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We've got another tandem for you and this time it's from the panel

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manufacturers themselves. LG

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life's good. This is the LG GX7, their Ultra Gear line. It's a 1440p

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monitor at 280 Hz. And I don't know what tape to get rid of first. So, let's I'm

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going to go ahead and guess that it's not curved just because the box is pretty flat. It's not like this wide or

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this tall. You know, don't do what I'm doing. I mean, one, you should use a

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knife, not a screwdriver. And two, uh, that's kind of dangerous with panels cuz

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the panel might be under there. Let's see what's in the box. We've got heavy

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metal stand. Solid double column design with a big flat base so you can stick

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stuff on it. Love to see it. And then we've got our

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considering this is just a 27in monitor. I think

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this is a little overbuilt, but I'd rather overbuilt than underbuilt. Let's

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put it together. I just slot that in. And then there we

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go. I love the toolless design of monitors. Yeah. So, for a 27inch

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monitor, this is a lot. I I don't know if they're just going to use the same

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stand and base for like the whole Ultra Gear line and so that's why they're just

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going with this one design. Um but hey, at least you got it. And then otherwise,

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we got our little accessories box here.

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Non C13. This is a C8 power cable. Um,

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ours came with a random

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uh probably Korean plug. So, we put an actual one in here just cuz you know

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you're going to need it. External power brick. Some of you might hate that, some

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of you might love it. I'll let the people decide. Uh, the nice thing is

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this monitor is going to be a similar price to that ASUS one we looked at.

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It's going to be for a tandem OLED 1440p

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27 in 280 Hz display. I can't believe

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that prices are just coming down as much as they are in OLEDs, and I'm really

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excited for the future. Uh, yes, here's our non-n North American power cable,

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USBB to attach to our computer, HDMI

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2.1, and then one DisplayPort cable.

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It's only DP 1.4, so we're not getting DP 2.1 with UHBR20, but 280 Hz 1440p,

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that's fine. warranty stuff, regulatory

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information. We got this thing in Korean that I

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cannot read. Uh, but it tells me all the things that come with the monitor, and

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it looks like we got them all. Don't hold your monitor by the top. Please

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don't do that. Don't fully extend it from the wall. Okay, cool. Enough for

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that. Uh, let's see

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what the actual panel looks like.

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Okay, this is a minor annoyance. I strongly prefer those bags where they

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got a slit in the back so you can just pop the stand on and pop it on. Um, this

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is going to take a bit of finagling here

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and I want to be extra careful cuz these are delicate. But I got to say it's

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super thin. I mean, if you've been looking at OLED monitors for the last couple of years, you know that like the

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panel itself is just razor thin. And the

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only bulge you got on the back is for the like electronics powering

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everything. Oh my god.

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Now that's a monitor. As for ergonomics and the stand itself, I mean, you saw

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this thing. It's a beast. Um, but in terms of what it can do, can we

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can it go the other way, though? That's what I want to know. It cannot. So, if

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you're going to get this and it's going to eventually become a secondary display, uh, be aware of where you're

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going to put it or just put it on an arm and fix all your problems. Other than

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that, we can tilt. Yep. Good amount. And

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web up and down. I'd like to go down a

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little further. Like probably closer to here, but realistically this is probably

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fine. And that's such a minor gripe that uh I'm okay with it.

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>> That looks like what 8 in? >> No. God, no. You wish it was an 8 in

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gap. I'm guessing that's about I don't know 5 in gap. And it saved his best

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trick for last.

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You've actually got quite a few degrees of rotation here. So, wherever you want

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to put this monitor on the stand, it can actually move around quite a bit for you. I do wonder though, like the

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control box has all this space up top. I don't know why they've got this like

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whole strap chin here. Like that's kind of my only real complaint. Like just

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move it up a quarter inch and then it just fully disappears. But maybe they

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got their own reasons. I don't know. Despite what you all might think, I don't design and create monitors. I just

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own them. Otherwise, yeah, there's not too much else to say. We've got the big

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LG Ultra Gear styled logo on the back.

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I'm going to get this. That's a really hard peel. Oh, that's a thick plastic.

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Very nice. It's this elevated little logo here. So, you can actually feel it

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as you move your fingers across. That's probably why they use the extra thick plastic. And, you know, you're never

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going to see that ever again. But, it feels good and I like it. And then

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they've just got their cool pattern on the back, too. I actually really like this. They've been doing this for quite

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a while now. I like it. Like the texture. But what about the IO? This

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This terrifies me every time I do it. One thing that I really like about a lot

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of LG monitors is that a lot of their IO, not every time, sometimes it's up

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and down, but a lot of the time it comes out straight out the back. And so I

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struggle every time when I'm trying to plug in a monitor, either HDMI cable or

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power cable, if it's got that like recess and then you go up. Annoying.

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Sucks. Do it like this so that they come straight out the back. I don't care if

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it takes up a little more uh horizontal space or whatever. It makes it so much

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easier to plug stuff in. So, we've got two HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort,

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nicely, you know, bundled together, so it's really easy to find them all. USB

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B, couple of USBA, and then our power plug. As for on the bottom here, we've

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got our navigation oven and mic headphone combo jack instead of just a

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headphone jack. So, you can actually just take a full headset and plug it

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right into your monitor, which is nice. Oh, and Kensington lock. So far, initial

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impressions are it seems pretty solid, especially for the price. But I'm not

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going to really know what it's like until I game on it. But I can't do that

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closes on October 31st. >> All right, HDR not enabled. Always

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enable it in OLED, even if you don't like the Windows desktop experience. Um,

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you get used to it. It's really not that bad. And then once games and applications actually take advantage,

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it's pretty good. Let me make sure the monitor is also

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I don't want exit. I want settings. HDR on, 280 Hz, adaptive sync on. Yeah,

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there's FreeSync Premium Pro G-Sync uh

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compatibility. We got the little NVIDIA G-Sync badge down there. Um and then,

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you know, just look through the picture ones. What else we got? Brightness. Peak brightness high. I don't care if it's

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less accurate. I want high peak brightness. We'll get to Labs results

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later because our colorimeter did come back. We were not lying to you. And we

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have tested this display sound. Uh DCSX

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headphones. I don't think there's speakers.

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No, I don't think so, guys. I think unfortunately you don't get speakers. I

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think it's only for the headphone jack, which is I'm a

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little sad. But what I want to know is how good does the HDR look? Cuz they've

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got a true black 500 rating, which is very impressive. It's one of the very

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few monitors that can do that. Yeah, it's really good. Here comes the arm.

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Man, I will absolutely never ever ever

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get tired of watching HDR footage on an OLED because

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it just looks incredible. Mini LED is really good, but it's not dimming zone

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per pixel level good. And because we're in that sweet spot of 27 in 1440p, we're

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looking at about 111 110 PPI, which is

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pretty solid. You know, it's obviously not a creator monitor, but pretty good

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nonetheless. And this looks fantastic. But what I want to know is how great are

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those response times? Let's play some games. Hot diggity dang. This game looks

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so good when you're refreshing at 280

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hertz and actually getting the uh horsepower from your 5090 or other good

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card to run it. That was a terrible death. But you know what? That's what happens when I choose a pistol. Like you

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just you whip and it's clear cuz they've got that. I mean they're advertising 03

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milliseconds gray to gray cuz that's what OLED can kind of do. But we've

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measured it and it's like I mean not this one specifically, but we've

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measured OLEDs in the past and the pixels are just it's like so close to I

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mean I guess 03 milliseconds is pretty close to instant anyway. But like it's

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real you guys. It's true. They just you whip and it's clear. There's no And if

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someone moves past you like an object as long you're not using taa you're not

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going to have these stupid ghosting trails and stuff as it goes by like man

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it's just so good. And like, yeah, obviously, you know, if you suck at

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games, it doesn't matter that much. Like, you're gonna lose. But like, when

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you've got the good monitor and you've got the good keyboard and mouse, the

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only thing you can blame is yourself at that point. It's funny because like when

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I was a kid, I used to play so much more Counter-Strike on a garbage CRT and then

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eventually on some garbage like LCD LED display, um, a laptop. I gamed on a

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gaming laptop for a pretty long time. And, you know, I crushed it. I did

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pretty well. It's not like I'm not like, you know, I'm not going to the finals or

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anything, but uh I could get some head shot. And now that I've got all the

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hardware for it, I just never play anymore. And it kind of sucks because like, man, it just feels so much better.

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Like, if I was that good before, imagine how good I could have been if I had the

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hardware I needed. So, a game's great. The HDR looks pretty good, but what do

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our actual test results have to say? Let's start with latency. At our max

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refresh rate of 280 Hz, we're measuring just 6 milliseconds over the theoretical

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perfect. And that kind of stays pretty true until we go down to 120 Hz, which

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was the only problematic area. We were hitting a total of 6.7 milliseconds or

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2.5 milliseconds over theoretical perfect. So, anyone console gaming might

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have a very very minor latency issue, but like these numbers are so small that

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even at the total value of all your entire system latency, it's probably

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fine. As for brightness, we measured over the rated 1500 nits at 1744.

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Now, that is in a peak 1% window, so you're not going to obviously get that

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full screen. As for full screen brightness in HDR, we're hitting almost

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400 nits sustained. That's really impressive for OLED, and I'm glad that

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it's kind of finally gotten to that point. As for SDR color accuracy, once

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we switched out of the out of the box mode, we got a very respectable delta E

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average 2000 of 1.5 with a max of a

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little under 4 and a half. And as for HDR color accuracy, it's not bad. I wish

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it was a little better, but we're reaching a delta EITP average of about

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12 with a max of 23. And the nice thing about these TANM OLED panels is LG has

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actually really managed to up the gamut coverage. And so for BT 2020, they're

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matching or even beating QD OLED at 84% coverage. We couldn't get pricing cuz

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we've only got the Hong Kong price, but it should be around $700 when it hits

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stores later this year. Wo, clue from the future here. For some reason, the

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pricing for this monitor is all over the place. On their Hong Kong website, it

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still comes out to around 700 bucks. But we also saw a Reddit post where people

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are getting it for as low as like $485.

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And now, when you go to LG's website, they're selling it for a whopping $850

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USD, which makes this a much harder sell. With how much competition there

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already is in the space for the new tech, it might be worth waiting for more

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offerings or seeing if you can get a great deal on a cutie OLED. Hopefully LG

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can get the pricing lowered soon, but if the max price is all you see, maybe keep

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waiting. Whether you're excited for TANM OLEDs or not, this is the LG GX7, and uh

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it's pretty sick. We're going to have it available down in the links below if

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it's out in stores yet. If it's not, well, I'll just see you next