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audio clip zero six seven four clapping I got the clap whoa don't tell my wife okay what's going on guys so this is just gonna be sort of a casual video I'm gonna talk to you about a new little monitor that I got it's a new portable monitor from you perfect some Chinese brand I actually bought this for an upcoming project that I've got in the works but I wasn't initially gonna do a standalone video on this display until I realize just how how nifty it is there's a lot of little interesting features and quirks about it that I think you guys might enjoy and it's so versatile that I wanted to put it on your guys's radar just in case you have a need for it this is the you perfect 13.3 inch portable monitor this video is brought to you by mod Mike modular Mike you can fix to any set of headphones for the best of both worlds high-quality voice audio superb noise cancelling and the option for Wired or wireless models are just a few reasons I've been using their products for years mod mic is a great no compromise solution for gamers who care about sound click on the link below to learn more I saw at least a couple other monitors on Amazon it's where I got it that looked exactly like this same housing and everything but under a completely different brand which means they probably got it from the same om that being said the brand could still make potential changes to the to the end product so for all intents and purposes I would consider this more or less a unique product and just for reference I have my msi gs70 laptop just beside it so you can kind of see it full-scale this is dive into some specs here this is a 13.3 inch display 1920 by 1080 is the native resolution it has a color gamut of 72% ntsc and a response time of two milliseconds don't believe that we'll talk about response time later but that's that's a bogus claim this is an IPS display leading us to believe that colors are good viewing angle is good response time is garbage suspect that's not listed here is 60 Hertz we have a refresh rate of 60 Hertz now in the box I found a USB type a two type-c cable there was a full-sized HDMI cable in there a user's manual a chintzy stand like super cheap I mean super basic gets the job done but I would try to replace it ASAP there was also a 5 volt 3 amp wall charger but you can power it with the USBC as well now as far as the monitor itself goes the build quality is a lot more impressive than I thought it would be it's it's super solid it's brushed aluminum all around and it has these really nice thin bezels on the sides on the top the chin is a little bit thicker but there's no branding which is a huge plus in my book and in the bottom right corner of the display there's a hole that's apparently for a pen if you want Stuka pen in there and use it as a stand like a makeshift span I've seen this before and I actually tried it out with this display it works well I actually kind of liked it better than the cheap stand that they included I really loved that the screen is Matt it wasn't listed anywhere on the product page I was looking for it at least for me I prefer a matte screen less glare less reflections it's actually kind of the same sort of matte treatment that you'd find on the GS 65 stealth very similar in that sense where you're not looking at yourself when you're in the middle of the game so that was nice to see behind the display there's a quartet of threaded screws that are presumably for some sort of weird base amount that I'm not familiar with if you guys know just comment down below but yeah it's sort of been a weird trapezoidal configuration as opposed to the traditional square so I'm not exactly sure what what kind of mount it supports but they're there don't mind that magnetic plate in the middle I actually added that after the fact it's not stock I put it on there for the upcoming project that I mentioned earlier on the left side you get a micro USB port and I saw them use that on the product page if you want to hook up like a wired keyboard and mouse you could do so straight through your monitor using like a micro USB to USB type a adapter like an on-the-go adapter so that's actually kind of cool just below that are five OSD buttons that are really tiny especially for my fat nubby fingers they could have been a little bit bigger but I guess I'm not going to complain too much they do have a nice clique to them and they let you navigate through a surprisingly good amount of options you've got your typical run-of-the-mill brightness contrast and sharpness adjustment there's different presets ranging from standard to gaming to movie and so forth you can change the color temperature or your individual red green and blue parameters as well as change where the OSD sits on your screen if you want to be wedged into a corner or right smack dab in the middle like it is now there's also HDR mode which is not true HDR by any means it kind of just throws like a saturation filter on the screen which I think some tuning you know in the OSD you might be able to make it look decent in some games or even movies but it's it's not it's not true HDR and then you've got low blue light adjustment volume this actually has speakers built-in speakers that get pretty loud with relatively little distortion surprisingly I wouldn't use them for your everyday sound but you know apart from being relatively tinny and not having much of a low-frequency representation they actually don't sound too bad for what you might expect but the real kicker here is the free sync option I did not know that this thing supported free sync there was no listing of that no mention of it on the product page so I was really surprised to find it so I found out that the range is actually 40 to 60 fps which is not great I shouldn't say it's not great because if you have like an entry level or a budget GPU or even like a Raven Ridge APU you might be hitting that 40 to 60 fps sweet spot and hey you got free sync all throughout that range but for everyone else if you're most likely above that you're probably not going to benefit much from the free sync implementation here it's also worth noting that this is not free sync - so you miss out on certain features like low framerate compensation so if you dip below that 40 fps and I did test this on the panel you are gonna immediately start screen tearing you know assuming that the game is prone to it after playing around with it some more I also learned that the free sync is only supported over HDMI which means it's not AG sync compatible display it will not take free sync or use adaptive sink with a GeForce GPU I tried it with a gtx 750ti as well as a GTX 1080 Ti it did not work because even though this does have a display port on it which we'll get to adaptive sync only works through HDMI which does not meet the requirements for juicing compatible monitors let's circle back to the display itself we have a USB type-c on the right side of the panel this is gonna transmit power and data it's actually how empowering the device right now from our testbed PC back here which is running arisin 7 1700 and an Rx 570 and just below that is another USB type-c port but this one supports Thunderbolt 3 so it is compatible with Thunderbolt 3 supported devices like this laptop so there's a single USB type-c port here you can connect it with a single cord and have power DisplayPort signal additional USB all that sort of thing with Kable it's a very handy protocol to have and it makes this infinitely more usable and flexible in every way last but not least we've got a mini DisplayPort and HDMI port I really love the fact that you get your pick of the letter between the two and the fact that the HDMI is full size because mini HDMI ports are crap it's very flimsy and fragile it breaks easily so the fact that we get full size here on such a thin display that it's probably only about 9 10 millimeters thick is is very very nice to have I mean all together this is the top selling point for this product is its IO it makes this product so flexible for you know pulling it just off the shelf whenever you need it for whatever device you're connecting it to as far as the actual performance of this thing goes I mean it looks fantastic the brightness and contrast and sharpness of the display is great I wouldn't say it's it's 100% of what our GS 65 stealth is here but it's pretty damn close and and using it as a companion monitor with this laptop is beautiful it's kind of jarring when you have a companion display that's significantly lower quality than the primary display this is a really nice premium you know their previous flagship laptop being paired with this hundred and seventy dollar Chinese brand display it keeps its own it holds its own and I was actually really impressed using it as a companion display being an IPS panel I mean the colors really pop they're super rich and vibrant again not 100% up to par with a premium gaming laptop LCD but definitely not too far behind the question that was probably on all your guys is mine when I started this video was can it game yes yes it can all those characteristics I just mentioned brightness contrast sharpness color they all benefit a gaming experience as well and this is a pretty decent gaming panel the only thing holding it back really apart from lackluster freesync support which again wasn't really to be expected in the first place is ghosting because the response time the response time is definitely not two milliseconds as advertised but this is really only an issue for fast paced games like first-person shooters that have a lot of movement and even still I was enjoying myself playing doom and several matches of csgo where I kind of forgot about the ghosting and it really just boils down to the individual some people are more sensitive than others so you're gonna have to decide for yourself how important that is but altogether I mean I think it's a well-rounded gaming monitor if you're looking for something that's more portable and on the go that isn't necessarily a full-fledged gaming laptop the only other thing I would dock you for in the gaming department is the fact that you encounter screen tearing quite a bit at the time unless you have that sweet spot AMD GPU that hovers in the 40 to 60 fps range and the majority of titles you're gonna see some screen tearing may I say though that having screen tearing on a 13-inch monitor is a little bit more tolerable because you just can't see it as much so overall I really like this monitor it's kind of won me over the aesthetic is top-notch the build quality is solid I love the connectivity options the downsides include a chintzy stand it sucks it's really crappy the response time is leave something to be desired maybe they can improve upon that on a 2.0 model if they really want to target this towards gamers and then finally the weak free sync range just left me thirsty for more so altogether though fantastic 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