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4K 240 HZ or 2K 480 HZ what a time to be

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alive not only is there an endgame monitor there are endgame monitors these

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days depending on what it is you're looking for do you want blazing fast

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refresh rates for perfect motion Clarity or do you want pixel density that's so

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tight that both games and text are going to look sharp and detail AF well as Su

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sponsored this video so I could make up my mind and get ready for the RTX 5090

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whenever that might launch by sending over their new fourth generation QD OLED

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monitor the pg27 ucdm this thing is so

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new it doesn't even have a retail box

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yet as for what's inside the box it slices it dices it even has what so many

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of you have been waiting for ultra high bit rate or uh hbr2 on a 27in display so

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I get every frame burned into my retinas at a full up to 80 gbit per second

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that's right this is the world's first 4K 240 HZ 27in QD Leed display that

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isn't limited by display stream compression and it's all mine the only

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problem is I don't think even my PC is worthy of such a display we're going to

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get to this in a moment but first the first things first and the first thing

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is we've got to take my current 480 HZ monitor out as much as I have been

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absolutely loving this thing if the the rumors are true then the 90 should be

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the first true High refresh rate 4K

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gaming cart isn't it wild to think how just a few short years ago we were

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examining whether there was a clear advantage to upgrading to a cuttingedge

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240 HZ display and now I'm sitting here

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downgrading my 480 HZ display to 240 HZ

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but I get a lot in return I get over two

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times the resolution because it's 4 K and with no compression and because it's

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OLED sure OLED is expensive but it's got

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amazing HDR capabilities thanks to its Inky blacks and high peak brightness

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these days not to mention accurate colors and absolutely incredible motion

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Clarity like it used to be that even at the high end you were choosing between

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different technologies that had really important trade-offs you could have VA

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with bad viewing angles you could have IPS with bad contrast or you could have

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TN which was fast but just not as good for image

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quality no more now that I've got this out of the box it's a perfect time to

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show you guys the io we've got dual HDMI inputs for your game console or what

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have you a USBC input with 90 wats of

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power delivery so you can use DisplayPort alt mode with your laptop and of

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course the big star of the show our DP input with up to 80 gbit per second of

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bandwidth that's right folks dp2

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2.1 we'll talk more about it later for now let's get this assembled and turned

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on at the base of the tool is stand we've got asus's little desk projection

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thing you can 3D print your own lenses and throw them in there project whatever

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you want onto your desk and nipple based navigation for excellent ease of use now

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one potential drawback of OLED is of course image retention and

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burning but OLED care and protection has come a long way for example the pg27

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ucdm has a Neo proximity sensor which

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basically means that if you get up from the desk and forget to turn it off or

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put it to sleep it'll automatically swap to a black screen okay that's pretty

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cool we're going to have to try that but even if you didn't have it most media

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Outlets have found that you really need to drive these things into the ground to

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get properly noticeable retention and most of them like this one come with a

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3-year warranty anyway let's fire it

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up okay this is going to be a bit of an ele in the room when it comes to display

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port 2.1 with uhb 20 or ultra high bit

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rate 20 see this yeah it gives us 80 gbit per second

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of bandwidth so that we don't have to deal with any compression but um just

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like any other cable standard Ethernet USB HDMI the more bandwidth we get the

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shorter the cable has to be in order to maintain signal Integrity now there are

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some longer fiber optic versions out out there but selections limited and they're

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pretty expensive so my computer needs to

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be like a a right there also problem number du is that

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while DisplayPort is physically forward and backwards compatible you see I can

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take my brand new DisplayPort 2.1 cable and put it in my existing GPU the only

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card that will actually support the new higher data rates is AMD's workstation

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w79 00 Pro that's a $3500 card that's

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not meant for gaming so if you want to game over this connection you're going

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to have to wait for the availability of the RTX 5090 you know what you won't

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have to wait for the tech bro vest from LTT Store.com much pocket very

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Comfort y it's clear to get the most out of this thing I am going to need a GPU

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upgrade but there's nothing to upgrade to today so for now let's see what it

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can do with an RTX 4090

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by default that is not 240 HZ but my

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goodness now as someone who uses gaming

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monitors predominantly um I don't really dabble in 4k because there aren't gpus

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yet that can really drive it at a high refresh rate so I haven't really looked

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at a 27in 4K display in a while but that is wow is that ever dense 166 pixels per

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inch it's clean it's sharp let's turn it up to 240

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HZ and see if there's an immediate and obvious difference cuz the thing is no

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display stream compression is obviously better but we've already said in the

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past that picking up the difference between DSC and not DSC is not that easy

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so can you use this thing if you just have an older GPU I mean won't get the

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frame rates for it but you can connect it with your cute little

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cable does Doom maternal have a chance 4K 240 on a 49 I don't think so I'm kind

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of thinking plof maybe for today what we do is we go at 4K okay so we get that

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Clarity but we just I don't know turn the details down to eliminate GPU

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bottlenecking it's wild to me that you can just have like HDR and really great

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color and almost perfect pixel response

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times like it's like I said what a time to be alive

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all right at medium settings we can get

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330 frames per second it's so sharp I know it's crazy sharp

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like I keep thinking oh yeah endgame monitor whoever needs a new monitor and

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then they keep coming up with new monitor and it keeps being like insane

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like insane the level of improvement that we're getting from generation to

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generation here it looks dare I say

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perfect it's probably pretty close it's

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so sharp dude I know like if you're like

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if you're in there you know you're like in close you're gaming boys dude so

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sharp God the clarity is so like you do a whip and it's just instant oh it's

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perfect right actually I mean h the p

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word is such a dangerous word but oh here's something we should talk

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about obviously this thing supports variable refresh rate with g-sync but

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some folks out there have complained pretty loudly about vrr flicker on oleds

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personally I haven't found that it bothers me that much but if you are the

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kind of person who's affected by it Asus claims their new anti flicker 2.0 with

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Dynamic brightness algorithm should reduce that flicker by up to 20% like I

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said um not really impacted by it but

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neat Let's uh let's fire up something that we can like run at a lot of FPS I'm

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bad at this game I'm Dum oh come on come

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on what was that not even getting that many FPS man really yeah like 220

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we need new gpus even for flipping Counter Strike dude it's so responsive 2

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140 HZ it's a lot 4K it's sharp if I

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miss it's on me sometimes I don't miss wi Motion Plus

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hey hey hey hey no no no no no no oh I'm stuck run run

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away's we don't have to play video games on this thing yeah which is good good

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because not all of us are great at video games wait is Halo on here oh tempting

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but no we're going to check out something else

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first damn if you're the kind of person who

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watches movies at your monitor which a lot of people are I mean I was for years

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and years oh I have the perfect add-on for

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this DMS sent me over his project Omega

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headphon which obviously the headphone jack on this monitor is not going to be

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the world's greatest headphone amp or anything like that but I haven't gotten

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a chance to try them yet and I really really really want to

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try them and while I'm enjoying this

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beautiful footage seems like as good a time as any I'm looking for the

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proximity sensor thing here and you can dial in both your OLED anti flicker and

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your HDR format so you can select hdr10 or Dolby Vision oh here it is Neo

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proximity sensor okay so depending on

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how close you sit to your display like if you're a lean back and watch movies

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kind of person you can set it to not kick in until you're 1.2 M away so that

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would be about about 4 ft uh let's set it to that screen off to 1 minute

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oh oh look at that hey that was a minute

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all right well hold on hold on but what I want to know is will it detect a

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cat

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yes hey that's about 1.2 M right yeah

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that was actually really cool okay that's that's kind of nice because as

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much as I'd love to be able to rely on Windows to handle power States and turn

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monitors on and off properly I've actually had a big issue with these land

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computers where the monitor will still

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be getting some kind of signal so the backlight stays on even though the image

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goes dark I'm just kind of like like if

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that could just be handled by the monitor I consider that a

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win this is no longer required as part of our video plan but uh going to fire

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up some Halo infinite and I got to say man like I am blown away at how good

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display stream compression is cuz remember we're not even like running

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this thing properly it full potential but it really makes me think like with

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uh br20 are we going to be able to do like

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600 HZ 1,000 HZ using

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DSC the future's going to be awesome all

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right this could affect my ability to click heads a little bit but

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uh she's my sweetie

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so oh here we go let's

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go it's a rock paper scissors thing okay

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rocket launcher beats sword sword beats starting gun starting gun beats nothing

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you know how it is anywh

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who I said when I saw the pricing of the 40 series that I was not going to go 40

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series and I haven't I have held true to that but I never said that after waiting

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an entire generation I wouldn't be willing to drop a bunch of money on a 50

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Series I think a 50 series one of the

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these might be in my future in the next little bit here thanks again Asus for

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sending over this absolutely incredible display if you guys enjoyed this one

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maybe you'll enjoy the one where we looked at their 480 HZ 1440p monitor

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that one the one that I just took off my desk also an incredible

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Choice what a time to be alive