WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:09.679 lg sent us a new monitor it's an ultra gear 4k 144hz 160 if you oh see it and 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:12.480 it's a little under 32 inches they sponsored us to unbox it but here's the 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:17.920 thing it's a thousand dollars that's actually 00:00:14.799 --> 00:00:17.920 like a pretty good price 00:00:19.119 --> 00:00:25.599 honestly at this size like you don't get a whole lot better for 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:27.840 that much money oh 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.719 it's probably fine the packaging in these is real good real robust the ultra 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:39.680 gear is pretty much like their highest end line for gaming displays um 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:43.120 there's not a whole lot super new or different except for the fact that like 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:46.879 the specs are amazing and the price has come down i'm pretty sure these used to 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:50.879 cost more like twelve thirteen hundred dollars if i'm uh remembering correctly 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:56.960 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 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:03.440 real hefty is the power brick in here yeah power brick all of our cables 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:08.960 what's this it is a plastic cover or clip 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:12.799 got the stand well the base of the stand they're doing the great thing that i 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:15.840 love which is this tool-less design on the bottom and then boom now you can 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:23.040 screw it down without needing a screwdriver here's the rest of the stand 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.040 pretty typical for lg 00:01:23.119 --> 00:01:30.560 oh my god it keeps getting stuck keeps getting caught 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:35.200 cool where's the other guy here we go so all you do for anyone who hasn't done 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:42.720 this is you just slot that base into the bottom slots right in and then 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.560 you just screw it down wow i actually 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:48.960 really like lg's stands i wish the legs didn't protrude as much 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.600 as they do so they had a bit more desk depth but 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:55.040 honestly they're pretty good they're robust i've never had too much problems 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.280 with them they don't like there's not a ton of wiggle 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.360 they're pretty stable once they're there normally there's like a slit right in 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:06.880 here in this packaging and then you can just like lift it open slot it in and 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:11.280 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 00:02:10.239 --> 00:02:15.200 box yeah cause i don't see any other like 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:20.239 perforations or anything so i'm just gonna kind of rip the foam other than that though while it's down 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:27.840 here we've got some good i o we've got usb b two usb a ports two HDMI in i'm 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:30.319 guessing they're 2.1 since it's a 4k 144 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:35.599 160 hertz panel uh and then a DisplayPort in and then power cable uh and then 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:40.879 a headphone jack on the very very bottom so it's not the most robust uh set of 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:44.000 usb hub i o that i've ever seen but it's not bad it should be enough that you can 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:47.360 plug a few things into the back to free up space on your tower which is always 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:53.440 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 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.879 love this classic design of just like popping it in putting it down you hear 00:02:55.440 --> 00:03:01.040 it click you're good to go and then you just pull it out of the box oh yeah like 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:04.480 i said it's heavy it's not that bad i think but the panel 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:07.760 itself is like 20 pounds and then with the stand 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:11.120 gets a little heavier oh my god 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:15.120 i haven't even seen the front and i already like it it's already great i'll 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:20.000 get out of this stupid box i just got to make sure i've got it 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:25.680 got a nice firm grip on it because yeah 32 inch display 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:27.440 uh 16 by 9 is a lot of screen space 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:32.480 and they've actually gone like super borderless edgeless too on the sides and 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:35.840 the top and even their 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:41.200 their peel goes all the way to the top not a lot of people do this where does it start 00:03:38.799 --> 00:03:45.599 though i want to do like a nice clean all the way around peel so i'm just 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:49.200 going to pick a spot oh it's already going badly because i 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:53.280 can't find the start of it oh there oh i found it okay 00:03:51.040 --> 00:03:56.720 oh my god and then there's a separate piece for the bottom that's why i was so 00:03:54.720 --> 00:04:00.560 confused i thought it started like near the power switch 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:05.599 oh yeah wow a lot of monitors um don't come with 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:09.280 a peel on the front but they do come packed really nicely so don't ever worry 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:15.120 about it like getting scratched or damaged and shipping just because there's no peel on the screen it's 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:21.600 totally fine i actually just went from a monitor of a very similar size i had a 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:24.400 32 inch 1440p display and that's kind of 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:28.160 the very top end of 1440p i wouldn't get a 1440p screen some people would even 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:34.720 tell me that that's already too big it's not enough ppi but yeah 4k at like 31 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:37.199 and a half 32 inches is about 140 ppi so 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:41.120 that should be plenty of pixels for anyone who's gaming at least if you're 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:44.560 into design you might want to get a 27 inch but that only nets you a little bit 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:49.680 more so i don't know when will we get the modern 8k gaming 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:52.400 display probably not for quite a while um 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:56.400 but this thing is pretty sweet it's got one millisecond graded gray response 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:02.400 time it's vasa certified at a thousand nits so we've got HDR 1000. it's also 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:06.000 got AMD freesync premium and g-sync compatible but it doesn't have an actual 00:05:03.919 --> 00:05:08.720 g-sync module to get the sticker i think it just has to be compatible to get the 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:13.360 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 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.639 bit because i think the old models came with g-sync but i'm not 100 sure and 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:22.320 that costs like 100 bucks just to get the module in there otherwise oh check out the back i love 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:26.400 this like textured plastic on the back i've seen this on some of the bigger pro 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:30.880 arts that have a huge ass display like this one uh it's got a ton of cooling 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:35.120 vents all the way around the top the sides yeah they're even on the bottom 00:05:32.479 --> 00:05:39.919 too so you've got plenty of cooling for this thing and i mean 4k especially if 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:43.840 you run it 160 hertz you have to oc it to get to that we'll see if that's like 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:48.720 a setting in the osd or if we have to go into NVIDIA control panel and actually 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:51.520 set it i'm not a big fan of like listing 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:55.840 overclockable refresh rates i think that you know you should just list it at 00:05:53.120 --> 00:06:00.400 whatever it can actually definitely do but we'll see see if it gives us issues 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:03.520 other than that here's that cable thing 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:08.080 just clips in and then you do that after you run your cables all the way down the back or 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:12.560 whatever and then you clip them down on here they'll stay nice and clipped 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:16.319 i'm pretty sure yeah so you can swivel 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:20.080 well rotate whatever you can you can swivel oh can you swivel 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.319 well not really am i gonna break anything i don't think so well you can 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:28.400 tell there's a fair amount of tilt and then 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:31.200 it's height adjustable as well um but yeah i don't know who's gonna use 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:37.120 it vertically if you are gonna 00:06:34.479 --> 00:06:41.919 put this vertical for whatever reason uh make sure to angle it out a bit first or 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:46.479 you're gonna hit the feet and maybe even the desk when you flip it first lots of 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:51.360 motion lots of function i am a big fan of lg's stance i've got 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:55.440 the ergo up at my desk most of the time i actually really prefer these like 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:59.440 straight out the back connectors because sometimes uh down here it's hard to see 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:02.960 if it's like not on the very bottom and it's in some kind of weird recessed 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:07.520 like um cable or i o area so i actually 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:11.599 typically do like the way lg just puts them up here however 00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:17.199 right now because there's no swivel on this guy at 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:20.400 least not that i can like i'm pretty sure i'm just going to break 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:24.000 it if i try guys so in this case it's actually kind of tough to get behind 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:26.639 there and plug it in you didn't see this but like i had to move this monitor over 00:07:25.520 --> 00:07:32.800 i had to pull this thing forward i had to rotate it myself and when it's a big beefy monitor like this guy 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:36.400 it's not always easy so we're good though now 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:41.759 should have power and then uh 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.720 is that it is that it hey it beeped what 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:48.879 this thing's not supposed to have speakers but it can beep oh my god 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:52.240 i am such a sucker for RGB i really like yeah i really like how 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.560 they've incorporated the lights on this one and they're nice solid diffusion 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:01.360 bars they're not like individual leds it's pretty sweet 00:07:59.280 --> 00:08:04.639 whenever you get a new display and you set it up always go into display 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:08.000 properties always make sure it's actually got the right everything set 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:13.840 you might be running at a low refresh rate you might not be in the right resolution 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.800 but today looks like we're good 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:20.560 4k 144 hertz 8-bit color um andrew says it's pretty 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:26.400 dim and i agree this is like not very bright 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:30.960 at all so let's go to settings picture adjust brightness oh 10 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:34.640 what yeah we'll increase energy consumption i 00:08:32.719 --> 00:08:38.959 know that give me so much more brightness than 10. how's like 50 50 is 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:42.000 pretty standard yeah okay 50 is pretty standard on most monitors if you go all 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:46.080 the way to 100 you might start blowing stuff out and it doesn't look very good 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:49.360 um if we had HDR on this would probably lock to whatever and you wouldn't 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:52.800 actually be able to adjust brightness but uh 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.480 let's see what else is here while we're in the osd 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:01.360 cool so we have language hexagon lighting i don't know if you can hook 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:04.480 this up to your computer and run RGB software on the lights but at least you 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:07.760 get a few different varieties there's like red 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:12.240 cyan and white and then cycling 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:15.200 and you can also turn it off if you really don't want it there 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:19.360 but i do so blue or purple it is 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:22.959 game mode game adjust overclock oh overclock okay game adjust overclock 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:28.959 after the monitor reboots change the maximum refresh rate in the GPU control panel so we're going to turn that on 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:32.399 oh but you lose adaptive sync while it's on maybe 00:09:31.040 --> 00:09:37.600 interesting is it going to work is it happy 00:09:34.959 --> 00:09:41.360 keep changes hey now we've got 160 here i'll drag 00:09:40.160 --> 00:09:45.760 this window over yeah there we go 4k 160 hertz refresh 00:09:43.839 --> 00:09:49.600 rate it's only 8-bit color but like the reality is 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:53.519 most things are 8-bit color as much as i like having 10 bit on my monitors 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:57.600 personally i guess HDR might start to use it but 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:02.320 i think this thing only has about 24 or so dimming zones so even though it gets 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:07.680 to a thousand nits i don't think the HDR experience is going to be all that crazy 00:10:04.880 --> 00:10:11.040 it's a nano ips panel so unfortunately it's not like mini led or OLED so you're 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:17.200 not going to have all of those really small dimming zones or if you do get them it's like it's a 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:24.880 lot more work and money so for example sony's endzone m9 it has 96 dimming 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:26.480 zones on a 27 inch 4k screen 00:10:24.880 --> 00:10:30.000 so you really have to just ask yourself whether you want a really good HDR 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:34.880 experience or if you need this much screen space personally i like having 00:10:32.959 --> 00:10:38.800 this much screen space i'm on an ultra wide now instead of 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:43.040 just regular 16 by nine but it's still like a 32 inch ultra wide 24 or 26 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:47.360 dimming zones is still a lot better than like a six zone edge lit dimming zone 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.560 panel then you just kind of get these vertical lines with 24 or 26 you're at least 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:56.800 going to get some squares so it's not too bad like let's do let's turn HDR on 00:10:54.880 --> 00:11:00.720 okay it does do 10 bit yeah as long as HDR is turned on yeah there's not a lot 00:10:58.959 --> 00:11:06.560 of ton of games that i actually use oh getting some flickering ah 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:09.839 did you see that on camera i had uh an 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:13.120 ASUS gaming monitor years ago and i 00:11:09.839 --> 00:11:15.279 would it's it's certified at 165 hertz 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:20.079 overclock but the problem is once you overclock it you can get instability and 00:11:17.839 --> 00:11:24.320 so it's why i'm not a big fan of monitor companies saying like oh but you can oh 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.640 see it to like 160. you can but it's gonna vary panel to 00:11:26.560 --> 00:11:32.079 panel on how well that actually works some panels will run just fine but i 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:36.160 guarantee you on some you're going to get weird flicker every now and then or 00:11:33.920 --> 00:11:39.760 it'll just have like some kind of issue maybe your screen will go black maybe 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:44.320 you'll get a little bar or whatever as you can see you can kind of count the dimming zones 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:48.079 as you move across you can see the black parts of the screen light up 00:11:46.959 --> 00:11:52.880 they're not terrible like it's definitely better than uh like a six 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:57.120 zone column monitors those are kind of bad but uh it's probably not going to 00:11:54.880 --> 00:12:02.639 make for the most like amazing pinpoint HDR experience that's probably why the 00:12:00.560 --> 00:12:06.000 price is only around a thousand dollars so it's good news and bad news good news 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.680 is gamers can finally start to afford 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:16.160 really high-end 4k displays the bad news is you're going to be using 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:20.560 ips which is kind of older technology at this point so i mean you take your own 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:25.200 money and then decide on what you want me personally i kind of need that OLED 00:12:22.959 --> 00:12:33.519 experience these days here it is do maternal 4k 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:35.920 160 hertz uh we're getting 160 165 FPS 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:40.560 in the menus 4k is really hard to run we have like a 30 90 in here and like a 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:43.680 5950x or something like this is not a low end machine and yes i'm set to ultra 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:49.680 nightmare i could turn this down to like medium and we'd get like 200 FPS but 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:52.000 even so let's go to game slot 2. yeah 00:12:49.680 --> 00:12:56.800 see here's my problem look we're barely in game there's not a whole lot going on 00:12:54.000 --> 00:13:00.000 here and we're hitting like 140 FPS we're not using the full potential of 00:12:58.560 --> 00:13:04.720 our display because even if it was reaching like 200 300 FPS you want to be 00:13:02.880 --> 00:13:08.000 going about twice as fast as your refresh rate to really make sure 00:13:06.560 --> 00:13:13.040 everything's tight and super smooth because it's those one percent lows because that's just an average right a 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.880 lot of our one percent lows are probably in the like i don't know 100 range so 00:13:15.839 --> 00:13:20.320 every now and then you're gonna see it stutter or dip down to that 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:23.760 and then you're not even you're really not using your monitor at that point 00:13:22.160 --> 00:13:27.920 it's not the smoothest gameplay experience i've ever had because you can 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:32.240 get those like 300 hertz refresh rate monitors now 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:34.959 but in 4k this thing looks great it looks super pretty the colors are 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:41.279 great can't really complain too much honestly and especially at like a thousand 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:45.279 dollars for this kind of experience i guess they've kind of realized that uh 00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:48.959 there's a lot of competition in the display market these days you know we've 00:13:47.040 --> 00:13:53.040 got some HDR footage on screen it looks pretty good i know that i'm making fun 00:13:50.880 --> 00:13:55.920 of the 25 26 zones or whatever a little bit too much but 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:01.760 the reality is this still looks pretty decent some parts are a little more overblown than they should be but 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:05.600 ultimately this is a much better viewing experience than you're going to get on 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:11.600 like a 500 600 dollar 6 to 12 dimming zone display overall i 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:18.160 think the 32 gq 950 at a thousand dollars is a pretty decent buy you're 00:14:13.920 --> 00:14:20.480 paying about a dollar per nit but 4k 144 00:14:18.160 --> 00:14:23.920 or even 160 if yours can oc without any issues 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:26.480 at that price at that level of HDR quality 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:30.399 it's not bad i think you're going to get a really solid gaming experience and all 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:35.360 this shows is how far display technology has come 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:39.680 and you know look forward to the future thanks lg for sponsoring this video 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:44.560 learn more about the 32 gq 950 at the link below and also lg ultra gear is 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:48.880 doing a 24 hour campaign with gamers going live on their new ultra gear 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:53.920 monitor every hour follow their channel as well to find out more 00:14:51.040 --> 00:14:53.920 it's not bad 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:59.079 pretty good nice