i can't see any detail anymore nothing it's all this turns into a giant
pastel painting that's right everyone nzxt they're making gaming monitors now
but i don't want this 27 inch model no no i want
the big boy 32 curved
it is a i should probably talk about specs a little bit it's the canvas
32q it's a 1440p 165 hertz i believe
gaming display yep with one millisecond response time uh this is the curved
screen 32 inches my only
concern is that 32 inches for a 1440p
resolution you're kind of on the very edge of pixel density that you want for
basically anything i mean it'll work still but i don't know i'm a little
concerned let's see if that concern rings true or not it's got HDR 10 but
it doesn't say whether that's vasa certified HDR 400 business certified HDR
600 1000 whatever i have no idea how bright
this thing gets um the sdr should get to almost 400 nits though which isn't
terrible i think it's like 350 cdm squared let's get this guy out of here
power cable HDMI cable don't know if
it's 2.1 don't know if this has 2.1 probably doesn't because it's just 1440p
usb usbc DisplayPort
power brick that's a lot of cables it is a lot of cables especially with the big
recent trend uh that sony and someone else did eve where they don't sorry doe
uh where they don't want to include the cables i like that these guys have given
us a ton of stuff here i can't remember what the prices but i'll let you know
and i'll tell you if that's a good deal or not here it is
how sweet it is oh we got the white panel for this one cool one thing that's
pretty neat is uh nzxt is actually giving you the option of getting this
thing without a stand because it is just your regular 100 by 100 vase amount so
you can buy the display itself if you've already got an ARM or if you already
have a wall mount that you want to put it on and then if you want to buy the
stand because you don't want to put it on a mount of some kind you can buy that
too and then get them at the same time i'm kind of for that trend because a lot
of the time stands just sit in their box and they're never used anyway but this
means that i can't take this thing out of the out of the box without the stand
so luckily we've got the white stand to match our
white panel well white housing for the panel and you can get these in both
white or black the only difference is i think the white one costs like 20 more
which is kind of weird but whatever take that as you will i'm not getting
involved just to clarify the stand itself costs
about the same it's just the panel and the housing for it that it'll cost you
an extra 20 bucks if you want the white version you get a
little you don't need what there's instructions for the stand oh it's for
mounting the monitor
i have one minor annoyance this is incredibly minor
the shade of white compared to here
is ever so slightly different it's different it is right just a little bit
it shows on camera pretty good too okay cool perfect the stand is like kind of
beigey yeah another one's more pure white
yeah we go look at this
that looks pretty good it's a 1 500 r curvature which isn't too aggressive but
it's also not too minor either yeah i think i could get used to this
it's a borderless design is what they're calling it and the stand can do
a bunch of stuff okay this is a lot better we actually installed this the 27
inch on the stand they come in small medium and large at different price
points you definitely want to get the right stand for the right size monitor
when we put the 27 inch on the medium stand it wouldn't sink down it would as
soon as i'd push it down it would just spring right back up so keep that in mind you might be able to
adjust the spring in this but that's not so common in stands it's more of a monitor ARM kind of thing one other
key thing that i'm already in love with
is one there's a hint of nzxt purple on the
inside of the navigation nipple but
something that these guys have done that i haven't noticed on anyone else's
displays is it's rubber so it's actually really easy to use and your hand doesn't
slip like at all when using this thing so kudos nzxt i actually
really like that already otherwise another big nice thing for a lot of
people is the branding is super minimal you can barely see the nzxt logo on the
back and then you can barely see it on the front here as well
because they've just kind of gone with a like stamped kind of look instead of a
big painted logo or whatever we can swivel
which is great and we can tilt
which is great and there's height adjustment which is great
there's a couple minor things as well the swivel action is all on the base of
the stand which is pretty sweet and apparently the smaller version the mount
for the 27 inch guy that can actually
pivot so buy the one you want for the
purpose that you want to use it for if you want portrait don't get the big guy
another great thing is that it's all labeled correctly so i don't have to go
and look at the box to tell you guys what's on here it's got displayport HDMI
two HDMI ports i think they're 2.0 instead of 2.1 but it's not 4k so that's
fine it's got a type c port a headphone jack usb upstream with the usb and then
usb 3.0 two ports it looks like and the dc power adapter a great part about that
USB-C port as well is that it's also
uh displayport so if you want to come in and hook up a
laptop or something to the screen and all it's got is usbc displayport stuff
you can do that with this guy it's looking pretty good but not as good as our sponsor grammarly
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one of the biggest problems with modern monitors is you tend to have to pay a
hefty price for good HDR 60 hertz 165 all right
hey keep changing says HDR HDR is going
it does 10 bit that's pretty good you're going to see
this a lot when you're trying to hook up HDR it's not going to do proper 10 bit
at higher refresh rates like 165 even the alienware qt OLED i have if you'd
want to do the 175 hertz you can't get 10 bit color so you got to go down to
144. either way 165 8-bit color it's
still going to look pretty decent um let's see how the HDR looks though
this is not HDR so i told this one i like the deer i
like the deer it's the flattest image i've seen all the time
look at the background i know they look terrible turn off eight bit you have to turn off
eight bits ah i can see the band the color me too i
know we're seeing some really bad banding when we're trying to run HDR at
a higher refresh rate so i'm gonna lower it down to like 60 to see if the HDR
experience is any better because there's nothing wrong with switching to like 60
frames per second for when you're watching content and then bumping it up
for when you want to gain it's not as bad it's not as bad but it's still there
oh no why is it even doing that
we've watched this content on more expensive screens and it doesn't really
do this uh we did get it to go to 10 bit color when we go down to 120 hertz so
you could just lower it to 120 instead of 60
but it's not the nicest HDR experience
no let me rephrase that it's a bad HDR experience if you're
looking for an HDR display i'm not saying this is a bad monitor in
general but it's not the best for HDR
the 32-inch curved is a va panel you
might get a better experience on the 27-inch ips panel but
yeah i don't know i'm just going to turn HDR off we'll play an sdr it should
still get to about 300 nits peak brightness and sdr which is not bad it's
playable for those of you unfamiliar with HDR it's basically the idea of
taking individual spots in the scene and
brightening those up so that you have a high dynamic range
you've got really bright brights and you've got really dark darks
the problem here is that it's like it's trying to tone map it weirdly where it's
like oh we need these highlights here but then you lose all this weird detail
in the trees as it tries to like brighten up that part of the image a lot
of panels are edge lit and this this one's probably edgelit as well and if
it's just a single zone then it
basically just makes the whole panel brighter that doesn't usually look very
good but then when you get like six dimming zones
usually they're columns when you only have about six of them you get these
weird like bright columns and it doesn't look good either so unless you have at
least like 16 zones to go like here like
that and even that's not enough you need like 100 you need like 96 zones like on the
end zone for it to look remotely good so unfortunately don't buy this for HDR i'm
sorry i'm not saying it's a bad monitor but it's really not good for HDR so
we're just going to turn off we're using a quick ppi calculator here
and as you can see with a 31.5 inch screen
at 1440p this is kind of the max that you want to
go in terms of screen size to resolution because we're down to
just barely 93 pixels per inch
it's not terrible like if i it takes me a while before i get a screen door
effect but you can see it if this was 4k i think that ends up being closer to 135
ppi or something like that uh you really want like if we did a 27
inch screen we're over 100 and that's what you really want is over 100 yeah 108 so 27
inches is kind of the biggest i'll go for 1440p one of the cool things about
buying either an nzxt or a Corsair product is uh you get their whole like
product suite it all syncs up really well instead of using the navigation
nipple to bring up your osd i think we can change a few things in cam which is
pretty cool you will have to have your usb b
hooked into your pc but it looks like it's displaying everything we've got a
display resolution at 165 hertz our usb
input is detected we've got our normal response time set to normal uh
fast is okay fastest usually results in
a bunch of badness that you don't want oh cool you can change the gamma from
here that's actually pretty sweet what's 2.4 look like not much different
uh oh okay that's right all right cool cool it does work
brightness crank it
crank the contrast okay i'll leave the contrast at 50. that's fine uh but this
brightness at 100 like this is this is pretty good it's probably about 300 nits so
saturation sharpness yeah this is actually great
that you can just change all of this stuff from here because it's normally
frustrating to try to go through on-screen displays
especially when you don't have something as good as a navigation nipple i don't
know how color accurate this thing is out of the box it does 89 of dc ip3 and
it does 98 or 99 of srgb
but you could totally calibrate it you can also add a ton of different profiles
to this thing so let's say you want to watch movies and you want to change the
color profile for that so that things look a bit more filmmakery you can do
that and then you can make a new profile for gaming that automatically goes to
like a higher refresh rate and maybe it ups the response time if you want to go
fast instead of normal it also has some auto dimming stuff so you can set it
where oh let's say it's 10 pm and you want your monitor to be a bit dimmer
because the lights are out you can do that you can set up another profile for
gaming and then it'll automatically switch to the gaming profile when you
launch a game pretty cool stuff another thing to note we got a little lazy with
the usb cable but our power
all right our power and our DisplayPort are cable managed through the stand and
if you can lift these up you get them kind of like really out of the way i
actually really like this method the best because it's very easy to put
cables through there some are more hidden but then you've got to like
really force the cable through and anything bigger like a displayport cable
is always a bit of a pain to try to actually fit it through and get it cable
managed and i like the stand i think it fits in with pretty much anything um i'm
a really big fan of these just like square bases and set it down because you
can then use this as part of your desk say you have little figurines or
something on your desk and you want to put them somewhere well you don't have to worry about legs uh getting in the
way of that you can just be like oh it's a flat surface
put them all along there so i do like it
as for the panel itself
i wish it was ultra wide i think that's that's my biggest complaint is if you're
gonna be this big anyway i'd much rather
they just shrunk it a bit made it wider and then went with uh 21x9 1440p
ultrawide instead if i'm playing counter-strike and i gotta do a fast flick
it's not the best you see how blurry everything is is that not just regular blur no
a good display won't do this it'll stay crystal clear the whole time the reality
is when you're just moving around normally it's totally okay
someone died there i can't emote oh wait what i get kisses
there's eight different price points because of the different combinations of
white or black or with or without stand or size for the setup that you see in
front of you for the 32 inch white screen and the white stand it's 449
i would still definitely
go for the 27 inch ips though personally if you
want to save a bit of money it's not too bad you can get the 27 inch version the
white one with the stand for 379.99 so 380 dollars and it's 450 for
the 32 inch guy if you want an even cheaper price what
you can do is you can buy just the panel for 320 dollars
for the 27 inch black version that's not bad at 320 i'd be okay with buying this
monitor any more than that
i'm not so sure i can't tell you guys if i want to recommend this one or not
because i'm really worried that the va panel is going to be just too blurry
however we got to check the ips it might fix this problem let's do it it's better
it's not perfect it's not great
people really said this is like good motion clarity it definitely i can see
the wall stays where it is though here whereas before it turned into an entirely just green mess and same thing
with this house up here i can see the pink move instead of it kind of starting
to blur with the blue of that house it's not perfect on the 27-inch ips
panel but it is markedly better so i would personally suggest that
especially if you're on a budget i would get the 27 inch version i think you're
gonna just get a much better picture with this and that's what i would personally go for
thanks for watching everyone this is nzxt's canvas display not bad if you
want to take a look at another display we did check out the ultra gear that was a fun video
thanks for watching get out of here good idea david okay
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