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we've probably all done this at some point or another whether it's with a

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gaming computer or with a car or camera setup or whatever the case may be you

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make a big major upgrade in this case i went from a

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100hz ultrawide monitor to a 200hz one

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and the results are fantastic but there's like a couple of things that

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are still noticeably imperfect

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in this case when i have the full array local dimming on playing my recent game

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of choice which is anno 1800 i get halos

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that follow around the cursor and there's no real way to avoid that until

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they can make monitors with so many local dimming zones that they're the

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size of a cursor the other major one here is that the

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motion blur on it is frankly

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not that amazing there is a fair bit of ghosting on this display in spite of all

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the tech that ASUS and NVIDIA have packed into it

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so back to the thing that's probably

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happened to all of us i was both frustrated and also excited

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when i found out that just a few weeks after i made this upgrade

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lg came out with something that could solve all of my complaints

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while also being cheaper this is the ultra wide 38gl 950g it's

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g-sync it's up to 175 hertz it's ultra

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wide and it's not only bigger at 38

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versus 35 inches it's even cheaper

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so let's find out which one ends up on my desk

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so even though this is not my first encounter with this monitor i actually

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saw lg show it off back at it's either ces or computex this year i actually

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can't remember but the thing is their main claim to fame

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with it the one millisecond response

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times with an ips panel was something that at the time i was taking with a

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huge mountain of salt like this much salt

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because we've heard those kinds of claims from manufacturers before

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the thing is lg has since elaborated on the

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technology that they're using in this display saying that their new way of

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creating an ips display can achieve response times that are comparable to tn

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panels and the little brother of this monitor the

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27-inch version has already made its way

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through our lab and here's the crazy thing the claims

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actually hold up so what that means is that out of the two problems that i have

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with the pg-35 one of which being the halos that i can

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actually solve just by turning off the full array local dimming and the

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smearing when objects are moving around this one solves the only one that i

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cannot fix just by changing settings on

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the other monitor

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this is shadow by the way this is our

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new rotten cat now before we go any further i felt like

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it was important to fire up so that it's fresh in my mind a game that supports

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HDR like shadow of the tomb raider to properly appreciate what the pg-35

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brings to the table that lg's competitor simply doesn't and

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that is that full thousand knit peak brightness HDR

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experience that was such a wow factor for me when i first saw it on

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this monitor back when we shot the original video it really does look

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spectacular it makes lighting look more realistic

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yeah it's kind of awesome so that's going to be hard to give up

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but the extra size not to mention the extra resolution

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and of course the quoted one millisecond response times

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may be enough to make up for it oh boy i'm using it as

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a usb hub hopefully the lg has that feature

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otherwise i may actually not have enough usb ports so we do have a two port usb

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hub DisplayPort and HDMI in i wouldn't recommend using HDMI in on this thing

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you're not going to be getting the most out of it um

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and that's pretty much it so actually pretty similar to the other one

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man this thing is big you know it's only three inches bigger

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uh 38 versus 35 inches but turns out

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that is a lot of panel

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well it's got RGB lighting that's for sure

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okay so i think we're gonna have to make some adjustments to our resolution

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here g-sync display connected though that worked properly right out of the

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box let's see if we can fix what's going on

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here hey there it is all right we're running

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at 60 hertz right now though so let's get that fixed too so that's it 3840 by 1600 144 hertz that

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appears to be working perfectly and we can already get some initial

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impressions for our pixel response times here just

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by having a look at what just dragging a window around

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looks like now you can see there's still a hint of

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yellow on the trailing edge as i drag this window to the right

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but that is noticeably better than the

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other panel also i haven't even had a look at the

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settings yet so response time is on fast that's

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actually exactly where we want it faster is how you get to that one

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millisecond rating but what it also does is it introduces a bunch of visual

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artifacts that i personally find very obnoxious it kind of makes your

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games look like they're over sharpened and it's gross

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yeah this i think i've got a defective nipple here

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words you never thought you'd say so thanks to the miracle of displayport

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1.4 this guy can actually be overclocked to

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175 hertz

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theoretically it's fine but you never know sometimes when manufacturers advertise

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an overclocking setting they're saying yeah it should work but it might not

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so interestingly just like on the ASUS if you crank everything so you want 10

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bit color you want 175 hertz full native resolution you're going to go and you're

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going to apply that and you're going to discover that you've

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got these these pink fringing artifacts

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that are called chromatic aberration and it's caused by the lower chroma

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subsampling here so you can see we're at ycbcr422

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what we have to do if we want to get the best possible color performance

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especially for things like text

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is lower our refresh rate to something more reasonable looks like we have to go

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all the way down to 120 hertz in order to apply both 10-bit color and

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444 so my middle ground here is probably

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going to end up being 144 hertz 8 bit

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color RGB and full dynamic range which

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should still allow us to turn on HDR now i did say that this wasn't going to have

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the same kind of HDR capabilities as the ASUS monitor but that doesn't mean that

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it isn't capable of HDR at all so let's go ahead and fire up our game and

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see how it compares now the argument that ASUS made and

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actually acer along with them for the previous 144 hertz 4k monitor that had

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that same issue when you took it beyond 120 hertz all the way to 144 with the

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chromatic aberration is that in games it's not that noticeable it's something

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that's more noticeable on the desktop especially if you're looking at text

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so we'll give that a shot here but for my part i have found that i would rather

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not encounter it because a lot of games actually

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do have text in them so HDR is working in the game but it is

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immediately noticeable to me that it is

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not as good as the other display like you can see lara's flashlight here

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and that's exactly what i mean you can see

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the lens of lara's flashlight on the pg-35 you can see a bright flare

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in your eyes as if you were looking directly into a flashlight

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it really does make for a different experience now in some cases i do find

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that HDR can be kind of overdone in games like on the

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a lot of these reflections off the rocks

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kind of are unrealistic it makes everything look kind of

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shiny like an it's got an early 2000s vibe to me a little bit

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but while this looks all right i've definitely seen a couple things

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already where the HDR does not hold up to the pg-35 minute at less than

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half of the peak brightness i guess that kind of makes sense

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and once again here we're definitely getting the benefit of the HDR mastered

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version of the game like it does look

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more dynamic but there's less detail preserved up

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here where the light sources are really bright and

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it just looks more lifeless and in the case of

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something like foliage um

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that matters that makes a difference to the immersion level of the game

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another interesting observation is that with no obvious way of turning it off so

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you can see i'm running in HDR and there is a setting in here for variable

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backlight but it specifically says sdr variable

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backlight and it's grayed out it appears

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as though in order to increase the um the advertised contrast ratio of the

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display they're actually dimming the entire

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backlight or brightening it depending on the kind of scene you're looking at now

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when you want good HDR you want high contrast but

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an advertised contrast ratio that relies on dimming or brightening the entire

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backlight of the panel is not going to give you that high contrast within one

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scene it's going to rely on actually brightening the display

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when moving from one place to another i don't know if you guys can see it that

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well on camera but it is very noticeable to the eye as i transition from looking

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into the cave here to looking at the waterfall

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so i gotta say i was sort of expecting the outcome to be

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lg clear winner plop that goes on the desk but up until this point in the

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video i am kind of leaning towards putting the ASUS

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back on here with that said what we've looked at so

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far an HDR game is obviously an advantage for the pg35

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now that i'm playing something that's a little bit more down to

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perfect image quality as i'm whipping around on the screen the lg comes into

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its own a little bit like you can really notice it in the readability of this

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text as i'm panning around see that everything is really crisp and

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really clean just like we observed on the 27-inch version of this monitor

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really impressive for an ips display all right now we're up to 175 hertz oh boy

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there's a lot of okay i'm bailing

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i gotta say i love the size of this thing

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like there's not many monitors that just take up your entire field of view like i

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can only see a sliver this big a little bit like that and like maybe this much

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on either side of it at a comfortable distance here

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oops

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yeah i won aha take that terrace

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of course i don't spend the majority of my gaming time playing shadow the tomb

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raider or cs go at this point so unless

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this one offers a tangibly better anno

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1800 experience it probably doesn't make a ton of sense

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to change out to it so as a game with no support for HDR it doesn't take

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advantage of the most advanced capabilities of either of these displays

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but one thing that it has over the ASUS

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is its larger size like i said before

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three inches doesn't sound like much but you can see

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it's actually an enormous amount of display once it's in front of

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you and you've got a city that you're managing with it

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so it's time to make a decision and the only honest conclusion is that whether

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it's at the low end or the high end there's always going to be trade-offs

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nothing can be the best of all worlds this one right here

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has up to 240 hertz refresh rate if you're willing to put up with some

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fringing it's got g-sync ultimate for a

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noticeably like markedly better HDR

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experience but it's going to cost an extra 500

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compared to this one which is already pricey at about 2 000 us dollars

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and it gives up some other things so the

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pixel response time is clearly obviously

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noticeably not as good and if you do

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things other than gaming like if you want to get some you know work done on

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the side for example the extra screen real estate of a 38 inch versus a 35

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inch display can be a big difference maker

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so i have to make a decision now one of

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these has to go back to the office i can't be hoarding all the amazing

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monitors and that is it's a really tough call

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brandon what would you do if i knows the game that you're playing

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the most i feel like i'd go with the lg go with the lg frano yeah but like

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i would feel like i want to bring this one home to play tomb raider or

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battlefield v anything with HDR support

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you know what because they both cost the

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same to me i think i'm gonna keep the rog swift on

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the desk but at a 500 delta especially depending

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on what i was going to do with it lg has made an absolutely incredible

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contender for top gaming monitor on the

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market i mean either of these two if you were to buy them

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you'd be crazy not to be completely stoked on them that's such a cop-out

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conclusion but i'm sorry guys they really are

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