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- You know what's faster than 360 hertz? 390 hertz.

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We've got the Nitro XV2 series gaming monitor, from Acer.

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I don't know how you're gonna get faster than that unless you're LG I guess, with their 480, you said, Jono?

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So that's not coming out 'til later this year. For now, you're kinda stuck with something like this guy.

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They got their fancy Acer tape. I don't know if that's better than regular tape,

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but it says "Acer" on it. Trouble getting it out of the box. I mean, they got this packed in pretty good, I guess.

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Oh, what's this? Oh, okay, well here's the cables.

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Power cable, I guess. All right, standard C13.

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- [Jono] You gotta follow the instructions. - Where's the instructions? Oh yeah, it has instructions on the box,

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for how to unbox it. Who needs instructions for unboxing stuff?

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You don't need that. - [Jono] He's dropping it.

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- I'm not gonna drop.

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There we go.

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Nice little round base. Look at the stand. It's a little wiggly, but we haven't screwed it down yet,

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so that's okay. It doesn't look like it has much in terms of...

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That's it, that's all you get. I love pan and swivel, and tilt and stuff,

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and being able to actually move your monitor wherever you want.

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DisplayPort cable. Power cable. Looks like that's actually pretty much it.

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Oh, this is neat, look, you can, I don't know why,

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but you can turn this. I guess so that you can turn the whole monitor on the stand,

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instead of swiveling it or whatever. That's cool.

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But hey, it's a 390 hertz monitor, you're not buying it for that.

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You're buying it so you can kill people in Counter-Strike and Valorant and whatever.

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What are kids playing, Fortnite? Get some more kills in Fortnite.

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Just clips onto the back here. There we go.

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Yeah, so you can go vertical, which is pretty cool, that always gets bonus points in my book.

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Gotta love when monitors come with manuals. I should probably move this out of the way.

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I mean, it's only a 24 and a half inch screen, I think, so that's not a whole lot of screen space, and it's 1080p.

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So it doesn't have G-Sync, it only has FreeSync, but FreeSync is pretty much

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just as good as G-Sync these days, anyway. Let's power this up.

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All right, let's power it on. Get the juice going. Whoa, Jono, you're doing it wrong,

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you gotta cable manage it better. You gotta do it around this side.

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- [Jono] No, I don't wanna do that side. - So it's got a bunch of pretty standard I/O,

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HDMI, oh man, okay, that's a little disappointing, it's got two HDMI 2.0s, a DisplayPort,

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probably just 1.4, and an audio jack. Anything else?

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Yeah, it's pretty bare bones. If you want something that just works, and does what you want it to do

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and you don't need a bunch of extra ports, that's when you get Acer.

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I think it's listed at 499.99, so for 390 hertz,

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that's not bad. For a 360 hertz monitor, that's about right.

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So, display settings, raising the DisplayPort,

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instead of HDMI, because it's only 2.0, it's not 2.1.

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What's the GPU we have in this PC? We got 3090, all right.

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What's the CPU? - [Jono] 5950. - Oh yeah, we're not gonna be bottlenecked by that,

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that's for sure. - [Jono] We might be thermal... - Yeah.

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Okay, so I mean yeah, I can enable G-Sync. FreeSync G-Sync are basically interchangeable at this point.

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360 hertz, 1920 by 1080. Eight bit color, RGB, it's got okay color, not amazing.

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Oh, it's got speakers! Oh, yeah! Sometimes it's really handy to have speakers on monitors,

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and I actually really hate when they don't have it. For instance, it got crazy hot this summer,

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and so I moved my PC into my bedroom and everything, but my sound system is all wired into my desk.

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I still have sound, because my monitor has speakers. Is it good? No, it's garbage.

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But, at least I have it, right? I have something, so. Let's try to overclock it.

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Where are your controls? Show me your secrets. Yeah, these are always the worst,

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let me just control the little menu you have there. It's got one of these guys, that you would,

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like it has buttons, up down, left right, and press,

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so whenever there's a menu in there, just let me change it with this.

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Like, why do I still have to still touch these buttons, that I've gotta (indistinct) on the right one?

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Action, racing, sports, user, standard, eco, graphics.

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HDR. Oh, it's got HDR 400. Okay, where is the overclocking stuff?

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So brightness, contrast, black boost, blue light,

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ACM, apparently it's better contrast, I don't really notice the difference,

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I don't think it's all that much better. We're gonna turn it on.

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Oh, it's got an aim point thing, too? Oh yeah, that's great. So when I was a kid, we used to just actually

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put a dot in the center of our screen with a marker or something, or a Sharpie, for aim dots, basically.

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I'm not a cheater, I just use external things

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to my advantage, when I have access to them. Yeah, I'm a cheater, I'm a cheater.

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Oh, there it is. It's in system. They should really put it in gaming.

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I don't know why else you're gonna use overclock, except for gaming, really.

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Come on, 390. 60? Well, hold on, we probably have to...

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390, hey, .297. That's higher than advertised, ever so slightly.

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Let's see if we can get Counter-Strike going, and use a scout, 'cause real men scout.

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(laughs) Tried and trusted Counter-Strike, right?

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Like I've been playing CS since Half-Life 1 days, with 1.6 and stuff.

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Ooh, that crisp audio.

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Oh, 1.3? Oh my god, Jono.

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Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, (boat horn blows). See? The aim dot's already coming in.

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We're not even maxing this out. 350, 345, with minimums of, our 99 is at 180.

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So you know what, I'm actually gonna crank this way down. Very low. Hell yeah.

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I don't want official matchmaking, I wanna practice with bots, and you know what? I hate Dust II, I've played this map way too much.

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I'm so sick of it, I don't care. Mirage is better, but what I really want is Office,

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I love Office, I love hostages. I love hostages, okay?

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I'm so sick of Dust II bomb defusal. It gets, I mean I'm hitting 375 there, for the max 382.

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Like, that's the problem is, we're really not even

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utilizing this monitor to its full potential, right?

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Like yeah, it's over 360 sometimes, but I mean a lot of times 350, 340,

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and this is Office, there's not a whole lot going on in this map, it's not very big.

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So yeah, we'll go to Dust, maybe Office was a bad idea. Oh, I love Dust 1. I love Dust 1.

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I don't know what it is about it, it's not even the best map ever.

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Italy, Italy is another real classic, though. I love Italy, yeah.

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So yeah, I mean we're not hitting our max frame rates, and you know what, the thing is,

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is you could always buy this thing, and then hope that a new GPU comes out later.

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'Cause I mean the reality is, how many of you really have a 3090, and a 5950X anyway?

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Like, this is pure esports territory. I mean, I personally play Counter-Strike and Valorant

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at 1440p, 144 hertz, and it is so much better.

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Ooh, 390! I hit 394 for just a second.

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Oh yeah. This looks good. Nothing's really smearing, you move, and it all,

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I mean it's blurry when you're moving it, because you can't see that fast anyway, but,

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as soon as it stops and settles, there's no really bad smear

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on any of the lines, any of those thin lines. I don't think our frame rate matters too much,

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depending on the settings, so let's turn it up to max,

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and see what it looks like. I, oh wow, it crashed, what the hell?

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Okay. This is about as small as I would personally go for a desktop monitor,

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about 24, 25 inches. It's on the cusp, and that's okay.

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"Ministere des antiquites."

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Oh, we're blowing up antiques? I didn't even know that you're blowing up antiques in Dust II.

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Yeah, it's great, I don't notice anything. It's just crystal clear.

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Even look at this wall texture, oh, that looks so good.

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And this is 1080p, but on a small screen like this, 1080p is perfectly fine.

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Switch to bonus weapon. Oh, the Dual Berettas.

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The worst gun in the game. Dualies were great when they first came out,

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you're like "Oh, this is so cool, I got two guns, and 30 bullets, how could it go wrong?"

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And then you shoot, and you hit nothing, and it goes really wrong.

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Yeah, so there's hardly any smearing, it looks really good, you can zip around as much as you want,

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do a quick 180 or whatever, oh. Yes, even a chicken (indistinct) three shots

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with the dualies. Oh yeah, look at these shadows. They look great.

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There's no tearing. I'm at an angle, so it's kinda hard to tell, but yeah, there's like nothing.

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I don't understand people who need maybe 360, but I now want to upgrade from 120, 144, to like 240.

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Oh, yeah. Oh, god, it is smooth.

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Yeah, look at it, it's just crystal clear.

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Yeah, so I mean if you look at this bottom guy, 100 FPS, it's just blurry, it's unintelligible.

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I mean you can read it, but I mean, look how just gross the alien looks.

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The dots on the ship, you can hardly make it out, it looks like a single line.

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This is what I'm talking about, I wanna go up to 244 on my own home monitor,

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I need to make an upgrade at some point, because there's not a huge difference going from 200 to 390.

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Like, there is, it's there, the dots are clearer, but really, this difference here, huge.

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This difference here, not so huge. If I was a professional esports player,

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I would need this. You want every advantage you can get, it's the same thing as playing football without cleats.

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Like, why would you do that? But for casual gaming, even if you're just someone who

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thinks you wanna get into esports, it's a really big diminishing return.

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You're better off spending it on a nicer keyboard, or a better chair, a better mouse,

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or just a better computer in general, you know? Because if you were to basically analyze

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your kill ratio in games, I guarantee you the difference in the amount of kills

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that you're gonna get is so minimal. You're gonna get like one extra kill every 400 kills,

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or something like that. Is that really worth your, I don't know, extra two or 300 dollars?

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For me, it's not. The one nice thing is that,

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Acer products do tend to cost a little less, so if you do need the absolute best of the best,

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it's a good value for what they're offering.

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I just think that maybe unless you're a top rated esports player,

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you can spend your money a little better elsewhere. Maybe get a bigger display, maybe go 1440p,

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maybe go 4k. So thanks for watching, this is the Nitro XV2.

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If you like this video, maybe check out some of our other videos, Linus unboxed the G7 just the other day,

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and that thing is a killer monitor.