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now if you are a PC gamer you've probably noticed that there's been a bit of a trend over the last couple of years when it comes to monitor technology it's getting really being expensive so today I am talking to the PC gamer who wants something more than a super basic no-frills 60-hertz panel and to do that we are going to be taking a look here at the NIC seus if I get the whole thing in the frickin panel here the NIC CS NX viele 24 a 144 Hertz one millisecond response time AMD freesync gaming panel yeah that's a mouthful and I'm not really that strong it's not in the boxes right there I mean I think I was that strong did you the mastercase 5 and mastercase 5 pro from Coolermaster combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description now I could spend all kinds of time just going through all the specs of this monitor but I'm not going to do that because I don't want to waste your time with a bunch of boring numbers if you're a numbers geek like I am just look in the description of this video and I will list out all of the specs so you could know what the max brightness looks like and all of that sort of stuff but on the high side this is a 24 inch TN panel yeah I know the TN is going to make some people kind of go mmm but hear me out on this here in order to keep things priced competitively and give you the best bang for your buck TN panels are still where that price point technology is going to be but we will talk about some of the color uniformity and some of the off viewing angles and stuff and whether or not it's really bad it's actually not I've been using this panel now for over two months and I think it does a fantastic job but well we'll get into that in a little bit but when it comes to viewing angles it's 170 degrees horizontal viewing angle and 160 degrees vertical so it's got near 180 viewing but as you guys know a TN panels as you get towards the edges of those viewing angles then it's going to start to get more color shift and as T n tends to do it is an led-backlit panel and they're advertising a one millisecond response time for gray to gray that's the amount of time it takes to the pixel to go to full off which is technically gray to full brightness white and then back to gray now it's also featuring a 100% and 44 Hertz refresh rate which is how many times the screen can actually in sync reef and that's not the music group by the way 90s are that way that's basically how many times the screen can refresh the image and keep everything together without tearing or in this case it hurts is how many times per second so 144 times a second this screen can draw an image without tearing it apart and then on top of that it features AMD freesync technology which does a better job at keeping things in sync than just vertical sync now the AMD freesync in here is adaptive from 30 Hertz to 144 Hertz so that means that regardless of how much your fps is bouncing around the AMD freesync technology built into the panel is going to keep things nice and buttery smooth but the built-in adaptive free sync does have a effective range of 30 Hertz to 144 Hertz now pretty much all the high-end panels out there now are featuring you know q HD and Ultra HD IPS high refresh rate low response time you know super accurate color gamut and it's just one of those things that a lot of gamers aren't going to need and necessarily notice now if you were a professional content creator or photo editor then you're going to want the super high accuracy color recreation that IPS panels offer but if you're a gamer that's probably not going to matter to you nearly as much now at the time of making this video the panel comes in under $300 the reason why I mentioned that is the fact that that is a pretty good price point considering all of the other panels that are featuring either g-sync or even free sync on other manufacturers are coming in way more expensive than that so you're going to get a lot of bang for your buck at under $300 now it does feature built-in speakers but as you guys know built-in speakers really aren't like you know great on panels so it's there but I wouldn't I wouldn't use that as your main source of audio trust me but it's got a DisplayPort 1.2 a which you have to use if you want to take advantage of the free sync and it has HDMI 1.4 in there as well as DVID and a 15 pin VGA port which nobody should ever be using why would you buy a gaming panel and use VGA I mean seriously but honestly none of that matters if it's not a good gaming experience and your panel has a lot to do your overall gaming experience so let's turn around here let's take a look at the refresh rate let's move some stuff around on the screen do the best we can to really tell you about this panel when you know it's just a camera pointing at the screen it's not going to do it justice but there are some things to mention with this panel that are definitely worth talking about for instance light bleed on this thing is near non-existent I mean there's no way the camera pointing at it is going to be able to pick up the lack of light bleed which LED and LCD edgelet panels are notorious for that just doesn't exist with this guy now does have some built-in cable management here at the bottom unfortunately the way the cables come off and have to go through that hole being at the bottom they're going to be visible I would have liked that hole to been higher up in the back of the panel that way this wouldn't have been sticking out right there but it is a height-adjustable panel it's a pretty decent standard it's actually very very sturdy there's a button here that you push with your thumb and then you can move it up and down and you have a pretty good amount of height adjustment in there and then of course it can rotate 90 degrees my cables need more slack to be able to do it but it does rotate a full 90 degrees if you want to use it in portrait mode instead of landscape mode and that's important for you know people who want to do programming and stuff on a panel like that but whatever it's very very sturdy and of course it does rotate quite a few degrees and then it goes up and then it 'angels down now in terms of color banding as you can see the gradient on here is very very very smooth some of the lesser quality panels tend to have a lot of jaggedness when it comes to the amount of banding I'm actually not sure with the official term is for that but you can see here the gradient is very very smooth and when it comes to light bleed man this is one of those things that's definitely hard to do with a regular camera pointing at the screen but I can tell you right now that the screen is on I know it doesn't look like it but the screen is on you know in fact you can tell because the mouse is right there but a lot of times LCD and LED panels tend to have a lot of light bleed here they're on the top or on the bottom or in the corners kind of shooting out from the corners this does not suffer from that and it's absolutely in credible how well they built this panel on a TN technology with LED and does not have any light bleed this is one of those things you just have to take my word for it the camera doesn't pick it up nearly as justified as it is in person I was blown away by how little light bleed there was compared to some of the more expensive panels that are just bleeding all over the place literally like a gunshot victim now it does have an on screen display that you can use for just things like brightness contrast gamma D CR you can do color temperature color custom calibrations if you want when you hit the menu it even tells you which current resolution input and refresh rate is so in this case it's a 144 Hertz we do have AMD freesync enabled in catalyst control center or whatever they're calling it these days I don't even know and then you can control your horizontal vertical you know on-screen display settings time out so the screen turns off if it's not you know receiving an input over a certain amount of time and then volume control and a massive master reset now it's all controlled via physical buttons that actually stick out the bottom of the screen and are labeled here with correspondent you know raised hieroglyphics if you will so you know which button you're pushing again unlike a lot of high end panels where it's all capacitive touch and you don't know which ones which you're just guessing and there are panels out there that costs over $1000 that have terrible button placement and integration so Bravo on that now it is a TN panel so as you start to get towards that off viewing axis you are going to notice that color shift and that is something that is very notorious with TN you just can't get away from that it's just the way the panel is but most of the time you're going to be sitting directly in front of your monitor so it really shouldn't be a huge deal now I'm actually very impressed with the color uniformity and that coming from someone who's been using IPS panels for a while now and and considering this is out of the box and I haven't done any sort of calibration on this the colors actually don't look bad they don't look washed out and they don't look like other TN panels which are just ridiculously oversaturated it looks really really good now the way that you can tell that you know 144 Hertz refresh rate is working is as you move this thing around the screen my camera can't even capture the movement it looks like it's flickering on camera it's it's just the frame rate and the shutter speed of the camera are not fast enough to actually pick up this smooth movement all you got to do to make sure the freesync is turned on is go into your 80 AMD Radeon settings go into the display tab and then make sure the AMD freesync is turned on right here it is reporting a 30 to 144 Hertz refresh rate so we're good to go and one of the things I really like about this panel is the fact that it is a non glare display so it is a matte display which is not going to be you know causing you all sorts of reflections and stuff which some 4k panels and other gaming panels do most most are not doing that anymore but I do like the matte display it does cause the colors to be a little bit less vibrant but that's okay because I would rather see ow sons of bitches BAM Oh YouTube the refresh rate obviously is very very smooth as you would expect we are getting right now 111 FPS our average is 107 our minimum is 93 I want to see here if you guys are curious my AMD r9 390 from MSI the 8g version is running right now at 69 C fans are at 1400 and 44 rpm and the GPU is at 100% all that's right here that's the NZXT cam software that's doing that so I'm doing here is I'm doing a lot of quick spins and stuff to try it see and yes I use motion blur I like motion blur don't judge don't hate you don't use it don't use it don't tell me not to use it I want to use it so therefore I'm using it but it's very very smooth I'm not getting any sort of tearing or stuttering whatsoever that's pretty ridiculous right that's a ridiculous amount my fps is 125 while it's doing that I'm not getting any tearing I am very very pleased with this now I think the bottom line here is it really doesn't make sense to spend a ton of money on your panel if you don't have like super-high and hardware to go along with that now most gamers don't fall into these super rich super high-end PC super enthusiasts have to have the latest and greatest most expensive overpriced piece of equipment on the market that's my job but if you're a gamer specifically one with an AMD graphics card whine to get a better gaming experience without breaking the bank then you can definitely consider the NIC seus vo e24 panel to be one of those that definitely fits the bill now there's been very few panels that i've ever truly recommended and i think that this is one of those and I'm really glad I chose to take a look at it I'll be honest it's one of those brands that I never really paid a whole lot of attention to but I'm glad that I did because it really opened up my eyes how far panel technology is coming and how inexpensive it is starting to really become and it makes it more affordable unobtainable towards the average Joe PC gamer which is what I'm trying to do I'm trying to get back to some of those more average roots when it comes to showing you guys things that you can actually obtain it's like watching videos about Ferraris it's really nice but after a while you go you know I'm never going to own a Ferrari and this is just depressing but if you were in the market for a 1080p high refresh rate low response time panel with free sync and you have an AMD graphics card so you can take advantage of that free sync but even if you don't have an AMD graphics card you can still take advantage of the high refresh rate then the next CSV o 24 needs to be on your shortlist really glad I took a look at it guys thanks once again for Nick SIA sending me this panel and of course thank you you guys for checking out today's video speaking of video if you guys are interested on some of the car stuff that I do I have rebranded and relaunched my vlogging channel as a both blog and car channel where you guys can see more of what I do on the side of just the PC stuff and it's definitely worth taking a look at especially if you want to see a guy like me who's pretty mediocre and average when it comes to knowing how to use power tools hand tools and work on cars really every video is probably going to include the title of idiot because yeah that's kind of what I am anyway I'm get out of here guys thanks for watching it as always I will see you in the next video Oh easy pink if you think oh you trying to be trying to take the camera hey JT camera Roger careful I bumped your head sorry