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okay so i don't even think it was two weeks ago that i swapped out my OLED tv

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for ASUS va based bfgd gaming display with

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the objective being that i was going to get variable refresh rate and i was

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going to get higher refresh rates for smoother gaming then all of a sudden i

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get an email from alienware and they go hey do you remember that OLED 120 hertz

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4k gaming monitor we showed at ces i'm like uh-huh well we're shipping it it's

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in the mail and i go what so now i've got a three-way decision to

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make is it OLED high refresh rate or

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both doesn't seem like a tough decision does

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it just like it wasn't a tough decision to

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so with a maximum refresh rate of 120

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hertz so 120 refreshes per second a max

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resolution of 4k and an OLED panel i'm expecting a few

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things one i'm expecting extremely

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smooth animations provided that i've got the hardware to drive it which

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i do number two i'm expecting completely pitch black

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blacks i mean that's one of the key benefits of OLED is that every single

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pixel can be turned off individually and then finally the last thing i'm

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expecting is something that could be a

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huge decision factor for me alienware is claiming less than 0.5

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millisecond pixel response times now in theory this has always been a benefit of

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OLED technology really fast pixel switching which eliminates or at least

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dramatically reduces that blurring or ghosting when you've got moving objects

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across the screen but it's something that really hasn't been focused on by a

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lot of the OLED uh display manufacturers

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up until now because they're just they're not really that uh dialed in to

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the gaming community

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neat so that's cool i guess that explains where the included vasa adapter goes so

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if you're more into using like a monitor ARM or whatever else you can

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get right into that but putting that

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there and then screwing that into whatever kind of you know wall or desk

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mount or whatever else it is that you want is if you're more into just

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setting it up on your desk you just slide this puppy in here uh we

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can have a look at the i o now so we've got a single usb 3 up link with four

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downlinks two of them are here we've also got optical audio out displayport

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1.4 in and two HDMI 2.0 ports and then

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this is cool we've got this cable management

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ow okay well don't run your finger down it so this is how i'm planning to use it

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so i'm going to go ahead and pop these screws in

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whoops oh um

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shoot i guess you're supposed to do that one first

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oh man

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then over on this side we've got power in which is going to run through this

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cable channel which i will keep my fingers out of then when you've got all your cables managed you go ahead you pop

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this back on wow that is a nice magnetic backing i don't remember the last time i

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saw such an elegant monitor back cover back when they first

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showed this it wasn't clear exactly how NVIDIA's

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g-sync on freesync monitors thing was going to work and we didn't know if this

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was going to be a variable refresh rate display well it turns out it is it's

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freesync and as you know NVIDIA g-sync

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can be forced enabled on any freesync display so we definitely want to give

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that a shot but there is one big caveat

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this while it does feature 400 nitpeak brightness

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is not HDR certified so rather than installing

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it at my tv i think i'm going to take the product box literally

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did you really put a tv on your table

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uh it's not a tv it's a monitor it says on the box

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well the box doesn't fit in here it's big andy can you take an end

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yup what i wouldn't hold it by the top yeah i would yup i would support it by

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that okay good you good there might be an argument to be made

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for using a gigantic 4k display instead

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of a smaller one so i'm going to go ahead and

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take out my rog swift pg-35 whatever this is

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and we're going to pop that thing in its place i think i'm going to need to move my 3d printer well

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it passes the first challenge which is

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not encroaching on my wife's desk is your 3d printer living on my desk uh

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no i'll move that sorry i'm just doing something very important right now i have to play this game and see if i'm

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getting a competitive advantage from my new monitor and i thought this was

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interesting it's very unusual for monitor manufacturers to include such a

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long displayport cable but this one is a 10 foot cable because clearly

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alienware while they are marketing this as a monitor is just not really sure

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where people are going to deploy this thing that's why they include a remote

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with it now just like with the ASUS bfgd i

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already have some concerns about the remote uh because so far alienware

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doesn't appear to have done anything specific to integrate with logitech

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harmony and their remote doesn't have specific commands for like input one

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input two so um in the living room depending on

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your setup it might not end up making a ton of sense but um

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hey i mean at least you have something even if it doesn't perfectly

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integrate with like a super advanced setup oh there goes the built-in speakers so

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the Windows control panel knows what's wrong there we go all right cool so

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ycbcr-422 so 8-bit color they claim

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about 98 coverage of the dc ip3 color space

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not bad for a high refresh rate display so you've got all the usual sort of

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gaming image presets um personally i've always been partial

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to just you know standard the way the developer intended it there's a

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backlighting on the monitor that's kind of glowing off the wall it's cool i

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guess if you're into that sort of thing there are shortcut keys at the bottom of the monitor and you can reconfigure what

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you want them to do there is no option for pixel overdrive because

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theoretically the pixels are plenty fast

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enough on their own and we can do a quick sanity check for that and we are

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getting next to no smearing

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not bad well it don't do 144

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okay it's just like 125. so it's not

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overclockable i've heard people make the argument to me before like

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hey Linus you know why bother

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going for an ultra wide monitor when you could just have

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the whole thing and then you could always just

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take your window and make it ultra wide or whatever okay so this is a chance

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to give the onboard speakers a shot i've certainly heard worse i will say this

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though zero complaints so far with respect to input lag and pixel response

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times that was crisp oh you know what

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anno got an update so one of my biggest complaints about anno up until now has

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actually been that you can't zoom out far enough particularly if you have a

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large monitor now i've got a really big monitor and

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they've updated it apparently to have a much greater zoom that was actually like

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a couple months ago but i haven't played it much in the last little bit okay here we go so it's an option under gameplay

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increased camera oh restart required okay fine further out

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that is so much better

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freaking awesome like you can really see enough of an

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island to actually make reasonable decisions but like

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this is the old limit like i can't even see enough of the island to make a

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decision about what kind of layout i want for it like it's stupid this is way

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better you can really see what you're doing we've got g-sync enabled and that

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is looking g-sync smooth i don't see any tearing

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like okay just to be clear guys these weird anomalies that you're seeing here those are an effective draw distance

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okay oh here we go actually i have juiced two hot import nights which i have never

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played but i specifically installed for an

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upcoming video make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it where i'm gonna go through and play games that

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i have never played that are in my steam library i'm sure we can all relate to

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that i'd say comfortable distance for this one is a little closer than something like

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an rpg where you really need the context of everything that's going on around you

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all at once but not quite as close as something like

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anno where you're really doing things at your leisure and it's okay to be looking

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around here it's okay to have the peripheral vision

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filled up but it's more for immersion and less for actually looking at it like

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really you've got your eyes on the road so i'd say the distance that we're at

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right now is okay but i'd recommend a newer game that

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it's just so easy i'd say to comfortably

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play a fast-paced FPS i'd need to be

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more than reasonable desk width away from this thing

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yeah i think this is the least

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compelling of the gaming experiences we've tried out today

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by a long shot yeah i can see how if you're prone to motion sickness too like

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this would be quite overwhelming for you

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what do you think david uh i think there's a reason

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pro shooter gamers play on 24 inch monitors

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yeah i'm with you dude now as for third-person adventure type games so

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let's just shadow the tomb raider here once again as long as you got a chair

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that can do this

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i don't really see the size as a as a huge problem from this distance i'm

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pretty comfortable but this game in particular

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definitely brings my attention back to the fact

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that this display does not support HDR

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this game in HDR looks amazing and the

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monitor i took off my desk to put this one here

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does support HDR and it's a totally totally different experience

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unfortunately this safe game is stuck at the beginning but

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yeah that's fine i do want to try their so-called smart HDR and see if that does

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anything for me though

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that's worthless

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so all that's fine and good but the one game that more than any other

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one i find just impossible to enjoy on anything other

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than a crt is this one and to be clear i understand

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that any game that was designed to be displayed with scan lines is never going

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to look great on a progressive display like this one

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but when it comes to the input leg

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i'm hoping that this will be the first time on anything other than a crt that i

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find this game playable

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oh boy oh boy it's been a while

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you can see there is

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a perceptible delay

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am i just being picky though

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so the conclusion for this one is a little bit complicated at 55 inches

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compared to how affordable 65-inch tvs

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are and how much more immersive that viewing experience is from a typical

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couch distance i don't see alienware's

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gaming display or monitor whatever you want to call it making a play for your

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living room anytime soon

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then when it comes to the desktop experience well it ranged from

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really really amazing all the way down to

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wow this isn't that playable and i almost feel like i would need an

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extension to my desk in order to be able to take in the information that's being

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bombarded at me so

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i don't really see a compelling use case for it there either

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where i see this display finding its

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ultimate niche though is somewhere like this

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sorry guys i'm totally blindsiding you with this i don't even know if david's

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gonna be able to fit in here with me

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the basement den or the upstairs playroom that is where alienware's

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gaming monitor really comes into its own because

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lacking HDR kind of kills it for me as a primary display for watching movies or

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for cinematic games but

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the image quality the input lag and the

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high refresh rate with no glitches that we encountered at least during our

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session with g-sync means that as a gaming display it's absolutely fantastic

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as long as you're willing to live without HDR which for me for a second

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display i absolutely would another reasonable place to deploy it would be

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somewhere like a dorm room where it can be used for everything from schoolwork

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to having a bunch of friends over and playing some overcooked too

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the problem with every scenario that i just pitched though is of course the

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price we're talking secondary displays for the den or the bedroom or

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something for a student and the OLED panel is

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kind of a killer at that point with that said even if this only applies to point

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zero zero percent of customers out there that's still a lot of gaming displays

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that they're going to move because quite frankly there is nothing else in the

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market quite like this and so from that perspective i think dell has absolutely

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hit it out of the park here i have no complaints

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as long as my use case for it makes sense

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that's about the only thing i'd consider to be a straight up competitor for this

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but the price is higher it's bigger it's got HDR but the price is higher