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you guys know i hate to be the bearer of bad news

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yeah you're fired you're fired you're gonna have to be fired you're not

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allowed to work here anymore oh bad news i already quit

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you're fired but here it is the world is

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just gonna have to wait a little longer than originally expected for 4k monitors

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to dominate the mainstream why well

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because gaming ultrawides just got a little closer to your price range the

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vast from mass drop is a 35 inch 3440 by

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1440 100 hertz freesync ultra wide aimed

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at gamers for a hundred and fifty dollars less than the one that dropped

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3.8 million jaws just nine months ago so

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to hit this price did they like

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out cheap the korean brands or did they just

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cheap out well i'll tell you who didn't cheap out

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rose will you can check out their neon k85 gaming keyboard with mechanical

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switches and m53 gaming mouse with up to 4000 dpi sensitivity at the links below

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oh man i shouldn't have that strudel so with the vast mass drop set out to

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strike the perfect balance between features and cost and

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you can tell by just looking at it strips of gray anodized aluminum accent

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the parts that you can see interrupted only by a deliberately dim

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power led and the rest is simple black

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plastic much of it glossy though for some reason that i don't care what the

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reason is because no reason is good enough all the i o is thankfully on the

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side of the monitor so you don't have to go through this every time you want to

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plug something in but it's pretty basic no usb hub no

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DisplayPort over usb type c no HDMI out

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no magnetic paper clip holder just a pass-through headphone jack one

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displayport 1.2 port one HDMI 2.0 and

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two more HDMI 1.4 ports that actually

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won't run past 50 hertz at native resolution but could be good for sources

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like game consoles that run at lower resolutions or

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like picture in picture if you want to fight

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your way through the inexplicably horrible on-screen display navigation to

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be the first person to use that feature since 1998 ergonomics is where we get

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our claim in the video title technically there are other monitors priced the same

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as this one but you'd have to buy a third-party monitor mount to get the

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features of the vast it doesn't swivel

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but it has 20 degrees of tilt it's got a

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gas spring actuated 11 centimeters of height adjustment and it's even got 90

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degrees of pivot making it perfect for

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ultra tall gaming

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or for browsing reddit more efficiently than ever before but seriously

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massdrop's positioning of the vast as a gaming display does seem to be mostly

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justified it's using a va panel boasting two millisecond overdriven pixel

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response times and while compared to lg's similarly priced gaming ultra wide

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it's running at only 100hz versus

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hertz it's doing so at a much higher resolution and then compared to

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offerings from ASUS and acer that also

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run at 3440x1440 you are giving up g-sync support but you

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are paying only half as much so how the hamburgers did

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massdrop manage to undercut the big dogs so handily well their video promoting

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this product seems to suggest that it had to do with choosing the appropriate

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technology with the two millisecond response time and the 100hz refresh rate

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of their va panel from auo being and this is a direct quote just as fast as

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any tn panel and it has color performance that's on par with

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first-rate ips panels okay massdrop i love you guys

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um you sponsored this show you sent me this dope ass monitor to check out so i

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really hate to do this but that is a big load of crap and in my opinion that

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video needs to be pulled your monitor delivers a pretty great gaming

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experience for all the reasons that it would on paper

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va panels including yours do actually deliver noticeably better

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contrast than competing technologies outside of OLED and they definitely have

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better color accuracy and viewing angles than tn and at this price it's a killer

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value but its pixel response times are

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nowhere near a 1 millisecond response

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time 240 hertz tn display like ASUS's

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rog swift pg258q no matter how much

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overdrive you apply at a hundred hertz i mean it's good for a 1440p ultra wide

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but it's on the low end of high refresh rate

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and 100 coverage of the srgb color space

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does not make it as color accurate as a

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premium ips i'm not mad because the

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product is bad it's not bad in fact it

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scored very well in our battery of color and contrast tests courtesy of the folks

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over at portrait i just don't like the way that certain

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aspects of it are being positioned as specifically great for gaming while

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others are being glossed over freesync for example is a super marketing bullet

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point but in practical terms running aaa

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titles on AMD's highest end graphics card today if you can get one

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at decent settings slash native resolution you would frequently be below

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the 49 hertz minimum refresh rate for adaptive refresh and then when that

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happened you'd experience stutter lag and tearing as though you didn't have it

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at all so to be clear none of what i

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just said prevents me from recommending that you go buy this product because

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ignoring the marketing the vast is arguably the best bang for the buck

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gaming ultra wide on the market

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