thanks to sonic for sponsoring this video so we've been talking about mini led
it looks great you get like a thousand dimming zones plus on a really small screen for that
awesome HDR experience but when it comes to gaming unfortunately the qd OLED just came
out and my god is it ever gorgeous that being said i mean one good luck getting one and two
it's still expensive three it's really not for creatives that's where this guy comes in it's
the view sonic xg32 one ug 32 is obviously for the size it's a 32 inch display it's 4k 144 hertz
you can do a lot with this display it's a mix of both creator and gaming it does cost a bit more
than the alienware at 1300 but it's significantly cheaper than competing mini led displays
especially something along the lines of like ASUS's pro are at five thousand dollars for any
of you creatives out there if you're looking for something that's a little bit cheaper than
the ASUS pro or at five thousand dollars for any of you creatives out there if you're looking for
something that's a little bit cheaper than the ASUS pro or at five thousand dollars for any of you
creatives it can do a ton of different color spaces i think it's 100 srgb 99 adobe RGB and the
98 dcip3 which is almost the same as the pro art except that does a few more color spaces has
dolby vision and gets a little brighter at 1600 nits however this guy hits 1400 nits which is
very respective 1152 dimming zones which is tons on a screen this size and then on top of that
it's got g-sync ultimate like what else do you even want i don't even know
box let's open the box oh that could have been bad so when you're opening this
make sure that you don't open it like that because otherwise imagine if this was on a
bit of a tilt and i just you know kind of popped everything forward like that so let's not do that
i'm not Linus i don't drop too much stuff but you know accidents happen
accidents happen accidents happen let's get this out this is super heavy i don't know what's in
here uh oh the stand okay cool it's got the power brick external power which means that
this whole panel should be a little lighter bunch of cables oh here's the yeah here's where it is
this is like at least a few pounds cool so this just goes like this boop
and it's got that nice screw that i'm a big fan of that basically everyone uses who didn't use this
samsung samsung please switch to this to this screw design
i know it was a smart monitor i don't care it's no excuse they should have had the screw but yeah
you basically just slot this in this had two pylons by the way which is a little more robust of a stand
just screw it down look at that easy you don't need a screwdriver you don't need nothing what
is nice that this is actually has some pretty decent little rubber pads on the bottom yeah
it's not going anywhere like i said this huge power brick it's 100 to 240 volts by 4.2 a 50
to 60 hertz dc output is 16.9 a 330 watts yeah that's quite a bit boom power brick so they've
got our handy dandy DisplayPort cable comes with an a to b cable for plugging your monitor
to your computer so that you can use any of the usb ports and have all that data still go to your
pc and i think that's it yeah DisplayPort power and usb there's a cable you forgot a cable whoa
whoa whoa whoa good job hoff i was wrong i dropped this it actually does come with an HDMI cable
they say that this is supposed to be much easier to actually just clip the stand on and pull the
whole thing out and you know what i'm it might actually still be the case
oh yeah the whole bottom just pulls right out no problem okay
this is a little heavy um this center line is supposed to be rippable yeah look at that easy
peasy oh yeah i love perforated lines pop them on there we go boom
yeah that was actually pretty nice that was pretty easy we've got a few other physical
features like this is a headphone hook for anyone who uses those it's got this RGB diffusion layer
on the back which i'm so sorry if you saw
I still think it looks just like the Cooler Master logo.
Thank you for purchasing a ViewSonic Elite Gaming Monitor.
Yeah, so they're still branding this as a gaming monitor.
And I think that it's kind of somewhere in between.
It's really a mix of creative and gaming
because of all those specs I mentioned earlier.
It's pretty thick.
Like this is definitely a beefy display.
This is kind of like the ProArt actually, how thick it is.
It was so close.
One thing I really like about this display
versus some others is that, sure,
there's this huge text on the back, ViewSonic,
whatever though, check out the front.
There is like no branding on this thing.
Let me, okay, it says Elite there.
That's whatever, that's fine.
But aside from like the G-Sync sticker
and this little Elite branding,
there's no like ViewSonic all the way across the bottom.
Same with the stand.
It just says Elite in this bottom right corner here.
I would rather have the ViewSonic though.
It's more professional.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
I guess if you're a creative,
you want it to say ViewSonic rather than Elite.
They are still branding it as like a gaming monitor.
So I can see why they've got the Elite there
for, you know, the Elite gaming experience.
One thing that we didn't really mention
is this OSD sticker that I peeled off.
It's basically just showing us quick access,
OSD joystick, and power.
So I'm actually gonna feel down here.
Yep, okay.
So we have a quick access button here,
navigation nipple here, which is always preferred.
And then there's a power button here.
I do love the navigation nipple,
but I don't like when that's the only button there.
I like when they have a dedicated power button.
And then you can take off this little guy here.
I hate plastic clip-on stuff
because I'm always worried
that I'm gonna break one of the clips
because I've totally broken them.
Not frequently, but you know, it does happen.
But anyway, you've got a nice cable cover
and then you have these little guys here
for more cable management.
And then our IO consists of,
it looks like a barrel plug for the power,
headphone jack, HDMI.
Oh, you get three HDMI ports, that's not bad.
And then we've got a DisplayPort 1.4.
And then, what is this?
Looks like a way to plug into the board.
And then on top of that,
we've got our USB-B port to hook up to our PC.
So there's a green dedicated mouse port
and that's kind of neat.
And then two other USB-A.
The green one's for gaming.
Yeah, green is for gaming.
One thing that we're missing
that a lot of creatives might be looking for
is USB-C power delivery.
There's no USB-C at all.
And there's then no power delivery through USB-C
because it's not even there.
It's not the end of the world.
I think that most people do use for a monitor like this,
they are gonna use like a dedicated computer,
a dedicated tower, but it is handy,
especially in a creative studio
to be able to take a laptop with a file on it,
walk over and be like, boom, plug in your laptop,
show someone whatever you need to show them, walk away.
Can't do that with this one, but that's okay
because it's significantly cheaper than the competitors.
And this one's made for gaming.
Yeah, this one's made for gaming.
Gamers don't care about plugging in a laptop to it.
We kind of forgot to talk about how good the stand is.
You got some swivel.
Eh, that's not bad.
Can it, it can't pivot, but it can tilt.
And then I think it's height adjustable too.
Yeah, there's actually a lot of height adjustment.
Boom.
Take that Apple.
It doesn't pivot, but that's okay.
Honestly, unless the stand was higher or something,
it probably wouldn't even clear the table anyway.
And really, are you gonna use a 4K 144 Hertz display
no matter what the rest of it is?
Are you actually going to use that vertically?
Yes.
Maybe, some people might, Jono might, I'm not gonna.
So it's totally okay.
And honestly, if you really wanna do that,
just put it on a VESA mount
and do whatever you want at that point.
That's pretty much it.
Let's turn it on, let's game on it.
I wanna see the RGB.
We've got some pretty sick RGB on the back here.
It helps that blue is my favorite color,
but they've got the same problem I had
with the last one still.
Basically, there is this strip
and then they've got these five lights
and I really wish it had the same treatment
as it does on the back
where it's like a really nice solid diffusion layer.
I don't know.
I understand you're not looking down there,
but like I said before,
when it shines down on this reflective surface,
you can see individual lights instead of like a light strip.
It's an incredibly minor detail.
But I really would like it,
especially if they're already putting
some kind of diffusion layer here.
Just make the whole thing diffusion.
All right, we've got it on our desk.
We've got it set to everything we need it to be.
It's in 4K.
It's running at 144 Hertz or ever so slightly under.
10-bit color.
HDR is turned on.
And yeah, I think it looks gorgeous, honestly.
It's super crispy.
They've got the really good borderless design
all the way around the top here
with the classic chin on the bottom.
We think this might be an ambient light sensor,
but we're not 100% sure.
But we're not 100% sure.
The bezels are okay.
I've got the same problem with a lot of monitors
where especially in the middle here,
you've got this big chin.
Give it just like a touch more plastic
so that this little tiny black bezel on the bottom
is fully covered.
You can see that near the corners,
they've almost got it down there.
And I don't know if it's just like a weird curvature thing,
but once you get into the middle,
you can see it on the bottom.
And it's a really minor thing
that you stop noticing almost instantly,
but it bothers me.
The outside isn't too bad.
It's present, but it could be a lot worse.
We've got our ViewSonic Elite display controller.
Jono pointed out that you don't necessarily need the OSD.
RGB Alliance.
Oh yeah, okay.
So if you've got other devices that are all RGB,
like I've got a Razer thing
and I've got a Logitech thing on my desk.
And so this would be really great.
This will just kind of put them all together.
Oh yeah, that's bright.
We're still only getting like 48, 50 frames a second,
because it's cyberpunk and it's running it like ultra
or high settings on a 3090 and HDR is turned on
and DLSS is on,
but this is exactly why I don't own a 4K monitor.
It's because it's just way too many pixels
for you to try to put out like a new AAA game
with crazy good settings turned on.
Like, yeah, there's others that are better optimized
and they still look really good.
But like this game is almost two years old now.
Actually it is, it's like two years old now.
And it's 4K and it's just, my God, 45 frames per second.
But nonetheless, this looks super pretty.
Everything's crazy bright.
That sign right there was like blindingly white
for just a moment.
Mini-LED looks great.
One thing to note is that even though we're only getting
like 42 frames a second,
we're not seeing like any tearing or anything like that.
Not a bunch of garbage ghosting or trailing or anything.
This is thanks to our G-Sync Ultimate module.
What that module does is it's basically the normal G-Sync,
except it's rated at over a thousand nits peak brightness.
So because this thing hits like 1400 nits,
it's got the nice G-Sync Ultimate.
And that alone, the module is usually adding another
hundred dollars at least to the price tag of your display.
So factor that into the cost, at least a little bit
when you're thinking about buying this thing.
Is it better than G-Sync?
It is better than G-Sync compatible, but you know what?
We're thinking about doing a video where we're doing
G-Sync versus FreeSync versus V-Sync again,
because we haven't done that in a few years.
And you know, a lot of new displays are coming out
with the new G-Sync modules and stuff.
But yeah, you know, get subscribed to LTT
so you don't miss that one.
We're just watching YouTube footage.
You know, if you've got proper like HDR gaming
or like if you've got a 4K Blu-ray or something
hooked up to this thing, man, this looks good.
It's not Dolby Vision, but it's still hitting 1400 nits
and peak brightness and like, man, it's pretty.
Hoffman worked really hard on making this footage HDR.
So we got to show it.
And it looks beautiful.
Oh man, that Porsche.
I love the color it came in that like powder blue.
Oh.
Let me press it again.
Yes, QD OLED is out and it is cheaper.
The Alienware monitor is like $1,300
versus this is about 2,500.
There are some major differences.
I mean, the QD OLED is only in 21 by nine aspect ratio.
So it's ultra wide, it's curved.
It's not 4K, it's 1440p.
And if you want to buy it right now,
scalpers are scalping it for like $3,000,
which is about what this costs anyway, if not more.
And then on top of that,
if you do want to buy it,
you got to wait like at least a couple of months.
I'm on the waiting list
and I don't get mine until like June 20th.
Whereas this, you can just buy it right now.
And it's more creative.
Like if you want something that can both game
and then do creative work reliably,
this is a pretty good option.
There you have it.
Thanks for watching.
This was the ViewSonic XG321UG.
Yeah, I got it.
All right, XG321UG.
Yeah, I hate those naming schemes.
Anyway, if you want to watch more shorts,
more short circuits,
feel free to watch any of our other monitor videos.
We've got quite a few of those.
Maybe watch Linus with the Samsung G9.
But anyway, thanks for watching.