Samsung didn't have final packaging ready for our sponsored unboxing of the
Odyssey G7 monitor so they sent us something even better a flip and crate
let's get this puppy open and have a look at the little brother to what is
arguably the god of current gaming monitors the Odyssey G9
inside then we've got a nice sturdy base a height adjustable stand so on top of
the basic adjustments like tilt it's got a little bit of swivel built in there it
can also pivot it goes up and down this is nice nice little Cable
Management dude out of my Jiggy right there we've got DisplayPort power brick
USB 3 and power cord and big reveal the
new G7 even though it shares the same name as the old G7 is a very different
Beast instead of being a 1440p curved
panel it's actually a 4K flat panel this
time around Boop it goes on a little something like that and these are nice
captive screws so you never have to worry about losing them and since we're
back here it's a perfect time to talk about a couple of other features so we
just take this kind of plastic trim piece clip it together and clip it on
and you can see that under it is actually an RGB ring this has a feature
that Samsung calls core sync which allows the LED lights at the back to
synchronize with the content that's being displayed on the screen so there's
technologies that exist that do this already but many of them are third-party
now it's built right into the monitor the other big one is HDMI 2.1 that's
right ladies and gentlemen we've got not just DisplayPort here but also HDMI 2.1
so that means a maximum of 4K 120 hertz
meaning that this could be a perfect pair for both a gaming PC and a console
if you were in say a dorm room or something like that and you had limited
space for a secondary TV oh well no that's that's about it we're set up only
we got to do now is plug it into power and then connect our gaming PC oh hey
that's fun we need a worthy gaming computer we're going to be at 4K 144
Hertz oh yeah did I mention that on DisplayPort it can go up to 4K 144 Hertz
so I will be interested to see if they're using display stream compression
to get us 444 color or if we're going to have to resort to chroma sub sampling in
order to do that the display should intelligently switch between inputs but
DisplayPort particularly when you first attach it is notoriously finicky so it
wouldn't surprise me if we had to give the system a quick reset before it grabs
it let's see if it picked up at 144 by default I see 120 is definitely yep
there it is 4K 144hz absolutely no
configuration and we're running at 8-bit color RGB full dynamic range perfect
this is an HDR 400 monitor so for any games or videos that support HDR you
will be able to accept an HDR signal though it should be noted that for the
best HDR experience you will prefer
something more like the Odyssey G9 which can handle if I recall correctly Samsung
rates it at 2 000 nits Peak brightness compared to 400 on this one another
thing we can confirm in the NVIDIA control panel is support for g-sync this
is a desync compatible monitor it's also freesync premium Pro certified so what
that means is if you don't happen to have the absolute latest and greatest
graphics card that can you know push 4K
144 frames per second when your FPS does
dip the display will dynamically adjust its refresh rate depending on the FPS
that your machine is putting out which helps to smooth animations and reduce
tearing and stutter this is an IPS type panel which means that whether you're
looking at it from a fairly extreme angle like I am so that you guys can see
the front as well or even up or down it's going to look pretty Flipping
Fantastic oh boy come on you can do it
oh no what we're looking at right now is
not the performance of the game you know CS go even at 4K is going to run well on
a card like this but what we want to see is as we're panning the camera around
how crisp does the image stay like if there's text on this wall for example as
we pan back and forth can we still read it
wow yes this is definitely faster than
the TN panels of old in terms of the pixel response times so you get very
little if any smearing as you're moving
around and as objects are moving across the screen you'll particularly notice
that sort of thing with a really dark object on a light background for example
but you can see here there's almost nothing in terms of smearing or ghosting
behind it like these right here in particular we
should see like kind of discoloration behind them but it's not there not to
the eye anyway a camera with a proper Pursuit setup is going to be able to see
it to be clear I'm not setting up a Pursuit camera setup right now it's just something I've looked at a lot of times
over the years this is very very solid
and this my friends is a perfect example
of where technology like g-sync and freesync comes into play so you'll see
we'll go up as high as 120 144 FPS so
we're really taking advantage of that full refresh rate of the monitor but
we'll also dip down as low as you know
95. yeah there we go we're right around 90 frames per second in this area man
that's smooth I love that g-sync is no longer like an
extra 150 bucks or whatever to get it built into your monitor just being able
to take a freesync premium pro panel like this one and run g-sync or freesync
on it you know not being bound to whatever graphics card vendor I've
locked into much better experience for the end user that would be really cool
if the feature was just built into the monitor core lighting turn the LED
lighting at the front and back of your product on or off oh okay no plate
effect rainbow flash double flash breathing
looking good and actually no I think it
might be here we just got to change it to static and go to coursing on
oh cool well that's an advantage not having to
have it run on like software on your machine so let's see I just have a full
white display on right now so that kind of makes sense so let's
fire up do maternal okay
that's pretty cool so when it turned green I'll show you what I was looking
at please so it seems like it kind of grabs
the brightest part of the scene as opposed to the overwhelming color of the
scene which is kind of a novel way of
doing that so I would expect right now it would be more of like a white yep so
it has kind of a Bluey white because when the whole screen was white it was this color oh shoot it's uh this play
part came disconnected again oh I didn't even notice that what
oh that's cool going flat on the 28 inches was
definitely the right move for Samsung a curve on a big display makes a ton of
sense and increases immersion but on a smaller one like this 28 inches and it's
small but it's definitely smaller than the G9 at 49 inches on a smaller one
like this I think flat makes more sense Some people prefer it and thankfully for
them there are curved options out there but for me personally flat at this size
makes a little bit more sense no I'm not gonna die
you just watch well that's fine this is as good a time
as any to switch over to the Xbox so we're just going to turn on the Xbox and
we should get prompted to switch our input let's fire up the Xbox there we go
on the right display it is down right
gorgeous
wow now I'm gonna crash just to spite you
guys and that's pretty much it for the G7 the
big features again then are 4K 144 Hertz
without any chroma sub sampling support for g-sync and freesync so no matter
what flavor of graphics card you want to hook up to it you are freaking good to
go and of course their coursing functionality which synchronizes the
lighting at the back of the monitor so that it'll kind of Shine off the wall
with what's being displayed on the screen if you guys enjoyed this video
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