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if you were shopping for a new monitor a few years ago the general rule was that

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gamers would buy tn panels for their higher refresh rates and fast pixel

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response times while creative types would get ips type panels for their

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accurate colors and wide viewing angles fast forward to today and ips refresh

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rates have climbed from 75 to 110 and

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even 144 hertz and now

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lg is claiming to have also closed the

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pixel response time gap with the 27 gl850 a 1440p

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144hz ips monitor with an advertised one

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millisecond pixel response time by developing a panel with a new

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high-speed liquid crystal layer that promises tn levels of speed if they

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pulled that off it's an industry first and it's a huge deal but is it marvelous

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or is it marketing

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the main effect of pixel response time is the motion blur or the trail behind

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moving objects and in order to show you guys exactly what the motion blur is

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like on this monitor we turned to blurbuster's excellent guide on how to

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build your own inexpensive pursuit camera the idea is to put a camera on a

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slider and then try to move it at exactly the same speed as the objects on

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screen that way you can capture only the aspects of motion blur that are caused

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by the display and not those that are caused by the image persistence of the

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human eye sliding the camera at the right speed takes a few tries but they

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built in this easy way to tell if you did it right if these lines slant

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backwards you were too slow forwards means you were too fast and if they

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align vertically then you deserve a high 10.

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so here's our results

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and admittedly the image is still not

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crystal clear but maybe we just need some context for this let's compare with

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a couple of other monitors then starting with another ultra gear 120hz gaming

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monitor from lg that's advertised as having a more typical ips response time

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of 5 milliseconds so

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there's no real difference in the amount of detail that we can see in our ufo but

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where there is a difference is in the amount of ghosting visible on the

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trailing edge of the ship as the pixels struggle to switch colors quickly enough

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now we also compared the 27 gl850 to a one millisecond tn panel the ASUS pg258q

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and again we get a similar level of detail between the two

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but interestingly the ASUS has a different visual artifact on the

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trailing edge called corona or inverse

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ghosting this particular artifact is the result of pixel overdrive a technique

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that uses higher voltages to make the pixels switch colors faster now the goal

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of overdrive is to reduce ghosting but it often comes with a side effect called

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overshoot where the pixel briefly switches beyond the target color and

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then has to come back causing this bright inverse ghosting in the 27 gl850

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settings which you navigate with the nipple joystick still my favorite for

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on-screen displays you can actually adjust how aggressive the pixel

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overdrive is the results we've shown you so far were from tests that used the

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fast setting when we crank it up to faster we get coronas again just like

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the tn and these look really bad in game

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like i would never ever put this monitor or for that matter pretty much any

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monitor on fastest because it makes it look way

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worse with no real benefit that i can see the good news is that to me the next

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setting down feels fantastic already like it's really snappy with barely any

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overshoot artifacts but that made me wonder why would lg include this faster

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setting at all surely they must know as well as i do that it just looks bad well

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here's one theory back when this monitor was announced at e3 2019 the community

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was already wondering whether lg's one

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millisecond claim was something that the display could achieve reliably or

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something it could only do under special circumstances and with overdrive

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absolutely cranked so we think that this option is only here so that they could

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put one millisecond on the box even if

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no one ourselves or lg would actually recommend using that setting but that's

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not to say that i don't love this monitor i think it's a great monitor and

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not even just because of the response times which do play really clean it also

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has a 144hz native refresh rate very decent color accuracy out of the box

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thanks to lg's use of nanoceltec which you can learn more about in this video

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and it's got variable refresh rate in the form of adaptive sync now some of

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you might remember that this monitor was advertised as having g-sync hardware in

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it when it was first announced but as you can plainly see the g suffix has

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since been dropped from the product name now the monitor still does have a g-sync

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sticker on it because it received the g-sync compatible label from NVIDIA so

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you'll have variable refresh rate regardless of which graphics team you

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play for but you'll miss out on some of the extras that would have come with a

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g-sync hardware module and full certification like an unlimited variable

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refresh window and 165 hertz overclocking which i guess brings us

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perfectly then to the 27 gl850s downsides the first is the lack of HDR

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now technically speaking this monitor does

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support HDR in that it can accept an hdr10 input source and you can flip HDR

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on in Windows however the peak brightness is just 350 nits so it

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doesn't even qualify for vasa's lowly display HDR 400 certification similarly

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it doesn't have any local dimming to deepen the dark parts of the scene now

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honestly speaking i'm not that bothered because HDR on pc still

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has some software issues and even premium full array local dimming HDR

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monitors like the one i have at home can still suffer from halos and poor viewing

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angles due to the chunky dimming zones moving to the outside the i o is also

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just okay one displayport 1.4 two HDMI

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2.0 ports and a small hub with two usb 3s and a spot for your microphone so

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it's fine but i'd be a lot more jazzed if there was a usbc to enable a single

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cable connection to my laptop finally there's the stand the height adjust

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feels really smooth it's got tilt and even the less common pivot but curiously

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it doesn't swivel i mean this is not a deal breaker for me because you can just

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turn the whole thing and usually you would sit right in front of your monitor

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so it'll be perfectly aligned and everything it's just

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and there's no RGB for gamers another weird omission okay i was mostly kidding

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about that last one because on the whole these little concessions did result in a

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significantly lower price tag the pre-order price for this puppy is 4.99

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which given the feature set feels very reasonable so overall i think this is a

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great monitor with all the core features that a gamer cares about and even a few

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that they don't so thanks for watching guys if the video sucked you know what

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