This monitor comes at a HIGH COST! - ViewSonic XG271QG
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,617 words · ~13 min read
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- [Cameraman] Are you Mario Karting? ( man laughing)
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- So it's 2022, you've got to buy a new monitor. Do you go 4K or do you stick with 1440 P,
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or are you upgrading from 1080 P and you don't know what to get?
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Well, ViewSonic has a new monitor for us and it's 1440 P, 240 Hertz,
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which is pretty impressive, honestly. Big box.
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( man grunting) It's got all the stuff that you kind of expect
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from monitor manufacturers these days. But pretty much everyone's got G-sync,
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low-latency, input lag. Actually, this was not that bad
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for telling me all the random extra stuff it has on it.
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I don't know what RGB alliances but yeah, it's got 240 Hertz refresh rate.
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It's got a one millisecond response time and elite RGB. I hate this name, the XG271QG.
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Guys, please just, I don't understand monitor names.
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It's confusing. Why can't you just do it Samsung does and go with like the Odyssey Neo G9.
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Like I don't know. Sure that has a skew name as well, I'm pretty sure, but at least it's really easy.
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ViewSonic Elite? I think it's too broad. - [Jono] Have you ever used a ViewSonic monitor?
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- I've never actually had the pleasure of using one.
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First of all, I've usually been pretty broke. So, I'm usually finding whatever, like the cheapest option is.
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Oh. Okay, that was cool. That's actually neat. My big problem with a lot of monitor boxes is getting
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it back in the box. If you've ever got to sell it or return it or do whatever,
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it's kind of a pain in the ass. Whereas this is great.
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Cause I can just now grab this whole box, however I want and move it out.
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We've got some DisplayPort cables, USB B to A for the monitor to the PC.
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Power cable, Mickey Mouse plug.
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Oh, it's got a big brick. Ah, this thing is huge. - [Jono] That just means the monitor's gunna be small.
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- That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah, because if all of the power stuff is in here
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and not in the back of the panel. I'm really hoping it's kind of thin.
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This is nice. Ooh and it is light.
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Like I'm holding this with one hand and I'm not even worried. See how there are a couple side controls,
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but Jono pointed this up before I even realized it. They've got the navigation nipple on the bottom
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and that's like basically all they've got. Which is great cause that's all you need.
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Someone out there is gonna complain and say, "No, I need all my extra buttons",
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but I don't think so. Oh, these are a little nifty cable management things.
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I think their cable management. I don't know what else they'd be. You can like rotate them and stuff
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to get different angles for things. That's pretty neat. Unfortunately, you're probably going to want
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to use DisplayPort. It doesn't have HDMI 2.1. It's not ideal,
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but the HDMI standardization committee is working on it.
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Not really. That's a whole thing that people are getting upset about.
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I'm upset about it. Thank you for purchasing a ViewSonic Elite gaming monitor.
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Your new monitor features RGB integration that can be controlled
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by either using the elite display controller or by downloading key partners software.
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Oh, that's cool. So this whole thing on the back here is an RGB badge. It kind of looks like the cooler master logo.
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Like the shape, at least. Cool. I'm gonna peel this off.
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Luckily, most graphics cards have DisplayPort at this point. HDMI 2, HDMI 2, DisplayPort, headphone port,
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USB B to A, which is for your PC and then USB, USB.
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I actually don't know what the green stands for for USB A.
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Is green USB A 2.0? I haven't seen a green port in forever.
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It says 3.2? - [Jono] Yeah. - Okay, so the specs say a USB 3.2.
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I just haven't seen anyone use green for a USB port in a long time,
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but it's - Except Razer. Razer's whole thing is being green.
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On the back, I mean, you've got like a Kensington lock, which is great for schools, I guess.
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Although I don't know what school needs a 240 Hertz monitor.
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- [Jono] The best school. - The best schools, yeah, the elite. Panel itself looks okay.
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The bezels are super minor. Like they're nice and thin. The bottom is what it is,
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but we're seeing a lot of this like big bottom and then - The chins.
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yeah, the chins. I love that term. I think it's pretty apt. Won't really know, at least not from this angle
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or not until it's turned on, how big of a bezel is on the inside.
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All right, let's turn it on. - [Jono] No, no, no. You can't turn it on. You've got to assemble it.
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Oh, you're right. (beeping) I didn't even. (both laughing) I didn't even put the stand on.
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I really do think for the most of, for the most people that like 27 inches
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is basically the optimal gaming monitor size.
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Like even at home 27 inch was great for a really long time until my desk got bigger.
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And then once I had a bigger desk and I was sitting in additional, like, I don't know, six inches away from my monitor.
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That's when I wanted something bigger. - [Andy] Are you Mario Kart-ing?
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(everyone laughing)
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- I never even thought of it that. This totally does look like a racing wheel or something.
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It's so cool. It just slides in there and then you screw it down.
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Like most of them have this, probably a bolt, I guess, not a screw.
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But with this little handle here that you can flip up and down to twist it.
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Yeah, it's toolless. Yeah, it's invasive mountable a hundred by a hundred, like most monitors that aren't obnoxiously large.
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Nice. Yeah. And then you can just attach it with this little lever here.
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Ooh I like it. So light. Cooler master hexagon, cooler master hexagon.
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All I'm thinking when I'm looking at this thing is cooler master. I don't know why they were so obsessed
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with this hexagon design. - [Andy] It's cooler!
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- It's cooler, eh, (man laughing)
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I work with PC parts all the time. So that's probably why the branding is
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so in my face I guess. I like the little elite badge on the back.
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Not that anyone will ever really see it, but that's kinda nice.
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The actual stand is, it's pretty robust. It's got a good amount of like up and down this swivel.
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It's actually good amount of swivel and then tilt.
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Yeah. It's not bad. Oh baby.
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It goes sideways. My favorite feature. Probably more RGB strips.
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That's really cool. I'm really curious to see how it all looks when it's lit up
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lttstore dot com. I'm a little disappointed in this bottom light strip.
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I'm sure that when it's pointed at your desk, it looks fine at emits a nice glow
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on the bottom of the surface. But looking at this strip,
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I was really excited thinking this whole strip was either going to be its own missive.
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Kind of like this guy here, or it was at least going to be like a lot more LEDs.
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The back looks good. See that's what that's what kind of kills me is they crushed
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it with the back. It looks exactly like I was hoping for.
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- [Andy] Ooh wow. - Where it's. Yeah. It's like a nice solid blue all the way around. Hey.
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- [Andy] Yeah. - Yeah, it looks awesome. And then this bottom strip is just so disappointing.
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Like why, you were so close, ViewSonic.
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Oh, I didn't cable manage. Aw, this is going to kill me. Okay. Sorry. One sec.
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I liked the stand at first. I'm not nearly as sold on it.
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Now that it's on the desk, I would really strongly prefer if it was out back here.
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I guess, you know what, actually, this would look great if I cable managed my mouse
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and keyboard up through there as well. And then all my cables will be running along
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this like black channel and then up out the back.
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So, okay. I guess in the right setting, it can look pretty good.
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60 Hertz. No, no, no, no, no. 239.970 baby. Oh man.
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That's smooth. It looks great. There's like hardly any smearing or anything.
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Like you can, yeah. You can see the halo around the mouse when you do that. But like, oh my God, 240 Hertz.
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So it's HDR 400, which is okay.
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These days you really want more like 600 or 800 or 1,000.
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400 is not as impressive as it could be.
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Let me just make sure HDR is on and Windows use HDR.
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Yeah, I like it all looks good. I just, I wish it was a touch brighter.
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It's not bad HDR. It just could be a little better I guess.
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It's the biggest problem about working here, is I always work with and see the latest and greatest,
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like especially with CES coming up, all I'm seeing are all these cool press briefings for all
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this new stuff coming out. And I just spent like eight, 900 dollars on a monitor,
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- [Andy] Either you see the thing and you don't spend money, or you really like a thing and you spend tons of money.
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- And you spend way too much. This one doesn't boast color accuracy all that much. It's really about the 240 Hertz refresh rate,
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at 1440 P, which is pretty good. There's not a ton of 240 14, 40 P monitors out right now.
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And this thing does look good. Like as soon as you go back to like 60 FPS
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or a 60 Hertz display or a 30 FPS game,
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you just, (man scoffs) I don't know. It just looks bad instantly to you,
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and you can't like put a finger on why until you're like, oh, it's 60 Hertz
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or like, oh, it's like running it really low frame rate. I don't know. So I'm looking down at the bottom.
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At the base here. And I can see that it's like four or five LEDs.
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Can you see that on the camera? - [Andy] Yeah I can see that. - I was really hoping that it would be diffused enough off
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of everything that I wouldn't be able to pick that up, but I can still see that it's like four or five little LEDs.
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Come on you guys. Like you did perfectly on the back.
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It looks awesome. If the stand wasn't there, like directly underneath it,
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it might actually just bleed out nicely onto,
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onto like a mat or something. But because it's almost a mirror finish
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on the bottom of the stand, I can clearly see that that's just like five LEDs instead of
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this actual bar lighting up. Which is just, (man scoffs)
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it's kind of this. Yeah. See, like when it's not something reflective, you can, like it diffuses nicely.
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That's a little disappointing. We mentioned the bezel earlier.
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The outside bezel is super thin. The inside bezel is pretty average. I would,
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I wish it was a little thinner, but honestly it's not that bad.
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This is pretty standard. It's kind of what you're going to see. This is part of why this chin is so big.
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See how there's almost nothing on the bottom. It's covering a bunch of that.
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This looks awesome. There's no tearing, like at all.
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See, I'm looking around. Like I know you can't really see this through the screen recording and even the camera,
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isn't going to pick it up perfectly, but man, it's, there's no tearing.
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Like, you know, probably if we freeze framed, we could see a little bit,
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but it just looks smooth, like 240 Hertz.
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My God, please don't tell me. Wow, that was bad.
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Do I want 240 Hertz? Yes. Do I need it? I mean, not really, but man,
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does it ever look nice? And it just smooths out your game experience.
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And the refresh, like the response time moving at a higher refresh rate,
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with a fast monitor, like what are we getting? We're probably getting like, yeah,
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like 300, 250 frames per second. So we're really utilizing this thing.
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Okay. Let's talk price. That's probably the big elephant in the room here.
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27 inch monitor, 1440 P 240 Hertz refresh rate.
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And it might be color accurate, but it does not boasting about it anywhere.
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So it's probably okay. It's 940 dollars.
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I just paid like 900 Canadian
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for a 32 inch 1440 P 165 Hertz.
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Very color, accurate monitor. Jono just bought a 4k 1 44 Hertz display
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for like 1000 Canadian dollars.
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940 man. I can't, I just, even for that extra, like what, 80 Hertz.
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I don't know if I can justify paying that much more for
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this display while also shrinking and screen size. Now the point is I think that if
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you ever find this thing on sale, like even just 150 bucks off,
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it becomes a lot more worth it. But at full price?
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I don't know. I just don't think I can justify it.
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It's beautiful. I like that they've got the power outside so that this is a little like slimmer and lighter.
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The design is great. I'm still iffy on the stand. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't.
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It really depends on I think your cable management would make a huge difference.
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But I think if you're looking for the best bang for your buck,
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maybe it's not quite the ViewSonic Elite time yet.
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Thanks for watching. If you liked this ShortCircuit, make sure to check out the other one we did.
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We just unboxed and ASUS monitor that I really liked as well.
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I think it was 4k 120 Hertz. Pretty nice.
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But you need HDMI 2.1. If you want to play with your consoles on it.
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At the full frame rate.