Over a year ago at CES I saw the Ola G9 and it was incredible, but it's expensive
Gigabytes here to maybe fill that gap with the co49dq and I've got to say it is enormous
This thing wouldn't even fit in my back seat of my car
Ignore the do not open from this side. We packed it up this way
So it should come out just fine one of the problems with curved is that these boxes are so
Freaking deep on the one hand. It's great. They come with a three-year warranty on the other hand
You've got to find somewhere to keep this box for three
Freaking years just in case it breaks down. We've got our factory calibration report
Got the base of our stand got the other part of our stand the column
one thing to note is they are using the nice double column design because
It's a 49 inch display 32 by 9. This thing is enormous
It's gonna need all the support it can get as for the cables that come in the box
We've got HDMI 2.1 ultra high speed dp 1.4 c13 power cable usb b to a but now
Oh my god, it's so big. I should just click
Clack it's going in it wants to there we go
Here we go. Just push it
It's enormous if you couldn't already tell this thing is
1800r curve to help protect in shipping They've got a really nice peel that we already peeled off to do all their testing
Really nice. You're not going to get any micro scratches. I've never seen any micro scratching
From the little foam that comes on top of a display, but people complain about it online
So I don't know what they're doing, but the screen film will definitely protect it as for the stand
It's not bad. It's got that base swivel that I personally prefer and it's actually got
Quite a bit for a monitor this size. I wasn't expecting this much swivel and then we've got some tilt
And I'm not even going to try to pivot it It's not going to happen. I can tell from the stand it's not going to happen
And I don't think anyone's going to be pivoting this thing to go to portrait mode. It can't you can't do it
It's not meant to do that bell. It is not meant to do that as for io. It's going to be a little tough because it's so
Dang big we've got our c14 power connector here and then on the other side
Oh, it's nice and labeled for us. That's always a plus. It's got a headphone jack two HDMI 2.1 ports
DisplayPort 1.4. We've also got our usb b port for connecting to your computer
For any peripherals or firmware updates you might want to do as well as uh two usb 3.2 type a
Overall design is pretty decent We've also got pretty minimal branding, but it is a little cringe like team up fight on
I don't know if they need to tell me that but I do love how hidden this aorus logo is
Even though it's on the back of the monitor that you're not going to be looking at too frequently
Okay, it's all set up here. Looks pretty good. We've got fair amount of height adjustment too now that it's on the desk
Let's put it about there 38 40 by 1080. Nope. We want 51 20 by 14 40p
Absolutely beautiful and then this feels like garbage. So we're going to change that from 60 hertz
All the way up to 144. Hey There we go. Now a lot of displays have been hitting 240 plus hertz recently, which is fantastic and
They're getting that 13 000 clear mr rating from vesa. It is still OLED, but because it's down to the 144
We're only going to get the 8 000 rating, which is still really good and better than most other gaming monitors
But uh, it's a minor point that you might care about. You're not going to get 200 plus
Hurts on this thing. Uh, but what you are going to get is basically two
16 by 9 displays at 14 40p, which is just so weird. I've never been a fan of 32 by 9
For me, it's just too much Screen all in one place, but some people love the whole idea of using like picture in picture or picture by picture
And making like one side of the screen for your game and then one side of the screen for whatever else you want to do
Maybe discord or twitch or maybe you're taking notes. Maybe you're in class. I don't know. I'm not going to judge
Now this display mode setting is a little weird. It's either full or aspect
The reason that's important is because if you hook up a console to this, they don't support
wide and so if you go full It's just going to stretch the whole image across and maybe someone out there likes that
I don't think you should so keep it on aspect if you want it to be correct
PIP baby So I want pbp. I want picture by picture. Whoa, that's great
So now what we need to do though if you want to take advantage of this
If you have to either plug in a separate device
Or you have to plug in uh another HDMI cable
To your computer so that it's sending two different signals to the different parts of the display
If you're just tuning in now, it looks broken because the screen is pure black
It's probably got a bit of that magenta tinge because it's cuti OLED
We've got studio lights blasting on this thing I don't know what to tell you guys as soon as you take it into your home
And you're just in like wherever as long as you don't have full sun Windows blasting on it. It looks fine, but
This is ShortCircuit not long circuit So we're going to just play it the way nature intended at sweet sweet 32 by 9
The nice thing about that instead of using two separate displays is
You've always got bezels All right, so if you've got two monitors side by side
You're gonna have that weird bezel in between if you go with the pvp method boom now. It's just perfect nothing in the way
I don't think I want anything else here right now So let's let's game doom is fantastic and that it will play at basically any aspect ratio you want it to
Look at the dual up video. It was weird. It was like four by three or so. I can't remember what the aspect ratio was for
But it looked amazing
Okay, let's make sure it's all set to being pretty
Um 32 by 9 not 1080p we want 1440p
It's so dumb
Um ultra sure Fly one of the problems you notice with ultra wide is that uh, look not everything is built
For ultra wide so we've got this nice splash screen here
But it only goes to here and then this ui since the ui is probably being told to just like draw on the left
And that one's probably just draw on the right They're on the extremes as much as I love ultra wide when it works perfectly when it doesn't
It just kind of looks weird and wrong and it can be hard to get the hang of it
This feels good though. Oh my god. It's like my entire
Peripheral vision is full just perfectly
Full is 21 by 9 just not good enough
And so you want 32 by 9 Because 21 by 9 just gives you a taste while still maintaining all of those bugs. I was talking about whereas like this is just
Right in my face like I cannot get over how cool this looks right now, especially with OLED and HDR
Like yeah, it's only 144 hertz but because of those instant pixel response times from OLED it looks really crispy
But you know, we know doom looks good. What about the other HDR content one thing that is kind of weird about this guy is
Our peak brightness is only listed at 456 nits from Windows, which is usually correct
But what we found is that it will do a thousand
However, you're gonna have to change some things. So in our regular HDR mode, it's not in the setting
osd It's not in here. So what you're gonna have to do is Go out and then we got to go to ap l stabilize
So ours is already set to high because we've been doing some testing
But it will default to middle out of the box And so you've got to set this to high or you're not going to get a thousand nits
We should see that even though Windows is stating 456 to the naked eye. This all looks pretty good. It's very vivid
It's very colorful. But while we were testing it, we noticed something
Pretty interesting the HDR accuracy is actually not very good at all
Some of the worst i've ever seen to be perfectly honest
However, when you're just looking at it in person unless you have something that is perfect
Or close to it right next to it. You're not really
Going to be able to tell maybe if you're a purist or a colorist or you're just really really good at looking at displays
Um, but frankly even looking at this re footage knowing that it's not accurate
It looks pretty good to me We noticed especially in resineval 4 that it just kind of over brightens everything way too much
And so you'll have let's say a car truck lights pointed somewhere and they're pointed way off here
Leon's standing over here So he should just be kind of like soft lit by them
But he's not he looks like the lights are shining directly on him and unless you've got the game running simultaneously on two different displays
You're really not going to notice you're just going to think oh, it's kind of bright But for a game like resident evil that wants to be moody and dark
It doesn't all of a sudden look all that moody and dark anymore So I think it's perfectly fine
For the vast majority of people I think it's still going to look good
But that can be a huge deciding factor for some of you out there
It's not going to technically be Accurate when it comes to HDR content as for sdr content. It's not so bad. We measured an average of 1.5
However, once we check our maximum, it's all up at 9.1
So we found that blues are just kind of under saturating and then reds are being pulled out a little too much
so again, it's like it looks good
And most people aren't really going to notice especially when the average is so low
but A discerning customer might be a little more picky as for color gamut. It's pretty decent. It's cutie OLED
So we've got 99 coverage of p3 and then a whopping 82 percent of bt 2020 which is strong. It's great
Now let's talk price monitors have been coming down in price quite a bit recently
And this guy retails for 1,300 bucks. I know that's still a lot of money
But the thing is just a few years ago OLED 32 by 9
49 inches 144 hertz like this thing would have been 2 3 grand easy if not even more than that
The only problem is that currently the OLED g9 would be
$1,100 on sale Obviously sales change all the time
So who knows whether that $1,100 that the g9 is going for is going to stay right?
Maybe it goes away and comes back frequently throughout the year. I don't know but
What I can say is that if you're picking between the two displays and that's the price go with the g9
If you're not and it's at msrp This does look pretty compelling for 1300 bucks
Since filming the pricing of the oris monitor has dropped to $1,100 if you can't get the g9 on sale
This is a pretty solid price point. Thanks for watching. That's ShortCircuit. This is the Gigabyte co 49 dq
If you want to look at another very similar panel check out the samsung OLED g9