we recently took a look at the end zone M9 from Sony it's a 4K 144hz display for
about 900 can the AOC aegon Pro do
better I don't know it's about 900 for
1440p 27 inches but the big kicker is
it's 240 hertz so for all of you like major epic Gamers out there who really
need that super crazy high fast refresh rate honestly I'm not sure if this is
the one for you so we're gonna unbox it we're gonna take a look at it and I'm
gonna find out if it's any good first of all I'd like to point out some of the
really cool stuff like the unbeatable branding I don't know about that hey we
got instructions on the top here David get these instructions for the people so
that they know how to unbox what else we got in here we got a shaving Hood oh
comes in its own little box it looks like this is great that's how you know
you're a pro when you start using the shading hood or as I like to call it the
horse blinders to like really get you in the game I like that it comes in a
little separate box sometimes they've just got it tucked up away in the foam what else what else is in here there's a
few boxes there's boxes within boxes this is uh the aegon pro that's it
that's the monitor I honestly don't know what's in here uh let's see maybe it's
the stand or something cable box yep
cable box you got some 3M tape on some cable clip stuff HDMI cables a power
cable rest of the beefy power brick that they got there this is uh I don't know
what that is this is a DisplayPort cable this is a USB B cable so you can tell
it's got USB B on it and an allen key
slash Phillips to put everything together that's great I like when they
I'm so torn I don't like I like when they include screwdriver stuff to make
sure that you can assemble something I also don't like it because then I end up with like 50 Allen Keys just sitting in
my house and they're all useless because I don't know what size they are and then
we've got this Nifty Puck here I don't know what this is David said it's for
changing your gamer profile and this thing can do a number of different profiles that is a feature it does so
he's probably right but I don't know for sure it does look like it though it's
got like little numbers on there one two three four or no sorry one two three and
then back and then okay oh maybe you can navigate the OSD with this thing that
actually actually be pretty cool I'm kind of into it the only thing I'm not
into is this uh connector it's a USB
mini here's the stand or at least the base of it I'll tell you one thing I
already like this part of it at least much better than the M9 that was a great
monitor with a lousy stand oh yeah this thing already looks way better than the
M9 it uses a 100 by 100 vase amount oh
there's like a connector here I don't know what these four pins are for maybe
RGB yeah David said RGB I think he's probably right I can't think of anything
else if there were ports uh somewhere
along here then I would say maybe it's an extension for USB but I don't see any
ports anywhere so let's plug it in and find out this is kind of a weird take on
the system that I like because it's like this yeah this is right for sure it's
just kind of weird because the post there's like four posts instead of just one or two I don't think I've ever seen
it done uh this way but you know it was the first time for everything they're
also a little stubby normally the posts are a little longer to kind of give
better Foundation but I don't know I'm not an engineer this is a very long
screw and my other issue is that my hands are kind of small and I'm having a
little trouble turning this with getting my hand while getting my hands in there
but you know what we got there but if you've got big hands
that might be a problem for you and I gotta you know I gotta recognize it
right now we got the g-sync ultimate badge on the side I haven't seen it done
this way either usually it's like a sticker this is like almost silk
screened on there or something I don't even know how to paint it on g-sync
Ultimate does have some latency stuff in it I'm pretty sure but the main thing
that I'm aware of is for like a thousand nits Peak brightness okay I was close we
looked it up really quickly because I was sure that it meant a thousand nits
that's the old uh descriptor now it's
just for lifelike HDR so this is a Vasa
certified 600 which is a lot better than 400 at least but I don't know 600 is not
that great that being said this thing has like 32 dimming zones which is about
a third of what the Sony has uh but it's 1440p 10 240 hertz I don't know we'll
see we'll see we'll see but yeah that's why they're not cheating with the g-sync
ultimate lifelike HDR shirts close enough with dimming zones so all right
well this is neat I've never seen part of it like exposed like that okay I had
no idea what these contact points were for until we looked back up here and
Bell pointed out that like hey look they fit that and it rotates so yeah this
makes sense uh because look we slot it in
bada boom and the reason it was obvious
that it's that that's what those were for is because this thing should rotate
there we go so that's why the contacts were like a crescent so that the pins
could still be in contact with them which is pretty neat uh let's talk about
the other stuff that's on this display we got a USB B four USB a ports I'm not
sure what the differences are between the yellow and the green one might be
like the firmware one specifically HDMI 2.0 two ports here it's you know 1440p
240 hertz so that's fine uh DisplayPort 1.4 I don't know when 2.0 is coming but
I'm ready for it and then we've got looks what looks like our power bar and
then uh headphone jack a microphone wow there's like two mic slots is that not a
mic they both look like they have the mic symbol and then this looks like it's
for updating the firmware actually because I've never seen a micro oh it's
for the OSD thing hey look at that so yeah this hopefully controls the OSD
stuff and then there's a Kensington lock over here in case you want to lock it up
we've got our classic navigation nipple
here in case you don't like the OSD Puck and then on the other side you got a
little headphone hanger hey look at that it's a little small it could be a little
just a smidge longer for any of those wide band headphone users out there but
that's okay should still work in a pinch back to the stand it feels a little
wobbly like this thing isn't too bad it can do some side to side you can do some
tilts it can even pivot which is great I think it's height adjustable as well
yeah it is um maybe it's because of the height
adjustment I don't know but it just doesn't feel super sturdy the way this
red metal piece is connected to the rest
of the stand here it's just kind of I don't know maybe it's just me but it
feels a little flimsy a little wobbly they do mention they've got some super
thin bezels and I can confirm these are pretty thin they've actually got like
their marketing material with three of these you know side by side and it looks
pretty decent but you know what we're gonna do we're gonna fire it up and
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this the gamer Puck I don't know what it's actually called but it does work to
change things on the OSD like color setup g-sync processor game setting
luminance light effects audio I don't
know which one's correct I'm not going to use the gamer Puck anymore I don't
like it already but friendship with gamer Puck is over okay I don't like
their OSD at all it's not it's it's no longer about the
puck it's about their OSD being navigable
color setup sure what's in here lobe light
DC dpycvcrs are to be sure
not using that okay that's it what's an extra switch DB logo projector okay so
maybe that is the uh connecting pins that we saw on the back here we think
it's for the laser otherwise though there's not much in here and you just
saw a struggle with this OSD it's kind of a pain and I don't like it oh you do
USB charging but cool they didn't mention that like anywhere you can turn
Reflex on that comes with a g-sync module so that's cool but that still
doesn't help why we're stuck at 60 hertz
yeah so it's been about a week and a half two weeks or something since we
actually shot this unfortunately as you can see the monitor didn't work and it
was definitely our display we tried a ton of stuff didn't do anything but now
AOC sent us a new display and you can probably do the same thing if yours is
busted because RMA works but as you can see look boom we're getting it 240 hertz
getting a bit color oh use HDR see if it
does 10-bit I don't think it does yeah I just ate bit with dithering but that's
okay that's not bad 240 hertz that's crazy so let's check out some UFO tests
it looks pretty good I don't see any much weird overdrive or anything Let's
uh here make it faster though we're at 240 hertz oh that's better yeah he's a
little blurrier now but like honestly it's still decent I mean the reality is
going from 60 30 to 60 enormous 60 to
120 144 still a really big jump but as
soon as you start going from 140 or 120 up to like 240. it's a really like it's
really diminishing returns anytime you do that so um I don't get it really the
hype I mean 240 is good and if I had the option and they were the same price yeah
of course I want the 241 but I mean so many people don't even play games that
are going faster than 240 frames per second anyway so unless
you're uh Esports Enthusiast like Dota or Counter-Strike or League or something
like that I don't know how necessary this is for most people let's open
Counter-Strike well Yuri come back know about Yuri oh wow that was bad yeah I'm
pretty bad right now boom Get Wrecked bought Ulysses so one thing that I can
guarantee you is is that a higher frame rate is not going to make you a much
better player if you're already not very good it does improve things on the
really high end of stuff and obviously going from 30 to 60 or 60 to 120 is
going to make you personally a little bit better because it's just it is
easier when the frame rate is buttery smooth and the not only the frame rate
of the video game but the refresh rate of your monitor is just buttery smooth
and perfect but it doesn't just fix everything magically so I guess that's
my main takeaway here is does this monitor work and look pretty and give a
really high refresh rate yes is that
going to make you better and start winning Counter-Strike or Dota or League
matches no but anyway back to past me
I'm a little more upset we're going to check out the HDR really quick game on
it a little bit see how it is and then call it a day so let's look at the HDR
looks okay there are 32 dimming zones which is a third of the 96 on the end
zone monitor but it's a lot more than
your like six column HDR 400 display
that you're going to see a lot of the time does it still justify the cost of
nine hundred dollars I don't know but this looks like okay I really need to
see the dimming zones in action so I need to like Bloom some stuff up here
yeah that's Tomb Raider I mean all those things moving around look pretty decent
and the lighting looks okay but uh one
this isn't the best HDR game all of our stuff was uninstalled I'm sorry it looks
okay I mean it's 144 Hertz not 240. it
looks decently clear like when you shake everything around it
does go into its spot pretty quickly and you can still like I can see that bush
pretty clearly whenever I'm shaking stuff like yeah
it's getting a little blurry but it's like I can still clearly see that that is a bush and it's not just a green blob
once as you know you start to move the camera
um still though I'm incredibly disappointed that we can't get this thing up to 240. we're going to do a
quick local dimming test to see how decent the local dimming is 32
zones isn't bad I mean that's what like like eight by four it's not perfect and
I've definitely seen better local dimming but with 32 zones on a screen this size
you're getting to the point where HDR can actually look okay instead of just
like with these weird splotchy columns and stuff it's not ideal like even the
96 zones on that end zone were looking pretty sweet and I really don't want to
have to move backwards down to 32 especially when the price is basically
the same so you're kind of sitting there thinking do I spend I'm going to spend
900 on a monitor that's just that's a given that's what
your budget is you're going to buy a new monitor do you spend 900 on the end zone
with the terrible stand that I hate but
much much much Superior display with 4K
140 Hertz uh 96 dimming zones like that
thing is just a beast or do you spend nine hundred dollars
on the 27 inch AOC display
I can't do it I just I just can't I like the stand a lot more but you know what
that's what wall mounts are for that's what arms are for especially with the
experience that we've had today with DisplayPort just not wanting to work out
of the box for whatever reason maybe we got a single bad unit out of the whole
lot and you can send it back and RMA whatever that's fine it happens I've
just it's an issue that I personally have never had to run into or if I have it's
a quick fix it's like oh I just I didn't I didn't have an update that I needed or
oh I had to unlock something in the OSD to unlock these higher uh refresh rates
but that's not that doesn't seem to be the case today so maybe I'm crazy uh if you guys think
that I'm doing something completely wrong and I've missed it and it's so obvious
tell me in the comments I'm so sorry uh I wouldn't buy this
thing though not a 900 bucks I I'm sorry AOC I just I
think that you're better off with the end zone or maybe a different display entirely so that's ShortCircuit thanks
for watching if you want to see another video maybe check out the End Zone video The Stand sucked but the rest of that
display is actually like pretty sweet