RGB Lighting on a Monitor - It's NOT Stupid!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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830 words · ~4 min read
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at freshbooks.com Linus ces
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so we're coming to you from the MSI suite where they've got is it a booth i
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don't know what this is it doesn't matter the point is there's some cool stuff in here first and foremost they've
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got a new version of their trident gaming desktop that is a lot heavier
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than the old one oh is he going to drop it is he not going to drop it the point
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is the hardware has not changed a ton so
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you're still going to get a core i7 processor but this time it's 8th gen for
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up to 6 cores and they've done up to a gtx 1080 graphics card in this tiny form
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factor now so all that weight that is a whole lot of heat sink cliff you ready
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here you go bud also behind me they've got a new monitor
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so MSI's been doing monitors for a little while but they're really getting
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serious about it now this is the optics mpg
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27cq it's a 1440p 144 hertz freesync
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gaming display it's got a va panel so you get those nice deep blacks and 3001
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contrast ratio it's got two HDMI 2.0 ins and a displayport 1.2 and
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most importantly RGB lighting so MSI has
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been working with partners like Corsair steel series and cooler master to enable
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you to synchronize the RGB lighting on the monitor with your peripherals or
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even with your computer but there's some special integration with steel series so
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using steel series engines game sense you can actually use the lights here for
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something that's not completely stupid because i don't think anyone was asking
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for RGB lighting around the outside of what they're trying to focus on no no
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but with game sense in supported games which includes games like counter-strike
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minecraft and dota with pubg coming it allows you to actually configure these
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not just in terms of brightness and color but to reflect things that are
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happening in game so you could have your right side change color according to
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your health your left side change according to your ammo oh and the middle
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one could maybe light up with brighter and brighter colors or it could flash
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every time you get a head shot pretty cool stuff another innovation in this
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monitor something that shocks me that we haven't seen before is the ability to
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change on-screen menu items not just with the joystick at the back but also
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through a software application so everything from throwing a cheater
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crosshair in the middle of your monitor to adjusting the brightness to even
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changing your input can now be done through MSI's software so this one's
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going to come at around 400 to 450 bucks with an NVIDIA g-sync version planned in
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the future though i would expect that one to cost a couple hundred dollars
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more because dem NVIDIA licensing costs uh oh one
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more cool feature is that with all this lighting stuff you can actually synchronize across multiple systems if
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you're into that sort of thing or even that cool laptop over there that actually has the lighting on the back so
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this way if you've got a whole team of people playing you could like have them all flash red and then turn off like as
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they die and stuff that's cool so thanks again to freshbooks for allowing us to
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Linus ces and then uh yeah i think
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that's pretty much it why not do it so thanks for watching guys if you
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and you can check out where to buy the stuff we linked nope not at all because
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the monitor's not coming till later and this is not coming till super later so