ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920x1080 144Hz 1ms HDMI Gaming Monitor

The hardest part about my computer set-up has been deciding on a monitor... I checked, reviewed, researched, went to stores to look, and took an awful amount of time to find a decent monitor. Finally, I decided to purchase this monitor for the 144Hz speed, dedication to gamers, and the 3 years warranty. Before I go further, I made the right choice! Once you open up the box you immediately see that you have purchased a MONITOR that will do your bidding for serious PC folk or gamers. This is not some cheap junk. It looks great! If looks could kill, they nailed it with the sleek, slim, and modern look. You can tell this is not a bargain store monitor purchase. The stand: awesome. Better than any other junk stands I have had the patience to work with. It adjusts to your liking, firm, simple, ergo, fantastic. Why don't they build all monitors stands like this? Forsake wall mounts. The monitor: FANTASTIC. Once you turn her on (the power button ROCKS) the bright blaze of sunlight will hit your eyes and enter your brain like a slap. Brightness at 100 will let you know that this monitor is capable of burning retinas at a billion candles per inch as well as massages your eyes depending on your mood or quite possibly the fact that you could use this monitor outside (not recommended) and the sun will not dare to outshine it. After the first brightness adjustment, the color on this monitor seemed fine to me, in fact, better than the POS it replaced by light years. Looked around at color recommendations and the simple ones you will find online are fine for any start-up fine tuning. Trust me, color is not an issue. I do not understand why anyone is having problems with color on this monitor... it quite simply ROCKS. 144Hz speed: At startup I went straight to adjusting the refresh frequency from the starting 60Hz to 144Hz. Why? Because this is the highlight feature of this monitor! FAST refresh is better for everything. Why hobble along a 60 mph on the freeway when you know your sports car can get 144 mph without sweating? You simply must max out the frequency for games to enable better goodness on the battlefield, not to mention anything else you do on your PC. Once you put it on 144Hz, you are now a professional PC POWER-user and dare I say it: GAMER. Yes, there is an advantage, YES!! Incredible performance. Price: Got this for the ridiculous price of $209 on a black Friday weekend sale...and then it went up to like $300 after the sale. I would still pay for the $300 on this but keep an eye out for sales that come frequently enough... so worth it. Size: 24 inches is better than 22, and someday the standard will be 27 or 28.. can't wait for the larger variants to become affordable. 24 is great however, very NICE. This monitor was thinking of you, the PC user, with muscle and power under the hood of your build. Regarding HDMI or Display Port users: Why bother? The DVI dual link cable it comes with is the baby you need to plug into your video card for 144Hz goodness. If you add another monitor, fine, deal with it. Regarding speakers: HAHAHAHAHHA, whatever. One wonders why they bothered. Monitors should not come with internal speakers because they always blow due to size constraints and placement. Ever notice how large screen TV's all have sound bars? It's because internal speakers are lame. 3 year warranty: Worth it! Nice!! Ever have a monitor die after a year or so for no reason other than "it was its time"? I have. Hold on to your original box, register with ASUS, and know that you can get some satisfaction when your monitor goes kaput in the next 3 years. Shipping is paid by ASUS. NICE. UPDATE 2.5 years later: Still rocking it, gaming it, videos galore. No issues or problems. Still have my original box if it twitches before 3 year warranty expires. It's my precious. Considering buying another one just like this for my work desk, so worth it! Great performance, ergo as heck, and value with this monitor!! Boom!!!!

****** IMPORTANT ****** Before I start - As everyone has said on these reviews before, the colors look very pale and washed out once you get the monitor. I highly recommend that you Google or go on YouTube and search for this specific video "ASUS VG248QE Color Settings / ICC Profile (and discussing lightboost)". The uploader's name is Static Sleet and the video was uploaded in October 2015. There are other websites that teach you how and some Reddit threads that do the same, but this video is extremely straightforward on what you should do as soon as you get your monitor out of the box. Now, I was very hesitant in getting this monitor because I'm a pretty cautious consumer and read all the one star reviews. I was so afraid of being one of the dead / stuck pixel receivers, but whew! Everything is perfect. I just upgraded from a 20 inch, 60hz, and not a 1ms response time monitor and the difference is staggering. I have this new one and my old one set up side by side and it's like night and day. This monitor is much more bright, vibrant, and crisp than the blurry and dull image I see on the old monitor. The box was well packaged and the monitor very secure, and there are no scratches or any parts bent / out of place. Sure, it's not one of the more expensive 1440p models that boast G-Sync and yada yada, but if you're on a budget constraint that allows you only to get monitors around 300-400$, this is a steal. So, if you're like me, stop looking at the $600 - $1000+ monitors and narrow them down to two models - this ASUS VG248QE or its 27" counterpart, or the BenQ Zowie XL2411Z that is probably the other one you've been looking at. The only thing that you should do now is go on Google / YouTube again and search "BenQ XL2411Z vs ASUS VG248QE 144 hz Monitor Comparison - Which is best for YOU?" by Gus Tech. As you can see through the comments and other sites that pit these two versus each other, ASUS blows BenQ out of the park when it comes to picture QUALITY (color, vibrance, etc). The BenQ is claimed to be more efficient however in games because it stays true and strong in those parts of FPS shooters like CS:GO where you're turning around corners and shooting people very quickly. As a FPS fanatic, I can tell you that it is not noticeable at all. It was a no brainer for me to choose the ASUS model after looking at the video I just mentioned because a little "efficiency" is not worth sacrificing an amazing picture for. Unless you're some world champ shooter that somehow notices this little difference when you're turning around corners, you're not going to notice any difference in those terms at all. The BenQ colors are just terrible. I wouldn't want to play video games to be better if I'm not going to like what I'm looking at, and you probably don't want that either. Also, one thing I was debating on before getting this model was whether or not I should get the 27". My 20" is so tiny and I was so sick of it, so I thought - the bigger the better. However, I looked up "Is a 27 monitor and 1080p" worth it and the results weren't that great. Many said that you would notice a loss of quality almost immediately unless your computer is extremely far away from you and to the back of the desk, but that wasn't me because my monitor is sitting only an arm's length away. I also read on Reddit from people with 27" models that it was simply too big for them and they actually got worse at high speed video games because their eyes couldn't keep up with everything that was going on in the corners and sides of the screen. So, following that advice, I got the 24" because the quality would seemingly be at 'perfect' balance and not stretched out onto a 27" screen and because I didn't want the problem of not being able to see everything happening if I'm playing a fast-paced video game. I'm very glad that I listened to them! I'm actually having trouble sometimes keeping up with this screen too because it's also very big when an arm's length away. If I had a 27", it would be great for watching some movies far away but.. not at all for games unless you have additional eyes beside your ears. An added bonus with this is that you'll be saving 50$ too (by not getting the bigger model)! Overall, I think you should get this VG248QE if your budget falls around here and you're looking for an entry-level 144hz, 1ms, 1080p monitor. Yes, there are lots of one star reviews because of misplaced pixels, but I can tell you after hours of searching for monitors before I got this one that there is only ONE monitor I found with only 4-5 star reviews - and it cost 2300$ and only like two or three people actually reviewed it.. Every monitor you come by will have problems from consumers such as dead pixels, power failures, the monitor simply dying, buttons falling off, etc. The VG248QE will have a lot more of these simply because of the sheer amount of people that have bought this over the years. When you're producing a lot of these monitors, obviously some are bound to fail. but this model, as you can tell, is always holding strong near 80% five star reviews - which is a lot higher than other monitors that I have seen on Amazon. Just pray that you're not in the 20% and buy it. Don't press your back button and go to the BenQ. Just get it!! Oh, and a lot of people seem to not be getting DVI-D cables with their orders so I read those reviews and got the gold plated, ferrite, DVI-D cable that is under the "products frequently bought with this" because I thought I wouldn't be getting one. Well, I did get one with the monitor. So, take that with a grain of salt; you may or may not get one.

After 11 years of use, the monitor is still working great.

Yo compre este monitor para usarlo por el momento en la consola (PS4), aunque planeó en un mediano o largo plazo armarme una PC, y aunque el modelo del monitor es del 2013 aun sigue siendo vigente y produciéndose en 2017, debo decir que para tener un panel TN no le tiene nada pedir a un panel IPS, mi argumento se basa que en la mayoría de los paneles TN cuando se ven desde arriba o bien respecto de los lados la imagen tiende a oscurecerse y este panel presenta eso pero de forma minima lo cual le da un alto valor en mi opinión, en pocas palabras los ángulos de visión en que se pueda observar no le perjudican del todo como a otros monitores con paneles TN. En cuanto lo que ofrece, posee un puerto HDMI que otorga un refresh rate de hasta 60 hz ideal para una consola, un puerto DVI-D que da unos 120 Hz, un puerto Displayport que concede refresh rate de hasta 144 hz y finalmente un puerto 3.5 mm para audífonos o algún otro dispositivo de audio. En cuanto al contenido, está el monitor ensamblado al soporte (el monitor se puede mover hacia arriba y hacia abajo aproximadamente unos 15 grados), la base que permite moverlo sobre su posición unos 45 grados, un cable de corriente, un cable DVI-D, un cable de audio 3.5mm y una guía rápida de ensamble y uso del monitor. Ahora bien, detallare mi experiencia de uso en una consola (PS4) e iniciare con el brillo, el cual es sumamente fuerte, los presets que trae (GAME, Standard, Theather, Scenary, Night View y sRGB) no son los mejores asi que en mi opinión es mejor calibrarlos por cuenta de uno mismo, en cuanto al sonido el monitor tiene unas bocinas de 2w que va de 0 a 100 el volumen, y de verdad no esta nada mal para un monitor, en espacios reducidos (un estudio, recamara o en un departamento sonara bastante bien). En cuanto a los acabados, es plástico de buena calidad color negro en acabado brilloso tanto la base del monitor como los bordes y parte trasera del monitor y el soporte tiene acabados de un plástico mucho más duro color negro con vivos en rojo en mate ambos. Otra característica del monitor es que tiene a compatibilidad con 3D Vision nVIDIA. Finalmente el envió llego al día siguiente, ya que soy suscriptor PRIME, a través de Amazon MX Logistics, el monitor venia sin protección extra mas que la que trae de fabrica que considero es mas que suficiente para su traslado.

Asus Vg248qe has been in the market for some time now nearly 5 years but hasn't lost its shine in this segment. Had an issue in delivery but Got the product well packaged an all the in box items were found in order. Display is crisp and gaming on this flawless. Colours are smooth and settings can be changed easily via OSD menu which is easily operatable by buttons under screen. Height adjustment is also butter smooth. For getting 144hz Dual link Dvi or display port is needed. (Dual link Dvi is included in box).

Estupendo monitor y calidad de imagen, aunque no he probado el 3D todavía. Buen tamaño de pantalla para la mayoría de aplicaciones, lo tengo en un escritorio de 80 cm de profundidad y perfecto. Se ajusta en inclinación, altura y giro (izq-der), fácil y muy rápido. Por su calidad y precio es un producto perfectamente recomendable.

Stand is good ; fixable position . Color and quality is great ; 144 refresh rate . simply loved it