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oh that's bright,

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1600 nits Peak brightness ladies and

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gentlemen when we looked at the pa32 ucx

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from ASUS a little over a year ago we were impressed 4K 60 HZ mini LED

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backlight color accurate HDR with 1200

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nits Peak brightness it was a force to be reckoned with and it was the answer

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to Apple's Pro display xdr but for PC users but then ASUS being ASUS said ASUS

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hold my beer and now we've got this

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their next Generation Pro art display the pa32 ucg or as we've been calling it

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the god king of monitors but what

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exactly did they improve and is it worth shelling out thousands of dollars for an

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upgrade do Gamers even care about a display this expensive will I ever get

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below for starters the ucg as we'll be calling it has got the world's first

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4K 120 HZ mini LED IPS panel it features

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a jaw-dropping peak brightness of 16 00

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nits which is good enough for Vasa hdr400 certification so none of the Foo

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HDR 2000 like we saw from Samsung's

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Odyssey G9 a few months back it's also got improved IO featuring HDMI 2.1

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support as well as DisplayPort 1.4 with display stream compression now that

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Improvement on Peak brightness and refresh rate is huge it's only 4K rather

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than 6K like the pro display xdr but hey

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at least it comes with a stand am I right need to show the latest edits to

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your boss

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bam God it's heavy but it's easy peasy

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and can a Mac do this oh that's bright

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well yes yes it can but hey now PC

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enthusiasts and professionals can do that too and this is really cool if at

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the end of the day you don't feel like leaving the office quite yet and you

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decide to play some games it is

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otherworldly 4K 120 looks and feels

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amazing even with the 5 millisecond rated pixel response times that is as

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long as you're not hyper competitive because naturally everything that makes

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this thing look beautiful for creatives who need it makes it beautiful in games

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another thing that's missing compared to a real gaming monitor is obviously

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higher refresh rates I mean something like the Odyssey G9 runs at 240 HZ

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rather than just 120 HZ that extra little bit of smoothness We have

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basically proven already in separate videos that it does make a

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difference so for competitive Gamers

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yeah this probably ain't it I am really

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really impressed at the pixel response times though considering this is not a

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gaming display it is a full array local

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dimming backlit display so even though they're mini LEDs and you've got

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1,152 zones it is still possible to find

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situations where you're going to get Halos around light objects on dark

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backgrounds the thing is that when playing games or watching movies it's

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pretty hard to notice like anyone see any

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haloing 4K 120 HZ with perfect color

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it's nice really nice but I don't know

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if I need it which takes us to the next

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big question who does well in our first

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review of the pa32 ucx our main

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contenders were editors working in HDR who needed perfectly color accurate

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images and game developers now this time

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around it's similar to the ucx offering

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with support for hdr10 hlg and Dolby

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vision and it delivers highly accurate color across a wide variety of color

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spaces we're talking 100% srgb 97% dcip

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3 and 99 99.5% of adobe RGB but with the

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ucg having the frame rate improvements and updated connectors well the needle

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starts to sway a bit closer to game development especially now that the

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latest gen consoles and graphics cards have made HDMI 2.1 the new standard that

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is a bit of a problem though since to take advantage of this thing you will

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need HDMI 2.1 which you will only find on NVIDIA's 30 series and AMD's 6000

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series gpus sorry folks DisplayPort 1.4

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just isn't going to cut it anymore we were able to get as far as 100 HZ 10bit

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RGB using hbr3 transmission but we

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needed chroma subsampling to reach rates like 120 or 144 Hertz and the visual

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anomalies that accompany chroma subsampling well they can be okay for

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playing games but they're not ideal for

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creating them maybe once DisplayPort 2.0 comes out and more than doubles the

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maximum bandwidth of DP it'll end up back on top but for now HDMI 2.1 at 48

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GB per second is definitely the way to go if you want 120 HZ 12bit RGB with

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full dynamic range still though the addition of display stream compression

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on DP 1.4 is a bonus over the previous

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ucx model of course to test it then we had to pair it with the only card we

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trust in our editing Den the RTX 390 we

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powered it up and ran our calman color Checker software Ware using the included

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x-rite i1 display Pro a $260 value by

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the way which should at least help justify the cost of this thing right

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then we ran tests to compare against the included Factory calibration report what

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we found was that our display wasn't perfect however its inaccuracies were

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almost all below the level that the human eye can even discern with an

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average Delta e of less than two and while ours was a little bit off we're

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confident that with a little bit of calibration this monitor will be an

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extremely accurate part of your workflow and besides professionals should be

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periodically calibrating their displays because they can actually drift out of

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calibration over time and there are some other things that wouldbe owners should

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know remember when everything started getting lighter and cheaper

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well not this guy this is one Hefty 32in

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monitor with a net weight of 14.6 kilos that is just over 32 lb in

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Freedom Units or basically 1 lb per inch

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of screen space and oh my God it is

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soy and it costs a whopping

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$5,000 it also takes up a huge amount of

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desk space thanks to just how thick the housing is because of the cooling

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solution that ASUS built in to reach that impressive sustained 1,000 nits

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brightness a monitor ARM will help alleviate that but this thing ain't no

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uh M1 IM that's for sure the other major

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caveat is that ASUS has another monitor that is mostly either on par or actually

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better than the pa32 ucg for gamers the

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pg32uqx it's hailed as the world's first

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mini LED gaming monitor by some and it is $2,000 less than this one and you get

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4k 144 HZ display HDR 1400 1,400 nit

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for anyone who wants to primarily game while maintaining pretty dang good color

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accuracy for a little bit of work that's the better option but for anyone who

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wants that little bit of extra Peak brightness and a much wider array of

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color spaces while creating HDR content

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you're going to have to stick with the ucg so all hail then the new god king of

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in the video description so how many of you are artists and game devs who have

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been eyeing this bad boy and waiting for the inevitable release that keeps

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getting pushed back are there any Gamers out there who want it just because let

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us know in the comments and if you like this video check out our pa32 ucx review

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so you can at least compare before you buy