Technical Specifications
Size - 27” display (23.54” wide x 13.23” tall)
Resolution - 1920 x 1080 (16:9 widescreen)
Refresh Rate - 120 Hz
Response time - 2ms
Backlighting - Full LED
Display Colors - 16.7M colors/ 72% NTSC (CIE 1931)
Pixel Pitch - 0.3114 mm
Contrast Ratio - 1000:1 Native / 50,000,000:1 ASCR
Viewing Angle -170 degrees Horizontal / 160 degrees Vertical
Sound - 2 integrated 3W stereo speakers
Power Consumption - 65 Watts
I/O Ports - 1 HDMI 1.4, 1 Dual-link DVI, 1 VGA, 1 3.5mm Audio
Testing
Now if I get honest with the readers, there are so many things that make this monitor great that I can’t possibly talk about them all. In preparing for this review, I read the 50 page review guide that came with the monitor and every page had me picking my jaw off the floor. So since it is impossible to tell you about all these great features, let me highlight a few that really stand out to me as a gamer.
As I said earlier, a monitor is crucial to your graphic quality. At a LAN party with all of the monitors side by side, it quickly becomes apparent that not all 1080p screens are created equal. Two computers with identical specs, running a game with identical settings but with different monitors can look entirely different.
A big part of this is backlighting. The Asus VG278H is LED backlit giving it a stunning brightness. A pitch black room comes to life with the brilliant glow from this monitor. It should also be noted that the VG278H is also capable of utilizing Nvidia’s new 3D Lightboost technology.
What is Lightboost? Anyone who has ever played on a 3D monitor knows that everything looks a little darker than normal. Obviously since you are wearing tinted lenses to make you see 3D, this darkens the screen a bit. What Lightboost does is that it will make the LED backlights pulse twice as bright in synchronization with your 3D Vision 2 glasses. This make the VG278H capable of delivering superior 3D picture quality up to 2 times brighter than other current generation 3D monitors on the market.
Though this is a photoshopped image, it does accurately portray the difference that Lightboost makes.
