today we're going to be doing a very very cool unboxing this is the Samsung
SyncMaster md23 X3 they should just call
it like the Goliath or something because
that would be a lot easier to remember and it would also be a lot more
descriptive I mean look at the size of the Box this is a monitor it's so heavy
the only way to get it here into this room was to take it on that cart and the
only way to get it up on the table is by humiliating Myself by trying to lift
something that's clearly way too heavy for me okay there
we go so what this is is it is three
monitors in one I'm going to let that sink in for a
minute while I try to figure out how to
get this out of the box look at this it
actually has clamps on the box like like you know like don't make
me give you the clamps like those kinds of clamps no it's not that kind of clamps
but I have two more on the other side here so I'm just removing those because
there's actually and I could tell this when I lifted it up there's actually a a
box that slides over top okay so that is
all packed with foam and uh there's some
kind of documentation here which we'll probably need all right
so this is going this is going to be a long unboxing just brace yourselves guys
because uh it's a bit of an adventure I've never unboxed three monitors in one
box before so it's a challenge but I
like an unboxing challenge I've also never encountered
clamps on a box before so here we are
what's this we got limited warranty which is three years Parts 3 years labor
you can either carry it in or ship it in they will not pick it up from you which
is pretty much standard we have an assembly guide and it's like wow it's
actually pretty hardcore oh no it's okay because it has like 16 different
languages so the English is the first line but let's actually see how how many
steps there are so there's at least five s nine oh no okay so this is only if uh
if it's 2x3 oh 2x3 okay hold on so we have 1x3
here we are so 1x3 pivot so that oh no
we're not doing that either oh Okay cool so you can put it that is the way I
would use it that's legit um but you can also do 1x3 non pivot so there's 11
steps involved in that one so you can put it together a few different ways all
right last but not least we have a uh warranty statement thing again okay
and then we have a disc which has their Magic Eye software magic oh Magic bright
magic tune and that is all we really
need to know about that okay so let's put that out of the way and then let's
keep going with the unboxing so here's a
box pretty substantial got some uh got
some heavy stuff in there so pull out the knife again break some more seals
cuz that's what I do oh I missed
nice wow so you know most monitors yeah
they got you know they got included cable right got included power cord this
one comes with one two three standard
computer power cables all right it comes
with one two computer power cable
extension cords it comes
with I'll figure those out later it comes with at least one DisplayPort
cable it comes okay it comes with one DisplayPort cable
two single link DVI so that is standard
DVI cables uh one USB
cable another USB cable so that is two USB
cables
uh a what appears to be
remote all right so this is a remote for
controlling uh something about the monitors I saw this mentioned on the
Samsung site but I'm definitely going to have to show you guys how this works uh
outside of the unboxing but it looks like there's no onscreen display display
cuz you've got things like brightness and contrast controls right here on this
little remote it connects via USB so I'm not really sure where it plugs into but
we'll figure that out later okay and then we've got uh these look like they
almost look like
magnets I don't know if I have anything metal to try this on no they're not
magnets okay well we'll figure out what they are later then all right but we
have a few of them we have 1 2 3 4 5 six
six of them okay that's cool I'm
down then we have uh whatever these are
these look like some kind of a bracket don't do that with them evidently don't
know what that is so these are these are brackets that oh yeah there we go so
they go like this all right how many of those do we
have we have one two three four we have
four of those okay and then we have lots of screws so
these are the a screws and we have B
screws all right that is the hardware oh no last but not least we oh we have some
cable management stuff which is great because we have a lot of cables all
right so that's that's the accessories you know what we'll actually just kind
of we'll throw all this back in here to
keep it out of the way while we have a look at the monitor
itself okay next we have LCD panels
Galore so we have three panels first one
is here so let's go ahead and uh from the
pictures I've seen of these they actually look more like like a
professional LCD panel than like a monitor like based on the like look at
look at the industrial design on the back like these are just like hardcore
so you've got what appears to be uh Visa
compatible that looks like what is it 100 by 100 uh on the back might be 75x
75 can't tell and then you've got four additional mounting holes here you've
also got like sort of like random screws
and stuff you've got a lot more uh labeled screw holes all over the back of
the monitor all right also on the back of the monitor we have some ventilation
holes here at the top that's where all the electronics are inside and then at
the bottom we will find all of our input options so here's one of the here
actually I don't want to put this down directly on the table so I'm just going
to pick that back up
okay wow so here are the interfaces at
the bottom of the monitor so we have VGA please don't use that please please do
not buy a $2,000 monitor setup and plug it in Via VGA please okay then we have
DVI DisplayPort so either of these are going to be perfectly legitimate options
and so the reason they've included two DVI cables and one DisplayPort C cable
is because as you may or may not have guessed by now this is really intended
for use with AMD's ifinity technology so
that means you can plug in two of the monitors via DVI and the third one will
have to be DisplayPort since they are DisplayPort ready that's awesome it's
perfect for ifinity next you've got USB
so this one says oh this is interesting so you've got two USBS here one of them
is control out and the other one is
control in I'm going to go ahead and guess that's something to do with that
remote control thing that we saw this is a monitor selection button so
we'll have to figure out what that does too and next we have a power input as
well as a power switch and this is good because I called those extension cords
but because this has a power out that's shaped like a p like a PC power cord
like a um I guess what would that be female like a female PC power cord you
can actually just daisy chain one monitor over to the next one in order to
make things as tidy as possible but we haven't even gotten to the part
of this thing that is so cool check out
how thin the bezel is on this monitor so
I don't remember the specs uh I did read
them before I started but I did assume that I would forget them and I brought
myself a handy dandy tape measure in order to measure them for you guys so
the bottom bezel is let's see that's half an inch so that's wow that's like
just over a/4 of an inch so whatever whatever that unit is I think those are
16 so like 516 of an inch on the
bottom on the top it looks like just a
little bit bigger yeah so that looks like about
616 okay so hold on you got one two three four five that's five either way
okay you know what you guys can figure this out you're really smart I'm holding
the tape measure up for you you can always look it up on the Samsung website now let's look at the side bezel
which are even thinner because that's the most critical one because that is
where you're going to be able to reduce the amount of bezel blocking your images
when you're running in AMD ifinity so
when you put these next to each other you're actually only going to have here
we'll grab another one since we conveniently have three of these
monitors packaged together like this all right so when you're running an
Infinity mode you're only going to have
wow these are heavy too the metal casing
uh the overall yeah industrial design of them is very uh it feels very beefy
unlike most consumer models that's it
that's all you have in terms of a bezel
in between your monitors so here the last thing I want to do for the unboxing
because as I can clearly see from the 11
Step assembly process that is in the user manual I'm not going to be building
this on camera so the last thing I want to show you guys is the stand it comes
with look at this thing is that a
monitor stand or what so here we'll put
that there want to have a look at the overall finish of it because this is the
kind of thing that when you buy a monitor that's two grand essentially
you're not buying a monitor you're buying like a piece of furniture
basically this has to sit on your desk it has to look absolutely Ely gorgeous
while providing the functionality that you paid for so let's have a look at how
the overall fit and finish of this is going to be oh that's
nice actually that's really nice so they what they've done is they've
uh they've put a gorgeous brushed finish
on the stand all right there's a little bit of
dust on it but don't let that uh don't let that take away from the experience
can you see that in the camera uh like the uh the the brushed
lines here try and get some different angles so you can see that it's just
wonderful looks really really nice and I
just want to have a quick look here at what else we have in terms of uh of
adjustments it looks like like it almost
looks height adjustable but the pressure that I'm putting on it doesn't seem to
be doing anything but I guess we'll figure that out later okay so just so
you guys can have a little quick look at the bottom it's got a bunch of rubber
feet on it so no matter how hard you try
it should be fairly difficult to knock this monitor over you can see the base
is quite wide even when you compare it to the size of the apparatus that will
be connected to it okay so it's about uh the width and change of one of the
single monitors so it's going to come out to about here looking at me it's
going to come out to about here and then up to about s of here like about my
armspan tip to tip is how wide this is going to be so thank you for checking
out actually hold on here let me check the box really quick and we'll go over
the specs somewhat so Samsung is advertising a
150,000 to1 Dynamic contrast ratio okay
these are 23 in I don't think I mentioned the resolution these are 1080p
monitors each so that means that they run at uh what is it 5760 I think by
1080 uh or if you're running them in portrait mode they're going to be
whatever 3 * 1080 is by 1920 okay uh what else do we have to say
about these guys before we wrap this up I think that is pretty much it I did
want to find out if it had a height adjustable
stand um but tell you what if you guys
can find out for me and post it in the comments under yes it's it's height
adjustable completely height adjustable uh well not completely I mean 100 100 mm
so 10 cm height adjustable and then also
you can uh those hinges that we unboxed before in the accessory package uh these
guys right here so what these are for is they actually attach uh two at each
hinge they attach to the back of the monitors and they allow you to adjust up
to a 30° angle the outer monitors for
your for your peripheral vision so you're looking more straight at them
instead of having it as like one big long flat panel so thank you for
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