you guys know i hate to be the bearer of bad news
yeah you're fired you're fired you're gonna have to be fired you're not
allowed to work here anymore oh bad news i already quit
you're fired but here it is the world is
just gonna have to wait a little longer than originally expected for 4k monitors
to dominate the mainstream why well
because gaming ultrawides just got a little closer to your price range the
vast from mass drop is a 35 inch 3440 by
1440 100 hertz freesync ultra wide aimed
at gamers for a hundred and fifty dollars less than the one that dropped
3.8 million jaws just nine months ago so
to hit this price did they like
out cheap the korean brands or did they just
cheap out well i'll tell you who didn't cheap out
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oh man i shouldn't have that strudel so with the vast mass drop set out to
strike the perfect balance between features and cost and
you can tell by just looking at it strips of gray anodized aluminum accent
the parts that you can see interrupted only by a deliberately dim
power led and the rest is simple black
plastic much of it glossy though for some reason that i don't care what the
reason is because no reason is good enough all the i o is thankfully on the
side of the monitor so you don't have to go through this every time you want to
plug something in but it's pretty basic no usb hub no
DisplayPort over usb type c no HDMI out
no magnetic paper clip holder just a pass-through headphone jack one
displayport 1.2 port one HDMI 2.0 and
two more HDMI 1.4 ports that actually
won't run past 50 hertz at native resolution but could be good for sources
like game consoles that run at lower resolutions or
like picture in picture if you want to fight
your way through the inexplicably horrible on-screen display navigation to
be the first person to use that feature since 1998 ergonomics is where we get
our claim in the video title technically there are other monitors priced the same
as this one but you'd have to buy a third-party monitor mount to get the
features of the vast it doesn't swivel
but it has 20 degrees of tilt it's got a
gas spring actuated 11 centimeters of height adjustment and it's even got 90
degrees of pivot making it perfect for
ultra tall gaming
or for browsing reddit more efficiently than ever before but seriously
massdrop's positioning of the vast as a gaming display does seem to be mostly
justified it's using a va panel boasting two millisecond overdriven pixel
response times and while compared to lg's similarly priced gaming ultra wide
it's running at only 100hz versus
hertz it's doing so at a much higher resolution and then compared to
offerings from ASUS and acer that also
run at 3440x1440 you are giving up g-sync support but you
are paying only half as much so how the hamburgers did
massdrop manage to undercut the big dogs so handily well their video promoting
this product seems to suggest that it had to do with choosing the appropriate
technology with the two millisecond response time and the 100hz refresh rate
of their va panel from auo being and this is a direct quote just as fast as
any tn panel and it has color performance that's on par with
first-rate ips panels okay massdrop i love you guys
um you sponsored this show you sent me this dope ass monitor to check out so i
really hate to do this but that is a big load of crap and in my opinion that
video needs to be pulled your monitor delivers a pretty great gaming
experience for all the reasons that it would on paper
va panels including yours do actually deliver noticeably better
contrast than competing technologies outside of OLED and they definitely have
better color accuracy and viewing angles than tn and at this price it's a killer
value but its pixel response times are
nowhere near a 1 millisecond response
time 240 hertz tn display like ASUS's
rog swift pg258q no matter how much
overdrive you apply at a hundred hertz i mean it's good for a 1440p ultra wide
but it's on the low end of high refresh rate
and 100 coverage of the srgb color space
does not make it as color accurate as a
premium ips i'm not mad because the
product is bad it's not bad in fact it
scored very well in our battery of color and contrast tests courtesy of the folks
over at portrait i just don't like the way that certain
aspects of it are being positioned as specifically great for gaming while
others are being glossed over freesync for example is a super marketing bullet
point but in practical terms running aaa
titles on AMD's highest end graphics card today if you can get one
at decent settings slash native resolution you would frequently be below
the 49 hertz minimum refresh rate for adaptive refresh and then when that
happened you'd experience stutter lag and tearing as though you didn't have it
at all so to be clear none of what i
just said prevents me from recommending that you go buy this product because
ignoring the marketing the vast is arguably the best bang for the buck
gaming ultra wide on the market
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