WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.000 Red Magic makes phones, but can they make a gaming monitor? 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, 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, 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:20.240 if that wasn't clear. It's got G-moo-idge, whatever that might be, 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. 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, 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:32.840 and then on the bottom, win more games. 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.040 That's pretty good. It actually is a pretty decent display. 00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.320 It's 4K, not 60, but 160. 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.320 So like 4K is finally seeing some pretty high refresh rates 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.480 at reasonable prices, which we'll get to later. 00:00:45.480 --> 00:00:52.280 There we go. Bada bing, bada boom. We have a power cable, external power source 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.160 for those of you who really crave that. All right, it's not G-moo-idge, 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.320 it's G-m001J, looks to be the product name. 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:04.320 And inside this bag here, we got a bunch of cables. 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:08.120 The USB-B cable, we got a Type-C cable. 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.480 We'll get to the IO later, but this does have a 90 watt power delivery 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? 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:21.040 Oh my lanta, it does, signal cable ZH HDMI 2.1. 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. 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:30.080 We've got our user manual for the G-m001J. 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:34.560 It's reporting some pretty decent numbers with a really low average Delta E. 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. 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. 00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:47.680 So I'm excited. And then we got the other part of our stand, the bottom. 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.480 One nice note, we've got the two column support, so this thing's going nowhere. 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. 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.480 Run your cables through the side right here, 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.960 and then you, there you go. 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:11.920 That's actually pretty good. And we've got our panel in the box. 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. 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:21.280 Wow. Oh, that's not too bad. 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:26.000 It's like seven kilos when the stand is on. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:29.440 I figured this out. It's probably a headphone hanger. 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 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. 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. 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. 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.120 Now, to me, it just looks like a monitor. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.340 I admit, I do like the cool triangle on the back, 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.320 but I don't really get where the Robo-Aesthetic is coming into. 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, 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, 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:12.200 like, wow. 00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:17.720 Okay, how to adjust? Wow. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.000 One thing I don't like is the chin. Especially now that I'm feeling it, 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. 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. 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, 00:03:37.320 --> 00:03:41.240 but both ways, baby. 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. 00:03:45.140 --> 00:03:48.740 And if you really, especially with the chin on the bottom 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. 00:03:53.460 --> 00:03:56.620 Imagine if your monitor's here and you've got to match this chin bar 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. 00:04:00.940 --> 00:04:04.580 Yeah, I really don't like this weird crevice that's going on here. 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. 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. 00:04:13.220 --> 00:04:16.540 Otherwise, it seems fine. We've read some reviews, because this is out already, 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, 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. 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. 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, 00:04:36.700 --> 00:04:40.100 as well as DP 1.4 right next to it, 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:45.020 two HDMI 2.1s, headphone jack, and a power connector. 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, 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, 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 00:04:57.780 --> 00:05:01.420 to try to get cables in and out of there. Don't like it. 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. 00:05:05.580 --> 00:05:08.900 I still don't really like it, because it's hard to get back on. 00:05:08.900 --> 00:05:12.340 Get on there cable cover. Yo, check it out. 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. 00:05:17.740 --> 00:05:21.380 It's actually covered in something. It looks pretty cool, but it's a little dim. 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. 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. 00:05:29.900 --> 00:05:33.580 I kind of would prefer if this was just one giant diffused light source, 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, 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:41.840 other than maybe a handle to pull the monitor down. 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:46.160 On the back, we've got a navigation nipple for the OSD. 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. 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:55.880 So on most monitors, you press the button 00:05:55.880 --> 00:05:59.600 to go into the menu, or you press the button 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.360 to at the very least action on whatever you're on in the menu. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.200 With this, it just turns it off, and that feels really bad. 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. 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. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.840 You can change the color temperature, hue, saturation, brightness, all that. 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. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.760 And so while the vast majority of you won't care about that, 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:34.000 most people use their monitors at like at least 50% brightness, if not max, 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.920 and they want brighter is better. But some people, especially like ones 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.120 who are sensitive to light, wanna keep their monitors dim. 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 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:50.540 and everything, they want it a little dimmer. You can't do that with this one. 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:54.320 The lowest this monitor is going to get is 130 nits, 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:57.600 which is kinda wild. You wanna see at least 50 to 60. 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. 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:08.760 The RGB is not doing anything on the back of this wall. 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. 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.040 Now with 160 Hertz, you're usually gonna have a pretty smooth experience. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.240 As for response time, we measured about 5.5 milliseconds. 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 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:28.200 go across here, is you can really see the local dimming, 00:07:28.200 --> 00:07:32.120 try to do its magic. I'm seeing a ton of flickering all up in here, 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:35.960 as the white frog is passing across this gray background. 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 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. 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:49.080 There's no like major trails on any of the frogs. 00:07:49.080 --> 00:07:52.600 Just a kinda like small blur on the back of them, which is pretty standard. 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, 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, 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:08.000 introducing about six extra milliseconds of latency. It's especially weird, because the local dimming 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. 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.960 One of the problems with HDR with this monitor, and often with mini LED in general, 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:20.880 is while it has all these dimming zones, because it's trying to fight bloom, 00:08:20.880 --> 00:08:25.080 it has trouble getting super bright in the 1% window screen. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:30.000 So what you end up with is it'll do crazy, full bright, 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.560 but then when you get to the 1%, 5%, 10% Windows, like those pinpoints of brightness, 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:38.400 it's more like 500, 600 nits, which is okay, it's still bright, 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 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:50.600 or SDR content in general. But it's a key feature that OLED still wins in. 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.640 For example, in this display, we measured a 1% window of 640 nits, 00:08:54.680 --> 00:08:59.520 and then in HDR, full screen brightness went all the way up to 1575 nits, 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. 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. 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:11.160 When my mouse is over a black spot, you can see it bloom. 00:09:11.160 --> 00:09:15.520 However, with over 1,100 zones, it means that that blooming is gonna be very minimal. 00:09:15.520 --> 00:09:19.200 So instead of trying to light up a square, you know, like this big, 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 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.040 and it would be on a monitor with, say, 500 zones. 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, 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? 00:09:37.280 --> 00:09:41.080 It's definitely noticeable in person, but it is pretty minor. 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.600 Honestly, everything looks okay. I can definitely tell that it's an IPS panel. 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 00:09:50.760 --> 00:09:53.800 or even VA to be frank. 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, 00:09:58.400 --> 00:10:02.720 nothing else looks as good. That being said, the colors pop. 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:06.760 They're pretty vibrant. The green, especially, that was showing up right there. 00:10:06.760 --> 00:10:11.160 I really like these, the blue outline for the glory kill stuff. 00:10:11.160 --> 00:10:16.280 Looks great. Honestly, it's okay. I'm not like crazy sold on this thing. 00:10:16.280 --> 00:10:20.120 I also think that 4K is just kind of wild. Like this is doom eternal. 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:25.200 The game is pretty old. Yeah, we're getting 200 plus FPS, an ultra nightmare, 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:29.680 but it's also doom eternal. Nothing else has come out that's like this optimized. 00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:33.480 The thing about this monitor though is it's 4K, 160, 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.200 color accurate, mini LED, 1152 dimming zones. 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:42.200 It's a lot of features and it's 869, 769 right now on sale. 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 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:53.800 to about a thousand dollars, you get the LG 240 Hertz OLED. 00:10:53.800 --> 00:10:57.000 It's only 1440p. I get it. 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:00.640 However, gaming at 4K is not easy. 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 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, 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:16.680 but if this thing is only MSRP, I just can't really recommend it, unfortunately. 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:21.880 Either save up just a little bit more and get the LG or save money 00:11:21.880 --> 00:11:25.720 and get a $400, $500, 1440p gaming monitor. 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.860 I think you're better off. This is ShortCircuit. I'm Bluf. 00:11:28.860 --> 00:11:33.400 This is the Red Magic 4K gaming monitor and it's pretty cool. 00:11:33.400 --> 00:11:36.440 If you wanna check out another pretty cool monitor, 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:40.100 check out the Alienware, 500 Hertz. Pretty fast.