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my coverage of CES 2018 from Las Vegas Nevada is brought to you by Coolermaster enter max ocz Toshiba and deep cool my next journey at CES 2018 was over to the Encore fabulous Hotel and Casino to check out what Asus had on display and the first thing that caught my eye was the pg3 5vq and this is a new monitor 35 inch ultra wide you wqhd ultra wide quad HD that means 3440 by 1440 it's a 200 Hertz refresh rate monitor with g-sync as well as HDR so all of the buzzwords that you want in a monitor 512 zone LED backlighting it's a curved VA panel I only approve of curved panels when you're talking about a monitor when you're probably going to be the only one viewing it 100 I'm sorry a thousand candles per square meter of peak brightness it's also got quantum dot technology and it supports dcpip three color gamut so really really good color depth on this display as well and yes it still does have that ROG projection logo that it does down on the desk so you do still get that if you happen to get this monitor and we don't have pricing details for this monitor right now but the 34 inch version still sells for about $1300 so chances are this one's going to be I would expect in the 14 $1,500 range but hopefully it will be available on the market soon next up is a unique product from Asus that maybe was less expected this is a bezel free kit and it's basically a sort of unique solution to handle using triple monitors and dealing with the bezels in between the monitors which is of course the worst part of using triple monitors especially if you're using it for gaming so this is basically an accessory it enables gamers with multi-monitor setups to visually eliminate the gaps where their displays connects the monitors that they're demoing it with is the RG swift PG 2 v 8 Q which is a twenty four point five inch monitor these aren't going to be available till later this year they're talking about probably late q1 or early q2 timeframe they're still refining it and if you look at it dead-on you'll notice of course the disappearing bezels these plastic strips basically refract the light in order to visually eliminate the bezels however you can still see the strips themselves as they do create a bit of a slight discoloration where they overlay on the themselves they are flexible and they're not like glass or anything so they do seem like they're very fairly durable if you need to take them off and put them back on it's really simple you just remove them and pop them back on there and I guess another bonus piece is that ASIS in their development of this product decided that having the monitors angled with each other at 130 degrees was the ideal viewing angle so the pieces that pop on the top and the bottom of each monitor will help you align the monitors at that angle as well but you definitely can still see some kind of discoloration where the plastic overlay is going on so it's obviously not an ideal solution but for anyone who uses triple monitors I'd say especially the fact that you can easily remove them and put them back on and also the fact that these don't seem like they're going to be all that expensive since the actual material is fairly simple might be a good option for anyone who's looking to enhance their triple monitor gaming experience next up is the BFG D the big gaming display or big format gaming display I guess is what we're supposed to call it if we want to be PC but this is the rog swift PG 65 the actual asus version i briefly showed you guys this in my Nvidia video so check it out for a little bit more on that and some more demonstration of the big format gaming displays in action I got a little bit more details about the Asus model though it is av a panel and it has a full array LED backlight on the back with upwards of 300 zones and in fact they said they might even be enhancing that because the bigger the display obviously the smaller each zone for LED backlighting is and they want to have a really good gaming experience and for HDR of course contrast is incredibly important it has 178 degree viewing angle though cinema grade DCI p3 color gamut reproduction and ASA said specifically that there bf GD is capable of a true 120 Hertz for fresh rate I don't want to speak for the other guys so the other displays that we saw we did see a couple of the competitors for example from HP but Asus does seem to be very confident in their model that they've been developing right now also got to take a look at the back of the monitor which maybe isn't that huge of a deal but does have the largest RG logo that I've ever seen on anything ever also there are a couple cooling fans active on this display so the fact that you have enhanced technology in there you got a shield built into there and also have a very high refresh rate monitor I mentioned the panel probably outputs a decent amount of heat as well means they did need that need active cooling however anecdotally it didn't sound like it was all that loud and I imagine once they have these and they're bringing them to market they'll make sure that you don't hear any of the cooling that's going on band behind the display itself I also wanted to give you guys a quick look at the Strix GL twelve this is a desktop gaming PC so it is a complete unit you would buy and you get a desktop PC so I know if you guys are into building your own pcs maybe you're not quite as interested but if you are looking for a solution that you can just buy and have and use these feature at GT x 1080 up to 512 gigs PCIe SSD or there's lesser versions where you can get a SATA SSD or even a mechanical hard drive coffee like CPUs you can get the 8680 780 700 K and you can do factory overclocking there is that option and they'll ship it to you running at 4.8 gigahertz across all six cores which is a very decent overclock that overclock is enabled because there's liquid cooling involved it's got what appears to be an ASA tech unit in there the waterblock has a glowing red rog logo and then behind the front panel cover on the case up towards the top you'll notice there's an optical drive which is nice to have I do like still having the ability to have an optical drive in there and a hot-swap 2.5 inch Bay now the hot swap Bay at least by defaults you're not supposed to use for an operating system but it's made so you can easily pop in a drive if you need to copy stuff really quick just got a SATA back clean on there or for example if you're going to be using a bunch of these systems to set up maybe a LAN party or an eSports event or something like that you'll often have people who bring external 2.5 inch drives with their set of games on it or something so being able to easily pop those in the front in order to access whatever is on the drive and heck I'm always a fan of 2.5 inch hot swap bays anyway it's got a clear acrylic side panel so you can look and see the parts inside there is some expandability you can buy it completely all put together but of course you can expand it yourself since they are using the desktop components in there and it's got or a sync RGB lighting as well the final product I want to show is the XG station Pro and I thought you guys might find this interesting depending on what you do with your computers but if you like to game on the go or if you like to to work while you're on the go or if you maybe do work on a laptop but then you come home and you like to do heavy lifting work like 3d rendering or CAD or something like that then having an external GPU doc might be suitable not just for gaming but also for something like a workstation so the XG station pro is an external graphics doc for gaming and productivity it's got a nice clean gray finish it's got ventilation holes on both sides and it's fairly easy to pop off the side panels and remove them if you need to clean stuff out or just get in there to access the actual PCIe slot for the graphics card 220 millimeter cooling fans so when things get warm it can keep your graphics card cool and it can be used to expand for instance a thin and light laptop and make it into a gaming PC or add a workstation GPU for 3d modeling CAD work or that kind of thing also a very clean design very appropriate even for a Mac user I think I think it would be suitable for that a nice gray finish it's gonna cost three hundred and twenty nine dollars and it's launching in q1 of this year but guys that's gonna wrap it up for my coverage of the AC suite here at CES 2018 definitely hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video subscribe to my channel for more content more CES coverage coming out to you very soon and of course a big thank you to my sponsors for this event enter max Coolermaster deep cool and ocz toshiba thanks again for watching guys and we'll see in the next video