Quantum dot OLED monitors have completely taken over the high-end
market, but they have a few key problems. Everyone hates the magenta
look under bright lights. Text clarity ain't exactly perfect, and they are so
delicate that accidentally scratching one is basically a terrifying right of
passage. At least, that's what I used to say. Ooh, because MSI sponsored this
video so we could show you the solutions that are coming with this new fifth
generation of top tier gaming monitor hardware. I'm talking color layer
optimizations, new traditional RGB stripe sub pixel layouts, and a step up
in hardness all the way from H2 to H3
that [music] will hopefully prevent accidental damage. Stay tuned, by the
way, because I'm testing that last claim myself. And you better believe that I'm
keeping this monitor regardless of the results. So, I really, really hope it
doesn't get scratched. Yep. If you have an older OLED, this solves pretty much
all of your problems except your money problems because [music] when you see
this in action, you might want to buy one. So, um, those are going to get a
lot worse. >> It's already updated.
[laughter]
Genuinely very excited for this thing. Like MSI's previous 34-in ultrawide
monitors, this is a 21x9 1440p 34 in
display. But unlike their older models, it is now running at a whopping 360
Hz. As I alluded to in the intro, it also uses a new fifth generation QD OLED
panel, which has got both of us pretty darn excited. Whoa, hold on a second,
though. >> What? >> I'm so disappointed.
>> And what? >> On the front. Well, there's only one. It
says there's 36 in here. >> Dude, I'm so excited to see this.
>> Yeah, me too. This is fifth gen. This is brand new. They were some of the first
people to see this. >> Okay.
Dude, I remember how heavy the early ultra wides were. They were like so
unwieldy. This is not too bad, right? Okay.
Got a good little look at the ID. Classic MSI Dragon. Oh yeah. IO is
handled by dual HDMI's DisplayPort as
well as a 98 watt USBC port that acts as
like a single cable solution as well as a built-in USB3 hub.
>> That's DP 2.1 UHVR 13.5. Of course, it would have to be to run those kinds of
refresh rates. Why am I holding this? Yep. >> Perfect. Oh,
>> I think there's a screw inside my monitor. >> It is an early pre-production unit, but
yes, it does sound like that. >> This is a pretty big moment because
>> we've got some new optimizations on the color layer that are supposed to absorb
more light so that we're left with a
much more black display in bright lights than the typical magenta. That is way
better. It's It's still got a bit of a hue. >> A little bit. Not a bit.
>> But it is a lot better than it was before. >> You get a little bit of the pink hue
around the edges, >> but not much. >> To be clear, I mean, he Daily is a QDLE
monitor. I've used them extensively. If you're in a light controlled
environment, it really isn't that big of a deal, >> especially if content is playing.
>> Yes. But it is a complaint that people have had about these monitors. So,
they've been hard at work fixing them. Another big complaint is, of course, the
hardness. My cat has scratched not one
but two. >> No, my monitors. It's bad. It's like all
over here. As soon as content's playing, you can't notice it. But other people
online have also complained about micro scratches with [music] just not taking
care of the panel super super carefully. >> I have an idea for how we can test this.
I'm going to need a cat. [laughter] >> Do like you do.
>> Okay. Scratch. Scratch. To be clear, 3H
still not super hard, >> but it's harder. >> Yeah. [laughter]
>> One whole H harder. >> I don't see anything. >> Sick.
>> Not the most scientific test we've ever done. >> No. >> But I mean, we got the nail on the
thing. What do What do What do people want from me? The last big thing is the
new sub pixel arrangement, but we're not going to be able to see that until we
fire it up. >> They went RGB stripe like everyone's
been asking for. Finally. For those wondering, RGB Stripe is not inherently
superior, but what it is is more compatible with Windows's default
expectations for how your monitor handles the sub pixel layout.
>> And that's just because most displays are RGB stripe.
>> So having RGB stripe just means we're going to get better clarity, especially
with clear type fonts. And >> yeah, less fringing. Sensitive to some
people. I'm not really. It does not go portrait, but that's pretty normal for
ultra wide monitors, but at least you do get a little bit of leveling. And we do
have height adjust. Question for you. My DisplayPort cables are in my wall.
[sighs] Do I need DP 2.0 in order to 360? I do,
right? >> DP 2.1. You need another computer. I can
get a computer. I got a computer. >> Okay. Please. While you're setting that up, I'll grab our cable. And it's in
this nice little [music] MSI bag.
Look at me. I'm so cool. >> But it's not about that. >> My computer's in a whole other room.
Whoopde-doo. >> You know what I do feel cool about
though? >> Ah, >> it's good to be back to ultra wide. I
haven't even turned it on yet. I loved the high refresh rate of my old monitor.
But you know what? The first game I actually ended up playing after I got it
was ano. >> Ano? And ano does not run at 500
[laughter] hertz. >> No. And even if it did, it wouldn't matter. Size is so much better than
refresh rate. And there's a new ano. So, this is going to be a welcome change and
it's still >> 360 Hz like like this is
hardly a downgrade in that regard. >> Another big thing is we did a big
investigation into how much input latency is too much. Have you seen the
results yet? >> No, not yet. >> It turns out it all matters.
>> Yeah, I believe it. I 100% believe it. >> Okay. Well, my assumptions were that
less than, you know, 10 or 15 we'd reach a point of negligible.
>> No, I believe you could feel It turns out it just scales. That's wild. This is
a great time to shout out our magnetic cable management from ltstore.com.
Getting a cable extracted to plug into a different thing is as simple as popping
off a magnet. Love it. I'm putting it
back. Just throw more magnets around. Let's power it up. And unlike your C2,
uh you're not going to have any issues if you try to stream while playing ultrawide on a 16x9 display. You're not
going to have that weird black bar in the top. >> Did I I plug in the monitor? The nipple
does not turn it on,
which is super confusing for me.
Oh yeah, that's the stuff. You know, talking about latency earlier, too, like
one of the key things about this is having the lightning fast motion pixel
response times as well. >> Now, I don't think that that's something that [music] is materially improved over
previous generations of QD OLED. >> No, >> but you're not wrong. >> It's just OLED in general. It makes a
huge difference to the clarity of a fastmoving image. [music] Difference in
the magenta levels is really noticeable. It's really not bad now.
>> Yeah. No, this looks black. >> And offaxis, I'd say it's worse.
>> Sure. >> So, you're probably getting the very worst case scenario from over there, but
dead on looks great.
>> Yeah. What are the odds that this will work properly on an ultrawide?
>> Try it. >> I am so freaking done with this stupid
fight. Oh no, you're at the end of the game. I know what fight this is. Yeah. >> Yeah, this fight is while in
tactician mode. Yes. >> Unfortunately, they didn't do like a
proper difficulty scaling with like better AI for the enemies. They just
juiced the opponent damage and then nerfed my damage and HP.
>> I'm really glad I chose the normal mode or whatever cuz yeah, that's that's BS.
But you know what's not BS >> is playing a completely different game
on this monitor. Should we find something that we can both play? >> Uh, no. I want to be done at 5.
>> Oh, yeah. That makes sense. >> I like playing games with D at work, but
I [laughter] want to be done at five. >> Now's as good a time as any to go ahead
and turn on HDR in Windows. Oh, my keyboard's not plugged in. Oh, dude. You
haven't seen HDR on this yet? >> No. >> Even from the menu.
>> I'm very excited. I stopped playing and then they did the big update where they
added HDR. Final Fantasy Tactics came out. I've been very busy with that. I
haven't played it in ultrawide either. [music] And a game like this where
you've got that first person field of view in the it's like open fields and stuff.
>> Yeah. >> Oh, it's actually really good for that. >> Wow.
>> Oh, yeah. There it is. >> Let's go. Oh, dude. Oh, dude. >> What?
>> The sunset. >> Oh, yeah. It's great. That's what I I wanted the horse so I can ride over
here. >> That looks sick. We're literally going to ride off into the sunset. On the one
hand, it's amazing. On the other hand,
if you already have a last gen QD OLED,
>> it's probably good enough, but >> more than good enough. But I'll take the
incremental improvements cuz it's not like it's going to cost you more than a
last gen QLED did when it launched. And in the longer term, that's always a good
thing for consumers because it means that the prices are going to come down
for the older gen tech, which is also very good. >> Yeah, this looks amazing.
I just can't. I keep looking to the sides cuz I'm like I don't have normally
anywhere close to this kind of field of view even with my FOV cranked.
>> Oh, I don't need ultra wide. I don't need ultra wide. I don't need ultra
wide. >> You know, it's a funny thing because when I went for a 42 in 16x9, right, I
was like, well, this is it. This is the end game because if I want to play ultra
wide, I can just exactly throw black
bars on it. But I have literally not once done it. It can also be problematic
because you're trying to force a weird resolution onto a monitor, which they're
usually okay, but if you're playing full screen, it might give a little bit of
weirdness >> and the subtle curve is nice.
>> Too much curve pretty dumb, but a little
bit >> tasteful. >> It's good. >> And you're not going to find that on a
16x9 42 in. Everything the [music] light touches SBA. While we wait for shaders
to compile, we can have a look at the OSD. They've got a bunch of AI features
and you can be annoyed at the marketing, but some of them are pretty useful. So,
the care sensor allows you to have the monitor either controlled by the system
or the monitor itself, turn off when you walk away and turn back on when you
approach. The rest of the OSD is actually really comprehensive. Built-in
KVM. You can tune your HDR,
>> so you can actually go for true black 500. You can turn up your peak
brightness >> or you can adjust the curve yourself. Yeah. Oh, that's that's actually super
cool. You can turn display screen compression on and off. I've personally
never noticed a difference having it on, but if you want it off, you can do that.
Adaptive sync can be enabled and disabled. You can force various aspect
ratios. Obviously, your usual profiles,
all your OLED care options. There's a ton in here, including detection of the
vertical split when you drag Windows to the side using arrow snap. Uh there's
also multi-icon detection, taskbar detection. So, these are going to detect
when you have icons and it'll just kind of like dim them or the taskbar, it'll
try to dim them to prevent burnin. And then bunch of cool stuff in here as
well. RGB brightness. You can change your RG. Where the hell is the RGB?
>> Probably on the back. >> Okay, this is cool. You can change your
shortcuts. >> Oh, nice. >> For the up, down, left, and right. >> Yeah.
>> So, if you don't want to turn on AI crosshair, whatever the heck an AI
crosshair is, by pressing down, then you can just not be a filthy cheater.
>> That's fantastic. Yeah. All right, let's fire up Halo. Dude, that looks amazing.
This might be the best I've seen it look. >> Right. And now it's an ultra wide.
>> This thing is sick. It really is. I Man,
I want ultra wide. Especially after we looked at that other monitor in your
office the other day.
What am I doing with my life? Not living if I don't have an ultra wide.
[laughter] Come on, man. Get it together, lens.
Man, the field of view is amazing though for this kind of game.
>> It really is anything first person shooter just man.
>> Who needs audio? Who needs to check corners? Not me. Not this guy.
>> Gosh, maxed out with HDR. It really does look so >> Doesn't it though?
>> It really does. Like that's that's what killed me is like the game looks
amazing. >> Mhm. >> Like >> what just happened?
>> Uh >> did it detect me being gone? >> I wonder if it did because it slowly
dimmed and then it it's coming back. Hold on, dude. I was I was not I was
sitting way over here and it got confused. Okay, well, the dimming
feature works. Any display that I can go two and one with is a pretty good
display. Well, cool monitor. Good job,
MSI. Is there much else to say? Thanks
for sponsoring this video and helping us take a quick look at fifth gen QD OLED.
The future is here, or at least it's here for us. Um, and it looks bright. If
you like this video, maybe check out the one where we first saw QD OLED like 5
years ago now. Oh my team's going to lose. I haven't been paying
attention. Not carrying hard enough.
>> See you later. Oh shoot. Come here. Come
on. Come on. Come on. >> This is why we try to not install Halo
on the computers anymore. >> How did that grenade not get
>> I don't know. I wasn't watching. I was trying to finish the video. I'm >> so upset.