Ultrawide Dream Setup & New LG Monitors! - CES 2016
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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Linus tech tips coverage of ces 2016 is brought to you by squarespace build it
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beautiful here in the lg monitor booth
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we've got a few things to get to before the main event so first we've got the 27
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ud 88 this is a creator-oriented
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27-inch 4k display and the big thing
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here is not necessarily the 99 srgb the
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well obviously 4k ips panel but rather
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the fact that it features usb type-c connectivity so the laptop next to it
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which is the lg gram a pretty cool piece of technology in its
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own right is not only outputting to the
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monitor at 4k resolution through that single type-c connector but it is also
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being charged by the power plug that it
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the monitor is using from the wall pretty freaking cool i should take a
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moment and actually talk about the gram very briefly here this thing is sick
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it's like macbook air type thin but a
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whole other level of light it's 2.2
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pounds with a core i5 or core i7 processor 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 or 512
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gig SSD pricing is not available yet
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but i will definitely be watching this one pretty closely which now brings us
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over to the 27 ud 68 this is a more
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gaming oriented model unfortunately it's still only 60 hertz but thanks to its 4k
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resolution that's pretty much all you're going to be able to drive with a modern
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display interface anyway so what makes this puppy gaming is the fact that it
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features AMD freesync technology so with a supported AMD GPU you're not going to
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have to deal with the lag or tearing associated with more traditional
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solutions for when the GPU is outputting a frame rate that is not synchronous
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with the refresh rate of the display that leads us over to the centerpiece of
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the show here the 34 uc 98 it's fairly
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similar to lg's previous 97 with a
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couple of key differences so it's still 3440 by 1440 34 inch 21x9 aspect ratio
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it's got a couple of HDMI inputs a displayport input it's got a usb 3 hub
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it's got Thunderbolt passthrough that's actually really cool Thunderbolt 2 pass
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through for daisy chaining but the main differences are the id it now features a
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metal stand that actually looks and feels quite a bit better the fact that
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it now has height adjust something that was on the business model but not the
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more consumer oriented one and finally it's got AMD freesync which is better
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for eliminating tearing in games within
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that freesync variable refresh rate window which leads us finally to the
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centerpiece of the monitor display here three of those freesync enabled gaming
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monitors in a what would you call this like mega uber ultra wide setup with the
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theme around it being ultra wide dream setup so if you guys
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weren't paying attention like entirely over the last couple of months we worked
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with lg on a really really cool like
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like almost like a festival that they did around ultra wide monitors they gave
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away like 30 of their 34-inch ultra wides they
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gave away three ten thousand dollar dream setups and that whole thing
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actually concluded not that long ago with me doing a live stream of the build
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for ryland who ended up winning ours there were a couple of other uh
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influencers including jehovah witness a gamer and unbox therapy and unboxer
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slash lifestyle expert he's man that guy
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is a lot cooler than me unfortunately and the finalized videos are finally up
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so if you haven't had enough of checking out lg's monitors and the whole ultra
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wide concept here with our booth coverage then make sure you check out
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the link in the video description so you can see those finalists showing off
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their finished setups after all this time
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