do you guys have any idea how long i've been waiting for this
actually that can be calculated because i first showed this off what was it ces
a year and a half ago this it's finally here is ASUS
144 hertz 4k
HDR with a thousand nit peak brightness
g-sync gaming monitor this is it this is
quite literally monitor god mode it has
everything and we get to be the first
to take a finished model for a test drive
and finished comes with a big asterisk because this isn't quite final hardware
and we don't have quite the final drivers
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okay so step number one is to get this
bad boy and i did assume it's gender i'm sorry
get this bad mofo neutral
get this thing set up i have waited so long for this and
it's not a seuss's fault or so they say
although i think NVIDIA has actually been pretty upfront that it's uh that it's
been their fault so what has delayed it
is not anything about the panel like they showed this thing working they had
they had games running on it in the past what's delayed it has been getting HDR
working with g-sync because individually
those technologies are complicated enough and having them work at the same
time because this isn't like your typical hd rn like those monitors out
there that claim to have HDR support where they'll accept an hdr10 input but
they have maybe 350 or maybe 450 nitpeak
brightness this uses 384
zones of full array backlighting in
order to achieve 1 000 knit peak brightness and deep blacks at least in
theory so we've only seen it at this stage of production on the bfg big fn
displays that NVIDIA showed at ces this year and you can actually see like
physically this thing is loaded for bear i mean you don't have
a full array backlight without compromising on things like thickness so
ASUS literature claims it can draw up to 180 watts from the wall
it's thick it's got big old thick bezels which they
justify by saying realistically you weren't going to be
running more than one of these off of a single system
at 4k 144 FPS
anyway and i mean i guess that's all there is to
really say about it physically isn't there let's get it turned on oh oh no there is
more while james is getting the system set up let's take you guys for a quick
tour of the stand so it goes up and down
about like yay it goes side to side about like yay it tilts up and down
about like yay and it pivots about like yay so if you if you like your 4k 144
hertz this way because you're some kind of a monster you're playing peggle or
something alternately you can use this for exactly
what i use it for which is easier access to the i o so it's got a single HDMI 2.0
though it should be noted that even HDMI 2.0 is nowhere near able to run 144hz 4k
you're going to be limited to 60 hertz and then displayport 1.4 and that is
where the magic happens with a compatible graphics card you can drive
that massive resolution over a single cable oh and it also has a usb hub and a
pass-through audio jack oh okay okay so no we're not ready to
turn it on quite yet because i guess we have to talk about the lighting effects
so it's got it's got a customizable underglow you
can put your own lens in there and have it say or show whatever you want you
just write on the included uh blanks with a sharpie it's got a projected rog
logo that it fires at the wall behind it
see that coming out of the back here it's got a matching rog
it's got a matching rog logo on the stand right here and then it's got full
rsync compatibility on the RGB logo on
the back because that's the side of this monitor that i'm
going to look at i mean i don't actually know the final pricing but if i'm going
to pay however much this thing's going to cost i want to enjoy it from every
side every side let's start by making sure that we're
running at 4k 144 hertz
ah okay because getting that going is a little bit tricky you do need to make
sure you're using a high quality displayport cable and that's actually an
overclocked refresh rate
so what happens is you enable max
refresh rate 144 hertz in the control
panel of the monitor and then it enables 144hz 4k now you are
giving up something here because as soon as you go past i think it's 96
hertz at 4k you're going to be giving up some of the chroma sub sampling so
you're going to be giving up some of your color reproduction and if you
actually look really closely here we're getting a little bit of fringing on the text but the theory is that you're not
going to really notice this in games so
let's go ahead and hit up cs go now this is a game that
should actually be able to run at 4k
144 frames per second even at pretty high details on this hardware but
that's not going to be true of most things even though we're running a gtx
1080 ti and we got an email from ASUS
literally nine minutes ago saying that titan v
should also work a lot of games are just straight up not
going to be able to take advantage of the 144 hertz refresh rate which is i
guess where g-sync comes in because even if you're hovering between 45 and 85
it's gonna look smooth so csgo doesn't support HDR so what we've done is turned
it off in the Windows control panel man this thing is butter smooth
you can't even see an individual pixel now i've seen this display running in
demos but i've never actually been able to drive like check this out like
brandon even look at stuff that's like far away like this
and we're running at 144 frames per second like from a
reasonable distance and like even without any backlight
strobing as i move back and forth you can still read text
so fortnite's not the most demanding game out there but
at 4k everything but a set to epic
i still i'm expecting this to be a little bit challenging
here we go so even with a gtx 1080 ti
we're looking at about 75 65 frames per
second is this guy following me
dude i don't know what i'm doing so initial impressions here although we
aren't running in HDR are that
dang it are that the chroma subsampling
doesn't seem to be hurting us yet but we are going to reserve judgment for
when is this really a real player
wow you suck it actually helps to offset it that
you've got these nice little backgrounds or drop shadows on all the text because
that's where you'd be most likely to see it but we're gonna reserve full judgment
for when we do the full review on the finished hardware with the finished
drivers this does look really good though
i gotta say i am impressed with everything depth of blacks vibrance of
colors without overdoing it it looks really good okay so for HDR
we're going to enable it within the Windows control panel you do need a
handful of things obviously a supported graphics card with the right firmware
apparently NVIDIA is planning to release a firmware updater tool just in case you
have an older 1080 ti that needs to be flashed
you need the latest spring creators update and of course you need a title
like destiny 2 that has support for HDR
so we're tuning up our graphics settings for destiny 2. um honestly we're not
even going to try and crank this because even with sli which has been sort of a
uh an abandoned step child for both NVIDIA and game
developers over the last little while we're not gonna expect to be able to run
a game like this at max settings 144
hertz are these bad guys cool
i can definitely feel the reduction in frame rate
but it's very usable i gotta say my biggest criticism of the
big effing gaming displays was that while the blacks are really
deep like you can see here in the shadows on the truck um or like under the shadows of the
trees and the whites were really bright it was really noticeable when a light
moved from one zone into another one in the full array backlight
on the smaller display not so much
it is a lot harder to pick up on while there's a little bit okay just go go
away while there's a little bit of halo
it's not bad like you see that
so i gotta tell you guys first impressions
very impress is it worth the money well given that we
don't know the price yet and given that we don't have the final hardware yet
we're going to have to reserve judgment for the full review which will be coming
but it is looking very very promising
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