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It's no secret that I'm a man who loves

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a good monitor. So, when ASUS reached

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out and offered to sponsor this video so

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I could unbox not one, but two new

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gaming OLED monitors, I couldn't say no.

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[music] We've got not only the

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XG27AQDMGR,

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a 27-in 1440p 240 Hz WOLED gaming

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monitor, but we've also got the XG27AQD

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M E S. I had to look at the box cuz I

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couldn't memorize two of these in a

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single video. But, this guy is a little

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less expensive, and it's QD OLED. But,

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there's a reason we're going to be

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opening this one. This guy doesn't get

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as bright as you might expect. So, we're

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going to look at it later, but not right

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now.

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With W or white OLED, one of the biggest

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advantages is just how bright these

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things can get. With ASUS claiming this

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guy gets up to 1,300 nits peak. Now,

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that is only going to be

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peak brightness. So, you know, just

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little spots or whatever on your

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display. It's not going to be full field

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white. Uh sustained is probably a lot

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less than that. But, the nice thing is

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this means that with OLED's per pixel

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level dimming zones cuz they just turn

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on and off when you need them, you're

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going to get an amazing HDR experience

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regardless of whether you pick this

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monitor or the QD OLED that we're going

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to look at closer to the end of the

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video.

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Let's see. What do we got here? We got a

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stand

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that is actually really small.

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I think ASUS has made this a little

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smaller than before, which is fantastic

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cuz now you get just a much tinier

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footprint on your desk. I also like how

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robust their rubber feet system is. It's

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a minor thing, but like most of the time

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these are just little strips. Like,

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they're not tall at all, but these are

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like thick. And there's a bunch of them,

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too, and it's a little elevated. I'm a

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big fan. The rest of our stand says ROG

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on the back with the ASUS ROG logo.

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cable management. Actually, it's labeled

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cable management. That's It's of nice.

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And it's actually a really nice and big

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hole. Uh sometimes these are a little

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annoying because they're tiny or they go

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like down and then out and it's really

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hard to fish like big C13 power

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connectors through. And a nice thing

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about ASUS is a lot of their more

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premium monitors have uh a place to

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mount your camera or webcam or whatever

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else you have that's going to fit in

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there. Maybe a little ring light or

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something. The terrible thing about

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technology these days is most of it's

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getting more and more expensive. But on

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the other hand, the nice thing about

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monitors is that they're either coming

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down in price or we're getting more

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features at the same price.

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>> [music]

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>> And so

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with these guys

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I won't talk about the price yet, but

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it's really not that bad and you're not

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losing any premium features. As per

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usual, we've got ASUS's bag of tricks.

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One thing that I actually really like

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about buying monitors from them is they

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tend to have this little carry bag for

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all of your cables, which is great

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because I mean, most of you're probably

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just going to throw all this packaging

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away. You can keep this. It's got

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everything you might want. Throw your

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warranty card in there, you know,

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cables, whatever. HDMI ultra high speed

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HDMI 2.1 cable, DisplayPort, but what

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are you? Probably DP 1.4. We've also got

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a USB B cable as well as a very typical

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C13 power cable. One thing I'm not

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seeing as a power brick. So that means

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that we are going to have an internal

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power supply and it's just going to plug

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straight from our monitor into our wall.

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What else we have? Ooh.

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I believe this is an adapter plate. Not

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every single monitor I've ever bought

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comes with an adapter plate if you want

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to put it on the wall or something.

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That's what this looks like it is. And

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thank you ASUS for including it because

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it really sucks having to 3D print

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something to mount your monitor to an

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arm, which I've definitely had to do on

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premium monitors.

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And at last, what is this last? ASUS

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warranty card. This guy and its

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companion both come with three-year

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warranties,

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which is great because while image

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retention on OLEDs

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it's gotten a lot better to the point

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where like I haven't seen any on either

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of my displays that I've owned for years

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now,

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um

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little piece of mind certainly doesn't

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hurt. But now, the part that I've been

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waiting for. As per usual, we're just

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going to do the old click clack, pull it

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out of the box. Took the box with it.

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You ready? Are you ready?

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Wow!

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It's cleaning steps. I think this is the

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first time I've actually seen cleaning

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steps on here.

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What you need? Microfiber cloth, turn it

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off, dry the screen, wet cloth cleaning,

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pure water, spray bottle. They know what

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they're talking about. For stickier

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messes, you can use a little bit of a

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solvent. You just really don't want to

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use too much. Maybe the smallest amount

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of isopropyl alcohol mixed with water.

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Very small amount.

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Because it is very easy to ruin your

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screen. Very easy. Ask me how I know.

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I've ruined them. We got one more peel

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on the back here with what I'm guessing

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is a big RGB matrix. So, that's also,

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you know, always really cool to see. Um

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I'm not crazy about RGB being on the

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back cuz you don't see it that much. But

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hey, you know what? Especially like an

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internet cafe where you've got like

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tables like that and you can see the

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backs of each other's monitors, you

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know, it's pretty cool.

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What have we got? The old height

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adjustment.

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quite a bit of swivel. And then, can we

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this is where, you know,

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>> we can go both ways. And while that

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doesn't matter to a lot of you, you

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know, it's a 240 Hz gaming monitor. The

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chances of you putting it in portrait as

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your secondary display, at least right

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now, is low. But in like 5 years, when

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it's still going strong,

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you know, you want to make sure that

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this bezel down here is not going to

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line up like in between. You want to put

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it on this side. Actually, how bad is

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the top versus the bottom? Yeah, it's

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not too bad, but I don't want to see the

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ASUS logo. I want to like hide it all.

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Whatever you want to do, whatever your

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setup is, you can arrange it in that

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way. Also, as per usual, uh with an

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OLED, you know, the panel itself is like

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laser thin, um and then you've got this

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giant control box on the back.

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it's not super bulky. I'm personally of

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the opinion that, you know, to make the

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whole thing feel a little more durable,

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I'm not against like just extending this

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out to the full thing like the control

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box and you got a thick monitor. Like,

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I'm okay with that. Um but what I can

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see is a bunch of cooling vents. This

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thing probably has a custom heat sink in

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it. Okay, this is great. This is

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actually something I don't think I've

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noticed on a lot of monitors before.

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We've got a bunch of text on the back

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here. And at first, I thought it was

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like labeling for the IO, which I'll get

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to in a sec, but it's actually like for

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those who dare, uh game on hashtag ROG.

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Oh, that one does say power. Okay.

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Power, navigation, navi, and then that

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one is key. I don't know why that's key,

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but sure. And then what's this? 25.

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Let's just like longitude latitude? Are

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they telling us where their office is?

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I've always wondered what the 206 on the

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top here is. That's when ROG launched,

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February of 2006. Our IO is also nicely

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labeled. We've got a couple of HDMI

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ports here, DisplayPort, headphone

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jack, Kensington lock. See we got the

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little K Kensington lock symbol, our USB

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B, and then a couple of USB A ports as

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well.

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Oh, I almost forgot about our power

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connector over here. And if you don't

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want to use their display widget center,

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which we'll check out later, they also

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have physical navigation controls.

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Thank you so much. Please, monitor

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manufacturers, never take those away

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from me. I will die inside. So, it looks

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pretty on the outside, but what does it

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look like on the inside? To do that,

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we'd have to take it apart. So, instead,

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we're just going to turn it on and take

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a look at our panel.

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I'm going to find it. Ready. All right,

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it's all set up on the desk here. Looks

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great. I'm just

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make some minor adjustments, which is

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easy enough cuz the stand is so good,

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and then I'm going to look at the OSD.

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Uh we should be at 240 Hz. Hey, I love

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that the OSD actually tells me that, so

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I don't even have to go into Windows

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settings. It's got some G-Sync [music]

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support. It'll support uh FreeSync as

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well. And then Oh, yeah, FreeSync

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Premium Pro turned on. And it's also got

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ELMB, ASUS's extreme low motion blur,

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basically BFI or black frame insertion.

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We'll probably get some lower

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brightness, but it should be even

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clearer uh MPRT, which is wild because

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OLED is already

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lightning fast how these pixels change.

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Oh, they've got OLED anti-flicker,

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uh brightness,

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uh HDR settings, gaming HDR set to on.

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They've also got a HDR 400 True Black

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mode that we don't want to use. We just

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want to stick to gaming HDR. Adjustable

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HDR. One problem about a lot of HDR

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displays is to keep that PQ EOTF curve

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like the way they set it. You'll notice

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that a lot of uh display options are

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locked or grayed out. And [music]

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with now with this custom mode, we can

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do whatever we want. Is it going to be

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as color accurate? Probably [music] not.

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But, we can make those changes as we see

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fit. I'm going to keep adjustable HDR

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off [music] because, you know, I want to

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keep everything as color accurate as

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possible. Uh it actually tested pretty

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well out of the box. We'll get to

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results in a bit here. [music]

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Um what else do we have? OLED care.

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pixel cleaning, pixel refresher. I don't

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want to do that. One problem is [music]

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the navigation is a little sensitive,

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and I've definitely misclicked um the

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wrong thing a few times, so just be

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careful with that. Basically,

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everything, logo brightness, uh

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everything that most brands come with

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these days. But, [music] the nice thing

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about ASUS is they've got this new

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proximity sensor, and this thing's

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actually great. Um my biggest concern

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with my monitors at home is if I forget

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to turn them off or forget to lock

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[music] my screen so they auto turn off

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or just whatever, cuz I've definitely

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left it up and come back like a day

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later and it's still the exact same

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screen. And hey, I haven't seen any

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image retention yet, but of course I'm

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still worried. This really helps

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alleviate that. You can set it to a

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bunch of different distances. [music]

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Um and I think you can even change the

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timer if you turn it to [music] tailored

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mode.

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The sensor will start detecting your

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location. Oh, this is to detect my

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location after Okay, yeah, let's do it.

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Confirm. Five. I'm 70 This is so cool.

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Woah.

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Okay, I don't want to be that far away.

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Okay, I I probably screwed that up by

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moving. Um that's sick. I've never seen

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like a little measurement thing uh on

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the screen

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while we do that. It's awesome.

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It's the little things, you know? And

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then on top of that, you can set it

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between 5, 10, 15 minutes. So, you know,

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if it doesn't detect anything for 5

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it just turns black.

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It's great. You're not going to burn in

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with a black screen, that's for sure.

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And then it's even got a time on

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counter. That's fantastic. OLED track

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OLED time track 11 hours. Pixel clean

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times 11.

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That's fantastic. If you're ever buying

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a monitor second hand, you can check

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that out and see how much they've

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actually abused it before you decide if

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you want to purchase it.

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So, love to see that sort of thing.

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Aside from that, you know, pretty

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typical input selection, lighting

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effect. Oh, how's our RGB?

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It's off right now. Let me turn it on.

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There it is.

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I can confirm it works. But we'll show

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you too, just in case. And if you don't

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want to use the physical buttons, they

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do have their display widget center. So,

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we've got it up here. I'm going to

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change this to cinema mode.

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It's not HDR anymore, that's pretty

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obvious, but now I can change like

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brightness and stuff right here on the

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fly. So, I'm not going to mess with

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contrast or saturation or anything, but

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you can also turn on some of the other

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settings that I didn't really go into,

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like the crosshair if you want to turn

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that on or a timer, uh whatever you feel

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like. My only complaint, ASUS, please

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make it look almost the exact same as

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this OSD, so I don't have to learn two

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different sets of menus.

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It's a minor thing.

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This looks fancier.

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>> [music]

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>> I don't know which one I like more, but

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make them the same, please. I don't

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think I will ever get tired [music] of

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looking at the footage that we shot for

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the RE video. Uh I think I don't know if

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this is 4K. Let me do do do. Yeah, this

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is 720p, but the HDR looks good. In

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testing, we slightly exceeded their

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claims of peak brightness with about

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1321 nits. So, it's going to get super

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bright for you. Um

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>> [music]

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>> we tested the color gamut coverage. We

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got a little less than their claim of

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99% of DCI-P3. I think we hit closer to

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98. That's still great. And then on top

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of that, it is very color accurate. I

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think we measured a delta E of less than

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two average in SDR. And then for HDR,

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when we're measuring with delta E ITP,

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we get a very respectable just under 17

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delta E average. [music] Pretty solid

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and pretty in line with similar monitors

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that we've tested around this price

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range. But, this is a video. What about

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gaming? I want to use that actual 240

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Hz, and I want to see the lightning-fast

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0.03 ms response times on these pixels.

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So, let's do it. God, the fire.

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The HDR in Doom 2016, Dark Ages, and

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Eternal has all been

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pretty top-notch, even if Doom Eternal

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uh was a bit of a letdown in other ways.

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But yeah, the way it handles dark and

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bright parts of the scene,

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absolutely

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phenomenal. 240 Hz, I mean, obviously,

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you know, reason like a 5090 if you

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really want to get that. Actually, you

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know what? I just realized it's 1440p

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and not 4K. So, to get 240 Hz,

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you probably don't even need a 5090,

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which is fantastic. But hold on a

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second. I've I've a whole other monitor

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I've got to check out. Okay, we've got

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the XG27AQDMES

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set up now. ASUS, please start removing

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letters from your product names because

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they're getting a little long. This

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one's the QD-OLED. It is very similar in

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spec to this guy in that it's 27 in,

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1440p, 240 Hz.

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>> [music]

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>> It's a little cheaper, but there is a

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kind of major downside that I can't

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ignore despite this being a sponsored

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video. You're only going to get about

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400 nits [music]

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of peak brightness on this guy over

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here, and that's kind of been the

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problem with OLED for quite a while is

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the lack of brightness. But, I will say

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despite that you are getting a much

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wider coverage of color gamut thanks to

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quantum dots, and the viewing angle

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should be a little better. For me, I

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personally lean towards this guy. Most

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people just prefer brightness. That's

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kind of the human experience. Even if

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colors look a little different or off,

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the brighter object or display just

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tends to be what people gravitate

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towards. There's a reason why most TVs

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in Best Buy is set up in vivid mode.

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Another

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>> [music]

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>> kind of big difference you might notice

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is that this guy's only got the

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semi-glossy coating, and so it doesn't

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get quite as perfectly black as I'd

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like, but most people aren't really

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going to be able to tell if it's by

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itself. Right next to this guy with the

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fully super true black glossy coating,

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it's a little obvious. There are two

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other spots where you kind of miss out

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on if you go for the less expensive

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model. There is no RGB on the back,

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which hey, that's fine with me. However,

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you do lose the USB hub feature

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that's on the WOLED. At time of filming,

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the WOLED is currently on sale for about

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$550, which is a pretty reasonable

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price, and the QD-OLED is currently

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$599, which is 50 bucks more than this

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guy, although regular price is 650. So,

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buy whichever one you think makes the

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most sense if you're looking for a

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monitor.

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>> Listen up, chump. You got to enter the

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Worth the Upgrade Challenge brought to

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you by ROG, where you can win one of

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eight ROG OLED monitors. You can do that

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even if you already own an OLED monitor

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from ROG. And you can do it if you don't

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cuz you're like me, all right? Yeah.

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Okay, stop looking. Go go to the

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description. That's where I'm going.

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That's where I'm going right now. Uh

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we're going to have both of them linked

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in the video description below so you

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can take a look for yourself and make

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your own decision. Thanks again, ASUS,

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for sponsoring this video. I'm Plouffe.

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These are two displays.

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>> [music]

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>> So now I own two displays, I guess.

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Although I don't I don't own these. One

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for each hand.

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>> They're the companies.

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They're not mine.

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Mine are at home.