Nixeus NX-VUE27 27" IPS Monitor Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Vengeance gaming to learn more now we've all seen those cheap Korean uh
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IPS um greater than HD resolution
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monitors on eBay okay so we're familiar with those they're actually fairly
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inexpensive All Things Considered you know considering that you're getting an
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IPS screen that runs at 2560 by 1440
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they're usually 27in models but not everyone is comfortable with buying from
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these weird sort of direct from Korea
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eBay sellers and not everyone is comfortable knowing that they are
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getting a non-ag grade panel or
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sometimes non A+ grade CU there's a wide
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variety of different grades of LCD panels so not knowing what they're
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getting and obviously not having any recourse if there are dead pixels or
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whatever else so that my friends is
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where nixus comes in they have got their
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own version of what would be these 27in
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uh not quite A+ grade panels but the key difference is that you have a North
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American company to go to assuming you live in North America so you have a
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North American company to go to if there's some kind of a problem and you
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have someone actually doing like some rudimentary quality control on them as
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opposed to just going with sort of off the the not quite correct manufacturing
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line and just shipping them out to you so that's nix's value ad here is they're
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Q seeing it they're giving you a support contact that you can actually talk to
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here in North America and they are delivering you an IPS screen that is
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capable of 2560 by 1440 resolution also
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known as uh what was the
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2.5k and they have also made some modifications to the monitor that make
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it a little bit better than the Cheapo ones as well so check this out uh number
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one is you have multiple display Imports
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so HDMI DVI VGA and DisplayPort
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although it should be noted that the only two that are capable of displaying
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at Full Resolution are going to be DVI and DisplayPort that's dual link DVI
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not single link DVI single link DVI has only the resolution of HDMI which is not
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quite enough they've included all the accessories you need to get it mounted
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up I think this is the first time I've ever seen um like a mounting ARM that
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just Clips onto a standard vase amount on a monitor like this so we're going to
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have to go ahead and sort of figure that out I guess I should finish showing you what's on the bottom so other than that
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there's audio as well as DC power in and
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you've got all your ventilation holes on the bottom as well as on the top of the
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monitor up here now the front of the monitor this is a 27 in screen so you
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can expect a little bit of a wider bezel but it's not super wide it is a glossy
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monitor so it's glossy on the bezel as as well as on the screen itself and all
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of your on screen menus are controlled by the buttons down here at the bottom
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so I'm actually going to throw this together off camera and we'll be back in a moment all the mounting hardware is
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helpfully labeled so we're going to start with the uh the screw for
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connecting Monitor and shaft as opposed to the screw for connecting the base and
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the shaft so we just position this guy
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right here over the four holes and then I guess I probably should have opened up
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uh this little baggie there we go so those are four Vasa compatible screws
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and just go ahead and position those right there you can see that the M the
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uh the ARM is height adjust which is really nice to see just because
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especially with these larger size monitors it's uh it's nice to be able to
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to move them around to suit sort of your your individual uh viewing style because
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they're so heavy and so so large compared to smaller monitors now while
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this is an LED back model it's still a little bit on the thicker side and
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heavier side again because of that size and uh yeah because of that size now I
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have a lot of people sort of you
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know Wonder ask me what are the advantages and
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disadvantages of uh larger resolution
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versus lower resolution and so I would say well there's a couple things so
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Advantage number one is having that pixel density gives you more clarity to
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the image so it is going to look nicer this disadvantage number one is expect
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to be upgrading your graphics card a lot more often if you are wanting to play at
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Native resolution which will obviously look a lot better than if you play at
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sort of not a native resolution where you'll have that uh that interpolation
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that you encounter with that you can see there's a bit of uh bit of play there so
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let's see how sturdy it is once we've actually got it fully attached here so
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there it is eight screws to get it set up and you can see I've positioned it on
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the included styring so that but it ah
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there we go isn't resting on the screen
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itself once it's on your desk I guess that it's not too bad actually that's
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probably not going to bother you so you've got swivel like that little bit of tilt not
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much tilt little
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bit oh okay it looks like it clicks into place for some
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reason oh okay it's just caught on the plastic a little bit so there's the Tilt
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go ahead and show you guys what degree of
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there we go see there's a little plastic piece there that just catches like that
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not a problem okay and then last but not least you do have height adjust which
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goes all the way down to here and all the way up to
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here uh right included accessories so
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they do have an audio cable uh USB extension cable and finally a dual link
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DVI cable nice black cable looks pretty slick and there's obviously instructions
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for all the stuff that we we just did and I think that pretty much wraps it up
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thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at nix's 27in 2560x1440
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