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I think it's safe to say that I speak for the entire PC and gaming media

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industry when I say that we are sick of

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hearing marketing people running around saying this product is like optimized

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for gaming it's the best for gamers I mean you guys probably feel the same way

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hit that like button if you're tired of this crap I mean what does that even

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mean for headphones and headsets it's often the manufacturer's way of saying

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hey it's got rubbish sound but you don't care or even notice anyway because

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you're going to be too distracted by the vibrant colors and flashing lights in

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the case of motherboards it pretty much means hey this performs exactly the same

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in every possible way as a non-gaming model but it's a different color enjoy

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and traditionally for monitors it's meant TN panels they might have crummy

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color in viewing angles but hey the pixels switch a little faster and

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they're cheap so uh gaming but maybe this is different maybe

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the xr3501 is truly a gaming monitor not

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only because it's just not good enough for anything else but because even the

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compromises that have been made legitimately make it better for gamers

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could it be true I guess we'll find

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out the master case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your

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midtower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories click

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on the link in the video description to learn more so I'm going to split this

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video into two parts part one will be the speeds and feeds the specifications

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because for the most part a monitor can be broken down into raw numbers with

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better numbers equaling a better monitor that's more worthy of your hard-earned

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money so let's kick it off with the physical tour if the industrial design

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Trend towards slim panel assemblies and

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hyper thin bezels reminiscent of a typical high fashioned runway model are

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your thing then power to you but if you find more Beauty in the Ronda Rousey of

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the world than the xr3501 might be your type this baby is

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thick and imposing but not exceedingly

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bulky nor is it by any means unattractive the stand is an elegant

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looking dark chrome finish affair with a

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red accent Cable Management hole through the back and not really much else to say

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about it it does feature 20° of tilt but

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no swivel or height adjust so you'll need a beefy vase amount and a transfer

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kit if you want more flexibility in terms of I/O I give it a C+ in spite of

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its size BenQ couldn't put the power supply inside the

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xr3501 so they Supply an external power brick there is no built-in USB hub and

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while having both DisplayPort and mini DisplayPort is nice there's no DV or

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VGA if you're ever in a jam and the dual HDMI ports are version 1.4 rather than

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2.0 meaning that the maximum reported refresh rate of the panel when cooked up

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via HDMI is 60 HZ oh and I guess there's

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also a headphone jack pass through down there slightly to the right of the iio

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you will find the onscreen menu controls

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which are not very well labeled and it's kind of hard to line up which button

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corresponds to which dot I found it kind of frustrating to navigate but all the

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usual options are in there you can control pixel overdrive you can set up

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benq's black equalizer feature if you want to see a little bit more detail and

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dark areas of the scene so I guess that leads us pretty well around to the

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business end of any Monitor and let me

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tell you there is some business going down there this is a 21 by9 my favorite

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for those who have been out of the loop for a while aspect ratio monitor

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measuring 35 in diagonally so a touch

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larger but pretty similar to models that I've used in the past from l G and Acer

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featuring get this a 2560 by 1080 8bit

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amva panel running at 144 Hertz and

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boasting as good as 4 millisecond response times wow and there's more to

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it too unlike those monitors I mentioned

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BenQ has added free sync adaptive refresh rate support a huge Plus for the

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AMD Gamers out there and gone super aggro on the curvature of this display

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with the xr3501 featuring an industry-leading 2000r curve that would

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give a circle of these monitors just over half of the radius of a circle of

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34 UC 97s holy crap but is that even a

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good thing I mean obviously you could curve a display so much that you

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wouldn't even be able to use it anymore so who has struck the right balance here

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well I guess I'd say it depends on the use case for productivity and office use

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I like to feel like there's a world Beyond whatever project I'm working on

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at the moment a subtle curve is good in that case for gaming wrapping the

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display around me letting it hold me tight that is an experience worth having

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and that's the xr3501 in a nutshell

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whether you're into Shooters racing games flight Sims whatever it is one

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hell of an experience the pixel response times aren't anything to write home

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about if you're coming from a fast TN like the assus

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pg278q but the 144hz refresh rate and

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outstanding contrast coupled with practically non-existent backlight bleed

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and a lack of ips glow thanks to the amva panel more than makeup for it in my

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mind and on the subject of the amva panel let's change gears and get

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empirical for a minute this thing freaking rocks for color performance

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these cman 5 charts show just over srgb

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gamet cover and the best outof thee boox accuracy that I've seen since I got my

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hands on my i1 basic pro2 display calibrator I mean we're talking almost

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nothing with a Delta e of greater than two you could photo edit on this thing

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right out of the box awesome right hold

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on there is a big gotcha that I glossed

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over earlier and I have to come back to now that resolution I mean I get it this

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is a gaming Monitor and in that cont text this trade-off actually makes a lot

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of sense because at 3440 by 1440 there

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isn't a display interface today that can handle 144 Hertz not to mention that

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hardly a graphics card in existence would be able to drive that resolution

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at 144 frames per second but that many

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pixels at this kind of size is not a

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retina display and in fact as I mentioned in my video on the lg34c 67

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it's quite unpleasant for me to use outside of games because onscreen

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elements look unnaturally large like someone turned the scaling up too high

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and some graphics even seem to lose Fidelity when viewed like this with

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black lines ending up with weird colored glows around them but with all of that

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said this is truly a gaming monitor it

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is intended to be purchased and used by people who will game on it primarily

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with creating spreadsheets in Excel as a distant afterthought and as such I

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consider it a smashing success if you're

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more productivity focused I still love my high resolution LGS if you're

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somewhere in the middle Acer 75 HZ XR

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341 CK is a great middle ground but if

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you're a gamer to the core I agree with

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benq's product design team's choice to go all in with this lower resolution and

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super tight curve 144 htz panel and the

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xr3501 is my new Top Dog gaming monitor

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especially if you're running an AMD graphics card and you can take advantage

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of freesync adaptive refresh rates so thanks for watching guys if this video

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