 Welcome to my unboxing of the PA238 ProArt series LED backlit monitor from Asus that has been around the world. You can see it's covered in shipping labels and packing tape and yes, this is not the first time this product's been unboxed, but it is a cool product and it is here in the lab so we might as well do a video about it. I did do a video a while back about the ProArt 24 inch monitor which we are actually still using to this day for the very important task of monitoring our filming while we shoot. So it's actually in there in the Tech Tips room. Yeah, so it's gonna go get you guys a shot of it. It's there, trust me. So the reason we use it for that is because PA series monitors come factory calibrated for the best possible out of box color accuracy. So an IPS panel helps with color accuracy, but a non-calibrated IPS panel can be just as inaccurate as anything. So that is why for professional users, Asus came out with this line of products that comes pre-calibrated so that, oh, there's lots of accessories in there, so you know what? Here, we're gonna put that there. I hope it doesn't fall apart. We're gonna cover the accessories. So that professional users who don't necessarily have access to color calibration equipment or anything like that can have something that works out of the box. It is DisplayPort ready. So there's a DisplayPort cable that's included. We probably won't need that. Maybe we will need that. I don't know. Let's settle on we might need that. We have a power cord. We have a USB A to B, USB 2 cable. We have a DVI cable, a VGA cable, which we definitely won't need. Okay, user manuals. Okay, support CD as well as, aha, the calibration report. So here it is. This is the one that actually was run on your monitor. We'll number this, test equipment this, free scale tracking, gamma values, and there you have it. So they guarantee an average delta E of less than five. That's what they're going for, and that is the delta E values for all of these different colors. So that is the point of this monitor. Although with that's not to say that it's not great for gaming as well. A lot of people ask me, what's the best monitor for gaming? To which I reply, well, a good monitor is good for gaming. It's like when people ask me, what's the best headset for gaming? A good headset is good for gaming. When it comes to sound and it comes to images, I mean, yes, there have been monitors in the past that are just color accurate, but phenomenally slow, and therefore terrible for gaming. Although with the headset example, there's no such thing as a headset that's terrible, but good for gaming or vice versa. So while there have been monitors in the past that have been pretty terrible for gaming, it's not really the case anymore with most modern VA or IPS or PLS panels. So this is an IPS panel, and it has a six millisecond response time. I have personally used the 24 inch version for gaming. It is a very satisfactory experience. Two thumbs up, and I personally find that the improved color accuracy and vividness of the image is a definitely an acceptable trade off for any minute difference in input lag or in response time of the pixels compared to a TN panel, which if you guys follow me on Twitter, you know that I am not a huge fan of TN panels. Anything but a TN panel is sort of my philosophy. So in terms of inputs, we've got a ton of inputs that are supported in side by side or picture in picture, except you can't do HDMI and DVI at the same time. So you can do VGA and DVI picture in picture, you know, these and these, these and these, these and these. So display port, HDMI, DVI, VGA. We've got an audio pass through as well as USB 2 in, so that supports two off here and two off here with the internal hub. We've also got an internal power supply in this monitor. I do like to see that and power switch. All right. What makes ProArt series special? Well, it is highly styrofoam resistant. As you can plainly see, so is my shirt. Snowing in the Tech Tips lab. There we go. That looks a little bit better now. Okay. Has a couple of cool things. This is called quick fit. So you've got inches here and here, centimeters here and here. And then you can actually press the quick fit button, which is this guy right there. And what it does is it brings up a variety of different documents or a variety of different things that you might actually have to scale something against, which is very convenient. If you're creating something that is intended to be printed out a particular size or if you're working on something that is going to be an A4 document, you can really preview it in the actual size that it will be. And you can even have grid lines that'll help you line things up according to how big you want them to be. If you've ever tried to like print a greeting card or something on your computer, you know how frustrating it is if you actually don't have any idea what the scale of it's going to be like once you actually print it out. Very robust stand. The ProArt series monitors have awesome, awesome stands. So you've got all of this, whatever this is called, swivel, right? You've got height adjust up to here. Again, little marks. You can measure how far you're height adjusting should you so desire. So there you go. Just like that. You've got swivel, tilt. I don't know what this is. No, this isn't tilt. This is whatever. It goes into portrait mode. Okay. Just that way like that. You've also got tilt. This one's tilt. Okay. And it is very well built. It's made of plastic, but it's not like made of plastic. It's just made of like pretty solid plastic. Okay. Got lots of ventilation holes here on the back. Once again, you can actually measure like how many degrees off you are with the built in markers on the back. Very adorable. I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about it. So what's the advantage? Well, it's got, oh, great. It has a 10 bit lookup table. So what that means is that it can actually produce more accurate and more smooth gradients of color. So on really horrible TN panels, and I'm not going to name any names over here, but we're actually going to go look at one. You know, not naming any names, but you know what? This demo isn't going to work this time, unfortunately, because yeah. Okay. 3D monitors tend to be the worst offenders for this, but for whatever reason, I had a different color scheme on the start menu. And you know how the colors kind of fade along towards the end of the start menu? I could actually see blocks of color like this, like they didn't fade smoothly on a monitor like this. I mean, that's an extreme example the other way, but this is an extreme example in terms of like not going to be blocks of color. So everything will fade very, very smoothly. It can actually produce more colors in addition to being accurate than a standard monitor can. I think I mentioned the LED backlight already, so it's mercury free and therefore more environmentally friendly. And I think we're pretty much done. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the PA238Q from ASUS. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Yeah, it's a 1080p monitor in case you guys are wondering. 1920 by 1080, I don't think I ever mentioned that.