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we recently took a look at the end zone M9 from Sony it's a 4K 144hz display for

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about 900 can the AOC aegon Pro do

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better I don't know it's about 900 for

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1440p 27 inches but the big kicker is

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it's 240 hertz so for all of you like major epic Gamers out there who really

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need that super crazy high fast refresh rate honestly I'm not sure if this is

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the one for you so we're gonna unbox it we're gonna take a look at it and I'm

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gonna find out if it's any good first of all I'd like to point out some of the

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really cool stuff like the unbeatable branding I don't know about that hey we

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got instructions on the top here David get these instructions for the people so

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that they know how to unbox what else we got in here we got a shaving Hood oh

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comes in its own little box it looks like this is great that's how you know

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you're a pro when you start using the shading hood or as I like to call it the

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horse blinders to like really get you in the game I like that it comes in a

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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

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few boxes there's boxes within boxes this is uh the aegon pro that's it

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that's the monitor I honestly don't know what's in here uh let's see maybe it's

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the stand or something cable box yep

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cable box you got some 3M tape on some cable clip stuff HDMI cables a power

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cable rest of the beefy power brick that they got there this is uh I don't know

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what that is this is a DisplayPort cable this is a USB B cable so you can tell

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it's got USB B on it and an allen key

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slash Phillips to put everything together that's great I like when they

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I'm so torn I don't like I like when they include screwdriver stuff to make

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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

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my house and they're all useless because I don't know what size they are and then

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we've got this Nifty Puck here I don't know what this is David said it's for

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changing your gamer profile and this thing can do a number of different profiles that is a feature it does so

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he's probably right but I don't know for sure it does look like it though it's

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got like little numbers on there one two three four or no sorry one two three and

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then back and then okay oh maybe you can navigate the OSD with this thing that

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actually actually be pretty cool I'm kind of into it the only thing I'm not

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into is this uh connector it's a USB

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mini here's the stand or at least the base of it I'll tell you one thing I

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already like this part of it at least much better than the M9 that was a great

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monitor with a lousy stand oh yeah this thing already looks way better than the

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M9 it uses a 100 by 100 vase amount oh

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there's like a connector here I don't know what these four pins are for maybe

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RGB yeah David said RGB I think he's probably right I can't think of anything

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else if there were ports uh somewhere

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along here then I would say maybe it's an extension for USB but I don't see any

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ports anywhere so let's plug it in and find out this is kind of a weird take on

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the system that I like because it's like this yeah this is right for sure it's

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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

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it done uh this way but you know it was the first time for everything they're

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also a little stubby normally the posts are a little longer to kind of give

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better Foundation but I don't know I'm not an engineer this is a very long

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screw and my other issue is that my hands are kind of small and I'm having a

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little trouble turning this with getting my hand while getting my hands in there

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but you know what we got there but if you've got big hands

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that might be a problem for you and I gotta you know I gotta recognize it

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right now we got the g-sync ultimate badge on the side I haven't seen it done

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this way either usually it's like a sticker this is like almost silk

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screened on there or something I don't even know how to paint it on g-sync

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Ultimate does have some latency stuff in it I'm pretty sure but the main thing

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that I'm aware of is for like a thousand nits Peak brightness okay I was close we

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looked it up really quickly because I was sure that it meant a thousand nits

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that's the old uh descriptor now it's

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just for lifelike HDR so this is a Vasa

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certified 600 which is a lot better than 400 at least but I don't know 600 is not

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that great that being said this thing has like 32 dimming zones which is about

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a third of what the Sony has uh but it's 1440p 10 240 hertz I don't know we'll

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see we'll see we'll see but yeah that's why they're not cheating with the g-sync

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ultimate lifelike HDR shirts close enough with dimming zones so all right

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well this is neat I've never seen part of it like exposed like that okay I had

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no idea what these contact points were for until we looked back up here and

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Bell pointed out that like hey look they fit that and it rotates so yeah this

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makes sense uh because look we slot it in

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bada boom and the reason it was obvious

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that it's that that's what those were for is because this thing should rotate

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there we go so that's why the contacts were like a crescent so that the pins

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could still be in contact with them which is pretty neat uh let's talk about

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the other stuff that's on this display we got a USB B four USB a ports I'm not

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sure what the differences are between the yellow and the green one might be

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like the firmware one specifically HDMI 2.0 two ports here it's you know 1440p

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240 hertz so that's fine uh DisplayPort 1.4 I don't know when 2.0 is coming but

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I'm ready for it and then we've got looks what looks like our power bar and

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then uh headphone jack a microphone wow there's like two mic slots is that not a

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mic they both look like they have the mic symbol and then this looks like it's

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for updating the firmware actually because I've never seen a micro oh it's

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for the OSD thing hey look at that so yeah this hopefully controls the OSD

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stuff and then there's a Kensington lock over here in case you want to lock it up

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we've got our classic navigation nipple

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here in case you don't like the OSD Puck and then on the other side you got a

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little headphone hanger hey look at that it's a little small it could be a little

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just a smidge longer for any of those wide band headphone users out there but

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that's okay should still work in a pinch back to the stand it feels a little

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wobbly like this thing isn't too bad it can do some side to side you can do some

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tilts it can even pivot which is great I think it's height adjustable as well

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yeah it is um maybe it's because of the height

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adjustment I don't know but it just doesn't feel super sturdy the way this

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red metal piece is connected to the rest

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of the stand here it's just kind of I don't know maybe it's just me but it

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feels a little flimsy a little wobbly they do mention they've got some super

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thin bezels and I can confirm these are pretty thin they've actually got like

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their marketing material with three of these you know side by side and it looks

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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

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change things on the OSD like color setup g-sync processor game setting

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luminance light effects audio I don't

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know which one's correct I'm not going to use the gamer Puck anymore I don't

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like it already but friendship with gamer Puck is over okay I don't like

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their OSD at all it's not it's it's no longer about the

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puck it's about their OSD being navigable

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color setup sure what's in here lobe light

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DC dpycvcrs are to be sure

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not using that okay that's it what's an extra switch DB logo projector okay so

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maybe that is the uh connecting pins that we saw on the back here we think

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it's for the laser otherwise though there's not much in here and you just

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saw a struggle with this OSD it's kind of a pain and I don't like it oh you do

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USB charging but cool they didn't mention that like anywhere you can turn

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Reflex on that comes with a g-sync module so that's cool but that still

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doesn't help why we're stuck at 60 hertz

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yeah so it's been about a week and a half two weeks or something since we

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actually shot this unfortunately as you can see the monitor didn't work and it

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was definitely our display we tried a ton of stuff didn't do anything but now

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AOC sent us a new display and you can probably do the same thing if yours is

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busted because RMA works but as you can see look boom we're getting it 240 hertz

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getting a bit color oh use HDR see if it

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does 10-bit I don't think it does yeah I just ate bit with dithering but that's

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okay that's not bad 240 hertz that's crazy so let's check out some UFO tests

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it looks pretty good I don't see any much weird overdrive or anything Let's

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uh here make it faster though we're at 240 hertz oh that's better yeah he's a

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little blurrier now but like honestly it's still decent I mean the reality is

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going from 60 30 to 60 enormous 60 to

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120 144 still a really big jump but as

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soon as you start going from 140 or 120 up to like 240. it's a really like it's

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really diminishing returns anytime you do that so um I don't get it really the

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hype I mean 240 is good and if I had the option and they were the same price yeah

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of course I want the 241 but I mean so many people don't even play games that

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are going faster than 240 frames per second anyway so unless

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you're uh Esports Enthusiast like Dota or Counter-Strike or League or something

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like that I don't know how necessary this is for most people let's open

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Counter-Strike well Yuri come back know about Yuri oh wow that was bad yeah I'm

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pretty bad right now boom Get Wrecked bought Ulysses so one thing that I can

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guarantee you is is that a higher frame rate is not going to make you a much

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better player if you're already not very good it does improve things on the

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really high end of stuff and obviously going from 30 to 60 or 60 to 120 is

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going to make you personally a little bit better because it's just it is

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easier when the frame rate is buttery smooth and the not only the frame rate

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of the video game but the refresh rate of your monitor is just buttery smooth

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and perfect but it doesn't just fix everything magically so I guess that's

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my main takeaway here is does this monitor work and look pretty and give a

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really high refresh rate yes is that

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going to make you better and start winning Counter-Strike or Dota or League

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matches no but anyway back to past me

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I'm a little more upset we're going to check out the HDR really quick game on

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it a little bit see how it is and then call it a day so let's look at the HDR

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looks okay there are 32 dimming zones which is a third of the 96 on the end

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zone monitor but it's a lot more than

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your like six column HDR 400 display

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that you're going to see a lot of the time does it still justify the cost of

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nine hundred dollars I don't know but this looks like okay I really need to

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see the dimming zones in action so I need to like Bloom some stuff up here

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yeah that's Tomb Raider I mean all those things moving around look pretty decent

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and the lighting looks okay but uh one

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this isn't the best HDR game all of our stuff was uninstalled I'm sorry it looks

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okay I mean it's 144 Hertz not 240. it

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looks decently clear like when you shake everything around it

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does go into its spot pretty quickly and you can still like I can see that bush

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pretty clearly whenever I'm shaking stuff like yeah

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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

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once as you know you start to move the camera

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um still though I'm incredibly disappointed that we can't get this thing up to 240. we're going to do a

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quick local dimming test to see how decent the local dimming is 32

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zones isn't bad I mean that's what like like eight by four it's not perfect and

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I've definitely seen better local dimming but with 32 zones on a screen this size

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you're getting to the point where HDR can actually look okay instead of just

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like with these weird splotchy columns and stuff it's not ideal like even the

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96 zones on that end zone were looking pretty sweet and I really don't want to

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have to move backwards down to 32 especially when the price is basically

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the same so you're kind of sitting there thinking do I spend I'm going to spend

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900 on a monitor that's just that's a given that's what

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your budget is you're going to buy a new monitor do you spend 900 on the end zone

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with the terrible stand that I hate but

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much much much Superior display with 4K

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140 Hertz uh 96 dimming zones like that

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thing is just a beast or do you spend nine hundred dollars

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on the 27 inch AOC display

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I can't do it I just I just can't I like the stand a lot more but you know what

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that's what wall mounts are for that's what arms are for especially with the

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experience that we've had today with DisplayPort just not wanting to work out

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of the box for whatever reason maybe we got a single bad unit out of the whole

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lot and you can send it back and RMA whatever that's fine it happens I've

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just it's an issue that I personally have never had to run into or if I have it's

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a quick fix it's like oh I just I didn't I didn't have an update that I needed or

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oh I had to unlock something in the OSD to unlock these higher uh refresh rates

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but that's not that doesn't seem to be the case today so maybe I'm crazy uh if you guys think

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that I'm doing something completely wrong and I've missed it and it's so obvious

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tell me in the comments I'm so sorry uh I wouldn't buy this

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thing though not a 900 bucks I I'm sorry AOC I just I

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think that you're better off with the end zone or maybe a different display entirely so that's ShortCircuit thanks

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for watching if you want to see another video maybe check out the End Zone video The Stand sucked but the rest of that

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display is actually like pretty sweet