WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.319 We thought the inzone from Sony was pretty impressive with it like 90 plus 00:00:04.319 --> 00:00:13.440 dimming zones. Well, well, well. For only $100 more, you can get the Tempest 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.880 GP27U from Cooler Master. I am pretty 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:20.160 excited about this. There's been a lot of talk online about it. Um, it's 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:22.400 miniLEDD quantum dot. It does 160 Hz. I 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:26.480 think it's 4K. And the best part is it has something like 500 plus dimming 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:31.119 zones, which is absolutely incredible in a small 27in screen like this. We're 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:35.440 getting a peak brightness of like 12 or even 1500 nits or something like that. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:40.399 This thing hits a crazy amount of color gamut as well. Hitting something like 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:42.320 83% of Wreck 709. I hate it when they 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 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 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 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 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 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:06.799 got big old bag cables. We got our stand 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:08.159 here with a circular design. Sure. Power 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:12.799 brick. Get that down there. And then here's the panel. Honestly, this is kind 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:16.799 of the monitor to buy if you're wanting to spend about $1,000, especially if 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:22.479 you're not looking for ultrawide. The new AW3423DWF 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 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:29.439 hard to argue cuz like cutie OLED is really nice and it gets pretty bright 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:33.040 but miniLEDD just straight up gets brighter. So it's like what do you want? 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:38.400 Do you want a few hundred more nits or would you prefer faster pixel response 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:43.040 times, deeper blacks? This thing is also 4K whereas the Alienware is 1440p 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 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 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 00:01:55.759 --> 00:02:02.240 everything in. It looks like we've got some RGB on these guys here. Cool 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:05.520 diffusion going on. Big old Cooler Master stamp on the back. That's fine. I 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 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:13.040 installed it anyway. And then on the front, we've just got this little Cooler 00:02:10.959 --> 00:02:17.680 Master logo right there. It's an ultra speed IPS panel. While we're seeing a 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 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:25.920 regardless, you're getting IPS, which is kind of nice. The IO on this thing is 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:31.040 pretty good. Power adapter, couple USBA, USB, a USBC. This USBC is actually 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.400 pretty impressive. By the way, it's got 90 watt power delivery, which is like I 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 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 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 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 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 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.480 able to get your 4K 160 Hz output with 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 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 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.599 lock. We've also got our little cable routing clip already attached to the 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. 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 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:26.959 portrait if you want to. We can tilt, which is great. Not a ton of rotation, 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:31.280 but there's enough height adjustment. And can we put it in the middle? Yes, we 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:34.879 can. No problem. This thing actually seems great. I'm a really big fan of a 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:38.239 stand like this, especially ones that let you rotate around the base here. 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 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:47.599 quick look, maybe check out the RGB, but not until a word from our sponsor, 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.440 Jackie. Thanks to Jackie for sponsoring today's video. Their solar generator 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:55.040 2000 Pro portable power station has enough juice to keep all of your devices 00:03:53.200 --> 00:04:00.640 powered and connected. The massive 2,000watth capacity and 2200 watt output 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:05.920 allows up to eight devices to be plugged in simultaneously. Check out the SG2000 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 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:15.280 the cables. So, we've got our big beefy power brick. This looks like display 00:04:10.799 --> 00:04:17.840 port. We have our USBB, USBC cable. And 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 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 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, 00:04:29.919 --> 00:04:34.720 there we go. We got everything plugged in. It all fired up. Looks like we're 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? 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:42.400 Yes, I was correct. So, these are just diffusions on the back. And I'm pretty 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 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 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 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:01.600 hertz. I'm not sure why. Let's see if we 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:05.759 can overclock it manually. The box says 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:07.600 right there 160 hertz. 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 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:14.560 overclock it. And test failed. What? We 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 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 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:27.600 HDR for whatever reason, I don't know why you wouldn't with a miniLEDD panel, 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 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:38.400 SDR. And no, we're not going to have crazy dynamic range, but this is 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:41.360 insanely bright for an SDR experience. 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:45.680 We're hitting something like 600 nits, and that's just absolutely wild. Let's 00:05:43.919 --> 00:05:49.440 play Counterstrike in HDR. I'm kidding. Counter-Strike doesn't have HDR. Um 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:54.320 that the reason it's dimmer is because now it has a proper range. Wow. 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:59.759 Damn, this looks really pretty though. Hold on. Bet you it can look better. 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:05.520 Maximum brightness 500. I don't think so. We measured a top end of 1500 nits 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 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 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:15.919 the rated uh 1200 nits that this thing 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 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:26.080 definitely measured higher than that. Wow. Now, one minor issue we had when 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:30.880 using the OSD with this thing is that instead of confirming by clicking in the 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 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:39.360 apply settings, tick it over to the right again and that'll say yes or no, 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:45.440 basically. Come on, NVIDIA, you're 3090. 40fps, baby. Yeah, it's pretty choppy. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:49.039 But that's the problem where 4K gaming 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:54.039 with HDR ray tracing enabled. Cyberpunk 00:06:49.039 --> 00:06:54.039 is just hard to run. Hell yeah. 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 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:04.880 reality is this thing's doing 144 hertz, so we might as well take advantage of 00:07:01.440 --> 00:07:08.240 that. All right, we're in 4K, 144 hertz, 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:10.080 VSSync off, brightness 50, HDR on. I'm 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 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:16.479 blown out, but that's okay. Wow. 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:20.240 Pixel response time is great. They measure it at like a half a millisecond 00:07:18.080 --> 00:07:24.319 or something like that, but also you can do different overdrive and stuff on this 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:27.280 thing. God, this looks good though. Spider-Man might not be the best game to 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:31.759 actually check for different highlights and whatnot, but it sure looks pretty 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:36.400 and the colors really pop. One minor thing that we noticed is that if you 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:40.560 want to use any sort of like color adjustment stuff, you can't use the 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 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 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:55.360 Yeah. HDR game mode. So if we go to game, we lose color adjust right away. 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 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, 00:08:02.479 --> 00:08:09.120 just in SDR content. Um the same thing happens when you're not using either 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 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:17.440 whatever, um you suddenly get locked out of the color adjust and it's just kind 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 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 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:29.440 don't like losing anything. So, now the really cool thing about this thing is 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:34.240 look at how much overdrive options we have. We've got normal, advanced, ultra 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:38.399 fast, dynamic, and user. If I go to user, you can crank it to different 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:43.279 levels of overdrive, which is super cool. We found issues. So, we'll go up 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:46.560 to 100 here. We found issues at 100. And zero basically looked okay, but we found 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:50.480 that you just want a little bit. You want like 10 or 20. Otherwise, we'll 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:53.440 probably get some inverse ghosting here. Let me just crank it to 100. I don't 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 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 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:05.040 minor. It's actually not too bad. I'm not getting inverse ghosting. I'm 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:09.200 getting ghosting and it's pretty minor. We cranked it down to 20. Yeah, that 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:13.920 ghosting is now basically gone and this looks pretty crisp. Okay, so that's all 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 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:22.480 bit clearer. He's just a little smeary. Honestly, unless you've got a really 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 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.880 little bit of overdrive, but not too much. This looks beautiful, though, 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 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 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 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:46.560 you're not going to get those like perfectly black blacks, but it's getting 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:50.720 pretty dark and the white and lighter stuff still really stands out and pops 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:54.880 on it. These lanterns look fantastic. The quantum dots on this guy really just 00:09:53.040 --> 00:10:00.560 absolutely help with the color gamut. This thing is getting about 83% coverage 00:09:57.040 --> 00:10:03.839 of REC 2020, which is HDR. And that's a 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:06.240 lot of color space. Would I buy it? 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, 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 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 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 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:32.240 with this monitor is that it's not like 32. That being said, pixel density snobs 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 00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:40.079 preference. I don't want this monitor. 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:44.160 Miniledd is really coming a long way and it looks fantastic and I don't think 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 00:10:46.079 --> 00:10:51.839 a little bit, then you can get a QD OLED, but then you're stuck with 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:57.360 ultrawide 1440p, which really might not be for you. If you're looking at the 00:10:53.760 --> 00:11:00.240 inzone for a really high local dimming 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:06.000 zone display, I would instead spend the extra $100 and get this thing every day 00:11:02.800 --> 00:11:08.800 of the week. $1,000 for the 4K 27in 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:14.800 version is a little much. However, they've got a 27in 1440p version with 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:17.519 basically the same specs for $680. So, 00:11:14.800 --> 00:11:22.000 you could save yourself over 300 bucks, probably more including taxes, and just 00:11:19.839 --> 00:11:26.880 get the 1440p version. That's what I would do personally. I think that this 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:31.920 is a fantastic choice for any gamers looking for a more high-end display. And 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:36.880 for any patient gamers out there, keep waiting because holy crap, the display 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:43.200 market is just getting absolutely wild for the first time in years in my 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:45.920 opinion. That's the Tempest GP27U from 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:49.120 Cooler Master. It's pretty cool. Uh definitely worth checking out, 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:52.320 especially if you're into miniLEDD. Thanks for watching. I'm Poof. There's a 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:56.560 ShortCircuit. If you want to check out another display video, maybe look at the 00:11:54.399 --> 00:12:01.320 inzone video, the M9 from Sony. It was pretty good, but now this thing's kind 00:11:58.079 --> 00:12:01.320 of the king.