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i think as computer enthusiasts we've probably all been through this at least

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once we get all wrapped up like planning

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and building a sick new gaming rig and we're like super excited and then we

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realize as we're plugging it into all of our old peripherals that maybe it would

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have been wise to save some of our budget to upgrade the rest of the

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experience oops so today's video is gonna be something a

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little special we are going to be attempting

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to take this broken monitor which we got

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on ebay ebay for 120

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and make it a fully functional aorus

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ad27 which is a 600 us dollar monitor new

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with this replacement panel

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that we also got on ebay oh that one was aliexpress oh

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what would you say our success chances are today

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they're either like 100 or it just doesn't work it's

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like all or nothing speaking of all or nothing check out glasswire at the link

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in the video description glasswire allows you to instantly see your current

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and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your pc

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or Android device use offer code Linus to get 25

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off glass wire again that's linked below

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monitors get broken in transit all the time and because their housings and

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stands are typically made from reasonably robust materials the most

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common thing to die is the panel itself i've actually had it

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happen where a monitor like tipped over in its box

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i took it out and boom gigantic crack across the screen

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so finding broken monitors on sites like

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ebay is actually usually as simple as searching a gaming monitor

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for parts or broken or damaged gaming

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monitor and you should have a whole bunch to choose from

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now we went with this one for a couple of reasons number one is that it's a

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pretty darn nice monitor we actually reviewed it a while back it's only free

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sync but it's one of the few freesync models that NVIDIA actually signed off

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on as a g-sync compatible so it's a

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pretty no compromises experience and it's got a bunch of great features

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2560x1440 resolution HDR support uh one

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millisecond response time uh what else has it got

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ips panel it's a pretty sick monitor especially for

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120 bucks now should we fire this thing up and see what happens uh sure i can't

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think of any reason not to might as well just make sure that it

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is actually broken maybe we got a working monitor for 120 bucks so once

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you find a broken monitor that you like on ebay

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i'd recommend finding that you can actually get the panel that you want

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before pulling the plug obviously so go on something like panel look and search

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your monitor model number and then you'll be able to find the panel number

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which you can then put into aliexpress or somewhere similar and find out how

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expensive that's going to be to get it shipped to you i'd recommend getting

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something from acer ASUS or lg they seem to be the

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easiest ones to get panels for samsung i just had no luck for at all same with

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alienware how lucky are you feeling today um

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in this situation like zero

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this is powered on seems to be seems to be powered on it's detected

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so and it's cracked

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yep that's yep that's definitely broken that's a kraken

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actually since we have it here sanity check

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nope the stand seems to be just fine no this is actually like a super decent

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monitor so it's been a while but i think

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with these no bezel ones you kind of have to pry

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this up is that right do you know how to disassemble this no i couldn't find

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anything on disassembly it is pretty new the good news is we don't really have to

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worry about yeah being careful with it yeah

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oh i'm making progress

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you want a real man screwdriver

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nope i don't think that suction cup's gonna

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help oh here we go uh that sounded like a

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couple clips broke but uh this is broken then engaged

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hey it's really in there

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maybe it doesn't need to come out well like when we're done if you're able

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to use the menu that would be pretty great i think they're just

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really really big clips

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hey nice now it's coming out trust us we're

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professionals we've got some some attachment doodads

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here what are they called again uh yeah

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i'd give that a solid like c-plus for cable roading

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so now things should get a little bit simpler we've just got a handful of

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screws to remove i mean is this the point where we should pop out our

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replacement panel and see if it even physically looks like it might go in

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here yeah okay i think i get more concerned than you

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because i'm typically the one paying for them oh

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well like the idea of this was that in the end i just want to buy it

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because so oh so we're building your monitor right

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now basically yes oh

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wow how'd you pull that scam off that was literally like the entire idea

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for the video i was just like i'm too cheap to buy a monitor

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so this looks this looks really close

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yeah that looks right so this one guys we're only laying it down like this

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because it does have a protective covering on it but uh

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this little piece of the housing here looks

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identical this pcb looks the same

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all these mounting points look the same i'm not saying that makes this a

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guarantee i'm just saying that

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makes our chances a lot better than if they weren't the same okay so as long as

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this is functional this should work now some of this stuff we don't even

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have to detach necessarily actually how is that even attached it's just taped on

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that's pretty typical oh okay i know right really i know because it has like

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mounting holes on it no no that i've seen this before i swear huh

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in doing the research for this i was actually shocked at how simple it is to

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just make your own monitor maybe that's the next stage yeah try to

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salvage this tape if you can because there's no real reason not to reuse it

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boop okay

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that's the part where uh if i

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accidentally bridge some of these contacts because i'm sure there's some

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pretty decent sized capacitors on the other side i could die

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that's fun okay you were paying attention to where this was routed right yeah it goes down

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to here so this right here is the cable that carries the data from the display

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controller and scalar this unit here to the panel itself so we don't want to

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bung this up that's presumably kind of hard to find a replacement for oh yeah

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so there's pretty much no point removing this tape

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from the plastic frame because we just want to slide our new panel right in and

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then lay the tape back down pretty much

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yeah remember that lga 3647 motherboard you

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broke oh yeah that was rough actually

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that wasn't rough had one to us like the next day

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that doesn't make it good so that's it the training wheels are off

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there's no protector on the panel now yep

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all right that was relatively simple

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i kind of wish we'd taken a picture before we

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took everything apart but honestly it should be fine okay so that seems to be

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cable routed yeah um this one i think goes in here yeah get that lined up just

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right so we can tape it on

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there's a like a ridge here oh yeah see how it kind of settles in there so i'm

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ready to put in the other side of our ribbon cable it's not too delicate of an

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operation compared to working within like a notebook or something like that

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there maybe you could give me a piece of tape to hold it down

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this has been too easy i'm getting concerned yeah

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well the same thing happened last time we replaced a panel we just popped it apart smacked it back together and we

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were like okay so that's it theoretically this is assembled now

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should we test it before we bother

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putting it totally back together i was about to ask you the same thing

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i kind of like the drama better if we reassemble the entire thing

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okay wanna line me up here oh hold on i got a few cables to put in

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yeah gotta hook up that RGB yeah those are really important ones all right do

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you remember how this went in i think it slid the bottom had to go in first right

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yes okay there we go come on

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oh there we go see how many of these clips we didn't

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break actually there's not that many clips broken what are you even talking about

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this is on here perfectly fine yeah it's pretty good no one's going to be able to

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tell all right here i might as well plug this in here since you're holding it

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hey is the panel on um yeah it was briefly

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um can we put it on the stand yeah it's just like kind of difficult

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there you go okay so so far

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the RGB is working both on the back of the monitor and on the stand

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that's a good sign i don't know that this has displayport

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1.4 so it probably won't be able to do the full thing but that's fine we can go

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get a gaming rig to test it properly if it actually works

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how do i even display on this there we go

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see theoretically it's on

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uh oh

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no could it be that there's more wrong with it than we thought oops i think i

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just turned it off i mean that's the thing about a broken product is it could

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be broken in more than one way do you know that your mini dp works

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it's worked in the past let's get something else

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what pump is this uh oh that's Corsair's new one oh cool yeah it's their hydro x1

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it's actually made of like clear nylon

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so it's like super like

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durable and won't stain and stuff or something cool i gotta tell you i'm having doubts so i

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guess it's the moment we find out if i get a monitor or if you get a monitor

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yes yes

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just like that okay we need a keyboard mouse then so does this thing work it'd

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be pretty unfortunate just to have like a crosshair oh nice

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dashboard one potential snag right now as we can

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see it's clearly running at 60 hertz so we don't know if that's because

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it can't run it more yes

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uh yeah i would wait until i actually see it running

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yay not too shabby

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huh all right let's grab dead pixel buddy

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yeah this is kind of like the second moment of truth right here

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so the thing is guys just because you got a compatible panel doesn't

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necessarily mean that it's an a panel maybe you got not an a panel oh okay no

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no no no that one was fine just a piece of dust

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okay black looks good so we want to turn it green so we can

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look for something like uh a red pixel that's standing out to

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us looks good

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i don't see any blue pixels standing out no dead ones

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no oh what's that

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i think that might be a dead red pixel bomber

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i'd say you actually did pretty well here

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yeah yep i think you've got a dead red

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sub pixel so he's got one third of a dead pixel on

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the whole panel and it's not right in the center so one thing that's also really possible

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here is that the calibration could just be

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completely off i'm going to take the time to actually use our display calibrator and put it on

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here but for anyone else a pretty good method is just take

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a piece of paper put it up there change the RGB values in your monitor osd and

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boom i'd love to know if g-sync works though

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that's interesting well it didn't pick up g-sync

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compatibility um what drivers are on this it could be

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old actually so one odd behavior

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is that i noticed a little bit of fringing on the display earlier

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and it turns out that it's running at 4k even though this is a

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1440p panel but then it knew to run it

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at 150 percent scaling so everything looked the right size

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but there's a little bit of uh

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sort of there's some artifacts on text so it doesn't look crisp

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we're gonna get the graphics driver installed though and that should fix that okay moment of truth time here

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set up g-sync

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all right freaking awesome

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so i guess that right there is kind of why this is a good idea as opposed to just

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buying a cheap monitor because this is in the end with the

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panel and the like broken monitor slightly more

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expensive than just buying a 1440p 144hz

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display yeah the original plan was we were going to get the panel for closer

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to like what 150 180 bucks sounds like 140. and the whole solution was going to

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be about 300 but now what did we end up with

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yeah so it's been like two months the order was cancelled three times

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and in the end we paid more like three hundred dollars for the

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panel so that's still 180 less than new

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for a very respectable g-sync compatible gaming monitor

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and what 45 minutes of time

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yeah something like that well for the actual upgrade not the like

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all doing all the research well the research was pretty quick too

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the two months of cancelled orders on aliexpress weren't too fun

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so this is your new monitor then yeah see there's good ideas for videos and

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then there's good ideas for videos that are also because i'm really cheap

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don't include that i think that's fine too

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that looks good not bad not bad at all i need a better gun

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do they have head shots um i think on those if you get them like

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when their mouths open it's extra damage ah okay this is awesome you should try

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