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it's no secret that I've got not only one but two Dell alien wear cuti OLED

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monitors at home and when they reached out offering to sponsor this unboxing of

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the brand new aw 2725 Q QD OLED monitor

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I couldn't say no I just couldn't say no it's 4K 240 HZ just like my aw 3225 qf

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at home but there's a couple major differences first of all if it wasn't

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obvious this one's if it was curved this box would be a lot

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bigger uh second of all it's only 27 in if you couldn't

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guess that from the naming scheme and third they have completely redone the

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base which is what I'm honestly kind of most excited about one it's not white

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anymore which like hey the white looked good but I love blue look at we I'm

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wearing blue I love blue and look at this nice dark blue they've got and then

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if it wasn't obvious it's just a square there's no more big v-shaped legs

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hanging out the edge of your desk you got this tiny footprint that you can

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like put stuff on if you want to it's great I can't wait to open this thing up

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and take a look at it and I'm not just saying that because it's sponsored what

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else do we got cloth for your monitor love a good cloth NYC CES press tour if

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it wasn't obvious we're filming this a little bit ahead of time if you couldn't

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tell from the white box that is clearly unmarked in any way shape or form so

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this is kind of a pre-production unit we might have issues I'm not too worried

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about that uh we've got a usbb cable

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we've got a DisplayPort cable HDMI

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probably 2.1 or fixed rate link six

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Ultra highp speeed what else we got in here C13 power

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connector maybe no brick just go straight into the monitor we'll find out

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in a moment once we get this eggshell off of here we got the rest of our stand

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here oh man man I just love this metallic blue this isn't going to be for

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everyone and I'll be the first person to admit that a really nice dark blue like

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this might not work with your home as well as a white or a black does but as

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someone who really misses the days of colored computers whether it's you know

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green blue red yellow orange whatever I don't care I just want something that's

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more interesting than black or white it's part of why I love RGB so much I

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can just make it whatever color I want then we've got the rest of our monitor

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which it looks great you guys will see in a sec I'm going to the old oh first

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things first let's attach it to our base

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who we're just going to click

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clack I am absolutely in love with this

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blue redesign I'm it's really too bad I

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know a lot of you aren't going to like it for whatever reasons you're just going to be like I want black or white

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but oh man I think it's gorgeous as for the stand you know it's got the good old

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upy Downy ooh side to side swivel now on on the column which is

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great pivot it either way and then you know you get tilted let's take a look at

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the io we got our power two HDMI 2.1 one

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with EC DisplayPort 1.4 usbb couple of

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usba ports another usba a on the bottom along with a USBC that can do up to 15

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watts power delivery my only complaint

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it's nice that there's 15 wats of power delivery on the USBC I wish it was 90 or

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even 60 please just let me charge a laptop or something otherwise pretty

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good amount of IO there's just one more little change on the back here aside

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from the color they're going with this kind of new uh aw30 ID with their glyph

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iconography I think it looks neat just some Blobby shapes and lines and dots

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but uh I don't know looks cool very aleny fits the brand and then one final

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difference between my monitor at home and this guy here

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is it's 27 in

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while still being 4K 240 HZ and because

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of that you're going to have this super high PPI of 166 pixels per inch now

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we're obviously not getting into the pro xdr display um 200 plus PPI territory

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this is not a Mac uh display but like

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man 166 ppi is still pretty good and one

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of the really nice things about having such ppi is text Clarity should be even

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better than it was before before people complain about the fringing and stuff it

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never really bothered me personally but it should be even less of a problem now

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but I got to see that for myself after all how else am I going to know if I need to upgrade or

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not one other change they made now that the base is nice and flat on the ground

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here is the cable management is up a little higher so before it would be on

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basically right on the bottom and it was pretty hard to get it your cables especially if it was a long a lot of

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them and it was very thick uh they've also removed the cable cover that was on

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the back I'm pretty cool with that because first of all I honestly don't

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even have the back for the ultra wide anymore it's just gone uh and then my 32

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in it's there but like I begrudgingly

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put it back on it's just kind of annoying uh whereas you never really see

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the back of the monitor anyway so I'm kind of glad they've removed it moment

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of truth let's turn it on come on alien

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wear you know you love me hey hey free

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sync and gsync and it's Vasa adaptive sync certified oh this is nice it

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actually makes you selected language from the start I you know like I said

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pre-production model I can't guarantee that'll be in at the end but this is

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nice it gives you a factory calibration report gives you gives me my service tag

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you sure of accurate consistent I mean it doesn't tell me my oh wow this is I

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really love this instead of including a little paper sheet they've got

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everything digitally available for me select yes to enable USB charging when

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you yes is selected power consumption will increase yeah that's fine I've

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unboxed a lot of monitors and I don't think I've ever come across that once

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it's literally just turn it on and do things and that's before we started

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testing stuff like I think that's the first time that's ever happened as for

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the UI it's otherwise pretty similar to

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what they've had in the past let's check out some of our modes we got standard

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FPS MOBA RPG Sports Creator which can or

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you can change your color space to DCI P3 it should do 99% of P3 uh or srgb if

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you so choose and then gamma you can change your gamma nice okay I'm not GNA

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mess with gamma just in here what I'm going to do is go back and set this to

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standard what kind of HDR modes we got movie HDR game HDR custom color HDR

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custom color HDR is actually really cool if you can change this we're just going

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to set ours to HDR Peak 1000 because that's my favorite mode because I love

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having a thousand nits of brightness on an OLED and you get these tiny pin

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pricks of light it's so nice and then

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what else do we got Dolby Vision on off

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bright dark I'm Gonna Keep it off just because not everything we're going to do

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has access to DV but it's also got picture in picture PVP whatever you want

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so even though it's a 27in monitor uh if you want to do side by side and make it

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two monitors you can do that absolutely can that's pretty much it it's also got

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a bunch of OLED care stuff uh pixel refresh self- diagnostic testing uh this

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will just like all the other Alienware OLED monitors it'll come with a

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threeyear warranty which includes burn in and image retention so if you're

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really still afraid 3 years you're good

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to go 240 htz hell yeah Peak brightness

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993 10bit color RGB

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HDR it's wild how much a display like this would have cost you even just 5

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years ago even 10 years ago changing it to IPS with the same specs

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it was really expensive if if it even existed 240 HZ IPS I don't know 4K

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absolutely not specs have come a long

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long way I've got a 32in version at home

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and I've got to say personally because I like to kick back I sit back you know

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put my feet up game from like back here 32 in is great for that but for the

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average DES use if I'm sitting this close I think 27 is pretty perfect and

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now that it's 4K and that ppi is just that little bit more dense it's really

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nice it's so crispy God 166

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PPI man that's good stuff and then let's

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scroll this

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up man that looks good again I'm not

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super sensitive to color Fringe it's really nice having the feet not be like

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out to here because now you can get like right in close if you really want to and

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the foot's not sticking out I know you can put it on an arm but a lot of people

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don't so being able to do this is pretty cool

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okay let's game though how how does this thing look it's

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240 hertz oh yeah oh yeah bonus weapon

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the pp bison Counter-Strike already looks really good but you know what

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makes it look even better a top quality

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OLED monitor you do a flick it's

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instantly clear I died right there but it wasn't the monitor's fault it was my

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fault cuz I'm just bad you do a whip and your screen is instantly cleared up

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because the motion pixel response time of OLED is just so wildly fast that even

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if it's only 240 Herz and not 360 HZ

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it's just cleared up instantly like you

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see that was I know they're Bots guys I

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know but that was like three dinks in a row when I first saw the third gen CTI

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oleds uh and I played at 4K they had me

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convinced I went home after going to San Jose and then I bought one I know they

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game good and you know what I know the HDR good it's just the next generation

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of cuti OLED but we got to take a look

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as predicted it looks

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amazing OLED and HDR go hand in hand mini LED and HDR look pretty good but

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it's not quite the same micro LED whenever that does come out sure maybe

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that'll win but I think that monitors at least it's going to be a long time

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coming uh whereas right now oleds are here and they are coming down in price

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I'm going to tell you the price before we get to the Labs results because guess

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what this thing is $8.99 I know $900 is still a lot of

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money for a lot of people however it's

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also a lot of monitor 4K 240 OLED

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Dolby Vision USBC charging it's really

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hard to pick the absolute best monitor

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for yourself these days but you're no

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longer having to spend unless you're getting something really Niche upwards

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of you know $2,000 to get a normal display with just

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top tier specs and how does it test well I'll

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tell you it tests pretty good as for color accuracy in SDR we measured an

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average Delta e 2000 of 0.66 with a Max of 1.38 in Creator mode

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out of the box that's phenomenal as for

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HDR in Peak 1000 mode we measured a very

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solid average Delta eitp of just 6.86

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with a Max of 2.93 that is very accurate for HDR

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content and set to that mode it reaches Dell's claim of 1,000 nits Peak

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brightness as for SDR it only Peaks at around 2 270 nits at all window sizes

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which isn't super bright but it's also pretty typical for SDR content they also

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reached all of their color gamut claims with 99.9% in srgb 99.3% in P3 and 76.4%

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in BT 2020 and then coming back to gaming with our pixel response times we

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measured a grade gray of 0.1 milliseconds with a Max of

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0.6 and as for latency it was 6

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milliseconds over the theoretical perfect so it's just solid at 240 HZ

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I've said it before and I'll say it again being an early adopter sucks it's

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already already updated I love my current monitor 32 in

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4k that's the right fit for me but this

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stand Alienware why' you have to come out with this now why couldn't you come

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up with this one or two generations ago I just love the blue so much more

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honestly if you want a really top tier monitor it's hard to go wrong with

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anything these days I also said it before that I'm really happy to see the

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prices come down on these things and I'm going to say it again because for a 4K

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240 HZ OLED to be under the $1,000 price

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point that's just kind of wild and I can't wait to see what the rest of CES

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and the future for displays holds this year 2025 thanks for watching I'm PL

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this is ShortCircuit this is a monitor I've got other ones check out other

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videos no Belle will hate me if I do that