i just upgraded my home gaming setup to lg's 42-inch c2 and some things about it
it finally went well what the hell i have it set to one minute this is what
i'm talking about i just upgraded my home gaming setup to lg's 42 inch c2 and
some things about it are great basically zero motion blur inky OLED blacks and
the size is perfect but using a tv as your monitor
is less perfect thankfully ASUS rog who
sponsored this video has the solution this pg42uq they sent over has all the
same benefits of my existing display but none of the drawbacks of using a tv it's
got displayport 1.4 alongside its HDMI
2.1 connection i no longer need a companion app so my display will go to
sleep and wake up alongside my system and best of all i can disable that
accursed auto dimming function for a
much more consistent experience to say i
can't wait would be an understatement on paper it's basically the perfect gaming
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
right out of the gate massive shout out the developer of lg tv companion because
it's a lot better than not having it but this was set to sleep after a minute
it has been like five minutes and it's not asleep also
there's no way to minimize it so you just
just tuck it away also you guys noticed right
when i moved that box the brightness changed dramatically you can adjust that
behavior with a special service remote in the hidden menu but you can't disable
it entirely probably the thing that's annoyed me the most though
aside from coming back to the office right after setting this one up and
seeing the better solution sitting in our warehouse is that i have been stuck
at 60 hertz because my computer is so
far away that i need an active optical cable in order to get a signal to it and
while there are HDMI 2.1
active cables available in my case the cable is so costly that
since i already own a long DisplayPort anyway even if the monitor version is a
little more expensive it's a better bet a sue sent over not one but three of
these which means that with some help from these little doodads which let you
extend a usb connection over standard Ethernet cabling i will be able to show
you guys the final form of my centralized gaming system where it
shouldn't matter if i sit down at it here sit down at it downstairs the
experience should be identical no additional latency i can help you lift
it when it gets to that i know it's super basic yeah i want you to follow
the instructions jeff just told me that we've got to do this all right and it's
sponsored so i'm trying to make sure we do it no i open boxes how i play oh my
god oh my god all right there's a stand yep
nice oh accessory pouch yeah i actually really like complete with color
calibration report oh my goodness their calibration report comes in a little
sleeve
power DisplayPort HDMI
usb it's really weird the instructions said specifically
did they really did they
remote this is pretty handy i mean it's nice to be able to turn it off and on
remotely change sources all that kind of good stuff what else we got going here
okay do you want to grab another okay i'll grab the other side okay according
to the instructions okay david frame him out
okay with a helper okay place it down like that that helper that definitely
exists there's a lot going on here you've got vent holes up at the top is
this a cooling fan no ASUS does advertise that it can be
overclocked so instead of just 4k 120
it'll apparently do 4k 138 hertz but the cooling required to
achieve that is all passive so you don't have to worry about any additional noise
they also advertise 0.1 millisecond greater gray pixel
response times out of box calibration which i showed you already as well as a
whopping 98 coverage of the dci p3 color
space pretty freaking impressive just like our screwdriver which is now
available for order on ltdstore.com which happens to include the hex bit we
need to tighten up our monitor stand here so you use the knurling for speed
and then the handle for tightness love it i could totally lift this myself but
ASUS insisted i have a helper so i've got ploof here taking the other end
thanks blue that's really good all right oh that's super handy it's got a usb 3
port up at the top along with one of these little threaded majigs so that you
can put your camera or your webcam or anything else that has one of these what
are these quarter inch is that the one yeah quarter inch threaded posts on it
love it oh that's nice i was leaning this so david could get a b-roll shot
here and it's actually got a little bit of tilt which is something you won't
normally find on a tv in terms of i o we've got oh really it's got the full
complement of HDMI ports four of them
along with displayport and this is a pretty robust built-in usb hub it's got
usb 3 in here and then one two
three i thought i saw another one somewhere i guess three is oh yeah there's another one down here four usb 3
ports there's your headphone jack power is here kensington here and i'm assuming
this is RGB i guess we should plug it in and see it light up one thing that's
conspicuously absent is e-arc so you're either going to be using the on-board
speakers or speakers that are hooked up through an av receiver or similar now
this is curious there are a couple more threaded
mounting holes here pluth do you have any idea what these are for no it does
vase of 300 by 300 well yeah that's not there
yeah uh i'm actually not sure i never saw anything in any of the documentation
yeah they're just labeled mounting port oh that's cool though yeah if you didn't
happen to have an ltd screwdriver it does include a little allen key for the stand so that's neat it uses a little
center mounted nubbin nipple thing for control so i think i just turned it on
the RGB is not on by default i don't use rog who are you yeah
it's got to be RGB right this is interesting the HDMI one and two our
HDMI 2.1 3 and 4 are 2.0 so that's good
to know oh no the power button is just to the right of the control nipple
okay got it so did i turn it on this time
if i'm going to fall off this desk i think we all want to see it on camera
watch your back pocket cause you're with this oh my god yes yeah yeah don't worry
i'm good i'm good i'm good you want to hand that yeah please okay yeah there
you go yeah yeah okay here we go so heavy oh yeah there we go wow there we
go yeah all right stan's a touch taller but you know what
that's probably not a bad thing just means that i do need to move my camera a
little bit apparently it's got a nice anti-glare coating on it which
as long as it doesn't scatter the light too much i'd say would be a boon
oh wow that is that is quite
monitor looking i mean you look at the like david check
out the lights i have behind me i haven't adjusted these i don't have any
real diffusers on them or anything that's pretty good hey before we update
the firmware let's just see if it's you know working at all 4k 120
uh-oh hey all right cool it works firmware update
hey there we go while we wait for that we're going to head downstairs and roll
this one out do you mind grabbing an end yeah here you go awesome thank you no problem good job
whoa stairs oh yeah whoa
you got to keep up pretending don't you happen to pull this you almost wait here
you go there you go there you go that's awesome yeah so which station's yours
this station is mine and right now the only problem that i have is that if the
kids have their friends over and their friends want to play with them
i don't really want their friends poking around in my computer so there will be a
separate machine for them to use but for me i don't want to have to reset up all
my profiles and everything just because i'm downstairs so the idea is i'm using
this super cool high bandwidth displayport kvm from level one text to
switch between those machines with a keyboard shortcut that my kids friends
are unlikely to figure out but we had a problem the shortcuts only work on the
mouse and keyboard ports and i only have
one fiber optic connection over to that room that's where those Ethernet usb
extenders come in is this even gonna fit here it's gonna be really tight okay
i didn't really think of that yeah i noticed that what i considered is that
it would be really nice to have matching displays a so that you don't have you
know different scaling or like a different experience on both sides and b
because i didn't foresee this but having two mismatched displays even though both
support high refresh rate has made it so that i can only get 60 hertz on both of
them for now yeah it's so hefty oh thank you yeah no
problem thanks okay oh all right hey it fits does it fit barely but i mean it
looks like it does actually we could make that work yeah that is a
really really big display to be on a desk this um
deep i mean i was using a 48 inch before though so i think i'll probably be okay
if you're not this comes in a 48. i cannot believe how long you waited for
oh no
it's definitely we shouldn't have dragged it down the stairs i don't think
it's from that no you sure this is the traffic though no that's a crack
it's an impact it's a crowd it's right here there is this is the one with the
up box yeah it came to us like this like me and david did stack them um in his
car but i don't yeah no no totally i don't think it's from us either and that
is why you always legitimately use two people to move things around in all
seriousness based on how beat up this box is we're
fairly certain that this thing was damaged in shipping we probably made it
worse we didn't break it we didn't know we did
let's say that this is good news i noticed almost
immediately that it wasn't very bright but ah yes we're in power limited mode
there we go and immediately that is way
better before we dig around too much in the menu i want to show you the thing
that is so annoying about using an OLED as a desktop monitor you see how bright
this is when i have this window just in the corner here watch as i drag it
across the screen whoa oh that's actually not that bad it's
pretty noticeable though is it noticeable it's noticeable on camera and like i can see it's overexposed
okay so that's what happens more annoyingly tvs just
randomly start doing it sometimes while you're sitting and reading a document so
this because it's designed to be a monitor it has a feature called uniform
brightness you enable that and what happens is your maximum brightness goes
way down like somewhere on the order of around 230 nits i think 250 280 250 to
280 but it means that when you do this
you're not just going to get those those wild brightness swings
is that it seems like it might still be a little it's doing a little bit
yeah okay yeah not nearly as much
okay let's turn on overclocking no dog i'm going for it 138 here we go might as
well do 144 if you're already in does it do 144 panel doesn't doesn't say it does
it doesn't advertise it no no we're going to test 138. only sanctioned
overclocking here all right
hey oh this is interesting one of the things our firmware update changed aside from
making input switching a little bit faster is their screen saving
functionality to make it work more effectively in standby mode you know how
the arc could like change the screen yes it can do that so oh cool okay aspect
control so if you want to play one to one or
a 16x9 at a smaller screen size so you want to simulate what it's going to be
like in your at your tournament right when you're playing on a 24-inch display you can set
your monitor to be a 24-inch monitor for
those of you who are wondering you're not stuck with your 24-inch monitor in the middle you can actually shift it
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
amazing exclusives like oh my god all the outtakes from the screwdriver video
yeah i screwed up a lot hey
wasn't driving you crazy this is
the monitor that was supposed to end up on my desk at work because 48 really is
a little bit looking around like that a lot uh is now for the downstairs and we
are going to for realsies you got that size yeah i've got yeah carry it very
carefully no dragging it down the steps i would never
i would never do anything like that to be clear that was obviously not what
destroyed the other one but it didn't help
that's not funny this is not right this is supposed to just be the display
upstairs cloned to this spot but
because we haven't set this up yet
it's not working i have never used one of these before but it looks super cool
it's only usb 2 so it's not particularly
fast but for something like a keyboard or mouse it should be perfect probably
just going to mount this to the underside of the desk or something at some point but we're not there yet i
swear it's going to be clear what's going on at some point here i'm plugging
usb for the keyboard and mouse into my kvm so that that keyboard and mouse can
be used with either of these machines
then i'm going to take this network jack that comes out of that usb adapter
i need a network cable this one's pretty long i have not organized my tech stuff
yet it's the one thing that is left to organize oh you followed me yeah that
was a lie there are some more things other than tech things that are not yet
organized come on come on come on come on come on
come on yes
it's doing stuff okay this is where things get spicy oh
oh no please not splice i just want it to work no this mouse doesn't work
kind of expected the mouse and keyboard to work maybe i just need to use a
different port here we go okay so pc2 will be
Yvonne's computer pc one will be my
computer all right we're good is it on yeah
no way okay
but the peripherals aren't working yet okay i'm uh ploof yeah i'm gonna have
you be my hands okay go for it
nothing okay go for it
nothing this is why i love these icon dogs they're super
expensive like how much is that dock oh it's like six hundred dollars but
it works what okay but this is just native this isn't
through the kv the kvm this is through the kvm oh yes this is wendell's big
thing is his displayport kvms or like yeah full fat bandwidth
come on wendell don't let me down you know what i bet the prompt is up on
the other one oh you might have to try again i think i'm gonna miss it
you ready yup nope nope
i've got one more idea wait yes i'm now getting no output to either display oh
my god i think they got mad because one was in overclocked mode and one was not
which was exactly the problem i was having before with the mismatched displays because they actually report
back to the system differently if they're in overclocked mode maybe if we
get in touch with wendell it's oh wait nope no no it's 60 but 100 100 i'd
settle for 100 100 is fine
whatever the fiber optic cable is outputting may not be high enough to get
through all the connectors in the kpm plus the kvm plus the cable itself it is
like i'm not just making stuff it is crazy how much better the air
tables are than everybody else's and when you get like the 25 foot club 3d
cable which is copper not fiber it's as thick as a garden hose it's amazing
right okay i yeah we'll we'll try that thank you the keyboard shortcut also
there are there is a way to make it the right control key and some other
different keys it doesn't have to be scroll locked but you might temporarily
need a five dollar keyboard that has scroll lock in order to
use scroll lock to tell it which hotkey you want to use
i might have just the thing here okay it's not five dollars but it has a
scroll log key it would be really nice to know if that aspect of this works
okay scrollwalk's not doing anything either i'm plugged into the wait oh no i
changed the kvm hold on it might not be plugged into anything yeah no it's not
plugged in one sec one sec okay so the head port i should use the front with
the one on the front labeled hid yeah there's three in the back as well sure
and those are all equally hid yeah well hid the only one you can do the keyboard
control on because the usb usb 3 is completely hands off right but all four
of those hid ports are the same right
yep i am working on an HDMI extender that also runs over cat 6 and it is glory
working on you say well a fat lot of good that does me today sir
i can probably need you a prototype in like a few days
no it's okay take your time okay i think it's just this usb extender i think it's
just not working it also could just be mislabeled it's not wouldn't be the
first time i saw that in this house is it possible the kvm doesn't have enough
power for this bad boy because it doesn't have external power on the transmitter side
nothing is working instead of running through the network cable in the wall
we're just gonna run a cable okay
hello
either the in-wall cable is bad or it's
mislabeled i've got an update for you as it turns out the usb 2 hid ports on the
kvm they're not quite full usb 2. they're tailored for hid
human interface devices what that means is sometimes
especially if you have like a hub especially with a mac you can get odd
behavior with these extensions so what i need to do is either get a different
extension send one of these over to wendell maybe he can test it fix it the
point is scroll lock scroll lock source switching is not going to be working
today but damn it i haven't given up yet
on 120 hertz we have an idea
also to do with using the kvm and some
funkery that wendell had to do to make g-sync and freesync work it's
particularly sensitive to long runs and
we have an extremely long run here and the more couplers we have in line
the more signal loss he says each one of these connections is probably costing us
about 3 db so what we're going to do is we're just going to run a little brush
plate and we're going to take our optical cable and we're gonna run that
bad boy ah straight into the back of the monitor proof yeah
a hand if you will yeah what do you want put this i want that in the thing
hey 120 oh no no no that's display one good
try though come on come on
crap crap come on
that was our big idea screw it
no kvm for now the kids friends have can have no
computer damn it i'm going straight into the back of the computer if this doesn't run 120
hertz i give up we're going straight in are you kidding me oh
yes matching displays there we go 120 hertz
all right let's play a video game time to finally try this thing yeah oh look
at that everything just works wow freaking love it
oh i want to make it abundantly clear that none of the problems we had today were
ASUS's fault for real though when you're trying to do weird stuff weird stuff
happens sometimes man this looks good i love OLED
i don't even know what mode i'm in on this one it just looks great i don't
want uniform brightness i want hd oh wait HDR setting is not
oh check Windows make sure Windows is set to HDR yeah duplicating doesn't do
HDR duplicating doesn't do HDR yes you can't duplicate HDR
seriously are you even for real right
now why is it like why are the settings all over the place that's competitive settings
shadows it's legit actually
whatever just don't even worry about it
you know what matters this looks freaking great
oh no oh no oh no oh no
oh it's nice to know i have no idea how much of the 120 hertz
upstairs and downstairs kvn switching for the guest machine
usb over Ethernet stories are gonna end up being in the
video but the one thing that hasn't gone wrong today
this monitor
for real oh man they're still so many technical issues to solve for my
idea here you know what i think we might have to do i think i'm just going to get
like a nook or something yeah build a second floor just gonna have it no
there'll be a second computer okay will be a second computer there will be a
nook and i'll just have cables and i'll just plug into them
when the kids have a friend over what what is this
anno oh i know what game it is i just mean i i
started in the in this world and i forgot i forgot i thought all my stuff
was gone one of the big issues i had with my old OLED was that with these
lights on it was just it was they were so bright they overpowered the OLED
display yeah uniform brightness mode is actually on wow so then we're good
well that's fantastic
yes
thank you for watching thank you ASUS for sponsoring this video
did we even include like do you have it you've got you like measured stuff on
this is there somewhere we could put that just like put it somewhere i guess
yeah it's it's good it's good it's like actually good we actually measured it i
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
on the box looks really good if you want this one or the 48 inch model we're
gonna have those links down below where's all my crowds at yo get what
they're just disappearing