- We've got the one, the only, the LG 27GR95QE.
(laughs) It's a Ultra Gear OLED 240 hertz.
What else can you ask for?
It's a 27 inch screen, 1440p and it's fast.
So we've seen this panel from a lot of other manufacturers.
LG display makes them all though.
and then LG Electronics
their sister company will take the same panel
and make it for themselves.
So let's open this box and see what we got.
We got a stand, it's got, you know
basically my favorite design, although I wouldn't mind
if they had a bit more column here to make it more sturdy
but it's just your standard, you know
connect them and screw it in kind of guy.
We got the rest of our stand here.
Oh, one thing we can see here
it's got a little Nvidia G-sync badge.
This guy should be G-sync capable
and free sync capable but not free sync
Premium Pro or G-sync Ultimate
which is fine honestly variable refresh rate
and adaptive sync technology has gotten really good
and it works on basically every monitor now.
Well on high-end gaming monitor.
Seems sturdy enough.
Ah.
Oh look, pretty heavy box, tons of cables.
Ultra certified cable.
HDMI, ultra high speed.
Oh baby, this should be HDMI 2.1.
It's a 1440p
240 hertz display so you're gonna want a really
good cable to reach those specs.
We got our USB B cable.
Ah, we got our cable protector here.
Cable cover.
Very nice.
Keep your cables covered on the back.
I would prefer something that's fully integrated
into the stand rather
than having a cable cover on the back like this.
But this is perfectly fine.
It's still good enough and the reality is you
don't even need to use the cable management stuff.
It just looks pretty once you're done.
It comes with a remote!
You may have watched it already, you may not have
we did a 45 inch
of basically a similar panel and it also came
with a remote and I was pleasantly surprised.
I don't think personally that I'll ever use the remote
but it's cool, you know, it's good to have.
We've got our handy dandy power brick
and our handy dandy probably Korean power plug.
Luckily we got a travel adapter
so I don't even have to go get a C 13.
We're good to go.
Actually it's a C8 I think the Mickey Mouse plug
I can never remember.
And a display port cable.
If you don't want to use HDMI
there could be a lot of reasons for that.
Maybe your graphics card doesn't support HDMI 2.1
actually that's like the only reason I can think of.
But yeah, you got display port
if you wanna use that.
Display quality assurance report.
Okay, so they're telling us that we're gonna have
a max value of a Delta E of less than five
for the max values that's pretty good
cause that's not just the average.
If all of them are lower
than five then there's a good chance
that especially with the OLED black level coming in
at like basically zero error, there's a good chance that's
like averaging out at less than two.
It tells you about the gamma value and the color temperature
and stuff that it was tested at, which is fine.
One thing that's interesting is
that this guy was tested at 8,500 Kelvin.
I think the other one was 6,500 Kelvin.
Either way we're just gonna put that in there
put this all back in the box
and forget about it cause I don't wanna see these documents.
One minor thing, I don't like styrofoam.
I really wish they would switch
to like some kind of foam system that isn't made of styro.
Okay, I love these packaging materials.
The only problem is when it's
like this and there's no seam or split
or when it's on the side especially and not on the bottom.
Cause on the bottom you can just like lift it
up and get that in there no problem.
But as you can see, I'm gonna have to like
I don't like splitting it open like this
cause I want to reuse this foam
if I ever have to pack it up again like we can manage here
but you know I had to rip this part open and move it around.
It's just a lot easier when the seam is
on the bottom so you can just go up and insert it like that.
But you know, no harm, no foul.
Look at that.
I like how light it is already.
As much as I love giant monitors, they're heavy
and they can be a major pain to both move around
and cable manage and do all that stuff.
Like whenever you've gotta move it for any reason
it's just kind of a nightmare versus this
you know this was easy. Because we've got an OLED
and because the power brick isn't integrated.
Come on, peel, peel.
I have to, I have to get it out of there because of that,
this thing is super thin and it honestly looks
really pretty even just from the side and the
back and I'm digging the design here
they've got this kind of hexagonal shape that I
don't understand why everyone's doing the cooler
master hexagon you guys have gotta like find something else.
Make this flat.
I you know I'd be fine
with like a flat squared off back whatever, not a big deal.
This should all be RGB along the sides here.
And then we've got the LG or ultra gear logo here.
I'm not sure which looks like an L and a U.
Maybe that's on purpose?
I don't know.
On the back we've got a decent amount of I/O
we have a couple of HDMI 2.1 ports,
display port 1.4 optical out
and then USB B to A on the other side and a couple
of USB A ports right before we get to our DC In
for our power plug. We've also got a Kensington lock
and a headphone jack on the bottom here and then
we've finally got our power button way on the bottom here
in the middle. There's no navigation nipple
because you've got the cool remote.
We'll get to that later.
For now what I want to mention is I actually
really like the way LG does a lot of their I/O.
I use a couple LG monitors at my desk
and it's really handy having the plugs just
go straight out the back like this instead
of trying to like get them up into some weird area
and then covering it with a cable cover.
This is just easy.
You're not gonna have to think too hard when
you're trying to set everything up
and you're not gonna have to like struggle
with the display port cable or something like that.
So it's a really minor thing but it's something I like.
Now, the stand, let's check it out.
Let's check it out.
What can this bad boy do?
What can this 27 inch sweet sweet 240 hertz OLED do?
First up can't pivot that way but hey I don't know why
you would ever want to pivot an OLED monitor
especially one that's 240 hertz
and then run it in portrait mode.
But you know what?
If you're just that baller that your side displays
are this thousand dollars 240 hertz display,
go for it.
What else has it got?
It's got height adjustment.
Pretty good amount too.
It's not bad.
Swivel, not a ton of swivel.
I would actually like a bit more swivel but this is fine.
And then tilt.
Good amount of tilt.
That's not bad.
There's two main advantages to going
with a smaller 27 inch screen like this.
Now the first one is
that it's not gonna jiggle as much when you're gaming
cause there's not as much weight on the display itself.
Like yeah obviously you shake the desk
the monitor's gonna shake too but it's not like
to the point where you feel
like you need it to be on a monitor arm
because it's constantly destabilizing whenever
you do something as simple as move your mouse.
The other main advantage is that while this is
27 inches it's also 1440p so you're getting something
like 108 ppi which is well above the 100
that's kind of the minimum for a lot of people.
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Here, you know what I'm gonna do first?
I'm gonna plug some stuff in before I take it over there.
Pro tip, for anyone who is setting up a monitor, plug
in your stuff ahead of time ideally and then you just
like run it down the back of your desk.
It's no problem, it's easy.
One kind of minor complaint is that while I love the RGB
on the sides here, it doesn't go all the way
across the top as well or on the bottom.
It's really not a big deal but it's something that I
would like to see in future revisions.
Just have it go all the way across the top
you know come full circle, minor thing but hey
you're paying a lot of money.
One thing that instantly stands out to me, not necessarily
in the best way but not in a terrible way either
is this kind of chin here on the bottom that's housing
the power button that is lit up
by the way the power button is lit
and then you've got this other sensor here
and that's gotta be for the remote.
I don't know if they could have done it better cause
the sensor does take some space.
They maybe could have put like a tiny little module on the
side and I would've preferred that I think.
But either way it's not a big deal.
It's not all that distracting.
I just kind of happened to notice it.
Minor correction, it's not actually the power button
itself that's lit up.
There's a tiny light just behind it so okay they
could have just made the power button glow but that's fine.
We're gonna try the OSD with the handy dandy remote.
So I guess my only issue is there's
like no other buttons anywhere that I can see or feel.
So if this power button just turns it on and off
oh man you can use this but it's one of those
like single button press and hold to make a selection
and then every press just goes along the bar.
It is usable, but these suck.
I hate them.
LG I really wish you would've just kept a navigation nipple.
While the remote is a super nice inclusion
and I am a big fan of it actually
you don't always want to use a remote
you know you don't want to go looking for it.
Like I'm not gonna keep this on my desk somewhere.
I'm probably just gonna stash it away and never touch it.
But, you know to each their own.
As for the OSD it's not bad.
We've got, you know, your typical like
game adjustment mode so whether you want gamer
or you know like gamer two FPSs
these are just changing like how cool or how bright it is.
Variable refresh rate features
it does do free sync premium as well as
its G-sync compatible so that's great.
Black stabilization, sure.
Crosshair you can turn it on if you want.
Same with the FPSs counter.
I personally never do.
And then we've got just your typical brightness,
contrast, sharpness, gamma, color temp.
Oh actually being able to change the gamma is kind of nice.
It's becoming much more common both
in high-end monitors and lower-end monitors
but it's always nice to see it as an option there.
And then it looks like there's RGB as well
that you can change
so you can change the individual colors manually yourself.
It's great out, I don't know how to enable it.
You might have to be in a specific mode but that's okay.
We're just gonna stick with gamer one.
This is actually really neat.
I don't think I've seen this in basically any other monitor.
It's probably there and I just haven't noticed it before
but this has got a total power on time measured in hours.
That's really cool actually.
So what you can do, especially because it's an OLED
and so you actually care about burn in
and image retention and all that, save someone's selling one
of these three years down the line.
You're not gonna know how bright they were running it
or whatever but you can at least know how long
it's been powered on for which is kind of handy.
You don't see that a lot in a lot of electronics.
Like wouldn't it be great
if your GPU just had a little clock cycle on it
and it could be like
yeah this GPU has been active for like two years.
Yeah it'd be cool.
Yeah actually it's actually really handy.
I like that LG, I like that a lot.
Okay, so there's the OSD for you.
It looks like it's already running
at 240 hertz but HDR is turned off.
We wanna turn that on cause this is an OLED display.
So every pixel is a dimming zone and I think this is rated
at a thousand nits so you're only gonna get that in little
like 1% to 3% little peak brightness kind of glints
on the screen but it's still really nice and if it can peak
at a thousand then it can probably do something anywhere
from about 400 to 600 all white full screen.
10 bit color,
2560 by 1440p,
240 hertz.
We're gonna check out the HDR and the color quality.
It can do a whopping 98.5% of DCIP three
and you saw that it came calibrated from the factory.
The classic Kyoto cherry blossom that you've seen us look at
a hundred times before
if you've been following the channel.
It looks good.
Just like look at the blues, like the color diversity here.
I mean I know that you're seeing a lot of like white
and blue and pink in all of these cherry blossoms and stuff.
But then when you stop and you look
at the contrasting colors, like all of those green
and the like the blue on that guy's jacket and stuff
it's just crazy how good displays look these days compared
to stuff 5, 10, 20 years ago.
Like I grew up on garbage
well I shouldn't say garbage but I grew up
on like comparatively spec wise terrible CRT TVs
and I was always pining for
and waiting for that like really big jump in technology.
I was never a big LCD fan when they came out.
I could feel that input leg right away and it felt terrible.
So I am just so on board with OLED.
I've been waiting like 20 years for this stuff
to become mainstream
and I think we're finally kind of there.
Wow. It's absolutely stunning.
Even with LG's white OLED, it still just looks super good.
The contrast is insane.
I like that they're now going
with a 1.5 million to one contrast ratio instead
of some people when it comes
to OLED they'll try to say it's an infinite contrast ratio
and I, it's just terrible marketing, I don't like that.
But they're sticking to 1.5 million to one
and that seems pretty reasonable.
You're getting over a billion colors
with 10 bit color and it really does look incredible.
Even this red on the umbrella or parasol or whatever.
God the lights on the uniforms
and that sign those blues they just pop and look great.
But you know what, it's 240 hertz.
It's OLED, we've got to game on it.
It looks gorgeous.
I'm pretty terrible
at playing Spider-Man with the mouse and keyboard.
I only just figured out how
to web swing but you know what, that's fine.
This looks so pretty
and I mean we're only getting like 130, 140 FPS.
So with this game in particular with like ray tracing turned
on and all that, we're not even taking advantage
of what this display can really do, which is 240 hertz.
We'll play CS:GO briefly,
I just wanted to look
at something that's a bit more vibrant and colorful
and interesting and God it really just does look gorgeous.
You're floating around at super high speeds
cause you're Spider-Man and just nothing looks blurry.
Look, it all looks crisp no matter what you're doing.
Just looks clear as day.
I love how fast the pixel response time of OLED is.
It's just like so wild.
It's 0.3 milliseconds.
Ugh. Okay, let's check out CS:GO.
I gotta try, I gotta try a fast pace game.
I don't know how to explain it.
Like the difference from 60 to 120 is massive and the
difference from 120 to 240 is not nearly as massive.
Absolutely not.
But you know what?
I think I'm finally starting to like really
notice that difference now that I've used a lot
more like 240 hertz displays.
It's not something that you need, however it is
definitely a nice to have and especially with
OLED just having such crazy pixel response times
you might as well take even more advantage of it
by giving it a really high refresh rate as well.
See I just killed both.
I just killed three bots.
Are they bots?
Yes, but did I kill them? Also yes.
The only real problem with this monitor
because otherwise it's fantastic
and I would love to own this thing, I would, you know
I already have a different display
but like it's hard to go wrong
with 240 hertz OLED but, it is a little pricey.
It's 27 inches, 1440p in 2023
and you're gonna be paying a thousand dollars.
That being said, just a year
or two ago to get this exact same display
maybe not 240 hertz cause it wasn't even out yet then.
But like let's say OLED 165, 27 inches
you'd be paying a very similar price if not more.
So the fact that you can get a 1440p screen at 27 inches
which is basically like
the universal sweet spot for 1440p.
Now that you can get it for like a grand
it honestly might be worth upgrading to a lot of people
especially if you're watching more and more HDR content
and you don't already have like a really good movie
or game screen that you can use for HDR.
If you can afford it, I think it's worth the upgrade.
And yeah, LG has really just, they've outdone themselves
they've crushed it, they've knocked it outta the park.
There are gonna be other options.
You know if you don't want LG specifically
Acers got their own version of this panel.
ASUS has got their own version of this panel.
So if you prefer those brands
you can go with them if you want to.
But I'll be honest, I actually love the back
I/O for the LG versions and I also really like their stand.
It's pretty versatile.
It's really minimal, it's pretty sleek.
I'm happy with this thing overall.
The chin, you know what
I completely forgot about it after I started
like using the monitor and talking to you guys again.
So whatever, I complained about it before.
I don't even care anymore.
Strike it Editor.
Cut that, cut that from the record.
We don't, we don't need that.
This is the LG 27GR95QE.
Yeah that took a little while
but I got there and we had a little too much fun
unboxing it, to be honest.
I can't even stop playing Counter Strike on it.
It's just so clean.
Thanks for watching guys.
This is Short Circuit.
This is the 27GR95QE from LG.
It's a fantastic OLED display.
If you wanna look at another OLED display
maybe check out the 45GR95QE.