(grunts) (box hits table)
- It's like they only send over the biggest monitors.
This is the Acer CG437K.
A large format gaming display. UHD 4K 3840 by 2160 resolution.
NVIDIA G-SYNC, this is just G-SYNC compatible,
not the hardcore one with the module. Over clockable to 144Hz, we'll talk about that later.
One millisecond response time, but it's visual response boost.
That's a motion blur reduction mode kinda like ULMB.
So that means it's only getting at one millisecond with this mode turned on.
These panels themselves cannot do one millisecond gray to gray response time.
VA cannot do that. Then we got display HDR 1000 certification.
That's awesome. And these specs right here are kind of derivatives of that.
And 30 Watts of charging through a USB-C port.
30 Watts is not enough to charge a laptop or anything.
But meh, maybe it's good for your phone or it can't hurt. Whoa.
Some RGB light strips, our remote.
And what is this? This is the power cable,
standard stuff. (grunts)
I used to think Linus just made all these grunting sounds
to make it more dramatic. But now I know, he's just old.
Get this thing outta here.
(box hits ground) (bleeping) Now it's upside down.
More cables fell out. DisplayPort cable,
USB type C cable, another DisplayPort cable.
I'll tell you why in a second. This looks like a bunch of extensions for the RGB cables
and a USB type B cable.
This is for hooking up the USB hub.
Okay, here we go. It appears that the stand is already on there,
that's kinda nice.
Whoa.
That's huge, man. When I was a kid, 43 inches was like
not many people had a TV that big. 27 inches was normal,
36 was like pretty big and 42 was like woo, bit TV person.
Pretty interesting looking back. this stand is pretty high quality.
This is metal, and it's just bolted in, three screws each.
This feels pretty stable, well, it does it? It's kind of,
no, it's pretty good. A big gamery kina back to it.
It looks like it's got some venting ventilation here. It looks like a cable management kind of hook right there.
Oh, it's pretty heavy. There's some accessible side IO here.
It's two HDMI 2.0 ports and then some USB ports.
This monitor has two USB 3s and two USB 2s.
Down here though, the main IO you've got your USB type B,
which will power the rest of this hub, for your your USB-C with, again, 30 Watts of charging,
two more USB type As and two display ports.
So this is a 4k monitor that advertises a refresh rate of up to 144 Hertz if you overclock it.
But, in order to get that, you need to run two DisplayPort cables.
Now it's clunkier cause you need to have two cables, but on the other hand, you're not gonna get any
chroma sub sampling, which is a trade-off that you do get with some other monitors.
Then we've got a power switch, (clicking) just like you see on your power supply on your computer
and then the power plug. Ohhh,
ah dang it. You can see on the front of the stand, there's actually a little icon showing controllers.
I guess they know who their target audience is, don't they?
The type C port does carry DisplayPort over it, but you're only gonna get
a maximum of up to 60 Hertz with that, so... (hits ground)
I gotta mess with these RGB strips first because I've seen
monitors that have RGB on the back, but I've never seen them come like sold separately.
Yeah, they're magnetic a little.
What the heck? How am I supposed to stick these on? Yeah, maybe I'm supposed to put these into my case
and not on the monitor. No, but there's, I'm pretty sure there's ports
to plug this into. If we pull this off,
there's headers there for my lamp belts to plug into.
Tada. - Who put all this, who put all these led strips on it?
- It comes with them. - Really? - But it doesn't come with any adhesive on them
and this has a magnetic, so you have to just-
- You gotta be kidding me. - You download their software and then you can
sync them up with League of Legends and everything. - No, but I just mean these are, these are addressable LEDs.
So there would be no reason to have more than one thing off the back and then just have little connecting, like-
- Oh yeah, if you daisy chain them. - Yeah. - Well you don't have to daisy chain them.
- But why would you, but why would you not? - Because the world is your oyster,
any configuration you want, they don't even have to be on the monitor. You can put them on your desk.
I don't know if I'm missing something, but this is the most half-baked RGB solution I've ever seen.
This is so tacked on. This is a $1,300 monitor.
Oh, another peel.
Oh, I didn't even put the batteries in this thing yet. I don't think this thing comes with batteries.
Everything comes with batteries. This is brutal. Light sensors, this monitor has an ambient light sensor,
which I would guess is in here somewhere. So it looks like the native refresh rate is 120 Hertz,
which is what I expected. But we can overclock that to 144, so let's try.
Oh no. Well they don't guarantee a 144 Hertz overclock, I guess.
Oh, maybe that's why I didn't work. It thinks I have multiple displays on.
It's because there's a setting in the OSD. You go down to system, then on the second page,
there's 4k, 144 Hertz mode. You turn that on, and now if I go into display settings,
only one monitor is recognized, and it's refreshing at 144 Hertz.
All right, now we're gonna check out the HDR experience with cinema.
It's definitely on, you can see the brightness around those clouds. - Oh yeah, for sure, reflections on the armor,
and impressively, the black areas are quite dark.
Like not, it's not OLED inky black, but considering how bright some of these highlights are,
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
and, smaller things like a mouse cursor, will they be bright?
- Right. - See the light hitting that balloon and that lamp over there, that's pretty good.
So yep, it's definitely an HDR monitor. Maybe some of those little tiny highlights would be brighter
if you use the full array local dimming HDR monitor, which is like the top for HDR, but sometimes those monitors
can be annoying because even when you're on your desktop,
just moving the mouse around, you can have halos around it and just kind of looks weird.
And the viewing angles sometimes worse. So I wouldn't buy this monitor if HDR is what you want.
HDR is here and it's, it's very good. It's not top of the top.
And if you're spending $1,300, maybe top of the top HDR what you want.
In conclusion, it's a pretty sweet monitor. If you like 16 by 9.
Personally, I would way rather have a super ultra wide or even an ultra wide because this extra height
isn't really gonna help you in productivity situations.
But if you're watching 16 by nine content and playing 16 by nine games, this can be pretty cool.
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