WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.680 This is the GX9 and LG sponsored this 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:10.400 video so I can unbox it for all of you. Oh my god. I saw it at CES and it was 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:15.839 awesome, but too many people. Too many people. It's a 5K, 2K, 165 Hz monitor, 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:20.160 but it's another one of LG's dual mode systems, so you can actually go up to 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:25.359 330 Hz if you're willing to sacrifice some screen resolution. Oh my gosh, this 00:00:23.119 --> 00:00:29.519 is probably upside down cuz that's the panel. There we go. Look at this. Let's 00:00:27.439 --> 00:00:34.079 check out our accessory box. And this looks like the base of the stand. Yep. 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:39.600 Oh, that's heavy. Get the other part of the stand. Oh, this is a very nice 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:43.280 heavyduty stand. You got some nice cable management in the back. I'm a little 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.160 worried that won't really fit a C13. Maybe one connector small enough that 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:50.640 it'll get through there just fine. Big old accessories bags and boxes. Display 00:00:48.559 --> 00:00:56.719 port cable. I don't know if it's 2.1. This thing is DP 2.1 UHBR 13.5 with DSC. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:00.640 You know, your image is going to look pretty solid. We've got a USBC to C 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:04.879 cable. That's because I haven't looked at this thing yet, but I have taken a 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:08.400 look online and there's no USB upstream. I've never seen that in my life. Every 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:13.360 single monitor I've used is USB for upstream. So, really excited to see USBC 00:01:10.479 --> 00:01:17.439 to C. HDMI 2.1 cable. And then it looks like we got some power cables here. This 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:23.040 looks like a pretty typical C13. And it's going to go into a very beefy power 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:26.560 brick. This power brick weighs like it's got to be at least 3 lb by itself. But 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.640 the nice thing is, yeah, this should absolutely fit into the slot there for 00:01:28.479 --> 00:01:34.880 cable management. So, man, this is cool. It's a huge long column and there's 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.759 still two bolts here. I'm a pretty big fan. I bet you that's actually going to 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:42.000 be really clean and sturdy. And because this is just flat, you're not going to lose a bunch of desk space. Like, yeah, 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:46.960 it'll be slightly higher than your desk pad or whatever, but you could totally like put knick-knacks or whatever you 00:01:44.479 --> 00:01:53.390 want on that. Oh, baby. Look at this thing. 800R curvature. So, yeah, it's 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:55.520 going to be pretty deep on the desk. 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:02.560 You can do it by yourself. You might want a friend though. You might want a 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:06.719 helping hand cuz uh it's huge. At 45 in 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:08.479 5K 2K, you are getting 125 PPI and that 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:13.840 is a huge improvement over their last model. Uh which was sub 100 I believe. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:18.080 So people who want a really fancy ultrawide OLED that is like a solid 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:21.760 single monitor solution but still maintains really good image clarity, 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:27.360 this is probably the one for you. They've also improved the sub pixel 00:02:24.239 --> 00:02:28.800 layout to go RGWB. It's my first time 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.920 seeing that, not just on a showroom floor, so I'm excited. Probably won't be 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:37.360 able to tell the difference without a microscope or anything, but you know, we'll look at some text. Uh, as for the 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:40.000 stand, it has some rotation. There's not a ton, but you know, when this is the 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:43.920 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 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.160 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 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:51.920 pivot, but it does have a little bit of tilt for you. We've got to take off the 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:54.800 stand to look at the IO because it's pretty much all right behind it. They've 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.720 actually got this really nice cable cover here. Looks very clean, but really 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:04.800 hard to actually look at it with the stand in the way. We've got two HDMI 2.1 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:08.800 ports, DP 2.1, as well as, like I said 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:10.319 before, the USBC for uplink with no USBB 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:13.519 in sight. And the cool thing is it also does 90 watts of power delivery, which 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:17.040 is going to, you know, charge a laptop, charge a phone, charge a mobile device, 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:20.239 like whatever. Uh, we've also got a couple of USBA ports as well as our 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:24.879 power plug. They've also got a Kensington lock as well as a headphone jack. And what I'm noticing now that I'm 00:03:23.760 --> 00:03:29.440 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 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:33.959 this is just for power or whatever, but we'll find out as soon as we power it 00:03:30.799 --> 00:03:38.159 on. HDR 00:03:33.959 --> 00:03:39.440 4K. Oh my gosh. I'll never get tired of 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:43.599 looking at this footage, especially on an OLED and especially on an ultra wide 00:03:41.519 --> 00:03:47.920 because you can see how the um rest of the panel just goes like perfectly black 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:51.599 and the colors just look outstanding. We'll talk about that more later with 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:54.640 the Labs results and everything. As for the sub pixel, let me check out some 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:59.519 text really quick. I've never been sensitive to fringing before and I'm not 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:04.959 sensitive to it now. This looks pretty good to me scaled up and scaled down. 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:09.040 One really great use of ultrawides is you basically have two full screens 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:12.080 here. Um, and so, you know, you want to watch two YouTube videos at the same 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:15.840 time, you can go ahead and do that. And it's it feels like a ton of screen space 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:21.280 still. Before we game on it, though, let's check out the OSD. It's got the 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:28.720 typical Ultra Gear. Cool menu. I love it. VR on, HDR on, DAS mode on, uh, VRR. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:33.440 This thing has uh, G-Sync compatibility as well as Freync Premium Pro support. 00:04:31.919 --> 00:04:38.479 And then on top of that, right now we're in the 165 Hz mode, but that's because 00:04:35.919 --> 00:04:42.080 we're at 5K 2K. We'll turn it up to 330 Hz later when we go into 2560 by 1080, 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:46.400 but for now, I just want to see what's in here. We got game mode, got dual 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:49.680 mode. There's a little button down here that you can just press to toggle it on 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:54.000 and off. You don't always have to do it in the OSD, but you can. We're going to 00:04:51.280 --> 00:04:58.639 go peak brightness high. LG is claiming this is their brightest OLED ever thanks 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:03.040 to MLA plus technology and uh it seems to be because we measured over 1300 nits 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:08.479 when we did our measurements. Um so good job LG. It's super bright. It's also got 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:15.280 Vasa True Black 400 certification. So it'll do about I think 250 275 nits full 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:18.240 screen. Um let's see what else we've 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:22.240 got. We've got sound DTS headphone X on the headphone jack. That's pretty cool. 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:28.800 It's got an internal speaker. I have to try the speakers. These are not 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:28.800 bad. Let's wait for the 00:05:32.440 --> 00:05:38.800 drop. That's not awful. I am honestly 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.520 very impressed. And normally when I see uh speakers on a monitor, I'm like, 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.400 "Okay, you know what? It just has to work. You just want to output sound so 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:49.440 that if you don't have speakers or headphones, you have something." This is 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:52.880 like this is legit. You could actually game and use your computer with these 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:56.720 speakers. I'm not saying that you can't get something better, but for like for 00:05:54.880 --> 00:05:59.759 that to come in this thing, that's pretty sick. Before we game, we got to 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:03.199 make sure we're at optimal distance. They say that you should be about 80 cm 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:10.160 away. Try not to touch the screen with this thing. And right about there is 80 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:12.479 cm. This is sick. I could honestly be a 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:17.440 little closer. I to be like fully wrapped around and immersed in this. I 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:22.080 could be a little closer than 80 cm, but I'm very comfortable with this as well. 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:26.080 Oh man, this feels great. Once again, this is an 800R curvature, which is 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:31.440 pretty aggressive, but I think for a monitor of this size, especially 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:33.520 ultrawide, it's actually great. Um, they 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:39.039 could probably go even a tiny more curved, and I'd be okay with it. I 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:43.440 really like it. One thing to note, 11 million pixels is a lot to drive. That's 00:06:41.039 --> 00:06:47.440 more than 4K. um you're going to need a beefy graphics card. So, it's not going 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:53.360 to be for everyone, but for those who are looking for these exact like specs 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:55.680 and size and performance, it's pretty 00:06:53.360 --> 00:07:02.880 sick. It might not look as sharp, but we're going to try turning dual mode on. 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:04.639 2560x 1080 330 Hz. And I've, you know, I 00:07:02.880 --> 00:07:11.280 was actually worried about this looking a lot uh fuzzier and blurriier at 2560 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:15.840 by 1080p, but I don't know if it's just really good upscaling. It honestly looks 00:07:13.840 --> 00:07:21.199 pretty decent. So, I think if you want the 330 Hz, just turn it on and see if 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:26.400 it's for you. Maybe you'll be really sensitive to it. But I'm a bit picky and 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:29.680 this looks pretty good to me. But it's not just dual mode, it's octa mode. 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:36.720 They've got eight different variants. So, let's try them out with Counter-Strike. So, this is 5K 2K at 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:39.039 165. It looks pretty sick, but let's try 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:45.520 something a little different. All right, you ready for this? We got 16x9 24 in. 00:07:42.960 --> 00:07:49.720 So, I'm just doing some CS2 Aim Lab warm-up. I'm not very good. I don't play 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:54.319 shooters much anymore, but I got to say this feels great, and I actually 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:58.720 really normally I prefer it on the bottom. Um, but for Aim Lab, I'm 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:02.639 actually pretty comfortable on such a big display having it right in the 00:08:00.479 --> 00:08:07.840 center. And I think that if you do want it lower, you just lower the stand a 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:12.639 little bit. Oh yeah, 27 in. You know, maybe you're more of a 27 in kind of 00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:14.160 person. 24 is a little small, but some, 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:17.919 especially older games, don't really support ultrawide very well. So, bam, 00:08:16.479 --> 00:08:24.639 you want to still have a decent size monitor, set it to 27 in. I'm not 100% 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.879 sure why you'd want uh 21 by9 at 34 in. 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:32.080 But hey, if that's what you're looking for, you can have ultra wide inside of 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:34.719 an ultrawide. Ultra wide Dota 34 in. 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:40.080 This is what I used to play and it seems very familiar to me. Um I'm a big fan. I 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:43.839 don't know how many people are going to want to do ultrawide inside of an 00:08:41.839 --> 00:08:50.640 ultrawide. Personally, when it's set to off, you'll be at the 165 Hz refresh 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:53.160 rate either in full wide or 16x9 37 in. 00:08:50.640 --> 00:09:04.240 For any of our on modes like full wide, 21x9 39 in, 21x9 34 in, 16x9 37 in, 16x9 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:06.800 27 in, or 16x9 24 in. They're all at 330 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:12.320 Hz. It's also a flicker-free display, and it's got pretty good 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.600 anti-glare that actually diffuses my 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.839 flashlight pretty well. And I mean, we've got studio lights uh pointed 00:09:15.839 --> 00:09:20.720 pretty much right at it, and I can't I couldn't tell at any point while I was 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:24.959 gaming. So, like, yeah, flashlight, you could see it, but it's kind of an extreme example. And even then, it 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:29.040 really does diffuse it quite nicely. And LG claims that it's got low blue light 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:33.519 emission. It looks pretty good to me, but how does it perform? Well, we ran it 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:38.080 through our tests, and it's actually pretty decent. In terms of SDR color 00:09:35.839 --> 00:09:43.200 accuracy, we got pretty great results. And then in terms of HDR color accuracy 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:48.880 measured by Delta EITP, it's also pretty solid. As for brightness, we did test 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:50.720 over 1300 nits in HDR in a 1% window. So 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:57.120 again, it's beating their claims. And this thing also does uh less than 0.1 00:09:54.760 --> 00:10:02.240 milliseconds of greater gray motion response time, which is that's what OLED 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:03.800 does. It's really good. But what about 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:09.040 the price? The 45GX950A is a lot of monitor, but it 00:10:06.800 --> 00:10:12.000 also costs a lot of money. Depending on the retailer you go to, prices may vary 00:10:10.959 --> 00:10:17.680 a little bit, but it's going to be around $2,000. However, you're getting a lot 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:21.279 out of that, and I think that this is really a jack-of alltrades monitor that 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:25.279 can do pretty much whatever you want as long as you're only looking for one 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:30.399 giant screen for your giant desk. It's beautiful. The pixel density is a huge 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:34.000 improvement over the last model, and I think that if it's the right monitor for 00:10:32.079 --> 00:10:37.120 you, you can check it out in the link in the description below. Thanks LG for 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:41.839 sponsoring this video. Make sure to check out some other short circuits. See 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.839 you later.