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monitor bring high performance gaming a small footprint together with the all-new Corsair 1 available with up to an Intel 9th gen 9900 K processor and an RT X 20 atti this small PC is capable of big things convection assisted cooling with separate loops for the CPU GPU means the Corsair 1 sucks in the best way possible to see our review of the new corsair 1i 160 click the link in the description below I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again the monitor is probably the most overlooked piece of any setup and in my opinion it has arguably the biggest impact so let's go and start with some of the sizing and then we'll move up to the more complex specs which aren't that complex by the NS video I think you'll see what I mean so we've got two different aspect ratios here we have a 24 inch 16 by 9 a 32 inch 16 by 9 and a 34 inch 21 by 9 so the inch measurement I'm sorry I don't have the centimeters offhand if you guys are not in the US I apologize for that that measures basically the diagonal measurement from corner to corner of the panel not necessarily the viewable a lot of people will sometimes go I'm getting a 24 inch but then you measure it and it's more like a 22 and a half or something like that that is corner to corner of the panel physical size itself usually you'll find a second number which has the actual viewable diagonal measurement so I'm gonna go ahead and set these two guys aside right here because we are going to be using these panels for a different video that we're working on but I thought that this was the perfect opportunity to sort of explain to you guys why it's really important to not scrimp on your panel so this is a new LG 34 GK 950 F they also have a G variant for G sync so f obviously stands for free sync I'm gonna be doing a video using this I've alluded it to it now a couple of times and I think based on F and G you can probably figure out with our videos going but I digress that's neither here nor there that's for another day this is gonna end up being my new panel I think for my personal use at home because it is a much increased much better spec panel than what I've been using for the last several years which is the predator X 34 and we'll talk about that because the specs about to mention are exactly why I'm switching to this panel versus what I'm currently using so let's go and start off with the one that a lot of people get confused and can just really I guess bent out of shape with because they don't know how these two numbers relate to each other that being refresh rate in response time so refresh rate quite simply is how many times per second the screen can refresh the image the higher the refresh rate the more smoother the image is perceived to be and also to the lower the refresh rate can also give you a little bit of a motion blur type of effect if the response time is not also fast enough now I know that probably just confused a lot of people right there so let me go ahead and just rewind here just a little bit typically 60 FPS or 60 Hertz because you're always gonna hear the refresh rate referred to as a Hertz rating is kind of that sought after figure as high refresh rate panels became more popular and more affordable a lot of people started realizing like oh my goodness the amazing high refresh rate and smoothness not only give them a benefit in terms of smoothness of the image but also reduced input lag for your mouse and keyboard inputs and if you're any sort of a twitch gamer and what I mean by that is like csgo or any sort of shooter where movement and precision is important than having the highest refresh rate with the lowest amount of input lag would give you like a little bit of an edge but most average gamers are fine with 60 fps so this is a 34 40 by 1440 that means there are three thousand four hundred and forty pixels across 1440 pixels high you can do the math on that number that times that number is how many millions of pixels that are in here which is a lot to push this is somewhere around three-quarters of the pixels of 4k so this would be a hard monitor to drive at 144 Hertz or 144 frames per second and you would definitely need a lot of graphics horsepower to push that so it'd definitely be overkill for someone running something like a 1060 or a 1660 TI or something like that but the other number that we tend to forget about here is the response time that is the amount of time it takes for the pixel there's a gate that basically allows light through when the gates closed that is what how the light is stopped it's always lit it's always back lit because these are LCD LED panels this happens to be a nano IPS panel so it's a nano cell technology from LG which is what allows them to get a much faster response time it's something they debuted on their TVs a couple years back we actually did a review on that you can go and check out but this is allowed it to now make its way to desktop format where you can get a faster response time while still having IPS technology as well as a very high refresh rate so this panels actually advertises having a one millisecond response time so what that means is it takes one millisecond or one one thousandth of a second to go from gray to white to gray again or allowing light through the the pixel gate and then closing it once again and obviously with the Nano sub technology found in the new LG panels is why they're able to do this high refresh rate ultra wide IPS HDR and still maintain the one millisecond which is something that a few years ago wasn't really possible you would get about a hundred Hertz not 144 because if you have a really fast response time or the pages refreshing you know 144 times a second or the display rather but you don't have a response time and the the gray to gray fast enough you start to get ghosting all over the screen and you can test this right now even if you have a 60 Hertz panel you can check this out if you take your mouse and you wiggle it around the screen you'll notice the cursor appears in more than one spot and what that means is that it's not able to turn the light off fast enough before it's moving out of that spot and so there's a little bit of a sort of a dimming effect as the light is turning off the perfect example is a halogen light bulb you turn it off it doesn't just turn off instantly like an LED it's sort of dims down the same thing can happen with panel technology if the response time is not fast enough now what you're gonna find us the panels tend to go up in price is extra features so this panel has a adjustable base where it can go up and down it can tilt this one has a base amount so you push this button the base comes off and then you can put on a base alarm which is how I plan on mounting this this one has a USB 3.0 pass-through so it plugs in right here we've got two USB 3.0 ports in the back we've got our headphone power plug DisplayPort in and two HDMI is so you could use this single panel for it input from let's say a DirecTV box or something like that a console a DVD player so if you're using this in a bedroom it kind of turns into a sort of one fits all because the problem was in terms of processing inside of monitors there is a processor that has to process the image just like a video card inside of your computer there's still a processing engine inside of here has to process the image for us see and what they found on the several years back was the only way to get those high refresh rates with the low response times was to have only one input and because of that display DisplayPort was usually what you needed because HDMI you know 2.0 B and all that stuff wasn't around yet so you weren't able to get the high bandwidth of hdmi displayport was all you got a single input so you couldn't use it with your consoles or any other input devices but now as you can see we're definitely there so when it comes to panels the whole point of this video is to remind you the panel is what you're looking at it is responsible for your computer and what it's doing to make it to your eyes so do yourself a favor don't necessarily rule out your panel as being something that you can scrimp on it's a mistake I made for years and you can find early videos in mind where I use very basic very budget cheap 60 Hertz 25 millisecond response time panels that just I always thought out I'm fine I'm fine until I went out and experienced a high refresh rate low response time panel I was ruined for life so also know that the first time you look at one if you're not prepared to always look at one it kind of changes your perspective on panels because your computer may be held back by your panel experience so I just want to go ahead and make this video here explaining to a lot of people that these specs are not something to be afraid of if you can figure out you know where you're happy 60 Hertz maybe plenty but you can still get a 60 Hertz fast response time panel and it's going to give you less of that ghosting effect or if you're like me and you like the ultra-smooth then anything about a hundred Hertz are above it's gonna give you roughly the same appearance and smoothness but I'm consider myself pretty sensitive to FPS so I tend to aim for that 144 and the reason why this the GK 950 F is going to be my new daily driver panel is I've been using the X 30 for predator from Acer ever since it came out but that is although it is a one millisecond response time and it's a 100 Hertz refresh rate this is a 144 one millisecond response time nano IPS which I explained if you watch our LG video about nanotechnology and what it is you'll understand why nanotechnology is better than a standard regular LCD type of screen it has the multiple inputs and it has HDR so I mean that's going to have the brightness it needs to give us the nits to be able to get our high dynamic range which is going to be a feature that I have never used on a PC so I'm excited to check that one out which is why this is a panel I'm going to be using and probably doing a standalone review of as I get a little more familiar with it alright guys thanks for watching today's video I hope this helps some people understand monitors and why they are important and should not be written off as something that you can save money on if anything I would say it's probably worth getting a very good panel and then building your PC to the panel specs if that makes sense if I had a 60 Hertz panel it would make no sense to put a 20 atti in any resolution whatsoever but if I was running a 240 Hertz 1080p or 144 or 1440p panel then going with a higher graphics card would certainly make sense don't want to over build your system notes where you go higher than the refresh rate unless you have a good sync technology like free sync adapter sync orgy sink then at least there's some hardware handling the smoothness of those frames alright guys thanks for watching if you want me to cover another topic like this make sure you sound off in the comments down below or hit me up on Twitter because topics like this come directly from my inbox and if enough people request it then we go ahead and take the time to do it thanks for watching guys we'll see you in the next one what am I supposed to do though just like I'm punching myself I let me see that I'm going