We thought the inzone from Sony was pretty impressive with it like 90 plus
dimming zones. Well, well, well. For only $100 more, you can get the Tempest
GP27U from Cooler Master. I am pretty
excited about this. There's been a lot of talk online about it. Um, it's
miniLEDD quantum dot. It does 160 Hz. I
think it's 4K. And the best part is it has something like 500 plus dimming
zones, which is absolutely incredible in a small 27in screen like this. We're
getting a peak brightness of like 12 or even 1500 nits or something like that.
This thing hits a crazy amount of color gamut as well. Hitting something like
83% of Wreck 709. I hate it when they
pack it like this. I can't like Okay, this is a really minor thing, but it's
hard to pull out until you get a handle like right here. There we go. As much of
a pain as it was to get out of the box, the packaging is very tight. Like I
could I feel like I could ship this thing across the world and not worry about it. What do we got? We got the
stand that I'm It's okay. I'm just not crazy about how they did the RGB. We've
got big old bag cables. We got our stand
here with a circular design. Sure. Power
brick. Get that down there. And then here's the panel. Honestly, this is kind
of the monitor to buy if you're wanting to spend about $1,000, especially if
you're not looking for ultrawide. The new AW3423DWF
has I mean, it's cutie OLED. Like, it's just going to be it's I don't know. It's
hard to argue cuz like cutie OLED is really nice and it gets pretty bright
but miniLEDD just straight up gets brighter. So it's like what do you want?
Do you want a few hundred more nits or would you prefer faster pixel response
times, deeper blacks? This thing is also 4K whereas the Alienware is 1440p
ultrawide. It does look vasa mountable. 1 2 3 4. But we're just going to pop
this bad boy in. As for the stand, it's okay. It's got these really hefty rubber
grips on the bottom so it's not going anywhere. And then it's got the uh always preferable captive screw to screw
everything in. It looks like we've got some RGB on these guys here. Cool
diffusion going on. Big old Cooler Master stamp on the back. That's fine. I
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
installed it anyway. And then on the front, we've just got this little Cooler
Master logo right there. It's an ultra speed IPS panel. While we're seeing a
lot of like VA miniledd screens, maybe it's because this one's only 160 Hz. But
regardless, you're getting IPS, which is kind of nice. The IO on this thing is
pretty good. Power adapter, couple USBA, USB, a USBC. This USBC is actually
pretty impressive. By the way, it's got 90 watt power delivery, which is like I
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
port alternate. So, if you want to just plug in a laptop and check it out, it's
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
port, probably 1.4, and then we've got two HDMI, both of them 2.1 spec, so
you're looking at like 48 GB per second. Uh, so you're absolutely going to be
able to get your 4K 160 Hz output with
HDR on and everything. It's also got a KVM built in. While we're checking that
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
lock. We've also got our little cable routing clip already attached to the
stand. And as for the versatility of it, let's see what we can do. I can pivot.
Oh, baby. So, you can go I don't know why you ever would, but you can go
portrait if you want to. We can tilt, which is great. Not a ton of rotation,
but there's enough height adjustment. And can we put it in the middle? Yes, we
can. No problem. This thing actually seems great. I'm a really big fan of a
stand like this, especially ones that let you rotate around the base here.
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
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the cables. So, we've got our big beefy power brick. This looks like display
port. We have our USBB, USBC cable. And
the nice thing about this USBC cable is I bet you they've rated it for display
port as well. So, this is probably going to do it all. 90 W power and display
port. And then it looks like they've given us one HDMI 2.1 cable. All right,
there we go. We got everything plugged in. It all fired up. Looks like we're
not getting RGB on the stand this time. That's fine. Do we have it on the back?
Yes, I was correct. So, these are just diffusions on the back. And I'm pretty
sure you can set that to whatever color you want. So, that's pretty cool. Thanks, Cooler Master. As for the
display itself, let's see what we got. You know, you can see we're getting 10
bit. We've got HDR on with a 3090, but for some reason, we're limited to 144
hertz. I'm not sure why. Let's see if we
can overclock it manually. The box says
right there 160 hertz.
Does not appear to be anywhere that we can find. And now I'm going to try to
overclock it. And test failed. What? We
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
what's happening with Cooler Master on this one. Now, if you don't want to use
HDR for whatever reason, I don't know why you wouldn't with a miniLEDD panel,
but the SDR is actually plenty bright as well. Like if I turn HDR off, this is
SDR. And no, we're not going to have crazy dynamic range, but this is
insanely bright for an SDR experience.
We're hitting something like 600 nits, and that's just absolutely wild. Let's
play Counterstrike in HDR. I'm kidding. Counter-Strike doesn't have HDR. Um
that the reason it's dimmer is because now it has a proper range. Wow.
Damn, this looks really pretty though. Hold on. Bet you it can look better.
Maximum brightness 500. I don't think so. We measured a top end of 1500 nits
peak brightness in this thing. I don't know if it should go up to 1500. As soon
as you do, you start to clip on it on a few things. So, I'm going to set it to
the rated uh 1200 nits that this thing
is rated at. It's actually got a Vasa rating of a,000. Um, but we've
definitely measured higher than that. Wow. Now, one minor issue we had when
using the OSD with this thing is that instead of confirming by clicking in the
button, that takes the OSD away. So, if you do buy this thing and you want to
apply settings, tick it over to the right again and that'll say yes or no,
basically. Come on, NVIDIA, you're 3090. 40fps, baby. Yeah, it's pretty choppy.
But that's the problem where 4K gaming
with HDR ray tracing enabled. Cyberpunk
is just hard to run. Hell yeah.
I'm going to try something else. Cyberpunk looks great, but it just doesn't work well enough. And the
reality is this thing's doing 144 hertz, so we might as well take advantage of
that. All right, we're in 4K, 144 hertz,
VSSync off, brightness 50, HDR on. I'm
setting it to 1200 cuz I swear if we go to 1500, it's going to look a little
blown out, but that's okay. Wow.
Pixel response time is great. They measure it at like a half a millisecond
or something like that, but also you can do different overdrive and stuff on this
thing. God, this looks good though. Spider-Man might not be the best game to
actually check for different highlights and whatnot, but it sure looks pretty
and the colors really pop. One minor thing that we noticed is that if you
want to use any sort of like color adjustment stuff, you can't use the
extra modes that they give you. So, they've given you all these modes cuz they define this thing as kind of the
the all-in-one monitor. um really good for everything. But as soon as we go to
Yeah. HDR game mode. So if we go to game, we lose color adjust right away.
And if we go to movie, it's the same thing. There's no color adjust. So you
have to stay on user if you want to do any sort of color adjustment out of HDR,
just in SDR content. Um the same thing happens when you're not using either
standard or user one or user two. as soon as you go to like film or Adobe or
whatever, um you suddenly get locked out of the color adjust and it's just kind
of I don't understand why they'd lock you out of it. Maybe it's to stay
perfectly set to whatever they set it to, but uh yeah, I don't know. I just
don't like losing anything. So, now the really cool thing about this thing is
look at how much overdrive options we have. We've got normal, advanced, ultra
fast, dynamic, and user. If I go to user, you can crank it to different
levels of overdrive, which is super cool. We found issues. So, we'll go up
to 100 here. We found issues at 100. And zero basically looked okay, but we found
that you just want a little bit. You want like 10 or 20. Otherwise, we'll
probably get some inverse ghosting here. Let me just crank it to 100. I don't
notice anything in game. But, we're going to do a UFO test after to see if
we're getting any Oh, I think I can kind of see it on his suit, but it's pretty
minor. It's actually not too bad. I'm not getting inverse ghosting. I'm
getting ghosting and it's pretty minor. We cranked it down to 20. Yeah, that
ghosting is now basically gone and this looks pretty crisp. Okay, so that's all
the way off and it looks pretty good. But the top alien could be just a little
bit clearer. He's just a little smeary. Honestly, unless you've got a really
trained eye, I wouldn't even worry about this too much. I would set it to a
little bit of overdrive, but not too much. This looks beautiful, though,
I got to admit. And the mini LED really gets bright. There's a bit of jutdder
when it's panning, which is kind of more typical of OLED. Um, but that's also
possibly just the video. It's possibly it's on YouTube's end. It's not OLED, so
you're not going to get those like perfectly black blacks, but it's getting
pretty dark and the white and lighter stuff still really stands out and pops
on it. These lanterns look fantastic. The quantum dots on this guy really just
absolutely help with the color gamut. This thing is getting about 83% coverage
of REC 2020, which is HDR. And that's a
lot of color space. Would I buy it?
Okay, it's $1,000. That's already a lot of money. It's 4K 10. It says on 160,
but something's got to be up with ours. Um, or maybe there's an OSD setting
we're not sure of. But we're getting 144. And it's 27 in. My personal opinion
is that 27 in at 4K is a little too small for 4K. So, my only real problem
with this monitor is that it's not like 32. That being said, pixel density snobs
are going to really like that it's 4K 27. So, it's up to, you know, personal
preference. I don't want this monitor.
Miniledd is really coming a long way and it looks fantastic and I don't think
you're going to find much better at this price point. If you're willing to go up
a little bit, then you can get a QD OLED, but then you're stuck with
ultrawide 1440p, which really might not be for you. If you're looking at the
inzone for a really high local dimming
zone display, I would instead spend the extra $100 and get this thing every day
of the week. $1,000 for the 4K 27in
version is a little much. However, they've got a 27in 1440p version with
basically the same specs for $680. So,
you could save yourself over 300 bucks, probably more including taxes, and just
get the 1440p version. That's what I would do personally. I think that this
is a fantastic choice for any gamers looking for a more high-end display. And
for any patient gamers out there, keep waiting because holy crap, the display
market is just getting absolutely wild for the first time in years in my
opinion. That's the Tempest GP27U from
Cooler Master. It's pretty cool. Uh definitely worth checking out,
especially if you're into miniLEDD. Thanks for watching. I'm Poof. There's a
ShortCircuit. If you want to check out another display video, maybe look at the
inzone video, the M9 from Sony. It was pretty good, but now this thing's kind
of the king.