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Samsung didn't have final packaging ready for our sponsored unboxing of the

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Odyssey G7 monitor so they sent us something even better a flip and crate

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let's get this puppy open and have a look at the little brother to what is

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arguably the god of current gaming monitors the Odyssey G9

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inside then we've got a nice sturdy base a height adjustable stand so on top of

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the basic adjustments like tilt it's got a little bit of swivel built in there it

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can also pivot it goes up and down this is nice nice little Cable

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Management dude out of my Jiggy right there we've got DisplayPort power brick

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USB 3 and power cord and big reveal the

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new G7 even though it shares the same name as the old G7 is a very different

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Beast instead of being a 1440p curved

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panel it's actually a 4K flat panel this

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time around Boop it goes on a little something like that and these are nice

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captive screws so you never have to worry about losing them and since we're

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back here it's a perfect time to talk about a couple of other features so we

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just take this kind of plastic trim piece clip it together and clip it on

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and you can see that under it is actually an RGB ring this has a feature

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that Samsung calls core sync which allows the LED lights at the back to

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synchronize with the content that's being displayed on the screen so there's

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technologies that exist that do this already but many of them are third-party

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now it's built right into the monitor the other big one is HDMI 2.1 that's

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right ladies and gentlemen we've got not just DisplayPort here but also HDMI 2.1

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so that means a maximum of 4K 120 hertz

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meaning that this could be a perfect pair for both a gaming PC and a console

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if you were in say a dorm room or something like that and you had limited

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space for a secondary TV oh well no that's that's about it we're set up only

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we got to do now is plug it into power and then connect our gaming PC oh hey

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that's fun we need a worthy gaming computer we're going to be at 4K 144

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Hertz oh yeah did I mention that on DisplayPort it can go up to 4K 144 Hertz

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so I will be interested to see if they're using display stream compression

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to get us 444 color or if we're going to have to resort to chroma sub sampling in

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order to do that the display should intelligently switch between inputs but

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DisplayPort particularly when you first attach it is notoriously finicky so it

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wouldn't surprise me if we had to give the system a quick reset before it grabs

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it let's see if it picked up at 144 by default I see 120 is definitely yep

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there it is 4K 144hz absolutely no

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configuration and we're running at 8-bit color RGB full dynamic range perfect

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this is an HDR 400 monitor so for any games or videos that support HDR you

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will be able to accept an HDR signal though it should be noted that for the

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best HDR experience you will prefer

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something more like the Odyssey G9 which can handle if I recall correctly Samsung

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rates it at 2 000 nits Peak brightness compared to 400 on this one another

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thing we can confirm in the NVIDIA control panel is support for g-sync this

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is a desync compatible monitor it's also freesync premium Pro certified so what

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that means is if you don't happen to have the absolute latest and greatest

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graphics card that can you know push 4K

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144 frames per second when your FPS does

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dip the display will dynamically adjust its refresh rate depending on the FPS

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that your machine is putting out which helps to smooth animations and reduce

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tearing and stutter this is an IPS type panel which means that whether you're

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looking at it from a fairly extreme angle like I am so that you guys can see

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the front as well or even up or down it's going to look pretty Flipping

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Fantastic oh boy come on you can do it

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oh no what we're looking at right now is

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not the performance of the game you know CS go even at 4K is going to run well on

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a card like this but what we want to see is as we're panning the camera around

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how crisp does the image stay like if there's text on this wall for example as

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we pan back and forth can we still read it

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wow yes this is definitely faster than

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the TN panels of old in terms of the pixel response times so you get very

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little if any smearing as you're moving

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around and as objects are moving across the screen you'll particularly notice

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that sort of thing with a really dark object on a light background for example

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but you can see here there's almost nothing in terms of smearing or ghosting

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behind it like these right here in particular we

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should see like kind of discoloration behind them but it's not there not to

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the eye anyway a camera with a proper Pursuit setup is going to be able to see

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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

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over the years this is very very solid

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and this my friends is a perfect example

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of where technology like g-sync and freesync comes into play so you'll see

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we'll go up as high as 120 144 FPS so

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we're really taking advantage of that full refresh rate of the monitor but

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we'll also dip down as low as you know

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95. yeah there we go we're right around 90 frames per second in this area man

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that's smooth I love that g-sync is no longer like an

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extra 150 bucks or whatever to get it built into your monitor just being able

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to take a freesync premium pro panel like this one and run g-sync or freesync

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on it you know not being bound to whatever graphics card vendor I've

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locked into much better experience for the end user that would be really cool

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if the feature was just built into the monitor core lighting turn the LED

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lighting at the front and back of your product on or off oh okay no plate

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effect rainbow flash double flash breathing

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looking good and actually no I think it

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might be here we just got to change it to static and go to coursing on

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oh cool well that's an advantage not having to

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have it run on like software on your machine so let's see I just have a full

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white display on right now so that kind of makes sense so let's

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fire up do maternal okay

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that's pretty cool so when it turned green I'll show you what I was looking

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at please so it seems like it kind of grabs

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the brightest part of the scene as opposed to the overwhelming color of the

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scene which is kind of a novel way of

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doing that so I would expect right now it would be more of like a white yep so

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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

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part came disconnected again oh I didn't even notice that what

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oh that's cool going flat on the 28 inches was

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definitely the right move for Samsung a curve on a big display makes a ton of

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sense and increases immersion but on a smaller one like this 28 inches and it's

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small but it's definitely smaller than the G9 at 49 inches on a smaller one

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like this I think flat makes more sense Some people prefer it and thankfully for

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them there are curved options out there but for me personally flat at this size

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makes a little bit more sense no I'm not gonna die

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you just watch well that's fine this is as good a time

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as any to switch over to the Xbox so we're just going to turn on the Xbox and

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we should get prompted to switch our input let's fire up the Xbox there we go

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on the right display it is down right

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gorgeous

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wow now I'm gonna crash just to spite you

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guys and that's pretty much it for the G7 the

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big features again then are 4K 144 Hertz

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without any chroma sub sampling support for g-sync and freesync so no matter

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what flavor of graphics card you want to hook up to it you are freaking good to

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go and of course their coursing functionality which synchronizes the

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lighting at the back of the monitor so that it'll kind of Shine off the wall

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with what's being displayed on the screen if you guys enjoyed this video

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