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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2016 is brought to you by Squarespace build it beautiful here in the lg monitor booth we've got a few things to get to before the main event so first we've got the 27 UD 88 this is a creator oriented 27-inch 4k display and the big thing here is not necessarily the 99% srgb the well obviously 4k IPS panel but rather the fact that it features USB type-c connectivity so the laptop next to it which is the LG gram a pretty cool piece of technology in its own right is not only outputting to the monitor at 4k resolution through that single type-c connector but it is also being charged by the power plug that it the monitor is using from the wall pretty freakin cool I should take a moment and actually talk about the Graham very briefly here this thing is sick it's like MacBook Air type thin but a whole other level of light it's 2.2 pounds with a core i5 or Core i7 processor 8 gigs of ram in a 256 or 512 gig SSD pricing is not available yet but I will definitely be watching this one pretty closely which now brings us over to the 27 you d68 this is a more gaming oriented model unfortunately it's still only 60 Hertz but thanks to its 4k resolution that's pretty much all you're going to be able to drive with a modern display interface anyway so what makes this puppy gaming is the fact that it features AMD freesync technology so with a supported AMD GPU you're not gonna have to deal with the leg or tearing associated with more traditional solutions for when the GPU is outputting a framerate that is not synchronous with the refresh rate of the display that leads us over to the centerpiece of the show here the 34 you see 98 it's fairly similar to LG's previous 97 with a couple of key differences so it's still 34 40 by 1440 34 inch 21 by 9 aspect ratio it's got a couple 2 HDMI inputs a DisplayPort input it's got a USB 3 it's got Thunderbolt pass-through that's actually really cool Thunderbolt 2 passed through for daisy-chaining but the main differences are the ID it now features a metal stand that actually looks and feels quite a bit better the fact that it now has height adjust something that was on the business model but not the more consumer-oriented one and finally it's got AMD freesync which is better for eliminating tearing in games within that freesync variable refresh rate window which leads us finally to the centerpiece of the monitor display here three of those free sync enabled gaming monitors in a what would you call this like mega uber ultra wide setup with the theme around it being ultra wide dream setup so if you guys weren't paying attention like entirely over the last couple of months we worked with LG on a really really cool like almost like a festival that they did around ultra wide monitors they gave away like 30 of their 34 inch ultra wide 's they gave away three $10,000 beam setups and that whole thing actually concluded not that long ago with me doing a livestream of the build for riland who ended up winning ours there were a couple of other influences including Jehovah Witness a gamer and unbox therapy and unboxer slash lifestyle expert he's meant that guy is a lot cooler than me unfortunately and the finalized videos are finally up so if you haven't had enough of checking out LG's monitors and the whole ultra wide concept here with our booth coverage then make sure you checked out the link in the video description so you can see those finalists showing off their finished setups after all this time so thanks for watching this video from CES 2016 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips so you don't miss any of our awesome content and I want to also give a shout out to Squarespace for allowing us to be here at the show this year Squarespace is the place to go if you want to build a beautiful website fast and have it look great whether it's on a mobile device or even on hey an ultra-wide monitor that's right that what Squarespace is all about so whether it's your blog your portfolio or a little online store you want to make head over to space.com slash line C's offer code Lynas to save 10%