Gadgetory

welcome back to tech yesterday today on the desk we've got the e W 3270 you from Bank you this is a 4k monitor which has a VA panel they've got a HDR setting with four levels of control and what they call brightness intelligent Plus technology however just like anything we're gonna be putting this thing through its paces today with the I display Pro and seeing if it's color accurate seeing if it's good for people who want a video edit but more importantly tell you a quick look at the specs of this thing comes in at seven hundred and fifty eight US dollars on Amazon in Australia it's better priced which is a weird thing lately some of the products on the channel here have been priced better in AHS 849 AUD and currently on eBay I believe you can pick up only one of these at the moment for seven hundred and fifty-six AUD so 32 inch monitor 4k resolution HDMI 2.0 you get two HDMI ports as well DisplayPort 1.4 and also a USB type-c which you can run the signal and sound through it's also got a headphone out as well for pushing out audio but more importantly how good's the response times Bank you are claiming for milliseconds I'm going to test that out today and also they included stand quickly going through that it's only tilted just about not swivel or height adjustable but it is visa compatible so you can wall mount it or buy a better custom stand if you wish you so here we are now at night time I've been testing this thing out all day it's time to get straight into the juicy details for you guys response times they're advertising for milliseconds on the box with a thousand FPS camera in csgo realistically we're looking at around 12 to 14 milliseconds now there are three different levels of overdrive or essentially one being off and two extra levels high and premium they call this AMA or advanced motion acceleration did work best on the high setting in my opinion also pulling up a UFO test did clarify this now looking at input lag with this monitor looking at around nineteen to thirty four milliseconds total input lag and csgo very good especially for a 4k sixty Hertz VA panel the vsonic may have just got a slight edge over this especially the one that I use for 4k video editing but nonetheless it's still really good looking into HDR there is a setting in Windows when you turn this on everything looks terrible but when we go over to a game like Final Fantasy 15 it did work okay so if the game does support HDR then it will look pretty good but keep in mind I thought the picture mode on photo looked a little bit better there's also a game mode which brings up the darks so it does work really well in games like csgo so this monitor has two picture profiles that I like out of the box one being for a more enjoyable experience that's photo mode the other being game mode which I did prefer in competitive shooters like csgo also moving on with the srgb settings out of the box if you want to use this for video editing there's some really good news and that is that it's pretty damn close to being color accurate out of the box it's not as accurate as the viewsonic monitor which is actually calibrated out of the factory but it's very close there's not a whole lot in it I just tested the magenta levels there are slightly bit off but everything else was really close white uniformity levels are really good backlight bleed is acceptable and also there's no visible cross hatching and it does have quite a strong matte coating on the screen so you won't see any reflections that will dissolve those pretty well however more on those HDR settings there is a manual mode on the monitor itself which you've got two modes as I mentioned in the intro you can turn HDR on and then you can turn on the brightness intelligence technology with both of these on in a fork a demo on YouTube it did make a difference and it did look really good and I've also heard like for the Xbox one for example that will support HDR so when the quality can support HDR this monitor will bring it out and it will look pretty good thank you also claim the monitors flicker free I did test this out and it is true I couldn't find any flickering going on also the brightness levels they claimed 300 nits of brightness I tested it with the software on the I display Pro and that was showing around 201 nits of brightness so it could use a little bit more so it is a little bit off that advertise 300 but as long as it can go to 160 comfortably that I'm comfortable with it too and there is the overscan feature which you can turn on and off with this monitor the OSD is also very friendly and easy to use you can even set up custom buttons for yourself with the first two left buttons as well as it having a total of seven buttons HDR which is one of those with the bi technology integrated power button and then you've got your clothes menu open menu up and down in ok buttons and lastly this monitor there is a smart focus feature which has a large and small area I found in practice it didn't really do anything for me but it is available there if you need it also the monitor itself has the AC unit integrated into the monitor itself which juices around 48 watts from the wall at least in a game like Final Fantasy 15 when I looked at the power consumption figures and also included in the box is your stand monitor instruction manuals a USB type-c cable a power cable and also a mini display to DisplayPort cable to so now its conclusion time with the Ben QEW 3270 you monitor and what do I think of it if you're in Australia for the price they're asking I mean on ebay there's one going as I said before for 760 AUD which is a pretty damn good monitor for the money in America it's a little bit more expensive at least in triple P terms and that's where the line gets drawn it's a monitor that costs essentially a set amount of money you get a V a panel the ghosting is mediocre the input lag is pretty good the feature sets nice you've got free sync you've got speakers onboard you've got good viewing angles everything checks out but in my opinion the viewsonic I recently tested that does have the IPS panel it is perfectly calibrated out of the factory and it does get the edge in terms of input lag and response times we're actually really good on that monitor too but in Australia that monitor costs almost an extra 400 Australian dollars so if you're in Australia the bank is definitely bringing better value for money in the US however the viewsonic costs just eight hundred and twenty u.s. so it's literally only just a little bit more expensive than the bank here in the US so if I was in the US I'd probably go for the viewsonic monitor if I was in Australia probably go for the bank you monitor that's how pretty much cut and dry it is it's a solid monitor for the money but the stand is lacking anything but tilt adjustment the build quality is good and it will suit someone who's getting into video editing and also want something that'll double down as a solid gaming monitor at 4k 60 Hertz and of course one thing you'd gain with the bank you over the viewsonic is that HDR support which does work really well if the software supports it so the YouTube demo I pulled up that looked really nice but everything else at the moment looked pretty bad anyway guys hope you enjoyed this review if you didn't be sure to hit that like button if there's anything else you want to know about this monitor and be sure to drop a comma in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can peace out for now bye