1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,800 Quantum Dot OLED monitors have completely taken over the high-end market, but they have a few key problems. 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,300 Everyone hates the magenta look under bright lights. 3 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:19,000 Text clarity ain't exactly perfect, and they are so delicate that accidentally scratching one is basically a terrifying rite of passage. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:33,000 At least, that's what I used to say. Ooh, because MSI sponsored this video so we could show you the solutions that are coming with this new 5th generation of top-tier gaming monitor hardware. 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I'm talking color layer optimizations, new traditional RGB-striped sub-pixel layouts, and a step-up in hardness all the way from H2 to H3 that will hopefully prevent accidental damage. 6 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:54,500 Stay tuned, by the way, because I'm testing that last claim myself, and you better believe that I'm keeping this monitor regardless of the results, so I really, really hope it doesn't get scratched. 7 00:00:54,500 --> 00:01:05,500 Yep, if you have an older OLED, this solves pretty much all of your problems, except your money problems, because when you see this in action, you might want to buy one, so those are gonna get a lot worse. 8 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,500 It's already updated. 9 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Genuinely very excited for this thing. 10 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Like MSI's previous 34-inch ultra-wide monitors, this is a 21x9 1440p 34-inch display, but unlike their older models, it is now running at a whopping 360 Hz. 11 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:44,000 As I alluded to in the intro, it also uses a new 5th generation QD OLED panel, which has got both of us pretty darn excited. 12 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Whoa, hold on a second, though. 13 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 What? I'm so disappointed. In what? 14 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 On the front. Well, there's only one. It says there's 36 in here. 15 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Dude, I'm so excited to see this. Yeah, me too. 16 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,000 This is 5th gen. This is brand new. There were some of the first people to see this. 17 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Okay. 18 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Dude, I remember how heavy the early ultra-wides were that were, like, so unwieldy. 19 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 This is not too bad. Right? 20 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Got a good little look at the ID. Classic MSI Dragon. 21 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Oh, yeah. IO is handled by dual HDMI's, DisplayPort, as well as a 98-watt USB-C port that acts as, like, a single cable solution, as well as a built-in USB 3 hub. 22 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 That's DP 2.1, USB-R 13.5. Of course, it would have to be to run those kinds of refresh rates. 23 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Why am I holding this? Yep. Perfect. 24 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:45,000 I think there's a screw inside my monitor. It is an early pre-production unit, but, yes, it does sound like that. 25 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:59,000 This is a pretty big moment, because... We've got some new optimizations on the color layer that are supposed to absorb more light so that we're left with a much more black display in bright lights than the typical magenta. 26 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 That is way better. It's still got a bit of a hue. 27 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 A little bit, not a bit. But it is a lot better than it was before. 28 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 You get a little bit of the pink hue around the edges? 29 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Not much. To be clear, I mean, HeDaily is a QD OLED monitor. 30 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I've used them extensively. If you're in a light-controlled environment, it really isn't that big of a deal. 31 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Especially if content is playing. Yes. But it is a complaint that people have had about these monitors, so they've been hard at work fixing them. 32 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Another big complaint is, of course, the hardness. 33 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 My cat has scratched not one, but two. 34 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 No! My monitor. It's bad. 35 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 It's, like, all over here. As soon as content is playing, you can't notice it. 36 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:48,000 But other people online have also complained about micro-scratches with just not taking care of the panel super, super carefully. 37 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I have an idea for how we can test this. I'm going to need a cat. 38 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Do like you do. Scratch. 39 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 To be clear, 3H is still not super hard. 40 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 But it's harder? Yeah. It's one whole H harder. 41 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 I don't see anything. Sick. Not the most scientific test we've ever done. 42 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,000 No. But? I mean, we got the nail on the thing. 43 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:18,000 What do people want from me? The last big thing is the new sub-pixel arrangement, but we're not going to be able to see that until we fire it up. 44 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 They went RGB stripe like everyone's been asking for. 45 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Finally. For those wondering, RGB stripe is not inherently superior. 46 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:35,000 But what it is, is more compatible with Windows' default expectations for how your monitor handles the sub-pixel layout. 47 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 And that's just because most displays are RGB stripe. 48 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:44,000 So having RGB stripe just means we're going to get better clarity, especially with clear type fonts. 49 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 And... Yeah, less fringing. Sensitive to some people. 50 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I'm not really. It does not go portrait, but that's pretty normal for ultra-wide monitors. 51 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 But at least you do get a little bit of leveling, and we do have height adjust. 52 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Question for you. My DisplayPort cables are in my wall. 53 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Do I need DP 2.0 in order to... 54 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,000 I do, right? DP 2.1. Do you need me to get another computer? 55 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I can get a computer. I got a computer. Okay, please. 56 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 While you're setting that up, I'll grab our cable, and it's in this nice little MSI bag. 57 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Look at me. I'm so cool. What? 58 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 It's not about that. My computer's in a whole other room. What do you do? 59 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 You know what I do feel cool about, though? 60 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,440 It's good to be back to ultra-wide. I haven't even turned it on yet. 61 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,280 I loved the high refresh rate of my old monitor, but you know what the first game I actually 62 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:37,000 ended up playing after I got it was? Anno. Anno? 63 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Anno does not run at 500Hz. No, and even if it did, it wouldn't matter. 64 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,600 Size is so much better than refresh rate, and there's a new Anno. 65 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,000 So this is going to be a welcome change, and it still... 66 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,000 360Hz. This is hardly a downgrade in that regard. 67 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Another big thing is we did a big investigation into how much input latency is too much. 68 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Have you seen the results yet? No, not yet. It turns out it all matters. 69 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Yeah, I believe it. I 100% believe it. Okay, well my assumptions were that less than 10 or 15, we'd reach a point of negligible. 70 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 No, I believe you can feel it. It turns out it just scales. 71 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 That's wild. This is a great time to shout out our magnetic cable management from LTTstore.com. 72 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Getting a cable extracted to plug into a different thing is as simple as popping off a magnet. 73 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Love it. I'm putting it back. 74 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Just throwing more magnets around. Let's power it up. 75 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 And unlike your C2, you're not going to have any issues if you try to stream while playing 76 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,000 ultra-wide on a 16 by 9 display. You're not going to have that weird black bar in the top. 77 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Did I plug in the monitor? The nipple does not turn it on. 78 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Which is super confusing for me. 79 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Oh yeah, that's the stuff. 80 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 You know, talking about latency earlier too, like one of the key things about this is having 81 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 the lightning fast motion pixel response times as well. 82 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Now, I don't think that that's something that is materially improved over previous 83 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 generations of QD OLED. No. But you're not wrong. 84 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:13,000 It's just OLED in general. It makes a huge difference to the clarity of a fast-moving image. 85 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Difference in the magenta levels is really noticeable. 86 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 It's really not bad now. Yeah, no. 87 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 This looks black. And off axis, I'd say it's worse. 88 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Sure. So you're probably getting the very worst case scenario from over there. 89 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 But dead on, looks great. 90 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Yeah. What are the odds that this will work properly on an ultra-wide? 91 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Try it. I am so friggin' done with this stupid fight. 92 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Oh no, you're at the end of the game. I know what fight this is, yeah. 93 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Yeah. This fight is bullshit. Well, in tactician mode, yes. 94 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Unfortunately, they didn't do a proper difficulty scaling with better AI for the enemies. 95 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:56,000 They just juiced the opponent damage and then nerfed my damage in HP. 96 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I'm really glad I chose the normal mode or whatever, because yeah, that's BS. 97 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,000 But you know, it's not BS. Is playing a completely different game on this monitor? 98 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Should we find something that we can both play? No. 99 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 They want to be done at five. Oh yeah, that makes sense. 100 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I like playing games with people that work, but I want to be done at five. 101 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Now's as good a time as any to go ahead and turn on HDR on Windows. 102 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Oh, my keyboard's not plugged in. Oh dude, you haven't seen HDR on this yet? 103 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 No. Even from the menu? I'm very excited. 104 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I stopped playing and then they did the big update where they added HDR. 105 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Final Fantasy Tactics came on, I've been very busy with that. 106 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:38,000 I haven't played it in ultra-wide either. In a game like this, where you've got that first person field of view and it's like open fields and stuff. 107 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Yeah. Oh, it's actually really good for that. 108 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Wow. 109 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Oh yeah, there it is. Let's go. Oh dude, oh dude. 110 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,000 What? The sunset? Oh yeah, it's great. 111 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,000 That's what I wanted the horse, I can ride over here. That looks sick. We're literally going to ride off into the sunset. 112 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:03,000 On the one hand, it's amazing. On the other hand, if you already have a last gen QD OLED, it's probably good enough. 113 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,000 But more than good enough. But I'll take the incremental improvements because it's not like it's going to cost you 114 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 more than a last gen QD OLED did when it launched. And in the longer term, that's always a good thing for consumers because it means that 115 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,000 the prices are going to come down for the older gen tech, which is also very good. 116 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Yeah, this looks amazing. I just can't, I keep looking to the sides because I'm like, I don't have normally anywhere 117 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 close to this kind of field of view, even with my FOV cranked. 118 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Oh, I don't need ultra-wide. I don't need ultra-wide. I don't need ultra-wide. 119 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,000 I don't need ultra-wide. You know, it's a funny thing because when I went for a 42 inch 16 by 9. 120 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Yeah. Right? Well, this is it. 121 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,000 This is the end game because if I want to play ultra-wide, I can just exactly throw black 122 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,500 bars on it, but I have literally not once done it. It can also be problematic because you're trying to force a weird resolution onto a monitor, 123 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:55,000 which they're usually okay, but if you're playing full screen, it might give a little 124 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 bit of weirdness. And the subtle curve is nice. 125 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Yeah. Too much curve, pretty dumb. A little bit? 126 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 A little bit? Tasteful. That's good. 127 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,560 And you're not going to find that on a 16 by 9.42 inch. 128 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:12,520 Using the light touches. While we wait for shaders to compile, we can have a look at the OSD. 129 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,800 They've got a bunch of AI features and you can be annoyed at the marketing, but some 130 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:22,000 of them are pretty useful. So the care sensor allows you to have the monitor either controlled by the system or 131 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,200 the monitor itself turn off when you walk away and turn back on when you approach. 132 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,600 The rest of the OSD is actually really comprehensive built-in KVM. 133 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,840 You can tune your HDR so you can actually go for true black 500. 134 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,760 You can turn up your peak brightness or you can adjust the curve yourself. 135 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,960 Yeah. Oh, that's, that's actually super cool. You can turn display screen compression on and off. 136 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,160 I personally never noticed a difference having it on, but if you want it off, you can do 137 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,120 that. Adaptive sync can be enabled and disabled. 138 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:59,000 You can force various aspect ratios. Obviously, your usual profiles, all your OLED care options. 139 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,160 There's a ton in here, including detection of the vertical split when you drag Windows 140 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:08,080 to the side using arrow snap. There's also multi-icon detection, taskbar detection. 141 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,560 So these are going to detect when you have icons and they'll just kind of like dim them 142 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:14,640 or the taskbar. It'll try to dim them to prevent burn in. 143 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,640 And then a bunch of cool stuff in here as well, RGB brightness. 144 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,000 You can change your RGB, where the hell's the RGB? Probably on the back. 145 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Okay. This is cool. You can change your shortcuts. 146 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Oh, nice. For the up, down, left and right. Yeah. 147 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,840 So if you don't want to turn on AI crosshair, whatever the heck an AI crosshair is by pressing 148 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,080 down, then you can just not be a filthy cheater. That's fantastic. 149 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,080 Yeah. All right. Let's fire up. 150 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,400 Halo. Dude, that looks amazing. This might be the best I've seen it look. 151 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,400 Right? And now it's an ultra-wide. This thing is sick. 152 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:50,800 It really is. I, man, I want ultra-wide, especially after we looked at that other monitor in your office 153 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:56,080 the other day. What am I doing with my life? 154 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,080 Not living if I don't have an ultra-wide. What am I doing? 155 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,080 Come on, man. Get it together, Linus. 156 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,520 Man, the field of view is amazing, though, for this kind of game. 157 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,400 It really is. Anything first-person shooter, just, ah, man. 158 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,880 Who needs audio? Who needs to check corners? 159 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:17,480 Not me. Not this guy. Gosh, maxed out with HDR, it really does look so good. 160 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:22,280 Doesn't it, though? It really does. That's what killed me is, like, the game looks amazing. 161 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Mm-hmm. Like. What just happened? 162 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:30,960 Did it detect me being gone? I wonder if it did, because it slowly dimmed, and then a kid's coming back. 163 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,560 Hold on. Dude, I was sitting way over here, and it got confused. 164 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:41,760 Okay, well, the dimming feature works. Any display that I can go to and one with is a pretty good display. 165 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,240 Well, cool monitor. Good job, MSI. 166 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,640 Is there much else to say? 167 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:54,080 Thanks for sponsoring this video and helping us take a quick look at 5th Gen QD OLED. 168 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:59,240 The future is here, or at least it's here for us, and it looks bright. 169 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:05,480 If you like this video, maybe check out the one where we first saw QD OLED, like, five 170 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,480 years ago now. Oh, f**k, my team's gonna lose, I haven't been paying attention. 171 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,640 I'm not carrying hard enough. See you later. 172 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,720 Oh, shoot. Come here. Come on, come on, come on. 173 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,840 This is why we tried to not install Halo on the computers anymore. 174 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,840 How did that grenade not get... I don't know. I wasn't watching. 175 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,340 I was trying to finish the video. I'm so upset.