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all mine the only problem is I don't think even my PC is worthy of such a display we're going to get to this in a moment but first the first things first and the first thing is we've got to take my current 480 HZ monitor out as much as I have been absolutely loving this thing if the the rumors are true then the 90 should be the first true High refresh rate 4K gaming cart isn't it wild to think how just a few short years ago we were examining whether there was a clear advantage to upgrading to a cuttingedge 240 HZ display and now I'm sitting here downgrading my 480 HZ display to 240 HZ but I get a lot in return I get over two times the resolution because it's 4 K and with no compression and because it's OLED sure OLED is expensive but it's got amazing HDR capabilities thanks to its Inky blacks and high peak brightness these days not to mention accurate colors and absolutely incredible motion Clarity like it used to be that even at the high end you were choosing between different technologies that had really important trade-offs you could have VA with bad viewing angles you could have IPS with bad contrast or you could have TN which was fast but just not as good for image quality no more now that I've got this out of the box it's a perfect time to show you guys the io we've got dual HDMI inputs for your game console or what have you a USBC input with 90 wats of power delivery so you can use DisplayPort alt mode with your laptop and of course the big star of the show our DP input with up to 80 gbit per second of bandwidth that's right folks dp2 2.1 we'll talk more about it later for now let's get this assembled and turned on at the base of the tool is stand we've got asus's little desk projection thing you can 3D print your own lenses and throw them in there project whatever you want onto your desk and nipple based navigation for excellent ease of use now one potential drawback of OLED is of course image retention and burning but OLED care and protection has come a long way for example the pg27 ucdm has a Neo proximity sensor which basically means that if you get up from the desk and forget to turn it off or put it to sleep it'll automatically swap to a black screen okay that's pretty cool we're going to have to try that but even if you didn't have it most media Outlets have found that you really need to drive these things into the ground to get properly noticeable retention and most of them like this one come with a 3-year warranty anyway let's fire it up okay this is going to be a bit of an ele in the room when it comes to DisplayPort 2.1 with uhb 20 or ultra high bit rate 20 see this yeah it gives us 80 gbit per second of bandwidth so that we don't have to deal with any compression but um just like any other cable standard Ethernet USB HDMI the more bandwidth we get the shorter the cable has to be in order to maintain signal Integrity now there are some longer fiber optic versions out out there but selections limited and they're pretty expensive so my computer needs to be like a a right there also problem number du is that while DisplayPort is physically forward and backwards compatible you see I can take my brand new DisplayPort 2.1 cable and put it in my existing GPU the only card that will actually support the new higher data rates is AMD's workstation w79 00 Pro that's a $3500 card that's not meant for gaming so if you want to game over this connection you're going to have to wait for the availability of the RTX 5090 you know what you won't have to wait for the tech bro vest from LTT Store.com much pocket very Comfort y it's clear to get the most out of this thing I am going to need a GPU upgrade but there's nothing to upgrade to today so for now let's see what it can do with an RTX 4090 by default that is not 240 HZ but my goodness now as someone who uses gaming monitors predominantly um I don't really dabble in 4k because there aren't gpus yet that can really drive it at a high refresh rate so I haven't really looked at a 27in 4K display in a while but that is wow is that ever dense 166 pixels per inch it's clean it's sharp let's turn it up to 240 HZ and see if there's an immediate and obvious difference cuz the thing is no display stream compression is obviously better but we've already said in the past that picking up the difference between DSC and not DSC is not that easy so can you use this thing if you just have an older GPU I mean won't get the frame rates for it but you can connect it with your cute little cable does Doom maternal have a chance 4K 240 on a 49 I don't think so I'm kind of thinking plof maybe for today what we do is we go at 4K okay so we get that Clarity but we just I don't know turn the details down to eliminate GPU bottlenecking it's wild to me that you can just have like HDR and really great color and almost perfect pixel response times like it's like I said what a time to be alive all right at medium settings we can get 330 frames per second it's so sharp I know it's crazy sharp like I keep thinking oh yeah endgame monitor whoever needs a new monitor and then they keep coming up with new monitor and it keeps being like insane like insane the level of improvement that we're getting from generation to generation here it looks dare I say perfect it's probably pretty close it's so sharp dude I know like if you're like if you're in there you know you're like in close you're gaming boys dude so sharp God the clarity is so like you do a whip and it's just instant oh it's perfect right actually I mean h the p word is such a dangerous word but oh here's something we should talk about obviously this thing supports variable refresh rate with g-sync but some folks out there have complained pretty loudly about vrr flicker on oleds personally I haven't found that it bothers me that much but if you are the kind of person who's affected by it Asus claims their new anti flicker 2.0 with Dynamic brightness algorithm should reduce that flicker by up to 20% like I said um not really impacted by it but neat Let's uh let's fire up something that we can like run at a lot of FPS I'm bad at this game I'm Dum oh come on come on what was that not even getting that many FPS man really yeah like 220 we need new gpus even for flipping Counter Strike dude it's so responsive 2 140 HZ it's a lot 4K it's sharp if I miss it's on me sometimes I don't miss wi Motion Plus hey hey hey hey no no no no no no oh I'm stuck run run away's we don't have to play video games on this thing yeah which is good good because not all of us are great at video games wait is Halo on here oh tempting but no we're going to check out something else first damn if you're the kind of person who watches movies at your monitor which a lot of people are I mean I was for years and years oh I have the perfect add-on for this DMS sent me over his project Omega headphon which obviously the headphone jack on this monitor is not going to be the world's greatest headphone amp or anything like that but I haven't gotten a chance to try them yet and I really really really want to try them and while I'm enjoying this beautiful footage seems like as good a time as any I'm looking for the proximity sensor thing here and you can dial in both your OLED anti flicker and your HDR format so you can select hdr10 or Dolby Vision oh here it is Neo proximity sensor okay so depending on how close you sit to your display like if you're a lean back and watch movies kind of person you can set it to not kick in until you're 1.2 M away so that would be about about 4 ft uh let's set it to that screen off to 1 minute oh oh look at that hey that was a minute all right well hold on hold on but what I want to know is will it detect a cat yes hey that's about 1.2 M right yeah that was actually really cool okay that's that's kind of nice because as much as I'd love to be able to rely on Windows to handle power States and turn monitors on and off properly I've actually had a big issue with these land computers where the monitor will still be getting some kind of signal so the backlight stays on even though the image goes dark I'm just kind of like like if that could just be handled by the monitor I consider that a win this is no longer required as part of our video plan but uh going to fire up some Halo infinite and I got to say man like I am blown away at how good display stream compression is cuz remember we're not even like running this thing properly it full potential but it really makes me think like with uh br20 are we going to be able to do like 600 HZ 1,000 HZ using DSC the future's going to be awesome all right this could affect my ability to click heads a little bit but uh she's my sweetie so oh here we go let's go it's a rock paper scissors thing okay rocket launcher beats sword sword beats starting gun starting gun beats nothing you know how it is anywh who I said when I saw the pricing of the 40 series that I was not going to go 40 series and I haven't I have held true to that but I never said that after waiting an entire generation I wouldn't be willing to drop a bunch of money on a 50 Series I think a 50 series one of the these might be in my future in the next little bit here thanks again Asus for sending over this absolutely incredible display if you guys enjoyed this one maybe you'll enjoy the one where we looked at their 480 HZ 1440p monitor that one the one that I just took off my desk also an incredible Choice what a time to be alive"}