Asus vg248qe 144hz monitor

[birddog_61]

So I have been gaming on this monitor for a little over a day now and I thought I would post my impressions. First of all, the jump from 60hz to 120/144hz is amazing. Really I can't explain how much of a difference it makes in aiming, fps games feel like your cheating aiming is so smooth. Switching my refresh rate back to 60hz to test the difference is excruciating, everything is choppy and my aim jerks all over the screen. I would say this is the single largest improvement to my aim that I have ever experienced, its better than switching to a gaming mouse or upgrading gpu's for more fps. Even at the desktop in Windows moving things around the screen or just moving the mouse is smooth as butter.

This is a tn led backlight panel the colors on it are horrible out of the box, worse than most tn panels I have dealt with. After a little tweaking in the menus the colors are on par for any other tn panel, its never going to be an ips panel as far as color goes but it does look good.

The display has some pretty neat gaming features like digital on screen cross-hairs, and anti-ghosting settings. Input lag is nonexistent, or close enough that I don't notice any at all. The build quality is typical Asus, everything feels solid and the stand is very nice. The stand adjust just by pulling the screen where you want it, no clasp or anything to deal with.

The display has a new feature from nvidia called lightboost, this was built to make 3d movies and games brighter. However there is a hack for this to work in 2d mode that makes the display feel like a crt without the flicker.
LightBoost HOWTO | The Blur Busters
With this hack installed the monitor is silky smooth when gaming with almost no ghosting, with smooth scroller installed in chrome I can read while scrolling. I really hope nvidia decides to support 2d lightboost and implements it so we don't have to hack it.

I was skeptical about 120hz making any sort of difference, however after using this monitor I will never go back to using a 60hz monitor.

[David M]

Thanks for the review Birddog. As a gamer that is very useful information. Now you have me wanting three.

[birddog_61]

Originally Posted by David M Thanks for the review Birddog. As a gamer that is very useful information. Now you have me wanting three.

I really want to try out surround gaming sometime to see how much I would like it. Here is a guy that has 3 of them and is putting together a rig that should have no problem running it.
Vega's Perfect Motion Clarity 2D Lightboost NVIDIA Titan Portrait Surround Gloss Asus VG248QE Build

[pam123]

Morrowind On Line is due "soon" ( I'm upgrading my specs just for that , Newegg box due by next week, but I hadn't really thought about a new monitor), hmmmnnn.

Once a gamer you're hooked for life

[birddog_61]

Doing the pixperan readability test I can read at level 10, I could do a 4 on the 60hz. If you want to try it out here is the link.

PRAD | Ghosting Test

Retried the test today and got up to level 18 on the read test.

[Darth Revan]

I just got this monitor yesterday, I'd write a review on it myself but it would say the same thing as birddog.
The drivers that come with is are for Nvidia. I'm running my PC with an ATI 8550 and have no problems whatsoever

[David M]

This month MaximumPC did a blind test on this monitor and its equivalent ASUS 60 Hz monitor, surprisingly a lot of people could not tell any difference.

[Darth Revan]

Yeah, the window dragging people kept talking about was barely noticeable, however the ingame for CS:GO was ridiculously better. Went from an Acer 5ms 60hz montior to this.

[birddog_61]

Originally Posted by David M This month MaximumPC did a blind test on this monitor and its equivalent ASUS 60 Hz monitor, surprisingly a lot of people could not tell any difference.

Do you have a link, I would like to read it? If they couldn't tell the difference they were either not gamers or were not gaming at 120+fps. After having the monitor this long my love for it has only grown, I tracked my hit% in bf3 and COD since I bought the monitor. My accuracy has gone up 8% in bf3 and 14% in COD, plus the benefit of absolutely zero tearing makes this monitor invaluable to me. I don't play CS because of the lack of ADS, but I imagine it would be as big a difference if not more than COD because of the fast paced twitch style game play.

[pam123]

It's the May edition so you'll have to wait a few weeks to read the whole thing on line.
However, it seems the gamers did notice the difference and preferred it but the non-gamers didn't and couldn't see the difference.

[birddog_61]

Originally Posted by pam123 It's the May edition so you'll have to wait a few weeks to read the whole thing on line. However, it seems the gamers did notice the difference and preferred it but the non-gamers didn't and couldn't see the difference.

Okay, that makes sense. I wouldn't expect someone that doesn't push their equipment to notice the difference.