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today we're going to be doing a very very cool unboxing this is the Samsung

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SyncMaster md23 X3 they should just call

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it like the Goliath or something because

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that would be a lot easier to remember and it would also be a lot more

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descriptive I mean look at the size of the Box this is a monitor it's so heavy

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the only way to get it here into this room was to take it on that cart and the

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only way to get it up on the table is by humiliating Myself by trying to lift

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something that's clearly way too heavy for me okay there

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we go so what this is is it is three

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monitors in one I'm going to let that sink in for a

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minute while I try to figure out how to

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get this out of the box look at this it

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actually has clamps on the box like like you know like don't make

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me give you the clamps like those kinds of clamps no it's not that kind of clamps

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but I have two more on the other side here so I'm just removing those because

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there's actually and I could tell this when I lifted it up there's actually a a

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box that slides over top okay so that is

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all packed with foam and uh there's some

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kind of documentation here which we'll probably need all right

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so this is going this is going to be a long unboxing just brace yourselves guys

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because uh it's a bit of an adventure I've never unboxed three monitors in one

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box before so it's a challenge but I

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like an unboxing challenge I've also never encountered

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clamps on a box before so here we are

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what's this we got limited warranty which is three years Parts 3 years labor

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you can either carry it in or ship it in they will not pick it up from you which

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is pretty much standard we have an assembly guide and it's like wow it's

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actually pretty hardcore oh no it's okay because it has like 16 different

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languages so the English is the first line but let's actually see how how many

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steps there are so there's at least five s nine oh no okay so this is only if uh

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if it's 2x3 oh 2x3 okay hold on so we have 1x3

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here we are so 1x3 pivot so that oh no

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we're not doing that either oh Okay cool so you can put it that is the way I

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would use it that's legit um but you can also do 1x3 non pivot so there's 11

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steps involved in that one so you can put it together a few different ways all

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right last but not least we have a uh warranty statement thing again okay

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and then we have a disc which has their Magic Eye software magic oh Magic bright

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magic tune and that is all we really

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need to know about that okay so let's put that out of the way and then let's

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keep going with the unboxing so here's a

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box pretty substantial got some uh got

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some heavy stuff in there so pull out the knife again break some more seals

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cuz that's what I do oh I missed

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nice wow so you know most monitors yeah

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they got you know they got included cable right got included power cord this

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one comes with one two three standard

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computer power cables all right it comes

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with one two computer power cable

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extension cords it comes

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with I'll figure those out later it comes with at least one DisplayPort

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cable it comes okay it comes with one DisplayPort cable

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two single link DVI so that is standard

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DVI cables uh one USB

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cable another USB cable so that is two USB

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cables

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uh a what appears to be

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remote all right so this is a remote for

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controlling uh something about the monitors I saw this mentioned on the

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Samsung site but I'm definitely going to have to show you guys how this works uh

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outside of the unboxing but it looks like there's no onscreen display display

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cuz you've got things like brightness and contrast controls right here on this

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little remote it connects via USB so I'm not really sure where it plugs into but

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we'll figure that out later okay and then we've got uh these look like they

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almost look like

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magnets I don't know if I have anything metal to try this on no they're not

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magnets okay well we'll figure out what they are later then all right but we

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have a few of them we have 1 2 3 4 5 six

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six of them okay that's cool I'm

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down then we have uh whatever these are

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these look like some kind of a bracket don't do that with them evidently don't

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know what that is so these are these are brackets that oh yeah there we go so

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they go like this all right how many of those do we

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have we have one two three four we have

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four of those okay and then we have lots of screws so

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these are the a screws and we have B

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screws all right that is the hardware oh no last but not least we oh we have some

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cable management stuff which is great because we have a lot of cables all

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right so that's that's the accessories you know what we'll actually just kind

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of we'll throw all this back in here to

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keep it out of the way while we have a look at the monitor

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itself okay next we have LCD panels

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Galore so we have three panels first one

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is here so let's go ahead and uh from the

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pictures I've seen of these they actually look more like like a

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professional LCD panel than like a monitor like based on the like look at

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look at the industrial design on the back like these are just like hardcore

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so you've got what appears to be uh Visa

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compatible that looks like what is it 100 by 100 uh on the back might be 75x

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75 can't tell and then you've got four additional mounting holes here you've

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also got like sort of like random screws

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and stuff you've got a lot more uh labeled screw holes all over the back of

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the monitor all right also on the back of the monitor we have some ventilation

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holes here at the top that's where all the electronics are inside and then at

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the bottom we will find all of our input options so here's one of the here

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actually I don't want to put this down directly on the table so I'm just going

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to pick that back up

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okay wow so here are the interfaces at

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the bottom of the monitor so we have VGA please don't use that please please do

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not buy a $2,000 monitor setup and plug it in Via VGA please okay then we have

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DVI DisplayPort so either of these are going to be perfectly legitimate options

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and so the reason they've included two DVI cables and one DisplayPort C cable

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is because as you may or may not have guessed by now this is really intended

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for use with AMD's ifinity technology so

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that means you can plug in two of the monitors via DVI and the third one will

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have to be DisplayPort since they are DisplayPort ready that's awesome it's

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perfect for ifinity next you've got USB

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so this one says oh this is interesting so you've got two USBS here one of them

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is control out and the other one is

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control in I'm going to go ahead and guess that's something to do with that

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remote control thing that we saw this is a monitor selection button so

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we'll have to figure out what that does too and next we have a power input as

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well as a power switch and this is good because I called those extension cords

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but because this has a power out that's shaped like a p like a PC power cord

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like a um I guess what would that be female like a female PC power cord you

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can actually just daisy chain one monitor over to the next one in order to

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make things as tidy as possible but we haven't even gotten to the part

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of this thing that is so cool check out

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how thin the bezel is on this monitor so

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I don't remember the specs uh I did read

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them before I started but I did assume that I would forget them and I brought

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myself a handy dandy tape measure in order to measure them for you guys so

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the bottom bezel is let's see that's half an inch so that's wow that's like

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just over a/4 of an inch so whatever whatever that unit is I think those are

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16 so like 516 of an inch on the

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bottom on the top it looks like just a

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little bit bigger yeah so that looks like about

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616 okay so hold on you got one two three four five that's five either way

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okay you know what you guys can figure this out you're really smart I'm holding

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the tape measure up for you you can always look it up on the Samsung website now let's look at the side bezel

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which are even thinner because that's the most critical one because that is

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where you're going to be able to reduce the amount of bezel blocking your images

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when you're running in AMD ifinity so

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when you put these next to each other you're actually only going to have here

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we'll grab another one since we conveniently have three of these

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monitors packaged together like this all right so when you're running an

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Infinity mode you're only going to have

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wow these are heavy too the metal casing

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uh the overall yeah industrial design of them is very uh it feels very beefy

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unlike most consumer models that's it

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that's all you have in terms of a bezel

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in between your monitors so here the last thing I want to do for the unboxing

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because as I can clearly see from the 11

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Step assembly process that is in the user manual I'm not going to be building

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this on camera so the last thing I want to show you guys is the stand it comes

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with look at this thing is that a

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monitor stand or what so here we'll put

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that there want to have a look at the overall finish of it because this is the

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kind of thing that when you buy a monitor that's two grand essentially

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you're not buying a monitor you're buying like a piece of furniture

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basically this has to sit on your desk it has to look absolutely Ely gorgeous

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while providing the functionality that you paid for so let's have a look at how

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the overall fit and finish of this is going to be oh that's

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nice actually that's really nice so they what they've done is they've

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uh they've put a gorgeous brushed finish

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on the stand all right there's a little bit of

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dust on it but don't let that uh don't let that take away from the experience

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can you see that in the camera uh like the uh the the brushed

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lines here try and get some different angles so you can see that it's just

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wonderful looks really really nice and I

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just want to have a quick look here at what else we have in terms of uh of

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adjustments it looks like like it almost

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looks height adjustable but the pressure that I'm putting on it doesn't seem to

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be doing anything but I guess we'll figure that out later okay so just so

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you guys can have a little quick look at the bottom it's got a bunch of rubber

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feet on it so no matter how hard you try

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it should be fairly difficult to knock this monitor over you can see the base

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is quite wide even when you compare it to the size of the apparatus that will

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be connected to it okay so it's about uh the width and change of one of the

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single monitors so it's going to come out to about here looking at me it's

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going to come out to about here and then up to about s of here like about my

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armspan tip to tip is how wide this is going to be so thank you for checking

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out actually hold on here let me check the box really quick and we'll go over

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the specs somewhat so Samsung is advertising a

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150,000 to1 Dynamic contrast ratio okay

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these are 23 in I don't think I mentioned the resolution these are 1080p

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monitors each so that means that they run at uh what is it 5760 I think by

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1080 uh or if you're running them in portrait mode they're going to be

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whatever 3 * 1080 is by 1920 okay uh what else do we have to say

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about these guys before we wrap this up I think that is pretty much it I did

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want to find out if it had a height adjustable

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stand um but tell you what if you guys

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can find out for me and post it in the comments under yes it's it's height

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adjustable completely height adjustable uh well not completely I mean 100 100 mm

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so 10 cm height adjustable and then also

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you can uh those hinges that we unboxed before in the accessory package uh these

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guys right here so what these are for is they actually attach uh two at each

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hinge they attach to the back of the monitors and they allow you to adjust up

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to a 30° angle the outer monitors for

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your for your peripheral vision so you're looking more straight at them

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instead of having it as like one big long flat panel so thank you for

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