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before we begin this unboxing and first impressions are sponsored by Samsung

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this is the Samsung Odyssey g9 monitor

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and I get to open it up oh yes I say

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Odyssey g9 apparently there's two monitors in here Samsung is getting real

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serious about gaming monitors now am I am gonna be able to get this out of here

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by myself I know I know the g9 is the one you guys

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all want to see but this one's really cool too

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it's g-sync compatible which means it also has support for free sync it's got

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a 1000r curvature so that's designed to

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match the curvature of the human eye apparently which is interesting it is 32

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inches it runs at 240 Hertz with a rated

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one millisecond response time and all of

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that stuff you've seen before no the big deal here is the resolution so 240 Hertz

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yeah we've seen it before at 1920 by

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1080 but this matters is it at 2560 by

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1440 so at this kind of screen size and

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it's available in 27 or 32 inches and this is the 32 inch one it would not be

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pretty to be sitting monitor distance from a

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1080p display 1440p well that's a

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different story wow that is really curved I am surprised

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at that oh this is nice screws are just

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pre-installed in there for you but obvious to you where this goes

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and here's how it goes oh yeah and I'm a

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little surprised to see an external power supply for such a large monitor

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but the thing is this is a visa display

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HDR 600 monitor which means that it is

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probably using some form of full array

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local dimming which means that the backlight for the display is much

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bulkier than what you would find in just a typical edge lit display that is a

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hefty power supply - Wow look at this thing Oh check this out that's a cool

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cable management doodad got a built-in headphone stand the secret sauce here is

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the DisplayPort 1.4 connection so while

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it does have an HDMI input right about there if you want that full

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240 Hertz refresh rate at 1440p oh yeah

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it also has a built-in USB hub and an audio jack you need to use DisplayPort

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because that is a lot of bandwidth

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that's basically like running four times that resolution so that would be 5k at

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60 Hertz of course in order to drive

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that kind of resolution at that kind of frame rate we need a lot of power so

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we've equipped our machine with an r/t X 20 atti to see just how far we get sorry

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I was mistaken it's a Titan r-tx either

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way hopefully we're gonna have enough horses for that butter smoothness of

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course the refresh rate is only part of the story for a gaming display the other

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part is the pixel response times and one quick and dirty way to see how good

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those are is just dragging a window with text across the screen you can see here

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I'm getting very little in terms of discoloration at the edge of my window

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and text remains readable until I'm

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moving it quite quickly across the screen so you can see it's actually

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curved a little bit more sharply in the middle and it's a little bit gentler

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towards the edges okay Jason compatible and able g-sync

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and able for windowed and full screen love it just even Windows animations are

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so smooth oh yeah as I expected this

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display does have local dimming high brightness FPS whoa Wow that high

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brightness is pretty bright you can have a cheater crosshair wow that is buttery

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smooth running out a lot 240 frames per

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second so there will be no excuses for losing now to be clear at 32 inches

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1440p is not super high pixel density

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but it's so much better than 1080 this

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is a really nice pre calibrated srgb

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profile I'm actually really happy with that a lot of the time on these gaming

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monitors you just try to you know get

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rid of any vivid color boost or black

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equalizer like whatever nonsense you just want to see the srgb values as they

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were intended by the game developer and it goes and you know vomits a bunch of

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you know bright colors in your face or whatever but this is great you know it's

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a funny thing like I marvelled at this for so many

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years how Samsung leading global technology company based in South Korea

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of all places took so long to take gaming monitors seriously but yet here

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we are and I'm like this is why I wanted you guys to do this stuff so many years

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ago because this is great the curve is gonna be polarizing for some people but

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when it comes to the performance of the panel I don't think we're gonna see a

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lot of complaints from owners of this puppy now let's get real interesting I

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have just fired up HDR and we're going

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to open up shadow of the tomb right here that's curious

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my HDR profile was set to like 30

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percent or something like that out of the box and because HDR assigns a

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luminance value per pixel you definitely want

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that set to a hundred percent on your display that looks a lot better donut

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now you're not gonna get those dazzling you know highlights you know direct

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suddenly reflecting off of things on a vase HDR 600 display like you would on a

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1000 display but it still does look notably better than a vase a display HDR

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400 display as you can see even with the

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most powerful graphics card on the market we are struggling to break 150

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FPS on this puppy so you're definitely buying into the future proof miss when

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it comes to sightseeing you know I can

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be single-player games like this one but eSports titles with a powerful enough

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rig as we've shown can hit that 240 FPS

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consistently honestly for this kind of game this is plenty of FPS that is so

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smooth like the only thing disturbing

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the smoothness is the kind of jarring camera distance shifts that's it it's

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like obviously we'd need to grab the pursuit camera setup in order to

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objectively evaluate this but having

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seen the UFO test on a lot of monitors

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I am real impressed by this don't look

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at the 60 FPS or 120 FPS lines the one we're after is 240 FPS and that alien

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looks crisp you can't quite make out

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these pupils or anything like that but his control stick is like very

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well-defined almost no discoloration on the leading

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or trailing edges a little bit of blue on the leading little bit of orange on

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the trailing overall really good expect

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to see a full follow up over on the LTTE channel once James is back from vacation

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he's kind of our monitor guru these days but initial impressions of this thing

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are really really impressive now I know

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I promised you guys that I was gonna do the g9 in this video but I realized that

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a it's time to go home and B this is already like an eight minute video so

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I'm gonna make you guys subscribe and follow up probably the next day or maybe

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two days we're gonna follow up with g9 but we're off to a real good start here