WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:03.281 - I've never heard of Pixeo before, and you probably haven't either, 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, 00:00:12.276 --> 00:00:17.270 and it's got a KVM inside of it. and the price tag is actually reasonable. 00:00:17.270 --> 00:00:20.820 We just, you know, we couldn't resist. So we're gonna open it up, 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:24.900 and see if it lives up to their claims. We've got this sweet "Engineering sample, 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, 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.230 and sell everything. - [Jono] That's why we can't give away anything. 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. 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:40.560 I don't know what David's looking at. Let's turn around. 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.870 There's nothing on this side either. It's just box stuff. 00:00:43.870 --> 00:00:48.387 Like, "Hey, handle the box with care." - [Jono] It does say 144. 00:00:48.387 --> 00:00:51.510 - And where does it say 144? Oh, wow. (laughs) 00:00:51.510 --> 00:00:55.399 Yeah, that's actually like kind of refreshing, but also a bit of a pain. 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." 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. 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. 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. 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:16.653 So here's the base. Here's the stand. 00:01:18.450 --> 00:01:22.820 And here's the cable. "Warning to avoid danger from suffocation. 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. 00:01:26.761 --> 00:01:29.933 - Don't let Jono. (laughs) - I'm a baby. 00:01:30.967 --> 00:01:34.950 - "Thank you for choosing Pixeo. Pixeo is a gaming monitor and accessories brand 00:01:34.950 --> 00:01:38.920 that is focused on growing and becoming a reliable partner in the e-sports community. 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. 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, 00:01:46.930 --> 00:01:50.080 you know what you're getting already, you don't need reminders. 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, 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." 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.660 Or it's all over the box. It's like, "Yup, I know, thanks. 00:02:01.660 --> 00:02:04.870 I didn't need to know that or look at that, or see it or whatever. 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 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. 00:02:12.420 --> 00:02:18.400 I think it's about $350 or so. And you get a 1440p 144 hertz display. 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.550 I think this is just a couple of USB ports, 00:02:22.044 --> 00:02:26.480 and some Ethernet. It's also got a USBC DisplayPort attachment. 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. 00:02:29.640 --> 00:02:33.400 You don't even need a charger. It'll charge up to, I think 65 Watts. 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, 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:42.110 but the reality is like, who can run that? Like, I have a pretty nice computer 00:02:42.110 --> 00:02:45.870 with a 3070 and a 9900K and I can't run 4k. 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, 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, 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, 00:02:58.770 --> 00:03:03.260 but 1440p is manageable. Like I can get really high frame rates in most new games 00:03:03.260 --> 00:03:06.543 at 1440p, I'm playing "God of War" right now. Boy! 00:03:06.543 --> 00:03:11.070 And while streaming on the same card, I can get like a hundred frames per second 00:03:11.070 --> 00:03:14.330 or so on very high settings. So pretty happy. 00:03:14.330 --> 00:03:19.420 Ah, okay. So one minor complaint already. Is it doesn't use that tool system 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. 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. 00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:33.210 I mean, this thing isn't huge. It's like 27 inches. 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). 00:03:38.852 --> 00:03:42.407 And HDMI 2.0 144 Hertz, DP 1.2 165. 00:03:42.407 --> 00:03:45.800 You know, I really liked that these are all labeled, 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.599 and not just labeled, like they don't just say HDMI or DisplayPort or whatever. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.430 It says HDMI 2.0 144 Hertz. 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. 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, 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.940 and then a headphone jack. So yeah points to them. 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. 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. 00:04:15.430 --> 00:04:18.543 So yeah, I can't like tilt this vertically, but you know what? 00:04:18.543 --> 00:04:22.680 Not many people even do that, especially if you've only got like one monitor. 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:26.326 Who uses a single monitor vertically? - [Jono] I do. 00:04:26.326 --> 00:04:29.630 To look at my stonks. - One nice thing, 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, 00:04:36.100 --> 00:04:39.323 which is perfectly fine. It's pretty thin bezel too. 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. 00:04:44.820 --> 00:04:48.057 This is Pixeo. It looks like they're taking the approach of, 00:04:48.057 --> 00:04:51.850 "You know, what do gamers need? Give it to them. 00:04:51.850 --> 00:04:55.180 Don't put any bells and whistles or frills or anything like that." 00:04:55.180 --> 00:04:59.380 But that being said, yeah, actually, nevermind. There is more play than I expected. 00:04:59.380 --> 00:05:02.710 You get a good amount of swivel. You can tilt. 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. 00:05:07.407 --> 00:05:10.620 And I think they're just rear firing, which kind of sucks, but whatever, 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. 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, 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:20.500 so let's just put it on our PC, set it up and take a look, 00:05:20.500 --> 00:05:25.030 see how it actually looks. Now for the other monitor. 00:05:25.030 --> 00:05:28.180 So it's 1440p, I'm going to turn on HDR. 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. 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. 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:40.460 I mean, they're going to be expensive as hell when they launch, but man, 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 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, 00:05:50.970 --> 00:05:54.530 over $1000 for 1080p or 1440p monitor. 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 00:06:02.203 --> 00:06:03.903 like 97% DCI-P3 and 96% Adobe RGB, 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.463 which is the majority of it. 00:06:10.750 --> 00:06:14.080 It covers a pretty wide color gamut, which is always a plus. 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:17.130 As for accuracy. it's not tuned out of the factory or anything, 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, 00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:25.160 especially if you have the proper equipment to do so. 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:29.113 As for brightness, it gets up to like 450 nits. Let's blast a white screen. 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. 00:06:34.603 --> 00:06:38.650 - [Jono] They're manufactured direct to consumer. - No way, okay. So that's actually really cool. 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. 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. 00:06:47.700 --> 00:06:51.180 Honestly, I hate paying middlemen for like anything. 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:55.842 So I'm all aboard the direct from the factory, straight to consumer train. 00:06:55.842 --> 00:06:58.870 It looks pretty good. And this is with HDR turned off. 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, 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, 00:07:08.230 --> 00:07:11.270 and like the grease splattering and stuff. 00:07:11.270 --> 00:07:16.010 It all looks great. Even just looking back at like these pots and stuff, 00:07:16.010 --> 00:07:19.850 you can see a lot of nice color differentiation between everything. 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. 00:07:24.236 --> 00:07:29.910 - [Jono] Have you had lunch yet or are you hungry? - No, I had a salad. (laughs) 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. 00:07:36.030 --> 00:07:40.200 Like these monitor, the base legs. They probably could've gone a little bit wider, 00:07:40.200 --> 00:07:43.610 so it doesn't have to cut this far into your desk, 00:07:43.610 --> 00:07:46.630 but that's okay. Like that's a pretty minor complaint. 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. 00:07:52.540 --> 00:07:57.330 on the actual screen itself, but that's fine. 00:07:57.330 --> 00:08:01.770 They do have an inside bezel on the chin, which is a little unfortunate. 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. 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. 00:08:10.070 --> 00:08:14.207 So that it hides that bezel completely. So that like the screen looks like 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, 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. 00:08:24.380 --> 00:08:27.760 Like this is pretty early. I think this comes out around March of this year. 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. 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:35.710 It's G-SYNC compatible. It can enable it for full screen mode. 00:08:35.710 --> 00:08:39.340 It doesn't have the G-SYNC module, but it's still pretty good. 00:08:39.340 --> 00:08:43.523 Hey, I've got nipples. Can you milk me? - [David] Don't tempt me. 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, 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. 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:58.010 Let's crank it into a hundred baby, get even brighter. 00:08:58.010 --> 00:09:02.020 Contrast sure, sure, sure. Preset: User. 00:09:02.020 --> 00:09:06.090 Oh yeah, I forgot about the okay. So Movie probably looks the best 00:09:06.090 --> 00:09:11.378 at least for content consumption anyway, you can change the aspect ratio, 4 by 3 cool. 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, 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? 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:26.750 It's handy. Other aspect ratios? Not everyone can do that. 00:09:26.750 --> 00:09:31.140 Oh, you just change your input by like pressing up on the nipple, which is nice. 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. 00:09:35.860 --> 00:09:38.993 So USB up and Type-C. So that's cool. 00:09:38.993 --> 00:09:42.933 Let's see what's left? Left is your color profiles. 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. 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. 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, 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. 00:09:59.860 --> 00:10:03.530 RGB light on. So there is an RGB light. Where is this RGB light? 00:10:03.530 --> 00:10:07.923 There is a tiny little strip of my beloved RGB. 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 00:10:13.910 --> 00:10:16.253 instead of just like, "Oh, here's five little LEDs, 00:10:17.583 --> 00:10:20.600 and it splashes light across the wall." No, give me the strip. 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 00:10:24.310 --> 00:10:28.710 like splashed against something. Obviously everything kind of looks like ass. 00:10:28.710 --> 00:10:32.870 That's pretty much just because the game itself is probably, 00:10:32.870 --> 00:10:37.288 Yeah, 1280 by 768 - [David] You gotta change your aspect ratio. 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. 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. 00:10:47.790 --> 00:10:51.110 Oh, it looks so much better. Everything is applied. It looks great. 00:10:51.110 --> 00:10:53.893 It looks like the "Doom Eternal" we know and love, 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, 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:02.250 I don't think, but whoever saved this. - [David] I guarantee it's Linus. 00:11:02.250 --> 00:11:08.555 - Put me in with no ammo. I'm not an elitist, but I have high standards. 00:11:08.555 --> 00:11:10.227 - [Jono] Yeah, you are! 00:11:11.685 --> 00:11:16.410 Your keyboard stuff! - But there's some things. Everyone has a thing, right. 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. 00:11:19.660 --> 00:11:24.770 I just, I appreciate, the nice stuff. Like if I've got to type, 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. 00:11:28.920 --> 00:11:32.215 I don't want to use this full auto. How do I switch? There we go. 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, 00:11:37.810 --> 00:11:41.580 does kind of make everything pop just a little bit more, even in SDR. 00:11:41.580 --> 00:11:46.280 And I'm a big fan. If you can avoid buying a 300 nit monitor, 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:49.653 and get something even just 400 or 500 nits, definitely go for it. 00:11:49.653 --> 00:11:52.850 Especially if you can afford it. But like even just this scene here, 00:11:52.850 --> 00:11:56.850 it looks great, like the smoke down there, and like the green lighting up there, 00:11:56.850 --> 00:11:59.900 the fire looks nice and like fiery. 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. 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, 00:12:11.180 --> 00:12:14.513 we're trying to give you like a worst case example in this situation. 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, 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 00:12:23.810 --> 00:12:28.000 stuff that maybe looked a little bad. So that's totally fine, honestly. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.473 So we're going to do some UFO Tests real quick at this 165, 00:12:31.473 --> 00:12:34.843 the UFO looks pretty good. It's pretty clear. 00:12:34.843 --> 00:12:38.240 There's not like a bunch of smearing or anything. Let's do some other tests. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:42.190 Let's do, where is the dropdown. Video game panning test. 00:12:42.190 --> 00:12:46.233 So the top one's 30 FPS, the bottom's 165. 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 00:12:52.890 --> 00:12:57.820 in games that matches, or exceeds your 165 Hertz refresh rate, 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, 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, 00:13:07.790 --> 00:13:11.800 slight stutter "DOTA 2". Oh, there's other, this is cool. 00:13:11.800 --> 00:13:15.970 Quebec city. Yeah, so like when we look at this still image of Quebec, 00:13:15.970 --> 00:13:20.040 it does get a little blurrier, because there's all these much finer details in here. 00:13:20.040 --> 00:13:23.480 So, you know, who watches someone racing around Quebec, 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:27.846 or a cityscape, maybe don't watch movies on this thing, 00:13:27.846 --> 00:13:31.747 use it just for games. It's definitely not going to be your like, 00:13:31.747 --> 00:13:36.710 "Oh, this is my 4k 60 super good HDR monitor 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 00:13:42.610 --> 00:13:46.440 E-sports like "Counter-Strike" or "DOTA" or "League of Legends"." Something like that. 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, 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:55.470 but I guarantee you, if we put just about any monitor on here, 00:13:55.470 --> 00:13:59.490 you're going to see a little bit, this is tough to do perfectly. 00:13:59.490 --> 00:14:02.581 Maybe an OLED could do this perfectly by turning every, 00:14:02.581 --> 00:14:05.800 like every pixel, just off to get these blacks 00:14:05.800 --> 00:14:09.143 exactly where they're supposed to be. But this is an extreme example. 00:14:10.040 --> 00:14:13.073 In actual use case, it looks really good. 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, 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. 00:14:25.820 --> 00:14:30.630 And honestly, if you're looking for a new monitor, 00:14:30.630 --> 00:14:33.163 you want 1440p, you want a high refresh rate. 00:14:34.430 --> 00:14:37.650 It's not a bad buy. If you can find something cheaper than sure. 00:14:37.650 --> 00:14:41.040 Maybe go for that. But I don't think with all the features that this has, 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, 00:14:44.760 --> 00:14:48.586 take a look at the link below, we'll have it available there for you. 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. 00:14:54.060 --> 00:14:58.830 That thing has a worst stand than this, but it's still nice monitor. 00:14:58.830 --> 00:15:04.353 - [Jono] It's a very multifunctional monitor. + Yeah, it's very multi-functional, thanks for watching.