- LG sent us a new monitor.
It's an UltraGear 4K 144 Hertz 160 Hertz OC,
and it's a little under 32 inches.
They sponsored us to unbox it, but here's the thing.
It's $1,000. That's actually like a pretty good price.
(groans picking box up)
Honestly at this size, like, you don't get
a whole lot better for that much money.
Oh, (chuckles) it's probably fine.
The packaging in these is real good, real robust.
The UltraGear is pretty much like,
their highest end line for gaming displays.
There's not a whole lot super new or different
except for the fact that like the specs are amazing
and the price has come down.
I'm pretty sure these used to cost more like
twelve, thirteen hundred dollars
if I'm remembering correctly, but let's get it open
and take a look at all the new stuff
that comes with this one.
Got accessory box.
Ooh, it's real hefty, is the power brick in here?
Yeah, power brick.
All of our cables.
What's this?
It is a plastic cover or a clip.
Got the stand, well the base of the stand.
They're doing the great thing that I love
which is this toolless design on the bottom.
And then boom, now you can screw it down
without needing a screwdriver.
Here's the rest of the stand.
Pretty typical for LG.
Oh my God, it keeps getting stuck,
keeps getting caught, cool.
Where's the other guy, here we go.
So all you do for anyone who hasn't done this
is you just slot that base into the bottom.
Slots right in and then you just screw it down, wow.
I actually really like LG's stands.
I wish the legs didn't protrude as much as they do,
so you had a bit more desk depth
but honestly they're pretty good, they're robust.
I've never had too much problems with them.
They don't like, there's not a ton of wiggle.
They're pretty stable once they're there.
Normally there's like a slit right in here
in this packaging and then you can just like lift it open,
slot it in, pull the whole thing up.
I don't think they've done that here.
I think this was just ripped when I took it outta the box.
Yeah, 'cause I don't see
any other like perforations or anything.
So I'm just gonna kind of rip the foam.
Other than that though, while it's down here,
we've got some good IO.
We've got USBB, two USBA ports,
two HDMI in I'm guessing they're 2.1's
since it's a 4K 144-160 Hertz panel.
And then a display port-in and then power cable
and then a headphone jack on the very, very bottom.
So it's not the most robust set of USB hub IO
that I've ever seen, but it's not bad.
It should be enough that you can plug
a few things into the back to free up space
on your tower which is always just really handy.
I dunno about you guys, but I use a lot
of USB powered devices, so I'm always down for more.
I love this classic design of just like popping it in,
putting it down, you hear it click, you're good to go,
and then you just pull it out of the box.
Oh yeah like I said it's heavy.
It's not that bad.
I think the panel itself is like 20 pounds
and then with the stand gets a little heavier.
Oh my God, I haven't even seen the front
and I already like it.
It's already great.
I'll get it outta this stupid box.
I've just gotta make sure I've got it.
Got a nice firm grip on it
'cause yeah, 32 inch display 16:9 is a lot of screen space
and they've actually gone like,
super border-less edgeless too on the sides and the top
and even their, their peel goes all the way to the top.
Not a lot of people do this.
Where does it start though?
I wanna do like a nice clean all the way around peel.
So I'm just gonna pick a spot.
Oh, it's already going badly
because I can't find the start of it.
Oh, there, oh, I found it okay.
Oh my God.
And then there's a separate piece for the bottom.
That's why I was so confused.
I thought it started like near the power switch.
Oh yeah, wow.
A lot of monitors don't come with a peel on the front
but they do come packed really nicely.
So don't ever worry about it
like getting scratched or damaged in shipping.
Just because there's no peel on the screen
it's totally fine.
I actually just went from a monitor of a very similar size.
I had a 32 inch 1440P display,
and that's kind of the very top end of 1440P.
I wouldn't get a 1440P screen.
Some people would even tell me that that's already too big.
It's not enough PPI, but yeah, 4K,
at like 31 and a half, 32 inches is about 140PPI.
So that should be plenty of pixels
for anyone who's gaming at least.
If you're into design you might wanna get a 27 inch,
but that only nets you a little bit more so I don't know.
When will we get the modern 8K gaming display?
Probably not for quite a while.
But this thing is pretty sweet
it's got one millisecond gray to gray response time.
It's VESA certified at 1000 nits, so we've got HDR 1000.
It's also got AMD FreeSync Premium and G-SYNC compatible
but it doesn't have an actual G-SYNC module.
To get the sticker I think it just has to be compatible.
To get the badge though I'm pretty sure
it's gotta be an actual module in there.
That might be how they lower the price a little bit
because I think the old models came with G-SYNC
but I'm not 100% sure.
And that costs like $100 just to get the module in there.
Otherwise, oh, check out the back.
I love this like, textured plastic on the back.
I've seen this on some of the bigger ProArt's
that have a huge (beep) display like this one.
It's got a ton of cooling vents
all the way around the top, the sides.
Yeah, they're even on the bottom too.
So you've got plenty of cooling for this thing.
And I mean, 4K, especially if you run at 160Hz,
you have to OC it to get to that.
We'll see if that's like a setting in the OSD
or if we have to go into NVIDIA control panel
and actually set it.
I'm not a big fan of like listing
overclockable refresh rates.
I think that, you know, you should just list it
at whatever it can actually definitely do, but we'll see.
See if it gives us issues.
Other than that, here's that cable thing, just clips in.
And then you do that after you run your cables
all the way down the back or whatever
and then you clip them down on here.
They'll stay nice and clipped.
I'm pretty sure, yeah, so you can swivel,
well rotate, whatever.
You can, you can swivel, oh, can you swivel?
Well, not really.
Am I gonna break anything?
I don't think so.
Well, you can tilt.
There's a fair amount of tilt
and then it's height adjustable as well.
But yeah, I'm a, I'm a, I don't know
who's gonna use it vertically.
If you are going to put this vertical for whatever reason
make sure to angle it out a bit first
or you're gonna hit the feet and maybe even the desk
when you flip it first.
Lots of motion, lots of function.
I am a big fan of LG stands.
I've got the ERGO up on my desk.
Most of the time I actually really prefer
these like straight out the back connectors.
'Cause sometimes down here it's hard to see
if it's like not on the very bottom
and it's in some kind of
weird recessed like cable or IO area.
So I actually typically do like the way LG
just puts them up here.
However, right now, because there's no swivel
on this guy or at least not that I can,
like, I'm pretty sure I'm just gonna break it if I try guys.
So in this case, it's actually kind of tough
to get behind there and plug it in.
You didn't see this
but like I had to move this monitor over.
I had to pull this thing forward.
I had to rotate it myself.
And when it's a big beefy monitor like this guy
it's not always easy.
So we're good though now.
Should have power.
And then is that it? Is that it?
Hey, it beeped.
What? This thing's not supposed to have speakers
but it can beep?
Oh my God I am such a sucker for RGB.
I really like, yeah, I really like
how they've incorporated the lights on this one
and they're nice solid diffusion bars.
They're not like individual LEDs.
It's pretty sweet.
Whenever you get a new display and you set it up,
always go into display properties.
Always make sure it's actually got the right everything set.
You might be running at a low refresh rate.
You might not be in the right resolution.
But today looks like we're good.
4K 144 Hertz 8 bit color.
Andrew says it's pretty dim, and I agree.
This is like not very bright at all.
So let's go to settings, picture adjust, brightness.
Oh 10. What? Yeah, we'll increase energy consumption,
I know that.
Give me so much more brightness than 10, how's like 50?
50's pretty standard, yeah, okay.
50 is pretty standard on most monitors.
If you go all the way to a hundred
you might start blowing stuff out
and it doesn't look very good.
If we had HDR on, this would probably lock
to whatever and you wouldn't actually
be able to adjust brightness,
but let's see what else is here
while we're in the OSD, cool.
So we have language, hexagon lighting.
I don't know if you can hook this up to your computer
and run RGB software on the lights?
But at least you get a few different varieties.
There's like red, cyan, and white and then cycling.
And you can also turn it off
if you really don't want it there.
But I do, so blue or purple it is.
Game mode, game adjust, overclock.
Oh, overclock, okay.
Game adjust, overclock.
After the monitor reboots change the maximum refreshery
in the GP control panel.
So we're gonna turn that on.
Oh, but you lose adaptive sync while it's on, maybe.
Interesting, is it gonna work? Is it happy?
Keep changes.
Hey, now we've got 160, here I'll drag this window over.
Yeah, there we go.
4K, 160 Hertz refresh rate.
It's only 8 bit color, but like the reality is,
most things are eight bit color.
As much as I like having 10 bit on my monitors personally,
I guess HDR might start to use it,
but I think this thing only has about 24 or so
dimming zones so even though it gets to 1000 nits,
I don't think the HDR experience is gonna be all that crazy.
It's a Nano IPS panel, so unfortunately
it's not like 'Mini LED' or 'O-LED'.
So you're not gonna have all of those
really small dimming zones.
Or if you do get them, it's, it's like
a lot more work and money.
So for example, Sony's INZONE M9.
It has 96 dimming zones on a 27 inch 4K screen.
So you really have to just ask yourself
whether you want a really good HDR experience
or if you need this much screen space.
Personally, I like having this much screen space.
I'm on an ultra wide now instead of
just regular 16 X 9.
But it's still like a 32 inch ultra wide.
24 or 26 dimming zones is still a lot better
than like a six zone edge lit dimming zone panel.
Then you just kinda get these vertical lines.
With 24 or 26 you're at least gonna get some squares.
So it's not too bad, like let's do,
let's turn HDR on. Oh, okay.
It does do 10 bit, yeah, as long as HDR's turned on.
Yeah. There's not a lot of,
ton of games that I actually use.
Oh, getting some flickering.
Ah, did you see that on camera?
I had an ASUS gaming monitor years ago
and I would, it it's, it's certified at 165 Hertz overclock
but the problem is, once you overclock it,
you can get instability.
And so it's why I'm not a big fan
of monitor companies saying like, oh
but you can OC it to like 160.
You can, but it's gonna vary panel to panel
on how well that actually works.
Some panels it'll run just fine, but I guarantee you,
on some, you're gonna get weird flicker every now and then
or it'll just have like some kind of issue.
Maybe your screen will go black.
Maybe you'll get a little bar or whatever.
As you can see, you can kind of count the dimming zones
as you move across, you can see the black parts
of the screen light up.
They're not terrible, like it's definitely better
than like a six zone column monitors.
Those are kind of of bad
but it's probably not gonna make for the most like,
amazing pinpoint HDR experience.
That's probably why the price is only around $1,000.
So it's good news and bad news.
Good news is, gamers can finally start to afford
really high end 4K displays.
The bad news is, you're gonna be using IPS,
which is kind of older technology at this point.
So I mean, you take your own money
and then decide on what you want.
Me personally, I kind of need
that OLED experience these days.
Here it is, DOOM Eternal, 4K 160 Hertz,
we're getting a hundred and sixty,
a hundred sixty five FPS in the menus.
4K is really hard to run, we have like a 3090 in here
and like a 5950X or something,
like this is not a low end machine.
And yes, I'm set to Ultra Nightmare,
I could turn this down to like medium
and we'd get like 200 FPS, but even so,
let's go to game slot two.
Yeah see, here's my problem.
Look, we're barely in game.
There's not a whole lot going on here.
And we're hitting like 140 FPS.
We're not using the full potential of our display
because even if it was reaching like 200, 300 FPS,
you wanna be going about twice as fast
as your refresh rate to really make sure
everything's tight and super smooth.
'Cause it's those 1% lows,
'cause that's just an average, right?
A lot of our 1% lows are probably in the like,
I don't know, 100 range.
So every now and then
you're gonna see it stutter or dip down to that.
And then you're not even, you're really not using
your monitor at that point.
It's not the smoothest gameplay experience I've ever had
because you can get those like,
300 Hertz refresh rate monitors now
but in 4K this thing looks great.
It looks super pretty.
The colors are great.
Can't really complain too much honestly.
And especially at like $1,000 for this kind of experience?
I guess they've kind of realized that
there's a lot of competition
in the display market these days.
You know we've got some HDR footage on screen,
it looks pretty good.
I know that I'm making fun of the 25, 26 zones
or whatever a little bit too much.
But the reality is this still looks pretty decent.
Some parts are a little more overblown than they should be
but ultimately this is a much better viewing experience
than you're gonna get on like
a five hundred, six hundred dollar,
six to twelve dimming zone display.
Overall I think the 32 GQ 950 at $1,000
is a pretty decent buy.
You're paying about a dollar per nit,
but 4K 144 or even 160, if yours can OC without any issues.
At that price, at that level of HDR quality, it's not bad.
I think you're gonna get a really solid gaming experience.
And all this shows is how far display technology has come
and, you know, look forward to the future.
Thanks LG for sponsoring this video.
Learn more about the 32 GQ 950 at the link below
and also LG UltraGear is doing a 24 hour campaign
with gamers going live
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Follow their channel as well to find out more.
That's not bad.
Pretty good.
Nice.