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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX now lucky me this is the first time that I've had an opportunity to check out a 5k display but this is the first time that I've been able to do it on a display that will work on a PC so this is the Dell you p27 15 k 5k monitor it has five thousand one hundred and twenty pixels this way two thousand eight hundred and eighty pixels this way for four times the total pixel count of a 2560 by 1440 display yeah this thing is crazy crazy sharp that's about 14 megapixels 60 times per second so let's start with a general physical overview on the front it's a 27-inch monitor so you're gonna have that I guess there's also a glass bezel around it so it's an edge less bezel designed personally I really do like this particular style the stand itself it's it's not a crazy thin monitor or anything like that but it's not bulky by any stretch of the imagination the stand is a nice sort of sandblasted anodized aluminum design it's got a Dell logo on the back of Kensington lock and then there's the IO and that's where things get a little bit tricky because you might be thinking to yourself well - hold on a second what do you mean 5k I mean what's it what's a 5k it does my mom does my graphics card support 5k the answer is no probably not at least not on one output so on the bottom of this monitor you're gonna find a USB 3 hub so that's one input and four outputs then you're gonna find a full-size display port and then you're gonna find another one right next to it and those two have lines around them that say okay this is for a 5k by 3k that is how they do it to DisplayPort inputs in order to drive this entire monitor there's also a mini DisplayPort in back there but that one only supports up to 4k max so you're gonna have to deal with interpolation now this thing is not cheap it's over $2000 but at least it comes with the kinds of professional grade you know quality and features that you'd expect for a monitor of that caliber so it's an IPS panel it's got a ten bit it's a 10 bit panel so that's a billion colors featuring a 12 bit lookup table so you're gonna be able to work with broad gamut content if you want to it supports 99% of Adobe RGB it's got support for advanced calibration features with an X right color calibrator and it even comes with a report in the box certifying its Delta e less than two calibration so you shouldn't even really need to do anything unless you have your own personal needs that are a little different from what you might get out of factory calibration I'm not really sure how much there else there is to really say about it other than that it looks absolutely stunning from the front from the back so why don't we move on to this little tiny box next to it that is actually powering it so this is Intel's Broadwell based nook so that's their little you know next unit of computing thing computers that fit in your hands and I just thought this was cool because this demo right here where we're zooming around and panning around on New York City is actually being powered by this machine and thanks to its dual mini DisplayPort outputs it is able to drive a 5k display something that we wouldn't have imagined possible only a couple short years ago I think there's a couple little things on my cheat sheet here that I missed so the contrast rated contrast ratio is a thousand to one which is pretty typical for a static contrast ratio on a on a very solid display the pixels per inch is 218 just in case you don't want to do the math yourself it's got eight millisecond great a great response time rating so you may actually be able to game on it half decently assuming you have the graphics horsepower in order to drive this kind of a resolution and reality check you don't so that's hopefully coming in the future and I think that pretty much wraps it up absolutely beautiful but there is a price to pay and at its current pricing I'm not sure how many people it's going to make sense for especially given the pricing of the iMac 5k Retina that also includes a computer built into it but of course there's plenty of time for for Dell to get more competitive and for all this technology to get more competitive very excited for the future of high-resolution displays speaking of displays I'd like to do a shout out for our sponsor here at the show phantom glass these guys make great protectors for your displays the ones that go on the ones on your phones not the ones on your desks although that could potentially come in the future they're made of Gorilla Glass so they're extremely scratch resistant extremely clear and they have that same oleophobic and nice touch finish on the top of them they're basically impossible to get bubbles stuck under so they look exactly like the surface of your actual phone and they're available at store dot phantom dot glass linked in the video description I also want to give a shout-out to HyperX their YouTube channel has tons of great gaming content you guys are definitely gonna want to check that out and they are a huge part of the reason that we are able to be here as well guys click that subscribe button so you don't miss any of our CES content or anything else ever again and I think that pretty much wraps it up we'll see you at the next crazy booth here at CES 2015