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holy they actually did it Corsair made a monitor the b11 nd

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oh hey wait a second it's not b11 nd at all

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it's a xenon so you might not remember but the b11 nd

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or the blind was their april fool's joke from like 2016 or something like that

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but basically just had RGB all over the monitor uh well it took a few years but

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it looks like they've actually made something now that's not just a joke

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product and just looking at the packaging here it looks okay 32 inches

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is a little too big for me for 1440p

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but otherwise specs are decent it's like 165 hertz ips

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i love the packaging by the way i love that they've actually got all this like right on here speaking of which what i'm

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really excited about is this 100 percent uh adobe RGB and srgb color space that's

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actually pretty big and if i'm not mistaken i think it's also 98 dci p3 so

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this is a surprisingly color accurate monitor as well which is pretty cool you

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don't really expect that from someone like Corsair but hey what

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do i know there are some instructions on the top of the box for how to open this

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thing i'm just going to open it and see what

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happens i'm always terrified when lifting a monitor like this

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you never know when it's going to just flop over

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luckily we got this sweet LTT desk pad underneath

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those are back in stock oh we've got a DisplayPort cable it's probably just dp

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1.4 um this is mini h oh no it's usbc because

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this thing if i'm not mistaken also does power charging through the back which is

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nice and i think it does HDMI or dp through usbc which is great if you've

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got a laptop power cable a bunch of clamps this is

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probably for the stand

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power brick to accompany the power cable

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and here's our HDMI cable is this 2.1 that's the real question

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ever on high speed HDMI well it says high speed with Ethernet so we'll see i

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guess i'll probably just stick to displayport either way uh lots of cables that come with it

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which is nice it sucks when you get a monitor and it's got like one

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displayport cable or something the stand on this thing is also super cool well

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that's debatable it's depends on what kind of taste you have i guess but

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i think it looks kind of cool i thought it looked ugly at first but the more i looked at it the more i thought wow this

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actually looks pretty neat there's the bottom of this yeah so this is what i'm talking about so it's an unconventional

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stand like you'll have a better idea once it's all put together

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um i think it goes like this actually but like

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look at how hefty this thing is this is like a couple well maybe just one or two

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pounds but it's aluminum i'm pretty sure and i mean

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this thing isn't going anywhere yeah let's check out the panel i don't think

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it's curved which at 32 inches

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is like kind of maybe like 32 is like i'm not even big on curved monitors but

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once you hit 32 inches you kind of need it to just be able to look at everything

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quickly otherwise you're like scanning your whole head back and forth

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i'm pretty sure they say don't handle it like i just handled it where you kind of

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hold it by the screen a little bit but that's okay i like their

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label here that most monitors have to quickly indicate features and stuff

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it's just kind of nice like the ASUS ones are a little blander compared to

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this but hey look at look at that sweet sweet color that you get with Corsair

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you know they love their RGB so this thing costs about eight hundred dollars

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for a 32 inch panel at a high refresh

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rate 1440p but not 4k that's not terrible

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like that's not not out of the realm of pricing of other things you are getting

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much cheaper for 1440p these days like

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you can get a brand new ASUS

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vg line or whatever for like i think 300 maybe 400 1440p 144 hertz so

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you're really paying for the screen space you're paying for the color accuracy though which is really

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impressive again um and one thing that's really cool for

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this thing is if you have iq like if you've got a like all Corsair computer

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with all Corsair RGB and stuff you can hook this thing up to iq and then you

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can apparently control a bunch of stuff through iq let's yeah let's check out

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the back i o i guess before i put it on uh the cable management on this thing is

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pretty good once you've got the stand on but my big problem with these

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bottom ports is that it's a lot harder to plug into when you're kind of

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fumbling behind your computer and you can't see them right like when you're on

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when it's on the back just kind of flat you can just tilt like pivot the whole

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thing and then plug them in whereas this you've got like crank your head

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underneath to even see what's going on that's okay it does have a navigation

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nipple on the back here and then it looks like a power button two usbc two

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usb a uh DisplayPort and then two HDMI

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ports i'm not sure again if those are 2.1 or not um but since it's not 4k i

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don't think you need 2.1 actually to hit 120 144 hertz at 1440p

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but i can never remember those kind of specs off the top of my head so we'll

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find out let's get this on the stand so yeah it's got these really wicked cable management

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like ties back here so you can throw everything back behind here and then

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just clip it down it's got this front little kind of divot and then that's

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right there very cool hey look at that

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let's screw it down yeah it is heavy i think this thing is

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like 10 kilos or something like that which isn't too crazy

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like that ASUS uh pa32 ucg or ucx that we have is like 40

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pounds or something crazy like that and then it's just got your standard i think it's vasa mountable as well it's just

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got those standard like hooks oh that's kind of bad the plastic was

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unclipped i mean it's not the end of the world but a little quality control

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Corsair come on

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does it snap in well it doesn't sound like it but

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it's sturdy oh it's got screw holes on the back okay

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cool that's fine uh so a lot of these when you put it on they just like clip

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in but for this guy it's got screws uh which were in the bag earlier

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here there this is a knock to a screwdriver i was

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too lazy to head over to 105 and grab a proper phillips the clips on most

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monitors are fine but i do like the screw in

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just for that added level of security um

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yeah i can swivel it's a little

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it's a little loose when it swivels but like that's okay because i mean once

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it's in position it's not really going to go anywhere after that it can tilt

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and go up and down of course amazing let's get the cables in now

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before we take it over to our computer all right all right see here's

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what i'm talking about though like i can't just plug it in i've already gotta like raise it as much they can which it

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is and then crouch down find the oh luckily you know what here's

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a nice thing though these are all labeled um one thing that's normally frustrating is

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you have to like actually search for the right one and look under there yeah so

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HDMI one you see my two uh the way to usually know if your dp is going out the

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right way is the clip will be on the outside part so that you can actually like press it down

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so i just said yep there it goes and it goes

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i don't know if there's a cover for this back or not it doesn't look like it oh

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what's in this box oh yeah okay so

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um this thing also has a bunch of elgato support apparently you can get uh

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like clamps and stands for this thing and you can clamp on like elgato arms

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for heads uh microphones and cameras and stuff so if you're super into streaming

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and you want like a really easy uh clamp system for your stuff that doesn't have

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to weigh down anything else you can just basically apparently like clip it right

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on here somehow these are just extra little brackets for more cable

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management if you feel like you need it i think two is probably fine although i don't like

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how loose they are i wish you could like lock them in place somehow because this guy's just going to keep sliding down

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admittedly i do kind of already wish there was a pass

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through out the top so i mean i guess you can't because of the up and down

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mechanism but i really wish you could like pass through here first and then

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put it through these cable these uh like cable tie down kind of things because as

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it stands i'm gonna like pull it out and maybe i'm doing this wrong but i don't

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think so but i'm gonna pull it out and clip it down

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there go oh yeah see it fell down even so i do really like this system okay and

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then like once you have cables in goes through here

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definitely uh don't do what i did and plug it in first cable manage this first

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because this brick is not gonna fit through here at all yeah this not

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staying up is really killing me like on a personal level it is just killing me

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here it's like it's a really good idea they just didn't execute it as well as

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they probably could have

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yeah you're not going anywhere now green tape to the rescue thanks Corsair

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i kind of wish the screen came with a peel um i guess that's another

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complaint point is that i don't see any kind of peel on here and yes it was

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packed nicely but most higher end monitors come with like a really nice

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like thin styrofoam kind of that goes across the front or at least a peel to

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just protect the display a little bit better so we're gonna go game on this

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tech tips okay i love the stand but now it's problematic because it's huge oh

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i can't even see anything right it's a huge desk footprint

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am i good yes almost there's something like stupid about it

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but pretty at the same time that makes sense it's hard to explain it's one of

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those things where it's like a matter of taste either you like it or you don't

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and if you can organize your desk around

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this monitor stand i think you could actually make something look really cool

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especially if you've got like a brushed aluminum keyboard and like some like a

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gunmetal like mouse pad or something like that i don't know i think i think

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you can make a really cool aesthetic out of it but let's get it set up and then

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we'll run some games and see how it actually performs booted right up

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displayed flawlessly so that's always a plus didn't have to fight with any

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settings or anything like that let's check and see what it's actually

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displaying at like i said i want to know if it's going to actually go to 165 by

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itself or if that's like an overclock feature oh no yeah native 165. so i mean

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it's 164.835 whatever there's a lot of monitors that

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do that yeah it does 8-bit color doesn't do 10 bit i think that's our let's

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yeah just RGB full can't change the output color

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that's okay 165 hertz that's good enough for me

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the more i use these 32 inches at work the more i'm just super jealous and wish i had one at

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home uh it's got g-sync um freesync i mean those are pretty much

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interchangeable these days you've got all your settings and stuff here so the

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navigation nipple on the back is in kind of an awkward place but only if you're

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trying to let the camera see the screen i guess because otherwise it's just like

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this and it's not that bad um i wish it was a little lower though i really

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prefer those ones that are like right down here in the middle of the screen but whatever so let's see what our

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presets are changing default settings could increase power usage that's cool

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movie text srgb

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creative game standard all right i don't know what any of these do so let's just go

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standard so yeah it's got type c video which is great because i think it also

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does 15 watts of power delivery which probably isn't enough to charge your

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work from home laptop but it is enough to keep it going instead of just you

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know slowly dying over the course of the day and it's probably enough to charge

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your phone at least so the cool thing though is everything can be done through

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iq apparently now we have to use the right

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version of iq so we've got the right iq

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software installed but i think we might be missing a file or something i can't

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find how to do it with the monitor itself maybe i'm missing something i'm

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not sure these are kind of on a timer so sorry guys

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basically what you should be able to do with the final product once the

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software is released to the public as well is everything that you saw me doing

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in the navigation menu you can do that in Corsair iq which is actually really

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handy and i kind of wish more monitors did that it's

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probably out of the realm of possibility for most other manufacturers because

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they don't also have like a fan and system like sensor slash like

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fan configuration software i mean some of them kind of do but it's nowhere near

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as robust as much as i hate that Corsair has all this proprietary stuff but at

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the same time if you only use Corsair like if you use live in Corsair land it

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does work pretty well together and you do end up with a pretty good experience

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it's just you know you're stuck with Corsair so

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that's okay let's play some counter-strike running at like 300 FPS and for 165 hertz i mean

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you basically want double oh wow i got smoked you basically want

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to double what you're actually um displaying at to make sure that your 99

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lows are still like up there no this feels great though like don't

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get me wrong i'm doing really bad and i'm dying to a bunch of bots but

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the refresh rate the colors like it all looks super nice i again i wish i could

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actually test the color accuracy of what i'm seeing here

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but it looks really good and i mean the screen space of me sitting here this is

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about perfect at least for me personally because i can see everything i don't

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have to like crane my neck and move my head to check out the corners like i

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just have to actually move my eyes to like look up which is pretty good but

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yeah this this stand it's huge like it takes up a ton of space but i think if

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you fit stuff in here like if you put like a little pencil holder there maybe

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or like some figurines or something even just this logitech keyboard actually

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kind of fits the aesthetic really nicely so it's a small thing but i really like

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it i don't like the footprint don't get me wrong it's a little too much in terms

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of desk space but this thing is actually really thin

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it's not the thinnest monitor i've ever seen there's an inner bezel that they

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haven't managed to get rid of and that would be so ideal for me if they could

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get rid of this and you can see the bottom is thicker and it hides that

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bottom bezel like if they could get rid of this black bar around the edge i

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would be very pleased with this thing you could put like two or three side by

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side for a racing rig or something like that and it would look beautiful look

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amazing otherwise i don't really have any major complaints

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it's got a lot of extra features that aren't usually seen

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on monitors like the charging out the back and um that crazy color accuracy

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that i've mentioned way too many times at this point but would i pay 800 for it

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i think unless i lived in Corsair land

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and all i had was Corsair and i could use iq

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for literally everything um

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i don't think i would like it's nice but

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for a screen this size i really do want 4k and i'm not even a resolution snob

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like i think 1440p is more than fine but it's a pixel per inch kind of thing of

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course then it would be more like a thousand dollars probably at least but

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hey beggars can't be choosers and you can't get everything you want

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so no i wouldn't buy it for 800 but yeah like i said if you if you're a big

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Corsair fan you like their products you know your whole pc is hooked up with

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course their fans and iq and commander pro and all that stuff to keep it all

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synced together this thing could be a pretty good purchase for you as long as you don't

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hate the stand right here and the desk footprint that

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it's going to take up thanks for watching this is Corsair's

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first monitor which it's still pretty cool for their first product if you like

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this one check out the other ShortCircuit i did the 390 hertz monitor from

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acer that thing's fast it's not 400 500 hertz fast but 390 hertz is

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pretty quick