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I really want a 280 Hz tandem OLED, but

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one that's affordable. Well, and it's here. Gigabytes MO27Q

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28G, a 280 Hz, 1440p,

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27 in tandem OLED monitor, flat,

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all for less than you might expect. Wow, this was really hard to get out of the

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box. Ah, it's upside down. Everything's nicely laid out here. We've got our big

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power brick external. And then we've got a bunch of cables in this nice little

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bag here. USBB, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI

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2.1, and our non-N North American power plug that we're going to replace with a

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good old-fashioned C13 cable. And we've

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got a handy dandy color calibration factory report. What does it tell us?

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SRRGB deltaE of.59.

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That's really good. We measured higher than that, but we did measure something

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very, very, very accurate. So, we'll tell you about it more later. We got the

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base of our stand here. Um, the columns

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are pretty small, but it's a 27 inch monitor. This is probably more than

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enough. I'm expecting this to be plenty sturdy. And then we've got the other

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half of our stand, which is like

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honestly, I think that's the first time I've actually dropped anything on

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camera. [laughter] Seriously, five years. It

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almost took me crazy. Yeah, those really are almost comically small columns.

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Like, will this work? Absolutely. But are you getting what you pay for? 100%.

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They thought, you know, we can save two pennies. Actually, I really like the

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nice grippy bits here, too. All these feet. Uh, and I like how kind of low

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profile and, you know, small this footprint is. But let's get our panel

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attached. That's what you guys care about. Uh, but before we do, cable clip

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for your cables just to keep them nice and tidy on the stand. That's all that's

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in the box. Wow. This is also, I think,

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a first. I don't know if I've ever seen like this highgrade

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of a wrapper. There's also like

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desicant. Yeah, that feels like a desicant pack taped to the inside. So,

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they're really worried about moisture with this thing. I don't know. I've I've

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never seen that in my life. But then now that we've got it out of our weird

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freezer bag, we're just going to pop it in. Click clack and pull it up.

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As much as I'm okay with curved monitors

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when it comes to something either ultra wide or bigger than 27 in, I have really

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been enjoying unboxing monitors that are flat. They're just so easy to take out

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of the box and the box is so small.

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There we go. Wow. Oh, you got to see this. Dominating the game. Belle thinks

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it's weird that the stand is so small. I do agree it looks kind of small, but

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like it's not Come on, man. It's not knocking over like what

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>> faces. >> It's It's fine. >> There was real fear there, though.

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>> No, there wasn't. I was I was sure of it. We'll take this awful peel off that

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has been reapplied. Yours won't uh come

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looking that bad. I promise it'll look a lot nicer. It can pivot

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>> and it'll do it just barely. >> I don't think it technically

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does it though. >> Yeah, it does. No, it pivots. You just have to tilt it up a little bit and it's

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got enough space. You can't pivot the other way. It's only going to go

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clockwise. So, if you want to put it on like this side of your monitor, then

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you're going to have actually not that much of a bezel to deal with. Sometimes

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there's this ugly chin here, but shouldn't be too bad. I will say the

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monitor stand is so light that it feels like I'm like, normally I can move these

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monitors around no problem. I think that's why they added those rubber feet for extra protection. You know, there's

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tilt and it can even swivel a little bit.

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Just a little bit. It's pretty typical. It's also got a bunch of height

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adjustment. And so I will say the monitor stand

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definitely feels flimsy. But how's the monitor look? We've got our earphone

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jack. Surprised they called it earphones instead of headphone. But we've got our earphone jack, HDMI 1 and two, both 2.1

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ports. And then we've got our DisplayPort 1.4, USB typeC, USB, couple of USBA

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ports, and our power adapter. We've also got our navigational controls here with

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the nubbing and a couple of little buttons. I am a big fan of when they

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include little directional buttons. Uh the nubbing is great. It it'll do left,

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right up, down, whatever. Um but you some very seldomly you might press it in

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while trying to press it to the left or something. So it's a minor feature, but I'm actually really happy to see them

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here. Let's get this reassembled and turned on to check it out. But not

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Something we just noticed as we put it down is it's got these like little I

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don't know markers on the bottom of the display. I don't think I've ever seen

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that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just a design choice that's within the bezel. It's not going to affect

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anything on the screen. Um but it's neat

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and a little weird. It's beautiful. Um

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the bezel, especially on the bottom, is a bit thicker than I was expecting. Not

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the end of the world. However, this does not feel like 280 Hz. 279.96

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hertz. Not quite 280. It's ever so

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slightly off. That's fine. This is basically 280 Hz. It doesn't really matter. Oh, also one interesting thing I

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just noticed Windows is reporting this

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thing. Where was it? 1532 nits. Now,

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that is what they claim on the box. And with Tandem OLED, we've seen these

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panels reach that height. However, our testing revealed that this one does not

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quite meet the claim. Uh, and I think we measured a max of about 1,400 nits and

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it was in a mode that you don't typically want to use. The others measured something more like 1350. It's

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a pretty minor trade-off to be fair. For a lower price, you can lose like 100 150

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nits and it's probably fine. Uh, let's take a look at our OSD first. Gaming,

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what do we got? Black super resolution in low input lag set to on. Uh, that's

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another talk point that we'll talk about later. HDR peak 1500. Yes, please. Set

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to 100 brightness. So, yeah, we did crank this thing. And um just can't

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quite do it. That's okay. It gets pretty close. KVM Wizard. You can set that to

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the USBB or the Type-C cable. Uh just

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helps you run multiple devices through one set of USB ports, which is really

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handy for a lot of people. Not me. I don't really care, but you know, you're

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paying a little less for a monitor and you're getting a little more. Um we've also got PIP, PVP. That's great. Uh,

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audio volume.

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You know, I got to try it. I think this thing has speakers. It does have

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speakers. Hot diggity dam.

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Are they good? No, they're okay.

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I don't know if I'd say they're okay.

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zero bass, but

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you know that's a monitor. >> It's happening. We're getting smart

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glasses. >> It's not perfect. Definitely sounds

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pretty tiny and not ideal, but look, these are for if you have nothing else.

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And I have been in situations where I

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I'm out of headphones, they've broken or something, and I need audio from my

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computer. I'll take that over nothing. I'll take

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it every time. That looks incredible.

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Thanks to Tandem OLED, this thing is seeing 84% of BT 2020, which is a ton of

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color volume. On top of that, while it's not as bright as it should be, it's

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accurate. We measured in sRGB mode a

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delta E average of just 1.39 [music]

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with a max of 2.97. It's pretty solid. And then in HDR, we

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measured a delta EITP average of a little over seven with a max of under

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14. [music] That is really solid. Is it

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picture perfect for the most premium of color work jobs? No. But like this is

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incredible. HDR

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with the right display is just absolutely phenomenal. The highlights in

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a game that does it that does it right. It's looks so good at this point. One of

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the big advantages to QD OLED still over tandem OLED is the color shifting and

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just how incredible the viewing angles are from literally any angle. And I've

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got to say it's not until I get like way

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off axis that this starts looking way too [music] blue. But like I don't know,

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I could watch it from here. I could watch someone game from here and be like, "Yeah, I understand what's going

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on. It looks [music] reasonably fine."

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So don't worry about that cuz most of the time you're going to be sitting like this anyway. Come on.

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>> Your little brother's going to have a good time watching you. >> Yeah. with OLED's uh microscond

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uh pixel response times. It just every

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time feels incredible. >> It looks really good. The mirror of the

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gun looks so good, >> right? The shine, the glinting on the

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barrel, um the reflection and everything like God. And then the explo like

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everything is just incredible with this thing. So, that's the kind of absolutely

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wild part of this is, you know, a few years ago, a 280 Hz 1440p

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OLED of any kind, tandem OLED or otherwise, um, would set you back quite

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a lot of money, like over $1,000 easy. And I'm happy to say today that uh while

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this isn't, you know, the $500 that I

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saw when I initially saw that article back in like August, people did get it

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for an introductory price of $550 and then it's currently uh at MSRP of $5.99.

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And so this thing will definitely go on sale at some point. And when it does,

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you know, just pick it up. Like yeah, okay, sure it only hits 1350,400 nits,

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but like I don't care. I really don't.

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That looked amazing. Did you see the little like explosive shining on him? Like, oh my god. Yeah. I I think that

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like it doesn't matter uh what displays I have at home. It doesn't matter what

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I've unboxed so far this year. I think that at this price point, unless there's

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a very specific feature that you need that this panel has in another monitor

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from a different brand, maybe then pick it up. But like unless someone makes

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something better and cheaper than this thing, this is it. I don't care that the

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stand is a little flimsy. I don't put it on an arm, whatever. Now, realistically,

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I'm someone who went from 1440p ultrawide, which is about 5 million

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pixels up to 4K uh just this last year.

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And you know, it [laughter] yeah, sure, 4K um even at a 32 in screen size looks

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a little sharper. I won't lie, but my games are also way harder to run. And

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so, I think that 1440p is still like the

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sweet spot for gamers. There you have it. Gigabytes MO27Q28G.

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I absolutely hate the name. I wish the numbers and letters were kind of all together, but the monitor itself,

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I think it's a really solid value and you're going to be hardressed to find a

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better deal than this thing. And if you do find a better deal than this thing,

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then man, times are looking good for PC

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gamers who want to splurge just a little bit on a fancy monitor. I'm PLO. This is

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ShortCircuit. If you want to look at another ShortCircuit, look, Colton's unboxing a chair.

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We can watch it together.

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Okay.