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all right Tech fans it's great to be back after that long holiday weekend I know a few guys outside the United States you guys probably had the exact same holidays as we do but we just had our nice Labor Day three-day weekend and it was nice to take some time off and just chill out and catch up on the expanse yes the expanse season three rocks really liking that quite a bit right now digging if you dig it let me know as well now if you guys follow the channel you know that I've really been kind of testing out and reviewing quite a few monitors lately most of them have been from actually from Bank you and I finally found a monitor that I really really dig for doing what I want to do do you guys been following China I've been talking about putting three monitors together making myself a really SuperDuper awesome surround gaming environment I would have really liked to be able to do it with that two thousand dollar monitor that we got from Nvidia that had the G sync and all that but even at $2,000 believe it or not that monitor won't do surround say what I know right makes no sense to me whatsoever I would have liked to use that one I probably could have made you know and then deal with those guys at a marketing trade deal and probably got some of those and had it but they don't work so I reached out to B&Q company been working with quite a bit lately these guys have a lot of products and they had a monitor that just came out and I think it's honestly one of the very latest that feature free sync to it maybe one of the very first free sync two monitors actually hit the market now this is the brand-new ex3 203 r that's right features free sync to as I said just a second ago and lots of other great stuff this particular monitor also it's only $700 I'm gonna go oh my god dude it's only $700 but believe me when you're getting a monitor that's 32 inches big that has tons of features lots of connections and everything and it's under that price point that is a really good deal and one of the features before you even jump into everything and talk about is the bezel size the bezel size on this is almost non-existent which is perfect for putting three monitors together in surround and since it features free sync - I'm hoping that's going to look really great with my AMD 64 card now there's also been a couple of things that have come out that says that you know and now Nvidia cards they've found a workaround so you could use an Nvidia card with the free sync monitors now I'm gonna try that and see if I can get that to work as well because I think that'd be pretty cool and plus I wouldn't be limited in what so ever fashioned and putting it into my gaming environment so if I wanted to test the system with an Nvidia card I could do that and I could do it with an AMD system and still get free sync right yes that sounds awesome I'm liking that so first off let's talk about the design of this particular monitor this monitor has an 1800 R curvature to the screen so you know it's a nice curved screen the base is very nice and well built on the front of the monitor you can see like I said before almost no bezel whatsoever the OSD controls are Oakley excuse me the OSD controls are located on the right hand side you just put your hand on it under the front you click a few buttons and right there is all your OS Steve stuff you can scroll through all that and all that good stuff as we've turned them rounded around the back you're gonna see something very interesting that you haven't seen also USB type-c so in the back as far as the controls go you get two HDMI ports a display port you also get two USB 3.1 ports and what's best of all though you get a USB type-c connection which I haven't really seen on any other monitor yet and although there are no speakers built in this particular monitor there is a pass-through headphone jacks you can plug your headphones directly into the monitor the design of this is pretty nice in another way as well as far as your height adjustment you can do it from 60 millimeters up and down and as far as your tilt goes you can tilt it from 5 to 20 degrees depending on what you like overall the design of the x3 203 R is very nice and it's also pretty simplistic but now let's talk a little bit about the panel now I did a video before discussing the different merits between an IPS panel between a TN panel and a VA panel another particular panel on this monitor is a VA panel which is right in the middle of everything you get a 90 percent color gamut so if you're an arse or something out there and you're not like you know completely dedicated that you can still do some art and some video stuff on it editing and stuff of that it'll be pretty good not as good like I said as the IPS monitor but still much better than a VA panel now you get 2560 by 1440 which is UHD so you have a nice widescreen display to look at everything the only thing is it's only in 16:9 I kind of wish it had a little bit more options other than that but 16:9 is still cool for most of stuff that you're doing out there for millisecond response time from greater gray so you know you're gonna Canadian any type of lag no eye fatigue nothing like that with the screen now as far as the brightness goes it's for turd CD it also has the native contrast ratio of 3,000 to one a viewing angle of 170 degrees so no matter where you're looking at the monitor whether you're looking at it straight on or off to the side you're still gonna be able to see the monitor no problem whatsoever but honestly it gets even better check this out a hundred and forty-four Hertz refresh rate that's right we're not talking 75 or not talking 100 we're talking about a hundred and forty-four Hertz of refresh right now this refresh rate will work on no matter what type of video card you use now obviously if you're gonna use an AMD card you're gonna get all that free sync technology built inside of which can eliminate screen ripping and all the other stuff and real quick why we're talking about the screen people gonna ask what it's doing between freesync 1 and freesync two well they're really the main difference between free sync 1 and free sync to is HDR that's really the main difference now instead of having some of the color mapping and all that stuff done on the monitor they've switched all that back on to the GPU so the power of the GPU will be doing all that now the only question I have out this right now it'd all be Chism testing on its since it's being moved off of the monitor and onto the video card will the video card suffer any kind of a performance hit with that I'm hoping that it doesn't but it is a question that's inside of my mind right now one thing that artists might find to be a caveat about this particular manohar is it only has an 8 bit color depth so it doesn't have true 10-bit color so if you're an artist and you've got to have the absolute exact matching to photoshop or whatever then this might not be the monitor for you but honestly it's in the series for gamers and people who watch movies and in those particular areas it really does exceed and if it was a TN panel I would you know avoid it for all kinds of artwork don't do anything like that because the color just gonna be crap but since this is 90% I think that you're gonna be pretty much okay for doing generalized stuff obviously if you're a pro and you're getting paid by a magazine or by a professional publication place you're gonna want something that matches their color scheme exactly but for those who are doing it for a hobby and just for fun I think you're gonna be right on inside of this monitor are also three technologies that allow you to stare at this monitor for hours on in without getting any type of headache this is flicker free technology low blue light and brightness intelligence Plus now what brightness intelligence Plus and what I think is a really good feature is no matter what kind of lighting you're in whether you're in nighttime lighting you're in house lighting you've got sunshine shining in the monitor will change and make it so it's optimal for you to watch it so when you're looking at the monitor have to be a lawyer - oh my god that's way to brighter oh my god that's way too dark it's gonna have that perfect combination for you to look at the monitor and not get a fatigue and being flicker free like I told you guys before I actually played on a 60 Hertz monitor that was split or free technology and I didn't get a headache so that flicker free technology really does have an impact on you looking at the monitor for hours on and and let's just face it if you're a gamer or somebody who just watches a ton of movies you're gonna be in front of that monitor for hours and hours on end and one thing you definitely don't want to get while you're playing your games or enjoying your movies it's sitting there rubbing your eyes going damn why am I getting fatigued it's an important feature to me often very looked over but very important nonetheless if you're someone who surfs the net and is honestly just staring at your monitor all day long one thing that's gonna become very important to you is how well the text looks when you're looking at it right I mean who wants to look at a bunch of blurry text in their monitor when they're trying to see things all the text this particular monitor is very very nice and even though the monitor only really has about 93 pixels per inch as far as the density goes you guys can see that everything looks really really nice the text is well drawn out the colors everything are really really nice so even just looking at webpages and doing stuff like that it's really nice there's also a lot of different brightness controls so if you're going to be right a letter working in Photoshop and stuff like that you can adjust it to however you're comfortable whatever it is that you feel good with you can adjust the monitor at that point so that it'll be perfect for your viewing experience a lot of times some of the monitors that I get the text looks wacky I go on and I play a monitor you know I go in and play a game excuse me and everything looks great but when I go to look at text it lags this particular monitor doesn't lag in the text Department whatsoever so for general usage and for web surfing obviously this monitor has you covered but where does display HDR 400 come into play well that comes into play inside of the gaming environment now this particular monitor has the latest HDR on and it's certified but not all games currently support this particular feature so to really test it out you know completely have to find different games out there for yourself and test those trying it but with that said though let's jump in let's check out some footage of games with HDR on and hjr off and see what a difference HDR really makes and for some reason if you're a person out there you don't know what HDR is whatsoever HDR is high dynamic range and what it basically does and what it really does is it makes sure that all the light is as close to natural as close to what the real representative would be in real time so if you're looking at grass or you're looking at a scene outside all of the areas are gonna be lit as close to possible as what it's really supposed to be like in real life so no dark areas colors are much nicer colors and more vibrant it basically just looks more realistic than other things previously and as we advanced two more different HDR it's eventually I imagine that will have HDR that looks pretty much exactly like real life which will really help with future and vr but with that said though let's check out some gameplay so switching between HDR on and HDR off when it works you can see that it really works and it works wells now not every game out there is gonna totally work the same way but in the games that it really does work well in you can see a big difference and in movies and stuff like that HDR really comes across much more vibrant than your standard formats the monitor just looks absolutely gorgeous I don't even notice the difference between 8 and 10 bit color especially in gaming all I know is that when I'm gaming on this monitor everything looks absolutely beautiful and when I'm using my AMD card games are being played I see no screen tearing no ripping just total gaming enjoyment without any eye fatigue and I played games a little rate for 6 or 7 hours as last Saturday and the only thing that got tired in me was my hand from scrolling back and forth and trying to do all those damn headshots but beyond that everything looked awesome the X 3:23 are also features super resolution now what this means that when you're watching a movie all of the detail is being pushed out to its maximum performance levels it's almost like upscaling not exactly the same but very very close and everything just looks nice HDR just seems to make the colors pop from your monitor and brings things just a little bit closer to reality than they were before if you're a person who is really really picky about their gaming monitor I mean you're the person who likes all the best specs you can get but you don't want to pay a bunch of money out of your pocket to get the monitor then honestly this monitor is probably something you definitely want to check out I plan on getting three these monitors like I said putting them together for surround vision and the price is only 699 dollars a piece I'd be going oh my god are only six hundred ninety-nine dollars but check this out we looked at that monitor from g-sync right the one that was from Acer the predator $2,000 you can pretty much get three of these monitors for like $100 more and have surround vision free sync to that's a really nice feature on this monitor for you AMD fans out there or looking for a great new monitor put to your system this is definitely worth checking out everything across the board is really really nice it would have probably been cool to have some speakers put into it but that's really not a bank breaker you know in any way to me a deal-breaker rather um you can always just use your headphones or speakers on your desk having them inside the monetarist it's kind of nice if you don't want to use any speaker and just you know play some generalized games it's cool but not having in there like this said not the end of the world 16 - 9 aspect ratio 2560 by 1440 for the resolu I mean honestly 144 Hertz just everything about this motor is really nice and if you don't really want to use in your desktop you can use the basin map that's built into it and you can hook it up and put it onto a wall but me personally that's not my not what I'm wanting to do whatsoever this monitor is definitely an editor's choice monitor that is a fact the ex3 203 is a really nice monitor I just got to say that if you don't have a lot of money but you want the highest quality monitor out there this is something to seriously check out yes there are cheaper monitors on the market they really are but they're probably going to have a TN panel in them TN panel is like the lowest panels like this before that contrast ratio bad viewing angles they're just not the greatest monitors in the world for gaming sure they'll get away with it but having a panel that's in between I think is the perfect spot like I said before it's like the three bears thing you know the bed over here is too hard this one's too soft this one's right in the middle and perfect and that's right where I think this monitor fits right in so if you guys want to get more information about this monitor we'll have a link down below you guys can purchase one or just find more information about this monitor on their side I think I coverage somebody everything that there is but hey who knows I'm human sometimes I err I may have forgotten something I don't think I did but hey that's life so I know you guys been watching techie tomorrow I'm off to play some more games this monitor and even just sitting back here behind me look at this thing's beautiful