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an odyssey neo g9 she's a beaut

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if the samsung odyssey g9 is the mother of all gaming monitors than this

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this right here is her grandma this is the odyssey neo g9 and samsung

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sponsored this video where we're gonna be taking it for a test drive it's got

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everything that you liked about the original odyssey g9 it's got a 240hz

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refresh rate high resolution g-sync freesync compatible panel obviously it's

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49 three king inches diagonally

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but with an extra trick up its sleeve this one has a mini led backlight and if

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it is anything like samsung's qled neo tvs

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i am ready to be really impressed

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i feel lucky just to have one of these let alone be doing a sponsored video of

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it the g9 was basically impossible to get the entire time that

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it was the ruler of the roost and samsung seems to have taken a bit of a

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hey if it ain't broke don't fix it approach here

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that's why we're seeing the same aggressive 1000 r curve i mean look how

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freaking curved this thing it's absolutely incredible the same rated one

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millisecond response time and the same 5120 by 1440 resolution that's a great

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balance between being dense enough that you're not going to see individual

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pixels sticking out like a sore thumb but also somewhat reasonable to drive

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with a modern graphics card though you will be treating yourself to a 30 70 or

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greater in order to properly power this thing

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probably 30 80. but hey you treated yourself to uh to a

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neo g9 so you can handle it

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oh

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love the screws are already pre-threaded into the holes for me that's really nice

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whoops okay that setup process really wasn't that involved other than

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don't take the panel out of the box until you've attached the stand to it

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see you later box oh i forgot how heavy this boy was

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oh i mean everything's in here 49 inch display

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mini led backlight the power supply is internal

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it's just a lot of gear in there

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actually before we move around to the front the cosmetic ring is the same but

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the RGB lighting at the back can now synchronize with what's being displayed

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on screen so it can actually kind of put a glow on the wall behind the monitor

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that reflects what's happening in the game which is kind of cool

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if you're into that sort of thing also before we turn it around i feel we did a

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bit of a disservice just talking about the mini led upgrade because we've got

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displayport 1.4 that we already had that's how we run 240 hertz 5120 by 1440

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with display stream compression but also now we've got HDMI 2.1

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now i actually don't know from samsung's materials if we're going to be able to

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run full resolution with a single HDMI link but we're certainly going to try it

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it's also got a built-in usb 3 hub and

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that's about it so let's go ahead and get all that stuff plugged in cable

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managed cable management's pretty slick got your headphone hanger back here as well boop

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a little something like that although this thing is so big

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i don't know that i would want to reach around behind it to get at my headphones

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just like that love it just be careful with the cable

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management right because this is a height adjustable monitor

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so you don't want to have too much tension on these because you might end up pulling the the plugs out and with a

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locking connector like displayport there is the potential that you could

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damage your cable or the socket

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whoops oh my goodness it's so wide right out of the gate it fired up then but

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that doesn't necessarily mean that it's running optimally so if we go into our

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not that display settings we can see that we're actually running at only

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144 hertz i don't quite know why that is yet but i

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promise you i will figure it out if i had to guess i would say it's because

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the HDMI connection is what got picked up first it's got a nipple style navigation for

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the menu so we're just going to go into our sources here i definitely prefer

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this and you can see yep it picked up our HDMI link first so it looks like

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that might be limited to 144 hertz

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still respectable but displayport is going to be a better experience

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i know why i didn't plug dp in on the other side uh there it is it has picture

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in picture and picture by picture well how handy is that so many desktop

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monitors don't support that anymore i can see why they do it because you could

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totally just have your desktop over here and then have your laptop set to another

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input or something like that and you know just have them have use it as

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two monitors it's not its wheelhouse that's not the

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best possible use of a display of this caliber but it's definitely there

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oh well there's a refresh rate toggle in

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the menu i can see why they would default it to

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120 though because you have to have a graphics card that supports display

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stream compression in order to run it at 240. oh

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oh yeah i'm just going to unplug that HDMI cable it got confused again

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beautiful oh silky smooth of course that's not new

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let's talk mini led in the original odyssey g9 they had 10 local dimming

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zones which means that whenever you were moving around a bright object on a dark

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background say for example a mouse cursor you would see enormous

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halos around it and they were particularly noticeable when you were

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viewing them off axis now they have ramped that up to

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2048 zones you are still going to see some bloom

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that's the cold hard truth but

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unlike the previous generation model now

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it's only going to be applicable to something like an edge case where you've

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got oh i don't know a black ms paint

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window and you're moving a white icon around on it compared to before when it

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was actually noticeable in content actually you know what the off axis

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performance is not bad either it's better horizontally than it is

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vertically but given that you'll normally be

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sitting in front of it like this i i can see why they would have tuned it

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that way you know what we should do we got to turn off the studio lights

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yeah let's let's kill them no no we're trying to make it look bad

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right now here comes a worst case scenario i know i know it's sponsored by samsung but

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people got to know what they're buying so yeah okay perfect so what you can also

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see here is that there's a bit of a trail behind it so you can actually see how they've

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tuned the reactivity of the individual zones

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so it's fast but it's not instantaneous

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this is an absolutely worst case scenario tiny white dot moving around on

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a black screen but people should know what they're getting that being said though you can really see the difference

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samsung's new panel makes on the neo g9 when you put it next to an edge lit

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panel like this one straight on from a reasonable viewing distance it's much

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harder to make out that's pretty impressive no andy i'm fairly certain

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that that is the dumbest idea ever he's like hey you know what be a good

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use case for this monitor you game on half of it and then you make the other

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half just white and then you don't have to get a light for your streaming

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that's it

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it would work

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no i do not accept it he's not serious you

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guys and he knows better than that man this monitor has so much dynamic

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range that honestly i feel like when the game

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plays around and makes the scene respond kind of like your eye would so if you

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look up at the sky this all kind of goes too dark it feels unnecessary it feels like i

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could just let my eye do the responding and the monitor could display pretty

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much all of it now a big contributor to the improvement

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in image quality over the last generation auto cg9 is that even though

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samsung doesn't have a certification to back this up they're rating the new neo

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g9 at 2 000 nits that is double what

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they rated the original g9 at and while it isn't basa certified it is vde or

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verbran deutscher electrotechnica institute certified so this contributes

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not just to greater brightness but when combined with quantum dot color this

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should create greater color volume than last year's model as well plus with all

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the local dimming zones you can see very clearly once we're looking at actual

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content you don't see them anymore like if we

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have a mouse cursor sure it's noticeable

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not in actual gameplay now this is a game that looks absolutely

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fantastic in HDR

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oh sorry sorry sorry

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sorry like is that not fantastic

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racing games we already did a video with the last gen one just showing what an

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amazing racing game experience you have with a monitor like this but the

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immersion is just incredible like when you're sitting a

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reasonable distance from it it's hard for me to host the video from here just

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because it reflects all the sound back at me but when you're sitting a reasonable distance from it it takes up

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probably a solid 80 percent of your field of view

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there's nothing short of going to a head-mounted display that is going to

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achieve that the way this does and then you don't get the resolution

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like it's very screen door effects still by these standards

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HDR is definitely working but do maternal yeah default resolution of like

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640x480 not gonna look great on a display like

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this oh boy

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here we go got some performance metrics at least we

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got lots of FPS's hey hey that's more like it

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oh man this is yup

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very noticeably HDR for a gritty like ugly brown game

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it's like really pretty

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oh look at this that looks freaking awesome compared to

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the last generation odyssey g9 it's not like this is a complete game changer

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they both offer an outstanding HDR experience 240 hertz

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um essentially half of 5k right like it's

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5k but it's mega ultra wide

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so if you already have one of those it's not like you're going to swap it out for this but if you're in the market for an

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immersive gaming monitor this one's got all the bells all the

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whistles all the kitchen sinks all those things that people want in

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their products for whatever reason why do people want bells whistles and kitchen sinks

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it's weird and you'll find the link for it down below thanks again for watching thanks

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to samsung for sponsoring this video and thanks to LTT Store for just having such

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outstanding merchandise at such fair prices

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who else but LTT Store would bring you a quality product like this one

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it's part of the racing experience