I really want a 280 Hz tandem OLED, but
one that's affordable. Well, and it's here. Gigabytes MO27Q
28G, a 280 Hz, 1440p,
27 in tandem OLED monitor, flat,
all for less than you might expect. Wow, this was really hard to get out of the
box. Ah, it's upside down. Everything's nicely laid out here. We've got our big
power brick external. And then we've got a bunch of cables in this nice little
bag here. USBB, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI
2.1, and our non-N North American power plug that we're going to replace with a
good old-fashioned C13 cable. And we've
got a handy dandy color calibration factory report. What does it tell us?
SRRGB deltaE of.59.
That's really good. We measured higher than that, but we did measure something
very, very, very accurate. So, we'll tell you about it more later. We got the
base of our stand here. Um, the columns
are pretty small, but it's a 27 inch monitor. This is probably more than
enough. I'm expecting this to be plenty sturdy. And then we've got the other
half of our stand, which is like
honestly, I think that's the first time I've actually dropped anything on
camera. [laughter] Seriously, five years. It
almost took me crazy. Yeah, those really are almost comically small columns.
Like, will this work? Absolutely. But are you getting what you pay for? 100%.
They thought, you know, we can save two pennies. Actually, I really like the
nice grippy bits here, too. All these feet. Uh, and I like how kind of low
profile and, you know, small this footprint is. But let's get our panel
attached. That's what you guys care about. Uh, but before we do, cable clip
for your cables just to keep them nice and tidy on the stand. That's all that's
in the box. Wow. This is also, I think,
a first. I don't know if I've ever seen like this highgrade
of a wrapper. There's also like
desicant. Yeah, that feels like a desicant pack taped to the inside. So,
they're really worried about moisture with this thing. I don't know. I've I've
never seen that in my life. But then now that we've got it out of our weird
freezer bag, we're just going to pop it in. Click clack and pull it up.
As much as I'm okay with curved monitors
when it comes to something either ultra wide or bigger than 27 in, I have really
been enjoying unboxing monitors that are flat. They're just so easy to take out
of the box and the box is so small.
There we go. Wow. Oh, you got to see this. Dominating the game. Belle thinks
it's weird that the stand is so small. I do agree it looks kind of small, but
like it's not Come on, man. It's not knocking over like what
>> faces. >> It's It's fine. >> There was real fear there, though.
>> No, there wasn't. I was I was sure of it. We'll take this awful peel off that
has been reapplied. Yours won't uh come
looking that bad. I promise it'll look a lot nicer. It can pivot
>> and it'll do it just barely. >> I don't think it technically
does it though. >> Yeah, it does. No, it pivots. You just have to tilt it up a little bit and it's
got enough space. You can't pivot the other way. It's only going to go
clockwise. So, if you want to put it on like this side of your monitor, then
you're going to have actually not that much of a bezel to deal with. Sometimes
there's this ugly chin here, but shouldn't be too bad. I will say the
monitor stand is so light that it feels like I'm like, normally I can move these
monitors around no problem. I think that's why they added those rubber feet for extra protection. You know, there's
tilt and it can even swivel a little bit.
Just a little bit. It's pretty typical. It's also got a bunch of height
adjustment. And so I will say the monitor stand
definitely feels flimsy. But how's the monitor look? We've got our earphone
jack. Surprised they called it earphones instead of headphone. But we've got our earphone jack, HDMI 1 and two, both 2.1
ports. And then we've got our DisplayPort 1.4, USB typeC, USB, couple of USBA
ports, and our power adapter. We've also got our navigational controls here with
the nubbing and a couple of little buttons. I am a big fan of when they
include little directional buttons. Uh the nubbing is great. It it'll do left,
right up, down, whatever. Um but you some very seldomly you might press it in
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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Something we just noticed as we put it down is it's got these like little I
don't know markers on the bottom of the display. I don't think I've ever seen
that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just a design choice that's within the bezel. It's not going to affect
anything on the screen. Um but it's neat
and a little weird. It's beautiful. Um
the bezel, especially on the bottom, is a bit thicker than I was expecting. Not
the end of the world. However, this does not feel like 280 Hz. 279.96
hertz. Not quite 280. It's ever so
slightly off. That's fine. This is basically 280 Hz. It doesn't really matter. Oh, also one interesting thing I
just noticed Windows is reporting this
thing. Where was it? 1532 nits. Now,
that is what they claim on the box. And with Tandem OLED, we've seen these
panels reach that height. However, our testing revealed that this one does not
quite meet the claim. Uh, and I think we measured a max of about 1,400 nits and
it was in a mode that you don't typically want to use. The others measured something more like 1350. It's
a pretty minor trade-off to be fair. For a lower price, you can lose like 100 150
nits and it's probably fine. Uh, let's take a look at our OSD first. Gaming,
what do we got? Black super resolution in low input lag set to on. Uh, that's
another talk point that we'll talk about later. HDR peak 1500. Yes, please. Set
to 100 brightness. So, yeah, we did crank this thing. And um just can't
quite do it. That's okay. It gets pretty close. KVM Wizard. You can set that to
the USBB or the Type-C cable. Uh just
helps you run multiple devices through one set of USB ports, which is really
handy for a lot of people. Not me. I don't really care, but you know, you're
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,
audio volume.
You know, I got to try it. I think this thing has speakers. It does have
speakers. Hot diggity dam.
Are they good? No, they're okay.
I don't know if I'd say they're okay.
zero bass, but
you know that's a monitor. >> It's happening. We're getting smart
glasses. >> It's not perfect. Definitely sounds
pretty tiny and not ideal, but look, these are for if you have nothing else.
And I have been in situations where I
I'm out of headphones, they've broken or something, and I need audio from my
computer. I'll take that over nothing. I'll take
it every time. That looks incredible.
Thanks to Tandem OLED, this thing is seeing 84% of BT 2020, which is a ton of
color volume. On top of that, while it's not as bright as it should be, it's
accurate. We measured in sRGB mode a
delta E average of just 1.39 [music]
with a max of 2.97. It's pretty solid. And then in HDR, we
measured a delta EITP average of a little over seven with a max of under
14. [music] That is really solid. Is it
picture perfect for the most premium of color work jobs? No. But like this is
incredible. HDR
with the right display is just absolutely phenomenal. The highlights in
a game that does it that does it right. It's looks so good at this point. One of
the big advantages to QD OLED still over tandem OLED is the color shifting and
just how incredible the viewing angles are from literally any angle. And I've
got to say it's not until I get like way
off axis that this starts looking way too [music] blue. But like I don't know,
I could watch it from here. I could watch someone game from here and be like, "Yeah, I understand what's going
on. It looks [music] reasonably fine."
So don't worry about that cuz most of the time you're going to be sitting like this anyway. Come on.
>> Your little brother's going to have a good time watching you. >> Yeah. with OLED's uh microscond
uh pixel response times. It just every
time feels incredible. >> It looks really good. The mirror of the
gun looks so good, >> right? The shine, the glinting on the
barrel, um the reflection and everything like God. And then the explo like
everything is just incredible with this thing. So, that's the kind of absolutely
wild part of this is, you know, a few years ago, a 280 Hz 1440p
OLED of any kind, tandem OLED or otherwise, um, would set you back quite
a lot of money, like over $1,000 easy. And I'm happy to say today that uh while
this isn't, you know, the $500 that I
saw when I initially saw that article back in like August, people did get it
for an introductory price of $550 and then it's currently uh at MSRP of $5.99.
And so this thing will definitely go on sale at some point. And when it does,
you know, just pick it up. Like yeah, okay, sure it only hits 1350,400 nits,
but like I don't care. I really don't.
That looked amazing. Did you see the little like explosive shining on him? Like, oh my god. Yeah. I I think that
like it doesn't matter uh what displays I have at home. It doesn't matter what
I've unboxed so far this year. I think that at this price point, unless there's
a very specific feature that you need that this panel has in another monitor
from a different brand, maybe then pick it up. But like unless someone makes
something better and cheaper than this thing, this is it. I don't care that the
stand is a little flimsy. I don't put it on an arm, whatever. Now, realistically,
I'm someone who went from 1440p ultrawide, which is about 5 million
pixels up to 4K uh just this last year.
And you know, it [laughter] yeah, sure, 4K um even at a 32 in screen size looks
a little sharper. I won't lie, but my games are also way harder to run. And
so, I think that 1440p is still like the
sweet spot for gamers. There you have it. Gigabytes MO27Q28G.
I absolutely hate the name. I wish the numbers and letters were kind of all together, but the monitor itself,
I think it's a really solid value and you're going to be hardressed to find a
better deal than this thing. And if you do find a better deal than this thing,
then man, times are looking good for PC
gamers who want to splurge just a little bit on a fancy monitor. I'm PLO. This is
ShortCircuit. If you want to look at another ShortCircuit, look, Colton's unboxing a chair.
We can watch it together.
Okay.