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sorry guys I'm feeling a little sick coming into this video that is to say I'm sick of ultra wide monitors costing so much okay no but seriously tell this company vo-tech reached out to me offering to send their 34 inch LED curves monitor to have a look at and initially I was just like and it's another cheap Korean monitor off eBay and then I was like right it's a cheap Korean monitor off eBay that's 34 inch ultra wide and is anywhere from four to five hundred dollars cheaper than the ones that you can get from brand names so is it up to snuff let's find out mass drop is now featuring their custom configured AKG K 7x X audiophile headphones check them and other drops out at the link in the video description alright so let's get this baby open so honestly I wasn't even gonna look at this like I said in the intro but for more reasons than just it's an ebay monitor the reason that I didn't care was that I thought it was pretty similar in spec but just cheaper compared to any other ultra-wide you could get what I didn't realize until I looked a little closer was it's 34 40 by 1440 34 inch ultra wide at a hundred Hertz with free sync for four hundred to five hundred dollars less than what you would pay for either an Acer predator or asus rog equivalent at that size with g-sync so you are definitely giving up the tearing resistance of g-sync and you are giving up the like a plus panel or whatever it is that you would get with a brand name but you're still getting the ultra wide experience which i personally think is amazing you're still getting high refresh rate anything above sixty is a very noticeable improvement going past 100 to 120 I'd say the gains start to drop off but up to a hundred it makes a huge difference and you're getting it at a way lower price so inside the box we get a display port cable we get a Korean power cable with a North American adapter that's been that's okay we get an arm arm in there that kind of arm we get a foot we get some screws and we get some instructions entirely in Korean but there are a few useful specs in here so it's using a samsung v a panel that's good to know it runs at 60 Hertz according to this but it said a hundred Hertz on the eBay page our 1800s this is a very very curved monitor look how happy that makes me so let's put this baby together the foot bones connected to the arm bone the screw bones connected to the foot bone the arm bones connected to the backbone the backbones connected to the monitor bone and we lift it all up and it goes a little something like that overall I gotta say I'm pretty impressed I think they did a pretty good job aesthetically for like an off-brand monitor the bezels are pretty thin it does get a little bit fat near the back but I like the silver chin bar it's not that big I like that it's made of metal it's got like these screws on the bottom that give it kind of like an industrial kind of look I wish the foot in the arm were not so glossy and such fingerprint magnets if you take such a heavy monitor like this and you put it on a really tall arm as soon as the user goes too tight you get a lot of monitor wobble and that's really not the case with this one another polarizing bit is these little covers at the back I personally am NOT a fan because all they seem to really do to me is force this wire to come out at the bottom where you're gonna see it from the front whereas if they were like over here and they routed over here or something I would see more of a justification for them like you can't really do that Ed likes them though so that tells us everything we need to know about Ed's taste the micro board monitor is missing an audio output so if you wanted to pass through to your headphones you will not have that capability but what it has is DisplayPort 1.2 HDMI 2 and DVI of all things so what I don't know yet is exactly what resolutions and refresh rates it's gonna run up for all of those interfaces but darn it I'm gonna find out so running off a GT X 1080 here 6950 at 128 gigs I ran it's a turning on the on screen control buttons and placements are not a strong point although from my perspective you can actually use the base as a mirror to see them Hey and it turned on anyway there's no other way to see any of the buttons no that's not intentional I refuse to accept that that was their intent okay so we've got it fired up and I will say this any sort of uncertainty with respect to the specifications of the refresh rate we can put that to rest because this is clearly running out a hundred Hertz let's go ahead and fire up a game well if there was any doubt that it magically had a g-sync module in it that tearing should put that to rest but dang it actually looks pretty good Oh menus in Korean okay oh oh this navigation is awful Oh what are the buttons too sometimes you get what you pay for okay so free sync is included response time is off usually the medium setting is best I had noticed immediately that motion blur was more than I'm accustomed to in modern monitor so let's see if that helped a little bit so motion blur still definitely a thing even with the higher refresh rate that's not going to compensate for the pixels themselves not switching that quickly and Samsung's MVA technology is not known to be like the fastest especially compared to things like OLED or TN with that said and I've said this before the higher refresh rate makes a huge difference to the responsiveness overall of the feel of the game and I would take that over a crisper 60 Hertz image any day of the week so gaming experience actually pretty solid um but one risk that you take with these monitors is dead pixels so we're gonna use dead pixel buddy and have a quick look now the odds of them sending a reviewer one that has a bazillion dead pixels is obviously a little and actually I'm impressed there are no dead pixels at all cool I like that dead pixel buddy is just a website now coming back to that hole the 10 bit mode thing there's a 10 bit test ramp Photoshop file that you can get to find out if your display is actually 10 bit and that looks like not but just because the panel's not 10 bit and it never promised to be saw is like who did we get a little bonus well we didn't doesn't mean it couldn't be used for basic content creation this on the other hand does these are about the most all over the map results that I've seen since I got my eye 1 Pro from X right and this Kalman ultimate for business software from Spectre Cal I mean I look at these points some of them aren't even in the same neighborhood as the colors that they are supposed to be hitting here ok so the last thing that's left is to check out all the different interfaces so I've never used an ultra-wide with DVI before but there you go dual link DVI 60 Hertz 34 40 by 1440 actually not bad I've never actually run the numbers to see what we were gonna get but I know that on HDMI 1.4 you've been stuck with 50 Hertz on most ultra wide monitors the good news though hdmi 2.0 seems to work perfectly so it just switches on its own and boom there we are 34 40 by 1440 i'm pretty sure we're running out of hundred hertz and the UFO test on blur busters will back me up there so bottom line then I had edy play some Counter Strike global Offensive and his conclusion is pretty much this if the option is between this and a faster pixel response time display like the 144 Hertz TN that he has at home he'll take the 144 Hertz TN but if the choice is between spending another hundred dollars to get 25 fewer Hertz somewhat more accurate color actually did review this display from Acer in the past and no HDMI to No then this one actually looks like a pretty darn good option if you're only planning to game and you don't plan to do any serious color work because that was not as compelling of a story ting yes my friends that is the sound that is made by the word that is the name of the sponsor for today ting which I'm sure you guys figured out by now so ting is 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