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do you guys have any idea how long I've been waiting for this actually that can be calculated because I first showed this awful is it C yes a year and a half ago this it's finally here is a soos is 144 Hertz 4k HDR with a thousand nits peak brightness g-sync gaming monitor this is it this is quite literally monitor god mode it has everything and we get to be the first to take a finished model for a test drive and finished comes with a big asterisk because this isn't quite final hardware and we don't have quite the final drivers but speaking of not being able to wait you won't be able to wait to try out glass wire glass wire is a firewall that displays your PC's incoming and outgoing network connections in real time and you can use offer code Linus to get 25% off glass wire 2.0 check it out at the link below okay so step number one is to get this bad boy and I did assume it's gender I'm sorry get this bad mofo get this thing set up it's so long for this and it's not a Seuss's fault so they say although I think NVIDIA has actually been pretty upfront that it's that it's been their fault so what has delayed it it's not anything about the panel like they just hope this thing working the past what's delayed it has been getting HDR working with g-sync because individually those technologies are complicated enough and having them working at the same time because this isn't like your typical HD aren't like those monitors out there that claim to have HDR support where they'll accept an HDR 10 input but they have maybe 350 or maybe 450 netpeak brightness this uses 384 zones of full array back lighting in order to achieve 1008 peak brightness and deep blacks at least in theory so we've only seen it at this stage of production on the BFG big effing displays that Nvidia showed at CES this year you can actually see like physically this thing is loaded for bear I mean you don't have a full array back light without compromising on things like thickness so a Seuss's literature claims it can draw up to a hundred and eighty watts from the wall it's thick it's got big old thick bezels which they justify by saying realistically you weren't gonna be running more than one of these off of a single system at 4k 144 FPS anyway and I mean I guess that's all there is to really say about it physically in there get it turned on oh oh no there is more while James is getting the system set up let's take you guys for a quick tour of the stand so it goes up and down about like yay it goes side to side about like yeah it tilts up and down about like yeah and it pivots about like yay so if you if you like your 4k 144 Hertz this way because you're some kind of a monster and you're playing Peggle or something alternately you can use this for exactly what I use it for which is easier access to the i/o so it's got a single HDMI 2.0 though it should be noted that even hdmi 2.0 is nowhere near able to run 144 Hertz 4k you're gonna be limited to 60 Hertz and then DisplayPort 1.4 and that is where the magic happens with a compatible graphics card you can drive that massive resolution over a single cable oh and it also has a USB hub and a pass-through audio jack oh okay so no we're not ready to turn it on quite yet because I guess we have to talk about the lighting effects so it's got its got a customizable underglow you can put your own lens in there and have it say or show whatever you want you just write on the included blanks with a sharpie it's got a projected ROG logo that it fires at the wall behind it see that coming out of the back here it's got a matching our oh it's kind of matching our FG logo on the stand right here and then it's got full auto sync compatibility on the RGB logo on the back because that's the side of this monitor that I'm gonna look at emit I don't actually know the final pricing but if I'm gonna pay however much this thing's gonna cost I want to enjoy it from every side every side let's start by making sure that we're running at 4k 144 Hertz ah okay because getting that going is a little bit tricky you do need to make sure you're using a high quality display port cable and that's actually an overclocked refresh rate so what happens is you enable max refresh rate 144 Hertz in the control panel of the monitor and then it enables 144 Hertz 4k now you are giving up something here because as soon as you go past I think it's 96 Hertz at 4k you're gonna be giving up some of the chroma subsampling so you're gonna be giving up some of your color reproduction and if you actually look really closely here we're getting a little bit of fringing on the text but the theory is that you're not gonna really notice this in games so let's go ahead and hit up csgo now this is a game that should actually be able to run at 4k 144 frames per second even at pretty high details on this hardware but that's not going to be true of most things even though we're running a GTX 1080 Ti and we've got an email from a soos literally nine minutes ago saying that Titan V should also work a lot of games are just straight-up not going to be able to take take advantage of the 144 Hertz refresh rate which is I guess where g-sync comes in because even if you're hovering between 45 and 85 it's gonna look smooth so csgo doesn't support HDR so what we've done is turned it off in the windows control panel this thing is water smooth you can't even see an individual pixel now I've seen this display running in demos but I've never actually been able to drive we check this out like Brendon even look at stuff that's like far away like this and we're running at 144 frames per second like from a reasonable distance and like even without any backlight strobing as I move back and forth you can still read text so fortnight's not the most demanding game out there but at 4k everything but AAA set to epic I still am expecting this to be a little bit challenging here we go so even with a GTX 10 atti we're looking at about 75 65 frames per second is this guy following me dude I don't know what I'm doing so initial impressions here although we aren't running an HDR our that dang it our that the chroma subsampling doesn't seem to be hurting us yet but we are gonna reserve judgment for when is this really a real player wow you suck it actually helps to offset it that you've got these nice little backgrounds or drop shadows on all the text because that's where you'd be most likely to see it but we're gonna reserve full judgement for when we do the full review on the finished hardware with the finished drivers this does look really good though I gotta say I am impressed with everything depth of blacks vibrance of colors without overdoing it it looks really good okay so for HDR we're gonna enable it within the windows control panel you do need a handful of things obviously supported graphics card with the right firm where apparently nvidia is planning to release a firmware updater tool just in case you have an older 1080 TI that needs to be flashed you need the latest spring creators update and of course you need a title like destiny - that has support for HDR so we're tuning up our graphics settings for destiny - honestly we're not even gonna try and crank this because even with SLI which has been sort of a an abandoned stepchild for both NVIDIA and game developers over the last little while we're not gonna expect to be able to run a game like this at max settings 144 Hertz have you bad guys cool I can definitely feel the reduction in framerate but it's very usable I gotta say my biggest criticism of the big effing gaming displays was that while the blacks are really deep like you can see here in the shadows on the truck or like under the shadows of the trees and the whites were really bright it was really noticeable when a light moved from one zone into another one in the full array back light on the smaller display not so much it is a lot harder to pick up on well there's a little bit of Kate just go away well there's a little bit of halo it's not bad like you see that so I got to tell you guys first impressions very impress is it worth the money well given that we don't know the price yet and given that we don't have the final hardware yet we're gonna have to reserve judgment for the full review which will be coming but it is looking very very promising speaking of promising I promised that I would tell you guys about fresh books today fresh books is the small business accounting solution built for how you want to work it's designed for small business owners and freelancers and is a simple way to be more productive more organized and get paid faster you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments just a couple of clicks and get paid up to four days faster you can see when your client has seen an invoice to put an end to the guessing games and you can take advantage of their apps for both Android and iOS that allow you to track your hours 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