what's up we're at Acer's booth at CES 2023 and they've got their own version
of what we've seen from a few companies we've got their new x45 Predator model
it's a 45-inch OLED display running at
240 hertz 1440p it's pretty sweet this
thing is basically what we've seen from a lot of other companies it's probably
LG supplying the panel similar to the Corsair Xenia on Flex except we're not
able to flex it but because of that we're probably also not going to see the
flex tax that they've put on those monitors of like three or four hundred
dollars at least so honestly this is now like becoming available for people it's
crazy I never would have expected a 45-inch OLED to be available to the
public in this day and age at the prices that we're seeing we don't know the
exact MSRP of this yet but if it's at
all competitive with everyone else it's gonna be at least you know expensive
don't get me wrong for those of us who want to splurge though a little bit on
our display and her graphics card this might be the one I mean it's going to be
beautiful it's got 98.5 coverage of DC
ip3 it's running at the Lightning Fast pixel response time that OLED is going
to give you it's also going to get you an incredible HDR experience with every
self-emissive pixel acting as its own dimming Zone unlike mini LED which
honestly is starting to get eclipsed even when it didn't really you know
stretch its legs all that much yeah 16.99 that's pretty much in line with
what we're seeing from other people that have this got basically this exact same
panel so if you like Acer for other reasons then honestly you're not going
to get screwed over in any way by going with this one one thing that I
absolutely love is this stand don't get me wrong it's big but it's also a big
screen so you're gonna need that to make sure it's nice and stable I'll be honest
I haven't played flight Sim I don't know the controls I just clicked ready to fly
and here we are and I can tell you it looks absolutely stunning like the
reality is it's really hard to go wrong when it comes to OLED it just looks so
good it's hard it's so hard to describe without actually showing it to you in
person and that's the one biggest problem about making videos about
displays is that I can't actually show you how good it might look if I didn't
mention it already it's going to hit 240 hertz which is crazy with the Lightning
Fast pixel response times of OLED it's just stunning the 800 are curvature as
well for a display this size is actually preferable at least to me personally
there are some who might want to argue that you know it's a bit too much but
when you're getting to this level of ultra wide and size I really don't think
so you want this curve here so you don't have to bend your neck every which way
to like see the corners of the screens and you're going to be kind of up close with this thing anyway USB a USB a USB B
USBC DisplayPort I'm guessing and why HDMI
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let's be real 45 inches a bit too big for a lot of people especially if you've
got a smaller desk we've got the x27u
here which is another 1440p display but also OLED and one of the things that I'm
actually really excited about is that we're seeing a lot more 1440p displays
this year than we have before and I think that's because they've just kind of realized like it's really hard to run
4K and on top of that like you're gonna
you're gonna be able to save a buck by going with 1440p resolution instead of a
4K resolution so I'm a big fan personally and especially when you're up
this close like 27 inches at 1440p is
pretty much perfect for me that's about 110 PPI if I remember correctly sorry
I'm not doing any of this uh like off camera right now this thing is also
going to hit 240 hertz it's got again like 98 99 coverage of DC ip3 it's got
Lightning Fast pixel response time thanks to it being OLED and both of
these displays are going to have freesync premium so you're going to get a really good variable refresh rate
experience if you need it we've got basically the same stand again but a
little smaller so it should have yeah essentially the same functionality which
is great yep fantastic
it will it will I'm not going to tilt this the whole I'm not going to Pivot
this the entire way because there's a bunch of cables plugged in and it's not
our displays but it does look like it's going to Pivot to 90 degrees if you want
to go portrait mode uh for i o it's not bad we've got a barrel plug for power uh
what looks like a headphone jack usb-a USB a USB B to connect to your PC USBC
might be power delivery might be DisplayPort I'm not sure and what we've
got here a DisplayPort and two HDMI ports so there's plenty of i o for
basically whatever you want to do I don't think there's a KVM on this one but it's also 10.99 not 16.99 so it's
significantly cheaper and you're still getting a absolutely mind-blowing level
of performance when it comes to 1440p gaming honestly OLED is just fantastic
these days one thing about OLED is that you can make the panels crazy thin
without losing any kind of performance or anything like that and on the back of
both of these displays we've got a like big Electronics control box and then the
actual panel though is like like razor thin along the edges here now I feel
perfectly fine maneuvering it and adjusting it in any way that's fine but
if you're a little nervous about that sort of thing then I don't know just
don't worry about it it's meant to be moved and whatnot you're good you're
good to go don't worry don't worry I promise it'll be fine it'll be fine if
you want to save a bit more you can go with the Nitro here it's their XV sorry
I've got to read this one off the sheet because you know monitor names it's an XV 27 5K P3 now if you do need 4K
because let's be real as much as I love 1440p and I think it's the right choice
for most Gamers 4K looks really good you guys it's it's beautiful
um if you want a 4K panel and OLED is
kind of Out Of Reach or you're afraid of burning and image retention and whatnot
mini LED is still a fantastic technology
another major advantage to this guy over the other two that we looked at is it
does have slightly more color gamut coverage with 99 of adobe RGB and it's
still going fast you guys like this thing is 160 Hertz with like one
millisecond response time it's got HDR 1000 it's probably hitting over a
thousand it's no problem thanks to mini LED and with over 500 zones you're
actually getting a pretty good dimming experience in a screen this size the
only problem with the Nitro that we're seeing here is that unlike our other two
that we looked at earlier this is coming out in Q2 of this year and I mean that
might change who knows uh it wasn't even on the list today we just they had it
out we saw it we're filming a video about it you know I love RGB look at
this it's a really nice diffusion strip that's arcing across the back here I'm a
really big fan it's a little understated they've also got a nice little cable
cover here and the stand looks like it can do basically the same as the other
ones it looks like it can pivot but once again we've got a bunch of cables here
so we're not going to do that as for the i o we've got similar i o for this one
with USB B two USB a ports a USB-C Port
DisplayPort and then two hdmis a little harder to take a look at this one sorry
cables are wrapped a little tighter than the other guys but the reality is you're
getting a pretty solid both i o and stand experience with any of these
displays so at the end of the day you've got to just pick whatever is in your
budget and whichever one is right for your experience thanks guys this is
Acer's booth at CES 2023 as you can see they've got a ton of other stuff here
too that we haven't really talked about much they've got pre-built they've got
some new speakers they've got some backpacks they've got a bunch of laptops
and portable screens over there too it all looks sick we're gonna try to cover
as much as we can but you know we only have so much time thanks for watching