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Ever since I saw my first tandem OLED screen last year, I couldn't wait for

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the technology to come to monitors. Well, now ASUS sponsored this video so

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we can take a well super early look at

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their new XG27

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AQ

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WMG or as I like to call it, Albuquerquey's weapon of mass gaming.

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Don't use that joke. It's not that funny. But this what the I was expecting

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it to be packaged very differently, but no, it's

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I took that top foam off. It's just kind of right there. Um, so that's a first

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for me. And I'm going to kind of just pull it out, I guess.

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It's unboxed. That was really fast. Uh, it's already also put together. I didn't

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even get a chance to tell you guys about the cool stand that is now 30% more

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compact than the previous XG gaming monitors. Okay, this fell out of the

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box. And then what else have we got? Our

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HDMI 2.1 cable, DisplayPort 1.4, and

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USBB. I know next to nothing about this

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panel there. There's no anything on the box. Um I was hoping for like an

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interior box with some kind of spec. All I know is this guy is 26 and a half

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inches. It does 280 Hz refresh rate.

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It's fourthg gen. So it's got instead of

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um I think they were doing a blue and then red green layer and then blue

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layer. Now it's going blue green blue red. Either way they've taken that red

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green layer in the middle and split it up into two. And so now there's like two

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double stacks four total for tandem

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OLED. Uh, and it's supposed to be I mean

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I've seen it kind of firsthand in other panels, but it's supposed to be uh way

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brighter in both peak brightness and full screen as well as about up to 25%

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wider color volume in BT 2020. Now, unfortunately, our color is out being

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calibrated right now, so the lab didn't test this guy. So, I'm going off of the

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zero specs and uh the monitor. So, we're going to take a look at it and try to

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game on it and see what it looks like in person. But first, I want to

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pop off the stand, take a look at it, and show you guys the IO.

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Wow, this really is a lot smaller of a

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footprint. Hey, that's really tiny. Otherwise, it's

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still your pretty column into base bog

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standard design with a screw that you turn on the bottom here. It's probably a

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bolt, not a screw, but you know, who really cares? engineers. They're the

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ones who care. We'll put it on the stand in a sec cuz I want to show you guys

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the beautiful IO. We've got a couple of HDMI 2.1 ports, DisplayPort 1.4. So,

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I'm guessing this is 1440p, but you know, it will reveal its secrets to me

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momentarily. Headphone jack, Kensington lock, USB hub over here, and a power

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connector. But there's one more cool little trick that ASUS has actually had

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uh in their monitor division for at least a couple of years now. You get

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this handy little tripod uh socket at the top here. So, it's really easy to

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mount like a ring light or a camera or I guess both together, whatever you want

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to do. As for what the stand is capable of, we've got the classic swivel all on

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the column there. Bunch of tilt

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and my favorite

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It can pivot both ways, I believe.

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Very nice. And for those of you looking for a glossy option, well, this guy

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should do it with their new true black glossy finish. That should really make

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everything just kind of pop. Um, that's

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okay. Anti-glare, anti-reflection. It's great for some people. I live in a cave.

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I make my computers out of scraps, and I just want the darkest room possible. So,

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give me gloss, baby. All right, let's uh let's turn it on. I've got to say it's

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turned on. I'm just looking at our pretty wallpaper and it looks pretty

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incredible. Um having that tandem OLED means that it's

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also able to hit Vesa True Black 500 uh

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because of the extra sustained brightness. And I've been waiting for a

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monitor that can do like 500 600 um

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because they can get those peaks like high. They can do the peaks, no problem,

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but it's getting that full screen sustained. And it's kind of the one

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thing that you're giving up when you go from miniLEDD to OLED is like crazy high

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sustained brightness. And now we're not, you know, mini LED levels, but it should

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be a lot better. And I can confirm that we're looking at a 1440p monitor. I'll

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get to the pricing and the release date a little later, but that's not bad. 27

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in is kind of the sweet spot for 1440p. We absolutely do not want to be gated uh

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at 60 Hz. Let's go all the way up to 280. And on top of that 280 Hz refresh

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rate because it's OLED, we're getting that 0.03 millisecond gray to gray

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response times, which is just lightning fast. Crazy good. All right, let's check

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out some HDR footage, though, because what I'm most interested in is seeing

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that enhanced gamut coverage of BT 2020.

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I got to say this looks quite stunning.

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One of the very few downsides of third gen WLED panels was a lack of range when

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it comes to BT 2020. Um,

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this should get this up there like maybe

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80%. 85% I don't know. We haven't tested

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it and ASUS hasn't made any claims. They've just said it's going to be uh

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wider than it was before. But this looks fantastic and I've got to say I'm quite

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impressed. Sorry, I had to take my jacket off. I was getting a little too

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hot and bothered looking at how good this display looks. They're going to have this panel in TVs as well. Um, and

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they're not using their MLA plus or microl lens array plus technology

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anymore to hit these levels of brightness. Um, it was pretty good, but

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it did have its own bit of downsides. And so, I'm happy to say that uh it's no

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longer necessary. Now we're getting more color gamut, more brightness with

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basically zero trade-off. They've also adjusted the sub pixel layout now, so

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it's reordered back to be more traditional RGB. We're getting RGWB in

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the sub pixels. So that's great uh for any of you purists out there who didn't

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like how it was laid out before. Um, but now I want to game on it because 280 Hz

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with really great brightness values and HDR and OLED and it's just I got to game

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on this thing. So, give us one moment as

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we switch to 60 FPS while I update Steam. Look at how good

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this fire looks. It's super bright and

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it looks nice and orangey yellow. I am

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already impressed. Um,

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wow. I It's such a minor thing. Um, but

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man, that looks good. And okay, let's play Let's play some Counterstrike. I've

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got to say, uh, the clarity

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you whip and it's instant. This thing looks great, though. I, man. Oh, I

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thought for sure I got him at the head. Okay, whatever.

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One, two, three. Come on. Oh, okay.

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Well, he's dead. All right. Well, look, a new fancy OLED gaming monitor running

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at 280 Hz with amazing contrast and

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image clarity. It's not going to make you a better gamer, but

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it's going to make it so that if you do lose, you're not going to be able to blame anything but yourself.

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Cuz at this point, like, man, 280 Hz is

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just becoming the bog standard now. It's like the new 165 or 144. Let's try

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another game that's a bit more visually appealing than Counter-Strike, so I can

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kind of show you guys what some good HDR is going to look like. We're going to

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play some Doom Eternal because Dark Ages is uh well, it's not perfect. Eternal,

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it'll always be perfect in my heart. Um, and I got to say, just out of the box,

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God, this looks amazing. Feels so good. Just like good old Chuck Manion.

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Like, it's just so instant, too. like

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280 Hz is more than fast enough. Um, and

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the fact that it's got that I know I've said it before, but that near instant

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OLED pixel response time. Um, this game just looks absolutely stunning in

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motion. And the HDR on it looks incredible, too. Like even just looking

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at the fire in this little room here

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looks so good. Those oranges and reds. Oh, let's talk about the price because,

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you know, it's not as expensive as you might

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think. It's not going to be free either, though. But at $699 for a 27 in 1440p

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280 Hz gaming monster, I think you're

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actually getting a pretty solid deal. And it's an even better price when you

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consider that it's with a brand new uh generation of panel technology that I'm

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actually really excited about. ASUS is claiming that this is going to give them

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an extra 60% lifetime in terms of like panel

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longevity, and I can absolutely not speak to that. Uh, who knows? But it's a

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pretty bold claim. Um, especially when OLEDs were already starting to last for

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years and years to the point where a lot of manufacturers are coming with, you

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know, 2 or 3ear warranties on these things. And I've just got to say that it

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looks absolutely stunning. And if you are worried about uh running your panel

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into the ground accidentally because you know you get up and you walk away all of

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a sudden you know it just stays on a static image and starts to actually burn

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things in. Uh ASUS has got that super cool proximity sensor where you just

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walk away a little bit and the screen goes black for you. So you don't have to

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worry about forgetting. To enable all that stuff you just go to OLED care

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screen saver. Is it screen saver or is it something? Oh, proxim neoproximity

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sensor distance selection. Let's set that to like sure 120 cmters. Why not?

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I'm gonna walk away

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and it's going to turn off. It might take a minute. I think it takes like a

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good solid minute or two or whatever, but it will turn off.

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Editor, do the fast forward time lapse thing.

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and it turns right back on. Thanks again to ASUS for sponsoring this unboxing of

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the XG27 AQ WMG. Hey, I got that on my first try.

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Uh, I'm PLO. This is ShortCircuit. And if you want to look at other monitor

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videos, there's a lot of them. Maybe I'll have one linked here or maybe

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it'll be there or maybe there or there. I don't know.

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See you