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what a time to be alive if you love PC

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gaming don't get me wrong 40 series complete disappointment but monitors

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they have been getting better and better and better in the last few years both in

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terms of like panel technology as well as refresh rates and color gamut

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coverage it's just insane today I've got

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the aw 2723 DF sorry I've got to read it off

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the Box because I absolutely hate monitor naming conventions and they're not always the easiest to remember but

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at least with Alienware they kind of keep it similar like if you've probably heard me rattle off the

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aw3423dw several times is the one I have at home it's a cutie Ola it's pretty

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nice today we've got this guy and it is unfortunately not qdo-led it's IPS but

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it's got a few tricks up its sleeve that I'm actually really excited to check out

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for myself and show you guys so let's get it out of the box and take a look

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it's 1440p 240 hertz fast IPS uh one millisecond

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graded gray response time and it can go

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up to 280 Hertz overclock it also covers

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95 of the DC ip3 color space and comes

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Factory calibrated which is great for anyone who actually cares about color

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accuracy what's this it's an Alienware monitor

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I like one what makes this one so special uh it does 240 or 280 Hertz it's

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DCI P3 is like 95 coverage of that your

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games will look so accurate okay they will but it's 650 dollars which for this

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like a display with these specs that's actually pretty good we honestly thought

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it would be more you're one of those people who doesn't put on these panel

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covers and it drives me up the wall oh yeah I don't bother just do it here's

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what I need the viewer to hold proof to account is that he's gonna put the back

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panel on this because I'd say Alienware makes nice looking monitors sure and

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they they need that just a little bit of help we don't need that don't listen to

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him it's okay you're never gonna look behind your monitor unless you're set up

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in like the middle of your room you're not going to look back there so I just

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personally don't if you want a cable cover and make it real nice and tidy and

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never look at it again by all means please feel free it does feel satisfying

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when you actually stop and take the time to do that we've got the big Alienware

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branding on the side you know it's a love it or hate it kind of relationship

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it's funny me and David were just talking about this we uh grew up when

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Alienware was actually pretty cool I grew up in like the boutique scene so

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lots of like Voodoo PC back when I buy Power was really good but because I grew

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up with it before they got bought out by Dell I've actually got like fond memories of Alienware I don't know horse

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says he likes these I actually think they look pretty clean once they're all set up it's just a really Pure White

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um stand and a white like panel we'll show you that in a sec what else is in

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here we've got usbb

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HDMI I think it's 2.0 doesn't have 2.1

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but that's okay DisplayPort this is

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what DisplayPort to DisplayPort mini that's what it looks like I don't know

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if this guy has a power brick it looks like it oh no

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we'll have to get our own C13 because as has happened many times in the past

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unless we get some kind of converter in the Box I don't think this is going to

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plug into any of our walls unfortunately and we're gonna do the old click it in

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and then pull it out method which works wonders I highly

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recommend if you're setting up a display try to do it that way it works really

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well and you're not going to damage anything and all the packaging stays nicely here it's not curved it's a flat

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panel but for 27 inches at 16 by nine that's totally okay yeah it's got this

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really cool like 27 on the back here I like the little alien badge on the back

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I think this is RGB there are two or three places that this has RGB on it so

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that might be one of them I should have shown you guys this before I put it on

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the stand while it was nice and flat but that's okay we've got our power plug

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here USB B USB a right beside it and

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another USB a I think there's a Kensington lock right here and then

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we've got two HDMI 2.0 ports a DisplayPort 1.4 I almost missed this but

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further along the bottom we've actually got two more USB a ports and then a

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headphone jack on the bottom here which is actually a really big selling point

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for me personally if I've got a hub let me put it on the bottom or on the side

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somewhere that's really easy to plug in and out of it's got hydrogen assessment

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all the way down all the way up and then it's got a bit of swivel actually it's

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quite a bit of swivel to be honest that's pretty good it's got some tilt it's pretty honestly this thing's pretty

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adjustable and it's got my favorite trick

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you can do portrait mode with a 90 degree pivot it's also got a handy

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little headphone hanger here click it in pull it out not bad it's not like the

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most dirty yeah it's actually not bad here's the thing though like when are

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you ever going to use this in portrait mode you can go both ways by the way which is really nice but I find it

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hilarious like this is a 240 hertz display you are not going to use this in

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portrait it's going to be wild the day where you turn this portrait because

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it's it's literally now your secondary display because you've got something

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better you know probably five years down the line or something but hey it's uh

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it's a nice feature to have and even if you don't like the stand I'm pretty sure

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it's vase unmountable it'd be crazy for them to not make it vase a mountable yep

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100 by 100 vase amounts and then if you do want to stick it on the stand you've

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got a ton of cable management options well it's one option really but it can

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fit quite a few cables it just goes in this hole here and then right out the

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bottom and out the back boom all right as for now uh oh I love that click it's

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so satisfying we're just going to get this set up at our our sweet gaming rig

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over there play some games on it but not before a word from our sponsor thanks to

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of my monitor they're always like oh but they were brand new it's so ugly but I

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mean how much do you really see like looking at this from here there's like a

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little alien head down here okay and then sure if you look from the side yeah

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it says Alienware there and there's an alien on the back we've got a power button on the bottom here lights up

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that's always cool another thing I hadn't mentioned yet was this is g-sync

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compatible and then it is also freesync premium Pro and look at the cable

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management can you like look how good this looks looks pretty good all right

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please if you're buying a nice monitor make sure to set it up right set it to

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whatever refresh rate it can actually do don't like leave it at 60 or you're

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probably gonna be disappointed we're gonna turn HDR on is it's Vasa certified

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HDR 600 I don't think there's dimming zones so we'll see how good it does the

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HDR and refresh rate already detected

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the monitor correctly our refresh rate 60. oh baby 240. now it can do 280 it

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says so on the box we're going to use our navigation to bolt to open the OSD

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usually when it comes to overclock you have to actually enable the overclock

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before it'll show up as an actual setting in Windows and we've got it

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right here game overclock off oh I like this they've actually got a

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number of options that are in between 280 and 240. if you go to enable 280 and

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it doesn't quite work it's uh you know it crashes get flickers whatever

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um boom go down to 270 see if that's more stable for you let's go to 280

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because we're not messing around here wow

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wow what else we got here we got response time fast super fast extreme

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they do say on the box that it's one millisecond grader gray for extreme

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settings so to be fair just on fast it's probably not going to be the fastest

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response time so we'll go super fast we'll go in the middle uh this should do

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600 nits Peak and I think they mentioned 450 and it's typical which is fine for

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HDR we're going to crank it oh yeah let's see where the RGB is I so they

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mentioned three zones and I can see them here and they're all set to the Alienware like kind of turquoise blue

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color we've got it here on the alien head I love the 27. it's hilarious how I

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mentioned you know we're just gonna put this up against a wall and that's why we're not putting the cable cover but

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then I like the RGB on the back oh well whatever and then the bottom one

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is probably like on the bottom of the display actually I can't find it it must be the

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power LED which is where they've got that labeled as RGB oh and it does

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10-bit okay so the only reason I saw 8-bit before is because it kicked us out

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of HDR when we did our overclocking adjustments now that's all set back to

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HDR on 280 Hertz and we're getting 10-bit color which is even better yeah

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this thing just keeps impressing me especially at the like 650 price point

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that's not bad let's watch some HDR content it's nothing impressive so far looks

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okay we're not seeing any really weird tone mapping like we've seen on some

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other displays so now it's really a matter of the local dimming and I don't

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think they're zones so it's just single panel that's that 95 DCI P3 coverage it

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really helps colors pop oh this is a good one

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having trouble no just making sound oh does it look

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prettier now oh I can really tell from this side yeah

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you can really see it eh yeah huge difference

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this is why I don't bother with these things oh wait we need to plug

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in the USB but no but like that's the problem maybe

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you do it a little shut it and forget it no no no no no right the first time yeah

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and then it looks beautiful the rest of the time can I make a fingerprint like

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it's not as bad as others we've seen where the whole thing turns into a

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blurry field of green basically yeah admittedly though you're right it's not

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the crispiest uh motion Clarity but man

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the frame rate does feel good it looks really smooth yeah 280 maybe that's

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where it is because I've had 240 before and I'm like yeah you know it's not that

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much better than like 140. but I guess maybe once you go to 280 maybe like 300

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or so it really starts to kick up but yeah you're right this is a little

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blurry as I move around a little less clear than I'd like it to be it's almost

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like cinematic though it's weird yeah it's a yeah I want to be clear it's not

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the same kind of blur that we've complained about in terms of motion

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Clarity on some displays where this is like we've turned on motion blur almost

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it is really just the edges hey like I can actually make out like even this

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logo up here PO5 or whatever it might be the game it might also be because we're

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only in Faster instead of extreme is

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where they're talking about that one millisecond graded gray I just don't like turning up the the motion response

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too much like I don't like turning it up to extreme or whatever because you

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usually end up with a lot of um inverse ghosting because they're trying to

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overdrive it a little too hard that's pretty good like as much as like this

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looks not the greatest you're never really gonna do that in a real world environment you're gonna flick right to

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try to headshot someone and these are catching up like right away that's just

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crisp like instantly so it's a little bit bad in between but that's okay I can

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totally deal with that this looks pretty good though like that much shine there

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and the Darkness around it yeah I will give this thing a pass in terms of HDR

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it's not bad it's not like amazing if you get a bunch of dimming zones in here

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it's probably better but you know what that is definitely acceptable you know

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what for the UFO test I'm going to crank this up too extreme and there's also

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preset modes we're in standard right now RPG Sports Creator whoa Creator's so dim

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oh it's got a picture and picture and picture by picture for anyone who cares

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about that I'm not crazy about it because I never use it but it's actually a really handy feature for those who

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need it one thing I absolutely love is when you just go into the OSD it brings

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up this top bar here that shows you a bunch of stuff like it shows me my mode that I'm in shows me that I'm in smart

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HDR for desktop shows them in response time extreme and the dark stabilizer

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stuff it's stuff that you often want to know quickly without having to go into

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some kind of sub menu it's having some issues but it's pretty good for the most

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part there's like no ghosting though

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and no inverse ghosting I'm going to go to none because I find the Stars a

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little distracting and I'm going to crank up the speed I want these to go

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they're at 960 pixels per second let's basically double that cancel too fast

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I'm crazy I'm crazy 1200. yeah there's a

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little bit of a trail on the back end of the ship it's pretty crisp I'm pretty

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sold yeah I don't know there's not a whole lot else to say it's a pretty

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decent display for an actually not

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inexpensive price 650 is still a lot of

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money to a lot of people I totally understand that but if you want a 280

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Hertz IPS display that does okay HDR

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this might be the monitor for you now if you're really against Alienware and you

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can't deal with the logo or The Branding or whatever feel free to just put it on

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a vase amount this thing is not too thin but it will still fit on your wall

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pretty nicely for those of you who are interested it's already available in I

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think Japan and China and it's going to be available to the rest of the world on

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October 6th so maybe by the time this video comes out you can just click buy

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and check it out for yourself otherwise you might just have to wait a little

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while I don't it's right here and I like it thanks for

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watching that's ShortCircuit if you want to watch another fun ShortCircuit

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maybe check out the zoom 65 that should be coming up sometime soon it's a really

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nice keyboard not a monitor but another expensive hobby that I kind of have uh

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yeah see you later