Is this monitor actually meant for GAMING??? - Viewsonic Elite XG321UG 4L Mini LED
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·ShortCircuit
·2023-05-05
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2,764 words · ~13 min read
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thanks to sonic for sponsoring this video so we've been talking about mini led
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it looks great you get like a thousand dimming zones plus on a really small screen for that
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awesome HDR experience but when it comes to gaming unfortunately the qd OLED just came
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out and my god is it ever gorgeous that being said i mean one good luck getting one and two
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it's still expensive three it's really not for creatives that's where this guy comes in it's
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the view sonic xg32 one ug 32 is obviously for the size it's a 32 inch display it's 4k 144 hertz
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you can do a lot with this display it's a mix of both creator and gaming it does cost a bit more
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than the alienware at 1300 but it's significantly cheaper than competing mini led displays
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especially something along the lines of like ASUS's pro are at five thousand dollars for any
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of you creatives out there if you're looking for something that's a little bit cheaper than
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the ASUS pro or at five thousand dollars for any of you creatives out there if you're looking for
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something that's a little bit cheaper than the ASUS pro or at five thousand dollars for any of you
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creatives it can do a ton of different color spaces i think it's 100 srgb 99 adobe RGB and the
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98 dcip3 which is almost the same as the pro art except that does a few more color spaces has
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dolby vision and gets a little brighter at 1600 nits however this guy hits 1400 nits which is
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very respective 1152 dimming zones which is tons on a screen this size and then on top of that
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it's got g-sync ultimate like what else do you even want i don't even know
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box let's open the box oh that could have been bad so when you're opening this
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make sure that you don't open it like that because otherwise imagine if this was on a
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bit of a tilt and i just you know kind of popped everything forward like that so let's not do that
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i'm not Linus i don't drop too much stuff but you know accidents happen
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accidents happen accidents happen let's get this out this is super heavy i don't know what's in
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here uh oh the stand okay cool it's got the power brick external power which means that
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this whole panel should be a little lighter bunch of cables oh here's the yeah here's where it is
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this is like at least a few pounds cool so this just goes like this boop
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and it's got that nice screw that i'm a big fan of that basically everyone uses who didn't use this
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samsung samsung please switch to this to this screw design
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i know it was a smart monitor i don't care it's no excuse they should have had the screw but yeah
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you basically just slot this in this had two pylons by the way which is a little more robust of a stand
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just screw it down look at that easy you don't need a screwdriver you don't need nothing what
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is nice that this is actually has some pretty decent little rubber pads on the bottom yeah
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it's not going anywhere like i said this huge power brick it's 100 to 240 volts by 4.2 a 50
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to 60 hertz dc output is 16.9 a 330 watts yeah that's quite a bit boom power brick so they've
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got our handy dandy DisplayPort cable comes with an a to b cable for plugging your monitor
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to your computer so that you can use any of the usb ports and have all that data still go to your
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pc and i think that's it yeah DisplayPort power and usb there's a cable you forgot a cable whoa
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whoa whoa whoa good job hoff i was wrong i dropped this it actually does come with an HDMI cable
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they say that this is supposed to be much easier to actually just clip the stand on and pull the
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whole thing out and you know what i'm it might actually still be the case
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oh yeah the whole bottom just pulls right out no problem okay
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this is a little heavy um this center line is supposed to be rippable yeah look at that easy
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peasy oh yeah i love perforated lines pop them on there we go boom
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yeah that was actually pretty nice that was pretty easy we've got a few other physical
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features like this is a headphone hook for anyone who uses those it's got this RGB diffusion layer
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on the back which i'm so sorry if you saw
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I still think it looks just like the Cooler Master logo.
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Thank you for purchasing a ViewSonic Elite Gaming Monitor.
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Yeah, so they're still branding this as a gaming monitor.
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And I think that it's kind of somewhere in between.
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It's really a mix of creative and gaming
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because of all those specs I mentioned earlier.
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It's pretty thick.
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Like this is definitely a beefy display.
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This is kind of like the ProArt actually, how thick it is.
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It was so close.
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One thing I really like about this display
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versus some others is that, sure,
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there's this huge text on the back, ViewSonic,
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whatever though, check out the front.
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There is like no branding on this thing.
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Let me, okay, it says Elite there.
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That's whatever, that's fine.
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But aside from like the G-Sync sticker
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and this little Elite branding,
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there's no like ViewSonic all the way across the bottom.
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Same with the stand.
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It just says Elite in this bottom right corner here.
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I would rather have the ViewSonic though.
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It's more professional.
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Yeah, you're not wrong.
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I guess if you're a creative,
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you want it to say ViewSonic rather than Elite.
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They are still branding it as like a gaming monitor.
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So I can see why they've got the Elite there
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for, you know, the Elite gaming experience.
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One thing that we didn't really mention
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is this OSD sticker that I peeled off.
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It's basically just showing us quick access,
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OSD joystick, and power.
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So I'm actually gonna feel down here.
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Yep, okay.
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So we have a quick access button here,
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navigation nipple here, which is always preferred.
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And then there's a power button here.
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I do love the navigation nipple,
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but I don't like when that's the only button there.
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I like when they have a dedicated power button.
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And then you can take off this little guy here.
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I hate plastic clip-on stuff
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because I'm always worried
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that I'm gonna break one of the clips
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because I've totally broken them.
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Not frequently, but you know, it does happen.
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But anyway, you've got a nice cable cover
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and then you have these little guys here
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for more cable management.
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And then our IO consists of,
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it looks like a barrel plug for the power,
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headphone jack, HDMI.
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Oh, you get three HDMI ports, that's not bad.
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And then we've got a DisplayPort 1.4.
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And then, what is this?
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Looks like a way to plug into the board.
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And then on top of that,
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we've got our USB-B port to hook up to our PC.
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So there's a green dedicated mouse port
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and that's kind of neat.
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And then two other USB-A.
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The green one's for gaming.
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Yeah, green is for gaming.
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One thing that we're missing
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that a lot of creatives might be looking for
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is USB-C power delivery.
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There's no USB-C at all.
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And there's then no power delivery through USB-C
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because it's not even there.
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It's not the end of the world.
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I think that most people do use for a monitor like this,
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they are gonna use like a dedicated computer,
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a dedicated tower, but it is handy,
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especially in a creative studio
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to be able to take a laptop with a file on it,
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walk over and be like, boom, plug in your laptop,
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show someone whatever you need to show them, walk away.
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Can't do that with this one, but that's okay
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because it's significantly cheaper than the competitors.
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And this one's made for gaming.
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Yeah, this one's made for gaming.
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Gamers don't care about plugging in a laptop to it.
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We kind of forgot to talk about how good the stand is.
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You got some swivel.
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Eh, that's not bad.
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Can it, it can't pivot, but it can tilt.
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And then I think it's height adjustable too.
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Yeah, there's actually a lot of height adjustment.
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Boom.
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Take that Apple.
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It doesn't pivot, but that's okay.
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Honestly, unless the stand was higher or something,
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it probably wouldn't even clear the table anyway.
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And really, are you gonna use a 4K 144 Hertz display
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no matter what the rest of it is?
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Are you actually going to use that vertically?
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Yes.
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Maybe, some people might, Jono might, I'm not gonna.
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So it's totally okay.
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And honestly, if you really wanna do that,
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just put it on a VESA mount
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and do whatever you want at that point.
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That's pretty much it.
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Let's turn it on, let's game on it.
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I wanna see the RGB.
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We've got some pretty sick RGB on the back here.
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It helps that blue is my favorite color,
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but they've got the same problem I had
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with the last one still.
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Basically, there is this strip
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and then they've got these five lights
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and I really wish it had the same treatment
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as it does on the back
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where it's like a really nice solid diffusion layer.
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I don't know.
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I understand you're not looking down there,
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but like I said before,
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when it shines down on this reflective surface,
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you can see individual lights instead of like a light strip.
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It's an incredibly minor detail.
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It's an incredibly minor detail.
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But I really would like it,
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especially if they're already putting
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some kind of diffusion layer here.
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Just make the whole thing diffusion.
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All right, we've got it on our desk.
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We've got it set to everything we need it to be.
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It's in 4K.
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It's running at 144 Hertz or ever so slightly under.
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10-bit color.
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HDR is turned on.
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And yeah, I think it looks gorgeous, honestly.
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It's super crispy.
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They've got the really good borderless design
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all the way around the top here
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with the classic chin on the bottom.
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We think this might be an ambient light sensor,
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but we're not 100% sure.
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But we're not 100% sure.
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The bezels are okay.
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I've got the same problem with a lot of monitors
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where especially in the middle here,
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you've got this big chin.
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Give it just like a touch more plastic
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so that this little tiny black bezel on the bottom
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is fully covered.
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You can see that near the corners,
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they've almost got it down there.
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And I don't know if it's just like a weird curvature thing,
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but once you get into the middle,
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you can see it on the bottom.
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And it's a really minor thing
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that you stop noticing almost instantly,
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but it bothers me.
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The outside isn't too bad.
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It's present, but it could be a lot worse.
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We've got our ViewSonic Elite display controller.
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Jono pointed out that you don't necessarily need the OSD.
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RGB Alliance.
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Oh yeah, okay.
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So if you've got other devices that are all RGB,
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like I've got a Razer thing
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and I've got a Logitech thing on my desk.
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And so this would be really great.
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This will just kind of put them all together.
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Oh yeah, that's bright.
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We're still only getting like 48, 50 frames a second,
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because it's cyberpunk and it's running it like ultra
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or high settings on a 3090 and HDR is turned on
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and DLSS is on,
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but this is exactly why I don't own a 4K monitor.
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It's because it's just way too many pixels
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for you to try to put out like a new AAA game
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with crazy good settings turned on.
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Like, yeah, there's others that are better optimized
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and they still look really good.
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But like this game is almost two years old now.
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Actually it is, it's like two years old now.
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And it's 4K and it's just, my God, 45 frames per second.
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But nonetheless, this looks super pretty.
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Everything's crazy bright.
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That sign right there was like blindingly white
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for just a moment.
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Mini-LED looks great.
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One thing to note is that even though we're only getting
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like 42 frames a second,
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we're not seeing like any tearing or anything like that.
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Not a bunch of garbage ghosting or trailing or anything.
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This is thanks to our G-Sync Ultimate module.
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What that module does is it's basically the normal G-Sync,
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except it's rated at over a thousand nits peak brightness.
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So because this thing hits like 1400 nits,
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it's got the nice G-Sync Ultimate.
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And that alone, the module is usually adding another
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hundred dollars at least to the price tag of your display.
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So factor that into the cost, at least a little bit
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when you're thinking about buying this thing.
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Is it better than G-Sync?
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It is better than G-Sync compatible, but you know what?
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We're thinking about doing a video where we're doing
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G-Sync versus FreeSync versus V-Sync again,
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because we haven't done that in a few years.
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And you know, a lot of new displays are coming out
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with the new G-Sync modules and stuff.
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But yeah, you know, get subscribed to LTT
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so you don't miss that one.
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We're just watching YouTube footage.
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You know, if you've got proper like HDR gaming
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or like if you've got a 4K Blu-ray or something
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hooked up to this thing, man, this looks good.
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It's not Dolby Vision, but it's still hitting 1400 nits
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and peak brightness and like, man, it's pretty.
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Hoffman worked really hard on making this footage HDR.
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So we got to show it.
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And it looks beautiful.
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Oh man, that Porsche.
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I love the color it came in that like powder blue.
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Oh.
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Let me press it again.
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Yes, QD OLED is out and it is cheaper.
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The Alienware monitor is like $1,300
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versus this is about 2,500.
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There are some major differences.
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I mean, the QD OLED is only in 21 by nine aspect ratio.
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So it's ultra wide, it's curved.
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It's not 4K, it's 1440p.
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And if you want to buy it right now,
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scalpers are scalping it for like $3,000,
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which is about what this costs anyway, if not more.
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And then on top of that,
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if you do want to buy it,
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you got to wait like at least a couple of months.
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I'm on the waiting list
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and I don't get mine until like June 20th.
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Whereas this, you can just buy it right now.
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And it's more creative.
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Like if you want something that can both game
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and then do creative work reliably,
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this is a pretty good option.
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There you have it.
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Thanks for watching.
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This was the ViewSonic XG321UG.
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Yeah, I got it.
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All right, XG321UG.
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Yeah, I hate those naming schemes.
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Anyway, if you want to watch more shorts,
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more short circuits,
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feel free to watch any of our other monitor videos.
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We've got quite a few of those.
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Maybe watch Linus with the Samsung G9.
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But anyway, thanks for watching.