Gadgetory

here at Linus tax hips we know we are occasionally a little late to the party for example uploading videos about a new Apple product days after the initial coverage wave has come and gone you know it is what it is we try whatever get off my back but not today know what I'm showing you guys today is not stale at all in fact I don't think I'd even describe it as ripe yet I mean look it doesn't even have room in the box for the power adapter it's just it's just separate this is the first look at the full 4k 120 kit but what's that and where did it come from Brow's privately and securely with tunnel bear the simple VPN app starts your seven day free trial at the link in the video description ok so first things first I gotta say I'm a little unnerved by this box because there is no friggin way that a monitor and a stand for a monitor are fitting in here and like look at this we got like a handwritten note here take care made by hand and then we've got the name of the guy Aziz who made it so this is zis from these works cool boy Wow what the heck this thing is just like a completely naked talent oh my gosh this is like exposed PCBs on the back there's no stand no plastic housing sewage credit okay to its credit it does have a vase amount here but no way okay there's only three there's only three mounting points here there we go I got it and I know this is I think I found the nut okay so we've got it mounted now we just used this random monitor arm that we found and look at this weird stuff we got going on here so this right here is a JTAG programmer for updating the firmware of and debugging the main chip and this like taped on doodad here is actually a USB to serial adapter for debugging everything else the monitor comes with a heap of technical documentation to help you do all of these things and you can even reprogram the LED backlight driver if that tickles your pickle okay so it's probably clear to most of you by now that the and this thing is here in our shop is clearly nothing to do with how polished and finished it is as a product it's because it's the first monitor to reach our lab that runs at 3840 by 2160 4k at a hundred and twenty Hertz that's right you gamers can have your cake and eat it too with high resolution and high refresh rate but how did a small fish like Aziz pull this off before the big dogs like a Susan a sir who showed off their high refresh rate displays at CES this year a quick implementation of the display port 1.4 standard and that is a negatory general check this out we've actually got two DisplayPort inputs here one right there and one right there so I guess let's start by firing it up with just one connected there okay so check this out there's no normal on-screen display but it does have these completely unlabeled buttons up here that hold on a minute is this thing completely held on by one screw at the top yeah okay so as I was saying it has these unlabeled buttons that helpfully come with this handwritten user guide to tell me what they're for so there's power oh so oh sorry no power is labeled so why don't we start with that one well press it Wow that turns on really quickly okay so the next two are for adjusting brightness okay there's a label there there's a plus and a minus pretty well here and then there's other ones for switching between a bunch of different EDID profiles for reported resolution and refresh rate starting with 540 P at 480 Hertz and wow this looks pretty crap I mean it has like an interlaced look to it and quite honestly like in motion but even the TN pixels can't switch fast enough to avoid having like a purple trail behind black objects but boy does that ever feel butter smooth Wow then the next which is 720p at up to 300 Hertz which is still really darn smooth and is at least I can tell if it's a CT or a terrorist at this resolution compared to 540 P the next one is 1080 P add up to 240 Hertz and I can see how this feature would be useful when you look at how quickly it switches modes if you're the kind of person who often finds yourself dialing back the resolution to get more FPS out of games like csgo and then wants to turn up the resolution for sight-seeing games like Civilization six or Skyrim I mean these buttons really do make switching super-easy or maybe it's dumb let us know in the comments if you think you would actually use these or not so okay here we are 1080p 240 Hertz pretty sick but it's not the native resolution so you're dealing with interpolation and there are already monitors that are actually designed to run at that resolution and that refresh rate so then let's get finally to good old-fashioned 4k 60 Hertz and then wah okay so we weren't expecting 4k 120 Hertz here but we've got a visual demonstration of the limits of DisplayPort 1.2 it just can't push that much data so instead it has to compromise let's plug in a second display port cable well that didn't happen in any of our testing before we go to film you can see the right side of the screen is a little bit welco but we had still had for the first time the experience of 120 Hertz gaming at 4k resolution and given that we've got this game running at about 150 to 200 FPS it is definitely a thing to behold now is this the optimal situation with the whole thing going on with the flickering on the right hand side of the screen and all that obviously not but I guess we all learned a valuable lesson about shipping display controllers that literally have unstable pinned onto the back of them so in summary then aside from this glitchyness right when we go to film this works haha but how do you buy one the answer is you don't yet and you may never be looking at a traditional finished monitor from this works their special sauce is in the development that they're doing on custom electronics and the concept that they want a crowd fund is the idea of DIY enthusiasts being able to buy their module and slap it onto an existing panel whether through a bundle from these works or off eBay or whatever there will always be drawbacks to an approach like this the calibration and display tuning that goes on with a finished product was clearly not present on our in a Lux m2 a TD JJ - L 30 and you won't get fancy features like g-sync anytime soon but these work has tested other options like a 39 inch MVA panel and they say it works pretty similarly and they're also expecting costs for DIY monitor solutions like this to be hundreds of dollars cheaper than 120 Hertz 4k gaming monitors from traditional companies so yay or nay DIY mix and match monitors and electronics whatever you guys say down in the comments below I know I'll be watching this concept really closely have you ever thought to yourself if only there was some easy affordable way to make my own website well you're in luck because Squarespace is just that you pick one of their gorgeous templates and whether you coach the local softball team or you run a restaurant or you want to promote your your 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