Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and this is the world's first 42-inch oled gaming monitor it's
the new ROG Swift OLED PG42UQ from ASUS it comes with a 4k oled screen up to 138hz vrr hdmi 2.1
and a display port it also has a large custom heatsink which helps with performance and prevents
image burning as well as this awesome aspect ratio controller to change the size of the screen
today i'll be unboxing setting up and giving you my first impressions on this dedicated
gaming monitor but any questions you have for my full review please drop those below
so here's the box that it comes in and there is no denying that this looks
like a gaming monitor especially with the design and the logos that they've gone for
it's also a pretty square looking box which is unusual to what we've seen before
okay so as this is the 42-inch version it can easily be lifted out by one person although
they do suggest two people do it but this is a nice touch so the accessories actually come in
this little zip up pouch bag instead of the usual cardboard box or plastic bags that we
see elsewhere inside the pouch it comes with pretty much every cable that you need to get
up and running there's the power cable a display port cable hdmi 2.1 the warranty card and quick
start guide four screws for the stand and a remote control and then finally there's
the metal stand which has some nice rubber feet on the bottom to prevent it from sliding on your desk
and then fitting it is really easy just lay the monitor flat on your table just making sure the
bottom is overhanging very slightly then you just line the four holes up before screwing
now around the back we've got this huge plastic panel which houses all the internals as well as
the heatsink and the speakers there's an ROG logo on the right side and it definitely has
a gaming and more aggressive look to it to what we've seen before and the top part is extremely
thin as we've come to expect from oleds but as you move down you can see the chunkiness of the
bottom part where all those internals are there are some vents across the top which are for the
heatsink and above that we've actually got a tripod hole which is designed for mounting a
camera or any other accessory you might want to use and then in the bottom right corner
we've got the harman kardon logo which is for the internal speakers on first impressions you
might assume this can only be mounted to the provided stand but it does actually have some
hidden vessel holes for mounting it to an arm or a bracket and these are 300 by 300 as for the
dimensions i've put these on screen now along with a few others you might not find online
and when it comes to the connectivity or ports of this monitor these are neatly hidden behind this
magnetic cover simply pull it off and it reveals the available ports now these include two hdmi
2.0 and two hdmi 2.1 ports these two are capable of full 48 gigabits per second bandwidth there's
a display port 1.4 and four usb ports including one at the top and one at the bottom of the screen
then across the bottom there's also a headphone jack which is a pretty good and well thought out
placement for easy access and one awesome feature which has been massively overlooked
by lg with their oled tvs is a removable power plug for cable management there's a little clip
here inside their cover and then you can feed the cables either side of the cover once fitted but
behind the stand there are no clips or trunking so you probably will see the cables hanging down
right so we've seen the rear design let's take a look at the front and see how that looks okay so
it was obviously carried over the gaming vine with the metal feet and the nvidia logo on the
side although this can be removed but what i like about this stand is the fact that it can be tilted
very slightly it moves between four and minus five degrees you get it just the way you need it
and as for the frame and the bezels on this they are stupidly thin in fact it's almost borderless
when you look at the screen from the front and as you turn around to the side this is when you
realize just how thin the frame or the display is across the bottom not only is there the headphone
jack there's also this control box protruding from the screen when it's on it does show the
ROG logo but you can turn this off in the settings but underneath there is a five-way joystick and
this controls the on-screen display okay let's talk about the screen itself so the PG42UQ is a
42-inch 4k oled display and that's got a 3840x2160 resolution it supports everything you would expect
from an oled including extreme black levels vibrant colors and an incredible view and angles
now the brightness is marketed as 800 nits max which is pretty standard for oleds and on first
impressions it looks bright enough in my room for what i would normally show on it but this next
feature if you haven't noticed already isn't like normal oleds that we've seen before and that's the
fact that it has an anti-glare coating now you'll either love or hate this but the biggest pro of
an anti-glare or matte coating is it massively reduces the reflections for me this means i can
have it opposite my window while gaming and i'm not going to see a mirror-like image just a very
slight glare and it also helps with eye strain for a monitor i think it makes sense to have a matte
screen over glossy but what do you think which one do you prefer now this is still an oled so
the image quality is incredible no matter how you view it it offers true 10-bit color and 98
color accuracy so this gives us a pretty vibrant picture overall brightness appears good but ROG
have an exclusive uniform brightness setting that keeps the brightness levels consistent in
theory this will actually prevent the image from dimming when on a bright screen or a white image
i need to spend a little bit more time with this testing it out as on the lg c2 and g2 models the
ABL is very aggressive when used as a monitor now this is a gaming monitor so let's look at
the gaming features for this so it will do native 4k gaming but it also supports 1080p and 1440p
something i've tested out over the last week on the ps5 it will do up to hertz when overclocked
so not quite the 144 hertz that a lot of pc gamers are used to but it's close enough but it does mean
it will cover the 120 hertz for both the xbox series x and the ps5 and as mentioned before it
does have vrr or variable refresh rate which can actually be turned on and off on the monitor then
there's a l m and a 0.1 millisecond response time i've tested a few games out over the last
week and as you would expect they ran incredibly smoothly with no screen tearing or stuttering
and if you want to check out what the frame rate is while you're playing you can actually turn this
on on the monitor itself it will then display it in the top right corner so you can see what frame
rate you're getting so my personal gaming monitor is the 32 inch ultra gear gq 950 which is probably
the optimum size for my desk but if you want that immersive gaming experience the 42 inch looks
awesome any story driven games or games like gran turismo 7 play so well on the screen of this site
you really are getting that ultimate oled quality but from a gaming monitor now if you were worried
about a 42 inch looking too big for certain games like fps or call of duty for example you can
actually adjust the aspect ratio on the monitor itself and this is a really cool feature that lets
you change the ratio to match a 24 27 or 34 inch screen that means when you don't want to use the
full screen size you can actually change it in the settings so typically speaking oled can get quite
hot and that can then affect the lifespan of the tv to combat that manufacturers usually cap the
brightness while ROG have done something different they've actually implemented a cooling solution
in the form of a large custom heatsink this is actually designed to keep the peak brightness as
high as possible while still limiting burning i think this is a feature that a lot of oled
tvs could learn from well the ui and the menu on this monitor is as simple as you need it to be it
can be accessed either from the joystick under the monitor or on the remote control from here
you can adjust loads of settings including the picture settings brightness and hdr modes then
in the gaming tab you can turn on overclocking and vrr you can also enable the fps counter and a
few other controls as well now remember this is a gaming monitor and not a tv so this does not come
with a tv tuner or downloadable apps if you want to use this for watching things like netflix or
streaming services you can of course just use your pc or games console or any other device
but the remote on this is really nice so it's not very often that you see a remote control
that comes with a monitor it means you can turn it on and off without fiddling underneath the monitor
and of course you can bring up the on-screen settings a lot easier oh and before i forget
this does have two 10 watt harman kardon speakers as well as a 15 watt woofer you can just about see
them poking out under the screen now most people probably won't use or need these speakers but my
son for example when he sits at my desk to play fifa having the speakers built in is far easier
and better than using a headset so what are my first impressions on this 42 inch oled from ASUS
it is a pretty decent gaming monitor and could easily be one of the best in 2022. it's got the
same capabilities that we've seen on most oled tvs this year but has clearly been optimized very well
for gaming and you can see this with the inclusion of the display ports placement of the headphone
jack the large custom heatsink and the overall design i also think that 42 inch is a size that
a lot of you will probably be interested in and personally i actually like the anti-glare screen
as every gaming monitor i've ever used at this desk has been matte glossy screens look nice of
course but i much prefer having that on a tv now over the next couple of weeks i will be doing a
full review of this monitor but before i do that i want to spend some serious time with it not just a
first impressions i'm going to test out loads of games as well as that uniform brightness feature
that they've introduced if you have any questions about this monitor please drop those below and i
will answer that in the full review and what's your first impressions on this gaming monitor
do you think this could be the best one for 2022 well if you drop an oled gaming in the comments i
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