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today we're gonna take a look at a monitor that is definitely drawing the line with the Great Divide it is on the side of a gaming monitor so if you're a video editor or you're looking for color accurate this monitor is probably not going to be for you but if you are a gamer and you do want one of if not the best gaming experiences money can buy and on that note of what money can buy this price tag is actually not bad at all it's 700 Australian dollars retail though in my deals video it did go down to 640 or strained dolls sad news is though currently it's not available in the US so when it does get available in the US I will update the description and I will ask for you sonic when this thing is hitting those shelves over in the United States of America because it is a very good gaming monitor though with that aside jump on out of the yes 'mobile if you're ready on board come over - yes land and jump on the yes coaster because today I'm gonna take you through a tool with this monitor of all the ups and downs I'm even gonna talk about it compared to the Samsung 32-inch curved monitor which is currently out there and I'm gonna tell you why I believe this monitor is actually even better than that monitor so let's get this show on the road welcome back to tech yesterday this brang coming to you guys today with a review of the XG 32 40 C which is view Sonic's 144 Hertz VA paneled gaming monitor now has a curvature of 1800 R and also will get straight into the deets as well it's ghosting is really good for a VA panel there's practically none and also comparing it against the IPS monitor it has extremely low input lag now I did do a few different tests at a thousand fps and again this is some of the lowest I believe it's the lowest on any monitor I've had come through it input lag that I've seen in my life so comparing it against the 4k monitor did do exactly the same at 60 Hertz so I had to have these duplicated at 60 Hertz but one thing when it was at 144 Hertz it's going to draw a frame faster so it could be anywhere from 8 to 10 milliseconds faster than the 4k monitor had come through here and that was already incredibly good with its low input lag but one thing you'll notice from this video piece also is that the ghosting is better than the IPS panel so this VA panel is extremely responsive so you've heard these tales of VA panels being terrible and having bad ghosting well this one is definitely different to those terrible VA panels now keep in mind there are different overdrive settings there's five different settings I like to use the ultra fast setting though some people will like to use the faster setting as the ultra fast setting will introduce a little bit of overshoot which is slightly noticeable but in my opinion you will get a more sharper picture faster does look a little bit better to the eyes but there was for me personally noticeable blurring especially in dota 2 now I use this game with my own tests that I sort of have been using for years now it's called the name tracking test and that's when a character is moving I like to try and read that name as it's moving and I noticed the ultra fast setting was easier to read than the faster response time setting and also on that note the high refresh rates do help out here so if you're on a 60 Hertz panel you can load up dota 2 or here is a new s they're both great MOBAs and then you can just track people's names as they're moving if you can't read that name properly then I would recommend either getting a monitor with higher refresh rates or better response times and or both but one thing was definite and that was dota 2 was an amazing experience on this monitor moving over to csgo high FPS FPS game double FPS but what we saw here was again the results were phenomenal I could actually play csgo really well and haven't played it for a while so I got the good old dak dak and I know some people are gonna hate me in the audience but got the dak dak and I was getting some frags on this monitor it was phenomenal now we did again test the ultra fast setting versus the faster setting because I'm really picky about my monitors and the settings I use and I found in this game the response time of ultra fast was a little bit better than the faster setting and again that overshoot was slightly noticeable and of course the last test I did with the response times was to put it through the UFO test and my eyes were telling me what the camera was seeing as well so that ultra fast setting I believe is the best in slot for this monitor now for settings personally you've got 220 CCD brightness out of the box they do advertised 250 but the X ray colour calibrator I have here told me was 220 so dropping the brightness down to 74 gave me 180 this is where I like a gaming monitor or general use monitor to be in this vicinity so if you're an end user you probably want this monitor from anywhere from 60 to 80 brightness now you can change the color temperatures on this monitor you can also change the color settings individually with red green blue control and I will say the OSD is phenomenal too they actually must have heard my feedback but must have heard it a long time ago before they even made the monitor so they went to the future saw my 4k monitor review and then they went back in time and they put in the directional OSD button which makes things very easy to use so flicking through this OSD is really easy you can set three different custom profiles if you wish to within that you can set your colors you can set your saturation levels black levels even your gamma settings and there is a lot of different gamma settings too I like it at 2.4 gamma setting I also like the saturation and contrast at their settings out-of-the-box and I found the colors were very good out-of-the-box - except for the temperature at the out-of-the-box native setting it was very yellowish if I could say that so I changed this the cool and it went away now this is where this monitor does get that great divide as I was talking about in the intro it is a gaming monitor so it's not gonna be for photo accurate work or when if you need a video edit for instance if you want a really good video editing monitor check out my 4k monitor review even though that's expensive you're gonna get really good results out of that thing I haven't had one complaint of someone telling me I'm looking like a lobster this monitor however out of the box it does have that contrast II saturated look so if you start editing videos on this thing you may end up looking like a lobster to your audience and I have had this happen in the past before so this monitor is prone to lobstering if you're in the video editing or color accurate work although continuing on that note however my X right color calibrator did show some results that were very far off the out-of-the-box settings so further proving that this is not a color grading monitor however the black backlight bleed levels and also the white uniformity on this monitor were really good they weren't perfect but they'll definitely over that of an acceptable everyday use level I wouldn't notice this on any application or any sort of gaming or even movie watching so really good to see that of course the 4k monitor that was near-perfect but you'd want that to be for the extra price you're paying so what you've got here with the XG 30 to 40 C is a out-of-the-box setting that is saturated that is contrast II that does have those deep blacks it is phenomenal for the end-user who wants to watch movies or play video games and I absolutely love the look of this thing out of the box except I'll just of course change the response time so ultra fast drop the brightness to 74 and change that color temperature to cool moving on with some other features of this monitor it does support free sync from 48 to 144 Hertz so very generous range so if you have an AMD graphics card you will get adaptive sync technology supported me personally I don't use any sync technologies whether it's G sink freesync I just used NSYNC which is no sink and I've been doing that for years I love my high refresh rates throwing the frames but possible and we've also got an 1800 our curvature which is very nice it does add to a little bit more of that immersive experience for gaming of course contrasting that to video editing in photo accurate work not really the bests also cross-hatching on this monitor was non-existent pulling up an orange background it was very smooth and this was at the max 144 Hertz setting and then lastly of course talking about the build quality itself you've got a very thin bezel on this monitor though compared to the 4k monitor there is a bottom drop there with the view sonic logo I would have liked to have seen this have the same frame as the 4k monitor because I did dual mount two of these view sonic monitors together for my main setup one being the video editing monitor and one being the gaming monitor but also backing as a second monitor when I need to pull up files and I need to drop and drag things into video editing quick and easy as well as pulling up support shadowplay on this computer also you do get a power brick and 2 meter display port cable there is 4 USB ports on the back as well as 2 HDMI ports and one DisplayPort in there is included audio the audio is a little bit tinny I wouldn't really use it unless you absolutely have to though if you have to you will get a decent experience out of it similar to that of a smart phone though the included stand was a little bit of a mystery I did like the build quality it was hide adjustable up to around about 13 centimeters it did have a tilt and swivel control but when we were trying to essentially change the rotation of this monitor even at its max height it will hit the desk so it was a little bit of a mystery there with the rotation but everything else on this monitor stand was really good of course me personally I do like my monitors sitting very high so if you did want to use this monitor at the same height as I did then I'd recommend putting it on a box or mounting it with a vase a compatible mount and that's another thing as well it does have the screws on the back to mount this on the wall or on a stand if you wish to it has in conclusion with wrapping up the review of the viewsonic XG to 40c absolutely phenomenal monitor for gaming high refresh rate 144 Hertz you can also drop it down to a hundred Hertz if you wish or sixty Hertz it does have a very responsive VA panel now the viewing angles are very good on this thing much better than ten of course a little bit behind that of an IPS panel though the colors are gorgeous the black levels are very deep deeper than that of an IPS panel and as well the added on benefit is those response times as you saw in those tests it was beating that of the IPS panels very sharp one of the best VA panels I've seen to date it also got free sync you've also got complete control from the OSD to change things like the overdrive settings you've also got color control and when we look at the Samsung variant there is that Samsung variant that is going around does feature quantum dots so that is an advantage that that has but when I looked at TFT Central's review of it which they do phenomenal monitor reviews they said it had no overdrive settings they also said it was flickering I couldn't find any flickering on the vsonic model and also using Samsung monitors in the past the input lag isn't the best that's at least with my own testing so I would go for the viewsonic over the Samsung monitor any day of the week especially that overdrive setting that did it for me the Samsung does have the ultra low motion blur though again you're going to lose brightness I think it goes down to around about 120 I like my brightness up at 180 this is where this monitor is at and it can do all that and it can do it extremely well so if you're an end-user you're a gamer who doesn't need photo accurate or video editing work to be done on this monitor then this is going to give you that awesome gaming experience now of course what about an ultra wide gaming monitor that's going to be a divide that you're gonna have to decide if you want to get an ultra wide gaming monitor or not me personally using both the ultra wide gaming monitor does give you a little bit more of an immersive experience but the problem is finding a game that supports 21 by 9 natively is so hard a lot of the games don't support it and they don't really care to support it either which is frustrating so this is where this makes the XG 30 to 40 see such a good monitor you're going to get every Ingle game that goes out on this monitor is gonna look phenomenal and it's gonna do an awesome job anyway guys hope you enjoyed the review of the XG 30 to 40 see if you did then be sure to hit that like button I've got my new favorite gaming monitor here and I'm gonna probably go enjoy some games because the weekend is coming up and I'll catch you on another one very soon peace out for now bye