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Gaming monitors what exactly is it that they bring to the figurative table here faster processing times so that's the speed at which it can take that signal that comes in from your video card to draw a new frame and turn that into something that the panel can understand and faster pixel response times so that's the time that it takes an individual pixel to go okay you're supposed to change to this color and then actually flip to a different color so that the image changes but until a couple of years ago all gaming monitors were still held back by one key factor the refresh rate and in fact many gaming monitors today including this one are still running at 60 refreshes per second or 60 Hertz meaning that some of the information on the screen can be up to 16 milliseconds old depending on when the video card out put it the PG 258 cue kicks all of that in the teeth boasting the highest true refresh rate of any gaming display on the market 240 Hertz bringing that maximum delay from refresh rate down to about 4 milliseconds so let's check it out then shall we you Tunnel Bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet to try tunnel bear for free check out the link in the video description now to be clear there have been displays in the past that have advertised 240 Hertz for 80 Hertz or even nine hundred and sixty Hertz refresh rates but those have been different typically this has been found on television where what they're actually doing is taking a regular old 60 Hertz signal and processing it to approximate what the frames in between would be every TV manufacturer has a different name for it but that technology is totally unsuitable for gaming for a number of reasons the main one being that it adds a ton of additional processing time where on a TV it doesn't really matter but in a game where the user is actually interacting with what they see on the screen it's a totally different ballgame so for this to happen on a gaming monitor there are a couple of key advancements that had to be made number one we needed faster processors for our displays because 240 Hertz you know 40 milliseconds later with a bunch of you know guesses as to what might have been in between is not the same as real time you know sub-millisecond processing of frames streaming over from a graphics card and number two is that we needed a better display interface so DisplayPort 1.2 saves the day again it's capable of carrying 4k 60 Hertz which if you you know do some fairly simple math is four times the number of pixels as 1920 by 1080 or 1080p which is what this display does so it stands to reason then that you would also be able to do four times the refresh rate at this resolution number three is we needed faster panels so it wasn't until now that we would even be able to get any benefit out of 240 refreshes per second because if the pixel response times weren't good enough then sure you might be pushing out 240 images per second but you'd end up with a big ugly blurry mess instead of a clean crisp image okay so we managed to cover the refresh rate and the resolution so far but let's talk about the rest of the monitor first up is the base this is going to be a loved it or hated thing it's got kind of this black and sort of rust orange kind of thing going on and then they include a couple different ones of these little ROG illumination logo doodads here that you can swap out if you want so they include two ROG ones and then they also include a few blanks so you can customize it if you want or you can turn the light off entirely in the on-screen display next up is i/o now originally g-sync monitors did I mention this is G synced by the way so that's that's cool if you're into the whole variable refresh rate technology things only had DisplayPort in now we get DisplayPort and HDMI although it should be noted this was interesting the HDMI port only operated at 64 Hertz when I tried it so I'm not sure what the deal with that is because that's not even the best that you could normally do on an HDMI 1.4 connection also down here is a USB hub power in and a headphone pass-through as well as a little doodad here for cable management and then the whole thing goes through this guy right here you've got all the normal adjustments so you can go portrait you can twist you can go up and down and you can tilt like that you take these ugly stickers off it as well and getting down to the panel itself what has become an rog staple these super thin bezels on the right and left as well as the top making it ideal for our surround gaming setup if you're into that sort of thing I personally am NOT and as for the panel itself you can use this handy test image that I got over on ABS forum to find out if it is true eight bit or if it's six bit with frc so that's a technique that approximates shades that six bit panels can't reproduce by reproducing nearby ones and alternating them and it looks like it does use FRC so that right side has kind of a mottled appearance to it so let's fire up a game then shall we so at first and wasn't sold we went straight to 240 Hertz and tried with do you think and without do you think and thought that maybe whether it's the computer and the game engine struggling to maintain steady 240 FPS or just the the limitations of human perception it seemed like it was just more numbers more Hertz numbers for the sake of more numbers without the obvious benefit that going from 60 to 120 or 144 herds had but obviously based on some of the shots being made it wasn't hurting matters either then we decided to try out the UL mb mode which necessitated a switch to a hundred and forty-four Hertz Max and something wasn't quite right he was complaining about not having audio and complaining about this and complaining about why shots are being made but but those slick shots they were happening before so back to 240 Hertz we went there back it looks like just like the SSD upgrade of half a decade ago it's one of those things where it might be a little hard to tell the difference until you've had it and had it yanked away so that leads pretty well into the conclusion for this display here I did run it through my usual range of color tests and as I would expect from someone who cares about attention to detail like asus in srgb mode is actually not bad consistently Delta ease of less than five across the board is it suitable for content creation no but we're we really expecting that out of a TN monitor not really overall pretty good but on to the gaming argument it's like a five hundred dollar monitor for someone like me what I say it's were if it no I'm not going to get the most out of a piece of machinery like this but for someone who actually has more skill do I think that 240 Hertz technology is the way forward for competitive gaming absolutely do you remember the last time you called your cell phone carrier and someone just like picked up the line it was like hi can 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