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Vengeance gaming to learn more now we've all seen those cheap Korean uh
IPS um greater than HD resolution
monitors on eBay okay so we're familiar with those they're actually fairly
inexpensive All Things Considered you know considering that you're getting an
IPS screen that runs at 2560 by 1440
they're usually 27in models but not everyone is comfortable with buying from
these weird sort of direct from Korea
eBay sellers and not everyone is comfortable knowing that they are
getting a non-ag grade panel or
sometimes non A+ grade CU there's a wide
variety of different grades of LCD panels so not knowing what they're
getting and obviously not having any recourse if there are dead pixels or
whatever else so that my friends is
where nixus comes in they have got their
own version of what would be these 27in
uh not quite A+ grade panels but the key difference is that you have a North
American company to go to assuming you live in North America so you have a
North American company to go to if there's some kind of a problem and you
have someone actually doing like some rudimentary quality control on them as
opposed to just going with sort of off the the not quite correct manufacturing
line and just shipping them out to you so that's nix's value ad here is they're
Q seeing it they're giving you a support contact that you can actually talk to
here in North America and they are delivering you an IPS screen that is
capable of 2560 by 1440 resolution also
known as uh what was the
2.5k and they have also made some modifications to the monitor that make
it a little bit better than the Cheapo ones as well so check this out uh number
one is you have multiple display Imports
so HDMI DVI VGA and DisplayPort
although it should be noted that the only two that are capable of displaying
at Full Resolution are going to be DVI and DisplayPort that's dual link DVI
not single link DVI single link DVI has only the resolution of HDMI which is not
quite enough they've included all the accessories you need to get it mounted
up I think this is the first time I've ever seen um like a mounting ARM that
just Clips onto a standard vase amount on a monitor like this so we're going to
have to go ahead and sort of figure that out I guess I should finish showing you what's on the bottom so other than that
there's audio as well as DC power in and
you've got all your ventilation holes on the bottom as well as on the top of the
monitor up here now the front of the monitor this is a 27 in screen so you
can expect a little bit of a wider bezel but it's not super wide it is a glossy
monitor so it's glossy on the bezel as as well as on the screen itself and all
of your on screen menus are controlled by the buttons down here at the bottom
so I'm actually going to throw this together off camera and we'll be back in a moment all the mounting hardware is
helpfully labeled so we're going to start with the uh the screw for
connecting Monitor and shaft as opposed to the screw for connecting the base and
the shaft so we just position this guy
right here over the four holes and then I guess I probably should have opened up
uh this little baggie there we go so those are four Vasa compatible screws
and just go ahead and position those right there you can see that the M the
uh the ARM is height adjust which is really nice to see just because
especially with these larger size monitors it's uh it's nice to be able to
to move them around to suit sort of your your individual uh viewing style because
they're so heavy and so so large compared to smaller monitors now while
this is an LED back model it's still a little bit on the thicker side and
heavier side again because of that size and uh yeah because of that size now I
have a lot of people sort of you
know Wonder ask me what are the advantages and
disadvantages of uh larger resolution
versus lower resolution and so I would say well there's a couple things so
Advantage number one is having that pixel density gives you more clarity to
the image so it is going to look nicer this disadvantage number one is expect
to be upgrading your graphics card a lot more often if you are wanting to play at
Native resolution which will obviously look a lot better than if you play at
sort of not a native resolution where you'll have that uh that interpolation
that you encounter with that you can see there's a bit of uh bit of play there so
let's see how sturdy it is once we've actually got it fully attached here so
there it is eight screws to get it set up and you can see I've positioned it on
the included styring so that but it ah
there we go isn't resting on the screen
itself once it's on your desk I guess that it's not too bad actually that's
probably not going to bother you so you've got swivel like that little bit of tilt not
much tilt little
bit oh okay it looks like it clicks into place for some
reason oh okay it's just caught on the plastic a little bit so there's the Tilt
go ahead and show you guys what degree of
there we go see there's a little plastic piece there that just catches like that
not a problem okay and then last but not least you do have height adjust which
goes all the way down to here and all the way up to
here uh right included accessories so
they do have an audio cable uh USB extension cable and finally a dual link
DVI cable nice black cable looks pretty slick and there's obviously instructions
for all the stuff that we we just did and I think that pretty much wraps it up
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at nix's 27in 2560x1440
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