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hey guys and welcome back to hardware unbox more monitor content coming straight at you today where we'll be looking at one of you Sonic's top-end gaming monitors the imaginatively named xg2 7:03 - GS to discuss how performs and to give you guys a few easy tips on how to improve its color accuracy through the on-screen display controls the XG 2 7:03 - GS which i'm going to have to call the beast for the rest of this video thanks to its ridiculous product name packs a ton of great features it's a 27-inch 2560 by 1440 LCD panel you can want viewsonic calls IPS type technology digging a little deeper reveals this panel is actually using a you Optronics a hv a technology which despite its name doesn't refer to vertical alignment tech like other VA displays instead a hv a stands for advanced hyper viewing angle a technology that has its foundations in IPS so i guess it pretty much is an IPS panel just really confusing panel technology named Owen it is a true 8 bit panel none of this 6 bit + dithering crap when you're looking at four panels you always want to make sure it's 8 bit and the beast here definitely provides that so the beast 1440p resolution is complemented by a native 144 hertz refresh rate with the ability to overclock up to 165 Hertz using the on-screen display this process is pretty easy and while the monitor does warn you about overheating and a bunch of other stuff while overclocked I didn't actually experience any of these issues while using the monitor at 165 Hertz if you do end up buying one I don't see any reason why you shouldn't just run it at 165 Hertz all the time especially if you're paying more than a typical 1440p 144 Hertz monitor for this additional refresh rate of course it wouldn't be a top-end monitor with that adaptive sync technology in this case G sync for those with Nvidia graphics cards although there is a precinct model available it also supports ultra-low motion blur which strobes the backlight to eliminate motion blur though you cannot use both G sync and ultra-low motion blur at the same time most gamers to stick with just g-sync though if you're playing a fast-paced competitive game you may benefit from enabling you OMB if you're pushing at least 120 frames per second the beast uses a flicker free backlight capable of a maximum brightness of 315 it's according to viewsonic I'm also seeing a 1,000 to 1 rated contrast ratio that ignores the ridiculous 120 million to 1 dynamic ratio you should probably just disable dynamic contrast ratio straight out of the box for the best results so 1000 to 1 rated contrast ratio 4 milliseconds greater great response times 178 degree viewing angles in both directions 3 angles on this model are actually unbelievably good probably due to that hyper viewing angle tech with essentially no color shift at off angles and only a small brightness reduction and just on response times 4 milliseconds is fine for this sort of Mara I found the advanced response time setting produced the best blur reduction with that inverse ghosting which is something that you will get if used the ultra fast setting of course with also a motion blur you can present even further but again you know you kind of can't use that with g-sync which is a bit disappointing as a quick note on refresh rate I use a 100 Hertz a Supriya that x34 for most of my gaming so I can notice an improvement to smoothness and responsiveness when jumping up to 144 Hertz but the jump to 165 Hertz on this monitor is certainly a lot harder to notice coming from 144 Hertz unless you have a super powerful gaming desktop or enjoy low detailed gaming you won't be hitting above 144 FPS at 1440p ultra detail settings all that often still I guess the extra refresh rate is nice to have as PC hardware improves over the coming years because you probably won't be upgrading your monitor or that often or at least if you spend this kind of money you definitely won't be wanting to upgrade particularly often let's talk about how the viewsonic beast performs in terms of color accuracy before I jump into some of our color and fire results here's a very accentuated photo I took of the beast displaying a black screen in a dark room here you can see some noticeable backlight bleed particularly in the bottom left and top right corners now this photo isn't really representative of how the monitor actually looks in a dark room but the backlight bleed is certainly no anyway it's very slightly noticeable under the artificial lights of my office as well which is a minor concern but nothing too bad here anyway on to the color results and here we're looking at how the monitor performance directly out of the box we're seeing it set to its maximum brightness by default which produces 358 nits of brightness and a contrast ratio of 1043 to one pretty close to view Sonic's original specifications default grayscale performance isn't great particularly due to a weak Gama result of just two point zero three and an average Delta II mm value of three point two seven you can see from the color temperature graph that Reds are under represented here by default as well saturation performance is okay again with the under saturated Reds but better saturation for greens and blues overall adultery mm value of two point three nines a bit sort of what I'd like to see here but not awful for a default calibration and in our color checker test we can see here in average Delta mm value of just under three point zero which is okay again but not ideal for color accurate work interestingly color gamut clocks in at 110 percent of srgb by default while luminance sweeps are reasonably tight if you want to calibrate this monitor but you don't have a dedicated calibration tool here are the steps I take to improve performance at least on my review unit switch the gamma from two point two to two point for this setting actually produces a gamma of two point two so it's a bit confusing the name in there but I guess they might have stuffed up some of their calibration profiles on this Maura you should also switch the color temperature mode to use the color and switch the G gain to 95 and the be gain to 96 while leaving the our gain untouched and finally if you want to set to around 200 Nets set the brightness to 47 which I think provides the best experience indoors with the monitor set to these settings contrast ratio is reduced to just nine hundred fifty nine to one although average color temperature is much improved now an extremely solid 65 85 k and the grayscale TT mm value is an excellent zero point eight three gamma at nearly 2.2 has also been corrected so very decent results across our grayscale test here saturation has been significantly improved from an which dealt 83,000 value of 2.39 down to one point two three which is just shy of the one point zero value considered very accurate color checker results also move from an averaged LT from around three point zero to one point six one again a very solid improvement the adjustments also pulled back the srgb gama to 99.999% no joke i actually tested this monitor a couple of times in yep 99.999 1% of the srgb gama so super accurate there now is also a great time to discuss pound uniformity matching what we discovered earlier with backlight bleed the panel here is an entirely uniform with a bottom left and top right areas deviating the most from the center level when calibrating the beast using my eye one displayed pro I hit a grayscale average Delta II 2000 value of the 0.43 which is an excellent result as well as a flat temperature curve with an average of 65 24k so pretty much dead accurate and suitable for cut accurate work saturation Delta mm a virgin proved to 1.01 pretty much accurate really impressed with the results here while the colorchecker result also improves to adults where mm value of one point two zero pretty safe to say that with proper calibration the Beast can be a great monitor for Chi accurate work while also providing the benefits of 1440p GC and 165 Hertz refresh rates for gamers it's a pretty versatile modeler and you can even get decent color results just by tweaking a few things in the on-screen display the viewsonic XG 2 7:03 - GS is a pretty expensive monitor so you wanted to pack great color performance and features you can purchase one through Amazon for around seven hundred US dollars or nine hundred dollars in Australia I think that's a pretty fair price although of course on the expensive side but you do get features like 1440p resolution at 27 inches 165 Hertz refresh rates hard to pass up stuff like that with GC can also you know great color performance is always nice to have we'll have some more monitor stuff coming soon so check back on hardware and box in the coming weeks but for now I'll catch you guys next time Oh