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hey guys welcome back today I'm taking a first look at this new LG Ultra Gear ultra wide gaming monitor LG's ultra gear series is monitors that are made for gaming and this monitor features a trifecta of things that in my opinion make PC gaming special and different and separate from say console gaming those things include refresh rate which for this monitor goes all the way up to 144 Hertz as well as introducing adaptive sync in the form of free sync to support resolution both in the aspect ratio being ultra wide 21 by nine as well as a higher resolution 34 40 by 1440 which is significantly more pixels than a 1920 by 1080 panel and color depth since this is an IPS nano cell display with HDR support this is the LG 3 4 GK 950 F let's get it out of the box cooler masters sk series mechanical keyboards help you keep a low profile with ultra flat double Schottky caps and a slim minimalist design available in full size trim as the sk 650 or the even more portable 10 keyless sk 630 these keyboards feel great thanks to genuine Cherry MX low profile mechanical switches they've also got a durable brushed aluminum top plate and a detachable and braided USB type-c cable so click the sponsor link in the description for more on the coolermaster sk 630 and sk 650 so they have some pretty simple instructions here right as you open the box and one thing I actually kind of like here is they do a little foam insert that is curved so you can set the monitor down on that since it's a curved monitor that will allow you to set things up when it comes to mounting the stand without worrying about the front of the monitor itself so I thought that was a nice little touch this is the back of the monitor though and I really quickly wanted to show you the connections and everything before I actually mount the stand the stand by the way attaches to this mount right here which is a standard 100 millimeter vaso mount and then for connectivity back here we have a 2 port USB 3.0 hub a DisplayPort in dual HDMI inputs a headphone jack for pass-through if you're getting audio from the DisplayPort or HDMI then of course an AC power plug then on the bottom you have the single love you can push in or you can go up down left and right with and that is your sole means of control for the on-screen displays which I'll show you in just a moment I do really like LG's vaison mount here it's got a little latch so that's actually to detach it and then you just got to pop it in an angle like that snaps into place now that's on and if I wanted to remove it just hold that down you can lift it back off super easy meanwhile the rest of the base just attaches with a little slot screw which you can just attach my hand in fact that's what they recommend doing no need to over tighten this accessories are included here this does have a fairly sizable external power brick which is unfortunate I do like the power brick to be integrated into the monitors so it's possible but you know what can you do it does help to keep the monitors chassis itself a little bit slimmer when you don't have to include that they have included a USB 3.0 type B cable so you can connect up that USB hub this is a little bracket to help with cable management at the back and we have a display port cable an HDMI cable as well as power cable to plug into the AC adapter we have this mysterious accessory which is listed in the manual but I have no idea what it's actually for it looks like a cable retention clip or something like that and finally we have of course that manual some warranty information and I like to see that LG is showing as much disdain for like actual printed CDs as we typically do these days it's not even in a sleeve that's find though you can probably download all this stuff from the LG website just getting stuff plugged in back here gonna use HDMI for now and wanted to show you the old clip here for cable management it looks like it fits on just like this oh yes okay head upside down it that snaps in much more firmly when it's vertical like this so there's your cable management you just pass those down so you won't see much from the front and it's it's probably not important but this little piece has just been baffling me as far as where it goes the only place I can figure out that where it might fit is there is a Kensington lock on the bottom here so you can lock this down if it's in a insecure environment and I was able to kind of pop it in there said oh no now you could write your headphone cable through that or something maybe your your mouse but there it is time to power on for the first time that button at the bottom gives a little beep when it starts letting you know it's there it's friendly so we've actually got something on-screen now which is nice but I'm going to ignore that briefly to talk about the stand so here's our stand as you can see it's got some red accents on it there are little bright but you know that's fine red and black that works for me the stand has height tilts and swivel but not pivot which is fine so we don't have too much swivel like that just a little bit back and forth on the stand Heights can go about that low or up to about that high and then tilts we get a little bit of vertical and a little bit of negative tilt that way as well so not a huge range of but it is a larger monitor so those can be a little bit more cumbersome it is sturdy though so it's not giving too much wobble as it moves around maybe maybe just slightly we're setting up to do some game testing but before that a quick run-through of the on screen displays again accessible just via this little nub at the bottom you press it once and it pops up a display in the middle of the screen you can press it again to exits or you can press up to go to power off which I just did I didn't mean to do that that's okay it powers back on pretty quickly oh look you can even do left and right for volume press the hold menu up and down for brightness that's good to know so if we go to the left we can do input select that gives you a very simple on-screen display HDMI one HDMI 2 or DisplayPort that is pretty straightforward if we go down since this is a gaming monitor we can access some gaming presets so these will list the different things that they're affecting such as a refresh rate whether or not free sync is on or off whether or not the one millisecond motion blur reduction is on or off black stabilizer and response time we can do some presets for gamer one or game or two there's also an FPS mode and RTS mode and then it goes back to gamer one again so you can change or assign these depending on your preference but in order to do that we need to go to settings which you hit right in order to do and that pops up over on the right side of the screen settings menu appears here on the right side of the screen so here we can also go in and select game modes we also have access to vivid reader HDR effect and srgb over here and once we've selected which of them we want to adjust we can adjust it here so for example I want to turn extended freesync on absolutely black stabilizer is an option that's gonna mess with the contrast ratio a bit response time we want as fast as possible oh look we have a cheating crosshair reticule we can also apply in the center of the screen so that's useful you know if you want to cheat depending on whether the game you're playing offers you your reticule or not and we can also reset game settings here I'm not sure why it's not letting me do the one millisecond motion blur reduction beyond that we have some picture adjustment functions such as brightness contrast sharpness gamma color temperature RGB black level and the FC input select menu and then finally of course general where you can choose language turn on or off smart energy saving mode power LED can be on and off and that just lights up a little nub that I'm pushing to control this right now we'll light up red if you turn that on you can tell it to automatically stand by after a certain period of time and we also have a buzzer which is just a little beep that beeps when you turn the it on or off you can disable that - finally OSD lock so you can move this display around the screen if you want to so Joe and I we're both able to get some test time in some playtime with Apex legends and the Acer predator X 34 just so we have fresh in our minds a point of comparison the last thing I also wanted to point out when it comes to comparison there is response time for milliseconds on the Acer predator x 34 down to 1 millisecond on this lg monitor immediately upon swapping them out getting this one over and just plugging it in with all the same settings I think we have a more vivid and brighter display I think this is actually my first experience with a nano cell technology display which adds extra cells which is supposed to increase the color depth and everything but upon first look it does seem pretty nice alright so just making sure everything set up the same way as the predator X 34 was we're still at 34 40 by 1440 and I bumped the refresh rate from 100 Hertz up to 144 Hertz so that should be good SLI mode is turned on in case you're wondering we're using two gtx ten ATT is in this system for our tests and then i'm just going up to the settings mode here and into our game settings to make sure that free sync is turned on because that's one of the big things with this display now that Nvidia has enabled free sync monitors to use G sync we should hopefully be able to take advantage of that so just switched free sync to extended mode response time is set to faster and I'm not using the motion blur because turning that on turns off free sync that is a motion blur reduction which it uses the back light in order to do that so we're just gonna work without that for now everything else is as is I'm using Nvidia driver version 4-1 9.35 but you should be able to do this with version 417 or later once I turned the adaptive sync on or the free sync on in the monitors display it enabled this set up G sync function right here and do you think it's enabled look it did automatically cool alright guys we've now done a bit of play testing with the LG g3 4gk 950 F here and I think it was an absolutely fantastic experience now if you're comparing this to a very similar monitor and the Acer predator x3 for when it comes to the gameplay itself you may or may not distinguish the difference between a 100 Hertz refresh rate and a 144 Hertz refresh rate I do I think but it's only because I've played through them multiple times it's kind of like jumping from sixty to a hundred and then one hundred two hundred and forty four it's not quite as noticeable but it is definitely still there also the response time on this monitor seems really nice as we're looking through very action heavy shots there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of ghosting going on or images that stay on screen for more than they should so that's really nice especially for gaming and then I asked Joe to give some feedback on his sort of A to B comparison while he was playing the game itself he did he said he didn't notice that much difference between the two monitors when it comes to the actual smoothness and fluidity but when I was playing he said he noticed a lot more detail coming out just when it comes to sharpness and crispness and then I think lastly that color range just the really bright vibrant colors of this monitor look very nice especially when compared to an LG x34 which granted I've been using for over three years so colors tend to fade a little bit over time anyway but I think for anyone who's looking for sort of that next generation gaming experience and you really need the monitor to pair with the gaming PC in order to do that you're gonna have a really nice time with this monitor because you don't need a crazy high-end system to push 3440 by 1440 it is fewer pixels than 4k the fact that you can turn G sync on is just absolutely amazing now I'm so glad and Vidya finally did that because it sucked that they kept it blocked off for so long but now this means that anyone who's purchased like you know a gtx 1070 system based system you got a couple years ago can easily get this monitor plug it in and use that variable refresh rate which is another of the really really nice features of PC gaming if I have any complaints about this monitor I think they're actually all external for the most part and this also might be because I'm comparing it to the Acer predator X 34 which has a very nice housing and sort of a finished look and everything this monitor just doesn't feel quite as premium when it comes to the housing outside its plastic and everything it gets the job done but it just doesn't feel quite as premium as x34 I also really like the handle the carrying handle on the back of the x34 stand that's very convenient that this monitor doesn't have so might be a little bit more cumbersome to move around finally it would be nice if it didn't have this pretty substantial power brick to plug in but I will say that while it's in use it doesn't get terribly hot so at least two plus one last thing to point out and this is more of an FYI than anything else this monitor does not have built-in speakers I'm not listing that as a negative because built-in monitor speakers are almost always awful but if you actually wanted to get sounds out of the monitor you would have to plug in headphones so just something to keep in mind so I think that's gonna wrap it for this video guys this monitor retails for $1,000 what I want to know is how much your monitor costs right now the one that you are using what did you pay for it leave me that info in the comment section down below because for $1000 I think this represents a really high points of PC gaming right now as far as the features that you can access and the games that you can play but at $1000 I want to know how cost prohibitive that's gonna be prices for PC components have been going up I'm not sure if a thousand bucks is reasonable right now or if that's something that's still out of the price range of most people let me know that in the comment section down below leave a thumbs up on this button if you enjoyed the video we're gonna play some more apex legends I think thanks for watching guys and we'll see you next time