WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:05.320 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, 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:10.160 so I could unbox not one, but two new gaming OLED monitors, 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.880 I couldn't say no. We've got not only the XG27AQDMGR, 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.880 a 27-inch, 1440p, 240 Hertz, OLED gaming monitor, 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:26.120 but we've also got the XG27AQDMES. 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.600 I had to look at the box because I couldn't memorize two of these in a single video, 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.600 but this guy is a little less expensive and it's cutie OLED, 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:39.080 but there's a reason we're gonna be opening this one. This guy doesn't get as bright as you might expect. 00:00:39.080 --> 00:00:42.400 So we're gonna look at it later, but not right now. 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:46.040 With W or white OLED, one of the biggest advantages 00:00:46.040 --> 00:00:52.040 is just how bright these things can get. With ASUS claiming this guy gets up to 1300 nits peak, 00:00:52.040 --> 00:00:57.040 now that is only gonna be peak brightness. 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:02.280 So just little spots or whatever on your display. It's not gonna be full field white. 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:07.320 Sustained is probably a lot less than that, but the nice thing is this means that 00:01:07.320 --> 00:01:11.680 with OLEDs per pixel level dimming zones, because they just turn on and off when you need them, 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.800 you're gonna get an amazing HDR experience, regardless of whether you pick this monitor 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:20.960 or the cutie OLED that we're gonna look at closer to the end of the video. 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:25.680 Let's see, what do we got here? We got a stand that is actually really small. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.160 I think ASUS has made this a little smaller than before, which is fantastic, 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:32.640 because now you get just a much tinier footprint on your desk. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.960 I also like how robust their rubber feet system is. 00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:40.120 It's a minor thing, but like most of the time, these are just little strips, like they're not tall at all, 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:44.360 but these are like thick, and there's a bunch of them too, and it's a little elevated. 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:49.360 I'm a big fan. The rest of our stand says ROG on the back 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:53.480 with the ASUS ROG logo, cable management. 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:58.240 Actually, it's labeled cable management. That's kind of nice. And it's actually a really nice and big hole. 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:02.120 Sometimes these are a little annoying because they're tiny or they go like down and then out, 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:05.960 and it's really hard to fish like big C13 power connectors through. 00:02:05.960 --> 00:02:13.000 And a nice thing about ASUS is a lot of their more premium monitors have a place to mount your camera or webcam 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.000 or whatever else you have that's gonna fit in there, maybe a little ring light or something. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.200 The terrible thing about technology these days is most of it's getting more and more expensive. 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:24.880 But on the other hand, the nice thing about monitors is that they're either coming down in price 00:02:24.880 --> 00:02:28.200 or we're getting more features at the same price. 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:32.360 And so with these guys, I won't talk about the price yet, 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.840 but it's really not that bad and you're not losing any premium features. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.280 As per usual, we've got ASUS's bag of tricks. 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:43.320 One thing that I actually really like about buying monitors from them is they tend to have 00:02:43.320 --> 00:02:47.440 this little carry bag for all of your cables, which is great because I mean, 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:50.800 most of you are probably just gonna throw all this packaging away. You can keep this. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:55.640 It's got everything you might want. Throw your warranty card in there. You know, cables, whatever. 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:59.120 HDMI, ultra high speed. HDMI 2.1 cable. 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:03.600 DisplayPort, but what are you? Probably DP 1.4. 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:09.080 We've also got a USB-B cable as well as a very typical C13 power cable. 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.520 One thing I'm not seeing is a power brick. So that means that we are going to have 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:17.280 an internal power supply and it's just gonna plug straight from our monitor 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.320 into our wall. What else we have? Ooh. 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.120 I believe this is an adapter plate. 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:32.240 Not every single monitor I've ever bought comes with an adapter plate. If you want to put it on the wall or something, 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.200 that's what this looks like it is. And thank you ASUS for including it 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:39.320 because it really sucks having to 3D print something 00:03:39.320 --> 00:03:43.960 to mount your monitor to an ARM, which I've definitely had to do on premium monitors. 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:48.680 And at last, what is this last ASUS warranty card? 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:53.920 This guy and his companion both come with three year warranties, which is great 00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:56.920 because while image retention on OLEDs, 00:03:56.920 --> 00:04:01.760 it's gotten a lot better to the point where like, I haven't seen any on either of my displays 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:06.760 that I've owned for years now. Little piece of mind certainly doesn't hurt. 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:13.360 But now the part that I've been waiting for, as per usual, we're just gonna do the old click, clack, 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:17.760 pull it out of the box, took the box with it. You ready? Are you ready? 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.440 Wow, it's cleaning steps. 00:04:22.440 --> 00:04:26.160 I think this is the first time I've actually seen cleaning steps on here. 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:30.000 What you need, microfiber cloth, turn it off, dry the screen, wet cloth cleaning, pure water, 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:35.600 spray bottle, they know what they're talking about. For stickier messes, you can use a little bit of a solvent. 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.360 You just really don't want to use too much. Maybe the smallest amount of isopropyl alcohol 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:42.800 mixed with water, very small amount 00:04:45.400 --> 00:04:51.360 because it is very easy to ruin your screen. Very easy. Ask me how I know. I've ruined them. 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:56.560 We got one more peel on the back here with what I'm guessing is a big RGB matrix. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:01.840 So that's also, you know, always really cool to see. I'm not crazy about RGB being on the back 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:05.280 because you don't see it that much. But hey, you know what? Especially like an internet cafe 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:08.760 where you've got like tables like that and you can see the backs of each other's monitors. 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:12.280 You know, it's pretty cool. What have we got? The old height adjustment. 00:05:14.520 --> 00:05:18.040 Very nice. Swivel, no problem. Actually quite a bit of swivel. 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:23.040 And then can we, oh, we can, we can pivot. 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:26.920 But the real question is this is where, you know, 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.640 oh, we can go both ways. And while that doesn't matter to a lot of you, 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:34.960 you know, it's a 240 Hertz gaming monitor. 00:05:34.960 --> 00:05:39.080 The chances of you putting it in portrait as your secondary display, at least right now is low. 00:05:39.080 --> 00:05:42.280 But in like five years, when it's still going strong, 00:05:42.280 --> 00:05:46.920 you know, you want to make sure that this bezel down here is not going to line up like in between. 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.240 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. 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.600 I want to like hide it all. Whatever you want to do, whatever your setup is, 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:59.040 you can arrange it in that way. Also as per usual, with an OLED, you know, 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.880 the panel itself is like laser thin. 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:07.840 And then you've got this giant control box on the back. And so it's not super bulky. 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:12.520 I'm personally of the opinion that, you know, to make the whole thing feel a little more durable, 00:06:12.520 --> 00:06:15.680 I'm not against like just extending this out to the full thing of the control box. 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:20.360 And you got a thick mon... Like I'm okay with that. But what I can see is a bunch of cooling vents. 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:23.520 This thing probably has a custom heat sink in it. Okay, this is great. 00:06:23.520 --> 00:06:27.240 This is actually something I don't think I've noticed on a lot of monitors before. 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:32.080 We've got a bunch of text on the back here. And at first I thought it was like labeling for the IO, 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:36.760 which I'll get to in a sec. But it's actually like, for those who dare, 00:06:36.760 --> 00:06:40.160 game on, hashtag, ROG, oh, that one does say power. 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:44.560 Okay, power, navigation, Navi. And then that one is key. 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:48.560 I don't know why it's key, but sure. And then what's this 25 point, 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.560 that's just like longitude latitude? Are they telling us where their office is? 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:58.320 I've always wondered what the 206 on the top here is. That's when ROG launched, February of 2006. 00:06:58.320 --> 00:07:03.000 Our IO is also nicely labeled. We've got a couple of HDMI ports here. 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.400 DisplayPort, headphone jack, Kensington locks. 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:12.840 Even got the little K Kensington lock symbol, our USB-B, and then a couple of USB-A ports as well. 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:17.720 Oh, I almost forgot about our power connector over here. And if you don't want to use their display widget center, 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:22.960 which we'll check out later, they also have physical navigation controls. 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:27.280 Thank you so much. Please monitor manufacturers, never take those away from me. 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:31.680 I will die inside. So it looks pretty on the outside, but what does it look like on the inside? 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.240 To do that, we'd have to take it apart. So instead we're just going to turn it on 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:39.920 and take a look at our panel. All right, it's all set up on the desk here. 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.680 Looks great. Just makes some minor adjustments, 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:48.280 which is easy enough because the stand is so good. And then I'm going to look at the OSD. 00:07:48.280 --> 00:07:51.600 We should be at 240 Hertz. Hey, I love that the OSD actually tells me that. 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.200 So I don't even have to go into Windows settings. It's got some G-Sync support. 00:07:55.200 --> 00:08:01.440 It'll support FreeSync as well. And then, oh yeah, FreeSync premium pro turned on. 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:04.680 And it's also got ELMB, ASUS's extreme low motion blur, 00:08:04.680 --> 00:08:09.200 basically BFI or black frame insertion. We'll probably get some lower brightness, 00:08:09.200 --> 00:08:12.720 but it should be even clearer MPRT, which is wild 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.720 because OLED is already lightening fast, 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:21.200 how these pixels change. Oh, they've got OLED anti-flicker, brightness, 00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:26.520 HDR settings, gaming HDR set to on. They've also got a HDR 400 true black mode 00:08:26.520 --> 00:08:30.640 that we don't want to use. We just want to stick to gaming HDR, adjustable HDR. 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:35.960 One problem about a lot of HDR displays is to keep that PQ EOTF curve like the way they said it. 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.200 You'll notice that a lot of display options 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.680 are locked or grayed out. And with now, with this custom mode, 00:08:42.680 --> 00:08:50.280 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. 00:08:50.280 --> 00:08:54.040 I'm going to keep adjustable HDR off because I want to keep everything 00:08:54.040 --> 00:08:57.840 as color accurate as possible. It actually tested pretty well out of the box. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:02.720 We'll get to results in a bit here. What else do we have? 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:07.760 OLED care, there's a bunch of screensaver stuff, pixel cleaning, pixel refresher. 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:11.800 I don't want to do that. One problem is the navigation is a little sensitive 00:09:11.800 --> 00:09:16.680 and I've definitely misclicked the wrong thing a few times. 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:21.320 So just be careful with that. Basically everything, logo brightness, 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:25.880 everything that most brands come with these days. But the nice thing about ASUS is 00:09:25.880 --> 00:09:29.600 they've got this neoproximity sensor and this thing's actually great. 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.160 My biggest concern with my monitors at home 00:09:33.160 --> 00:09:36.840 is if I forget to turn them off or forget to lock my screen so they auto turn off 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:41.800 or just whatever. Cause I've definitely left it up and come back like a day later 00:09:41.800 --> 00:09:45.800 and it's still the exact same screen. And hey, I haven't seen any image retention yet, 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:49.360 but of course I'm still worried. This really helps alleviate that. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:55.800 You can set it to a bunch of different distances and I think you can even change the timer 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.760 if you turn it to tailored mode. 00:09:59.760 --> 00:10:03.680 The sensor will start detecting your location. Oh, this is to detect my location after, 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:09.240 okay, yeah, let's do it, confirm. Five, I'm 70, this is so cool. 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:14.400 Whoa. Okay, I don't want to be that far away. Okay, I probably screwed that up by moving. 00:10:14.400 --> 00:10:17.840 That's sick. I've never seen like a little measurement thing 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.920 on the screen while we do that. That's awesome. 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:27.160 It's the little things, you know? And then on top of that, you can set it between five, 10, 15 minutes. 00:10:27.160 --> 00:10:31.280 So, you know, if it doesn't detect anything for five minutes, it just turns black. 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.760 That's great. You're not going to burn in with a black screen, that's for sure. 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:38.760 And then it's even got a time on counter. That's fantastic. 00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:43.480 OLED track, OLED time track, 11 hours, pixel clean times, 11. 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:48.200 That's fantastic. If you're ever buying a monitor secondhand, 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:53.320 you can check that out and see how much they've actually abused it before you decide if you want to purchase it. 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:58.680 So, love to see that sort of thing. Aside from that, you know, pretty typical input selection, lighting effect. 00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:00.720 Oh, how's our RGB? 00:11:02.520 --> 00:11:05.840 It's off right now. Let me turn it on. There it is. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.240 I can confirm it works. But we'll show you too, just in case. 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.920 And if you don't want to use the physical buttons, they do have their display widget center. 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:17.920 So, we've got it up here. I'm going to change this to cinema mode. 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:25.040 It's not HDR anymore. That's pretty obvious. Now I can change like brightness and stuff right here 00:11:25.040 --> 00:11:29.880 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 00:11:29.880 --> 00:11:33.040 that I didn't really go into, like the crosshair if you want to turn that on 00:11:33.040 --> 00:11:37.080 or a timer, whatever you feel like. My only complaint, ASUS, 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.080 please make it look almost the exact same as this OSD. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.760 So, I don't have to learn two different sets of menus. 00:11:43.760 --> 00:11:47.200 It's a minor thing. This looks fancier. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:52.440 I don't know which one I like more, but make them the same. Please, I don't think I will ever get tired 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.760 of looking at the footage that we shot for the RE video. 00:11:55.760 --> 00:12:00.400 I think, I don't know if this is 4K. Yeah, this is 720p, but the HDR looks good. 00:12:00.400 --> 00:12:06.880 In testing, we slightly exceeded their claims of peak brightness with about 1,321 nits. 00:12:06.880 --> 00:12:09.880 So, it's going to get super bright for you. 00:12:09.880 --> 00:12:16.000 We tested the color gamut coverage. We got a little less than their claim of 99% of DCI P3. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:22.480 I think we hit closer to 98. That's still great. And then on top of that, it is very color accurate. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.560 I think we measured a Delta E of less than two average 00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:30.680 in SDR, and then for HDR, when we're measuring with Delta EITP, 00:12:30.680 --> 00:12:35.680 we get a very respectable just under 17 Delta E average. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:39.200 Pretty solid and pretty in line with similar monitors 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.800 that we've tested around this price range. But, this is a video. 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:45.960 What about gaming? I want to use that actual 240 Hertz, 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.120 and I want to see the lightning fast 0.03 millisecond 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:57.000 response times in these pixels. So, let's do it. God, the fire, the HDR in Doom, 2016 Dark Ages, 00:12:57.520 --> 00:13:03.400 and Eternal has all been pretty top notch, even if Doom Eternal was a bit of a let down in other ways. 00:13:03.400 --> 00:13:10.200 But yeah, the way it handles dark and bright parts of the scene, absolutely phenomenal. 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:14.880 240 Hertz, I mean, obviously, you know, we're using like a 5090, if you really want to get that. 00:13:14.920 --> 00:13:18.320 Actually, you know what? I just realized it's 1440P and not 4K. 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:22.680 So, to get 240 Hertz, you probably don't even need a 5090, 00:13:22.680 --> 00:13:27.160 which is fantastic. But hold on a second. I've got a whole other monitor I've got to check out. 00:13:27.160 --> 00:13:32.160 Okay, we've got the XG27AQDMES setup now. 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:35.520 ASUS, please start removing letters from your product names 00:13:35.520 --> 00:13:38.840 because they're getting a little long. This one's the QD OLED. 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:44.840 It is very similar in spec to this guy in that it's 27 inches, 1440P, 240 Hertz. 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.960 It's a little cheaper, but there is a kind of 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.520 major downside that I can't ignore despite this being a sponsored video. 00:13:52.520 --> 00:13:56.480 You're only going to get about 400 nits 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.120 of peak brightness on this guy over here. And that's kind of been the problem with OLED 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.600 for quite a while, is the lack of brightness. But I will say, despite that you are getting 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.800 a much wider coverage of color gamut, 00:14:09.800 --> 00:14:13.280 thanks to quantum dots, and the viewing angle should be a little better. 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:17.920 For me, I personally lean towards this guy. 00:14:17.920 --> 00:14:22.240 Most people just prefer brightness. That's kind of the human experience. 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:27.120 Even if colors look a little different or off, brighter object or display just tends to be 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:31.440 what people gravitate towards. There's a reason why most TVs and Best Buy 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.880 is set up in vivid mode. Another kind of big difference you might notice 00:14:34.880 --> 00:14:40.400 is that this guy's only got the semi-glossy coating. And so it doesn't get quite as perfectly black 00:14:40.400 --> 00:14:45.440 as I'd like, but most people aren't really going to be able to tell if it's by itself. 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:49.000 Right next to this guy with the fully super true black 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:53.400 glossy coating, it's a little obvious. There are two other spots where you kind of miss out on. 00:14:53.400 --> 00:14:58.800 If you go for the less expensive model, there's no RGB on the back, which, hey, that's fine with me. 00:14:58.800 --> 00:15:03.080 However, you do lose the USB hub feature. 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:08.240 That's on the W OLED. At time of filming, the W OLED is currently on sale 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:12.040 for about $550, which is a pretty reasonable price. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:16.040 And the QD OLED is currently $599, 00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:19.440 which is $50 more than this guy, although regular price is $650. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:22.920 So buy whichever one you think makes the most sense 00:15:22.920 --> 00:15:26.680 if you're looking for a monitor. Listen up, Chump. You got to enter the Worth the Upgrade Challenge 00:15:26.680 --> 00:15:30.520 brought to you by ROG, where you can win one of eight ROG OLED monitors. 00:15:30.520 --> 00:15:34.600 You can do that even if you already own an OLED monitor from ROG, and you can do it if you don't, 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:38.280 because you're like me, all right? Yeah, okay, stop looking. Go to the description. 00:15:38.280 --> 00:15:42.080 That's where I'm going. That's where I'm going right now. We're going to have both of them 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.080 linked in the video description below, so you can take a look for yourself 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.680 and make your own decision. Thanks again, ASUS, for sponsoring this video. 00:15:48.680 --> 00:15:53.880 I'm Plouffe. These are two displays. So now I own two displays, I guess? 00:15:53.880 --> 00:15:57.320 Although I don't know these. One for each hand. They're the companies. 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.640 They're not mine. Mine are at home.