Asus VG248QE 24-Inch LED-Lit Monitor
- 24-inch Full HD LED-backlit 144Hz display 1920x1080for brilliant HD-quality visuals in both 2D and 3D
- GamePlusdisplays a crosshair overlay and in-game timers to enhance your gaming
- 144Hz refresh rate and 1ms Trace Free II Technologyfor smooth motion playback for movies and games
- 80,000,000:1 ASUS Smart Contrast Ratiodelivers the darkest blacks and brightest whites for true-to-life images
- Full height, tilt, and swivel adjustmentsfor the most versatile 3D monitor to provide the most comfort
Ultra smooth action with 144Hz rapid refresh rate and 1ms (GTG) response time
Clear Out the Chaos Featuring a 144Hz refresh rate, and 1ms response time, the 24-inch VG248QE LED Full HD monitor delivers the best performance for fluid gaming and movie playback. Now with GamePlus, keep track of game times with the built-in timer function overlay and also enable a crosshair onscreen.
Key Features
- 24-inch Full HD LED-backlit 144Hz display 1920×1080for brilliant HD-quality visuals in both 2D and 3D
- GamePlusdisplays a crosshair overlay and in-game timers to enhance your gaming experience
- 144Hz refresh rate and 1ms Trace Free II Technologyfor smooth motion playback for movies and games
- 80,000,000:1 ASUS Smart Contrast Ratiodelivers the darkest blacks and brightest whites for true-to-life images
- Full height, tilt, and swivel adjustmentsfor the most versatile 3D monitor to provide the most comfort
- DisplayPort, Dual-link DVI-D, and HDMI portsfor multi device connectivity
Features
Play as fast as you can
The ASUS VG248QE monitor shortens the time it takes for rendered frames to display on the screen. Lower monitor latency improves the signal processing between your system and monitor for quicker response time. The 144Hz rapid refresh rate speeds up the frames per second to deliver ultra-smooth motion in even the most chaotic action scenes. The response time is also reduced to 1ms to eliminate tracers by controlling voltage levels when driving liquid crystals thus ensuring fluid and clear video playback—more than twice the frame rates of standard LCDs.
ASUS GamePlus—get the edge in your game
The VG248QE monitor features the exclusive GamePlus hotkey with crosshair overlay and timer functions. Select from four different crosshairs to suit your gaming environment, and keep track of spawn and build times with the on-screen timer.
Expand your visual horizons
The VG248QE monitor features extensive connectivity options including DisplayPort, HDMI, and Dual-link DVI. An ergonomically-designed stand with tilt, swivel, pivot, and height adjustments make the VG248QE an ideal choice for a multi-display gaming set-up. With 3D enabled*, experience the ultimate in immersive gaming with NVIDIA 3D surround.
3D Playback
The VG248QE monitor delivers the finest 3D gaming experience*. NVIDIA 3D LightBoost Technology increases the brightness of the LED backlight for better 3D with zero increase in total energy consumption. And with over 700—and growing—3D Vision ready game titles already available, enjoy your extensive game, 3D Blu-ray movies and YouTube 3D playback support. See everything in a new dimension.
Relax, we got you covered
Should something happen to your VG248QE, rest assured, it comes with a 3-year system and panel warranty to protect it from the unfortunate. For even greater convenience, ASUS Rapid Replacement cross-shipping sends you a replacement unit as soon as the defective unit is in the mail—shortening your waiting time.
What’s in the box
- ASUS VG248QE LED Full HD Monitor
- Dual-link DVI Cable
- Audio Cord
- Power Cord
- Quick Starter Guide
- Warranty Information Card
Specifications
| Display Panel Type |
Wide Screen 24.0″(61.0cm) 16:9 |
| Color Saturation | 72%(NTSC) |
| Panel Backlight / Type |
WLED/ TN |
| True Resolution | 1920×1080 |
| Full HD 1080P | Yes |
| Pixel Pitch | 0.2768mm |
| Brightness(Max) | 350 cd/㎡ |
| ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) |
80,000,000:1 |
| Viewing Angle (CR≧10) |
170°(H)/160°(V) |
| Response Time |
1ms (Gray to Gray) |
| Display Colors |
16.7 |
| SPLENDID Video Preset Modes | 6 Modes |
| Skin-Tone Selection |
3 Modes |
| Color Temperature Selection | 4 Modes |
| GamePlus (modes) |
Yes (Aim point/Timer) |
| Audio Features Stereo Speakers | 2W x 2 Stereo RMS |
| Convenient Hotkey |
SPLENDID Video Preset Mode Selection Brightness Adjustment Input Selection GamePlus |
| Signal Input |
HDMI , DisplayPort, Dual-link DVI-D (support NVIDIA 3D Vision |
| PC Audio Input | 3.5mm Mini-Jack |
| AV Audio Input | HDMI, DisplayPort |
| Earphone jack |
3.5mm Mini-Jack (for HDMI & DisplayPort Only) |
| Digital Signal Frequency |
30~140 KHz(H)/ 50~144 Hz(V) |
| Power Consumption Typical | <45 |
| Power Saving Mode |
<0.5W |
| Power Off Mode | <0.5W |
| Voltage |
100-240V, 50/60Hz |
| Chassis Colors | Black |
| Tilt | +15°~ -5° |
| Swivel | Yes |
| Pivot | Yes |
| Height Adjustment | Yes |
| VESA Wall Mounting | 100x100mm |
| Security Kensington lock | Yes |
| Phys. Dimension with Stand (W x H x D) | 569.4 x 499.9x231mm / 22.4 x 19.7 x 9.1 inches |
| Phys. Dimension without Stand (W x H x D) |
569.4 x 340.4 x 57.3mm (for VESA Wall Mount) / 22.4 x 13.4 x 2.6 -inches |
| Net Weight (Esti. ) | 5.5kg / 12.1lbs |
All specifications and terms are subject to change without notice. Please check with your supplier for exact offers on selected models. Products may not be available in all markets. Product may not be exactly as shown in photos. (*) 3D playback can only be activated via Dual-link DVI cable connection with a NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit sold separately, a compatible NVIDIA-GPU graphics card, a PC with Microsoft Windows Vista/7 OS, and NVIDIA 3D Vision drivers installed. Moreover, the resolution/timing must be set at 1920×1080@144/120/110/100Hz.
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Samsung 850 Pro 512GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-7KE512BW)
- The World’s First Consumer 3D V-NAND SSD
- Ultimate Read/Write Performance
- Enhanced Endurance and Reliability
- Efficient Power Management
- Capacity: 512GB
- Form Factor: 2.5 inch / 7 mm
- Interface: SATA3
- Features sequential read and write performance up to 550 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 520MB/s respectively, and random read and write input/output operations-per-second (IOPS) up to 100,000 and 90,000 each.
- Class-leading performance — enables you to boot up your computer in as little as 15 seconds
- Energy efficient – Features Device Sleep mode for Ultranotebooks and improves battery life by up to 45 minutes vs. standard hard drives
- Worry-free data security with AES 256-bit encryption, Microsoft Bitlocker and TCG / Opal 2.0 support
- 100-percent genuine Samsung components from the #1 memory manufacturer in the world
- 5th-generation 3-Core Samsung MEX Controller ensures sustained performance under the most punishing conditions
- Enhanced endurance and reliability – Backed by an industry-leading 10-year limited warranty and 150TBW rating
- Perfect for hardcore gamers, mobile users or content creators (like professional animators, video editors, photographers and game developers) who crave the ultimate in performance and productivity
- Cable, screws, and bracket sold separately
Samsung 850 Pro Series 512GB 2.5 inch SATA3 Solid State Drive, Retail (3D V-NAND)
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Perfect for Games,
Pros: This monitor is a godsend for people who hate screen tearing, but also hate vsync. Being able to play up to 144fps with neither one is utterly fantastic. The 1ms response time and (roughly) 7ms latency (basing that number off a review of the older brother to this monitor, the VG278HE) means you are getting one of the fastest and most responsive monitors on the market.
If you search around on a few forums you can find talk of a “hack” to the nvidia lightboost that this monitor supports. Normally lightboost is for 3D, but when playing in 2D you can “hack” it to enable the strobing backlight, which ends up eliminating almost every bit of motion blur and other such flaws of your typical LCD. I haven’t tried it myself as I do not use an nvidia card, but people who have used it all rave about it being “like a CRT!” I can tell you that this monitor is more than worthy of gaming without the hack, but it’s something to consider.
Cons: As to be expected of a TN panel, the colors are a bit lacking. I’ve seen far worse, but if you’ve used an IPS panel then you’ve also seen better. After hardware calibration (monitor menu settings) it is plenty suitable for games, and after software calibration (via device like a Spyder4 or similar) then it would be suitable for non-professional color work on images and video. It has a bit of banding towards the darker shades of black, but it’s not a huge deal. Dropping an egg for it though.
If you are like me, and currently can only afford to calibrate via the monitor settings and not a Spyder4, I’ll save you some time and tell you how I have calibrated mine using a variety of free calibration tools on the internet:
First, make sure you are using “Standard” mode. DO NOT use any of the other modes unless you really need access to any of the locked-out settings (you shouldn’t). “Night View Mode” in particular is VERY BAD and will destroy your black levels completely.
Brightness: 55 (feel free to adjust this one up or down based on preference)
Contrast: 88
Color Temp.: User Mode – Red 90/Green 90/Blue 90 (this monitor is wonderfully neutral, I was surprised)
Smart View: Off
TraceFree: 60 (40 is also good, and might be more desirable for non-gaming instances of motion on-screen)
Other Thoughts: I had previously purchased the VG278HE, but it had a really unfortunate problem with the pixel inversion pattern. Specifically, any time there was fast motion on the screen, these vertical, black, interweaving lines would appear on the screen, and from a subjective point of view it would feel almost as if your resolution had been cut in half. Sill images were unaffected.
I returned that monitor after I had discovered the newly released VG248QE, which was much cheaper due to the smaller size and does not suffer the same pixel inversion pattern issue as the older brother. To be fair, I can still see the inversion pattern on this monitor if I am a few inches away and trying hard to see it, but when viewed from a normal usage distance you can not see it at all. Every monitor has this pixel inversion pattern, some are just more prone to it being visible than others.
1080p is more fitting of this 24 inch panel anyway, 27 inches starts to beg for 1440p at least.
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|Great monitor NOTE HDMI is only 60hz 1.4 NOT 1.4b.,
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|Review and comparison to BenQ XL2420TE,
Pros:
* 144 Hz refresh rate allows the monitor to display up to 144 frames per second. The difference between 60 and 120+ fps is obvious, do not listen to those who say otherwise… they are the same people who parrot the myth that the “human eye can’t see more than 30 fps”. Nonsense.
* Tearing is less noticeable at higher refresh rates.
* Less stutter when vsync is on, and more discrete frame levels when using double buffered vsync.
* Lightboost compatible, which nearly eliminates all motion blur caused by eye-tracking persistence (which is the main cause of LCD blur, not ‘response time’). However, color is negatively affected when enabled.
* Gsync compatible.
* < 2 ms of measured input lag.
Cons
* At 60 Hz, the color balance is nearly perfect. However, the gamma shifts as you change the refresh rate, instead of staying constant.
* At 144 Hz the color is a bit washed out. This makes it a pain to calibrate as there is no direct gamma control from the monitor menu, besides changing splendid presets. You can get a decent image but it takes a bit of tweaking. ICC calibration profiles are available, but some games may bypass them. You can also use drivers to adjust colors if needed. If they could maintain the 60 Hz color balance at 144 Hz, it would have been perfect.
Comparisons to BenQ XL2420TE:
This monitor can easily be found for ~$260. The BenQ standard price is $279.99, but is almost always inflated to $400+ and often unavailable. Both monitors use the exact same display panel, so as you’d expect, the colors are practically identical after tweaking (my housemate has the BenQ).
The main difference is that the BenQ does not use PWM for brightness control, some people have issues with it so that is their only option for a high refresh rate monitor. That said, the vast majority of monitors use PWM, only in recent years have people begun talking about it. As a point of reference, newer VG248QE’s at the 144 Hz setting have a PWM flicker frequency of 864 Hz, whereas the BenQ 120 Hz+ monitors that use PWM (all of them besides XL2411T Rev2 and XL2420TE) have a PWM frequency of 180 Hz.
Of course, if you plan on using any of the new blur reducing technologies such as the 2D Lightboost hack, Gsync ULMB, and soon BenQ’s Motion Blur Reduction, whether a monitor is PWM-free or not should not matter much to you as all of them achieve near-complete elimination of motion blur via backlight strobing, essentially a modified usage of PWM. This model is also upgradable with Gsync, though at the time of writing there would likely be no reason to buy the DIY kit instead of purchasing a monitor with it built-in already. A VG248QE with the Gsync module installed becomes PWM-free when not using ULMB.
It also has less ghosting and inverse ghosting caused by response time compensation than the BenQ, according to pcmonitors.info.
As for the companies themselves, Asus is a much larger brand than BenQ, and this monitor is much more available and can be found at B&M stores easily. I am more confident with Asus’ service. BenQ’s website states that they do not honor warranties of products purchased from unauthorized dealers, and Amazon (and Newegg) are not even on their list of authorized resellers, which is an obvious mistake (right?). If they can’t keep their website up to date, I don’t have much faith in their customer service.
Finally, both have useless gimmicks. The Asus has crosshair and timer OSDs and the BenQ has an external menu selecting device (“S Switch”).
So unless PWM is a real issue for you, I would recommend the Asus. If you do go for the BenQ, try and wait until you can get it for $279.99. When Amazon gets a new shipment, they sell it at that price and it usually lasts a few days before going out of stock and going back up to $350-450.
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|Use caution when updating firmware!,
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02/25/2105: Just a follow up note to state the obvious. If you own the 850 Pro and have Samsung Magician software installed and decided to update to the most recent firmware version through the software, then you need to back up and image the drive ASAP in case of failure. My drive ran fine for a few days after the update, then came sudden death. I don’t have the firmware rev. that caused this but it is the last one issued. Samsung C.S. (800) 726-7864.
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|Mar 5, 2015 12:53:28 PM PST
I am sorry that you are experiencing issues with your drive after downloading the latest firmware update.
Samsung has become aware of this and is working to correct the issue.
Please contact Samsung Customer Service toll-free at 1-800-SAMSUNG and a representative will gladly assist you with exchanging your SSD.
Support hours are from 9AM to 9PM EST, Monday through Friday.
Beats the terrific Sandisk Extreme Pro and I expect amazing longevity from the V-NAND chips,
First, I haven’t done a controlled performance test of these drives. However, if you check some of the good review sites (like anandtech dot com) and others, you’ll find that the tested performance is almost identical. They are both very fine drives, and both have 10-yr warranties, which is a marketing issue, as you’re unlikely to be using this in 10 years any way.
At this point, I will continue to buy this one rather than the equivalent Sandisk Extreme Pro. First, it has more space as Samsung allows the entire 512GB to be used, whereas Sandisk only allows 480GB as they are reserving the difference for ‘over-provisioning’ whereby they have spare sectors to be used when (as happens with all SSD’s) sectors fail with use.
More importantly, Samsung’s use of V-NAND indicates that the transistors (which are very different and what appears to be a huge leap forward) are more resistant to wear. This is clearly indicated by the fact that Samsung warranties the drive for a lifetime total of 150TB, whereas Sandisk warranties for 80TB. And this is important, as the 10-yr warranty means nothing if you exceed their total.
having said that, techreport dot com is in the midst of a months-log torture test of drives and even the ones to fail first have vastly exceeded the manufacturer’s expected limits, in a way that has surprised the heck out of everyone. So the bottom line is that even if ‘used hard’ as consumer drives, it’s unlikely that either one will ever fail to perform well and long.
One nice thing that Samsung has managed with the 850 Pro: Their earlier 830 Pro and 840 Pro were top-notch drives, butt their Achille’s heel was their inconsistent performance, though this was more something noticed using test programs than it was something apparent to end users. But the 850 has corrected that.
Also, if it matters to you, this drive supports encryption and the Sandisk doesn’t.
Is there anything that would make me select the Sandisk rather than this drive? Perhaps price. Right now, taking into account the usable space for each drive (512GB Samsung vs 480 Sandisk), and the prices as I write this, the Samsung is about 77 cents per GB and the sandisk is about 70. For a 10% difference I’ll go with this drive. However, given the huge positive publicity this drive has gotten, I suspect that Sandisk will have to lower prices to keep their Extreme Pro moving, and since both drives are so good, that could sway me.
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