WEBVTT 00:00:00.047 --> 00:00:03.800 - You know what's faster than 360 hertz? 390 hertz. 00:00:03.800 --> 00:00:08.800 We've got the Nitro XV2 series gaming monitor, from Acer. 00:00:09.530 --> 00:00:14.640 I don't know how you're gonna get faster than that unless you're LG I guess, with their 480, you said, Jono? 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:20.020 So that's not coming out 'til later this year. For now, you're kinda stuck with something like this guy. 00:00:20.020 --> 00:00:23.730 They got their fancy Acer tape. I don't know if that's better than regular tape, 00:00:23.730 --> 00:00:28.300 but it says "Acer" on it. Trouble getting it out of the box. I mean, they got this packed in pretty good, I guess. 00:00:28.300 --> 00:00:31.740 Oh, what's this? Oh, okay, well here's the cables. 00:00:31.740 --> 00:00:34.933 Power cable, I guess. All right, standard C13. 00:00:35.826 --> 00:00:40.870 - [Jono] You gotta follow the instructions. - Where's the instructions? Oh yeah, it has instructions on the box, 00:00:40.870 --> 00:00:45.080 for how to unbox it. Who needs instructions for unboxing stuff? 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:48.315 You don't need that. - [Jono] He's dropping it. 00:00:48.315 --> 00:00:49.213 - I'm not gonna drop. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:52.833 There we go. 00:00:56.330 --> 00:01:00.340 Nice little round base. Look at the stand. It's a little wiggly, but we haven't screwed it down yet, 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:04.120 so that's okay. It doesn't look like it has much in terms of... 00:01:05.030 --> 00:01:10.050 That's it, that's all you get. I love pan and swivel, and tilt and stuff, 00:01:10.050 --> 00:01:13.340 and being able to actually move your monitor wherever you want. 00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:18.240 DisplayPort cable. Power cable. Looks like that's actually pretty much it. 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:21.350 Oh, this is neat, look, you can, I don't know why, 00:01:21.350 --> 00:01:26.610 but you can turn this. I guess so that you can turn the whole monitor on the stand, 00:01:26.610 --> 00:01:30.203 instead of swiveling it or whatever. That's cool. 00:01:30.203 --> 00:01:33.990 But hey, it's a 390 hertz monitor, you're not buying it for that. 00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:37.280 You're buying it so you can kill people in Counter-Strike and Valorant and whatever. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.310 What are kids playing, Fortnite? Get some more kills in Fortnite. 00:01:40.310 --> 00:01:43.503 Just clips onto the back here. There we go. 00:01:43.503 --> 00:01:46.710 Yeah, so you can go vertical, which is pretty cool, that always gets bonus points in my book. 00:01:46.710 --> 00:01:51.110 Gotta love when monitors come with manuals. I should probably move this out of the way. 00:01:51.110 --> 00:01:57.390 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. 00:01:57.390 --> 00:02:00.910 So it doesn't have G-Sync, it only has FreeSync, but FreeSync is pretty much 00:02:00.910 --> 00:02:03.960 just as good as G-Sync these days, anyway. Let's power this up. 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:08.650 After a message from our sponsors, Vessi. Thanks, Vessi Footwear, for sponsoring today's video. 00:02:08.650 --> 00:02:13.240 Vessi Footwear is known for being lightweight, easy to pack, comfortable, and most importantly, waterproof. 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:17.240 You don't have to worry about the weather anymore, the shoes are made with a material called Dyma-tex, 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.980 which keeps your feet cool in the summer and warm in the winter. They're easy to slip on or off, 00:02:20.980 --> 00:02:25.260 and lots of us here at LMG wear them all the time. 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If you want something that just works, and does what you want it to do 00:02:53.340 --> 00:02:56.630 and you don't need a bunch of extra ports, that's when you get Acer. 00:02:56.630 --> 00:03:01.600 I think it's listed at 499.99, so for 390 hertz, 00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:05.570 that's not bad. For a 360 hertz monitor, that's about right. 00:03:05.570 --> 00:03:08.650 So, display settings, raising the DisplayPort, 00:03:08.650 --> 00:03:12.299 instead of HDMI, because it's only 2.0, it's not 2.1. 00:03:12.299 --> 00:03:15.660 What's the GPU we have in this PC? We got 3090, all right. 00:03:15.660 --> 00:03:19.540 What's the CPU? - [Jono] 5950. - Oh yeah, we're not gonna be bottlenecked by that, 00:03:19.540 --> 00:03:23.073 that's for sure. - [Jono] We might be thermal... - Yeah. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:29.290 Okay, so I mean yeah, I can enable G-Sync. FreeSync G-Sync are basically interchangeable at this point. 00:03:29.290 --> 00:03:36.490 360 hertz, 1920 by 1080. Eight bit color, RGB, it's got okay color, not amazing. 00:03:36.490 --> 00:03:40.910 Oh, it's got speakers! Oh, yeah! Sometimes it's really handy to have speakers on monitors, 00:03:40.910 --> 00:03:45.070 and I actually really hate when they don't have it. For instance, it got crazy hot this summer, 00:03:45.070 --> 00:03:49.900 and so I moved my PC into my bedroom and everything, but my sound system is all wired into my desk. 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:55.010 I still have sound, because my monitor has speakers. Is it good? No, it's garbage. 00:03:55.010 --> 00:03:58.920 But, at least I have it, right? I have something, so. Let's try to overclock it. 00:03:58.920 --> 00:04:02.610 Where are your controls? Show me your secrets. Yeah, these are always the worst, 00:04:02.610 --> 00:04:06.450 let me just control the little menu you have there. It's got one of these guys, that you would, 00:04:06.450 --> 00:04:09.930 like it has buttons, up down, left right, and press, 00:04:09.930 --> 00:04:12.940 so whenever there's a menu in there, just let me change it with this. 00:04:12.940 --> 00:04:16.910 Like, why do I still have to still touch these buttons, that I've gotta (indistinct) on the right one? 00:04:16.910 --> 00:04:21.050 Action, racing, sports, user, standard, eco, graphics. 00:04:21.050 --> 00:04:25.940 HDR. Oh, it's got HDR 400. Okay, where is the overclocking stuff? 00:04:25.940 --> 00:04:29.650 So brightness, contrast, black boost, blue light, 00:04:29.650 --> 00:04:33.600 ACM, apparently it's better contrast, I don't really notice the difference, 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.620 I don't think it's all that much better. We're gonna turn it on. 00:04:36.620 --> 00:04:43.480 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 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:50.110 put a dot in the center of our screen with a marker or something, or a Sharpie, for aim dots, basically. 00:04:50.110 --> 00:04:53.490 I'm not a cheater, I just use external things 00:04:53.490 --> 00:04:58.050 to my advantage, when I have access to them. Yeah, I'm a cheater, I'm a cheater. 00:04:58.050 --> 00:05:01.160 Oh, there it is. It's in system. They should really put it in gaming. 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.123 I don't know why else you're gonna use overclock, except for gaming, really. 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:09.920 Come on, 390. 60? Well, hold on, we probably have to... 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:15.060 390, hey, .297. That's higher than advertised, ever so slightly. 00:05:15.060 --> 00:05:19.452 Let's see if we can get Counter-Strike going, and use a scout, 'cause real men scout. 00:05:19.452 --> 00:05:23.390 (laughs) Tried and trusted Counter-Strike, right? 00:05:23.390 --> 00:05:28.590 Like I've been playing CS since Half-Life 1 days, with 1.6 and stuff. 00:05:28.590 --> 00:05:31.640 Ooh, that crisp audio. 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:35.000 Oh, 1.3? Oh my god, Jono. 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:38.560 Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.053 Oh, (boat horn blows). See? The aim dot's already coming in. 00:05:43.290 --> 00:05:49.640 We're not even maxing this out. 350, 345, with minimums of, our 99 is at 180. 00:05:49.640 --> 00:05:54.570 So you know what, I'm actually gonna crank this way down. Very low. Hell yeah. 00:05:54.570 --> 00:06:00.370 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. 00:06:00.370 --> 00:06:03.930 I'm so sick of it, I don't care. Mirage is better, but what I really want is Office, 00:06:03.930 --> 00:06:08.323 I love Office, I love hostages. I love hostages, okay? 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:15.570 I'm so sick of Dust II bomb defusal. It gets, I mean I'm hitting 375 there, for the max 382. 00:06:15.570 --> 00:06:18.880 Like, that's the problem is, we're really not even 00:06:18.880 --> 00:06:21.920 utilizing this monitor to its full potential, right? 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:26.960 Like yeah, it's over 360 sometimes, but I mean a lot of times 350, 340, 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:30.600 and this is Office, there's not a whole lot going on in this map, it's not very big. 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.160 So yeah, we'll go to Dust, maybe Office was a bad idea. Oh, I love Dust 1. I love Dust 1. 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.700 I don't know what it is about it, it's not even the best map ever. 00:06:38.700 --> 00:06:43.410 Italy, Italy is another real classic, though. I love Italy, yeah. 00:06:43.410 --> 00:06:47.140 So yeah, I mean we're not hitting our max frame rates, and you know what, the thing is, 00:06:47.140 --> 00:06:51.950 is you could always buy this thing, and then hope that a new GPU comes out later. 00:06:51.950 --> 00:06:56.830 'Cause I mean the reality is, how many of you really have a 3090, and a 5950X anyway? 00:06:56.830 --> 00:07:02.510 Like, this is pure esports territory. I mean, I personally play Counter-Strike and Valorant 00:07:02.510 --> 00:07:07.230 at 1440p, 144 hertz, and it is so much better. 00:07:07.230 --> 00:07:11.370 Ooh, 390! I hit 394 for just a second. 00:07:11.370 --> 00:07:17.370 Oh yeah. This looks good. Nothing's really smearing, you move, and it all, 00:07:17.370 --> 00:07:21.370 I mean it's blurry when you're moving it, because you can't see that fast anyway, but, 00:07:21.370 --> 00:07:26.010 as soon as it stops and settles, there's no really bad smear 00:07:26.010 --> 00:07:30.140 on any of the lines, any of those thin lines. I don't think our frame rate matters too much, 00:07:30.140 --> 00:07:33.210 depending on the settings, so let's turn it up to max, 00:07:33.210 --> 00:07:36.750 and see what it looks like. I, oh wow, it crashed, what the hell? 00:07:36.750 --> 00:07:41.540 Okay. This is about as small as I would personally go for a desktop monitor, 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:44.927 about 24, 25 inches. It's on the cusp, and that's okay. 00:07:44.927 --> 00:07:48.199 "Ministere des antiquites." 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:52.420 Oh, we're blowing up antiques? I didn't even know that you're blowing up antiques in Dust II. 00:07:52.420 --> 00:07:55.820 Yeah, it's great, I don't notice anything. It's just crystal clear. 00:07:55.820 --> 00:07:59.240 Even look at this wall texture, oh, that looks so good. 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:04.010 And this is 1080p, but on a small screen like this, 1080p is perfectly fine. 00:08:04.010 --> 00:08:07.290 Switch to bonus weapon. Oh, the Dual Berettas. 00:08:07.290 --> 00:08:11.230 The worst gun in the game. Dualies were great when they first came out, 00:08:11.230 --> 00:08:15.240 you're like "Oh, this is so cool, I got two guns, and 30 bullets, how could it go wrong?" 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.843 And then you shoot, and you hit nothing, and it goes really wrong. 00:08:20.960 --> 00:08:25.380 Yeah, so there's hardly any smearing, it looks really good, you can zip around as much as you want, 00:08:25.380 --> 00:08:28.700 do a quick 180 or whatever, oh. Yes, even a chicken (indistinct) three shots 00:08:28.700 --> 00:08:31.870 with the dualies. Oh yeah, look at these shadows. They look great. 00:08:31.870 --> 00:08:35.160 There's no tearing. I'm at an angle, so it's kinda hard to tell, but yeah, there's like nothing. 00:08:35.160 --> 00:08:43.010 I don't understand people who need maybe 360, but I now want to upgrade from 120, 144, to like 240. 00:08:43.640 --> 00:08:46.283 Oh, yeah. Oh, god, it is smooth. 00:08:47.270 --> 00:08:50.320 Yeah, look at it, it's just crystal clear. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.480 Yeah, so I mean if you look at this bottom guy, 100 FPS, it's just blurry, it's unintelligible. 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.420 I mean you can read it, but I mean, look how just gross the alien looks. 00:08:59.420 --> 00:09:02.800 The dots on the ship, you can hardly make it out, it looks like a single line. 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:06.770 This is what I'm talking about, I wanna go up to 244 on my own home monitor, 00:09:06.770 --> 00:09:12.630 I need to make an upgrade at some point, because there's not a huge difference going from 200 to 390. 00:09:12.630 --> 00:09:18.200 Like, there is, it's there, the dots are clearer, but really, this difference here, huge. 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.460 This difference here, not so huge. If I was a professional esports player, 00:09:22.460 --> 00:09:28.610 I would need this. You want every advantage you can get, it's the same thing as playing football without cleats. 00:09:28.610 --> 00:09:32.850 Like, why would you do that? But for casual gaming, even if you're just someone who 00:09:32.850 --> 00:09:37.090 thinks you wanna get into esports, it's a really big diminishing return. 00:09:37.090 --> 00:09:41.530 You're better off spending it on a nicer keyboard, or a better chair, a better mouse, 00:09:41.530 --> 00:09:47.710 or just a better computer in general, you know? Because if you were to basically analyze 00:09:47.710 --> 00:09:52.110 your kill ratio in games, I guarantee you the difference in the amount of kills 00:09:52.110 --> 00:09:57.740 that you're gonna get is so minimal. You're gonna get like one extra kill every 400 kills, 00:09:57.740 --> 00:10:02.620 or something like that. Is that really worth your, I don't know, extra two or 300 dollars? 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:05.660 For me, it's not. The one nice thing is that, 00:10:05.660 --> 00:10:11.380 Acer products do tend to cost a little less, so if you do need the absolute best of the best, 00:10:11.380 --> 00:10:14.450 it's a good value for what they're offering. 00:10:14.450 --> 00:10:18.450 I just think that maybe unless you're a top rated esports player, 00:10:18.450 --> 00:10:23.380 you can spend your money a little better elsewhere. Maybe get a bigger display, maybe go 1440p, 00:10:23.380 --> 00:10:27.120 maybe go 4k. So thanks for watching, this is the Nitro XV2. 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:33.050 If you like this video, maybe check out some of our other videos, Linus unboxed the G7 just the other day, 00:10:33.050 --> 00:10:34.800 and that thing is a killer monitor.