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oh hey guys hey huh well uh welcome to awesomesauce news I wasn't expecting you guys but hey look there's a there's an ultra-wide monitor right here I guess I'll just do a video on this this is LG's 29 a 9 321 by 9 aspect ratio monitor and it's that's perfect I guess you know I'm not really ready to do an unboxing or an overview or review of this thing quite yet I don't even know how it got here but I do hear that even though it is an IPS panel it still has like a 5 millisecond great a great response time or something like that so theoretically it should be pretty decent with gaming performance I would assume but I don't even know how I would really game on this my video cards kind of acting funny with whoa what are they what what are these things these are just two GTX Titans on my desk what this is craziness so I guess I'll just install these Titans and just try to see if I can play any games on this thing cool all right guys I'm all booted up I've got the two gtx Titans nestled safely in my case i've got steam loaded up here I'm going to try Borderlands 2 it's gonna be my first specimen for today um let's see if it supports 2560 by 1080 all right applied I'm wearing headphones by the way I don't know if that makes a difference to you guys but just so I can hear my enemies where they're coming from so I don't look like a total noob while playing in front of you guys so let's do it let's just go straight into Fink slaughterhouse this is by the way where I do my benchmarking when I benchmark cards with Borderlands 2 ooh this is this is cool Wow you know you don't notice it very much when you just stand still when you move around you actually I don't know it seems to take it in a lot more look at that I can see I can see the ammo dump and and Fink at the same time from this close see I could I couldn't do that before before would be like it'd be like that but I don't know I'm going alright let's just get into it buzzards income whoa whoa didn't expect them to blow up that fast ah ah yes Oh ugly you know what guys this is pretty insane I actually I don't think this is really giving me an advantage the the widescreen aspect ratio it's not really giving me an advantage as far as being able to see enemies on my sides to a certain degree yes but my peripheral vision isn't that great anyway so I feel like I'm still seeing you know enemies about as fast as I would with a sixteen by nine ratio monitor but what I didn't expect is that this this aspect ratio actually makes the game a little bit more immersive much more immersive actually because all I'm seeing is the game itself I'm not seeing the speakers to the sides of my monitor I'm not seeing any of the wall that's behind my monitor all I'm seeing is the in-game action I'm not used to it I'm not even sitting very close to the monitor and it's just it's actually really cool I didn't expect this to be the one thing that stood out to me when testing out this monitor but seems to be the case so this has been Borderlands 2 once again very very cool result so far I'm gonna jump into another game after I kill this guy rod alright guys so I decided the next game I'll be playing or testing out in this little experiment here will be Crysis 3 as you can see I am already running at 2560 by 1080 native resolution oh you know what I am running to effing Titans right now so I'm gonna turn this all the way up yeah Oh feels good Oh feels so good oh my I just got goose bumps dude advanced hey hey this is bad because now I'm not going to want to go back to a TN panel after after playing on an IPS Bert for for today because this just looks so much nicer just the color depth in everything oh wow God don't zoom in alright let's let's go down Oh four different unarmed room oh I was just in time before I cracked my skull open and by the way having two Titans is awesome Oh take it look at the blue the water II he lead me to death psycho dumb just looks absolutely stunning beautiful beautiful I'm having a nerdgasm guys this is what an orgasm must feel like this is pretty cool guys so yes Crysis 3 looks awesome especially with the two Titans definitely at giving me a heavy bias for playing this game on this panel but once again just that I really like the wide aspect ratio everything looks super perfect it's running absolutely smoothly good stuff alright so I'm gonna play some Assassin's Creed 3 now see this nice cinematic nope just cinematics not a 21 by 9 so I don't care skipping it let's get the cinematic wait this isn't 21 by 9 this doesn't look right hold on well it says 2560 by 1080 but it's showing me something else super lame so I guess that would be my other critique with this resolution is that not all games support that resolution and that's that's pretty obvious right but it still is something to consider if you're thinking about getting a new monitor because you're not going to be able to play all your games widescreen like I have been so far today this is a prime example it's a new game it's fairly recent you'd think it might have the the support for it but it doesn't and that's okay I mean it still looks great it's still the IPS you still get all the features of an IPS panel you just might be disappointed because you can because you can't quite run all of your favorite games at that awesome resolution alright guys now I know I said the beginning of this video that I was just going to do some gaming but I just couldn't help myself I've opened up Premiere Pro I feel like if I were to purchase a monitor I would definitely consider how optimal it would be for video editing this is plenty of room for me to edit on the timeline here this is really why I'm saving the space to the left here my desktop is so that I can have an explorer window if I need to add like a piece of music I can just go into my assets and go to music and then I can just drag and drop straight into premiere and boom there it is but if you want my honest opinion I'm still a little bit on the fence as to whether or not I would go for something like this like a single 21 by 9 panel or two 16 by 9 or 16 by 10 panel side-by-side if I was doing a majority of content creation just because it's a little bit easier to segregate Windows I feel with with 2 panels but I also like the fact that I can do this which is something that I could never do with a 2 panel side-by-side I mean I could but there need a Phat bezel right in the middle and it would just look really ugly and it'd be really nasty to edit on the timeline in that configuration I know let me bring up some web pages here let me bring up some web pages look at that I can quickly snap one window to one side of the monitor and I'll quickly snap the other window to the other side look at this like full web browsing like I don't have to there's no scrollbar that opens up on the bottom so I don't have to scroll side-to-side I can see everything perfectly I mean even when you cut this monitor into you're still getting what is that 1280 by 1080 which is perfectly fine for web browsing but there you go I can easily browse the web on one page here and you know for instance view a video on the other page again I give you five videos in half of one of these monitors to be honest it's pretty ridiculous alright guys well there you have it that is going to conclude the gaming experiment as well as a couple other applications that I've tested on this particular panel from LG this is the 29 ei 9 3 that's correct the 29 ei 93 21 by 9 aspect ratio 25 by 60 by 1080 resolution monitor IPS panel minds you but I like it I personally like it for gaming I think it's awesome it really sucked me into the whole immersion of the game just because it was all I could see and I like I said I wasn't even sitting very close to the monitor I actually had to be leaning back further than I usually was so I wasn't getting my face in the camera shop as you saw I was trying to play Assassin's Creed 3 with it and it wasn't really working out but for the games that it did work out on looked awesome for gaming I actually prefer a single panel as opposed to three panels side-by-side just because I hate those two bezels they just totally take me out of the game as far as content creation goes like I said still undecided whether or not I like it I'd have to play around with it a little bit more just to see you know if I would choose this over two panels side by side because I use two panel side by side at work and so I do have some bias there I'm pretty used to that setup um but aside from that you know oh there you go I suggest trying it out I don't know how you would try it out unless you bought one but there you guys have it that's what those are my opinions my humble opinions on this brand-new monitor from LG so you guys enjoyed the video subscribe to awesomesauce news if you haven't already you do the whole like thing and I'll see you guys in the next one