VGA that's a problem there's the last USB output which goes to that little controller which actually clips to the side of the monitor on whichever side you prefer using a little magnet so you can put it right there and then run this up to that output and last but not least it supports DisplayPort in there's your power in right there and included cables are dual link DVI use this one power VGA and USB a 2b which is what will power and provide data for the built-in hub last but not least touch sensitive controls but not the bad kind of touch sensitive controls these ones have audio audible feedback so you press them they go beep and then they also light up which is really really cool and the menu pops up right here I actually found using these more convenient than using this one but that's just me also it looks like this monitor does have a built in 3d emitter much like the 2420 TX as opposed to the 24 20 T which means you don't have to have the little pyramid shaped 3d vision emitter I thought maybe I had one handy but it looks like I don't don't forget to subscribe plan is tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos