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with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an

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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts all right so

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this video might be coming at a bit of a strange time if the focus was going to

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be on this exact model of 4k monitor

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which was first shown off way back at computex 2013 and has been available

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pretty much since then at around 3 ,000 to $3,500 an early adopter price point

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if I ever seen one no instead the focus of this video is going to be on my

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experience of using a 4K display because this is the first time I've actually

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gotten the opportunity to try one in the comfort of my own home and at work and

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now that 4K is finally coming down in price with a susu's PB 287 Q coming at

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around 800 bucks for a 28 in model it is a very exciting time to take a look at

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this sexy technology so first I'll give a rundown of this one this very gorgeous

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PQ 321 q that I guess I can hold hostage

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now until ASUS sends one of the new ones

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unlike the lowcost variants that will feature TN panels of various quality

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this monitor features an EXO or indium Gallum zinc oxide based panel there's a

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great post actually by a complete stranger who goes by the handle of

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glenwing on overclock.net Linked In the video description that does a great job

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of explaining the benefits of this technology but in short because an exop

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panels controlling transistors are smaller respond more quickly and can

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even be clear we can get faster response

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times High higher pixel densities and more power efficient or even transparent

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displays for the rest of the specs we'll move pretty fast here this thing is a

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beast it weighs 30 lbs much of which is the robust stand it consumes about as

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much power as an idling gaming desktop at about 80 to 90 watts and it's got a

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31 1/2 in 3840 by

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2160 LED EDG lit screen with one of the best anti-glare Coatings that I've ever

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seen it's actually I think the perfect balance between reducing Reflections and

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still keeping colors vibrant looking not scattering the light too much the unit

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is super thin 35 mm at the back which

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contrasts sharply with the Dell 30-in monitor that we use for high-res

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benchmarking and this thinness is enabled by an external power brick

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versus having an internal power supply I've seen other reviewers complain about

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this approach but I disagree 100% I would rather take up space on my floor

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with big Power bricks than space on my desk which I can actually use it's not

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like I'll be moving this thing around speaking of movement it has height

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adjust pivot and tilt but no portrait um

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rotate mode um you can actually take the

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screws off and then put it in portrait mode permanently but it's not something

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that you can just switch between easily it has a side mounted DisplayPort 1.2

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connector with two side mounted HDMI connectors it should be noted that due

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to the way this monitor works it's basically like two monitors side by side

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with no bezel in between you will need to use either a DisplayPort device that

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supports multistream that's 1.2 or higher or two separate HDMI cables going

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into both ports if you want to run the monitor at 4K 60 htz with stronger

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DisplayPort implementations in HTMI 2 coming soon this won't be an issue on

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future models but it is something to bear in mind here the monitor uses a

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sharp exop panel capable of producing 1.0 7 billion colors with a reasonable

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degree of accuracy but with some tendency towards a rmer a warmer overall

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tone to the image it should be noted that it was never really marketed as a

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pro art series for serious color work so it should still be good enough for most

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people the buttons for controlling the on-screen display are around the back

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and this is unusual but they actually aren't even labeled on the front they're

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only labeled on the back of the monitor it's okay though an optional sticker is

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included if you want to be able to see what you're doing but given that the

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onscreen display doesn't have a ton of useful options like ASUS's Pro art

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series does I would probably just leave the front label off for a super clean

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aesthetic if it was mine okay back to that panel type again I've mentioned

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this a few times EXO is not actually strictly speaking a panel type like IPS

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or TN and apart from telling us that it's exob based ASUS hasn't been

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entirely forthright with what type of panel is in the PQ 321 q but on PC

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monitors. info they figure it's an IPS or similar display which makes sense

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given the strong colors and and outstanding viewing angles if you want

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more details on the monitor particularly with respect to color reproduction for

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professional work or more nitty-gritty details of the spec un un teched an

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excellent review of it which I'll link in the video description the rest of

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this video will focus on my experience using it and my thoughts on the upgrade

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to 4K so I'll open with this a bigger screen is not always a great upgrade I

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used a 30-in Samsung monitor as my daily driver for a couple of years and while

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it was great once I got used to it scaling back to 27 as I recently did has

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actually been just fine too but some people will always want bigger and

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better so if you do want a huge display then you need to consider pixel density

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there was a period of time when many folks particularly Gamers were buying

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32in TVs with resolutions as low as 1366

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X 768 and then lulling at me at lens for

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paying so much for my 1920x 1200 24in

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monitor which was obviously much smaller but that kind of solution was always

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very fatiguing for me to look at if you increase the size but not the pixel

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density text and icon sizes are effectively blown up making everything

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look blocky if you increase both pixel density and size proportionally you get

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effectively more of the same level of detail and same size text and icons but

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when you ramp up resolution faster than

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size you get a very different Computing experience and everything starts to look

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much more crisp or as Apple would call it retina at 140 pixels per inch the PQ

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321 Q is the highest density desktop monitor I've ever used by a significant

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margin about 30% better than a 27in

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1440p display and it's incredible to see how sharp everything looks the only

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challenge is that while ramping up resolution gives us more screen real

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estate to spread out our work it also decreases the size of elements now to

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the point where it's hard to read text and click on things accurately unless

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the solution to this of course is scaling which is what smart osses like

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Android and iOS do but unfortunately Windows doesn't handle scaling amazingly

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well because even with improvements in Windows 8 which I unfortunately don't

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use yet thirdparty software makers need

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to support it for it to work properly from within applications what this means

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is that if I leave the scale at 100% Windows Explorer text has the same

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sharpness as text in 7zip or Steam but

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if I scale to 150% all of a sudden text

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in thirdparty applications can look terrible by comparison it was not just

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isolated to these two applications there are some other things that behave

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strangely at such enormous resolution as well remember that this is effectively

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for 16in 1080p monitors side by side and

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stacked with no bezels between them websites designed for fixed width will

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just float in a sea of emptiness in the middle of your screen and dynamic

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websites won't Faire much better with elements strch stretched out to the

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edges of the screen or even just broken out right one solution to that is to

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split your monitor into virtual smaller ones using third party software but

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that'll just take some tinkering for you to get things set up the way that you

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want it it's just something to think about speaking of the way you want

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things for all the complaining I've done about scaling and text and whatever else

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the 4K experience when you're doing it right when you're enjoying native

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content is absolutely unreal it's one

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thing to see a 4K TV at a trade show

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it's another thing entirely to have one two feet in front of your face playing

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all of your favorite games natively at 4K because PC games support that stuff

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as long as you have the graphics horsepower for it it is a great time to

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be a PC Gamer because of the improved pixel density I find myself hardly even

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needing anti-aliasing anymore in Dirt 3 I went from 0x to 2x to 4X and then it

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got to the point where I had to have my nose like 6 in from the screen to see

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any jaggies whatsoever when you add to that the beautiful colors and

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respectable but not amazing processing leg on this monitor the experience is

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unlike anything else I've always found that surround would be okay for me but

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the bezel just totally takes away from the immersion well this it's just it's

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there in your field of view and it looks amazing I mean I think the craziest and

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most exciting thing about it is that while I found over 30 in to be a little

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bit big this technology is coming soon

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to smaller display sizes which means even high higher pixel density and at

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lower prices 4K might not matter much to

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me for my TV but for my desktop computer

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it makes a really big difference it's like when I moved from 24in 1200p to

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30in 1600p all over again it's absolutely beautiful the one thing I

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really need to see though before I'd be willing to drop $800 to $1,000 on a

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really nice 4k monitor is g-sync support I noticed this at NVIDIA's Montreal

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event when they had some 4K TV gaming demos running but the larger the screen

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the more noticeable giant tearing artifacts across it are to me these sync

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is a solution but it adds more leg to what I'm already expecting to be slower

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than average monitors in this first round of affordable 4K monitors although

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I haven't like tested any of them yet so when ASUS delivers about $1,000 4k 60hz

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g-sync monitor they will not be able to take my money fast enough thank you guys

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