WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.283 (grunts) (box hits table) 00:00:03.283 --> 00:00:06.340 - It's like they only send over the biggest monitors. 00:00:06.340 --> 00:00:08.603 This is the Acer CG437K. 00:00:10.530 --> 00:00:16.930 A large format gaming display. UHD 4K 3840 by 2160 resolution. 00:00:16.930 --> 00:00:20.350 NVIDIA G-SYNC, this is just G-SYNC compatible, 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. 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:30.560 One millisecond response time, but it's visual response boost. 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:33.820 That's a motion blur reduction mode kinda like ULMB. 00:00:33.820 --> 00:00:37.440 So that means it's only getting at one millisecond with this mode turned on. 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:41.480 These panels themselves cannot do one millisecond gray to gray response time. 00:00:41.480 --> 00:00:46.550 VA cannot do that. Then we got display HDR 1000 certification. 00:00:46.550 --> 00:00:51.230 That's awesome. And these specs right here are kind of derivatives of that. 00:00:51.230 --> 00:00:56.230 And 30 Watts of charging through a USB-C port. 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.210 30 Watts is not enough to charge a laptop or anything. 00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:04.180 But meh, maybe it's good for your phone or it can't hurt. Whoa. 00:01:04.180 --> 00:01:06.693 Some RGB light strips, our remote. 00:01:08.360 --> 00:01:11.183 And what is this? This is the power cable, 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:17.357 standard stuff. (grunts) 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.290 I used to think Linus just made all these grunting sounds 00:01:23.290 --> 00:01:27.423 to make it more dramatic. But now I know, he's just old. 00:01:28.590 --> 00:01:29.970 Get this thing outta here. 00:01:31.721 --> 00:01:34.740 (box hits ground) (bleeping) Now it's upside down. 00:01:34.740 --> 00:01:36.983 More cables fell out. DisplayPort cable, 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.280 USB type C cable, another DisplayPort cable. 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 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.290 and a USB type B cable. 00:01:50.290 --> 00:01:53.370 This is for hooking up the USB hub. 00:01:53.370 --> 00:01:58.840 Okay, here we go. It appears that the stand is already on there, 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:00.123 that's kinda nice. 00:02:04.552 --> 00:02:05.385 Whoa. 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.580 That's huge, man. When I was a kid, 43 inches was like 00:02:13.810 --> 00:02:17.590 not many people had a TV that big. 27 inches was normal, 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:21.002 36 was like pretty big and 42 was like woo, bit TV person. 00:02:21.002 --> 00:02:24.740 Pretty interesting looking back. this stand is pretty high quality. 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:28.053 This is metal, and it's just bolted in, three screws each. 00:02:29.130 --> 00:02:32.513 This feels pretty stable, well, it does it? It's kind of, 00:02:33.510 --> 00:02:38.173 no, it's pretty good. A big gamery kina back to it. 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. 00:02:45.450 --> 00:02:49.770 Oh, it's pretty heavy. There's some accessible side IO here. 00:02:49.770 --> 00:02:53.530 It's two HDMI 2.0 ports and then some USB ports. 00:02:53.530 --> 00:02:57.330 This monitor has two USB 3s and two USB 2s. 00:02:57.330 --> 00:03:02.180 Down here though, the main IO you've got your USB type B, 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, 00:03:07.722 --> 00:03:11.950 two more USB type As and two display ports. 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. 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:21.570 But, in order to get that, you need to run two DisplayPort cables. 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 00:03:26.770 --> 00:03:30.900 chroma sub sampling, which is a trade-off that you do get with some other monitors. 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 00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:38.080 and then the power plug. Ohhh, 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. 00:03:49.610 --> 00:03:53.170 I guess they know who their target audience is, don't they? 00:03:53.170 --> 00:03:56.660 The type C port does carry DisplayPort over it, but you're only gonna get 00:03:56.660 --> 00:04:00.840 a maximum of up to 60 Hertz with that, so... (hits ground) 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.910 I gotta mess with these RGB strips first because I've seen 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. 00:04:09.290 --> 00:04:11.243 Yeah, they're magnetic a little. 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 00:04:17.870 --> 00:04:21.660 and not on the monitor. No, but there's, I'm pretty sure there's ports 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:24.463 to plug this into. If we pull this off, 00:04:25.630 --> 00:04:30.103 there's headers there for my lamp belts to plug into. 00:04:31.950 --> 00:04:36.340 Tada. - Who put all this, who put all these led strips on it? 00:04:36.340 --> 00:04:40.810 - It comes with them. - Really? - But it doesn't come with any adhesive on them 00:04:40.810 --> 00:04:43.060 and this has a magnetic, so you have to just- 00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:47.330 - You gotta be kidding me. - You download their software and then you can 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. 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- 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. 00:05:01.579 --> 00:05:04.740 - But why would you, but why would you not? - Because the world is your oyster, 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. 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. 00:05:13.938 --> 00:05:18.120 This is so tacked on. This is a $1,300 monitor. 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:19.013 Oh, another peel. 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. 00:05:27.020 --> 00:05:32.320 Everything comes with batteries. This is brutal. Light sensors, this monitor has an ambient light sensor, 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, 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:42.420 which is what I expected. But we can overclock that to 144, so let's try. 00:05:42.420 --> 00:05:46.580 Oh no. Well they don't guarantee a 144 Hertz overclock, I guess. 00:05:46.580 --> 00:05:49.980 Oh, maybe that's why I didn't work. It thinks I have multiple displays on. 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, 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, 00:06:01.400 --> 00:06:05.870 only one monitor is recognized, and it's refreshing at 144 Hertz. 00:06:05.870 --> 00:06:09.620 All right, now we're gonna check out the HDR experience with cinema. 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, 00:06:14.440 --> 00:06:18.660 and impressively, the black areas are quite dark. 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, 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 00:06:31.890 --> 00:06:35.530 and, smaller things like a mouse cursor, will they be bright? 00:06:35.530 --> 00:06:40.030 - Right. - See the light hitting that balloon and that lamp over there, that's pretty good. 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 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 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.140 can be annoying because even when you're on your desktop, 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. 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. 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. 00:07:08.370 --> 00:07:12.150 And if you're spending $1,300, maybe top of the top HDR what you want. 00:07:12.150 --> 00:07:15.810 In conclusion, it's a pretty sweet monitor. If you like 16 by 9. 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 00:07:21.030 --> 00:07:24.070 isn't really gonna help you in productivity situations. 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. 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 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.380 with your suggestions of other products that you want us to cover.