1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,283 (grunts) (box hits table) 2 00:00:03,283 --> 00:00:06,340 - It's like they only send over the biggest monitors. 3 00:00:06,340 --> 00:00:08,603 This is the Acer CG437K. 4 00:00:10,530 --> 00:00:16,930 A large format gaming display. UHD 4K 3840 by 2160 resolution. 5 00:00:16,930 --> 00:00:20,350 NVIDIA G-SYNC, this is just G-SYNC compatible, 6 00:00:20,350 --> 00:00:26,480 not the hardcore one with the module. Over clockable to 144Hz, we'll talk about that later. 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,560 One millisecond response time, but it's visual response boost. 8 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,820 That's a motion blur reduction mode kinda like ULMB. 9 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:37,440 So that means it's only getting at one millisecond with this mode turned on. 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,480 These panels themselves cannot do one millisecond gray to gray response time. 11 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:46,550 VA cannot do that. Then we got display HDR 1000 certification. 12 00:00:46,550 --> 00:00:51,230 That's awesome. And these specs right here are kind of derivatives of that. 13 00:00:51,230 --> 00:00:56,230 And 30 Watts of charging through a USB-C port. 14 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,210 30 Watts is not enough to charge a laptop or anything. 15 00:01:00,210 --> 00:01:04,180 But meh, maybe it's good for your phone or it can't hurt. Whoa. 16 00:01:04,180 --> 00:01:06,693 Some RGB light strips, our remote. 17 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,183 And what is this? This is the power cable, 18 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,357 standard stuff. (grunts) 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,290 I used to think Linus just made all these grunting sounds 20 00:01:23,290 --> 00:01:27,423 to make it more dramatic. But now I know, he's just old. 21 00:01:28,590 --> 00:01:29,970 Get this thing outta here. 22 00:01:31,721 --> 00:01:34,740 (box hits ground) (bleeping) Now it's upside down. 23 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:36,983 More cables fell out. DisplayPort cable, 24 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,280 USB type C cable, another DisplayPort cable. 25 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,120 I'll tell you why in a second. This looks like a bunch of extensions for the RGB cables 26 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,290 and a USB type B cable. 27 00:01:50,290 --> 00:01:53,370 This is for hooking up the USB hub. 28 00:01:53,370 --> 00:01:58,840 Okay, here we go. It appears that the stand is already on there, 29 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,123 that's kinda nice. 30 00:02:04,552 --> 00:02:05,385 Whoa. 31 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,580 That's huge, man. When I was a kid, 43 inches was like 32 00:02:13,810 --> 00:02:17,590 not many people had a TV that big. 27 inches was normal, 33 00:02:17,590 --> 00:02:21,002 36 was like pretty big and 42 was like woo, bit TV person. 34 00:02:21,002 --> 00:02:24,740 Pretty interesting looking back. this stand is pretty high quality. 35 00:02:24,740 --> 00:02:28,053 This is metal, and it's just bolted in, three screws each. 36 00:02:29,130 --> 00:02:32,513 This feels pretty stable, well, it does it? It's kind of, 37 00:02:33,510 --> 00:02:38,173 no, it's pretty good. A big gamery kina back to it. 38 00:02:39,722 --> 00:02:45,450 It looks like it's got some venting ventilation here. It looks like a cable management kind of hook right there. 39 00:02:45,450 --> 00:02:49,770 Oh, it's pretty heavy. There's some accessible side IO here. 40 00:02:49,770 --> 00:02:53,530 It's two HDMI 2.0 ports and then some USB ports. 41 00:02:53,530 --> 00:02:57,330 This monitor has two USB 3s and two USB 2s. 42 00:02:57,330 --> 00:03:02,180 Down here though, the main IO you've got your USB type B, 43 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:07,722 which will power the rest of this hub, for your your USB-C with, again, 30 Watts of charging, 44 00:03:07,722 --> 00:03:11,950 two more USB type As and two display ports. 45 00:03:11,950 --> 00:03:17,340 So this is a 4k monitor that advertises a refresh rate of up to 144 Hertz if you overclock it. 46 00:03:17,340 --> 00:03:21,570 But, in order to get that, you need to run two DisplayPort cables. 47 00:03:21,570 --> 00:03:26,770 Now it's clunkier cause you need to have two cables, but on the other hand, you're not gonna get any 48 00:03:26,770 --> 00:03:30,900 chroma sub sampling, which is a trade-off that you do get with some other monitors. 49 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:35,550 Then we've got a power switch, (clicking) just like you see on your power supply on your computer 50 00:03:35,550 --> 00:03:38,080 and then the power plug. Ohhh, 51 00:03:44,110 --> 00:03:49,610 ah dang it. You can see on the front of the stand, there's actually a little icon showing controllers. 52 00:03:49,610 --> 00:03:53,170 I guess they know who their target audience is, don't they? 53 00:03:53,170 --> 00:03:56,660 The type C port does carry DisplayPort over it, but you're only gonna get 54 00:03:56,660 --> 00:04:00,840 a maximum of up to 60 Hertz with that, so... (hits ground) 55 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,910 I gotta mess with these RGB strips first because I've seen 56 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:09,290 monitors that have RGB on the back, but I've never seen them come like sold separately. 57 00:04:09,290 --> 00:04:11,243 Yeah, they're magnetic a little. 58 00:04:13,110 --> 00:04:17,870 What the heck? How am I supposed to stick these on? Yeah, maybe I'm supposed to put these into my case 59 00:04:17,870 --> 00:04:21,660 and not on the monitor. No, but there's, I'm pretty sure there's ports 60 00:04:21,660 --> 00:04:24,463 to plug this into. If we pull this off, 61 00:04:25,630 --> 00:04:30,103 there's headers there for my lamp belts to plug into. 62 00:04:31,950 --> 00:04:36,340 Tada. - Who put all this, who put all these led strips on it? 63 00:04:36,340 --> 00:04:40,810 - It comes with them. - Really? - But it doesn't come with any adhesive on them 64 00:04:40,810 --> 00:04:43,060 and this has a magnetic, so you have to just- 65 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:47,330 - You gotta be kidding me. - You download their software and then you can 66 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:52,540 sync them up with League of Legends and everything. - No, but I just mean these are, these are addressable LEDs. 67 00:04:52,540 --> 00:04:57,527 So there would be no reason to have more than one thing off the back and then just have little connecting, like- 68 00:04:57,527 --> 00:05:01,579 - Oh yeah, if you daisy chain them. - Yeah. - Well you don't have to daisy chain them. 69 00:05:01,579 --> 00:05:04,740 - But why would you, but why would you not? - Because the world is your oyster, 70 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:08,270 any configuration you want, they don't even have to be on the monitor. You can put them on your desk. 71 00:05:08,270 --> 00:05:12,783 I don't know if I'm missing something, but this is the most half-baked RGB solution I've ever seen. 72 00:05:13,938 --> 00:05:18,120 This is so tacked on. This is a $1,300 monitor. 73 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,013 Oh, another peel. 74 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:27,020 Oh, I didn't even put the batteries in this thing yet. I don't think this thing comes with batteries. 75 00:05:27,020 --> 00:05:32,320 Everything comes with batteries. This is brutal. Light sensors, this monitor has an ambient light sensor, 76 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,980 which I would guess is in here somewhere. So it looks like the native refresh rate is 120 Hertz, 77 00:05:36,980 --> 00:05:42,420 which is what I expected. But we can overclock that to 144, so let's try. 78 00:05:42,420 --> 00:05:46,580 Oh no. Well they don't guarantee a 144 Hertz overclock, I guess. 79 00:05:46,580 --> 00:05:49,980 Oh, maybe that's why I didn't work. It thinks I have multiple displays on. 80 00:05:49,980 --> 00:05:55,020 It's because there's a setting in the OSD. You go down to system, then on the second page, 81 00:05:55,020 --> 00:06:01,400 there's 4k, 144 Hertz mode. You turn that on, and now if I go into display settings, 82 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,870 only one monitor is recognized, and it's refreshing at 144 Hertz. 83 00:06:05,870 --> 00:06:09,620 All right, now we're gonna check out the HDR experience with cinema. 84 00:06:09,620 --> 00:06:14,440 It's definitely on, you can see the brightness around those clouds. - Oh yeah, for sure, reflections on the armor, 85 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,660 and impressively, the black areas are quite dark. 86 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:25,483 Like not, it's not OLED inky black, but considering how bright some of these highlights are, 87 00:06:27,150 --> 00:06:31,890 I am really impressed for an edge lit display, I'll say that much. - What I want to see now is go into to a game 88 00:06:31,890 --> 00:06:35,530 and, smaller things like a mouse cursor, will they be bright? 89 00:06:35,530 --> 00:06:40,030 - Right. - See the light hitting that balloon and that lamp over there, that's pretty good. 90 00:06:40,030 --> 00:06:45,440 So yep, it's definitely an HDR monitor. Maybe some of those little tiny highlights would be brighter 91 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:52,100 if you use the full array local dimming HDR monitor, which is like the top for HDR, but sometimes those monitors 92 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:55,140 can be annoying because even when you're on your desktop, 93 00:06:55,140 --> 00:06:58,220 just moving the mouse around, you can have halos around it and just kind of looks weird. 94 00:06:58,220 --> 00:07:03,840 And the viewing angles sometimes worse. So I wouldn't buy this monitor if HDR is what you want. 95 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:08,370 HDR is here and it's, it's very good. It's not top of the top. 96 00:07:08,370 --> 00:07:12,150 And if you're spending $1,300, maybe top of the top HDR what you want. 97 00:07:12,150 --> 00:07:15,810 In conclusion, it's a pretty sweet monitor. If you like 16 by 9. 98 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:21,030 Personally, I would way rather have a super ultra wide or even an ultra wide because this extra height 99 00:07:21,030 --> 00:07:24,070 isn't really gonna help you in productivity situations. 100 00:07:24,070 --> 00:07:29,630 But if you're watching 16 by nine content and playing 16 by nine games, this can be pretty cool. 101 00:07:29,630 --> 00:07:34,720 So thanks for watching guys. If you liked this video, get subscribed, hit the like button and hit us up in the comments section 102 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,380 with your suggestions of other products that you want us to cover.