have you ever heard of yayin before oh that almost worked uh I haven't and I
haven't heard of the sigured 4000 until earlier this week but we've got one it's
a 34 inch 1440p 21x9 Ultra wide display
uh 165 Hertz and you know what I'm not
going to tell you the price yet but it's not crazy expensive it is a VA panel ah
so you're going to give up some stuff and I actually want to show you the box
a little bit because there's a couple kind of funny things here
probably the best part of this is the
fact that it lists HDR 400 but it does
not have a Vasa rating so we did test it
um it's okay but it's definitely not hitting 400 nits when we test the HDR so
maybe that's why they couldn't get Vasa certified but whatever you know maybe
it's still okay the reality is HDR unless you're using mini LED or OLED oh
this is gonna be kind of hard to get out uh it just it doesn't look that good
honestly oh
what we've got cables love cables
okay that's a bracket or a plate of some
kind this is another weird little plastic
attachment that I have no idea what this is uh the Labs tested it and
when it comes to putting it all together they just said have fun so I'm expecting
something terrible at this point we've got a C13 and this looks like it goes
straight into it but yeah it doesn't look like there's a power brick on here
we got the stand or the base of the stand
which is uh circular
here's the rest of the stand I'm gonna put all that there uh okay
sure I'm definitely going to need a screwdriver I don't like this I don't
know why they've over complicated this like to such a degree thankfully we have
an LTT screwdriver with a Torx bit I think that's what it is yeah now it's oh
I broke that part that's cool but now it's coming out
and you know what I don't think we needed that anyway
okay that's locked in so now we're going to tighten these this is the absolute
probably worst stand design I've ever seen at least in terms of assembly
um I don't understand it at all I don't know why they're doing this I don't know
why there's this many screws I don't know why they've even included this one
at this point they could have just figured out a different locking mechanism
um but okay sure the probably the worst
part is that this is a slot I get that
they do the slot so that you can finger tighten it with the little handle
instead um yeah I don't get it but whatever
it's done there we go um okay now I also don't understand how
it plugs into the monitor because it's
definitely not an easy like just clip in and pull it out let's look at the back
of the monitor first oh never mind it
does look like it just Clips in uh this does not feel comfortable at all
what happens when you press the button it pulls out this guy
so do I have to attach this separately this okay this is the first time
I think ever that I've had to actually check the manual to unbox the monitor
whether at home or at work
so okay so we're gonna take our stand Mount and
uh just throw it on like this I guess yeah
this is involved I'll tell you that much
uh more involved than I would personally
personally like but hey you know maybe if it's uh discounted and
you know it's a good monitor you're willing to kind of deal with this stuff
I'm not I think this is the longest it's ever
taken me to put a Stand Together by like a country mile
okay uh maybe we don't need these up and
down Clips I don't think so it looks like now it finally just kind of Clicks
in and pulls out
sure maybe
it's a big that's a big display I
figured it out this is for the mount if you're gonna wall mount it and this is a
cable clip I don't know where the cable goes yet but it's a cable clip and now
to look at the yayin sagird 4000.
no that was the worst reveal in the history of reveals
oh no this does not feel sturdy all I did was
pick this up and move it around a little bit whoa
noise oh you know what it is when I go to pick it up when I go to pick it up
because the latch is like right underneath where your hand would kind of
be like this I'm picking it up and pushing on the latch just a little bit
with my knuckle um that's never really been a problem on
any other display this is usually how I carry displays is like this and uh yeah
I don't like that at all I think I almost just you know popped the whole
display off and broke it so uh glad glad I didn't that's pretty cool uh anyway
yeah it looks like it's about a 1500 R curvature which is a little more which
is kind of nice actually 1500 is about right for a screen this size at least in
my opinion that's all kind of up to personal preference on the back uh
there's more screws on the stand I don't like this stand at all why does
it have so many screws in it I've never seen this it's always like a single
piece of plastic or metal or something I've never seen like a bunch of extra
screws in the back um and then aside from that looks like
we got some RGB Lighting on the sides
and then up the middle here I actually kind of like the RGB I mean I haven't
seen it turned on but I like this like little configuration of diffusion strips
and I like that that's actually proper diffusion instead of just like light
bulbs or something LED bulbs there otherwise I mean it looks okay on the
front we got the yayin symbol again with the
like samurai or whatever pretty cool one thing I'd like to note it does look like
they have a tiny kind of carrying handle here that you can get two fingers in I'd
really still prefer to carry it the way I normally do so
we've got two HDMI 2.0 ports and then a
couple of DisplayPort ports which is not the most uncommon thing but it's
actually really nice to see on monitors when you want to plug multiple devices
into the same Monitor and then we've got an audio port and power and that's it
actually I'm kind of amazed that there's like is there no USB on this thing
like at all really it's not the most common feature because
I guess not every monitor can connect to your computer like that but
kind of rare to to not see USB anywhere
on a monitor these days so um that's a little disappointing
well it's not the most feature-rich monitor at least not physically but uh
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switchpod today one thing we forgot to try out was how you know good the stand
is we got some height adjustment here and hey what stays in the middle cool
we've got actually quite a bit can this thing do
like a full 360.
I don't know if it can go all the way around no not quite it stops right there
but that's probably some of the most
play that I've ever seen on a display can it tilt as well it can tilt okay so
as much as I might hate the construction and putting together the stand it's
pretty versatile I'll give it that I don't I don't think you can pivot no
no you can't but uh let's be real Ultra wide curved do you want this thing to be
in portrait mode I don't know maybe if you do tough luck you're not gonna get
it we wanted to wait to turn it on because uh it should show yeah a year
with the samurai I will admit I like the
logo I like the Samurai with the Y it's
kind of cool well it's got 8-bit with dithering
so okay sure HDR sure there's no
certification found that's because it doesn't have any uh it's saying 446 nits
but we tested it and it was hitting like 370 uh so I don't really believe you
Windows but Windows has also reported some weird stuff before okay we're gonna
check out the OSD to see if there's some kind of HDR setting that's just not
going because this looks super washed out and terrible
oh it doesn't David don't you try to
okay so one thing there is no navigation nipple so this is a like go up and down
uh M for menu I'm guessing I don't know what e stands for and that's power we'll
try to turn DCR on which is dynamic contrast ratio I don't expect it to it
looks the same to me uh good dark it's darker now
but not in a good way I'm gonna turn it off okay how do I go back now e e for
exit wow it is okay
oh aspect ratio that's cool let's see if we can yes we can go four by three if we
want to one by one nice that's hot
that's high quality right there this is not their fault okay this is this is
just YouTube trying to do stuff oh my God I hate this menu so much this is
like painful I haven't had to do this in
so long um there's an eco mode which we're not
going to use display what's under display aspect
ratio LED audio mute volume
um I don't think this thing has speakers I think that's for the audio out
multi-window cool so you can do it looks like you can do pip and PVP yeah so this
is actually why you've got that extra DisplayPort cable
um and it's actually a pretty nice feature for Ultra wides because you could totally put two four by three
pieces of content on here if you wanted to
um so yeah it will do it looks like it'll do PVP and pip which is pretty
cool not every monitor has that other what's under other DP version oh
that's cool tells you what DP version you've got which I mean
I pretty much expect everything to be DP 1.4 at this point but hey that's cool
it's got adaptive sync it does have adaptive sync and HDR is set to off so
let's see if that actually fixes anything on
wow it actually did it's not perfect
but that looks a lot better if you buy this monitor please do yourself a
gigantic favor and make sure to set the both the Monitor and Windows to HDR
it kind of sucks that out of the box it doesn't set up as Auto it really should
in my opinion because I mean whatever if you turn it on in Windows that way it'll
turn on and if it's not then it won't be on so whereas this way it's annoying you
got to go and turn it on in the menu but okay fine this does look
significantly better than it did a moment ago it's definitely still washed
out but it's not nearly as bad as it was a couple seconds ago when we were
looking at it we're going to turn adaptive sync on before we play some games we don't really need it because
we've got a 40 90 in here but it still hops a little bit so
the content is okay I'm gonna
I'm gonna play some games on it to really judge but I'm not crazy impressed
okay I can tell you right now I've been playing a lot of re4 I'm on like my
fourth playthrough and um it can look a lot better than this this
isn't awful it's just not the most contrast it's uh yeah it could be worse
they advertise a 3001 contrast ratio and
we've had a 4001 contrast ratio when measuring it which is nice it's better
than expected but it's also not amazing I'm actually going to turn off HDR
though because I bet you the SDR experience would be better I feel like
it's trying to over brighten stuff a little bit and washes it out don't get
me wrong it's absolutely not nearly as dark where it should be in the dark
areas but this just like looks better it
doesn't look all washed out and dirty
and so I would definitely basically just never turn HDR on with this monitor
we're gonna check it out more in Counter-Strike which you'll get a higher FPS count but like the blur on the
pixels is not the best I've ever seen just turning looks kind of gross
oh yeah oh yeah we're getting 190 FPS
right now so it's not that we've got HDR
on and we do have like a bright hot spot here um it's not like eye steering bright
though this thing only hits about 350 to 370 nits
we do with HR turned on it is like kind of Darker in the corners here but we're
just losing a lot of detail and it doesn't look great
um we're going to turn HDR off and take a look and see how it looks and SDR
and again you're losing a ton of contrast but at least now I feel like I
can see all these details and it looks a bit better I don't know
um I think I'd probably run this thing in SDR for the most part if I was going
to buy it personally but we want to check out motion blur and
how good this thing will handle fast paced games
I've seen a lot of Counter-Strike and this just looks washed out it's uh since
the problem is this is a VA panel and VA has decent viewing angles
um it's okay with motion blur but it's
really not that great with color that's kind of why so many people like IPS is
that IPS has a really good color from a
lot of different angles as well like TN is especially bad like VA is kind of in
the middle ground and so many people are like well I don't
want the middle ground I want the thing it's like really good at and uh I gotta
say just isn't exciting I think that's the
problem with it I'm not excited about it and that's not because I'm being elitist
um there's just something about this that doesn't feel anywhere near as good as
other stuff I've looked at recently and and I get that it's a lower price but
we've also seen some really good Gigabyte monitors that come in and just
like mop the floor on the kind of budget area around the like three to five
hundred dollar range so
to praise something like one of those and then look at this it's just disappointing wow that was an awful shot
oh I got a boat okay here's what we're talking about when it comes to the
blurriness of this thing uh this sign right here looks nice and Crystal Clear
is we're staying still I'm gonna move just a little bit like I'm not even
flicking I'm not even flicking and it just like goes to Mush and then if we
flick it's gross it's unreadable and it's not a frame rate thing this thing's
going at 165 Hertz which is pretty good
I personally I'm fully okay with like 165 144.
um you don't need a 240 hertz monitor to look nice and crystal clear and this
thing unfortunately just really doesn't do that
we tested the color accuracy and it's not awful it's got about a 4.21 Delta e
average which is okay the problem is
most monitors these days even at the lower end like 500 400 they're coming in
calibrated uh to about a Delta e of two or less so it's just kind of
disappointing it also had a Max of like 8.3 which is not great it's like it's
mostly on the whites and the blacks too which is kind of surprising overall I'm
just not super impressed I think that here's the problem if
you're going to go 1440p Ultra wide like
you want a nicer like more premium display
you can't cheap out too much because all you're paying for at that point are
these features you're paying for Ultra wide you're paying for a curved display
you know you're you're paying for 165 Hertz but you're not paying for like
color accuracy and just vibrancy and
blurry pixels you know like a better motion pixel response time and those
things in my opinion are often more important maybe not more important than
refresh rate that's still pretty good but the problem is this isn't like you
know a 200 Hertz a 240Hz refresh rate display it's 165 which has been common
for frankly years now here's the problem with the yayin sugard
4000 it's 369 dollars which admittedly
1440p 165 Hertz
Ultra wide like at 369 that actually scenes seems appealing but the problem
is if you go up 20 30 more you can get a
Gigabyte model for a little more money
and it's probably going to be a bit better and even if it's not even if it's
the exact same quality level as this display you're at the very least going
to get much better customer support because I don't know maybe Ian's good
I've never heard of them in my life until I unbox this monitor no one I
asked knew yayin was so I don't know
maybe in a few years they'll be more reputable but right now it's kind of a
crap shoot so I think that if you are looking to get basically this display
1440p 21x9 at 34 inches then you should
probably go with the Gigabyte g34 wqc I
haven't tested it but I do trust Gigabyte they've they've actually been
on SC before with some kind of budget four or five hundred dollar monitors and
they've really impressed me so I think you're much better off going with them
over the yayin if you're looking at first something a bit more premium you
know check out the ShortCircuit that we did on the meg342c from MSI it's a
pretty sweet monitor