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being an early adopter kind of sucks you end up paying a lot more money than

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people who are more sensible and patient while for those who dare to wait Asus

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sponsored this video so we can take a look at the XG 27 AQ DMG their new 26.5

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in 144p 240 HZ OLED gaming Monitor and

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it's the world's first glossy woled

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panel let's get this sucker out of the box I like how it's actually got a

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little handle here so you can pull it out with all the foam oh okay maybe not

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it's it's stck on there we go might take a bit of

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strength we want to flip this over keep it all together yeah see all

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the accessories came out I pulled it out the wrong way what a dummy uh but looks

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like we got our stand column portion and then we've got our stand bottom portion

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we have a mount for if we want to do any Vasa mounting it looks like it's got a

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nice you know simple column design where you throw it in and then you screw it

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down overall not bad not a big footprint I don't exactly know what this is for

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but it looks like it might fit my phone

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it just barely fits if you've got a case be a little careful but it should fit

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just barely otherwise we've got NVIDIA g-sync badge here it is gsync compatible

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and it's got AMD free sync and then we've also got a big Republic of Gamers

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badge that's a little much in terms of branding for me um but it's not the

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worst we've also got a big Rog on the back of the stand here we've also got

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got what looks like a/ qu in thread up top so that you can actually screw in a

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camera or whatever you want on top of here really handy for those of you you

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want to use a nicer camera mount when you're trying to stream or something like that we got a barrel Jack going to

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a reasonably sized power brick it's actually pretty tiny 120 wat and then

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we've also got our bag of tricks that Asus likes to include I love this little

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carrying case that'll fit all of your cables what do we got in here microfiber

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cloth we've got an HDMI cable and

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then USB 3 USB B to a for those of you

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wondering what else we got we got some warranty manual stuff stickers if you

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like stickers like me and then this looks like the rest of our power cable

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it certainly is we're going to have to get a different one because this is a

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European plug and we are in Canada so ah

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what's this they did happen to include a North America version thank you Asus but

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now what we really care about our panel it's got some nice foam packaging

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where's our I/O down here so that means it goes on this way so we're going to do

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the old click clack and pull it out you ready for

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this guys I promise yours won't look like this we got ours tested by the lab

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and it's kind of hard to put these back on nicely so just you know don't worry

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about it we've got that nice column swivel on the stand pretty good amount

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of rotation and then we've got some height adjustment we got some tilt it

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can pivot we've also got some cable management routing right here and then

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as for I/O we've got our power plug here

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headphone jack couple of HDMI ports only 2.0 DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC usbb

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couple of usba a ports and last but not least your favorite a Kensington lock

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we've also got our nice navigation nipple or nubbin I'm going to start

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calling it a nubbin cuz I feel weird saying nipple uh and then it's got you

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know left button right button which is handily labeled power key 1 key2 I

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actually really like the design on the back of the monitor here um they've done

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this kind of like slash design before uh this has got a new custom heat sink nice

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and thin take care of your OLED panel we'll talk about some OLED care stuff

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later on once we actually get it fired up we can look through the OSD so what

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are we waiting for let's turn it on all right looks pretty good looks pretty

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clean we've got a check out our OSD here

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display widget Center is actually pretty cool you get like some nice you know in

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computer um information to change any of the monitor settings

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uniform brightness is a feature they've got for oleds basically it'll turn your

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brightness down a little bit but it makes sure that you don't get that weird

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uh adaptive brightness stuff that you know you see when you've got a big white

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screen all of a sudden comes up and then the brightness dims um so it should help

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with that I don't know if it'll fully fix it but it'll help I'm going to turn it off clear pixel Edge is nice it's

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funny how when CTI OLED came out everyone talks about text fringing

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regular OLED has it too and it's always been a problem and clear pixel Edge

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should help that a little bit by uh dealing with the green and red fringing

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that you might encounter so we're going to turn that on uh what else we got

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display color space srgb DC3 wide gamut

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color temp this is actually very customizable it's really nice being able

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to set color temp you can do that on a lot of monitors but not all of them um

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same with your color space you can't always set this manually yourself oh

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there's AA RGB where is the oh it's on the back rainbow it's rainbowing just

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the Asus logo screen protection so you've got a screen saver that'll turn

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on automatically if you're inactive for a couple minutes you can turn that on or off pixel cleaning you can manually run

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a pixel cleaner that only takes about actually 6 minutes it's pretty quick not

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going to run it right now but you could we've also got screen move this is

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called pixel shift on a couple other monitors basically what it'll do is

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it'll adjust all the pixels slightly uh you can notice it I'm not going to say

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you can't it's very minor though and I

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don't know it like happens and then it's over so it's I don't know I I really don't think it's a big deal but it's

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nice to have and then the logo brightness so if logos are on screen it

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can adjust the brightness on those uh the reality is OLED these days is solid

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with the new panel improvements and all of this protection that you have in

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stuff like OLED care from Asus it just makes it so you don't have to worry

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about it so much and if you're really that worried about it check out some

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other channels coverage cuz they'll let you know that it's not that bad so if

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you are worried about OLED flicker Asus has a fix for it during refresh rate

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fluctuations with three refresh rate ranges strong middle or off let's game

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why am I am I talking to you still I want a game God this looks good

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oh and you know what I'm telling you 240

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htz 1440p on an OLED that's getting like

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I think we measured 0.1 or 0.3 milliseconds response times latency

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wasn't too bad either like I think theoretical perfect was only a half a

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millisecond off or something like that it's just so good it's something about

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this being crystal clear that like you flick and then the screen is cleared up

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like I don't know once you try it it's hard because you guys are probably watching this on an IPS monitor or VA or

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something and so you can't see how good the HDR looks how good the colors look

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how good the response times look but the

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reality is it's just it's so good and if those response times aren't good enough

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for you you can enable elmb or extreme

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low motion blur and that's basically BFI

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and so you're going to probably get some

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reduction in brightness but because of the black frame insertion it's even more

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perfect I'll be honest I don't think that elmb should be a huge selling

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feature for oleds I don't think it really needs it but if you really need

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it it's got it so we know it games good

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but does it HDR footage good oh it's so

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bright the funny thing is every time we show this footage the hand is going to

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like reach in at some point and everyone's like oh my God I thought that hand was actually there because it looks

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so good good it's really color accurate

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and when you have OLED pixels powering a display like this they're just going to

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turn on and off as you need them so oh you want a dark spot boom it's perfect

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black oh you need this like pin prick of

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brightness boom we're going to do that we boost a pixel or two or 12 you know

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or 50 it looks good to my eyes but how good is it really well we sent it to the

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lab to get checked out to make sure that we don't unbox something that's just

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awful and here's the results an SDR set to racing we measured an average Delta e

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of just 1.81 with a Max of

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3.63 that's pretty good but what about HDR gaming HDR mode was surprisingly the

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most color accurate and with our brightness turned down a touch we

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measured a Delta e ITP of 24.87 average

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with a Max of 39.82 turn the brightness to 100% and it gets slightly worse so

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pick your poison now onto our two kind

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of minor but real complaints they

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advertise a 1300 nits Peak brightness but the best we could get with tweaking

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was more like 1250 realistically when we

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just measured out of the box it was only 1,200 so take that as you will it's

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still really bright 1,200 nits is great and then our other complaint was that

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they advertised 99% dcip 3 but the most

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we can measure was 97.6 still pretty close but no cigar but

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what about the price well that's where I don't mind these tiny complaints of it

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because this monitor is

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$750 normally and it's on sale on Amazon

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right now for $559 that's really good I just want to

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say that OLED prices are finally coming

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down like I get it that's still expensive for a lot of people but even

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just a few years ago IPS gaming monitors with high refresh rates were also super

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expensive and now we've got an OLED with

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these specs at like 700 bucks that's

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wild give it another year or two and it's probably we're probably going to

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get into that like $500 range I can't wait because I love these things and I

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like being an early adopter look where I work I kind of have to be if I want to

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actually have any sort of relevancy when I'm talking about these

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monitors but it comes with a price and you know a lot of you either don't want

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to pay that or simply can't afford it and there's nothing wrong with that

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because look what happens you know you wait like 2 3 years and all of a sudden

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they just come down and they're going to keep coming down and you know what's really wild this thing went for as low

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as $550 on Black Friday we're filming it on

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the Wednesday after what do you guys think are you ready to Shell out this

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kind of money for an OLED or you just going to rock the same monitor for another couple of years let us know in

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the comments below thanks so much Asus for sponsoring this video thank you guys

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for watching let us know what you think in the comments and I'll see you in the next one