Dell’s 8K Monitor – Gaming, Video Creation & Consumption!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,742 words · ~8 min read
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Dell's groundbreaking 8K monitor the last time
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I checked out one of these was on a crowded show floor and to say that that
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one was a little pre-production would be
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an understatement but Dell has been hard at
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work for 4 months on their apptly named
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up3218k and the the finished product is now in
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our hands for evaluation as a Content
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creation device a Content consumption
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device and last but not least we uh might fire
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up some games on
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it Synergy is the software that lets you
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share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers check it out now at
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the link in the video description wait for
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it I went too early here we go it's
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alive 8K resolution at 60 HZ everything
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about the ultra shark up 321 is either
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state-of-the-art like the aluminum build quality hyper thin infinityedge TM bezel
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and glass front or it makes state-ofthe-art
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look like an antique the specs of this
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thing are absolutely unreal it comes
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tuned out of the box with an individual calibration report that promises Delta e
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values of less than two and full
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yes 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB color
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space it's got 400 nit Peak brightness
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which is Rock Solid for a non-HDR panel
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although a little more on that later and a static contrast ratio of 1,300 to1
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which is outstanding for an IPS panel type but that ignores the most obvious
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calling card of this utterly unique
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product the 8K resolution 10bit 60 HZ
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panel I mean this is so far out ahead of
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the curve that we don't even have a display interface that can handle it yet
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like early 4K displays with DisplayPort
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1.1 inputs it needs two connections to
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the computer to run at its maximum 60 HZ
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refresh rate but there's a big difference these are DisplayPort
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1.4 four ports well hold on a minute lonus DP 1.2 can handle 4K 60 HZ no
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problem and 1.4 has about double that
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bandwidth why do we need two of those
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ah because 8K is more than twice as many
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pixels as 5K four times as many as 4K
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and I'll whopping 16 times the pixel
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count of 10 80P we are talking
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33 megapixels 60 times per second and until
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video card makers Implement DSC or
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display stream compression the only way
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to push this many pixels is going to be to add more chords I have some good news
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too though Dell has a lot of experience
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building high-end displays and it really
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shows unlike early dual input 4K monitors
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there's no flakiness where half of the display looks a little different from
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the other half or where one side will refuse to turn on sometimes in fact you
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can even just yank out one of the cables
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and the only effect that you'll see is that the entire display will now be
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running at 30 HZ instead of 60 and from
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what I've seen plugging it back in is an equally seamless transition
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and all of this experience carries over to the physical design as well in spite
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of the panels weight heat and power consumption
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characteristics they managed an internal power supply with passive Cooling and
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all the Creature Comforts that creatives are used to height adjustment tilt
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swivel and even pivot are all built into
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a base that just exudes quality and they
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include a vase amount for you as well
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not only that but while you're typing or moving your mouse around there is next
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to no screen wobble which is really hard to do with a panel this heavy the four
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port built-in USB hub is pretty much a
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bonus at this point though if I was to criticize something I wouldn't mind some
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basic built-in speakers for emergencies
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okay enough about all of that though let's talk about actually using it the
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first thing I wanted to do was fire up an 8K wallpaper which believe it or not
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in spite of all the advertised 8K wallpapers are pretty freaking hard to
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find took me about 20 minutes that would
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be a nice touch D including some like
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dope AF highly detailed desktop
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backgrounds cuz once I got that fired up it looked freaking amaz balls I mean
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seriously face this close to the display
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and you're basically is she naked on that
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balcony no no no she's not but the crazy
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thing is that I can tell in terms of
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configuration The Sweet Spot for scaling seems to be in the sort of
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250% range if you have pretty sharp eyes
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and uh yeah I mean I guess it's really
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easy to get going so let's have a look at some content
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creation High DPI scaling still isn't perfect across the board on Windows 10
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creators update but Adobe Premier Pro
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scales perfectly looks absolutely razor
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sharp and I have no complaints as far as
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this particular Suite goes but this is
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one time when being ahead of the curve
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it has the potential to be a little bit
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rough because uh unless you've also
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dropped you know 7 plus ,000 on your uh
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you know red rocket X accelerator card and a high-end GPU if you're working
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with Native 8K content there is pretty
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much no way that I can see that you're going to be able to play back this kind
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of footage in real time anyway losing
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some of the benefit if you're playing it back at a quarter or 1/8 resolution of
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investing in an 8K display but of course
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that's only true if you're talking about the footage before you've exported it so
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let's go ahead and Export the footage and just watch it
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back okay so now we're talking this cool as a
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cucumber chunk of 8K footage of our DIY
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desk PC project which was shot on the Red Epic W with the helium sensor that
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burkel set to music looks fantastic on
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this display the 8K viewing experience is unlike anything else in that you can
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sit as close as you want to the Monitor
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and you still can't perceive any drawback other than that maybe it
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captured too many little details like specks of dust that you wouldn't have
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necessarily wanted to show with that
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said on the subject of drawbacks um all
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of this is if you can find any 8K content we used our own for reasons
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Beyond convenience there just isn't much
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but how about 8K gaming I don't know
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about you guys but for me one of the greatest things about PC gaming is that
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getting a better video card and uh higher resolution new monitor is a great
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way to breathe life into Old titles
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giving them a visual Fidelity that not even the developer would have been able
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to experience as at the time of creating
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them unfortunately in this
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case there were some drawbacks to go
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along with the phenomenal image quality
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I actually don't blame Dell for any of this the input leg and pixel response
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times of their AK display are about as
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good and feel about as good as you'd expect but even with top-of-the-line GTX
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1080ti graphics cards in SLI with liquid
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cooling to boot either the driver or the
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game engine whoa that was fun seems to
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just choke on something all the time and
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crash as often as not and this is even true for relatively lightweight titles
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like Team Fortress 2 so is there a
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customer for this thing at 5,000
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us well high-end users used to spend
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that kind of money on larger displays
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and higher resolution to increase their
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working space for program layouts and
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their canvas size for their projects
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that is where legendary displays like dellz own 3007 wfp got their popularity
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going from a 1280 by 1024 17in LCD which would have been
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pretty typical at the time to one of those beasts was like moving from the
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closet under the stairs on privet drive to Buckingham freaking Palace but
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nowadays you can get something the same size as this with a usable resolution
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for literally an order of magnitude less
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money I mean obviously it costs more than that one for something with color
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accuracy approaching this guy but we're still still paying a big premium for a
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couple of things number one is sharpness
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though to Dell's credit that is a sharpness that absolutely crushes even
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outstanding displays like LG's ultra fine 5K on paper though in my honest
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opinion in person the difference is not as noticeable as you might hope and
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number two for being the first one on
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the block with an eight K
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display so then especially with that
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last point in mind is there a customer
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for this product well you bet there is
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because when it comes to pcmr bragging
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rights there is no limit as far as I can
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tell and this is the
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Ultimo Synergy is a software download
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that solves the problem once and for all of having two mice and two keyboards on
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your desk because it allows you to share
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one Mouse and one keyboard between two or more computers so you will never
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confuse which keyboard or Mouse is for which ever again they've got a basic and
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pro version with a one-time payment for Lifetime access and the features include
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awesome stuff like clipboard sharing drag and dropping files and the ability
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to set up hot keys and more it even works cross platforms Windows Mac and
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Linux so use our Link in the video description to get 50% off Synergy
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