We're here at CES 2024 in the ASUS booth. Check out their brand new gaming monitors that.
Holy crap, look at how pretty she is. This right here is the PG-39 WCDM. We're going to look at
it because ASUS sponsored this video. Almost forgot the disclosure there, but I'm not going to forget
how fricking good this thing looks. This is an OLED panel. It's made by LG and it goes up to 1300
Now that is only for 3% of the display, but that is pretty typical of this or QD or even some of
the less honest LCDs. So you get those like pin points that are so fricking bright on an OLED,
but you also get those just absolutely perfect blacks. Oh my god, these things look some nice.
Now this one specifically is 39 inches. There will also be a 34 inch version that's essentially
the same thing, but a tiny bit smaller as I'm sure you have assumed, and it has up to a 240
Hertz refresh rate. So let's come in here. We've got a bit of Rocket League booted up. I really like
Rocket League because it's such a vibrant game and it allows us to really see just how bad I am for one
and also just how nice this thing looks. The amount of contrast on this thing
is just fantastic. I feel like Rocket League wasn't showing off the like intensity of this
display that I was looking for. One moment here. Here we go. You obviously cannot tell how pretty
this is because you're looking at it through an FX3, through YouTube, and then through your monitor,
but just like the glints on Buddy's helmet here are so impressive and like the contrast between
him and like his cape, oh, it is very nice. Now what you might be thinking is that like this
fire right here, that's really bright and making things really bright consumes a lot of power and
a lot of power creates a lot of heat and OLED displays really do not like that. If they are
getting too bright, they will burn in and they will just start looking bad and die eventually,
which is why ASUS has their brand new heatsink assembly. Now we talked to them for an hour to
try and get permission to take one of these apart. They wouldn't. I am very sad about it, so we'll
have to in the future. I was trying to find some marketing BS name for it, but instead it's just
the highly efficient custom heatsink for effective heat management. But what that is doing is that
on the scaler and on the power delivery, they have heatsinks on there to make sure that no
more than about 60 degrees Celsius is able to make its way to the panel. They also have
a massive graphene sheet across the whole thing to make sure that you know she's staying just
real nice and cool. Maybe you know that's that one's just 240 Hertz. You don't want that. You want
480. This right here is the PG-27 AQDP. It's 1440P, 480 Hertz, and holy heck buddy in the
little spaceship. He is completely clear all the way across. Like at 240, he looks pretty good,
but the motion clarity of this guy is absolutely incredible and it can be even better. ASUS says
they're going to have black frame insertion on these panels although they're pretty cagey about
the details. And you might be wondering why do you want that? So in the past black frame insertion
was used because the pixels were pretty darn slow. They were right laggy so they would strobe the
backlight so that as the pixel is like you know changing from one color to the next you wouldn't
see that and you wouldn't get those smearing effects. These days though that isn't a problem
because OLED pixels are just they're right fast. The problem though is your own eyeballs
and just their analog image persistence. So if there's like an image on the display and it moves
your brain and eyes kind of think of it as one thing whereas if you put a little black frame
in there your eyes are like oh it's new information every single time that it does that and it can
look absolutely fantastic. Now these do support free sync although they didn't say if it supports
G-Sync because it is currently going through validation although it might be safe to say
it will in the future but we're not going to look at that. Now in the past a lot of the time if you
have a 480 Hertz panel it will look really good in games and pretty poo poo and everything else
because they will sacrifice everything for that pixel response time not the case here. This thing
also has the 1300 nits peak brightness 99% DCI-P3 coverage and it just looks very very nice.
ASUS said that for this generation they had to completely redo how they calibrate their OLED
panels because for one it's just very different than LCD but also these things are so hecking
bright they had to just well they don't have very many details about it because you know
these aren't out yet they don't want to give away too much but according to my eyeballs
they did a very good job. Well maybe you're super indecisive. If you want one 480 Hertz,
two 140 Hertz, you can have both right here. So right here is the PG32 UCDP this also has that
LG panel that is OLED 1300 nits but this one right here can be either 4k 240 Hertz or full HD 480 Hertz.
There also will be the ROG PG32 UCDM so same thing except this one has a P but that one right
there will have a QD OLED and it will be only up to a thousand nits and like you know Samsung's panels
are they even that good anymore now that we have these OLEDs? I was hoping the ASUS reps would get
mad at me but they I guess just agree that the LG ones are really fantastic. Technically in every
way this panel is better. Now the Samsung will have the advantage that it's going to be launching
this month which will be sooner than the rest of them which will be more like
late Q1 maybe early Q2 somewhere around there and it kind of shows so this guy right here
currently does not have the working dual mode so unfortunately we cannot play around with that
but I know what a lot of you guys might be thinking is just like why why would you want those why
not just pick one and they basically said well we can do 480 Hertz but you cannot even drive that
even with like a 4080 4k 480 Hertz it is not going to happen so if you do some esports titles and
then like sometimes do content creation or just like want to look at text that's really nice and
clear that's where that 4k is really going to come into its own. Now one pain point of monitors is
always just using a little OSD in the monitor huge pain in the arse so ASUS has well they've had this
before many companies had this before but they have a new and improved OSD within Windows.
This allows you to do fun things like change the brightness will it actually work oh my god it
actually worked this is all pre-production so it wasn't 100% sure but almost more importantly
is their OLED care stuff so of course LG within the firmware of the panel makes sure that it's
not going to burn in too much but if you want to just be a little bit more careful you can come in
here they've got display saver adjusting logo brightness to make sure that just like you don't
have your Windows logo end up on your screen at all times or you can manually force the pixel
cleaning what happens if I click that don't do it pixel cleaning fail well it tried now we don't
have final pricing for any of these although they did say that the 34 inch version of the pg34wcdm
is going to be around $1,300 which when you compare it to something like the qt OLED monitors that
exists right now is pretty good but it firmly puts you in like nicolas ploof ultra display
nerd territory and not sort of more like normie display territory and I was kind of wondering like
normally you get this new ultra like yeah it's the most beautiful display you can get but we
haven't really seen OLEDs trickle down at all and like and what once was premium like three years
ago it doesn't exist as a mid-level device these days you just keep on refreshing the most expensive
of those and ASUS was saying that there is a good reason for that and that's mostly just that
OLED customers do not want to compromise on the image quality at all and there have been other
companies that had less bright OLED panels that were returned to them because the customers were
not very happy with the brightness and the performance compared to their old lcd ones so
they could do stuff like remove that really expensive custom heatsink from these but then
they either have to really drop down the brightness or you just have to live with a bunch of burnin
which I don't think any of us want so this right here as economies of scale and stuff
start happening might get a little bit cheaper but for now it's just for the ultra nerds that said
though the ultra nerds are getting some really beautiful displays just like it was really
beautiful that ASUS sponsored this video hit like get subscribed and just have a fantastic old egg