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We're here at the ASUS headquarters where they have sponsored a video for us

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to take a look at their latest and greatest technologies. Now, there are

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the new 5060 laptops and we'll briefly look at those, but what I think is a lot

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more interesting is their new display stuff. We're going into their secret

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tech demo room where we have some very nice displays and also a whole lot of

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echo. Wow, I am so sorry about the audio

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of this video, but I am not sorry about these displays, man. Look at these. I'm

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not sure if you'll be able to tell after YouTube compression, but we have the

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last gen Stricks G and the current gen.

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And they have the same panel minus the coating. And the difference it makes is

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incredible. They have a new ACR coating.

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And apparently the reflectivity has gone down from 6% on the old one to 3% on the

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new one. I really hope that you can tell just how apparent the difference is in

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the rejection of my phone's flashlight when I'm shining it on these because it

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is wild. And also, it helps so much with

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being able to see details like this cat right here. The contrast on this display

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is so much better. You can see a lot more detail in these sort of bluish

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highlights compared to the last gen. And overall, it just looks a lot better with

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nothing more than a different coating on top. Continuing with display

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improvements that are incredibly important, but also very subtle, is the

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Nebula Display HDR. Now, we already took a look at this on ShortCircuit, and it

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is exceptional, but it and basically

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every other HDR display on a Windows laptop have this problem where they

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overblow all of the colors. Not so much

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anymore. We can go in here, turn off

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vivid mode, and go into true color HDR.

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And man, it looks so much better. The

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difference between looking like a real

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leaf right here or some real grass and a

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television that you look at in Best Buy is

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exceptional. Here's the last gen panel. This one is,00 nits compared to the

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12,200 nit one. And even though this one probably looks brighter and more

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colorful to you, man, this one looks so

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much better. Probably the highest praise that I could give to this display is

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that with its new true color mode, I was able to compare it to a certain fruit

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company's fourth iteration of their Pro laptop, and the display looks almost

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identical. There's pretty much no higher

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praise that you can give for an HDR display right now. But fortunately, not

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only mobile devices get display upgrades. You do too for much less money

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than previously. This right here is the Tough

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Gaming and it is an exceptional value

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probably depending on Terra stuff. But what we have right here is for probably

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under $300 a 300Hz 1440p display that

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covers 95% of DCIP3. And honestly, I

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have been looking at it and it looks really freaking good for the price. In

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the past, if you wanted 300 Hz on a display that wasn't super duper

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expensive, it looked like hot. But fortunately though, this one right here,

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like look at this. It isn't mindblowing

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in the visual department, but it looks more than good enough. And

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unsurprisingly, it is fantastic for gaming. This thing right here being 300

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Hz of course is fantastic for playing shooters like CS:GO. As long as you're

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not bad like myself and in the past for something that had this kind of visuals

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and half the refresh rate, you'd be paying $600. That's what my monitor was.

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This stuff is supposed to come out in

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July. But maybe you're a true esports gamer and you can't just have 300 FPS

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and you can't just have 600 FPS like their competitors have. No, ASUS has

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taken their Super TN panel and overclocked it to an

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astounding 610 FPS, beating the

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competition by 1.6%. But honestly, this

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thing is freaking sweet. You can probably tell watching this at 30 FPS,

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the response times of this are wild. like just moving the mouse around on

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this. I have such incredible control of

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where it goes. It is insane to just look

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at, but also it isn't too bad to look at

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for a TN panel. Now, it doesn't look

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amazing if we're totally honest, but compared to panels that are super highly

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tuned for FPS that I've seen in the past, this thing is really quite good.

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and they were able to achieve that by changing the way that the backlight is

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done. So, as you might know, if you want incredibly crisp motion on your display,

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you need to strobe the backlight so the backlight's only on when the pixels are

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in their correct orientation. Basically,

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you don't want to see the pixel changing colors while the backlight is on. This

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can cause problems though on older monitors where they had a backlight that

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goes all the way along the bottom which can for one just not look very good.

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Kind of nails your contrast, but also it

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doesn't allow them to have the kind of control that they have now. By putting

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the back lightss along the sides, they've actually been able to have it so

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that as your pixels refresh from the top to the bottom, the backlight is able to

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strobe at the same time, which gives you

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incredible motion clarity. They call this

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ELMBB2, enhanced blur reduction, and it

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works pretty freaking good. Combine that with their 0.8 8 millisecond input

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latency and you have an exceptional gaming display for those hardcore gamers

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out there. This ROG Stricks Ace is expected for around $800 and will be

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launching in July. But maybe you're like me and not a true esports gamer and you

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just want something that looks pretty darn good. Well, that's where the new

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ROG Stricks OLED XG32 comes in with

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their new true black glossy version. Or

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maybe you want the semig gloss version. or maybe you want the matte version. As

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we have already discussed in this video, the coding of your display can make a

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huge difference to how those colors are going to be represented and the contrast

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you're able to get. So, it's really nice to see that they have a bunch of

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different options depending on what you want to do. So, maybe you're in a bright

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room, get the matte one. Maybe you can't decide, go for the semig glossy one. Or

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I really think you just get the true black glossy cuz man, like Glenn, just

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have a gander at this display. It looks freaking exceptional. Now, we do kind of

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expect HDR OLED displays to look pretty

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darn good in 2025. I was particularly impressed. This one, depending on

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tariffs and crop, is

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$800. For that, you get 4K at 165 FPS.

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Or, if you're more of a hardcore gamer, you can change it over to be 1080p at

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330fps. That said though, I'd probably just

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leave it on 4K because it is OLED, which

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means that you get those incredible 0.03 millisecond response times because

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each individual pixel just gets to turn on and off as it wants to. One neat

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little feature about this display is that it has a proximity sensor. So,

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you're able to have it so that your OLED display doesn't just continue displaying

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stuff if you leave it alone. And also, I have had problems in the past with

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laptops and stuff like that having their proximity sensors be way, way too

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sensitive. So, I'll sort of turn, look away, come back. My laptop's locked. H

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damn it. Well, here they have a tailored mode. So, I can come in here. How far do

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I want to be? 88 cm. Oh, can I get 69,

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72, 73,

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66? Ah, I tried. I'm sorry. The Stricks

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OLED XG32 is able to hit 1,300 nits. But

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if you get an extra $150 laying around, you can spring for the version that does

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4K 240 Hz or 1080p 480 for that wildly

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fast gaming. But I don't know, I'd probably just go for the 165 if I'm

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honest. Moving on from displays though, we do have new 5060 laptops. We have the

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Tough Gaming A14. This right here was one of my favorite laptops of last year

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and it does have a little bit of a price bump this year, but such is everything

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in the world these days. Moving over, we also have some F-series laptops which

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get you bigger displays and not quite as much chassis rigidity if I'm honest, but

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they do have the new A18 right here which is a bit large and a bit floppy,

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but at the same time for an 18-in gaming laptop is not too bad. In the interest

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though of actually saving you a buck, ASUS has made this right here, the Tough

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Gaming T500. It is somewhat like a normal compact

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desktop, but if you look a little bit more closely, uh, what the heck is this?

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What the heck is that? Well, what they have done is they have taken a mobile

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CPU and slapped it onto a sort of

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desktop motherboard thing. They did this because they realized that mobile CPUs

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can actually be had for less than their desktop counterparts. Then if you just

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throw a big old heat sink on it and give it a bunch more power and cooling, they

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perform pretty darn well. This one right here with a 5060 Ti 16 GB is only $1299

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with an i7, which is pretty darn good,

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especially for a little compact desktop thing. And finally, we have the new Asus

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G14. This guy right here is really quite

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cool. so cool that I think I'm not going to look at it too much because I want to

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do a full video on it in ShortCircuit with full Labs testing and it's going to

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be pretty sweet I suspect. What we can

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look at right now though is the difference between the 5080 version and

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the new 5060 version. Unsurprisingly, a

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5060 is a lot smaller than a 5080. You

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can see it right here. There's just way less memory, way less VRM around it and

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all of that goodness. That did mean that on the 5060 model here, we'll just slap

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the SSD right there. Everything's good.

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On the 5080 model, they had to have clearance for a couple of the power

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modules and stuff here, which means that this SSD to be a little bit higher off.

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The 5080 version also gets a larger heat pipe and an extra heat pipe contributing

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a little bit to that thickness. And also the fans are a tiny bit bigger just to

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deal with that extra cooling that they need to do. That logic doesn't apply to

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every single laptop though. This right here is the Stricks G16 and no matter

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what GPU you get, you get a vapor chamber on it. Meaning that your 5060

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can be cooled really, really well. Your 5090 can be cooled really, really well,

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and ASUS can be thanked really, really well for sponsoring this video. Huge

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thanks for watching, guys. Hit like, get subscribed, and check the links down in

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the description to see what ASUS has on sale. They have so much more stuff in

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this booth that we just did not have time to cover, but does not mean that

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it's not cool. See you later. Have a great day.