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It's no secret that I'm a man who loves a good monitor. So when ASUS reached out and offered to sponsor this video,

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so I could unbox not one, but two new gaming OLED monitors,

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I couldn't say no. We've got not only the XG27AQDMGR,

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a 27-inch, 1440p, 240 Hertz, OLED gaming monitor,

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but we've also got the XG27AQDMES.

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I had to look at the box because I couldn't memorize two of these in a single video,

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but this guy is a little less expensive and it's cutie OLED,

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but there's a reason we're gonna be opening this one. This guy doesn't get as bright as you might expect.

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So we're gonna look at it later, but not right now.

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With W or white OLED, one of the biggest advantages

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is just how bright these things can get. With ASUS claiming this guy gets up to 1300 nits peak,

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now that is only gonna be peak brightness.

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So just little spots or whatever on your display. It's not gonna be full field white.

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Sustained is probably a lot less than that, but the nice thing is this means that

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with OLEDs per pixel level dimming zones, because they just turn on and off when you need them,

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you're gonna get an amazing HDR experience, regardless of whether you pick this monitor

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or the cutie OLED that we're gonna look at closer to the end of the video.

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Let's see, what do we got here? We got a stand that is actually really small.

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I think ASUS has made this a little smaller than before, which is fantastic,

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because now you get just a much tinier footprint on your desk.

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I also like how robust their rubber feet system is.

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It's a minor thing, but like most of the time, these are just little strips, like they're not tall at all,

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but these are like thick, and there's a bunch of them too, and it's a little elevated.

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I'm a big fan. The rest of our stand says ROG on the back

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with the ASUS ROG logo, cable management.

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Actually, it's labeled cable management. That's kind of nice. And it's actually a really nice and big hole.

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Sometimes these are a little annoying because they're tiny or they go like down and then out,

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and it's really hard to fish like big C13 power connectors through.

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And a nice thing about ASUS is a lot of their more premium monitors have a place to mount your camera or webcam

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or whatever else you have that's gonna fit in there, maybe a little ring light or something.

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The terrible thing about technology these days is most of it's getting more and more expensive.

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But on the other hand, the nice thing about monitors is that they're either coming down in price

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or we're getting more features at the same price.

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And so with these guys, I won't talk about the price yet,

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but it's really not that bad and you're not losing any premium features.

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As per usual, we've got ASUS's bag of tricks.

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One thing that I actually really like about buying monitors from them is they tend to have

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this little carry bag for all of your cables, which is great because I mean,

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most of you are probably just gonna throw all this packaging away. You can keep this.

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It's got everything you might want. Throw your warranty card in there. You know, cables, whatever.

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HDMI, ultra high speed. HDMI 2.1 cable.

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DisplayPort, but what are you? Probably DP 1.4.

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We've also got a USB-B cable as well as a very typical C13 power cable.

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One thing I'm not seeing is a power brick. So that means that we are going to have

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an internal power supply and it's just gonna plug straight from our monitor

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into our wall. What else we have? Ooh.

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I believe this is an adapter plate.

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Not every single monitor I've ever bought comes with an adapter plate. If you want to put it on the wall or something,

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that's what this looks like it is. And thank you ASUS for including it

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because it really sucks having to 3D print something

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to mount your monitor to an ARM, which I've definitely had to do on premium monitors.

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And at last, what is this last ASUS warranty card?

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This guy and his companion both come with three year warranties, which is great

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because while image retention on OLEDs,

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it's gotten a lot better to the point where like, I haven't seen any on either of my displays

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that I've owned for years now. Little piece of mind certainly doesn't hurt.

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But now the part that I've been waiting for, as per usual, we're just gonna do the old click, clack,

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pull it out of the box, took the box with it. You ready? Are you ready?

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Wow, it's cleaning steps.

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I think this is the first time I've actually seen cleaning steps on here.

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What you need, microfiber cloth, turn it off, dry the screen, wet cloth cleaning, pure water,

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spray bottle, they know what they're talking about. For stickier messes, you can use a little bit of a solvent.

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You just really don't want to use too much. Maybe the smallest amount of isopropyl alcohol

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mixed with water, very small amount

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because it is very easy to ruin your screen. Very easy. Ask me how I know. I've ruined them.

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We got one more peel on the back here with what I'm guessing is a big RGB matrix.

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So that's also, you know, always really cool to see. I'm not crazy about RGB being on the back

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because you don't see it that much. But hey, you know what? Especially like an internet cafe

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where you've got like tables like that and you can see the backs of each other's monitors.

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You know, it's pretty cool. What have we got? The old height adjustment.

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Very nice. Swivel, no problem. Actually quite a bit of swivel.

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And then can we, oh, we can, we can pivot.

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But the real question is this is where, you know,

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oh, we can go both ways. And while that doesn't matter to a lot of you,

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you know, it's a 240 Hertz gaming monitor.

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The chances of you putting it in portrait as your secondary display, at least right now is low.

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But in like five years, when it's still going strong,

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you know, you want to make sure that this bezel down here is not going to line up like in between.

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You want to put it on the side. Actually, how bad is the top versus the bottom? Yeah, it's not too bad, but I don't want to see the ASUS logo.

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I want to like hide it all. Whatever you want to do, whatever your setup is,

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you can arrange it in that way. Also as per usual, with an OLED, you know,

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the panel itself is like laser thin.

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And then you've got this giant control box on the back. And so it's not super bulky.

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I'm personally of the opinion that, you know, to make the whole thing feel a little more durable,

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I'm not against like just extending this out to the full thing of the control box.

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And you got a thick mon... Like I'm okay with that. But what I can see is a bunch of cooling vents.

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This thing probably has a custom heat sink in it. Okay, this is great.

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This is actually something I don't think I've noticed on a lot of monitors before.

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We've got a bunch of text on the back here. And at first I thought it was like labeling for the IO,

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which I'll get to in a sec. But it's actually like, for those who dare,

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game on, hashtag, ROG, oh, that one does say power.

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Okay, power, navigation, Navi. And then that one is key.

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I don't know why it's key, but sure. And then what's this 25 point,

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that's just like longitude latitude? Are they telling us where their office is?

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I've always wondered what the 206 on the top here is. That's when ROG launched, February of 2006.

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Our IO is also nicely labeled. We've got a couple of HDMI ports here.

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DisplayPort, headphone jack, Kensington locks.

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Even got the little K Kensington lock symbol, our USB-B, and then a couple of USB-A ports as well.

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Oh, I almost forgot about our power connector over here. And if you don't want to use their display widget center,

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which we'll check out later, they also have physical navigation controls.

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Thank you so much. Please monitor manufacturers, never take those away from me.

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I will die inside. So it looks pretty on the outside, but what does it look like on the inside?

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To do that, we'd have to take it apart. So instead we're just going to turn it on

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and take a look at our panel. All right, it's all set up on the desk here.

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Looks great. Just makes some minor adjustments,

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which is easy enough because the stand is so good. And then I'm going to look at the OSD.

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We should be at 240 Hertz. Hey, I love that the OSD actually tells me that.

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So I don't even have to go into Windows settings. It's got some G-Sync support.

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It'll support FreeSync as well. And then, oh yeah, FreeSync premium pro turned on.

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And it's also got ELMB, ASUS's extreme low motion blur,

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basically BFI or black frame insertion. We'll probably get some lower brightness,

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but it should be even clearer MPRT, which is wild

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because OLED is already lightening fast,

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how these pixels change. Oh, they've got OLED anti-flicker, brightness,

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HDR settings, gaming HDR set to on. They've also got a HDR 400 true black mode

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that we don't want to use. We just want to stick to gaming HDR, adjustable HDR.

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One problem about a lot of HDR displays is to keep that PQ EOTF curve like the way they said it.

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You'll notice that a lot of display options

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are locked or grayed out. And with now, with this custom mode,

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we can do whatever we want. Is it going to be as color accurate? Probably not, but we can make those changes as we see fit.

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I'm going to keep adjustable HDR off because I want to keep everything

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as color accurate as possible. It actually tested pretty well out of the box.

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We'll get to results in a bit here. What else do we have?

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OLED care, there's a bunch of screensaver stuff, pixel cleaning, pixel refresher.

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I don't want to do that. One problem is the navigation is a little sensitive

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and I've definitely misclicked the wrong thing a few times.

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So just be careful with that. Basically everything, logo brightness,

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everything that most brands come with these days. But the nice thing about ASUS is

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they've got this neoproximity sensor and this thing's actually great.

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My biggest concern with my monitors at home

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is if I forget to turn them off or forget to lock my screen so they auto turn off

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or just whatever. Cause I've definitely left it up and come back like a day later

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and it's still the exact same screen. And hey, I haven't seen any image retention yet,

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but of course I'm still worried. This really helps alleviate that.

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You can set it to a bunch of different distances and I think you can even change the timer

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if you turn it to tailored mode.

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The sensor will start detecting your location. Oh, this is to detect my location after,

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okay, yeah, let's do it, confirm. Five, I'm 70, this is so cool.

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Whoa. Okay, I don't want to be that far away. Okay, I probably screwed that up by moving.

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That's sick. I've never seen like a little measurement thing

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on the screen while we do that. That's awesome.

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It's the little things, you know? And then on top of that, you can set it between five, 10, 15 minutes.

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So, you know, if it doesn't detect anything for five minutes, it just turns black.

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That's great. You're not going to burn in with a black screen, that's for sure.

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And then it's even got a time on counter. That's fantastic.

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OLED track, OLED time track, 11 hours, pixel clean times, 11.

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That's fantastic. If you're ever buying a monitor secondhand,

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you can check that out and see how much they've actually abused it before you decide if you want to purchase it.

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So, love to see that sort of thing. Aside from that, you know, pretty typical input selection, lighting effect.

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Oh, how's our RGB?

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It's off right now. Let me turn it on. There it is.

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I can confirm it works. But we'll show you too, just in case.

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And if you don't want to use the physical buttons, they do have their display widget center.

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So, we've got it up here. I'm going to change this to cinema mode.

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It's not HDR anymore. That's pretty obvious. Now I can change like brightness and stuff right here

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on the fly. So, I'm not going to mess with contrast or saturation or anything, but you can also turn on some of the other settings

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that I didn't really go into, like the crosshair if you want to turn that on

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or a timer, whatever you feel like. My only complaint, ASUS,

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please make it look almost the exact same as this OSD.

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So, I don't have to learn two different sets of menus.

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It's a minor thing. This looks fancier.

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I don't know which one I like more, but make them the same. Please, I don't think I will ever get tired

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of looking at the footage that we shot for the RE video.

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I think, I don't know if this is 4K. Yeah, this is 720p, but the HDR looks good.

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In testing, we slightly exceeded their claims of peak brightness with about 1,321 nits.

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So, it's going to get super bright for you.

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We tested the color gamut coverage. We got a little less than their claim of 99% of DCI P3.

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I think we hit closer to 98. That's still great. And then on top of that, it is very color accurate.

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I think we measured a Delta E of less than two average

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in SDR, and then for HDR, when we're measuring with Delta EITP,

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we get a very respectable just under 17 Delta E average.

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Pretty solid and pretty in line with similar monitors

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that we've tested around this price range. But, this is a video.

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What about gaming? I want to use that actual 240 Hertz,

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and I want to see the lightning fast 0.03 millisecond

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response times in these pixels. So, let's do it. God, the fire, the HDR in Doom, 2016 Dark Ages,

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and Eternal has all been pretty top notch, even if Doom Eternal was a bit of a let down in other ways.

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But yeah, the way it handles dark and bright parts of the scene, absolutely phenomenal.

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240 Hertz, I mean, obviously, you know, we're using like a 5090, if you really want to get that.

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Actually, you know what? I just realized it's 1440P and not 4K.

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So, to get 240 Hertz, you probably don't even need a 5090,

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which is fantastic. But hold on a second. I've got a whole other monitor I've got to check out.

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Okay, we've got the XG27AQDMES setup now.

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ASUS, please start removing letters from your product names

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because they're getting a little long. This one's the QD OLED.

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It is very similar in spec to this guy in that it's 27 inches, 1440P, 240 Hertz.

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It's a little cheaper, but there is a kind of

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major downside that I can't ignore despite this being a sponsored video.

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You're only going to get about 400 nits

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of peak brightness on this guy over here. And that's kind of been the problem with OLED

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for quite a while, is the lack of brightness. But I will say, despite that you are getting

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a much wider coverage of color gamut,

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thanks to quantum dots, and the viewing angle should be a little better.

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For me, I personally lean towards this guy.

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Most people just prefer brightness. That's kind of the human experience.

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Even if colors look a little different or off, brighter object or display just tends to be

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what people gravitate towards. There's a reason why most TVs and Best Buy

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is set up in vivid mode. Another kind of big difference you might notice

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is that this guy's only got the semi-glossy coating. And so it doesn't get quite as perfectly black

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as I'd like, but most people aren't really going to be able to tell if it's by itself.

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Right next to this guy with the fully super true black

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glossy coating, it's a little obvious. There are two other spots where you kind of miss out on.

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If you go for the less expensive model, there's no RGB on the back, which, hey, that's fine with me.

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However, you do lose the USB hub feature.

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That's on the W OLED. At time of filming, the W OLED is currently on sale

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for about $550, which is a pretty reasonable price.

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And the QD OLED is currently $599,

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which is $50 more than this guy, although regular price is $650.

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So buy whichever one you think makes the most sense

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if you're looking for a monitor. Listen up, Chump. You got to enter the Worth the Upgrade Challenge

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brought to you by ROG, where you can win one of eight ROG OLED monitors.

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You can do that even if you already own an OLED monitor from ROG, and you can do it if you don't,

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because you're like me, all right? Yeah, okay, stop looking. Go to the description.

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That's where I'm going. That's where I'm going right now. We're going to have both of them

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linked in the video description below, so you can take a look for yourself

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and make your own decision. Thanks again, ASUS, for sponsoring this video.

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I'm Plouffe. These are two displays. So now I own two displays, I guess?

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Although I don't know these. One for each hand. They're the companies.

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They're not mine. Mine are at home.