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here at Linus tech tips we know we are occasionally

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a little late to the party for example uploading videos about a new apple

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product days after the initial coverage wave has come and gone you know it is

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what it is we try whatever get off my back

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but not today no what i'm showing you guys today

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is not stale at all in fact

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i don't think i'd even describe it as ripe yet i mean look

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it doesn't even have room in the box for the power adapter it's just

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it's just separate this

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is the first look at the full 4k 120 kit

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but what's that and where did it come from

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okay so first things first i gotta say i'm a little unnerved by this box

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because there is no friggin way

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that a monitor and a stand for a monitor

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are fitting in here and like look at this

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we got like a handwritten note here take care

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made by hand and then we've got the name

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of the guy aziz who made it so this is z's from z's works

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oh boy wow what the heck

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this thing is just like a completely naked panel and

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oh my gosh there's just like exposed pcbs on the

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back there's no stand no plastic housing um

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too it's credit okay to its credit it does have a vase amount here but

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no way okay there's only three there's only

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three mounting points here um

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there we go i i got it and i oh this is

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i think i found the nut okay so we've got it mounted now we just

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used this um random monitor ARM that we

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found and look at this weird stuff we got

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going on here so this right here

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is a jtag programmer for updating the

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firmware of and debugging the main chip

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and this like taped on doodad here is

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actually a usb to serial adapter for debugging

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everything else the monitor comes with a

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heap of technical documentation to help

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you do all of these things and you can even reprogram the led backlight driver

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if that tickles your pickle okay so it's

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probably clear to most of you by now that the reason

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this thing is here in our shop is clearly nothing to do with how polished

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and finished it is as a product it's because it's the first

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monitor to reach our lab that runs at

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3840 by 2160 4k

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at 120 hertz that's right you gamers can have your

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cake and eat it too with high resolution

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and high refresh rate but how did a small fish like

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aziz pull this off before the big dogs like

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ASUS and acer who showed off their high refresh rate displays at ces this year

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a quick implementation of the displayport 1.4 standard and that is a

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negatory general uh because check this out we've actually got two

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DisplayPort inputs here one right there

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and one right there so i guess let's

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start by firing it up with just one connected

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um

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there uh okay so check this out there's

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no normal on-screen display but

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it does have these completely unlabeled

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buttons up here that hold on a minute

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is this thing completely held on by one screw at the top

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okay so as i was saying it has these unlabeled buttons that helpfully

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come with this handwritten user guide to

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tell me what they're for so there's power oh so oh sorry no power is labeled

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so why don't we start with that one we'll press it

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wow that turns on really quickly okay so

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the next two are for adjusting brightness okay so

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technically there's a label there there's a plus and a minus oh yeah you're doing pretty well here and then

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there's other ones for switching between a bunch of different edid profiles for

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reported resolution and refresh rate starting with

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540p at

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480 hertz and

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wow this looks pretty crap um

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i mean it it has like an interlaced look

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to it and quite honestly like in motion

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even the tn pixels can't switch fast enough to avoid having like a a purple

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trail behind black objects but boy does that ever feel

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butter smooth wow then the next switch is 720p at up to

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300 hertz which is still really darn smooth

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and is at least i can tell if it's a ct

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or a terrorist at this resolution compared to 540p the next one is 1080p

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at up to 240 hertz and i can see how

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this feature would be useful when you look at how quickly it switches modes if

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you're the kind of person who often finds yourself dialing back the

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resolution to get more FPS out of games like cs go

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and then wants to turn up the resolution for sightseeing games like uh

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civilization vi or skyrim i mean these buttons really do make switching super

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easy or maybe it's dumb let us know in the comments if you think you would

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actually use these or not

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so okay here we are 1080p 240 hertz

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pretty sick but it's not the native resolution so

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you're dealing with interpolation and there are already monitors that are

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actually designed to run at that resolution and that refresh rate

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so then let's get finally to good old-fashioned

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4k 60 hertz and then

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um okay so we were expecting 4k 120 hertz here

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but we got a visual demonstration of the limits

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of displayport 1.2 it just can't push that much data

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so instead it has to compromise

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let's plug in a second displayport cable

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well that didn't happen in any of our testing before we go to film

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you can see the right side of the screen is a little bit uh wonka but

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we have still had for the first time the

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experience of 120 hertz gaming at 4k

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resolution and given that we've got this game running at about 150 to 200 FPS

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it is definitely a thing to behold now

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is this the optimal situation with the whole thing going on with the uh

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flickering on the right hand side of the screen and all that

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obviously not but i guess velo learned a valuable

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lesson about shipping

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display controllers that literally have unstable

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pinned onto the back of them so in summary then

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aside from this glitchiness right when we go to film

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this works but how do you buy one

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the answer is you don't yet

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and you may never be looking at a traditional

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finished monitor from this works

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their special sauce is in the development that they're doing on custom

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electronics and the concept that they want to crowdfund is the idea of diy

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enthusiasts being able to buy their module and slap

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it onto an existing panel whether through a bundle from zeesworks or off

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ebay or whatever there will always be drawbacks

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to an approach like this the calibration and display tuning that

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goes on with a finished product was clearly not present on our intellux

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m280dj dash l30 and you won't get fancy

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features like g-sync anytime soon but

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zswork has tested other options like a 39-inch mba panel and they say it works

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pretty similarly and they're also expecting costs for diy monitor

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solutions like this to be hundreds of dollars cheaper than 120 hertz 4k gaming

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monitors from traditional companies so yay or nay

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diy mix and match monitors and electronics

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whatever you guys say down in the comments below i know i'll be watching

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