WEBVTT 00:00:00.170 --> 00:00:05.100 - [Cameraman] Are you Mario Karting? ( man laughing) 00:00:05.100 --> 00:00:10.870 - So it's 2022, you've got to buy a new monitor. Do you go 4K or do you stick with 1440 P, 00:00:10.870 --> 00:00:14.920 or are you upgrading from 1080 P and you don't know what to get? 00:00:14.920 --> 00:00:21.460 Well, ViewSonic has a new monitor for us and it's 1440 P, 240 Hertz, 00:00:21.460 --> 00:00:24.632 which is pretty impressive, honestly. Big box. 00:00:24.632 --> 00:00:28.310 ( man grunting) It's got all the stuff that you kind of expect 00:00:28.310 --> 00:00:32.503 from monitor manufacturers these days. But pretty much everyone's got G-sync, 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.754 low-latency, input lag. Actually, this was not that bad 00:00:36.754 --> 00:00:40.080 for telling me all the random extra stuff it has on it. 00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:43.700 I don't know what RGB alliances but yeah, it's got 240 Hertz refresh rate. 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:48.743 It's got a one millisecond response time and elite RGB. I hate this name, the XG271QG. 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:53.980 Guys, please just, I don't understand monitor names. 00:00:53.980 --> 00:00:58.090 It's confusing. Why can't you just do it Samsung does and go with like the Odyssey Neo G9. 00:00:58.090 --> 00:01:02.200 Like I don't know. Sure that has a skew name as well, I'm pretty sure, but at least it's really easy. 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.300 ViewSonic Elite? I think it's too broad. - [Jono] Have you ever used a ViewSonic monitor? 00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:09.820 - I've never actually had the pleasure of using one. 00:01:09.820 --> 00:01:14.100 First of all, I've usually been pretty broke. So, I'm usually finding whatever, like the cheapest option is. 00:01:14.100 --> 00:01:19.660 Oh. Okay, that was cool. That's actually neat. My big problem with a lot of monitor boxes is getting 00:01:19.660 --> 00:01:23.360 it back in the box. If you've ever got to sell it or return it or do whatever, 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:26.770 it's kind of a pain in the ass. Whereas this is great. 00:01:26.770 --> 00:01:30.850 Cause I can just now grab this whole box, however I want and move it out. 00:01:30.850 --> 00:01:37.460 We've got some DisplayPort cables, USB B to A for the monitor to the PC. 00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:40.333 Power cable, Mickey Mouse plug. 00:01:41.220 --> 00:01:45.150 Oh, it's got a big brick. Ah, this thing is huge. - [Jono] That just means the monitor's gunna be small. 00:01:45.150 --> 00:01:49.470 - That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah, because if all of the power stuff is in here 00:01:49.470 --> 00:01:52.580 and not in the back of the panel. I'm really hoping it's kind of thin. 00:01:52.580 --> 00:01:56.280 This is nice. Ooh and it is light. 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:00.620 Like I'm holding this with one hand and I'm not even worried. See how there are a couple side controls, 00:02:00.620 --> 00:02:05.360 but Jono pointed this up before I even realized it. They've got the navigation nipple on the bottom 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:09.250 and that's like basically all they've got. Which is great cause that's all you need. 00:02:09.250 --> 00:02:13.210 Someone out there is gonna complain and say, "No, I need all my extra buttons", 00:02:13.210 --> 00:02:16.910 but I don't think so. Oh, these are a little nifty cable management things. 00:02:16.910 --> 00:02:20.870 I think their cable management. I don't know what else they'd be. You can like rotate them and stuff 00:02:20.870 --> 00:02:25.200 to get different angles for things. That's pretty neat. Unfortunately, you're probably going to want 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:28.900 to use DisplayPort. It doesn't have HDMI 2.1. It's not ideal, 00:02:28.900 --> 00:02:33.000 but the HDMI standardization committee is working on it. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.280 Not really. That's a whole thing that people are getting upset about. 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.950 I'm upset about it. Thank you for purchasing a ViewSonic Elite gaming monitor. 00:02:39.950 --> 00:02:43.013 Your new monitor features RGB integration that can be controlled 00:02:43.013 --> 00:02:47.160 by either using the elite display controller or by downloading key partners software. 00:02:47.160 --> 00:02:51.840 Oh, that's cool. So this whole thing on the back here is an RGB badge. It kind of looks like the cooler master logo. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.906 Like the shape, at least. Cool. I'm gonna peel this off. 00:02:54.906 --> 00:03:02.313 Luckily, most graphics cards have DisplayPort at this point. HDMI 2, HDMI 2, DisplayPort, headphone port, 00:03:02.375 --> 00:03:06.880 USB B to A, which is for your PC and then USB, USB. 00:03:06.880 --> 00:03:09.900 I actually don't know what the green stands for for USB A. 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:14.250 Is green USB A 2.0? I haven't seen a green port in forever. 00:03:14.250 --> 00:03:18.050 It says 3.2? - [Jono] Yeah. - Okay, so the specs say a USB 3.2. 00:03:18.980 --> 00:03:22.700 I just haven't seen anyone use green for a USB port in a long time, 00:03:22.700 --> 00:03:25.910 but it's - Except Razer. Razer's whole thing is being green. 00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:28.940 On the back, I mean, you've got like a Kensington lock, which is great for schools, I guess. 00:03:28.940 --> 00:03:31.988 Although I don't know what school needs a 240 Hertz monitor. 00:03:31.988 --> 00:03:35.383 - [Jono] The best school. - The best schools, yeah, the elite. Panel itself looks okay. 00:03:35.383 --> 00:03:39.920 The bezels are super minor. Like they're nice and thin. The bottom is what it is, 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:43.410 but we're seeing a lot of this like big bottom and then - The chins. 00:03:43.410 --> 00:03:48.760 yeah, the chins. I love that term. I think it's pretty apt. Won't really know, at least not from this angle 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:51.840 or not until it's turned on, how big of a bezel is on the inside. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.488 All right, let's turn it on. - [Jono] No, no, no. You can't turn it on. You've got to assemble it. 00:03:55.488 --> 00:03:59.590 Oh, you're right. (beeping) I didn't even. (both laughing) I didn't even put the stand on. 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:05.210 I really do think for the most of, for the most people that like 27 inches 00:04:05.210 --> 00:04:09.030 is basically the optimal gaming monitor size. 00:04:09.030 --> 00:04:13.030 Like even at home 27 inch was great for a really long time until my desk got bigger. 00:04:13.030 --> 00:04:17.780 And then once I had a bigger desk and I was sitting in additional, like, I don't know, six inches away from my monitor. 00:04:17.780 --> 00:04:21.646 That's when I wanted something bigger. - [Andy] Are you Mario Kart-ing? 00:04:21.646 --> 00:04:24.646 (everyone laughing) 00:04:27.430 --> 00:04:31.670 - I never even thought of it that. This totally does look like a racing wheel or something. 00:04:31.670 --> 00:04:36.010 It's so cool. It just slides in there and then you screw it down. 00:04:36.010 --> 00:04:39.660 Like most of them have this, probably a bolt, I guess, not a screw. 00:04:39.660 --> 00:04:42.680 But with this little handle here that you can flip up and down to twist it. 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:49.213 Yeah, it's toolless. Yeah, it's invasive mountable a hundred by a hundred, like most monitors that aren't obnoxiously large. 00:04:50.350 --> 00:04:53.780 Nice. Yeah. And then you can just attach it with this little lever here. 00:04:53.780 --> 00:04:58.420 Ooh I like it. So light. Cooler master hexagon, cooler master hexagon. 00:04:58.420 --> 00:05:02.400 All I'm thinking when I'm looking at this thing is cooler master. I don't know why they were so obsessed 00:05:02.400 --> 00:05:05.700 with this hexagon design. - [Andy] It's cooler! 00:05:05.700 --> 00:05:09.097 - It's cooler, eh, (man laughing) 00:05:09.097 --> 00:05:12.970 I work with PC parts all the time. So that's probably why the branding is 00:05:12.970 --> 00:05:17.690 so in my face I guess. I like the little elite badge on the back. 00:05:17.690 --> 00:05:21.320 Not that anyone will ever really see it, but that's kinda nice. 00:05:21.320 --> 00:05:27.003 The actual stand is, it's pretty robust. It's got a good amount of like up and down this swivel. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.150 It's actually good amount of swivel and then tilt. 00:05:32.150 --> 00:05:35.250 Yeah. It's not bad. Oh baby. 00:05:35.250 --> 00:05:38.960 It goes sideways. My favorite feature. Probably more RGB strips. 00:05:38.960 --> 00:05:43.050 That's really cool. I'm really curious to see how it all looks when it's lit up 00:05:43.050 --> 00:05:46.280 and powered on and everything. But first, thanks to Secretlab 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:49.720 for sponsoring today's video. 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But looking at this strip, 00:06:27.760 --> 00:06:32.070 I was really excited thinking this whole strip was either going to be its own missive. 00:06:32.070 --> 00:06:36.860 Kind of like this guy here, or it was at least going to be like a lot more LEDs. 00:06:36.860 --> 00:06:40.740 The back looks good. See that's what that's what kind of kills me is they crushed 00:06:40.740 --> 00:06:43.740 it with the back. It looks exactly like I was hoping for. 00:06:43.740 --> 00:06:47.602 - [Andy] Ooh wow. - Where it's. Yeah. It's like a nice solid blue all the way around. Hey. 00:06:47.602 --> 00:06:52.010 - [Andy] Yeah. - Yeah, it looks awesome. And then this bottom strip is just so disappointing. 00:06:52.010 --> 00:06:55.010 Like why, you were so close, ViewSonic. 00:06:55.010 --> 00:06:58.811 Oh, I didn't cable manage. Aw, this is going to kill me. Okay. Sorry. One sec. 00:06:58.811 --> 00:07:03.420 I liked the stand at first. I'm not nearly as sold on it. 00:07:03.420 --> 00:07:09.670 Now that it's on the desk, I would really strongly prefer if it was out back here. 00:07:09.670 --> 00:07:13.330 I guess, you know what, actually, this would look great if I cable managed my mouse 00:07:13.330 --> 00:07:16.550 and keyboard up through there as well. And then all my cables will be running along 00:07:16.550 --> 00:07:19.660 this like black channel and then up out the back. 00:07:19.660 --> 00:07:24.500 So, okay. I guess in the right setting, it can look pretty good. 00:07:24.500 --> 00:07:30.211 60 Hertz. No, no, no, no, no. 239.970 baby. Oh man. 00:07:30.211 --> 00:07:35.190 That's smooth. It looks great. There's like hardly any smearing or anything. 00:07:35.190 --> 00:07:40.560 Like you can, yeah. You can see the halo around the mouse when you do that. But like, oh my God, 240 Hertz. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.720 So it's HDR 400, which is okay. 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:48.720 These days you really want more like 600 or 800 or 1,000. 00:07:49.400 --> 00:07:52.430 400 is not as impressive as it could be. 00:07:52.430 --> 00:07:56.970 Let me just make sure HDR is on and Windows use HDR. 00:07:56.970 --> 00:08:00.853 Yeah, I like it all looks good. I just, I wish it was a touch brighter. 00:08:02.030 --> 00:08:06.630 It's not bad HDR. It just could be a little better I guess. 00:08:06.630 --> 00:08:12.910 It's the biggest problem about working here, is I always work with and see the latest and greatest, 00:08:12.910 --> 00:08:16.170 like especially with CES coming up, all I'm seeing are all these cool press briefings for all 00:08:16.170 --> 00:08:21.190 this new stuff coming out. And I just spent like eight, 900 dollars on a monitor, 00:08:21.190 --> 00:08:27.021 - [Andy] Either you see the thing and you don't spend money, or you really like a thing and you spend tons of money. 00:08:27.021 --> 00:08:32.750 - And you spend way too much. This one doesn't boast color accuracy all that much. It's really about the 240 Hertz refresh rate, 00:08:32.750 --> 00:08:39.370 at 1440 P, which is pretty good. There's not a ton of 240 14, 40 P monitors out right now. 00:08:39.370 --> 00:08:44.140 And this thing does look good. Like as soon as you go back to like 60 FPS 00:08:44.140 --> 00:08:47.760 or a 60 Hertz display or a 30 FPS game, 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:51.136 you just, (man scoffs) I don't know. It just looks bad instantly to you, 00:08:51.136 --> 00:08:54.980 and you can't like put a finger on why until you're like, oh, it's 60 Hertz 00:08:54.980 --> 00:08:59.170 or like, oh, it's like running it really low frame rate. I don't know. So I'm looking down at the bottom. 00:08:59.170 --> 00:09:04.330 At the base here. And I can see that it's like four or five LEDs. 00:09:04.330 --> 00:09:08.620 Can you see that on the camera? - [Andy] Yeah I can see that. - I was really hoping that it would be diffused enough off 00:09:08.620 --> 00:09:13.570 of everything that I wouldn't be able to pick that up, but I can still see that it's like four or five little LEDs. 00:09:13.570 --> 00:09:17.140 Come on you guys. Like you did perfectly on the back. 00:09:17.140 --> 00:09:21.310 It looks awesome. If the stand wasn't there, like directly underneath it, 00:09:21.310 --> 00:09:24.610 it might actually just bleed out nicely onto, 00:09:24.610 --> 00:09:28.180 onto like a mat or something. But because it's almost a mirror finish 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:32.710 on the bottom of the stand, I can clearly see that that's just like five LEDs instead of 00:09:32.710 --> 00:09:35.826 this actual bar lighting up. Which is just, (man scoffs) 00:09:35.826 --> 00:09:40.143 it's kind of this. Yeah. See, like when it's not something reflective, you can, like it diffuses nicely. 00:09:41.210 --> 00:09:44.410 That's a little disappointing. We mentioned the bezel earlier. 00:09:44.410 --> 00:09:49.350 The outside bezel is super thin. The inside bezel is pretty average. I would, 00:09:49.350 --> 00:09:52.860 I wish it was a little thinner, but honestly it's not that bad. 00:09:52.860 --> 00:09:56.380 This is pretty standard. It's kind of what you're going to see. This is part of why this chin is so big. 00:09:56.380 --> 00:10:00.140 See how there's almost nothing on the bottom. It's covering a bunch of that. 00:10:00.140 --> 00:10:03.200 This looks awesome. There's no tearing, like at all. 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.810 See, I'm looking around. Like I know you can't really see this through the screen recording and even the camera, 00:10:07.810 --> 00:10:11.260 isn't going to pick it up perfectly, but man, it's, there's no tearing. 00:10:11.260 --> 00:10:14.650 Like, you know, probably if we freeze framed, we could see a little bit, 00:10:14.650 --> 00:10:18.640 but it just looks smooth, like 240 Hertz. 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:21.800 My God, please don't tell me. Wow, that was bad. 00:10:21.800 --> 00:10:27.340 Do I want 240 Hertz? Yes. Do I need it? I mean, not really, but man, 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:32.010 does it ever look nice? And it just smooths out your game experience. 00:10:32.010 --> 00:10:36.120 And the refresh, like the response time moving at a higher refresh rate, 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:40.040 with a fast monitor, like what are we getting? We're probably getting like, yeah, 00:10:40.040 --> 00:10:44.910 like 300, 250 frames per second. So we're really utilizing this thing. 00:10:44.910 --> 00:10:51.330 Okay. Let's talk price. That's probably the big elephant in the room here. 00:10:51.330 --> 00:10:56.330 27 inch monitor, 1440 P 240 Hertz refresh rate. 00:10:57.890 --> 00:11:01.750 And it might be color accurate, but it does not boasting about it anywhere. 00:11:01.750 --> 00:11:06.240 So it's probably okay. It's 940 dollars. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:09.810 I just paid like 900 Canadian 00:11:09.810 --> 00:11:13.340 for a 32 inch 1440 P 165 Hertz. 00:11:13.340 --> 00:11:19.270 Very color, accurate monitor. Jono just bought a 4k 1 44 Hertz display 00:11:19.270 --> 00:11:22.380 for like 1000 Canadian dollars. 00:11:22.380 --> 00:11:28.444 940 man. I can't, I just, even for that extra, like what, 80 Hertz. 00:11:28.980 --> 00:11:33.110 I don't know if I can justify paying that much more for 00:11:33.110 --> 00:11:38.070 this display while also shrinking and screen size. Now the point is I think that if 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:44.210 you ever find this thing on sale, like even just 150 bucks off, 00:11:44.210 --> 00:11:47.990 it becomes a lot more worth it. But at full price? 00:11:47.990 --> 00:11:51.220 I don't know. I just don't think I can justify it. 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:57.610 It's beautiful. I like that they've got the power outside so that this is a little like slimmer and lighter. 00:11:57.610 --> 00:12:02.110 The design is great. I'm still iffy on the stand. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. 00:12:02.110 --> 00:12:05.330 It really depends on I think your cable management would make a huge difference. 00:12:05.330 --> 00:12:08.940 But I think if you're looking for the best bang for your buck, 00:12:08.940 --> 00:12:12.850 maybe it's not quite the ViewSonic Elite time yet. 00:12:12.850 --> 00:12:17.610 Thanks for watching. If you liked this ShortCircuit, make sure to check out the other one we did. 00:12:17.610 --> 00:12:20.880 We just unboxed and ASUS monitor that I really liked as well. 00:12:20.880 --> 00:12:23.910 I think it was 4k 120 Hertz. Pretty nice. 00:12:23.910 --> 00:12:27.530 But you need HDMI 2.1. If you want to play with your consoles on it. 00:12:27.530 --> 00:12:28.743 At the full frame rate.