Buy this 4K 120Hz Gaming Monitor Instead! - Wasabi Mango Review
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,375 words · ~6 min read
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okay so this monitor has appeared in
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like four videos i think at this point on our channel so
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you probably know how amazing it is it's
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got a whole laundry list of features some of which
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you might actually care a lot about like a 4k resolution screen
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144 hertz depending on how you interpret that refresh rate and i mean it's got
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some other stuff that you might not care about uh HDR g-sync professional grade
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color accuracy and of course ah oh it's heavy
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RGB lighting oh and of course right it costs 2 000 freaking dollars
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but what if you could take away the extra RGB cherries on top and just
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get the stuff that you really care about the 4k and the high refresh rate
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this my friends is the wasabi
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mango which
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yes is really what it's called
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thank you korea this is their uhd 430 it's a 43 inch 120
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hertz 4k display for over five hundred dollars less than
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this one over here thermaltake's vue 71k supports mini itx
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micro atx atx and eatx motherboards with
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a variety of mounting options for your GPU and radiator check it out today at
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the link below
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so the wasabi mango uhd 430 believe it
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or not was actually the first commercially available monitor to take
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full advantage of the displayport 1.4 spec which means that over a single
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cable it has enough bandwidth for the display's 3840 by 2160 resolution at 120
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hertz without any chroma subsampling
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so no it's not 144 hertz but depending
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who you ask neither is this one by the way you
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should check out the full review for this thing here it is it is pretty freaking amazing
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so you might be wondering if the uhd430
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came out first why is this review only coming out now
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that's because this thing is only available for purchase in south korea
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but now thanks to enterprising exporters you can
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actually get your very own in north america on ebay for fourteen hundred
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dollars with free international shipping that is a
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full six hundred dollars cheaper than the ASUS and acer offerings hold on a
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second it's 43 inches it does have DisplayPort but is this thing just a tv
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with displayport is it even any good for gaming
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uh yeah yeah it is like this thing might kind of
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look like a tv like look at this look at this stand here and everything
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it might even kind of like smell like a tv
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but it feels it games like a gaming
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monitor i mean we consistently saw
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impressively low input lag and even the
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response times feel great considering that this is an ips panel like there's
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barely any motion blur to be seen on it now of course
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going for a budget option can i call a 1400 monitor
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budget i mean first there is no variable refresh rate
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technology no g-sync no freesync even and since 4k games take
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a lot of uh peppa to run well you're likely to be in the
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40 to 60 FPS range when you're playing
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aaa titles even if you're running a gtx 1080 ti or a titan v
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like this machine is actually and that's the exact frame rate range
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where the most dramatic effects of variable refresh rate can be seen
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with that said your mileage may vary depending on the games you play and even
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how much you notice or care about tearing or stuttering and that sort of
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thing also there is a chance that the
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uhd430 will get a freesync support in the
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future via a firmware update that's actually the method that wasabi mango
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used to upgrade their uhd420
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way back in 2015 uht420
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compromise number the next is uh the HDR
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that uh oh yes there it is so it's on the box and they claim it
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supports HDR but this is one of those
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hdrint kind of displays where it only
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reaches 400 nit peak brightness true HDR really demands a minimum of a
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thousand nits peak brightness and while we're at it we should note that you
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can't get 120 hertz 10 bit color
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and HDR turned on all at the same time
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you actually need to turn the refresh rate down to 98 hertz to really
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experience HDR otherwise the bit depth
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gets downgraded to 8-bit
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which i mean on the subject of bit depths and color accuracy
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um well the au optronics panel that is in
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the ASUS pg27uq and the acer x27
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is a quantum dot panel giving it very accurate color over a wide gamut
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this one well let's just say it has
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good coverage of the srgb color space i
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mean it is ah ips after all but then it has
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what we would describe as bork all
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as far as dci p3 coverage goes and colors that are definitely
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not accurate enough for any serious
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photo editors out there let alone profes i wouldn't edit a picture i took on my
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phone on this thing quite frankly looking at it side by side with a real
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monitor finally if you're into that sort of thing
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there's no RGB or glowing lights or anything like that
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but at least the chassis actually isn't half bad it does have like a brushed
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anodized aluminum face even if the bezels aren't super skinny it's got a
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vase amount compatible back so you can put it on an ARM if you're a wall mount
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if you're into that sort of thing and it's got side accessible i o with two
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displayport 1.4 ports three HDMI 2.0
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ports and a toslink optical audio jack
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which you might actually use since the included speakers while definitely
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appreciated don't sound great and aren't even loud
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enough for monitor use let alone tv use
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so should you buy this monitor
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i mean i guess if you've got a powerful enough rig to actually take advantage of
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4k 120 hertz in at least some of your
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favorite games and you really want to be an early adopter then
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the 5 to 600 ish dollar price difference
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makes it easier to justify not to mention that it is 16 inches bigger to
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boot though that does mean that the pixel density drops from 163 pixels per
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inch on this guy to about 104 on this
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one so you won't be sitting that close anyway
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at least that is unless you are playing
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one of those visual novels that i
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