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lg sent us a new monitor it's an ultra gear 4k 144hz 160 if you oh see it and

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it's a little under 32 inches they sponsored us to unbox it but here's the

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thing it's a thousand dollars that's actually

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like a pretty good price

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honestly at this size like you don't get a whole lot better for

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that much money oh

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it's probably fine the packaging in these is real good real robust the ultra

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gear is pretty much like their highest end line for gaming displays um

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there's not a whole lot super new or different except for the fact that like

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the specs are amazing and the price has come down i'm pretty sure these used to

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cost more like twelve thirteen hundred dollars if i'm uh remembering correctly

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but let's get it open and take a look at all the new stuff that comes with this one accessory box oh it's

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real hefty is the power brick in here yeah power brick all of our cables

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what's this it is a plastic cover or clip

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got the stand well the base of the stand they're doing the great thing that i

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love which is this tool-less design on the bottom and then boom now you can

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screw it down without needing a screwdriver here's the rest of the stand

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pretty typical for lg

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oh my god it keeps getting stuck keeps getting caught

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cool where's the other guy here we go so all you do for anyone who hasn't done

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this is you just slot that base into the bottom slots right in and then

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you just screw it down wow i actually

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really like lg's stands i wish the legs didn't protrude as much

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as they do so they had a bit more desk depth but

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honestly they're pretty good they're robust i've never had too much problems

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with them they don't like there's not a ton of wiggle

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they're pretty stable once they're there normally there's like a slit right in

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here in this packaging and then you can just like lift it open slot it in and

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pull the whole thing up i don't think they've done that here i think this was just ripped uh when i took it out of the

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box yeah cause i don't see any other like

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perforations or anything so i'm just gonna kind of rip the foam other than that though while it's down

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here we've got some good i o we've got usb b two usb a ports two HDMI in i'm

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guessing they're 2.1 since it's a 4k 144

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160 hertz panel uh and then a DisplayPort in and then power cable uh and then

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a headphone jack on the very very bottom so it's not the most robust uh set of

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usb hub i o that i've ever seen but it's not bad it should be enough that you can

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plug a few things into the back to free up space on your tower which is always

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just really handy i don't know about you guys but i use a lot of usb powered devices so i'm always down for more i

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love this classic design of just like popping it in putting it down you hear

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it click you're good to go and then you just pull it out of the box oh yeah like

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i said it's heavy it's not that bad i think but the panel

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itself is like 20 pounds and then with the stand

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gets a little heavier oh my god

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i haven't even seen the front and i already like it it's already great i'll

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get out of this stupid box i just got to make sure i've got it

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got a nice firm grip on it because yeah 32 inch display

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uh 16 by 9 is a lot of screen space

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and they've actually gone like super borderless edgeless too on the sides and

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the top and even their

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their peel goes all the way to the top not a lot of people do this where does it start

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though i want to do like a nice clean all the way around peel so i'm just

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going to pick a spot oh it's already going badly because i

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can't find the start of it oh there oh i found it okay

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oh my god and then there's a separate piece for the bottom that's why i was so

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confused i thought it started like near the power switch

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oh yeah wow a lot of monitors um don't come with

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a peel on the front but they do come packed really nicely so don't ever worry

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about it like getting scratched or damaged and shipping just because there's no peel on the screen it's

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totally fine i actually just went from a monitor of a very similar size i had a

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32 inch 1440p display and that's kind of

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the very top end of 1440p i wouldn't get a 1440p screen some people would even

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tell me that that's already too big it's not enough ppi but yeah 4k at like 31

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and a half 32 inches is about 140 ppi so

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that should be plenty of pixels for anyone who's gaming at least if you're

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into design you might want to get a 27 inch but that only nets you a little bit

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more so i don't know when will we get the modern 8k gaming

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display probably not for quite a while um

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but this thing is pretty sweet it's got one millisecond graded gray response

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time it's vasa certified at a thousand nits so we've got HDR 1000. it's also

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got AMD freesync premium and g-sync compatible but it doesn't have an actual

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g-sync module to get the sticker i think it just has to be compatible to get the

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badge though i'm pretty sure it's got to be an actual module in there that might be how they lowered the price a little

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bit because i think the old models came with g-sync but i'm not 100 sure and

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that costs like 100 bucks just to get the module in there otherwise oh check out the back i love

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this like textured plastic on the back i've seen this on some of the bigger pro

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arts that have a huge ass display like this one uh it's got a ton of cooling

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vents all the way around the top the sides yeah they're even on the bottom

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too so you've got plenty of cooling for this thing and i mean 4k especially if

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you run it 160 hertz you have to oc it to get to that we'll see if that's like

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a setting in the osd or if we have to go into NVIDIA control panel and actually

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set it i'm not a big fan of like listing

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overclockable refresh rates i think that you know you should just list it at

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whatever it can actually definitely do but we'll see see if it gives us issues

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other than that here's that cable thing

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just clips in and then you do that after you run your cables all the way down the back or

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whatever and then you clip them down on here they'll stay nice and clipped

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i'm pretty sure yeah so you can swivel

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well rotate whatever you can you can swivel oh can you swivel

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well not really am i gonna break anything i don't think so well you can

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tell there's a fair amount of tilt and then

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it's height adjustable as well um but yeah i don't know who's gonna use

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it vertically if you are gonna

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put this vertical for whatever reason uh make sure to angle it out a bit first or

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you're gonna hit the feet and maybe even the desk when you flip it first lots of

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motion lots of function i am a big fan of lg's stance i've got

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the ergo up at my desk most of the time i actually really prefer these like

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straight out the back connectors because sometimes uh down here it's hard to see

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if it's like not on the very bottom and it's in some kind of weird recessed

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like um cable or i o area so i actually

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typically do like the way lg just puts them up here however

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right now because there's no swivel on this guy at

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least not that i can like i'm pretty sure i'm just going to break

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it if i try guys so in this case it's actually kind of tough to get behind

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there and plug it in you didn't see this but like i had to move this monitor over

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i had to pull this thing forward i had to rotate it myself and when it's a big beefy monitor like this guy

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it's not always easy so we're good though now

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should have power and then uh

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is that it is that it hey it beeped what

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this thing's not supposed to have speakers but it can beep oh my god

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i am such a sucker for RGB i really like yeah i really like how

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they've incorporated the lights on this one and they're nice solid diffusion

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bars they're not like individual leds it's pretty sweet

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whenever you get a new display and you set it up always go into display

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properties always make sure it's actually got the right everything set

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you might be running at a low refresh rate you might not be in the right resolution

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but today looks like we're good

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4k 144 hertz 8-bit color um andrew says it's pretty

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dim and i agree this is like not very bright

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at all so let's go to settings picture adjust brightness oh 10

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what yeah we'll increase energy consumption i

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know that give me so much more brightness than 10. how's like 50 50 is

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pretty standard yeah okay 50 is pretty standard on most monitors if you go all

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the way to 100 you might start blowing stuff out and it doesn't look very good

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um if we had HDR on this would probably lock to whatever and you wouldn't

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actually be able to adjust brightness but uh

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let's see what else is here while we're in the osd

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cool so we have language hexagon lighting i don't know if you can hook

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this up to your computer and run RGB software on the lights but at least you

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get a few different varieties there's like red

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cyan and white and then cycling

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and you can also turn it off if you really don't want it there

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but i do so blue or purple it is

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game mode game adjust overclock oh overclock okay game adjust overclock

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after the monitor reboots change the maximum refresh rate in the GPU control panel so we're going to turn that on

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oh but you lose adaptive sync while it's on maybe

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interesting is it going to work is it happy

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keep changes hey now we've got 160 here i'll drag

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this window over yeah there we go 4k 160 hertz refresh

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rate it's only 8-bit color but like the reality is

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most things are 8-bit color as much as i like having 10 bit on my monitors

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personally i guess HDR might start to use it but

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i think this thing only has about 24 or so dimming zones so even though it gets

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to a thousand nits i don't think the HDR experience is going to be all that crazy

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it's a nano ips panel so unfortunately it's not like mini led or OLED so you're

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not going to have all of those really small dimming zones or if you do get them it's like it's a

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lot more work and money so for example sony's endzone m9 it has 96 dimming

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zones on a 27 inch 4k screen

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so you really have to just ask yourself whether you want a really good HDR

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experience or if you need this much screen space personally i like having

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this much screen space i'm on an ultra wide now instead of

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just regular 16 by nine but it's still like a 32 inch ultra wide 24 or 26

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dimming zones is still a lot better than like a six zone edge lit dimming zone

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panel then you just kind of get these vertical lines with 24 or 26 you're at least

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going to get some squares so it's not too bad like let's do let's turn HDR on

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okay it does do 10 bit yeah as long as HDR is turned on yeah there's not a lot

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of ton of games that i actually use oh getting some flickering ah

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did you see that on camera i had uh an

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ASUS gaming monitor years ago and i

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would it's it's certified at 165 hertz

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overclock but the problem is once you overclock it you can get instability and

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so it's why i'm not a big fan of monitor companies saying like oh but you can oh

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see it to like 160. you can but it's gonna vary panel to

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panel on how well that actually works some panels will run just fine but i

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guarantee you on some you're going to get weird flicker every now and then or

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it'll just have like some kind of issue maybe your screen will go black maybe

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you'll get a little bar or whatever as you can see you can kind of count the dimming zones

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as you move across you can see the black parts of the screen light up

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they're not terrible like it's definitely better than uh like a six

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zone column monitors those are kind of bad but uh it's probably not going to

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make for the most like amazing pinpoint HDR experience that's probably why the

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price is only around a thousand dollars so it's good news and bad news good news

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is gamers can finally start to afford

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really high-end 4k displays the bad news is you're going to be using

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ips which is kind of older technology at this point so i mean you take your own

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money and then decide on what you want me personally i kind of need that OLED

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experience these days here it is do maternal 4k

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160 hertz uh we're getting 160 165 FPS

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in the menus 4k is really hard to run we have like a 30 90 in here and like a

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5950x or something like this is not a low end machine and yes i'm set to ultra

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nightmare i could turn this down to like medium and we'd get like 200 FPS but

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even so let's go to game slot 2. yeah

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see here's my problem look we're barely in game there's not a whole lot going on

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here and we're hitting like 140 FPS we're not using the full potential of

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our display because even if it was reaching like 200 300 FPS you want to be

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going about twice as fast as your refresh rate to really make sure

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everything's tight and super smooth because it's those one percent lows because that's just an average right a

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lot of our one percent lows are probably in the like i don't know 100 range so

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every now and then you're gonna see it stutter or dip down to that

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and then you're not even you're really not using your monitor at that point

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it's not the smoothest gameplay experience i've ever had because you can

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get those like 300 hertz refresh rate monitors now

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but in 4k this thing looks great it looks super pretty the colors are

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great can't really complain too much honestly and especially at like a thousand

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dollars for this kind of experience i guess they've kind of realized that uh

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there's a lot of competition in the display market these days you know we've

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got some HDR footage on screen it looks pretty good i know that i'm making fun

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of the 25 26 zones or whatever a little bit too much but

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the reality is this still looks pretty decent some parts are a little more overblown than they should be but

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ultimately this is a much better viewing experience than you're going to get on

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like a 500 600 dollar 6 to 12 dimming zone display overall i

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think the 32 gq 950 at a thousand dollars is a pretty decent buy you're

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paying about a dollar per nit but 4k 144

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or even 160 if yours can oc without any issues

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at that price at that level of HDR quality

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it's not bad i think you're going to get a really solid gaming experience and all

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this shows is how far display technology has come

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and you know look forward to the future thanks lg for sponsoring this video

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it's not bad

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pretty good nice