1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:03,281 - I've never heard of Pixeo before, and you probably haven't either, 2 00:00:03,281 --> 00:00:10,320 but when they offered to sponsor this video for their new PX277 Pro it's a 1440p display, 165 hertz or something, 3 00:00:12,276 --> 00:00:17,270 and it's got a KVM inside of it. and the price tag is actually reasonable. 4 00:00:17,270 --> 00:00:20,820 We just, you know, we couldn't resist. So we're gonna open it up, 5 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:24,900 and see if it lives up to their claims. We've got this sweet "Engineering sample, 6 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:29,280 not for resale" sticker. We get that for most of the things that we get here so that, you know, we don't just turn around, 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,230 and sell everything. - [Jono] That's why we can't give away anything. 8 00:00:33,230 --> 00:00:37,380 - Yeah, that's why we can't give away stuff. What else is on the box? So there's like nothing on this side. 9 00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:40,560 I don't know what David's looking at. Let's turn around. 10 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,870 There's nothing on this side either. It's just box stuff. 11 00:00:43,870 --> 00:00:48,387 Like, "Hey, handle the box with care." - [Jono] It does say 144. 12 00:00:48,387 --> 00:00:51,510 - And where does it say 144? Oh, wow. (laughs) 13 00:00:51,510 --> 00:00:55,399 Yeah, that's actually like kind of refreshing, but also a bit of a pain. 14 00:00:55,399 --> 00:00:58,630 because I like to be able to just look at the box, and be like, "Okay, it's got this, this and this." 15 00:00:58,630 --> 00:01:03,010 Because you don't always want to like, if you're going to Best Buy, you don't want to sit there and Google every single product. 16 00:01:03,010 --> 00:01:08,930 And I'm sorry, I don't trust employees to like, tell me anything about the stuff there. 17 00:01:08,930 --> 00:01:14,200 Not harping on Best Buy. That's like almost any electronic store. I just don't really trust them, I guess. 18 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,653 So here's the base. Here's the stand. 19 00:01:18,450 --> 00:01:22,820 And here's the cable. "Warning to avoid danger from suffocation. 20 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:26,761 Keep these bags away from babies and children." - Oh, don't let Jono get a hold of it. 21 00:01:26,761 --> 00:01:29,933 - Don't let Jono. (laughs) - I'm a baby. 22 00:01:30,967 --> 00:01:34,950 - "Thank you for choosing Pixeo. Pixeo is a gaming monitor and accessories brand 23 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:38,920 that is focused on growing and becoming a reliable partner in the e-sports community. 24 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,020 Although small, we work hard to deliver big. We invite you to take this step with us. 25 00:01:42,020 --> 00:01:46,930 Thank you for experiencing gaming at its best with Pixeo." Wow, these guys assume that if you're buying this monitor, 26 00:01:46,930 --> 00:01:50,080 you know what you're getting already, you don't need reminders. 27 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,920 And that's kind of true. Like most of the time when I buy a monitor, and it's got all this extra manual, 28 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,200 and documentation saying like, "Oh, it's this, it's that, it's X, Y, and Z." 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,660 Or it's all over the box. It's like, "Yup, I know, thanks. 30 00:02:01,660 --> 00:02:04,870 I didn't need to know that or look at that, or see it or whatever. 31 00:02:04,870 --> 00:02:08,560 The only reason I know anything about it is because they sent us a bunch of specs 32 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,420 and we've looked at the website, and stuff and it's supposed to be pretty reasonable. 33 00:02:12,420 --> 00:02:18,400 I think it's about $350 or so. And you get a 1440p 144 hertz display. 34 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,550 I think this is just a couple of USB ports, 35 00:02:22,044 --> 00:02:26,480 and some Ethernet. It's also got a USBC DisplayPort attachment. 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,640 So what you can do is you can actually hook up a laptop to this really easily. 37 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,400 You don't even need a charger. It'll charge up to, I think 65 Watts. 38 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:38,480 Man, more I talk about this thing, the more I like it actually. Everyone's still talking about 4k and even 8k, 39 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,110 but the reality is like, who can run that? Like, I have a pretty nice computer 40 00:02:42,110 --> 00:02:45,870 with a 3070 and a 9900K and I can't run 4k. 41 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:51,100 Like I can, but it's, you know, like maybe 60 FPS if I tone down settings and stuff, 42 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:55,370 but I'm kind of a graphic snob. And so I like to have everything at least at like very high or high, 43 00:02:55,370 --> 00:02:58,770 I mean ultra if possible, but we've done a whole video on why that's kind of dumb, 44 00:02:58,770 --> 00:03:03,260 but 1440p is manageable. Like I can get really high frame rates in most new games 45 00:03:03,260 --> 00:03:06,543 at 1440p, I'm playing "God of War" right now. Boy! 46 00:03:06,543 --> 00:03:11,070 And while streaming on the same card, I can get like a hundred frames per second 47 00:03:11,070 --> 00:03:14,330 or so on very high settings. So pretty happy. 48 00:03:14,330 --> 00:03:19,420 Ah, okay. So one minor complaint already. Is it doesn't use that tool system 49 00:03:19,420 --> 00:03:25,630 that a lot of other monitors use, it uses this three screw system to screw into the base. 50 00:03:25,630 --> 00:03:29,320 They probably could have gone with a single screw just right in the middle, like most other monitors. 51 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,210 I mean, this thing isn't huge. It's like 27 inches. 52 00:03:33,210 --> 00:03:37,447 So that's the KVM I'm guessing, and then there's your power, a USB (indistinct). 53 00:03:38,852 --> 00:03:42,407 And HDMI 2.0 144 Hertz, DP 1.2 165. 54 00:03:42,407 --> 00:03:45,800 You know, I really liked that these are all labeled, 55 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,599 and not just labeled, like they don't just say HDMI or DisplayPort or whatever. 56 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:53,430 It says HDMI 2.0 144 Hertz. 57 00:03:53,430 --> 00:03:56,820 It tells you what it is. It tells you what it can do. Even with the Type-C charging. 58 00:03:56,820 --> 00:04:01,560 It tells you it can do 65 Watts, and it can do 165 cause it's basically DisplayPort, 59 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,940 and then a headphone jack. So yeah points to them. 60 00:04:05,940 --> 00:04:10,390 It doesn't do a couple of other things we noticed. Like it doesn't, pretty sure it doesn't go vertical. 61 00:04:11,690 --> 00:04:15,430 I want to try to bend it a bit more, but I'm pretty sure it's just going to break. 62 00:04:15,430 --> 00:04:18,543 So yeah, I can't like tilt this vertically, but you know what? 63 00:04:18,543 --> 00:04:22,680 Not many people even do that, especially if you've only got like one monitor. 64 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,326 Who uses a single monitor vertically? - [Jono] I do. 65 00:04:26,326 --> 00:04:29,630 To look at my stonks. - One nice thing, 66 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:36,100 just uses my favorite little feature, the navigation nipple. And it looks like that's all you get for your menu controls, 67 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:39,323 which is perfectly fine. It's pretty thin bezel too. 68 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,820 Like you basically just get a bunch of screen space, and a very small chin on the bottom. 69 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:48,057 This is Pixeo. It looks like they're taking the approach of, 70 00:04:48,057 --> 00:04:51,850 "You know, what do gamers need? Give it to them. 71 00:04:51,850 --> 00:04:55,180 Don't put any bells and whistles or frills or anything like that." 72 00:04:55,180 --> 00:04:59,380 But that being said, yeah, actually, nevermind. There is more play than I expected. 73 00:04:59,380 --> 00:05:02,710 You get a good amount of swivel. You can tilt. 74 00:05:02,710 --> 00:05:07,407 There's two little slots on the back here. I think they're for speakers, because they're on the exact same side. 75 00:05:07,407 --> 00:05:10,620 And I think they're just rear firing, which kind of sucks, but whatever, 76 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:14,440 you don't usually want to use monitor speakers anyway, otherwise it's got to be for cooling. 77 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,440 I don't know why else you'd put little vents in the back of your monitor, 78 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,500 so let's just put it on our PC, set it up and take a look, 79 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:25,030 see how it actually looks. Now for the other monitor. 80 00:05:25,030 --> 00:05:28,180 So it's 1440p, I'm going to turn on HDR. 81 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:32,230 - [David] It looks off. - It looks off but I mean, this is what Windows looks like with HDR on. 82 00:05:32,230 --> 00:05:36,600 It's not good on monitors. It's just not, like mini LED when we get there. 83 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,460 I mean, they're going to be expensive as hell when they launch, but man, 84 00:05:40,460 --> 00:05:44,650 they look really nice and they're going to have proper HDR with like really good full array, local diming 85 00:05:44,650 --> 00:05:50,970 with like 500+ zones. But that's going to cost you an ARM and a leg like, 86 00:05:50,970 --> 00:05:54,530 over $1000 for 1080p or 1440p monitor. 87 00:05:54,530 --> 00:06:00,407 I mean, it basically looks like I expected it to. This thing has something like 130% coverage of SRGB 88 00:06:02,203 --> 00:06:03,903 like 97% DCI-P3 and 96% Adobe RGB, 89 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,463 which is the majority of it. 90 00:06:10,750 --> 00:06:14,080 It covers a pretty wide color gamut, which is always a plus. 91 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,130 As for accuracy. it's not tuned out of the factory or anything, 92 00:06:17,130 --> 00:06:22,020 but the fact that you have access to those colors means that you can try to calibrate it yourself, 93 00:06:22,020 --> 00:06:25,160 especially if you have the proper equipment to do so. 94 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,113 As for brightness, it gets up to like 450 nits. Let's blast a white screen. 95 00:06:30,210 --> 00:06:34,603 Yeah, that's pretty bright, like 450 nits, isn't that bright, but for a monitor it's not bad. 96 00:06:34,603 --> 00:06:38,650 - [Jono] They're manufactured direct to consumer. - No way, okay. So that's actually really cool. 97 00:06:38,650 --> 00:06:44,040 Apparently it's manufactured, and it goes directly to the consumer. So that kind of makes sense with the box we got. 98 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,700 It kind of makes sense with the price point they're able to hit. That's actually great. 99 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:51,180 Honestly, I hate paying middlemen for like anything. 100 00:06:51,180 --> 00:06:55,842 So I'm all aboard the direct from the factory, straight to consumer train. 101 00:06:55,842 --> 00:06:58,870 It looks pretty good. And this is with HDR turned off. 102 00:06:58,870 --> 00:07:03,760 Like the colors actually look like they're supposed to. Those greens on those peppers actually look really good, 103 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,230 and you don't get a bunch of like weird color bleed, like all of this black on the grill, 104 00:07:08,230 --> 00:07:11,270 and like the grease splattering and stuff. 105 00:07:11,270 --> 00:07:16,010 It all looks great. Even just looking back at like these pots and stuff, 106 00:07:16,010 --> 00:07:19,850 you can see a lot of nice color differentiation between everything. 107 00:07:19,850 --> 00:07:24,236 The chicken looks good. I think this is beef or something or pork, and that looks really good. 108 00:07:24,236 --> 00:07:29,910 - [Jono] Have you had lunch yet or are you hungry? - No, I had a salad. (laughs) 109 00:07:29,910 --> 00:07:36,030 I mean, so far I actually liked this thing. It takes out a little too much desk real estate. 110 00:07:36,030 --> 00:07:40,200 Like these monitor, the base legs. They probably could've gone a little bit wider, 111 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,610 so it doesn't have to cut this far into your desk, 112 00:07:43,610 --> 00:07:46,630 but that's okay. Like that's a pretty minor complaint. 113 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:52,540 Otherwise, like it looks pretty good. The bezel is a little thicker than I was hoping for. 114 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:57,330 on the actual screen itself, but that's fine. 115 00:07:57,330 --> 00:08:01,770 They do have an inside bezel on the chin, which is a little unfortunate. 116 00:08:01,770 --> 00:08:06,390 It's a pretty minor thing. You're going to end up with the same kind of screen real estate overall. 117 00:08:06,390 --> 00:08:10,070 It's just, when you have the chin, you can usually put the plastic up a little higher. 118 00:08:10,070 --> 00:08:14,207 So that it hides that bezel completely. So that like the screen looks like 119 00:08:14,207 --> 00:08:20,210 it just disappears into the bottom. Otherwise everything looks really good so far. Even though this one here, doesn't say G-SYNC capable, 120 00:08:20,210 --> 00:08:24,380 like our ASUS monitor does right there. There's a good chance it's just a driver thing. 121 00:08:24,380 --> 00:08:27,760 Like this is pretty early. I think this comes out around March of this year. 122 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,620 So it probably just doesn't have its information up to date, but it can enable G-SYNC. 123 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:35,710 It's G-SYNC compatible. It can enable it for full screen mode. 124 00:08:35,710 --> 00:08:39,340 It doesn't have the G-SYNC module, but it's still pretty good. 125 00:08:39,340 --> 00:08:43,523 Hey, I've got nipples. Can you milk me? - [David] Don't tempt me. 126 00:08:44,910 --> 00:08:49,440 - I kind of wish that it was centered. I've said that a few times when checking out other monitors, 127 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,350 but you know, it's not that bad. It's a little lower, which is nice. Like I can do it like this. 128 00:08:54,350 --> 00:08:58,010 Let's crank it into a hundred baby, get even brighter. 129 00:08:58,010 --> 00:09:02,020 Contrast sure, sure, sure. Preset: User. 130 00:09:02,020 --> 00:09:06,090 Oh yeah, I forgot about the okay. So Movie probably looks the best 131 00:09:06,090 --> 00:09:11,378 at least for content consumption anyway, you can change the aspect ratio, 4 by 3 cool. 132 00:09:11,378 --> 00:09:16,320 - [David] Oh, that's good! - That's actually a pretty cool feature. If you like to play a lot of retro games, 133 00:09:17,870 --> 00:09:23,100 check out the 4 by 3 option. Honestly, I never thought I'd say that, but you know what? 134 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:26,750 It's handy. Other aspect ratios? Not everyone can do that. 135 00:09:26,750 --> 00:09:31,140 Oh, you just change your input by like pressing up on the nipple, which is nice. 136 00:09:31,140 --> 00:09:35,860 So that's the other cool thing is you don't have to go into a menu. Like what happens if I go down? So down is the KVM stuff. 137 00:09:35,860 --> 00:09:38,993 So USB up and Type-C. So that's cool. 138 00:09:38,993 --> 00:09:42,933 Let's see what's left? Left is your color profiles. 139 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:47,810 That's actually really handy. I really like what they've done here. Right is the crosshair stuff. 140 00:09:47,810 --> 00:09:51,740 If you want it. And an FPS counter, which is great. Well, it's got timer too. 141 00:09:51,740 --> 00:09:56,580 That's actually pretty cool. I like that they've got a timer because especially with Windows 11, 142 00:09:56,580 --> 00:09:59,860 games are on your main screen. That's really frustrating because you can't see the clock. 143 00:09:59,860 --> 00:10:03,530 RGB light on. So there is an RGB light. Where is this RGB light? 144 00:10:03,530 --> 00:10:07,923 There is a tiny little strip of my beloved RGB. 145 00:10:09,190 --> 00:10:13,910 And unlike another monitor that we did, it's got like the whole diffusion across the whole strip 146 00:10:13,910 --> 00:10:16,253 instead of just like, "Oh, here's five little LEDs, 147 00:10:17,583 --> 00:10:20,600 and it splashes light across the wall." No, give me the strip. 148 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,310 Let it diffuse. So it looks good when I look at it, and I don't have to look at it 149 00:10:24,310 --> 00:10:28,710 like splashed against something. Obviously everything kind of looks like ass. 150 00:10:28,710 --> 00:10:32,870 That's pretty much just because the game itself is probably, 151 00:10:32,870 --> 00:10:37,288 Yeah, 1280 by 768 - [David] You gotta change your aspect ratio. 152 00:10:37,288 --> 00:10:41,730 - Oh that's why. Why is it at 5.3? Oh my God. 16 by 9, RTX on. 153 00:10:41,730 --> 00:10:45,306 Yeah what do we have in here? Like a 3090? Okay, that's all looks good. Apply. 154 00:10:47,790 --> 00:10:51,110 Oh, it looks so much better. Everything is applied. It looks great. 155 00:10:51,110 --> 00:10:53,893 It looks like the "Doom Eternal" we know and love, 156 00:10:55,061 --> 00:10:58,680 and let's jump into wherever our save slot is on the campaign. It's not the first level, 157 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:02,250 I don't think, but whoever saved this. - [David] I guarantee it's Linus. 158 00:11:02,250 --> 00:11:08,555 - Put me in with no ammo. I'm not an elitist, but I have high standards. 159 00:11:08,555 --> 00:11:10,227 - [Jono] Yeah, you are! 160 00:11:11,685 --> 00:11:16,410 Your keyboard stuff! - But there's some things. Everyone has a thing, right. 161 00:11:16,410 --> 00:11:19,660 And keyboards are mine and that's fine. But even with keyboards, I'm not an elitist. 162 00:11:19,660 --> 00:11:24,770 I just, I appreciate, the nice stuff. Like if I've got to type, 163 00:11:24,770 --> 00:11:28,920 like I don't like this keyboard but I don't care I'll use it, and that's just fine. 164 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,215 I don't want to use this full auto. How do I switch? There we go. 165 00:11:32,215 --> 00:11:37,810 So even though it doesn't have like the best HDR, most monitors don't. The whole having like 450 nits brightness, 166 00:11:37,810 --> 00:11:41,580 does kind of make everything pop just a little bit more, even in SDR. 167 00:11:41,580 --> 00:11:46,280 And I'm a big fan. If you can avoid buying a 300 nit monitor, 168 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,653 and get something even just 400 or 500 nits, definitely go for it. 169 00:11:49,653 --> 00:11:52,850 Especially if you can afford it. But like even just this scene here, 170 00:11:52,850 --> 00:11:56,850 it looks great, like the smoke down there, and like the green lighting up there, 171 00:11:56,850 --> 00:11:59,900 the fire looks nice and like fiery. 172 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:05,620 Man, "Doom Eternal" looks so (beep) good. - [David] I find it really blurry when it's in motion. 173 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:11,180 - There's a little bit of screen tearing. Like when you move everything too much, but it's not too, too bad, and honestly, 174 00:12:11,180 --> 00:12:14,513 we're trying to give you like a worst case example in this situation. 175 00:12:14,513 --> 00:12:19,530 Most people, when they play games, don't do this. You know, they like pan around, maybe do a quick 180, 176 00:12:19,530 --> 00:12:23,810 but by the time you've turned, you don't even really like notice any of the in-between 177 00:12:23,810 --> 00:12:28,000 stuff that maybe looked a little bad. So that's totally fine, honestly. 178 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,473 So we're going to do some UFO Tests real quick at this 165, 179 00:12:31,473 --> 00:12:34,843 the UFO looks pretty good. It's pretty clear. 180 00:12:34,843 --> 00:12:38,240 There's not like a bunch of smearing or anything. Let's do some other tests. 181 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,190 Let's do, where is the dropdown. Video game panning test. 182 00:12:42,190 --> 00:12:46,233 So the top one's 30 FPS, the bottom's 165. 183 00:12:47,190 --> 00:12:52,890 And I play a lot of "DOTA". So this is all very familiar to me. As long as you're using this thing with a high frame rate 184 00:12:52,890 --> 00:12:57,820 in games that matches, or exceeds your 165 Hertz refresh rate, 185 00:12:57,820 --> 00:13:03,150 it's going to look pretty good. Like even in "DOTA" panning around the map, this fast, these guys, 186 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:07,790 they get a little blurry sometimes, but it's not that bad. Let's see what else they've got frame pacing, 187 00:13:07,790 --> 00:13:11,800 slight stutter "DOTA 2". Oh, there's other, this is cool. 188 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,970 Quebec city. Yeah, so like when we look at this still image of Quebec, 189 00:13:15,970 --> 00:13:20,040 it does get a little blurrier, because there's all these much finer details in here. 190 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,480 So, you know, who watches someone racing around Quebec, 191 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,846 or a cityscape, maybe don't watch movies on this thing, 192 00:13:27,846 --> 00:13:31,747 use it just for games. It's definitely not going to be your like, 193 00:13:31,747 --> 00:13:36,710 "Oh, this is my 4k 60 super good HDR monitor 194 00:13:36,710 --> 00:13:42,610 that I play all my content on." This is going to be just like, "I'm gaming, maybe play some high frame rate 195 00:13:42,610 --> 00:13:46,440 E-sports like "Counter-Strike" or "DOTA" or "League of Legends"." Something like that. 196 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:51,113 It'll look perfectly fine. You can see a bit of stutter and tear as it goes, 197 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,470 but I guarantee you, if we put just about any monitor on here, 198 00:13:55,470 --> 00:13:59,490 you're going to see a little bit, this is tough to do perfectly. 199 00:13:59,490 --> 00:14:02,581 Maybe an OLED could do this perfectly by turning every, 200 00:14:02,581 --> 00:14:05,800 like every pixel, just off to get these blacks 201 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,143 exactly where they're supposed to be. But this is an extreme example. 202 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,073 In actual use case, it looks really good. 203 00:14:14,101 --> 00:14:20,660 So Pixeo seems to be doing a pretty good job here. The PX277 Pro is this guy here, 204 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:25,820 and it's going to be less than $380. It's going to be out in March. 205 00:14:25,820 --> 00:14:30,630 And honestly, if you're looking for a new monitor, 206 00:14:30,630 --> 00:14:33,163 you want 1440p, you want a high refresh rate. 207 00:14:34,430 --> 00:14:37,650 It's not a bad buy. If you can find something cheaper than sure. 208 00:14:37,650 --> 00:14:41,040 Maybe go for that. But I don't think with all the features that this has, 209 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,760 you're going to find all that much for much cheaper. If you do want to pick one up, 210 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,586 take a look at the link below, we'll have it available there for you. 211 00:14:48,586 --> 00:14:54,060 And if you want to watch any other Short Circuits, take a look at the Corsair Xeneon monitor that we unboxed. 212 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:58,830 That thing has a worst stand than this, but it's still nice monitor. 213 00:14:58,830 --> 00:15:04,353 - [Jono] It's a very multifunctional monitor. + Yeah, it's very multi-functional, thanks for watching.