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my coverage of Computex 2016 is proudly sponsored by fractal design MSI and g.skill welcome back to Computex 2016 I've done a lot of coverage so far like video cards cases that kind of thing but you know you need in order to actually do some PC gaming you need a monitor so here are three monitors that I thought were pretty badass from Computex so contestant number one for gaming monitors at Computex this is from our Isis our friends at ROG this is rog swift PG 2 for 8q it's a 24 inch 1920 by 1080 display so this is not going to be as expensive as some of the 1440 or 4k monitors you don't get the full resolution but what they're going forward here is speed because this actually has a 180 Hertz refresh rate at least it's overclockable to that as well as a response time of 1 millisecond grade of gray so that's going to give you a really smooth gameplay combine that with G sync technology of course variable framerate and you're going to get you're going to get an excellent experience you also have something called game + + game visual technologies I don't know what that does well but you have some nice features - tilt swivel pivot and height adjustments I really like the stand on this one it's also got some red LED accents down at the bottom keeping with the ROG theme and aesthetic and as far as inputs on the back end and HDMI and a display port you also get a USB 3.0 pass-through which is very convenient and then the controls are thankfully actual buttons just tucked away back behind the right side of the bezel which is very nice as well finally as for the price of this will monitor $500 us so you do get to pay a little bit more for the g-sync module and all that really high frame rate refresh goodness but I get three of them for 1500 and then you can get yourself 1080 by 3 surround and the next contestant is the Acer predator X 30 for PA you guys might have seen my review he have the X 34 a little while back very nice monitor is 34-inch ultra wide 21 by nine quad HD 34 40 by protein-coding and for the X 30 for P they have made some pretty nice upgrades first off they've curbed the monitor more the curvature radius is 1900 R as compared to the original X 34 so base we got a little bit more wrap around that going on with this one of course it still supports Nvidia g-sync and now it ships at a 100 Hertz refresh rate so you don't have to overclock it yourself or have the potential for it not to overclock maybe quite as much as you expect it to it's going to just ship it out under Hertz I asked about overclocking beyond that they said yeah I probably should I mean it's your mileage is going to vary a little bit of course that's the way it goes with overclocking but you should be able to hit maybe outer than 20 Hertz which is pretty nice for an IPS display as far as the structure and housing around it they actually proved the stand of it they're giving you the ability to swivel now which is actually quite convenient it's a large bulky stand and moving it side to side at a desk can be a little bit of a pain so adding that little swivel feature quite nice I love the same control functions they're kind of tucked away back behind the right side install the under low light in the same set of colors so they have real updated that they have updated the back of the actual chassis for housing of the martyr though and thank God they got rid of the black glossy PLAs now much much nicer looking sort of brushed metal finish I like it I think it looks pretty I mean anything's an upgrade from black glossy plastic to me Alice as far as outputs or video outs we got an HDMI as well as DisplayPort I'd recommend using DisplayPort for this option as far as MSRP though the x34 wasn't expensive or shipped for about $1,100 it's selling for about eleven hundred dollars actually retail this one's probably gonna be a little bit more than that so we're looking at maybe eleven hundred a thirteen hundred dollar range they won't tell me the exact price but that's probably one's going to ship for so will be an expensive product excellent for Pete or Mason and here is contestant number three I was actually going to go to Ben Q to do a third monitor but they didn't really have much of their gaming monitor set up on display so I came back to Acer this is a predator Z one series monitor 21 by nine the model Z 301 C and it is new for the show it's a 30-inch 2560 by 1080 21 by nine monitor does still feature and video g-sync and actually goes up to 200 Hertz refresh rate thanks to of being a VA panel it's getting pretty decent color reproduction from what I can tell here on the show floor granted it's not quite as inky black as you get maybe with an IBS but still looks pretty nice for millisecond response time on this function should be great for gaming right now it's running at 144 Hertz as you might be able to tell up in that counter in the top right corner although granted it's just playing a movie but hey that works as for the housing and the stand well the stance pretty nice got a nice wide feet on there again you get a little bit of a swivel action here so you can swivel a little bit side to side without moving the whole stand back just like the Z 34 P is a very very clean brush metal finish thank God a sir has given up on the glossy plastic it seems like at least for now for video outs you get an HDMI and a DisplayPort not too bad I kind of would like to see another display board on some of these models to be perfectly honest and I did try to hunt down the price for this one but they would not sell me some you get the same sort of effective controls he gives as e34 P as well you kind of reach around on the right side you little joystick controller back there it's not too bad for navigating through on-screen displays and that kind of thing you also have a USB 3.0 hub on this one also just like the Z 34 so I think there's going to be maybe a bit more of a budget oriented option compared to Z 34 P which is probably going to be again pretty expensive and hopefully this one's reasonably priced because when I 560 by 1080 it's a good resolution to game it again the 30-inch Z 301 C from hey sir and it's looking pretty nice so there you go guys let me know what you think of these monitors down in the comment section below really wish I could get a price on that third one but they really couldn't tell me yet but those two AC monitors are expected to come out in q3 this year so keep an eye out for them anyway guys thanks for watching this video hit the thumbs up if you enjoyed it a final sponsor shout out to my sponsors fractal design MSI and g.skill thanks for watching and we'll see you soon