Cheapest 100Hz Curved Ultrawide Gaming Monitor - Massdrop Vast
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,216 words · ~6 min read
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you guys know i hate to be the bearer of bad news
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yeah you're fired you're fired you're gonna have to be fired you're not
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allowed to work here anymore oh bad news i already quit
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you're fired but here it is the world is
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just gonna have to wait a little longer than originally expected for 4k monitors
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to dominate the mainstream why well
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because gaming ultrawides just got a little closer to your price range the
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vast from mass drop is a 35 inch 3440 by
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1440 100 hertz freesync ultra wide aimed
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at gamers for a hundred and fifty dollars less than the one that dropped
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3.8 million jaws just nine months ago so
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to hit this price did they like
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out cheap the korean brands or did they just
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cheap out well i'll tell you who didn't cheap out
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oh man i shouldn't have that strudel so with the vast mass drop set out to
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strike the perfect balance between features and cost and
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you can tell by just looking at it strips of gray anodized aluminum accent
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the parts that you can see interrupted only by a deliberately dim
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power led and the rest is simple black
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plastic much of it glossy though for some reason that i don't care what the
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reason is because no reason is good enough all the i o is thankfully on the
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side of the monitor so you don't have to go through this every time you want to
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plug something in but it's pretty basic no usb hub no
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DisplayPort over usb type c no HDMI out
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no magnetic paper clip holder just a pass-through headphone jack one
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displayport 1.2 port one HDMI 2.0 and
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two more HDMI 1.4 ports that actually
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won't run past 50 hertz at native resolution but could be good for sources
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like game consoles that run at lower resolutions or
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like picture in picture if you want to fight
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your way through the inexplicably horrible on-screen display navigation to
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be the first person to use that feature since 1998 ergonomics is where we get
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our claim in the video title technically there are other monitors priced the same
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as this one but you'd have to buy a third-party monitor mount to get the
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features of the vast it doesn't swivel
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but it has 20 degrees of tilt it's got a
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gas spring actuated 11 centimeters of height adjustment and it's even got 90
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degrees of pivot making it perfect for
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ultra tall gaming
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or for browsing reddit more efficiently than ever before but seriously
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massdrop's positioning of the vast as a gaming display does seem to be mostly
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justified it's using a va panel boasting two millisecond overdriven pixel
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response times and while compared to lg's similarly priced gaming ultra wide
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it's running at only 100hz versus
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hertz it's doing so at a much higher resolution and then compared to
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offerings from ASUS and acer that also
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run at 3440x1440 you are giving up g-sync support but you
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are paying only half as much so how the hamburgers did
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massdrop manage to undercut the big dogs so handily well their video promoting
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this product seems to suggest that it had to do with choosing the appropriate
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technology with the two millisecond response time and the 100hz refresh rate
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of their va panel from auo being and this is a direct quote just as fast as
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any tn panel and it has color performance that's on par with
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first-rate ips panels okay massdrop i love you guys
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um you sponsored this show you sent me this dope ass monitor to check out so i
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really hate to do this but that is a big load of crap and in my opinion that
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video needs to be pulled your monitor delivers a pretty great gaming
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experience for all the reasons that it would on paper
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va panels including yours do actually deliver noticeably better
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contrast than competing technologies outside of OLED and they definitely have
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better color accuracy and viewing angles than tn and at this price it's a killer
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value but its pixel response times are
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nowhere near a 1 millisecond response
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time 240 hertz tn display like ASUS's
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rog swift pg258q no matter how much
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overdrive you apply at a hundred hertz i mean it's good for a 1440p ultra wide
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but it's on the low end of high refresh rate
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and 100 coverage of the srgb color space
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does not make it as color accurate as a
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premium ips i'm not mad because the
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product is bad it's not bad in fact it
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scored very well in our battery of color and contrast tests courtesy of the folks
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over at portrait i just don't like the way that certain
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aspects of it are being positioned as specifically great for gaming while
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others are being glossed over freesync for example is a super marketing bullet
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point but in practical terms running aaa
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titles on AMD's highest end graphics card today if you can get one
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at decent settings slash native resolution you would frequently be below
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the 49 hertz minimum refresh rate for adaptive refresh and then when that
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happened you'd experience stutter lag and tearing as though you didn't have it
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at all so to be clear none of what i
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just said prevents me from recommending that you go buy this product because
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ignoring the marketing the vast is arguably the best bang for the buck
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gaming ultra wide on the market
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