WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.440 We're here at CES 2024 in the ASUS booth. Check out their brand new gaming monitors that. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:13.360 Holy crap, look at how pretty she is. This right here is the PG-39 WCDM. We're going to look at 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:18.720 it because ASUS sponsored this video. Almost forgot the disclosure there, but I'm not going to forget 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:26.800 how fricking good this thing looks. This is an OLED panel. It's made by LG and it goes up to 1300 00:00:27.520 --> 00:00:34.880 Now that is only for 3% of the display, but that is pretty typical of this or QD or even some of 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:43.360 the less honest LCDs. So you get those like pin points that are so fricking bright on an OLED, 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:51.280 but you also get those just absolutely perfect blacks. Oh my god, these things look some nice. 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:58.000 Now this one specifically is 39 inches. There will also be a 34 inch version that's essentially 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:03.920 the same thing, but a tiny bit smaller as I'm sure you have assumed, and it has up to a 240 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:10.400 Hertz refresh rate. So let's come in here. We've got a bit of Rocket League booted up. I really like 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:16.000 Rocket League because it's such a vibrant game and it allows us to really see just how bad I am for one 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:22.560 and also just how nice this thing looks. The amount of contrast on this thing 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.840 is just fantastic. I feel like Rocket League wasn't showing off the like intensity of this 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:36.800 display that I was looking for. One moment here. Here we go. You obviously cannot tell how pretty 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:42.880 this is because you're looking at it through an FX3, through YouTube, and then through your monitor, 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:51.040 but just like the glints on Buddy's helmet here are so impressive and like the contrast between 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:59.200 him and like his cape, oh, it is very nice. Now what you might be thinking is that like this 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:04.400 fire right here, that's really bright and making things really bright consumes a lot of power and 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:09.440 a lot of power creates a lot of heat and OLED displays really do not like that. If they are 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:14.720 getting too bright, they will burn in and they will just start looking bad and die eventually, 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:20.640 which is why ASUS has their brand new heatsink assembly. Now we talked to them for an hour to 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:24.640 try and get permission to take one of these apart. They wouldn't. I am very sad about it, so we'll 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:29.120 have to in the future. I was trying to find some marketing BS name for it, but instead it's just 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:34.320 the highly efficient custom heatsink for effective heat management. But what that is doing is that 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:39.440 on the scaler and on the power delivery, they have heatsinks on there to make sure that no 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:44.800 more than about 60 degrees Celsius is able to make its way to the panel. They also have 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:51.120 a massive graphene sheet across the whole thing to make sure that you know she's staying just 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:58.240 real nice and cool. Maybe you know that's that one's just 240 Hertz. You don't want that. You want 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:09.120 480. This right here is the PG-27 AQDP. It's 1440P, 480 Hertz, and holy heck buddy in the 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:16.640 little spaceship. He is completely clear all the way across. Like at 240, he looks pretty good, 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:23.520 but the motion clarity of this guy is absolutely incredible and it can be even better. ASUS says 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:28.160 they're going to have black frame insertion on these panels although they're pretty cagey about 00:03:28.160 --> 00:03:33.600 the details. And you might be wondering why do you want that? So in the past black frame insertion 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:38.720 was used because the pixels were pretty darn slow. They were right laggy so they would strobe the 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:44.480 backlight so that as the pixel is like you know changing from one color to the next you wouldn't 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:49.200 see that and you wouldn't get those smearing effects. These days though that isn't a problem 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:55.040 because OLED pixels are just they're right fast. The problem though is your own eyeballs 00:03:55.040 --> 00:04:02.160 and just their analog image persistence. So if there's like an image on the display and it moves 00:04:02.160 --> 00:04:08.240 your brain and eyes kind of think of it as one thing whereas if you put a little black frame 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:13.200 in there your eyes are like oh it's new information every single time that it does that and it can 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:18.960 look absolutely fantastic. Now these do support free sync although they didn't say if it supports 00:04:18.960 --> 00:04:24.960 G-Sync because it is currently going through validation although it might be safe to say 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.400 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 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:37.040 have a 480 Hertz panel it will look really good in games and pretty poo poo and everything else 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:42.080 because they will sacrifice everything for that pixel response time not the case here. This thing 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:50.880 also has the 1300 nits peak brightness 99% DCI-P3 coverage and it just looks very very nice. 00:04:50.880 --> 00:04:55.760 ASUS said that for this generation they had to completely redo how they calibrate their OLED 00:04:55.760 --> 00:05:00.800 panels because for one it's just very different than LCD but also these things are so hecking 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.440 bright they had to just well they don't have very many details about it because you know 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:08.880 these aren't out yet they don't want to give away too much but according to my eyeballs 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:13.680 they did a very good job. Well maybe you're super indecisive. If you want one 480 Hertz, 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:22.160 two 140 Hertz, you can have both right here. So right here is the PG32 UCDP this also has that 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:32.320 LG panel that is OLED 1300 nits but this one right here can be either 4k 240 Hertz or full HD 480 Hertz. 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:39.680 There also will be the ROG PG32 UCDM so same thing except this one has a P but that one right 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:46.480 there will have a QD OLED and it will be only up to a thousand nits and like you know Samsung's panels 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:52.240 are they even that good anymore now that we have these OLEDs? I was hoping the ASUS reps would get 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.360 mad at me but they I guess just agree that the LG ones are really fantastic. Technically in every 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:02.720 way this panel is better. Now the Samsung will have the advantage that it's going to be launching 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.160 this month which will be sooner than the rest of them which will be more like 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:14.960 late Q1 maybe early Q2 somewhere around there and it kind of shows so this guy right here 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:20.400 currently does not have the working dual mode so unfortunately we cannot play around with that 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:26.080 but I know what a lot of you guys might be thinking is just like why why would you want those why 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:34.160 not just pick one and they basically said well we can do 480 Hertz but you cannot even drive that 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:41.440 even with like a 4080 4k 480 Hertz it is not going to happen so if you do some esports titles and 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:46.480 then like sometimes do content creation or just like want to look at text that's really nice and 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:52.560 clear that's where that 4k is really going to come into its own. Now one pain point of monitors is 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:59.840 always just using a little OSD in the monitor huge pain in the arse so ASUS has well they've had this 00:06:59.840 --> 00:07:04.480 before many companies had this before but they have a new and improved OSD within Windows. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.080 This allows you to do fun things like change the brightness will it actually work oh my god it 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:14.320 actually worked this is all pre-production so it wasn't 100% sure but almost more importantly 00:07:14.320 --> 00:07:20.240 is their OLED care stuff so of course LG within the firmware of the panel makes sure that it's 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:25.840 not going to burn in too much but if you want to just be a little bit more careful you can come in 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:30.560 here they've got display saver adjusting logo brightness to make sure that just like you don't 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.840 have your Windows logo end up on your screen at all times or you can manually force the pixel 00:07:35.840 --> 00:07:45.840 cleaning what happens if I click that don't do it pixel cleaning fail well it tried now we don't 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:52.960 have final pricing for any of these although they did say that the 34 inch version of the pg34wcdm 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:58.640 is going to be around $1,300 which when you compare it to something like the qt OLED monitors that 00:07:58.640 --> 00:08:04.560 exists right now is pretty good but it firmly puts you in like nicolas ploof ultra display 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:10.000 nerd territory and not sort of more like normie display territory and I was kind of wondering like 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.320 normally you get this new ultra like yeah it's the most beautiful display you can get but we 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:21.280 haven't really seen OLEDs trickle down at all and like and what once was premium like three years 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:27.600 ago it doesn't exist as a mid-level device these days you just keep on refreshing the most expensive 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:32.720 of those and ASUS was saying that there is a good reason for that and that's mostly just that 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:39.200 OLED customers do not want to compromise on the image quality at all and there have been other 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:45.120 companies that had less bright OLED panels that were returned to them because the customers were 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:50.560 not very happy with the brightness and the performance compared to their old lcd ones so 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:55.360 they could do stuff like remove that really expensive custom heatsink from these but then 00:08:55.360 --> 00:09:00.320 they either have to really drop down the brightness or you just have to live with a bunch of burnin 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:06.080 which I don't think any of us want so this right here as economies of scale and stuff 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:12.160 start happening might get a little bit cheaper but for now it's just for the ultra nerds that said 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:18.400 though the ultra nerds are getting some really beautiful displays just like it was really 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:23.520 beautiful that ASUS sponsored this video hit like get subscribed and just have a fantastic old egg