lg sent us a new monitor it's an ultra gear 4k 144hz 160 if you oh see it and
it's a little under 32 inches they sponsored us to unbox it but here's the
thing it's a thousand dollars that's actually
like a pretty good price
honestly at this size like you don't get a whole lot better for
that much money oh
it's probably fine the packaging in these is real good real robust the ultra
gear is pretty much like their highest end line for gaming displays um
there's not a whole lot super new or different except for the fact that like
the specs are amazing and the price has come down i'm pretty sure these used to
cost more like twelve thirteen hundred dollars if i'm uh remembering correctly
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
real hefty is the power brick in here yeah power brick all of our cables
what's this it is a plastic cover or clip
got the stand well the base of the stand they're doing the great thing that i
love which is this tool-less design on the bottom and then boom now you can
screw it down without needing a screwdriver here's the rest of the stand
pretty typical for lg
oh my god it keeps getting stuck keeps getting caught
cool where's the other guy here we go so all you do for anyone who hasn't done
this is you just slot that base into the bottom slots right in and then
you just screw it down wow i actually
really like lg's stands i wish the legs didn't protrude as much
as they do so they had a bit more desk depth but
honestly they're pretty good they're robust i've never had too much problems
with them they don't like there's not a ton of wiggle
they're pretty stable once they're there normally there's like a slit right in
here in this packaging and then you can just like lift it open slot it in and
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
box yeah cause i don't see any other like
perforations or anything so i'm just gonna kind of rip the foam other than that though while it's down
here we've got some good i o we've got usb b two usb a ports two HDMI in i'm
guessing they're 2.1 since it's a 4k 144
160 hertz panel uh and then a DisplayPort in and then power cable uh and then
a headphone jack on the very very bottom so it's not the most robust uh set of
usb hub i o that i've ever seen but it's not bad it should be enough that you can
plug a few things into the back to free up space on your tower which is always
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
love this classic design of just like popping it in putting it down you hear
it click you're good to go and then you just pull it out of the box oh yeah like
i said it's heavy it's not that bad i think but the panel
itself is like 20 pounds and then with the stand
gets a little heavier oh my god
i haven't even seen the front and i already like it it's already great i'll
get out of this stupid box i just got to make sure i've got it
got a nice firm grip on it because yeah 32 inch display
uh 16 by 9 is a lot of screen space
and they've actually gone like super borderless edgeless too on the sides and
the top and even their
their peel goes all the way to the top not a lot of people do this where does it start
though i want to do like a nice clean all the way around peel so i'm just
going to pick a spot oh it's already going badly because i
can't find the start of it oh there oh i found it okay
oh my god and then there's a separate piece for the bottom that's why i was so
confused i thought it started like near the power switch
oh yeah wow a lot of monitors um don't come with
a peel on the front but they do come packed really nicely so don't ever worry
about it like getting scratched or damaged and shipping just because there's no peel on the screen it's
totally fine i actually just went from a monitor of a very similar size i had a
32 inch 1440p display and that's kind of
the very top end of 1440p i wouldn't get a 1440p screen some people would even
tell me that that's already too big it's not enough ppi but yeah 4k at like 31
and a half 32 inches is about 140 ppi so
that should be plenty of pixels for anyone who's gaming at least if you're
into design you might want to get a 27 inch but that only nets you a little bit
more so i don't know when will we get the modern 8k gaming
display probably not for quite a while um
but this thing is pretty sweet it's got one millisecond graded gray response
time it's vasa certified at a thousand nits so we've got HDR 1000. it's also
got AMD freesync premium and g-sync compatible but it doesn't have an actual
g-sync module to get the sticker i think it just has to be compatible to get the
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
bit because i think the old models came with g-sync but i'm not 100 sure and
that costs like 100 bucks just to get the module in there otherwise oh check out the back i love
this like textured plastic on the back i've seen this on some of the bigger pro
arts that have a huge ass display like this one uh it's got a ton of cooling
vents all the way around the top the sides yeah they're even on the bottom
too so you've got plenty of cooling for this thing and i mean 4k especially if
you run it 160 hertz you have to oc it to get to that we'll see if that's like
a setting in the osd or if we have to go into NVIDIA control panel and actually
set it i'm not a big fan of like listing
overclockable refresh rates i think that you know you should just list it at
whatever it can actually definitely do but we'll see see if it gives us issues
other than that here's that cable thing
just clips in and then you do that after you run your cables all the way down the back or
whatever and then you clip them down on here they'll stay nice and clipped
i'm pretty sure yeah so you can swivel
well rotate whatever you can you can swivel oh can you swivel
well not really am i gonna break anything i don't think so well you can
tell there's a fair amount of tilt and then
it's height adjustable as well um but yeah i don't know who's gonna use
it vertically if you are gonna
put this vertical for whatever reason uh make sure to angle it out a bit first or
you're gonna hit the feet and maybe even the desk when you flip it first lots of
motion lots of function i am a big fan of lg's stance i've got
the ergo up at my desk most of the time i actually really prefer these like
straight out the back connectors because sometimes uh down here it's hard to see
if it's like not on the very bottom and it's in some kind of weird recessed
like um cable or i o area so i actually
typically do like the way lg just puts them up here however
right now because there's no swivel on this guy at
least not that i can like i'm pretty sure i'm just going to break
it if i try guys so in this case it's actually kind of tough to get behind
there and plug it in you didn't see this but like i had to move this monitor over
i had to pull this thing forward i had to rotate it myself and when it's a big beefy monitor like this guy
it's not always easy so we're good though now
should have power and then uh
is that it is that it hey it beeped what
this thing's not supposed to have speakers but it can beep oh my god
i am such a sucker for RGB i really like yeah i really like how
they've incorporated the lights on this one and they're nice solid diffusion
bars they're not like individual leds it's pretty sweet
whenever you get a new display and you set it up always go into display
properties always make sure it's actually got the right everything set
you might be running at a low refresh rate you might not be in the right resolution
but today looks like we're good
4k 144 hertz 8-bit color um andrew says it's pretty
dim and i agree this is like not very bright
at all so let's go to settings picture adjust brightness oh 10
what yeah we'll increase energy consumption i
know that give me so much more brightness than 10. how's like 50 50 is
pretty standard yeah okay 50 is pretty standard on most monitors if you go all
the way to 100 you might start blowing stuff out and it doesn't look very good
um if we had HDR on this would probably lock to whatever and you wouldn't
actually be able to adjust brightness but uh
let's see what else is here while we're in the osd
cool so we have language hexagon lighting i don't know if you can hook
this up to your computer and run RGB software on the lights but at least you
get a few different varieties there's like red
cyan and white and then cycling
and you can also turn it off if you really don't want it there
but i do so blue or purple it is
game mode game adjust overclock oh overclock okay game adjust overclock
after the monitor reboots change the maximum refresh rate in the GPU control panel so we're going to turn that on
oh but you lose adaptive sync while it's on maybe
interesting is it going to work is it happy
keep changes hey now we've got 160 here i'll drag
this window over yeah there we go 4k 160 hertz refresh
rate it's only 8-bit color but like the reality is
most things are 8-bit color as much as i like having 10 bit on my monitors
personally i guess HDR might start to use it but
i think this thing only has about 24 or so dimming zones so even though it gets
to a thousand nits i don't think the HDR experience is going to be all that crazy
it's a nano ips panel so unfortunately it's not like mini led or OLED so you're
not going to have all of those really small dimming zones or if you do get them it's like it's a
lot more work and money so for example sony's endzone m9 it has 96 dimming
zones on a 27 inch 4k screen
so you really have to just ask yourself whether you want a really good HDR
experience or if you need this much screen space personally i like having
this much screen space i'm on an ultra wide now instead of
just regular 16 by nine but it's still like a 32 inch ultra wide 24 or 26
dimming zones is still a lot better than like a six zone edge lit dimming zone
panel then you just kind of get these vertical lines with 24 or 26 you're at least
going to get some squares so it's not too bad like let's do let's turn HDR on
okay it does do 10 bit yeah as long as HDR is turned on yeah there's not a lot
of ton of games that i actually use oh getting some flickering ah
did you see that on camera i had uh an
ASUS gaming monitor years ago and i
would it's it's certified at 165 hertz
overclock but the problem is once you overclock it you can get instability and
so it's why i'm not a big fan of monitor companies saying like oh but you can oh
see it to like 160. you can but it's gonna vary panel to
panel on how well that actually works some panels will run just fine but i
guarantee you on some you're going to get weird flicker every now and then or
it'll just have like some kind of issue maybe your screen will go black maybe
you'll get a little bar or whatever as you can see you can kind of count the dimming zones
as you move across you can see the black parts of the screen light up
they're not terrible like it's definitely better than uh like a six
zone column monitors those are kind of bad but uh it's probably not going to
make for the most like amazing pinpoint HDR experience that's probably why the
price is only around a thousand dollars so it's good news and bad news good news
is gamers can finally start to afford
really high-end 4k displays the bad news is you're going to be using
ips which is kind of older technology at this point so i mean you take your own
money and then decide on what you want me personally i kind of need that OLED
experience these days here it is do maternal 4k
160 hertz uh we're getting 160 165 FPS
in the menus 4k is really hard to run we have like a 30 90 in here and like a
5950x or something like this is not a low end machine and yes i'm set to ultra
nightmare i could turn this down to like medium and we'd get like 200 FPS but
even so let's go to game slot 2. yeah
see here's my problem look we're barely in game there's not a whole lot going on
here and we're hitting like 140 FPS we're not using the full potential of
our display because even if it was reaching like 200 300 FPS you want to be
going about twice as fast as your refresh rate to really make sure
everything's tight and super smooth because it's those one percent lows because that's just an average right a
lot of our one percent lows are probably in the like i don't know 100 range so
every now and then you're gonna see it stutter or dip down to that
and then you're not even you're really not using your monitor at that point
it's not the smoothest gameplay experience i've ever had because you can
get those like 300 hertz refresh rate monitors now
but in 4k this thing looks great it looks super pretty the colors are
great can't really complain too much honestly and especially at like a thousand
dollars for this kind of experience i guess they've kind of realized that uh
there's a lot of competition in the display market these days you know we've
got some HDR footage on screen it looks pretty good i know that i'm making fun
of the 25 26 zones or whatever a little bit too much but
the reality is this still looks pretty decent some parts are a little more overblown than they should be but
ultimately this is a much better viewing experience than you're going to get on
like a 500 600 dollar 6 to 12 dimming zone display overall i
think the 32 gq 950 at a thousand dollars is a pretty decent buy you're
paying about a dollar per nit but 4k 144
or even 160 if yours can oc without any issues
at that price at that level of HDR quality
it's not bad i think you're going to get a really solid gaming experience and all
this shows is how far display technology has come
and you know look forward to the future thanks lg for sponsoring this video
learn more about the 32 gq 950 at the link below and also lg ultra gear is
doing a 24 hour campaign with gamers going live on their new ultra gear
monitor every hour follow their channel as well to find out more
it's not bad
pretty good nice