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i am having a pretty good couple of weeks here guys so NVIDIA just sent over

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a titan rtx to replace my old titan x

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maxwell graphics card so that upgrade is

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done but i ran into a new problem my predator x34

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is officially holding me back now with its 100 hertz refresh rate fortunately

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the long awaited rog swift pg-35v

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is finally here it's a clear upgrade in

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every way it's 3440 by 1440 resolution

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still but it is one inch bigger it's got

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HDR with g-sync ultimate and

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it manages up to 200hz refresh

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so it is finally time after a couple years of this being my reigning gaming

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monitor of choice to crack open and upgrade

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now i do want to get this cracked open right away but before i do that i should

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give you guys a bit of an update on what's going on with the personal rig so

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the old graphics card is still out

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but if you guys recall i actually changed out my CPU and motherboard at

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the same time that i put in the titan rtx except one small continuity error

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that's my old rampage five extreme with my 5960x in it

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so there was something i didn't think of back when i did the upgrade

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optical Thunderbolt 3 cables which is what the new motherboard used

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don't exist yet so what i'm doing right now is even though i have all these

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cables run here is i'm actually back to using my Thunderbolt 2 connection

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with my old motherboard now as for the reason that i bring all of that up

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i left all this stuff in place because at this point i don't know if my

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Thunderbolt 2 connection is going to be

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able to carry a displayport 1.4 signal

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which it will need to if it's going to be able to do 200 hertz at 3440 by 1440.

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so the good news is we've got all the different options

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and we're just gonna go with whatever works

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oh this thing is pretty heavy isn't it

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first impressions like right out of the gate here this thing is really thick

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to ASUS's credit they've managed to thin up the bezels quite a bit compared to

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their 4k 144hz gaming display

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oh from this angle you guys also get a really good look at the curve that is a

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tight curve 1800r looking not too bad

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i o wise we've got HDMI but

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even with HDMI 2.0 you're still limited to 3440 by 1440 100 hertz then we've got

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displayport here which is 180 hertz natively 200 hertz overclocked our power

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in a usb 3 hub and then that's pretty

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much it oh except for this so that is actually a headphone jack so what's

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notable here is that this is powered by a higher end amp and dac than you would

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normally find integrated into a monitor so you can use it a couple ways you can

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pass through your audio from HDMI or displayport just like you normally would

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or if you plug in via usb then you get higher definition audio or whatever the

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case may be personally i don't find this to be a particularly big deal because

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from my perspective if you can afford a twenty five hundred dollar monitor

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you can probably also afford a standalone amp and dac so for me i'm

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using an o2 headphone amplifier with the dac built in then again the flip side of

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it is maybe you spent all of your money on this 2500 monitor and you're very

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grateful that it has a better built-in headphone amplification solution

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all right now that we've got it assembled looks like we've got about now it looks about like about four or five

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inches of height adjust there you go there's your tilt

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uh here's your swivel and then there's no no pivot but

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you do have a little bit of adjustment just in case your desk is not quite even

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um we've got an ambient light sensor on the top so you can disable that but that

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can make it so that if your room lighting conditions change then it'll

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adjust the backlight speaking of backlights there's lights on

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the back this is full RGB if you're into that sort of thing but

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for me personally i won't be seeing it so uh

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not sure if i care about that but i do like having these controls on the back

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with the joystick type interface that is definitely my favorite way to interact

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with the monitor all right so let's get this thing replaced

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this is a lot heavier this thing is chunky or what is it the

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kids say now chunky it's chunky apparently this is a 280

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watt power brick that's nuts

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i've plugged my DisplayPort pass-through into the back of my

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graphics card and i'm pretty sure this isn't gonna work

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but hey you know it's worth a shot

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well the good news is that the uh fit cable works

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i don't know what refresh rate though so i shut down the system we're gonna try a

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cold boot swapped out my standard cable for the one running through Thunderbolt

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and we're gonna see if it works at all and how far it'll go but

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something you guys need to keep in mind is that even if it works perfectly

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just like their 4k 144hz gaming display

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this one has some some gotchas on the maximum resolution

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and refresh rate so if you want to run with no chroma sub

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sampling so full 444 RGB color you're

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going to be limited to 120 hertz if you want 12 bit color

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144 hertz if you want 10 bit color and

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180 hertz if you want 8-bit color and of

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course at 8-bit color you cannot run HDR

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so the only way to go to 200 hertz overclocked is to run 8-bit color again

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no HDR then if you're willing to use chroma sub-sampling so that's 422 you

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can actually run all the way up to 12-bit color at 200 hertz but you're

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going to get that fringing that many people complained about with the 27-inch

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4k 144 hertz wow this is just not

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working at all okay then i guess we're just gonna have

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to run this displayport cable and we're stuck with that then

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now the thing about chroma subsampling is that while you'll notice it on text

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it's unlikely that many people will notice it in game so your mileage may

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vary it's worth trying out now okay we've got it fired up we're

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kind of looking at it closely for the first time and it's obvious that our viewing angles are not

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quite ips like which kind of makes sense because this is a va as opposed to an

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ips panel let's go ahead and see how far we can

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push the refresh rate with that cable going to the other room

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over there let's go straight to 200 hertz i guess all right so i'm seeing a

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little bit of motion blur on the trailing and leading edge of this window

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but it's far from the worst i've seen to its credit even though we're running at

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200 hertz this text is quite readable

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even while i'm moving it around now to ASUS NVIDIA's credit actually on static

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text this is at 200 hertz four two to 12

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bit i can barely i i honestly can't even

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tell but if i move it see that

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it starts to look kind of weird and like kind of brown yellow as i move it around

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so honestly for myself i think i'd be

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far more likely to leave it on 444 and maybe try to hit the 144 hertz refresh

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for that full quality but still a significant upgrade in terms of refresh

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rate over my old one so now that i've settled on that we can go ahead and

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enable HDR which happily doesn't make Windows look like

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complete garbage when you're not in games anymore that's pretty nice and we

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can go ahead and fire up steam which is a perfect opportunity for us to

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have a look at the full array local dimming

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that's present on this monitor so unlike their previous 4k display which

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had 384 zones this one actually has

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512 zones and they're all quite small

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only about two and a half centimeters square so what that means is that as a

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bright object moves around on the screen the backlight behind it is going to

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brighten and then as a dark object moves around it will darken now in a synthetic

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situation like this you can see that the effect is really not very convincing and

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making adjustments to it like changing it to gradual for example

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does not improve the situation at all it just creates kind of a

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hazy smear behind whatever you move around but the real test is not how it

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does moving the mouse around in steam but rather how it handles actual games

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okay so shadow of the tomb raider is almost ready to go which means we can

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talk about HDR gameplay now but first

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well let's talk about HDR content consumption so here's a video that was

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shot in HDR from our buddy austin evans i'm just gonna switch us over to yep

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there we go 4k HDR does it work

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uh yeah it definitely works so it's vasa

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HDR 1000 certified which means it has to be able to do a thousand nits peak

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brightness in a small area or as a single flash across the whole screen and

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600 nits sustained but ASUS says it can actually do 750 nits sustained now

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as far as just consuming content on it goes i gotta say the full array local

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dimming did not bother me at all as long as i'm

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viewing it from directly in front if you go off axis

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yeah that's a more challenging scenario and i can definitely see the halos but

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straight on it actually looks

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really damn good so this is fascinating i was having a game launching issue and

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i wanted to force close steam

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and check this out we're getting wicked fringing now and it looks like

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it's actually related to HDR so even though i'm running four to two here we

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go 12 bit 144 hertz even i bet if i even

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crank it to 200 hertz we get no fringing without HDR unless we

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move it around see there you go you got to move it around to have any

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effect whatsoever so this is it first time

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gaming in HDR at home 200 hertz man that's butter smooth the

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sunlight looks really really natural

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compared to what you'd be accustomed to seeing in

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games and even in the spots where we've got

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like a pretty significant contrast between a sunlight reflection and then

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something dark underneath it i'm not really getting

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a noticeable halo or fringe around it

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that looks really sharp doesn't it one thing i'd like to try though is dialing

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it back to 144 hertz no chroma sub sampling so we're back at four four four

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ten bit color honestly i wouldn't say there's anything

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immediately noticeable this game does look really really good in HDR though so

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i could actually see myself dialing back the maximum refresh rate for games that

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are all about the visuals but

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there are also situations where i wouldn't want to compromise on that

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at all and i'd be willing to go to you know

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8-bit or 4-2-2 sub-sampling or whatever the case

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may be and that's something like uh like a pixel precision you know platformer

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like super meat boy oh okay literally

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yeah he's a super boy i don't know no questions video game stuff

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i gotta say i could get used to playing a game like this at 200 hertz

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nope this is driving me crazy it's driving me crazy brandon but as for my

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last game test actually the game that i started this entire personal rig update

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over over land i don't have an issue but this

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is the first game that we've tried today where the full array local dimming is

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noticeable when i'm mousing over the water and i would

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find that distracting so

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yeah this is the first situation where i would probably find myself wanting to go

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in and turn that off and i guess that's actually a perfect place to summarize my

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thoughts on this display it's an incredible piece of technology i hadn't

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even mentioned this yet but we validated ASUS's included color calibration report

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with delta ease of two or less making it not just great for gaming but also

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content consumption and even content creation but both its greatest strength

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and its greatest weakness is the incredible degree of customization

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that it allows so you can decide what

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color depth you want or whether you want chroma sub sampling or whether you want

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to trade off more refresh rate or less refresh rate

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or you want to run HDR or no HDR do you want to have um full array local dimming

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on or off if you're not using HDR and you can dial in exactly the experience

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you want on a per game basis

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but it also means that you have to have a pretty decent level of understanding

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of all the dials and knobs that are at your fingertips

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now for me personally there's no going back at this point it's

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just that if you're in the market for one of these make sure you set aside maybe a couple

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