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so we were in the middle of trying to film something where we showed off the benchmarks that we ran for far cry 3 where we had a g-force vs. radio on showdown hold on you're going the wrong way when we were using this monitor to showcase the graphs and I was like slick you got it you got to use like a more a more obvious like a darker blue on the graphs because you can't really see it on the monitor so here this is the angle that I was looking at it from I was like yeah these aren't going to show up how are we going to show people what the graphs look like and then I got down to eye level with it and I was like up okay that is a perfectly acceptable blue so the issue appears to be the TN panel having such horrendous viewing angles that it was pretty much unusable so just for lols we took an IPS panel this is an a pro art monitor so for contrast this is a 120 Hertz TN which is about the worst-case scenario for a TN in terms of color accuracy and viewing angles because of the way that they have to overclock the panels in order to get them to respond so quickly and then this is a color calibrated 60 Hertz IPS which is pretty much the other end of the spectrum so we'd love to get some different angles on here so slick come on over here and get them from sort of the side so you can see that what is supposed to be down down down what is supposed to be blue actually appears to be brown and and yeah I mean the difference is so is so stark even going from sort of like a viewing spot of about here to about here that there is a noticeable noticeable difference if you're not looking exactly straight on with the with the TN panel so you know guys if you don't believe what I say about how TN panels are for colour reproduction as well as viewing angle just so inferior to their to their pls IPS and VA counterparts hopefully this is a bit of an illustration for you of what would be a worst case scenario so what is a TN panel like this good for a couple things number one is 3d you cannot run 3d unless you can get 120 Hertz refresh rates and unless you have a fast enough response time to prevent any motion blur or around run motion blur well motion blur as well because that can wreak havoc on 3d gaming as well as crosstalk between the left and right stereo images so you have to have a super fast panel the other thing that a fast panel is good for is 2d well ok 3d gaming but not stereo 3d gaming where you need that you need that responsiveness from the monitor you want to have that extra edge compared to someone else who's using a 60 Hertz monitor because it will actually show you the image faster so if you're playing twitch games where you need every last millisecond then this would be useful and if you're running in stereo 3d then this would be useful otherwise do yourself a big huge favor and I get an IPS ba or pls panel because I think you guys have seen what the contrast between these technologies looks like again a very extreme sort of version of it thanks for watching Linus tech tips and don't forget to subscribe as always for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos