1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,319 We thought the inzone from Sony was pretty impressive with it like 90 plus 2 00:00:04,319 --> 00:00:13,440 dimming zones. Well, well, well. For only $100 more, you can get the Tempest 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,880 GP27U from Cooler Master. I am pretty 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:20,160 excited about this. There's been a lot of talk online about it. Um, it's 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:22,400 miniLEDD quantum dot. It does 160 Hz. I 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:26,480 think it's 4K. And the best part is it has something like 500 plus dimming 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:31,119 zones, which is absolutely incredible in a small 27in screen like this. We're 8 00:00:29,119 --> 00:00:35,440 getting a peak brightness of like 12 or even 1500 nits or something like that. 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:40,399 This thing hits a crazy amount of color gamut as well. Hitting something like 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:42,320 83% of Wreck 709. I hate it when they 11 00:00:40,399 --> 00:00:45,840 pack it like this. I can't like Okay, this is a really minor thing, but it's 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:50,079 hard to pull out until you get a handle like right here. There we go. As much of 13 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:53,039 a pain as it was to get out of the box, the packaging is very tight. Like I 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:57,840 could I feel like I could ship this thing across the world and not worry about it. What do we got? We got the 15 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:03,280 stand that I'm It's okay. I'm just not crazy about how they did the RGB. We've 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:06,799 got big old bag cables. We got our stand 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,159 here with a circular design. Sure. Power 18 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:12,799 brick. Get that down there. And then here's the panel. Honestly, this is kind 19 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:16,799 of the monitor to buy if you're wanting to spend about $1,000, especially if 20 00:01:15,119 --> 00:01:22,479 you're not looking for ultrawide. The new AW3423DWF 21 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:26,640 has I mean, it's cutie OLED. Like, it's just going to be it's I don't know. It's 22 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,439 hard to argue cuz like cutie OLED is really nice and it gets pretty bright 23 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:33,040 but miniLEDD just straight up gets brighter. So it's like what do you want? 24 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:38,400 Do you want a few hundred more nits or would you prefer faster pixel response 25 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:43,040 times, deeper blacks? This thing is also 4K whereas the Alienware is 1440p 26 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:48,159 ultrawide. It does look vasa mountable. 1 2 3 4. But we're just going to pop 27 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:51,280 this bad boy in. As for the stand, it's okay. It's got these really hefty rubber 28 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:58,079 grips on the bottom so it's not going anywhere. And then it's got the uh always preferable captive screw to screw 29 00:01:55,759 --> 00:02:02,240 everything in. It looks like we've got some RGB on these guys here. Cool 30 00:02:00,479 --> 00:02:05,520 diffusion going on. Big old Cooler Master stamp on the back. That's fine. I 31 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,200 don't mind when the branding is on the back. Like, who cares? You're never really going to see the back once you've 32 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:13,040 installed it anyway. And then on the front, we've just got this little Cooler 33 00:02:10,959 --> 00:02:17,680 Master logo right there. It's an ultra speed IPS panel. While we're seeing a 34 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:21,440 lot of like VA miniledd screens, maybe it's because this one's only 160 Hz. But 35 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,920 regardless, you're getting IPS, which is kind of nice. The IO on this thing is 36 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:31,040 pretty good. Power adapter, couple USBA, USB, a USBC. This USBC is actually 37 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,400 pretty impressive. By the way, it's got 90 watt power delivery, which is like I 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:39,040 don't know, that's about as high as you're going to find on most displays. And on top of that, it can do display 39 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:43,280 port alternate. So, if you want to just plug in a laptop and check it out, it's 40 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:48,879 not only going to display an image, but it's going to charge it at the same time. And then we've got one display 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:54,000 port, probably 1.4, and then we've got two HDMI, both of them 2.1 spec, so 42 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:58,480 you're looking at like 48 GB per second. Uh, so you're absolutely going to be 43 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:00,480 able to get your 4K 160 Hz output with 44 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:03,920 HDR on and everything. It's also got a KVM built in. While we're checking that 45 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:09,360 out, I got to point out it's got the nice little navigation uple here that I'm fond of, as well as a Kensington 46 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,599 lock. We've also got our little cable routing clip already attached to the 47 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:18,159 stand. And as for the versatility of it, let's see what we can do. I can pivot. 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,159 Oh, baby. So, you can go I don't know why you ever would, but you can go 49 00:03:19,599 --> 00:03:26,959 portrait if you want to. We can tilt, which is great. Not a ton of rotation, 50 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:31,280 but there's enough height adjustment. And can we put it in the middle? Yes, we 51 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:34,879 can. No problem. This thing actually seems great. I'm a really big fan of a 52 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:38,239 stand like this, especially ones that let you rotate around the base here. 53 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:44,080 just feels sturdier when you go to move it. I don't know, maybe that's just me. Anyway, we're gonna boot it up, take a 54 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:47,599 quick look, maybe check out the RGB, but not until a word from our sponsor, 55 00:03:45,599 --> 00:03:51,440 Jackie. Thanks to Jackie for sponsoring today's video. Their solar generator 56 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:55,040 2000 Pro portable power station has enough juice to keep all of your devices 57 00:03:53,200 --> 00:04:00,640 powered and connected. The massive 2,000watth capacity and 2200 watt output 58 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:05,920 allows up to eight devices to be plugged in simultaneously. Check out the SG2000 59 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:09,200 Pro at the link below. We went to set it up and we forgot to actually talk about 60 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:15,280 the cables. So, we've got our big beefy power brick. This looks like display 61 00:04:10,799 --> 00:04:17,840 port. We have our USBB, USBC cable. And 62 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:21,680 the nice thing about this USBC cable is I bet you they've rated it for display 63 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:25,600 port as well. So, this is probably going to do it all. 90 W power and display 64 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:31,199 port. And then it looks like they've given us one HDMI 2.1 cable. All right, 65 00:04:29,919 --> 00:04:34,720 there we go. We got everything plugged in. It all fired up. Looks like we're 66 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:38,560 not getting RGB on the stand this time. That's fine. Do we have it on the back? 67 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:42,400 Yes, I was correct. So, these are just diffusions on the back. And I'm pretty 68 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:48,720 sure you can set that to whatever color you want. So, that's pretty cool. Thanks, Cooler Master. As for the 69 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:52,479 display itself, let's see what we got. You know, you can see we're getting 10 70 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:57,680 bit. We've got HDR on with a 3090, but for some reason, we're limited to 144 71 00:04:54,639 --> 00:05:01,600 hertz. I'm not sure why. Let's see if we 72 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:05,759 can overclock it manually. The box says 73 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:07,600 right there 160 hertz. 74 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:13,120 Does not appear to be anywhere that we can find. And now I'm going to try to 75 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,560 overclock it. And test failed. What? We 76 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:19,120 actually had Labs take a quick look at this thing, too. And they couldn't get it to 160 either. So, we're not sure 77 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,960 what's happening with Cooler Master on this one. Now, if you don't want to use 78 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:27,600 HDR for whatever reason, I don't know why you wouldn't with a miniLEDD panel, 79 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:32,639 but the SDR is actually plenty bright as well. Like if I turn HDR off, this is 80 00:05:30,639 --> 00:05:38,400 SDR. And no, we're not going to have crazy dynamic range, but this is 81 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:41,360 insanely bright for an SDR experience. 82 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:45,680 We're hitting something like 600 nits, and that's just absolutely wild. Let's 83 00:05:43,919 --> 00:05:49,440 play Counterstrike in HDR. I'm kidding. Counter-Strike doesn't have HDR. Um 84 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:54,320 that the reason it's dimmer is because now it has a proper range. Wow. 85 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:59,759 Damn, this looks really pretty though. Hold on. Bet you it can look better. 86 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:05,520 Maximum brightness 500. I don't think so. We measured a top end of 1500 nits 87 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:09,759 peak brightness in this thing. I don't know if it should go up to 1500. As soon 88 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:14,319 as you do, you start to clip on it on a few things. So, I'm going to set it to 89 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:15,919 the rated uh 1200 nits that this thing 90 00:06:14,319 --> 00:06:19,919 is rated at. It's actually got a Vasa rating of a,000. Um, but we've 91 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:26,080 definitely measured higher than that. Wow. Now, one minor issue we had when 92 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:30,880 using the OSD with this thing is that instead of confirming by clicking in the 93 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:34,479 button, that takes the OSD away. So, if you do buy this thing and you want to 94 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:39,360 apply settings, tick it over to the right again and that'll say yes or no, 95 00:06:36,479 --> 00:06:45,440 basically. Come on, NVIDIA, you're 3090. 40fps, baby. Yeah, it's pretty choppy. 96 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:49,039 But that's the problem where 4K gaming 97 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:54,039 with HDR ray tracing enabled. Cyberpunk 98 00:06:49,039 --> 00:06:54,039 is just hard to run. Hell yeah. 99 00:06:54,479 --> 00:07:00,240 I'm going to try something else. Cyberpunk looks great, but it just doesn't work well enough. And the 100 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:04,880 reality is this thing's doing 144 hertz, so we might as well take advantage of 101 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:08,240 that. All right, we're in 4K, 144 hertz, 102 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:10,080 VSSync off, brightness 50, HDR on. I'm 103 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:14,880 setting it to 1200 cuz I swear if we go to 1500, it's going to look a little 104 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,479 blown out, but that's okay. Wow. 105 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:20,240 Pixel response time is great. They measure it at like a half a millisecond 106 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:24,319 or something like that, but also you can do different overdrive and stuff on this 107 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,280 thing. God, this looks good though. Spider-Man might not be the best game to 108 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:31,759 actually check for different highlights and whatnot, but it sure looks pretty 109 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:36,400 and the colors really pop. One minor thing that we noticed is that if you 110 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:40,560 want to use any sort of like color adjustment stuff, you can't use the 111 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:45,680 extra modes that they give you. So, they've given you all these modes cuz they define this thing as kind of the 112 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:50,720 the all-in-one monitor. um really good for everything. But as soon as we go to 113 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:55,360 Yeah. HDR game mode. So if we go to game, we lose color adjust right away. 114 00:07:53,759 --> 00:07:59,680 And if we go to movie, it's the same thing. There's no color adjust. So you 115 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:05,039 have to stay on user if you want to do any sort of color adjustment out of HDR, 116 00:08:02,479 --> 00:08:09,120 just in SDR content. Um the same thing happens when you're not using either 117 00:08:07,039 --> 00:08:13,680 standard or user one or user two. as soon as you go to like film or Adobe or 118 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:17,440 whatever, um you suddenly get locked out of the color adjust and it's just kind 119 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,280 of I don't understand why they'd lock you out of it. Maybe it's to stay 120 00:08:19,039 --> 00:08:26,000 perfectly set to whatever they set it to, but uh yeah, I don't know. I just 121 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:29,440 don't like losing anything. So, now the really cool thing about this thing is 122 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:34,240 look at how much overdrive options we have. We've got normal, advanced, ultra 123 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:38,399 fast, dynamic, and user. If I go to user, you can crank it to different 124 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:43,279 levels of overdrive, which is super cool. We found issues. So, we'll go up 125 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:46,560 to 100 here. We found issues at 100. And zero basically looked okay, but we found 126 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:50,480 that you just want a little bit. You want like 10 or 20. Otherwise, we'll 127 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,440 probably get some inverse ghosting here. Let me just crank it to 100. I don't 128 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:57,760 notice anything in game. But, we're going to do a UFO test after to see if 129 00:08:55,519 --> 00:09:01,360 we're getting any Oh, I think I can kind of see it on his suit, but it's pretty 130 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,040 minor. It's actually not too bad. I'm not getting inverse ghosting. I'm 131 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:09,200 getting ghosting and it's pretty minor. We cranked it down to 20. Yeah, that 132 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:13,920 ghosting is now basically gone and this looks pretty crisp. Okay, so that's all 133 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:18,080 the way off and it looks pretty good. But the top alien could be just a little 134 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:22,480 bit clearer. He's just a little smeary. Honestly, unless you've got a really 135 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:26,160 trained eye, I wouldn't even worry about this too much. I would set it to a 136 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:30,880 little bit of overdrive, but not too much. This looks beautiful, though, 137 00:09:28,399 --> 00:09:34,080 I got to admit. And the mini LED really gets bright. There's a bit of jutdder 138 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:37,760 when it's panning, which is kind of more typical of OLED. Um, but that's also 139 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:41,519 possibly just the video. It's possibly it's on YouTube's end. It's not OLED, so 140 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:46,560 you're not going to get those like perfectly black blacks, but it's getting 141 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:50,720 pretty dark and the white and lighter stuff still really stands out and pops 142 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:54,880 on it. These lanterns look fantastic. The quantum dots on this guy really just 143 00:09:53,040 --> 00:10:00,560 absolutely help with the color gamut. This thing is getting about 83% coverage 144 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:03,839 of REC 2020, which is HDR. And that's a 145 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:06,240 lot of color space. Would I buy it? 146 00:10:03,839 --> 00:10:12,480 Okay, it's $1,000. That's already a lot of money. It's 4K 10. It says on 160, 147 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:15,360 but something's got to be up with ours. Um, or maybe there's an OSD setting 148 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:22,079 we're not sure of. But we're getting 144. And it's 27 in. My personal opinion 149 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:27,360 is that 27 in at 4K is a little too small for 4K. So, my only real problem 150 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:32,240 with this monitor is that it's not like 32. That being said, pixel density snobs 151 00:10:30,079 --> 00:10:37,920 are going to really like that it's 4K 27. So, it's up to, you know, personal 152 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:40,079 preference. I don't want this monitor. 153 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:44,160 Miniledd is really coming a long way and it looks fantastic and I don't think 154 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:47,839 you're going to find much better at this price point. If you're willing to go up 155 00:10:46,079 --> 00:10:51,839 a little bit, then you can get a QD OLED, but then you're stuck with 156 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:57,360 ultrawide 1440p, which really might not be for you. If you're looking at the 157 00:10:53,760 --> 00:11:00,240 inzone for a really high local dimming 158 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:06,000 zone display, I would instead spend the extra $100 and get this thing every day 159 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:08,800 of the week. $1,000 for the 4K 27in 160 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:14,800 version is a little much. However, they've got a 27in 1440p version with 161 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:17,519 basically the same specs for $680. So, 162 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:22,000 you could save yourself over 300 bucks, probably more including taxes, and just 163 00:11:19,839 --> 00:11:26,880 get the 1440p version. That's what I would do personally. I think that this 164 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:31,920 is a fantastic choice for any gamers looking for a more high-end display. And 165 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:36,880 for any patient gamers out there, keep waiting because holy crap, the display 166 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:43,200 market is just getting absolutely wild for the first time in years in my 167 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:45,920 opinion. That's the Tempest GP27U from 168 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:49,120 Cooler Master. It's pretty cool. Uh definitely worth checking out, 169 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,320 especially if you're into miniLEDD. Thanks for watching. I'm Poof. There's a 170 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:56,560 ShortCircuit. If you want to check out another display video, maybe look at the 171 00:11:54,399 --> 00:12:01,320 inzone video, the M9 from Sony. It was pretty good, but now this thing's kind 172 00:11:58,079 --> 00:12:01,320 of the king.