Giant 144Hz GAMING Monitor - Acer Predator CG437K
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2020-05-05
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1,373 words · ~6 min read
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(grunts) (box hits table)
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- It's like they only send over the biggest monitors.
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This is the Acer CG437K.
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A large format gaming display. UHD 4K 3840 by 2160 resolution.
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NVIDIA G-SYNC, this is just G-SYNC compatible,
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not the hardcore one with the module. Over clockable to 144Hz, we'll talk about that later.
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One millisecond response time, but it's visual response boost.
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That's a motion blur reduction mode kinda like ULMB.
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So that means it's only getting at one millisecond with this mode turned on.
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These panels themselves cannot do one millisecond gray to gray response time.
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VA cannot do that. Then we got display HDR 1000 certification.
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That's awesome. And these specs right here are kind of derivatives of that.
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And 30 Watts of charging through a USB-C port.
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30 Watts is not enough to charge a laptop or anything.
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But meh, maybe it's good for your phone or it can't hurt. Whoa.
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Some RGB light strips, our remote.
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And what is this? This is the power cable,
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standard stuff. (grunts)
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I used to think Linus just made all these grunting sounds
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to make it more dramatic. But now I know, he's just old.
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Get this thing outta here.
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(box hits ground) (bleeping) Now it's upside down.
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More cables fell out. DisplayPort cable,
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USB type C cable, another DisplayPort cable.
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I'll tell you why in a second. This looks like a bunch of extensions for the RGB cables
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and a USB type B cable.
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This is for hooking up the USB hub.
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Okay, here we go. It appears that the stand is already on there,
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that's kinda nice.
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Whoa.
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That's huge, man. When I was a kid, 43 inches was like
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not many people had a TV that big. 27 inches was normal,
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36 was like pretty big and 42 was like woo, bit TV person.
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Pretty interesting looking back. this stand is pretty high quality.
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This is metal, and it's just bolted in, three screws each.
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This feels pretty stable, well, it does it? It's kind of,
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no, it's pretty good. A big gamery kina back to it.
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It looks like it's got some venting ventilation here. It looks like a cable management kind of hook right there.
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Oh, it's pretty heavy. There's some accessible side IO here.
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It's two HDMI 2.0 ports and then some USB ports.
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This monitor has two USB 3s and two USB 2s.
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Down here though, the main IO you've got your USB type B,
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which will power the rest of this hub, for your your USB-C with, again, 30 Watts of charging,
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two more USB type As and two display ports.
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So this is a 4k monitor that advertises a refresh rate of up to 144 Hertz if you overclock it.
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But, in order to get that, you need to run two DisplayPort cables.
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Now it's clunkier cause you need to have two cables, but on the other hand, you're not gonna get any
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chroma sub sampling, which is a trade-off that you do get with some other monitors.
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Then we've got a power switch, (clicking) just like you see on your power supply on your computer
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and then the power plug. Ohhh,
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ah dang it. You can see on the front of the stand, there's actually a little icon showing controllers.
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I guess they know who their target audience is, don't they?
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The type C port does carry DisplayPort over it, but you're only gonna get
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a maximum of up to 60 Hertz with that, so... (hits ground)
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I gotta mess with these RGB strips first because I've seen
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monitors that have RGB on the back, but I've never seen them come like sold separately.
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Yeah, they're magnetic a little.
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What the heck? How am I supposed to stick these on? Yeah, maybe I'm supposed to put these into my case
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and not on the monitor. No, but there's, I'm pretty sure there's ports
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to plug this into. If we pull this off,
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there's headers there for my lamp belts to plug into.
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Tada. - Who put all this, who put all these led strips on it?
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- It comes with them. - Really? - But it doesn't come with any adhesive on them
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and this has a magnetic, so you have to just-
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- You gotta be kidding me. - You download their software and then you can
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sync them up with League of Legends and everything. - No, but I just mean these are, these are addressable LEDs.
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So there would be no reason to have more than one thing off the back and then just have little connecting, like-
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- Oh yeah, if you daisy chain them. - Yeah. - Well you don't have to daisy chain them.
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- But why would you, but why would you not? - Because the world is your oyster,
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any configuration you want, they don't even have to be on the monitor. You can put them on your desk.
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I don't know if I'm missing something, but this is the most half-baked RGB solution I've ever seen.
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This is so tacked on. This is a $1,300 monitor.
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Oh, another peel.
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Oh, I didn't even put the batteries in this thing yet. I don't think this thing comes with batteries.
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Everything comes with batteries. This is brutal. Light sensors, this monitor has an ambient light sensor,
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which I would guess is in here somewhere. So it looks like the native refresh rate is 120 Hertz,
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which is what I expected. But we can overclock that to 144, so let's try.
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Oh no. Well they don't guarantee a 144 Hertz overclock, I guess.
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Oh, maybe that's why I didn't work. It thinks I have multiple displays on.
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It's because there's a setting in the OSD. You go down to system, then on the second page,
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there's 4k, 144 Hertz mode. You turn that on, and now if I go into display settings,
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only one monitor is recognized, and it's refreshing at 144 Hertz.
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All right, now we're gonna check out the HDR experience with cinema.
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It's definitely on, you can see the brightness around those clouds. - Oh yeah, for sure, reflections on the armor,
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and impressively, the black areas are quite dark.
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Like not, it's not OLED inky black, but considering how bright some of these highlights are,
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I am really impressed for an edge lit display, I'll say that much. - What I want to see now is go into to a game
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and, smaller things like a mouse cursor, will they be bright?
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- Right. - See the light hitting that balloon and that lamp over there, that's pretty good.
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So yep, it's definitely an HDR monitor. Maybe some of those little tiny highlights would be brighter
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if you use the full array local dimming HDR monitor, which is like the top for HDR, but sometimes those monitors
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can be annoying because even when you're on your desktop,
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just moving the mouse around, you can have halos around it and just kind of looks weird.
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And the viewing angles sometimes worse. So I wouldn't buy this monitor if HDR is what you want.
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HDR is here and it's, it's very good. It's not top of the top.
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And if you're spending $1,300, maybe top of the top HDR what you want.
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In conclusion, it's a pretty sweet monitor. If you like 16 by 9.
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Personally, I would way rather have a super ultra wide or even an ultra wide because this extra height
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isn't really gonna help you in productivity situations.
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But if you're watching 16 by nine content and playing 16 by nine games, this can be pretty cool.
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