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i just upgraded my home gaming setup to lg's 42-inch c2 and some things about it

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it finally went well what the hell i have it set to one minute this is what

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i'm talking about i just upgraded my home gaming setup to lg's 42 inch c2 and

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some things about it are great basically zero motion blur inky OLED blacks and

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the size is perfect but using a tv as your monitor

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is less perfect thankfully ASUS rog who

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sponsored this video has the solution this pg42uq they sent over has all the

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same benefits of my existing display but none of the drawbacks of using a tv it's

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got displayport 1.4 alongside its HDMI

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2.1 connection i no longer need a companion app so my display will go to

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sleep and wake up alongside my system and best of all i can disable that

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accursed auto dimming function for a

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much more consistent experience to say i

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can't wait would be an understatement on paper it's basically the perfect gaming

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display but just because it's sponsored doesn't mean i'm not going to tell you guys if i don't run into any problems

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right out of the gate massive shout out the developer of lg tv companion because

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it's a lot better than not having it but this was set to sleep after a minute

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it has been like five minutes and it's not asleep also

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there's no way to minimize it so you just

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just tuck it away also you guys noticed right

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when i moved that box the brightness changed dramatically you can adjust that

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behavior with a special service remote in the hidden menu but you can't disable

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it entirely probably the thing that's annoyed me the most though

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aside from coming back to the office right after setting this one up and

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seeing the better solution sitting in our warehouse is that i have been stuck

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at 60 hertz because my computer is so

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far away that i need an active optical cable in order to get a signal to it and

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while there are HDMI 2.1

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active cables available in my case the cable is so costly that

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since i already own a long DisplayPort anyway even if the monitor version is a

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little more expensive it's a better bet a sue sent over not one but three of

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these which means that with some help from these little doodads which let you

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extend a usb connection over standard Ethernet cabling i will be able to show

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you guys the final form of my centralized gaming system where it

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shouldn't matter if i sit down at it here sit down at it downstairs the

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experience should be identical no additional latency i can help you lift

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it when it gets to that i know it's super basic yeah i want you to follow

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the instructions jeff just told me that we've got to do this all right and it's

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sponsored so i'm trying to make sure we do it no i open boxes how i play oh my

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god oh my god all right there's a stand yep

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nice oh accessory pouch yeah i actually really like complete with color

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calibration report oh my goodness their calibration report comes in a little

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sleeve

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power DisplayPort HDMI

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usb it's really weird the instructions said specifically

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did they really did they

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remote this is pretty handy i mean it's nice to be able to turn it off and on

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remotely change sources all that kind of good stuff what else we got going here

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okay do you want to grab another okay i'll grab the other side okay according

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to the instructions okay david frame him out

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okay with a helper okay place it down like that that helper that definitely

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exists there's a lot going on here you've got vent holes up at the top is

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this a cooling fan no ASUS does advertise that it can be

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overclocked so instead of just 4k 120

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it'll apparently do 4k 138 hertz but the cooling required to

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achieve that is all passive so you don't have to worry about any additional noise

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they also advertise 0.1 millisecond greater gray pixel

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response times out of box calibration which i showed you already as well as a

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whopping 98 coverage of the dci p3 color

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space pretty freaking impressive just like our screwdriver which is now

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available for order on ltdstore.com which happens to include the hex bit we

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need to tighten up our monitor stand here so you use the knurling for speed

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and then the handle for tightness love it i could totally lift this myself but

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ASUS insisted i have a helper so i've got ploof here taking the other end

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thanks blue that's really good all right oh that's super handy it's got a usb 3

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port up at the top along with one of these little threaded majigs so that you

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can put your camera or your webcam or anything else that has one of these what

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are these quarter inch is that the one yeah quarter inch threaded posts on it

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love it oh that's nice i was leaning this so david could get a b-roll shot

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here and it's actually got a little bit of tilt which is something you won't

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normally find on a tv in terms of i o we've got oh really it's got the full

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complement of HDMI ports four of them

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along with displayport and this is a pretty robust built-in usb hub it's got

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usb 3 in here and then one two

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three i thought i saw another one somewhere i guess three is oh yeah there's another one down here four usb 3

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ports there's your headphone jack power is here kensington here and i'm assuming

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this is RGB i guess we should plug it in and see it light up one thing that's

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conspicuously absent is e-arc so you're either going to be using the on-board

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speakers or speakers that are hooked up through an av receiver or similar now

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this is curious there are a couple more threaded

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mounting holes here pluth do you have any idea what these are for no it does

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vase of 300 by 300 well yeah that's not there

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yeah uh i'm actually not sure i never saw anything in any of the documentation

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yeah they're just labeled mounting port oh that's cool though yeah if you didn't

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happen to have an ltd screwdriver it does include a little allen key for the stand so that's neat it uses a little

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center mounted nubbin nipple thing for control so i think i just turned it on

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the RGB is not on by default i don't use rog who are you yeah

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it's got to be RGB right this is interesting the HDMI one and two our

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HDMI 2.1 3 and 4 are 2.0 so that's good

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to know oh no the power button is just to the right of the control nipple

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okay got it so did i turn it on this time

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if i'm going to fall off this desk i think we all want to see it on camera

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watch your back pocket cause you're with this oh my god yes yeah yeah don't worry

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i'm good i'm good i'm good you want to hand that yeah please okay yeah there

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you go yeah yeah okay here we go so heavy oh yeah there we go wow there we

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go yeah all right stan's a touch taller but you know what

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that's probably not a bad thing just means that i do need to move my camera a

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little bit apparently it's got a nice anti-glare coating on it which

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as long as it doesn't scatter the light too much i'd say would be a boon

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oh wow that is that is quite

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monitor looking i mean you look at the like david check

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out the lights i have behind me i haven't adjusted these i don't have any

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real diffusers on them or anything that's pretty good hey before we update

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the firmware let's just see if it's you know working at all 4k 120

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uh-oh hey all right cool it works firmware update

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hey there we go while we wait for that we're going to head downstairs and roll

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this one out do you mind grabbing an end yeah here you go awesome thank you no problem good job

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whoa stairs oh yeah whoa

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you got to keep up pretending don't you happen to pull this you almost wait here

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you go there you go there you go that's awesome yeah so which station's yours

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this station is mine and right now the only problem that i have is that if the

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kids have their friends over and their friends want to play with them

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i don't really want their friends poking around in my computer so there will be a

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separate machine for them to use but for me i don't want to have to reset up all

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my profiles and everything just because i'm downstairs so the idea is i'm using

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this super cool high bandwidth displayport kvm from level one text to

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switch between those machines with a keyboard shortcut that my kids friends

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are unlikely to figure out but we had a problem the shortcuts only work on the

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mouse and keyboard ports and i only have

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one fiber optic connection over to that room that's where those Ethernet usb

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extenders come in is this even gonna fit here it's gonna be really tight okay

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i didn't really think of that yeah i noticed that what i considered is that

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it would be really nice to have matching displays a so that you don't have you

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know different scaling or like a different experience on both sides and b

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because i didn't foresee this but having two mismatched displays even though both

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support high refresh rate has made it so that i can only get 60 hertz on both of

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them for now yeah it's so hefty oh thank you yeah no

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problem thanks okay oh all right hey it fits does it fit barely but i mean it

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looks like it does actually we could make that work yeah that is a

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really really big display to be on a desk this um

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deep i mean i was using a 48 inch before though so i think i'll probably be okay

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if you're not this comes in a 48. i cannot believe how long you waited for

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oh no

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it's definitely we shouldn't have dragged it down the stairs i don't think

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it's from that no you sure this is the traffic though no that's a crack

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it's an impact it's a crowd it's right here there is this is the one with the

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up box yeah it came to us like this like me and david did stack them um in his

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car but i don't yeah no no totally i don't think it's from us either and that

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is why you always legitimately use two people to move things around in all

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seriousness based on how beat up this box is we're

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fairly certain that this thing was damaged in shipping we probably made it

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worse we didn't break it we didn't know we did

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let's say that this is good news i noticed almost

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immediately that it wasn't very bright but ah yes we're in power limited mode

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there we go and immediately that is way

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better before we dig around too much in the menu i want to show you the thing

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that is so annoying about using an OLED as a desktop monitor you see how bright

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this is when i have this window just in the corner here watch as i drag it

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across the screen whoa oh that's actually not that bad it's

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pretty noticeable though is it noticeable it's noticeable on camera and like i can see it's overexposed

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okay so that's what happens more annoyingly tvs just

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randomly start doing it sometimes while you're sitting and reading a document so

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this because it's designed to be a monitor it has a feature called uniform

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brightness you enable that and what happens is your maximum brightness goes

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way down like somewhere on the order of around 230 nits i think 250 280 250 to

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280 but it means that when you do this

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you're not just going to get those those wild brightness swings

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is that it seems like it might still be a little it's doing a little bit

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yeah okay yeah not nearly as much

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okay let's turn on overclocking no dog i'm going for it 138 here we go might as

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well do 144 if you're already in does it do 144 panel doesn't doesn't say it does

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it doesn't advertise it no no we're going to test 138. only sanctioned

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overclocking here all right

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hey oh this is interesting one of the things our firmware update changed aside from

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making input switching a little bit faster is their screen saving

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functionality to make it work more effectively in standby mode you know how

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the arc could like change the screen yes it can do that so oh cool okay aspect

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control so if you want to play one to one or

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a 16x9 at a smaller screen size so you want to simulate what it's going to be

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like in your at your tournament right when you're playing on a 24-inch display you can set

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your monitor to be a 24-inch monitor for

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those of you who are wondering you're not stuck with your 24-inch monitor in the middle you can actually shift it

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around either way it's nice to have the option just like you have the option of signing up for flow plane where we have

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amazing exclusives like oh my god all the outtakes from the screwdriver video

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yeah i screwed up a lot hey

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wasn't driving you crazy this is

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the monitor that was supposed to end up on my desk at work because 48 really is

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a little bit looking around like that a lot uh is now for the downstairs and we

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are going to for realsies you got that size yeah i've got yeah carry it very

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carefully no dragging it down the steps i would never

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i would never do anything like that to be clear that was obviously not what

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destroyed the other one but it didn't help

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that's not funny this is not right this is supposed to just be the display

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upstairs cloned to this spot but

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because we haven't set this up yet

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it's not working i have never used one of these before but it looks super cool

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it's only usb 2 so it's not particularly

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fast but for something like a keyboard or mouse it should be perfect probably

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just going to mount this to the underside of the desk or something at some point but we're not there yet i

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swear it's going to be clear what's going on at some point here i'm plugging

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usb for the keyboard and mouse into my kvm so that that keyboard and mouse can

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be used with either of these machines

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then i'm going to take this network jack that comes out of that usb adapter

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i need a network cable this one's pretty long i have not organized my tech stuff

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yet it's the one thing that is left to organize oh you followed me yeah that

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was a lie there are some more things other than tech things that are not yet

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organized come on come on come on come on come on

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come on yes

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it's doing stuff okay this is where things get spicy oh

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oh no please not splice i just want it to work no this mouse doesn't work

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kind of expected the mouse and keyboard to work maybe i just need to use a

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different port here we go okay so pc2 will be

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Yvonne's computer pc one will be my

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computer all right we're good is it on yeah

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no way okay

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but the peripherals aren't working yet okay i'm uh ploof yeah i'm gonna have

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you be my hands okay go for it

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nothing okay go for it

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nothing this is why i love these icon dogs they're super

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expensive like how much is that dock oh it's like six hundred dollars but

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it works what okay but this is just native this isn't

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through the kv the kvm this is through the kvm oh yes this is wendell's big

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thing is his displayport kvms or like yeah full fat bandwidth

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come on wendell don't let me down you know what i bet the prompt is up on

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the other one oh you might have to try again i think i'm gonna miss it

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you ready yup nope nope

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i've got one more idea wait yes i'm now getting no output to either display oh

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my god i think they got mad because one was in overclocked mode and one was not

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which was exactly the problem i was having before with the mismatched displays because they actually report

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back to the system differently if they're in overclocked mode maybe if we

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get in touch with wendell it's oh wait nope no no it's 60 but 100 100 i'd

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settle for 100 100 is fine

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whatever the fiber optic cable is outputting may not be high enough to get

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through all the connectors in the kpm plus the kvm plus the cable itself it is

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like i'm not just making stuff it is crazy how much better the air

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tables are than everybody else's and when you get like the 25 foot club 3d

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cable which is copper not fiber it's as thick as a garden hose it's amazing

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right okay i yeah we'll we'll try that thank you the keyboard shortcut also

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there are there is a way to make it the right control key and some other

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different keys it doesn't have to be scroll locked but you might temporarily

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need a five dollar keyboard that has scroll lock in order to

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use scroll lock to tell it which hotkey you want to use

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i might have just the thing here okay it's not five dollars but it has a

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scroll log key it would be really nice to know if that aspect of this works

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okay scrollwalk's not doing anything either i'm plugged into the wait oh no i

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changed the kvm hold on it might not be plugged into anything yeah no it's not

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plugged in one sec one sec okay so the head port i should use the front with

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the one on the front labeled hid yeah there's three in the back as well sure

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and those are all equally hid yeah well hid the only one you can do the keyboard

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control on because the usb usb 3 is completely hands off right but all four

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of those hid ports are the same right

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yep i am working on an HDMI extender that also runs over cat 6 and it is glory

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working on you say well a fat lot of good that does me today sir

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i can probably need you a prototype in like a few days

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no it's okay take your time okay i think it's just this usb extender i think it's

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just not working it also could just be mislabeled it's not wouldn't be the

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first time i saw that in this house is it possible the kvm doesn't have enough

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power for this bad boy because it doesn't have external power on the transmitter side

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nothing is working instead of running through the network cable in the wall

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we're just gonna run a cable okay

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hello

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either the in-wall cable is bad or it's

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mislabeled i've got an update for you as it turns out the usb 2 hid ports on the

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kvm they're not quite full usb 2. they're tailored for hid

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human interface devices what that means is sometimes

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especially if you have like a hub especially with a mac you can get odd

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behavior with these extensions so what i need to do is either get a different

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extension send one of these over to wendell maybe he can test it fix it the

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point is scroll lock scroll lock source switching is not going to be working

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today but damn it i haven't given up yet

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on 120 hertz we have an idea

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also to do with using the kvm and some

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funkery that wendell had to do to make g-sync and freesync work it's

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particularly sensitive to long runs and

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we have an extremely long run here and the more couplers we have in line

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the more signal loss he says each one of these connections is probably costing us

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about 3 db so what we're going to do is we're just going to run a little brush

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plate and we're going to take our optical cable and we're gonna run that

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bad boy ah straight into the back of the monitor proof yeah

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a hand if you will yeah what do you want put this i want that in the thing

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hey 120 oh no no no that's display one good

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try though come on come on

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crap crap come on

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that was our big idea screw it

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no kvm for now the kids friends have can have no

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computer damn it i'm going straight into the back of the computer if this doesn't run 120

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hertz i give up we're going straight in are you kidding me oh

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yes matching displays there we go 120 hertz

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all right let's play a video game time to finally try this thing yeah oh look

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at that everything just works wow freaking love it

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oh i want to make it abundantly clear that none of the problems we had today were

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ASUS's fault for real though when you're trying to do weird stuff weird stuff

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happens sometimes man this looks good i love OLED

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i don't even know what mode i'm in on this one it just looks great i don't

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want uniform brightness i want hd oh wait HDR setting is not

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oh check Windows make sure Windows is set to HDR yeah duplicating doesn't do

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HDR duplicating doesn't do HDR yes you can't duplicate HDR

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seriously are you even for real right

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now why is it like why are the settings all over the place that's competitive settings

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shadows it's legit actually

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whatever just don't even worry about it

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you know what matters this looks freaking great

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oh no oh no oh no oh no

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oh it's nice to know i have no idea how much of the 120 hertz

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upstairs and downstairs kvn switching for the guest machine

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usb over Ethernet stories are gonna end up being in the

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video but the one thing that hasn't gone wrong today

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this monitor

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for real oh man they're still so many technical issues to solve for my

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idea here you know what i think we might have to do i think i'm just going to get

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like a nook or something yeah build a second floor just gonna have it no

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there'll be a second computer okay will be a second computer there will be a

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nook and i'll just have cables and i'll just plug into them

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when the kids have a friend over what what is this

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anno oh i know what game it is i just mean i i

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started in the in this world and i forgot i forgot i thought all my stuff

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was gone one of the big issues i had with my old OLED was that with these

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lights on it was just it was they were so bright they overpowered the OLED

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display yeah uniform brightness mode is actually on wow so then we're good

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well that's fantastic

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yes

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thank you for watching thank you ASUS for sponsoring this video

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did we even include like do you have it you've got you like measured stuff on

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this is there somewhere we could put that just like put it somewhere i guess

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yeah it's it's good it's good it's like actually good we actually measured it i

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know it's sponsored but we wouldn't lie to you it does the things on the box that it says it does everything it says

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on the box looks really good if you want this one or the 48 inch model we're

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gonna have those links down below where's all my crowds at yo get what

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they're just disappearing