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Gigabyte aura sponsored this video and while i've been a huge fan of gaming on

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ultrawide monitors ever since their debut around seven years ago today

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they have a bit of a problem and that's price compared to the f048u or other

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large format oleds ultra wides tend to be priced as though they still have the

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parts of the display that have kind of been sliced off to narrow the field of

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view now this does contribute to a more cinematic experience but it was actually

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wendell from level one text that initially made the argument to me he goes Linus

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why are you paying extra for a sliced off monitor when you could just have a

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bigger one and put the black bars on it for that cinematic view now

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if we were talking about conventional monitor technology i would say look i

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don't want two glowing black bars

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shining at me while i'm trying to experience my game or my movie but with

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OLED you can turn those pixels off

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so why settle why not have cinematic ultrawide when

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you want it and full gigantic 16x9 when

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you want to get some work done let's take a look at the f048u and find out if

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i am going to be abandoning ultrawide once

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and for all

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i actually actually can't figure out how this box opens it has the normal

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conventional monitor opening things here

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but then it has more tv style ones here

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um let's try doing it the monitor way now

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Gigabyte ioris did sponsor this video which entitles them to a couple of key

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product talking points but before we even get to those we gotta acknowledge

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the elephant in the room there is only one manufacturer of 48-inch OLED panels

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right now lg display so that means any price

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premium Gigabyte ars demands for the f-048u

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will have to be justified whether it's by the accessory package or by the

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gaming and monitor centric features that they've built into the display that

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uphill battle begins with an accessory package that is more interesting than it

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at first appears to be starting with the remote unlike an lg smart tv you're not

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going to have a built-in netflix app or anything like that but what you will

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have hopefully is more gaming centric features in a more conventional monitor

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osd the next thing we find here a

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displayport cable that's right no tv on the market that i'm aware of supports

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displayport 1.4 now whether we're actually able to leverage that to run at

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144hz 4k with overclocking remains to be

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seen but uh a girl can dream right an HDMI ultra

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high speed cable for the included HDMI 2.1 port you could use that for your

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game console for example there's a usb 3 cable so it'll have a built-in hub like

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you would expect from a monitor power cord and this product warranty card

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now while the c10 and the c1 can be used

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as desktop displays there are a few sort of

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quirks that begins with the stand which on the c148 inch is a long wide foot that makes

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it difficult to run cables under your monitor with that said i'm not a huge

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fan of these sort of widespread little feet either though thankfully both of

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them have vase amounts on the back so you can ultimately put them on whatever

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stand you like the bigger issue though is that on the

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tv version of this panel not all of the input modes are optimized for gaming and

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more importantly the brightness will automatically modulate that is to say it

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will dim when it detects a static image this is to help reduce the chance of the

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pixels wearing out or becoming burned in

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now you can alleviate this and most of

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the issues with using an lg OLED as a desktop display but in doing so you

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could end up actually voiding your warranty by changing unauthorized

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settings in the service menu that is why i held up the warranty card

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and that is where this monitor might end up standing out for people who really

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want to use an OLED as a large format desktop display of course some of the

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other benefits aren't very well laid out on the product page and i don't even

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know if they are benefits for example there's a usb type-c port here

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what does it do i have no idea there's a three and a

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half millimeter input as well as the headphone jack that presumably will

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carry the audio stream from your HDMI 2.1 or displayport 1.4 input and ah this

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is a key benefit navigation can be done with the nipple on the bottom of the

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display rather than using the remote if you want to which is nice i actually am

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using a c10 48 inch at work right now

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and having to have the remote on my desk does add unnecessary clutter oh shoot i

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gotta move my old monitor by the way if you're confused as to why

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i ended up with the lg ultra gear on my desk after the ASUS version kind of won

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the shootout that i was doing it came down to the lower pixel response times

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on this particular model which is what makes this aorus display

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such a contender for my desk because OLED inherently has much

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much lower pixel response times than well really any lcd based technology

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one small challenge is going to be my streaming stuff and

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the cable management holes that i drilled in my desk though that purple

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cast when it's off you can really tell it's an lg OLED hey so the bad news is

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you're paying a lot more than for the lg version but the good news is you know

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that it's an absolutely kick-ass panel you're just paying extra

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for warranty the displayport port

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oh actually and the integrated soundbar

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i haven't tried this yet but obviously being a tv the c10 and the c1 do not

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have great integrated sound because they have no visible speaker grilles

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hopefully this is a little better i already have a usb

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oh my shoot my pre-run cables don't reach

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now seems like as good a time as any to get in some of Gigabyte aorus talking

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points here let me change my desktop wallpaper this

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is a little awkward oh this is hilarious i already mentioned

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everything organically except it's support for 10-bit color obviously and

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it's 98 coverage of the dci p3 color space now something that's not well

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understood about this monitor is its HDR capabilities it does say on the product

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page it supports both HDR 10 and hlg now

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i've already noticed when bringing up large full screen white content

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i am seeing some dimming of the display you guys notice that do you see how

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bright that is and then if i go full screen you can see it's a little dimmer right but what i

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also noticed is it seems to be a bit faster in terms of that responsiveness

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whether you prefer that or not is entirely up to you but let's see what we

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can do to tune it in the menu so we're in sdr

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vivid really my options are custom one custom

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two and green oh green like

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green like power saving i thought you meant green like a green tint that's

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very uh Gigabyte i'd like you to change that call it eco or something please oh oh

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there's a whole bunch more reader movie rts rpg FPS arcade standard

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that's weird okay burn this image into your mind pun

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intended is green brighter than vivid

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it is no it doesn't really make anything but

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it is type c

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dsc i think that's display stream compression i think it has a type c

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display input andy that's nice i'm gonna go get my laptop and find out man

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imagine it has usb power delivery and charges the laptop

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and just like has that completely not documented it totally does it has power

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delivery it charges the laptop since we're poking around in the md control

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panel the reported freesync refresh rate is 48 to 120 hertz so as long as you

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don't dip below 48 frames per second in your game you shouldn't experience any

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stutter or tearing after fiddling with it i wish i had a more complete answer

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for you guys but i do at least have some information it supports power delivery

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but with a very limited amount of power so you'll probably have to plug in your

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laptop separately and over the type c port it does accept a display input but

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so far i've only managed to go as far as 4k 60 hertz or 1440p 120 hertz it's hard

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to say whether that's limitation of my laptop or the display at this point and

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i don't have any alternatives here with me oh cool it has a built-in kvm switch

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so that's a function of the built-in usb hub i guess

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of course the type c and the type b

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can be your alternate computers

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freaking sick and then you plug your mouse and keyboard into the usb a ports

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i don't actually need that function personally but if you frequently use two

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computers say for example you're a developer that would be super handy

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audio mode 600r i have no idea what i just did

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what is 600r uh

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okay we're back on the type c input okay we're back 600r is a setting that

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allows you to tune the audio output for high impedance headphones

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it also caused my displayport input to immediately cease functioning actually

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wait andy this is interesting i'm only getting 4k 60 hertz here as well

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i wonder if there's another displayport setting i didn't see before the good

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news is that 4k 120 hertz works just

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fine the bad news is that this Thunderbolt 3 dock that i use actually

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only supports displayport 1.2 so that means 4k 60 hertz unless i want

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to drag a displayport cable through the wall right now

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okay i'm plugging in a new cable what is this doing back here look at this cute

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Linus plushie ltteststore.com it's not exactly ideal but this is the

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longest displayport cable i have i'm gonna have to fix the cable management

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later but i should be able to set it to 4k 120hz now

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yeah hey

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i do notice a little bit of a of a green tinge when i'm off axis so when i'm

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looking into the corners just because the display is so large so i would

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recommend having a solid 18 to maybe even 24 inches between you and the

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display if you do plan to use it as a desktop display it's hard to really

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gauge performance without all of our gear and a 48 inch tv to put right

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beside it but what i will say about the HDR content consumption experience is

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that compared to Gigabyte aorus's specs

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this is a lot better than i expected of course not everything's HDR let's change

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gears and focus on gaming i'll start with one of my all-time favorite games

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which happens to benefit from as much screen real estate as you can possibly

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throw at it supreme commander forged alliance so one of the coolest things

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about this game is the strategic zoom you don't have a mini-map you just use

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your mouse wheel to see the whole map

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and i'm being bombed i did not build

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lay fighters well i did say i wanted this to be a quick one didn't i

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yep that was it that's the gg either way

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is this a great gaming experience uh freaking yeah a little bit now let's

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change gears and talk about how we can set this up for the more cinematic black

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bar experience uh instead of having the scaling performed on our display we're

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going to have it performed on our GPU and we're going to change our scaling

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mode to aspect ratio you can also change it to no scaling and then you'll just

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have like kind of however many pixels you

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specify sized display in the middle like for example the 3840 by 1800

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resolution that i made that's going to give me some kind of cinematic black

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bars but is going to allow me to continue to utilize the full

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horizontal resolution of my display so let's go ahead and fire up do maternal

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and there you have it cinematic

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ultra wide gaming experience on a regular 16x9 monitor

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tv whatever whatever this thing is the one thing you can't do is make it curved

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obviously and that's something that can be an advantage on a display of this

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size which leaves us one more major thing to uncover

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can it support 144 hertz with overclocking that would

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be an advantage over a tv

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so far it's not looking good sometimes monitors will have a setting that allows

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them to enable overclocking i don't see anything

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like that in here though so all that's left is to try this one more time and

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see if it clicks okay we go into the settings menu it thinks

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it's at 4k 144 hertz it's actually at 120 hertz so the scaler might think it

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can take a 144hz input but the actual panel does not seem to be running at

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144. um i thought maybe ars figured out

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some kind of super cool way to get it to run at 144. the reality of it is it's

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not a huge difference between 120 and 144 in terms of the perception but

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i mean hey every little bit counts the last things left you can't take a step

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forward without a legal thing

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yeah the built-in speakers are they're okay

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they're bigger and they fire directly at you which is an advantage but

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they're still monitor speakers and you're still gonna need a nice pair of cans

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and that's it whether or not you need a monitor like this well that's up to

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you but i can tell you that the experience of using a large format

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display like this as a gaming monitor unfreaking believable and i will not

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be swapping this out for my ultra ride this is coming with me to the new house

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and my new gaming setup so i'll probably get like a vase amount for it so it

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comes off the back of the desk and i have like a nice clean setup