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This is the GX9 and LG sponsored this

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video so I can unbox it for all of you. Oh my god. I saw it at CES and it was

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awesome, but too many people. Too many people. It's a 5K, 2K, 165 Hz monitor,

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but it's another one of LG's dual mode systems, so you can actually go up to

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330 Hz if you're willing to sacrifice some screen resolution. Oh my gosh, this

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is probably upside down cuz that's the panel. There we go. Look at this. Let's

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check out our accessory box. And this looks like the base of the stand. Yep.

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Oh, that's heavy. Get the other part of the stand. Oh, this is a very nice

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heavyduty stand. You got some nice cable management in the back. I'm a little

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worried that won't really fit a C13. Maybe one connector small enough that

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it'll get through there just fine. Big old accessories bags and boxes. Display

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port cable. I don't know if it's 2.1. This thing is DP 2.1 UHBR 13.5 with DSC.

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You know, your image is going to look pretty solid. We've got a USBC to C

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cable. That's because I haven't looked at this thing yet, but I have taken a

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look online and there's no USB upstream. I've never seen that in my life. Every

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single monitor I've used is USB for upstream. So, really excited to see USBC

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to C. HDMI 2.1 cable. And then it looks like we got some power cables here. This

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looks like a pretty typical C13. And it's going to go into a very beefy power

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brick. This power brick weighs like it's got to be at least 3 lb by itself. But

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the nice thing is, yeah, this should absolutely fit into the slot there for

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cable management. So, man, this is cool. It's a huge long column and there's

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still two bolts here. I'm a pretty big fan. I bet you that's actually going to

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be really clean and sturdy. And because this is just flat, you're not going to lose a bunch of desk space. Like, yeah,

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it'll be slightly higher than your desk pad or whatever, but you could totally like put knick-knacks or whatever you

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want on that. Oh, baby. Look at this thing. 800R curvature. So, yeah, it's

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going to be pretty deep on the desk.

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You can do it by yourself. You might want a friend though. You might want a

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helping hand cuz uh it's huge. At 45 in

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5K 2K, you are getting 125 PPI and that

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is a huge improvement over their last model. Uh which was sub 100 I believe.

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So people who want a really fancy ultrawide OLED that is like a solid

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single monitor solution but still maintains really good image clarity,

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this is probably the one for you. They've also improved the sub pixel

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layout to go RGWB. It's my first time

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seeing that, not just on a showroom floor, so I'm excited. Probably won't be

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able to tell the difference without a microscope or anything, but you know, we'll look at some text. Uh, as for the

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stand, it has some rotation. There's not a ton, but you know, when this is the

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only monitor on the desk, you've just got to put it in one spot and like rotate it a little bit to get it

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perfect. We've got a bunch of height adjustment. You know, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it doesn't

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pivot, but it does have a little bit of tilt for you. We've got to take off the

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stand to look at the IO because it's pretty much all right behind it. They've

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actually got this really nice cable cover here. Looks very clean, but really

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hard to actually look at it with the stand in the way. We've got two HDMI 2.1

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ports, DP 2.1, as well as, like I said

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before, the USBC for uplink with no USBB

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in sight. And the cool thing is it also does 90 watts of power delivery, which

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is going to, you know, charge a laptop, charge a phone, charge a mobile device,

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like whatever. Uh, we've also got a couple of USBA ports as well as our

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power plug. They've also got a Kensington lock as well as a headphone jack. And what I'm noticing now that I'm

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looking at it is they do have this navigation nipple on the back here. But there's this new button. I don't know if

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this is just for power or whatever, but we'll find out as soon as we power it

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on. HDR

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4K. Oh my gosh. I'll never get tired of

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looking at this footage, especially on an OLED and especially on an ultra wide

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because you can see how the um rest of the panel just goes like perfectly black

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and the colors just look outstanding. We'll talk about that more later with

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the Labs results and everything. As for the sub pixel, let me check out some

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text really quick. I've never been sensitive to fringing before and I'm not

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sensitive to it now. This looks pretty good to me scaled up and scaled down.

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One really great use of ultrawides is you basically have two full screens

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here. Um, and so, you know, you want to watch two YouTube videos at the same

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time, you can go ahead and do that. And it's it feels like a ton of screen space

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still. Before we game on it, though, let's check out the OSD. It's got the

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typical Ultra Gear. Cool menu. I love it. VR on, HDR on, DAS mode on, uh, VRR.

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This thing has uh, G-Sync compatibility as well as Freync Premium Pro support.

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And then on top of that, right now we're in the 165 Hz mode, but that's because

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we're at 5K 2K. We'll turn it up to 330 Hz later when we go into 2560 by 1080,

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but for now, I just want to see what's in here. We got game mode, got dual

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mode. There's a little button down here that you can just press to toggle it on

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and off. You don't always have to do it in the OSD, but you can. We're going to

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go peak brightness high. LG is claiming this is their brightest OLED ever thanks

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to MLA plus technology and uh it seems to be because we measured over 1300 nits

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when we did our measurements. Um so good job LG. It's super bright. It's also got

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Vasa True Black 400 certification. So it'll do about I think 250 275 nits full

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screen. Um let's see what else we've

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got. We've got sound DTS headphone X on the headphone jack. That's pretty cool.

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It's got an internal speaker. I have to try the speakers. These are not

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bad. Let's wait for the

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drop. That's not awful. I am honestly

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very impressed. And normally when I see uh speakers on a monitor, I'm like,

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"Okay, you know what? It just has to work. You just want to output sound so

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that if you don't have speakers or headphones, you have something." This is

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like this is legit. You could actually game and use your computer with these

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speakers. I'm not saying that you can't get something better, but for like for

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that to come in this thing, that's pretty sick. Before we game, we got to

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make sure we're at optimal distance. They say that you should be about 80 cm

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away. Try not to touch the screen with this thing. And right about there is 80

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cm. This is sick. I could honestly be a

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little closer. I to be like fully wrapped around and immersed in this. I

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could be a little closer than 80 cm, but I'm very comfortable with this as well.

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Oh man, this feels great. Once again, this is an 800R curvature, which is

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pretty aggressive, but I think for a monitor of this size, especially

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ultrawide, it's actually great. Um, they

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could probably go even a tiny more curved, and I'd be okay with it. I

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really like it. One thing to note, 11 million pixels is a lot to drive. That's

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more than 4K. um you're going to need a beefy graphics card. So, it's not going

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to be for everyone, but for those who are looking for these exact like specs

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and size and performance, it's pretty

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sick. It might not look as sharp, but we're going to try turning dual mode on.

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2560x 1080 330 Hz. And I've, you know, I

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was actually worried about this looking a lot uh fuzzier and blurriier at 2560

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by 1080p, but I don't know if it's just really good upscaling. It honestly looks

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pretty decent. So, I think if you want the 330 Hz, just turn it on and see if

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it's for you. Maybe you'll be really sensitive to it. But I'm a bit picky and

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this looks pretty good to me. But it's not just dual mode, it's octa mode.

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They've got eight different variants. So, let's try them out with Counter-Strike. So, this is 5K 2K at

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165. It looks pretty sick, but let's try

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something a little different. All right, you ready for this? We got 16x9 24 in.

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So, I'm just doing some CS2 Aim Lab warm-up. I'm not very good. I don't play

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shooters much anymore, but I got to say this feels great, and I actually

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really normally I prefer it on the bottom. Um, but for Aim Lab, I'm

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actually pretty comfortable on such a big display having it right in the

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center. And I think that if you do want it lower, you just lower the stand a

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little bit. Oh yeah, 27 in. You know, maybe you're more of a 27 in kind of

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person. 24 is a little small, but some,

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especially older games, don't really support ultrawide very well. So, bam,

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you want to still have a decent size monitor, set it to 27 in. I'm not 100%

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sure why you'd want uh 21 by9 at 34 in.

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But hey, if that's what you're looking for, you can have ultra wide inside of

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an ultrawide. Ultra wide Dota 34 in.

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This is what I used to play and it seems very familiar to me. Um I'm a big fan. I

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don't know how many people are going to want to do ultrawide inside of an

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ultrawide. Personally, when it's set to off, you'll be at the 165 Hz refresh

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rate either in full wide or 16x9 37 in.

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For any of our on modes like full wide, 21x9 39 in, 21x9 34 in, 16x9 37 in, 16x9

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27 in, or 16x9 24 in. They're all at 330

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Hz. It's also a flicker-free display, and it's got pretty good

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anti-glare that actually diffuses my

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flashlight pretty well. And I mean, we've got studio lights uh pointed

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pretty much right at it, and I can't I couldn't tell at any point while I was

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gaming. So, like, yeah, flashlight, you could see it, but it's kind of an extreme example. And even then, it

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really does diffuse it quite nicely. And LG claims that it's got low blue light

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emission. It looks pretty good to me, but how does it perform? Well, we ran it

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through our tests, and it's actually pretty decent. In terms of SDR color

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accuracy, we got pretty great results. And then in terms of HDR color accuracy

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measured by Delta EITP, it's also pretty solid. As for brightness, we did test

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over 1300 nits in HDR in a 1% window. So

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again, it's beating their claims. And this thing also does uh less than 0.1

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milliseconds of greater gray motion response time, which is that's what OLED

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does. It's really good. But what about

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the price? The 45GX950A is a lot of monitor, but it

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also costs a lot of money. Depending on the retailer you go to, prices may vary

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a little bit, but it's going to be around $2,000. However, you're getting a lot

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out of that, and I think that this is really a jack-of alltrades monitor that

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can do pretty much whatever you want as long as you're only looking for one

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giant screen for your giant desk. It's beautiful. The pixel density is a huge

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improvement over the last model, and I think that if it's the right monitor for

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you, you can check it out in the link in the description below. Thanks LG for

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you later.