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what's faster than a 500 HZ display well supposedly an ASUS display at 540 but

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that's not out yet so for now we've got the aw 2524 HF from Alienware uh one

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thing I noticed is it's got this cute little whale on the handle I've never

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noticed that once before I own an Alienware display in case that wasn't

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already known by everyone and um it's

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not 500 HZ though and I'll tell you something 500 htz is a

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dream a dream come true it's so fast it

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looks like it's like you're looking through a window honestly like I know that people say that basically every

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time this feels like looking through a window into the real world it's so

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smooth this is the only time where it's like indistinguishable we'll play

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Counter-Strike on it later and just show you guys how instant everything is um

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got a stand here this is only a 24 and 1 12 inch monitor and it's only 1080p but

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that's because you know you're trying to hit those Max refresh rates for insane

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Esports gaming um that's not necessarily

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what I'm interested in I like a high refresh rate but I don't know past 240

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it's hard for me to tell the difference until you make another big jump like

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from 240 to 500 then you can actually feel it um in the Box probably should

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have told you guys as I pulled them out we've got a USBC to DisplayPort cable

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we've also got a C13 we'll see later if

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this hooks up directly to the monitor or if there's a power brick and then we've

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got a regular DisplayPort cable this is

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what we're going to be using today to actually hit 500 Herz if you're stuck

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with HDMI it's not going to hit there it'll hit like 240 I think at 1080p

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we've also got our handy dandy USB B cable uh this actually really handy for

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stuff like say you want to use the USB ports on the back of your monitor you

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just hook up the ba on your computer and it'll transfer all the signals so for me

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um you know I'm not sure how much latency it introduces but I put the

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dongle for my mouse on my monitor just to save a USB port on my computer and

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we've got our stand

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stand who this one took a lot of effort

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to get out of the bag uh we got the classic big old column into a big old

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twisty screw here at the bottom pretty

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Universal Design that most people seem to use not everybody we've definitely

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unboxed a few monitors that don't use this system um but it's just so easy uh

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We've also got this box what's in the Alienware box got the little alien head

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on it I love alienware's logo man I

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remember when Alienware wasn't owned by Dell and it was actually like crazy them

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and like Voodoo H uh as for what's in here looks like it's just a safety and

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regulatory information as well as a little alien head sticker if you want to

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you know rep the brand a little bit and then we've got the display in here we're

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going to do the old click clack and pull it out click clack

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pull oh and then we've got a little

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product guide here that tells me how to do all the things I just did we've

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actually reviewed uh the previous iteration of this the aw25 24

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non-hf on LTT and let me tell you it was

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beautiful then and right now it looks great except for some of these scuff

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marks one moment please it's got a pretty sweet stand it's not super big

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and the nice thing is it's got these angles here so if you're one of those really hardcore uh csgo players who does

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the whole angled keyboard trick um you can have it like lined up against your

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monitor there if it's really that close but you know when it's only 25 in 24 1/2

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you got to get in there uh as for these stands

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capabilities it can swivel yep oh but

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it's on the stand not the ARM you know I kind of like that it feels a bit like

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sturdier when it's on the stand itself not on the ARM oh baby it tells you uh

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to not try to Pivot it when it's all the way lowered though in the little booklet

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we got so I'm going to put it back here and check out the uh this is the max

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height and then oh tilt too you know it's always welcome uh but let's see how

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low this monitor can go that's not bad

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it's going to fit just about any desk and it's going to fit just about any

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height something else I just noticed is

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it's got a little headphone stand for you so whenever you know you're done

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gaming you just take it off put it there in terms of just design you know I like

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it it's simple it works it's got the big 500 HZ badge right here uh big alien

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wear lettering on the front which I'm not crazy about that much branding but

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it's really not that bad there's nothing on the stand down here no alien head

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logo then if we look at the back like most Alienware logos it's got the first

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model number over here 25 uh and then we've got the little alien head back

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here neat little fun fact we had not this guy but the previous iteration at

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LTX at the does FPS matter booth and B

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ran it he's pretty good at games i' I've played against and with him in a couple

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of Shooters he's pretty good and uh he said that the 500 Herz did not really

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improve his gameplay or anyone's for that matter now someone who is a

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dedicated professional Esports player it'll probably make a difference for

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them for the average person probably not

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took it off the stand real quick to show you guys the io uh we've got our C13

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power plug here for our internal power supply if you really need a dedicated

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external brick then this monitor probably isn't for you we've got our

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usbb Port couple of usba a ports and then a couple more down here actually as

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well so we've got four usba 3.2 and then

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we've also got HDMI 2.1 and a couple of DisplayPort 1.4 aside from that we've

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got a navigation nipple down here and then what looks like a power

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turned on let's see it says 60 HZ there and I believe it this does not feel good

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at all we're using DisplayPort because even though the uh HDMI connector is

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HDMI 2.1 it's not enough for 500 HZ 1080p it

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ain't enough so we're in 1080P that's great Advanced 60 garbage goes up to 480

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now you got to change a menu setting to hit 500 but oh man even 480 like we'll

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get that 20 extra Hertz but uh it's

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really not much um yeah let's do it let's do it it says 480 in the corner

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okay great it's working let's check out our OSD it's the classic Alienware OSD

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with the navigation nipple I'm pretty big on this but that's mostly just

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because I've gotten really used to it cuz I have an Alienware monitor we found

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srgb to be the most color accurate with a Delta e average of only one and a Max

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error of just 2.7 but it only does about

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90% DCI P3 which is still respectable especially

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because this monitor is not about creation this monitor is about gaming at

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the fastest speeds possible so we've got a 490 you know we've got 1080p it's

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going to be probably CPU bottleneck and we'll see how good it actually works

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overclock 500 HZ baby is doing it it's

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trying did it do it I don't know oh it doesn't feel like it it feels like it's back to 60 maybe I have to enable it and

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then go in and change it back from 60 to

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500 don't get me wrong this feels the exact same as 480 did to me when you're

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going between 480 and 500 there is not a

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whole lot of difference at 500 HZ that's a 2 millisecond frame time 2

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milliseconds of frame time is very impressive the problem is you start to

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see a lot of diminishing returns after about 120 240 HZ at 60 HZ you're seeing

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about 16.67 milliseconds of frame time and then once you jump down to uh or

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once you jump up to 120 you have that so

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it goes to about 8.3 and then you have it again at 240 to four and then you

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have it again um at 480 to like 2.2 or

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something and then you know the 500 gets you that flat even 2 milliseconds that's

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great but like there's a huge difference between 16 and 8 and even 8 and four but

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4 to two it's you know it's pretty minor that being said uh my main test for just

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checking you know what my refres fresh rate is probably running at is I just

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jiggle my mouse and I try to like see how many cursors are on screen at once

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look at all those that's science that's scientific right there uh let's do a

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quick UFO test dang 500 FPS refresh rate

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so it looks pretty good but I'm surprised by how much ghosting I'm seeing on the white and green frogs in

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particular we've got vsync off but on it doesn't seem to make any difference with

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that ghosting either so even at 500 HZ

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unless there's some setting that I'm completely unaware of you're just not

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going to fix that ghosting part of the problem is that while this is IPS and it

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looks beautiful in terms of color and even viewing angles aren't too bad um

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unfortunately it's just not going to be quite as Snappy as something like OLED

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or even uh just a TN panel that stuff is

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lightning quick especially OLED counts in literally like micros seconds for

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of ghosting at least on certain colors or Shades like we're seeing here we're

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going to try some games though because there is a massive difference between

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trying to play a game and notice a frame rate versus watching it on a test

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pattern um for me I find ghosting as

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perceptible but not like super perceptible that makes any

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sense like when you're gaming you're kind of busy looking at everything all over the place so it's not until you

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start to pixel Peep and like look for things specifically that you start to

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actually notice it unless a panel's really bad if a panel's really bad you

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can tell pretty quickly now 24 1/2 in or 24 to 25 is pretty

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typical for Esports size monitors and it's also pretty typical for displays

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that are this fast the problem with that at least for

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people who are used to bigger displays is that it's really small one of the

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first things that both Belle and I noticed was like wow we went to sit down

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in front of this and I'm like I've got to like get right in front of this thing

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because it's tiny and so it's going to be a price that you're going to have to

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pay you cannot get 500 HZ refresh rate

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in a bigger mon monitor at least not yet maybe a few years from now but

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definitely not yet so you know we set our FPS Max to 1,000 just to make sure

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that this thing can breathe as much as it wants to and we are now getting you

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know 600 700 maybe 800 frames a second

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depending on where you are yeah something doesn't feel right like it's

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it's hitting High FPS but it's

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still with how blurry it gets when I shake this much it still doesn't feel

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like 500 htz because it's fast IPS and

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the moving picture response time isn't going to be as good as you might want it

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to be it still doesn't feel perfect we saw the ghosting on the frogs we see

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when I shake the camera really quickly it gets a little blurry and a little

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blendy so I think that at the end of the day refresh rate just isn't King it's

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important and is this going to look amazing yeah we'll fire up another game

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just to look at how good the colors are and all that I think that when you're

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deciding on what monitor to buy you really need to examine a lot more than

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just refresh rate and PPI let's fire up

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Doom let's see how Doom feels so we've got HDR turned on now in Windows and in

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uh our sweet sweet display here and in

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the game I got to say it looks okay it's

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putting up some decent bright spots we measured 333 nits uh Peak brightness and

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HDR which is fine uh the the problem

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with this thing is it's not you know it's meant for stuff like this it's not

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meant to look cinematic it's meant to give you the fastest frame rate possible

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this thing looks fine in game I will admit when you're watching content like

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this and you're not looking for individual uh issues it looks okay

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you're not going to see a ton of Bloom unless it's a very like obvious example

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of oh here's a you know pinpoint here on a dark uh spot the pro oh those bright

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flashes from the gun actually look terrible it brightens up my whole screen

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essentially instead of like just here okay so that's a really good example of that looking real bad um it doesn't help

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that I'm also low health and so I've got some red filter on my screen it's not as

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bad now that the uh film is gone but it

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still brightens too much on my screen instead of a simple pinpoint right where

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my muzzle flash is there's a reason that they're not even really promoting HDR

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all that heavily for this version um the main difference between the HF and the H

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is that this does not have the g-sync badge it does not have native g-sync

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modu on it it's got free sing premium

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which is pretty sweet I will admit right now this is not an awful experience and

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I'd be more than happy to play this I'd probably play in HDR instead of SDR this

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one without the gsync module the aw25

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24hf is $650 right now which is kind of

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a lot for a 242 in 1080P display that

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doesn't even have a great HDR experience however there's really no

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competition at 500 HZ or there's not much uh especially not when you want

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fast IPS for better colors than a TN panel is going to give you what makes it

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even better is the NVIDIA one with gsync is

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$830 so if you want to save like 200

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bucks and you were already thinking of getting the nonf version honestly you've

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done yourself a favor by waiting because $200 less makes this a lot more

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affordable to a lot of people I personally probably wouldn't buy this I

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think that 500 HZ it's a little too much for most people 240 is still really good

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and still a huge jump um especially different panel technology like OLED

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where you have those Lightning Fast pixel response times it's a fantastic

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experience this is still really really good and there are absolutely Gamers out

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there who not only want this but need it

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to get that edge over their opponent so if that's you the aw25 24hf from Alien

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wear might be worth checking out this is ShortCircuit if you want to look at

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another video check out the lg27 g95 QE

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that's an OLED monitor it does 240 HZ it's not 500 but it's still real fast