 The fractal design Define R4 case gets featured on the WAN Show Build Logs of the Week section more than any other case. Click now to learn more about it. Welcome to my unboxing and overview of the latest and greatest from BenQ. This is the 2420T-E whose main advantage is over the previous flagship 2420T slash 2420TX the one with the built-in transmitter, is the fact that it's capable of a 144Hz refresh rate versus 120Hz. So while the 144Hz refresh rate isn't necessarily needed for something like 3D vision, if you just want as many frames displayed on the screen per second as freaking possible, then you'll want that. It also has what they're calling their Zero Flicker technology, which means that at any backlight setting, you're not going to have annoying flickering which can be fatiguing on the eyes, particularly during long gaming sessions. And those are kind of the key differences here, but we'll walk through the rest of it as we keep going here. So it's LED backlit, it's Windows 8 compatible, I should sure as bloody heck hope so. It's Nvidia 3D vision ready, including light boost technology which dramatically improves the 3D vision experience making it much brighter and less blurry and sort of gross in general. They're the official tournament monitor of Intel Extreme Masters, and I believe this is also an MLG endorsed model as well. So it has some gaming sort of optimized features, including the ability to set different profiles for particular games. In fact, it comes preloaded with a couple of different FPS modes, optimized for CS 1.6 and CS Source, of all things. There are other FPSs that people play these days, but whatever. And then you can also download profiles from your favorite gamers, which is kind of neat. It comes with a little controller here, so you can either use the redesigned on-screen display and with the buttons on the side of the monitor to control it, or you can actually thumb through things with the wheel here, select things, go back and press different profiles and change things on the fly with the controller. It's actually kind of a good implementation. We've used it before on the 2420T. It comes with a disc, so you know what to do with that. A dual-link DVI cable, because this runs at 1920 by 1080 with a high refresh rate, it does need a dual-link DVI cable for optimal performance. It comes with a built-in USB hub, so there's a USB to USB-B cable, as well as a power cable, VGA cable, you can throw that away with the disc as well. And then we've also got the height adjustable stand and a dust cover, which they include with many of their premium-grade gaming monitors these days. They're using a hard foam, however it is extremely well packed and extremely thick hard foam, with lots of cushioning around the corners. So you can see right there that they've got about a good inch and a half of corner protection, which is extremely important because that is where things like this tend to get broken. So we'll walk you through the assembly process here really quickly. Behind the three holes with the notches here, there's a little arrow that indicates where you want it to end up facing front. So we'll go ahead and put that in there. And then turn it until it locks. And once it's locked, you can go ahead and rotate it freely, just like that. To lock it in place, you can either use your hands or a flathead screwdriver to go ahead and tighten that. Next up, we peel all the plastic off of it. I really wish they'd just stopped putting glossy surfaces on these things entirely, because it's more work to protect them with plastic, more work to take the plastic off when I'm putting it together, and then more work to keep it clean later on after the fact. And it just doesn't look any better, but whatever. Okay, so let's go ahead and show you the final assembly step, which is to go ahead and click it into place like that. And you might have gone, Linus, how are you going to show me all the interfaces on the bottom if you've gone and assembled it first? It's going to be more difficult. No, no, don't worry. I'm getting to that. So it has height adjust. So actually a fairly wide range of height adjust. Quite nice indeed. You've got your tilt. Okay, you got your swivel. Okay, which I showed you before already. And finally, aha, yes, there we go. Pivot. Love to see pivot. It's something I actually only really use to access the ports because I'm not a photographer. And if I was a photographer, I wouldn't be using this monitor because as far as color accuracy goes and color depth, this is not going to compare very favorably to an IPS, VA or PLS panel. It's mostly optimized for speed, which is great for gaming, but not professional sort of video or photo work. Here's the built-in hub. So there's the input for that as well as a single output. And then the other two are actually, sorry, I'm going to go ahead and do this to you, are on the side of the monitor right here, as well as a headphone pass through if you're using HDMI in, which is kind of nice to have. You've also got two HDMI in. So that's another thing that makes this kind of gaming optimized is that you can have your PS3 and your Xbox and your PC all kind of hooked up to it at the same time, switch between them pretty easily. You've got that useless VGA port. Please, please, for the love of whatever you believe in, don't plug anything into that. And finally, you've got display port, which is not dumb. And then last but not least, you've got the little control pod thing that actually docks with magnetically to the side of the monitor, which also has plastic on it. There you go. So that's there held in by like a little magnet thing. And you go ahead and plug that in if you do decide to use it, but you don't have to. It's completely removable should you prefer that approach. Last but not least, you've got a Kensington lock, which I think is more for like tournament people than actual like regular people who don't usually lock down their monitors. But if you have a whole bunch of these set up at a tournament, that's not necessarily a bad idea to have implemented. And then check this out. Another gamer optimized feature is the headphone hook on the back of a monitor. So I'm going to run and grab a pair of headphones so I can show you how that might work in a real world scenario. Boom. So that way you can have your headphones hanging behind your monitor instead of on the front of your desk. Oh yeah, it also has a carrying handle. So the carrying handle is kind of sturdy. Well, not kind of sturdy. It's very sturdy. But the thing I don't like about it is it's not very well balanced. So you can see when I hold it like this, it kind of hangs like that. But I don't really know what else they'd be able to do about that other than repositioning it to the top of the panel, for example, which might cause it to lose some of its strength. So I think that pretty much wraps it up for the actual unboxing portion. So stay tuned, guys. We'll be right back. Holy crap. It's the first 120 Hertz monitor that doesn't have color depth, then color accuracy that looks completely balls. Unbelievable. I actually love the 2420TE. I'm extremely impressed by this monitor. Normally, the compromises that get made when you amp up the refresh rate is generally with respect to image quality, particularly in terms of color depth. Now color depth refers to that banding that exists when you have similar colors that aren't quite the same and the monitor just isn't capable of reproducing enough in between. So you end up with like these chunks of colors. You'll see this a lot of the time with movies and things like dark scenes. You'll see like big blocks of like slightly lighter brown and big blocks of slightly darker brown because either the bit rate of the file is very low or the display you're watching on isn't very good. So that is not a problem on this monitor, which I'm extremely impressed by. Not only that, but this is more than a 120 Hertz display. This is a 144 Hertz display. And it's really the first one that I can recommend without an asterisk because before I'd say, yeah, I recommend 120 Hertz monitors if the refresh rate is really important to you. If it's really important. And then what I would always say is I personally prefer higher resolution and better color accuracy for a more immersive gaming experience. Now I'm only actually left with one of those points. Are you going to be doing any professional, you know, Photoshop work? By the way, we have the Star Citizen hangar module running on here. Are you going to be able to do any professional Photoshop or like color correction work on here? The answer is no. It's not that good, but it's so much better than the typical TN gaming monitor that I'm going to take that caveat away from my recommendation. So the only thing that's really left is you still can't get high resolution monitors that are also high refresh rate. And this is due to a limitation in the bandwidth that can be delivered by most of the display interfaces we have today. So something like HDMI 2.0 or better DisplayPort 1.2 implementations could address this in the future. But for now, this is what we've got. And as far as the 2420T egos, I am extremely impressed, guys. I wholeheartedly recommend this monitor. It's expensive, but it is so much better than the last generation T and TX just due to the fact that the color reproduction is dramatically improved that I mean, I other than just kind of gushing about it for another three minutes, I don't know what else to say. BenQ's got a winner on their hands here. And compared to other 3D monitors that I've seen, this is hands down the one to get. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Like the video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it, leave a comment if you're as freaking surprised as me that this thing doesn't look bad. I mean, no offense to everyone else who tried to build a 3D monitor that was high refresh rate, but what can I say? And I think that's pretty much it.