how much are you willing to pay for something to be Porsche designed well
we've got the pd32m which is really by
aegon by AOC but it's got the Porsche logo on it it's a mini LED 4K 32 inch
144 Hertz refresh rate display seems
pretty good but you know we won't know until we turn it on I like their
packaging it's robust this might be one of those ones where
it's worth it to open the bottom too
it's so tightly packed that there's like a vacuum seal
oh my God okay you're paying three or
four hundred dollars for packaging I guess I will say this is probably not
the most eco-friendly packaging but some of the nicest and most robust packaging
I've seen for a monitor if they're not going with something more eco-friendly
like paper cardboard whatever I at least prefer when they use this kind of foam
rather than that crappy white styrofoam that just flakes off and gets everywhere
we got this box it says Porsche Design
is it Porsche is it Porsche Porsche is it porch is it Porsche I think it's
Porsche but okay so cool power brick I'm not a fan I
prefer I'm okay with like a thick monitor if it means that I don't have
this giant ass power brick laying down on the ground there's a cool USB key why
is this here I am not sure looks pretty says Porsche Design on it it also got
power cable to match our brick wow is
this a headphone extension I uh I genuinely don't know if this is just
like an aux cable but it's here this is their little controller so you can
control the OSD I'm guessing the on-screen display menus with this guy I
think parts of it are metal although I'm not sure the only kind of major downside
is that it uses the only kind of major downside is that it uses AAA batteries I
really wish it was rechargeable or just plugged in honestly I would be okay with
the cable but yeah it's definitely like metal or something HDMI ultra high speed
certified so what does that mean that is 2.1 uh yes because it says 8K on the
cable it's got a DisplayPort cable and then a USBC to USB a pretty
wild it looks like the stand is all in the central piece here so I'm going to
take that off yeah I don't know what we'll do with this after it's honestly a
pretty high end it's mini LED and it can do I think 1152 dimming zones which is
pretty decent for a panel this size it's not going to beat OLED where every pixel
is a Zone I was almost ready bill I was so close to Jerry rigging everything oh
look at that it's got a little symbol there is that the Porsche logo it's not
I'm I'm kidding it's definitely not I have no idea but yeah we're gonna do the
classic uh move the foam click in the stand this one actually comes fully
assembled it's a single piece which is actually really nice well no okay sorry
it's not fully fully single there's like some there's a gap here so this is
joined together I do already really dig
the design of the stand but let's plug it in looks like it's just standard Visa
100 by 100 board game wow this is heavy get off of
here phone
cool one thing that I would like when you're spending this much money is uh
often you'll get a on top beneath this foam you'll get like a really thin
single sheet that covers the panel itself maybe they feel like they don't
need it because this packaging is so good that's fair I guess so whatever
otherwise though it looks like it is what it is it's a 32 inch panel the
stand has a bunch of movement to it which is always wanted you can go
vertical if you really want to and I think you can do it yeah you can go both
ways which is always nice it doesn't make a big difference you can just flip
portrait mode to suit your needs but you know it's kind of nice when you have options like this maybe you want to have
your access to your i o on this side instead of on this side and then you
just rotate it the other way I have no idea why you would want this panel for
vertical it seems like a waste your vertical display is usually like code or
Discord or something like that it's not your main gaming display and there's
also height adjustment which is actually quite a bit
that's not bad I mean that's pretty standard don't get me wrong but they could have gone with like half of this
and just set a tight adjustable and I would have been pretty happy let me peel
this weird tape off I don't know why this is here does this come out it says
headphones click it ah headphone hanger pretty nifty I actually really like this
design too you know like as as much as I think that this is uh gonna cost an ARM
and a leg and I don't really want to buy it I can appreciate small stuff like
this like I think this looks a lot cleaner and just better than when you've
got those ones that like fold out you get two of them
oh yeah it's also metal
aside from this weird logo I haven't figured out yet maybe it's the aegon logo I'm not sure uh we've got a
navigation nipple and a power button
which is always great that's oh PD
wow Porsche Design yeah okay I'm just
dumb P and D so for Porsche Design yeah
there's a mic Jack headphone jack USBC uh USB Upstream USB actually four USB
ports which is great on this side we've got power uh DisplayPort HDMI probably
2.1 considering it came with a 2.1 cable and it's a 4K High refresh rate display
and then a PC mic cable oh that's cool
okay so it looks like what you can do is they give you this cable so that you can
uh along with like your keyboard and mouse and whatever else you're going to
plug into the USB you can plug in your mic to the Monitor and then run your
monitor to your computer which is great I don't think I've ever seen this that's
really cool there's also something on the bottom of the stand here and it's a
little like adjustment gear but I can't adjust it at all I don't know what that
does I don't know if it changes resistance or
anything I don't feel it changing anything but yeah there's some little
gear down here we can figure that out later we'll let you know as for cable
management you're honestly not getting a ton unless this back pops off
I don't think it does um yeah you basically just go out here
and up through here it's okay it'll work I'm just surprised that for a company
like Porsche that wants to do something that's like elegant and sporty they
don't have a better cable management system I do still really like the stand
looks like we've got our speakers right here there's a pair of eight watt
speakers in this bad boy and uh this is actually pretty good construction so I'm
really curious to see how they sound we're gonna power this bad boy up and
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it reminds me of like the PlayStation one like sound it doesn't it doesn't
sound too much like it just the overall I don't like it
HDMI so it automatically switched for me which is great okay we got HDR enabled
we have 1152 dimming zones in this bad boy which it's not going to beat OLED
don't get me wrong but for a screen this size that's pretty good A lot of 55 65
inch TVs on the mid-range to higher end
are about that many dimming zones for mini LED right now anyway we're running
at 4K we've got 10 bit color 16 it says
Peak brightness 1600 nits I don't know how true that is I think they have rated
it for about 1400 either way whatever we don't want 60 hertz we want all can can
HDMI 2.1 only do 4K 120. I thought it
could do 4K 144. yeah I want to put the DisplayPort cable on just in case whoa
this is a weirdo SD what the hell
I okay um I actually really like this I just
don't like how like garbagey the text looks I don't know if you can make that
out on camera but it does not look good it looks like it was blown up and not
rasterized but the overall like layout and design is actually really cool I
really love it what does OSD setup do okay it brings me to something more
regular USB selection okay I don't want the oh no I definitely don't want to
change the language sure what's an extra input Select Auto I want to use the
DisplayPort okay we got 144 Hertz now
with our DisplayPort cable all right what is light effects are this is there
RGB what the f really changing may increase
power consumption yes there's a there yeah so there's this
light on the bottom here oh is that what the Yeah
yeah okay okay pretty sweet you know that uh weird thing I found on the
bottom of the stand before it changes the logo that displays
I don't know it's pretty cool I I wish you could turn it off but it said
rainbow breathing so is there like RGB on the what
foreign
look at this it's in the speaker and it's in this top
bar here and I don't know you know I kind of wish that this was a big
diffusion bar like a white diffusion bar so that this was more prominent part of
me kind of likes the like more muted aesthetic that they're going for with
this either way I dig it I love the speaker part of it and that looks really
cool he's got that 8K footage Maybe
wow it is Bright Now to be fair I know we
use YouTube and it's not the best in terms of showing off HDR content but
honestly it's at least a good indicator of whether it's going to be terrible or
not and as we've definitely seen on some other displays there's some judder going
on which is more common in OLED than mini LED and that might be the player
let's let's get out of 8K I went to 8K because I'm you know dumb and I wanted
to go to 8K I bet you if we tried to stream it at 4K it probably fixes that
right away that's still happening here I wonder if
that's something I just haven't noticed before I wonder if it's YouTube Oh chromatic average that's one I don't
like this is all good though Ultra ultra high very high retrace lighting High
sure oh baby look at that
it looks pretty good but I will tell you motion
and stuff like this is totally fine it's
actually really good I don't know if I'm just crazy but this
is like really crisp whoa what's this guy doing
what's going on gamer wow
those speakers are pretty good I I 100 think that you could actually get away
with not using computer speakers don't
get me wrong a pair of like really good studio monitors or even just like
off-the-shelf 100 computer speakers is probably better overall but
that's pretty good
it's not bad there's definitely a lack of bass like duh what are you expecting
it's you know they're a couple eight watt speakers sitting in a monitor but
this is totally acceptable cyberpunk looked real crisp even when I was like
flicking around and stuff but even with the 4090 when we're set to ultra the
frame rate probably wasn't anything crazy so I'd like to see something running at like 300 frames a second on a
144hz display and I want to just flick around see how fast everything catches
up so you can make those you know those crucial flicks with the op like I've
seen better like obviously you know when you're going with uh OLED or something
with those like just instant Lightning Fast pixel response times it's going to
win but like oh that's terrible but like
this is clear I turn and it's instant and even when you're just cruising
around you can still make out the actual environment around you and everything
it's it's pretty sweet I'm not gonna lie to you guys this is a fantastic monitor
if you can get one on like a major deal go for it but the problem is it is 1800
US Dollars and if you're Canadian uh
it's even worse for some reason they're a site listed as 31 Canadian dollars
I wish bye bye bye bye bye
3100 Canadian dollars that is insane
that is more than just going from USD to cat it's like a 20 to 30 percent
difference whereas that is like not quite doubling but it is way more than
30 percent I can't you can't justify that I mean the problem is you you've
got either the cool to master Tempest which is a 20 it's a 27 inch screen and
it's only got about 500 dimming zones but it's 800 bucks for 4K 120 or 144
Hertz if that's not good enough for you you need the like 1000 dimming zones the
Samsung Neo G7 has 1152 dimming zones
and it's like thirteen hundred dollars so you can save 400 bucks by just going
with Samsung instead of with uh Porsche
Design now it's got a really nice stand and the speakers are pretty good for
computer monitor speakers but I just don't think that that justifies 400 at
least oh my God you could buy a whole other monitor for 400 bucks you can get
a decent 1440p High refresh rate monitor for like four or five hundred dollars at
least so I just can't recommend this thing I think it's sick if you ever get
the opportunity to use it or it's a game on it like it's cool and it's good and
you should totally try that that's that's the PD 32 um from Porsche Design
and AOC aegon it's a really nice display
it's just a bit too expensive there's a ShortCircuit if you want to check out
other short circuits maybe check out The Cooler Master Tempest and see if that's
the right one for you it's a hell of a lot cheaper a few less features but
price is way more right than this thing