1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,000 Red Magic makes phones, but can they make a gaming monitor? 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,320 Normally, we get these things right out of the box real quick, but this box is actually pretty neat, 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:14,160 so we're gonna take a look at it. First of all, I'd like to point out, it is a mini LED gaming monitor, 27 inch, 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:20,240 if that wasn't clear. It's got G-moo-idge, whatever that might be, 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,720 bunch of specs here, and then on the side here, we've got the Red Magic logo. 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,640 We got this cool black and white silver dude coming out of the monitor on the box, 7 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,840 and then on the bottom, win more games. 8 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,040 That's pretty good. It actually is a pretty decent display. 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,320 It's 4K, not 60, but 160. 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,320 So like 4K is finally seeing some pretty high refresh rates 11 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,480 at reasonable prices, which we'll get to later. 12 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:52,280 There we go. Bada bing, bada boom. We have a power cable, external power source 13 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,160 for those of you who really crave that. All right, it's not G-moo-idge, 14 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,320 it's G-m001J, looks to be the product name. 15 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,320 And inside this bag here, we got a bunch of cables. 16 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:08,120 The USB-B cable, we got a Type-C cable. 17 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,480 We'll get to the IO later, but this does have a 90 watt power delivery 18 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,840 on the USB-C cable. Got our HDMI cable, probably 2.1, does it say on here? 19 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:21,040 Oh my lanta, it does, signal cable ZH HDMI 2.1. 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,240 We got our DisplayPort cable, 1.4, but you're gonna need this if you wanna do 4K 160. 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,080 We've got our user manual for the G-m001J. 22 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,560 It's reporting some pretty decent numbers with a really low average Delta E. 23 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,920 Based on what I've heard, I don't quite believe that, but it is pretty good. So we'll get to that later on. 24 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:44,440 Here's our stand. This is beefy, and I've never seen one that's this big. 25 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,680 So I'm excited. And then we got the other part of our stand, the bottom. 26 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,480 One nice note, we've got the two column support, so this thing's going nowhere. 27 00:01:52,520 --> 00:02:00,120 Just like Spider-Man. Okay, so there's a cable cover in here. We just take this off, so you just pop it up, take it off. 28 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,480 Run your cables through the side right here, 29 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,960 and then you, there you go. 30 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,920 That's actually pretty good. And we've got our panel in the box. 31 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,720 I love the back of this thing. It's a cool triangle with, I'm hoping RGB, but we'll see. 32 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,280 Wow. Oh, that's not too bad. 33 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:26,000 It's like seven kilos when the stand is on. 34 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,440 I figured this out. It's probably a headphone hanger. 35 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,280 I really don't know what else you would use this for. And I'll be honest, I don't like that it's behind the monitor 36 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:39,240 instead of on the sides, because I don't want to like, reach around to put my headphones away. 37 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,720 But I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. 38 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:49,520 Aside from that, I want to talk about the design because they call it Robo-Aesthetic Hardcore Attack. 39 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,120 Now, to me, it just looks like a monitor. 40 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,340 I admit, I do like the cool triangle on the back, 41 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,320 but I don't really get where the Robo-Aesthetic is coming into. 42 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,720 That cable cover comes off way too easily, by the way. I don't know, maybe it's just me, 43 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,880 but be careful if you're handling this thing. But let's talk about all the other stuff we want to see, 44 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,200 like, wow. 45 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:17,720 Okay, how to adjust? Wow. 46 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 One thing I don't like is the chin. Especially now that I'm feeling it, 47 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,960 there's this huge gap here, and there's this giant chin here. I don't know why that is there. 48 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,120 Maybe there's an IR remote or something, but there was one in the box, so I don't know what it's for. 49 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:37,320 We'll find out later. Maybe it's for the OSD or something like that. But what I love is, not once, 50 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,240 but both ways, baby. 51 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:45,140 You might not think that's a big feature, but some monitors can only pivot one way. 52 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:48,740 And if you really, especially with the chin on the bottom 53 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:53,460 here, if you want to make this vertical someday, you really want to line everything up nicely. 54 00:03:53,460 --> 00:03:56,620 Imagine if your monitor's here and you've got to match this chin bar 55 00:03:56,620 --> 00:04:00,940 with your other monitor, it's going to look bad. So thankfully, you just go the other way. 56 00:04:00,940 --> 00:04:04,580 Yeah, I really don't like this weird crevice that's going on here. 57 00:04:04,580 --> 00:04:08,600 I don't know if that's where all the IO is or something, but it just feels kind of janky. 58 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:13,220 And then I don't like the chin. I know I mentioned that already, but I really don't like the chin. 59 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:16,540 Otherwise, it seems fine. We've read some reviews, because this is out already, 60 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:22,300 and some people online are complaining about the build quality and all that. I'm not going to say it's like amazing or anything, 61 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:26,180 but I don't think it's that bad. Although this top cap is kind of missing. 62 00:04:26,180 --> 00:04:29,660 I don't know if it just got lost in Labs or what, but we don't have ours. 63 00:04:29,660 --> 00:04:36,660 As for IO, we've got a couple of USB-A ports, USB-B, USB-C with 90 watt power delivery and DisplayPort, 64 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:40,100 as well as DP 1.4 right next to it, 65 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:45,020 two HDMI 2.1s, headphone jack, and a power connector. 66 00:04:45,020 --> 00:04:49,660 I've complained in the past about plugging things in from the bottom and how I like how LG and Corsair do it, 67 00:04:49,660 --> 00:04:53,220 where you just plug it straight into the back. And I'm going to complain about it here, especially, 68 00:04:53,220 --> 00:04:57,780 because yeah, it's got this whole cover thing, and it's going to be a massive headache 69 00:04:57,780 --> 00:05:01,420 to try to get cables in and out of there. Don't like it. 70 00:05:01,420 --> 00:05:05,580 My inner correction, this is on a cable cover, so you can take this on or off. 71 00:05:05,580 --> 00:05:08,900 I still don't really like it, because it's hard to get back on. 72 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,340 Get on there cable cover. Yo, check it out. 73 00:05:12,340 --> 00:05:17,740 It's doing it. It's got RGB, and you know what? The cool thing is, it's not just like LEDs that shine. 74 00:05:17,740 --> 00:05:21,380 It's actually covered in something. It looks pretty cool, but it's a little dim. 75 00:05:21,380 --> 00:05:25,780 We'll see in a second once I turn it around if it splashes off the back wall very well. 76 00:05:25,780 --> 00:05:29,900 Other than that, I don't know if I'm crazy about the segmentation on the pattern here. 77 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:33,580 I kind of would prefer if this was just one giant diffused light source, 78 00:05:33,580 --> 00:05:38,320 but you know, to each their own, maybe someone out there likes it. I still don't really get what the chin is for, 79 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,840 other than maybe a handle to pull the monitor down. 80 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:46,160 On the back, we've got a navigation nipple for the OSD. 81 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,800 Out of the box, it'll come calibrated for SRGB, DCI-P3, and Adobe RGB, which is pretty handy. 82 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,880 So on most monitors, you press the button 83 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:59,600 to go into the menu, or you press the button 84 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,360 to at the very least action on whatever you're on in the menu. 85 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,200 With this, it just turns it off, and that feels really bad. 86 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:12,600 I'm gonna try really hard to not do that again, but there's a good chance it's gonna happen, so okay. 87 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:19,120 So this is just a navigation, that's good. Otherwise, this looks like a pretty standard OSD. 88 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,840 You can change the color temperature, hue, saturation, brightness, all that. 89 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:26,480 One thing that we wanted to talk about is that this doesn't actually get that dim. 90 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,760 And so while the vast majority of you won't care about that, 91 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:34,000 most people use their monitors at like at least 50% brightness, if not max, 92 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,920 and they want brighter is better. But some people, especially like ones 93 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,120 who are sensitive to light, wanna keep their monitors dim. 94 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,440 Or if they live in a cave, or if they're like me and they're in the basement with all the blinds closed 95 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,540 and everything, they want it a little dimmer. You can't do that with this one. 96 00:06:50,540 --> 00:06:54,320 The lowest this monitor is going to get is 130 nits, 97 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,600 which is kinda wild. You wanna see at least 50 to 60. 98 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:03,760 It's got 1152 local dimming zones, which is fantastic on a screen this size, only 27 inches. 99 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,760 The RGB is not doing anything on the back of this wall. 100 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,480 So don't expect it to like light up the back of your monitor or your gaming station or anything like that. 101 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,040 Now with 160 Hertz, you're usually gonna have a pretty smooth experience. 102 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,240 As for response time, we measured about 5.5 milliseconds. 103 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,160 We recommend not turning on any overdrive. One cool thing I'm noticing as I'm watching the frogs 104 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,200 go across here, is you can really see the local dimming, 105 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,120 try to do its magic. I'm seeing a ton of flickering all up in here, 106 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,960 as the white frog is passing across this gray background. 107 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,020 It's not a super pronounced effect, but it's a bit of strobing that might bother some people 108 00:07:40,020 --> 00:07:45,440 depending on the game they're playing. This is just an IPS panel, but it's not bad. 109 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,080 There's no like major trails on any of the frogs. 110 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,600 Just a kinda like small blur on the back of them, which is pretty standard. 111 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:58,360 One thing to note is you probably want to keep variable refresh rate turned on, because with it off, 112 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:03,360 we actually noticed that there was more latency. But it went from 3.8 to 9.8, 113 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,000 introducing about six extra milliseconds of latency. It's especially weird, because the local dimming 114 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,800 isn't adding latency either. We tested with it both on and off. So just keep VRR on. 115 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,960 One of the problems with HDR with this monitor, and often with mini LED in general, 116 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,880 is while it has all these dimming zones, because it's trying to fight bloom, 117 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,080 it has trouble getting super bright in the 1% window screen. 118 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:30,000 So what you end up with is it'll do crazy, full bright, 119 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,560 but then when you get to the 1%, 5%, 10% Windows, like those pinpoints of brightness, 120 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:38,400 it's more like 500, 600 nits, which is okay, it's still bright, 121 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,240 and HDR with local dimming is still going to look a lot better than HDR without local dimming 122 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:50,600 or SDR content in general. But it's a key feature that OLED still wins in. 123 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,640 For example, in this display, we measured a 1% window of 640 nits, 124 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:59,520 and then in HDR, full screen brightness went all the way up to 1575 nits, 125 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:04,360 which is pretty crazy. I can't see much blooming, just when I'm watching content on here. 126 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,520 Like that's one thing I'd like to point out. Oh, no, you can see it. 127 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,160 When my mouse is over a black spot, you can see it bloom. 128 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,520 However, with over 1,100 zones, it means that that blooming is gonna be very minimal. 129 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:19,200 So instead of trying to light up a square, you know, like this big, 130 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,600 it's gonna be lighting up one like this big, and so that bloom is gonna be much less pronounced 131 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,040 and it would be on a monitor with, say, 500 zones. 132 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:32,880 I can make it out in person just barely. Those 1,100 plus zones are really putting in some work, 133 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,280 but if I kind of just, you see how it gets a little bit wider around the crosshair? 134 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,080 It's definitely noticeable in person, but it is pretty minor. 135 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,600 Honestly, everything looks okay. I can definitely tell that it's an IPS panel. 136 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,760 The whole thing looks a little bit washed out compared to more high contrast displays like OLED 137 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,800 or even VA to be frank. 138 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,400 It doesn't look bad necessarily. It's just once you get used to a certain thing, 139 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,720 nothing else looks as good. That being said, the colors pop. 140 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,760 They're pretty vibrant. The green, especially, that was showing up right there. 141 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,160 I really like these, the blue outline for the glory kill stuff. 142 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,280 Looks great. Honestly, it's okay. I'm not like crazy sold on this thing. 143 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,120 I also think that 4K is just kind of wild. Like this is doom eternal. 144 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,200 The game is pretty old. Yeah, we're getting 200 plus FPS, an ultra nightmare, 145 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,680 but it's also doom eternal. Nothing else has come out that's like this optimized. 146 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:33,480 The thing about this monitor though is it's 4K, 160, 147 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,200 color accurate, mini LED, 1152 dimming zones. 148 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,200 It's a lot of features and it's 869, 769 right now on sale. 149 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:49,600 It's really hard for me to recommend something like this at this price range because when you go up 150 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,800 to about a thousand dollars, you get the LG 240 Hertz OLED. 151 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,000 It's only 1440p. I get it. 152 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,640 However, gaming at 4K is not easy. 153 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,720 So unless you've got like a 3090 at least, if not a 4090, good luck getting proper frame rates 154 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:11,320 on today's games that keep coming out unoptimized. At the sale price, it's a bit more enticing, 155 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:16,680 but if this thing is only MSRP, I just can't really recommend it, unfortunately. 156 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:21,880 Either save up just a little bit more and get the LG or save money 157 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,720 and get a $400, $500, 1440p gaming monitor. 158 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,860 I think you're better off. This is ShortCircuit. I'm Bluf. 159 00:11:28,860 --> 00:11:33,400 This is the Red Magic 4K gaming monitor and it's pretty cool. 160 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,440 If you wanna check out another pretty cool monitor, 161 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,100 check out the Alienware, 500 Hertz. Pretty fast.