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beautiful here in the lg monitor booth
we've got a few things to get to before the main event so first we've got the 27
ud 88 this is a creator-oriented
27-inch 4k display and the big thing
here is not necessarily the 99 srgb the
well obviously 4k ips panel but rather
the fact that it features usb type-c connectivity so the laptop next to it
which is the lg gram a pretty cool piece of technology in its
own right is not only outputting to the
monitor at 4k resolution through that single type-c connector but it is also
being charged by the power plug that it
the monitor is using from the wall pretty freaking cool i should take a
moment and actually talk about the gram very briefly here this thing is sick
it's like macbook air type thin but a
whole other level of light it's 2.2
pounds with a core i5 or core i7 processor 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 or 512
gig SSD pricing is not available yet
but i will definitely be watching this one pretty closely which now brings us
over to the 27 ud 68 this is a more
gaming oriented model unfortunately it's still only 60 hertz but thanks to its 4k
resolution that's pretty much all you're going to be able to drive with a modern
display interface anyway so what makes this puppy gaming is the fact that it
features AMD freesync technology so with a supported AMD GPU you're not going to
have to deal with the lag or tearing associated with more traditional
solutions for when the GPU is outputting a frame rate that is not synchronous
with the refresh rate of the display that leads us over to the centerpiece of
the show here the 34 uc 98 it's fairly
similar to lg's previous 97 with a
couple of key differences so it's still 3440 by 1440 34 inch 21x9 aspect ratio
it's got a couple of HDMI inputs a displayport input it's got a usb 3 hub
it's got Thunderbolt passthrough that's actually really cool Thunderbolt 2 pass
through for daisy chaining but the main differences are the id it now features a
metal stand that actually looks and feels quite a bit better the fact that
it now has height adjust something that was on the business model but not the
more consumer oriented one and finally it's got AMD freesync which is better
for eliminating tearing in games within
that freesync variable refresh rate window which leads us finally to the
centerpiece of the monitor display here three of those freesync enabled gaming
monitors in a what would you call this like mega uber ultra wide setup with the
theme around it being ultra wide dream setup so if you guys
weren't paying attention like entirely over the last couple of months we worked
with lg on a really really cool like
like almost like a festival that they did around ultra wide monitors they gave
away like 30 of their 34-inch ultra wides they
gave away three ten thousand dollar dream setups and that whole thing
actually concluded not that long ago with me doing a live stream of the build
for ryland who ended up winning ours there were a couple of other uh
influencers including jehovah witness a gamer and unbox therapy and unboxer
slash lifestyle expert he's man that guy
is a lot cooler than me unfortunately and the finalized videos are finally up
so if you haven't had enough of checking out lg's monitors and the whole ultra
wide concept here with our booth coverage then make sure you check out
the link in the video description so you can see those finalists showing off
their finished setups after all this time
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