- Thanks, ViewSonic for sponsoring this video.
So we've been talking about mini LED.
It looks great.
You get like 1,000 dimming zones plus
on a really small screen for that awesome HDR experience.
But when it comes to gaming,
unfortunately the QD-OLED just came out
and my God, is it ever gorgeous.
That being said, I mean, one, good luck getting one,
and two, it's still expensive,
three, it's really not for creatives.
That's where this guy comes in.
It's the ViewSonic XG321UG.
32 is obviously for the size.
It's a 32 inch display.
It's 4K, 144 hertz.
You can do a lot with this display.
It's a mix of both creator and gaming.
It does cost a bit more than the Alienware at 1,300,
but it's significantly cheaper
than competing mini LED displays,
especially something along the lines of like Asus's ProArt
at $5,000.
For any of you creatives,
it can do a ton of different color spaces.
I think it's %100 sRGB, 99% Adobe RGB,
and then 98% DCI-P3, which is almost the same as the ProArt,
except that does a few more color spaces,
has Dolby Vision and gets a little brighter at 1,600 nits.
However, this guy hits 1,400 nits, which is very respective,
1,152 dimming zones, which is tons on a screen this size,
and then a on top of that, it's got G-Sync Ultimate.
Like, what else do you even want?
I don't even know.
- [Hoffman] Let's open the box!
- Let's open the box.
Oh (beep).
That could have been bad.
So when you're opening this,
make sure that you don't open it like that,
'cause otherwise imagine if this was on a bit of a tilt
and I just, you know, kind of popped everything forward
like that.
So let's not do that.
(melancholy piano music)
I'm not Linus, I don't drop too much stuff,
but you know, accidents happen.
Accidents happen.
Let's get this out.
This is super heavy.
I don't know what's in here.
Oh, the stand.
Okay, cool.
It's got the power brick, external power,
which means that this whole panel
should be a little lighter.
Bunch of cables.
Oh, here's the yeah, here's where it is.
This is like at least a few pounds.
Cool, so this just goes like this.
Boop.
And it's got that nice screw that I'm a big fan of
that basically everyone uses.
Who didn't use this? - [Hoffman] Samsung.
- Samsung.
Samsung, please switch to this, to this screw design.
- [Hoffman] That was a smart monitor!
- I know it was a smart monitor.
I don't care, it's no excuse.
They should have had the screw.
But yeah, you basically, you just slot this in.
This had two pylons by the way,
which is a little more robust of a stand.
But then you just screw it down.
Look at that, easy.
You don't need a screwdriver.
You don't need nothing.
What is nice is that this actually has
some pretty decent little rubber pads on the bottom.
Yeah, that's not going anywhere.
Like I said, this huge power brick.
It's 100 to 240 volts via 4.2A,
50 to 60 hertz, DC output is 16.9.
330 Watts.
- [Hoffman] That's a computer almost.
- Yeah, that's quite a bit.
Boom.
Power brick.
So they've got our handy dandy display port cable.
Comes with an A to B cable for plugging your monitor
to your computer so that you can use any of the USB ports
and have all that data still go to your PC.
And I think that's it.
Yeah, display port, power, and USB.
- [Hoffman] There's a cable, you forgot a cable.
- [Nicholas] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Good job, Hoff.
I was wrong, I dropped this.
It actually does come with an HDMI cable.
They say that this is supposed to be much easier
to actually just clip the stand on
and pull the whole thing out.
And you know what, it might actually still be the case.
Oh, yeah, the whole bottom just pulls right out.
No problem.
Okay.
This is a little heavy.
This center line is supposed to be rippable.
Yeah, look at that, easy peasy.
- [Hoffman] Perforated, baby!
- [Nicholas] Yeah, love perforated lines.
Pop them on.
There we go.
Boom.
(Nicholas mimicking victory horns)
Yeah, that was actually pretty nice.
That was pretty easy.
We've got a few other physical features,
like this is a headphone hook for anyone who uses those.
It's got this RGB diffusion layer on the back,
which I'm so sorry, ViewSonic,
I still think it looks just like the Cooler Master logo.
Thank you for purchasing a ViewSonic Elite gaming monitor.
Yeah, so they're still branding this as a gaming monitor.
And I think that it's kind of somewhere in between.
It's really a mix of creative and gaming
because of all those specs I earlier.
It's pretty thick.
Like, this is definitely a beefy display.
This is kinda like the ProArt actually, how thick it is.
- [Hoffman] Boo!
- It was so close.
One thing I really like about this display
versus some others, is that sure,
there's this huge text on the back, ViewSonic,
whatever though, check out the front.
There is like no branding on this thing.
Let me-
Okay, it says Elite there.
That's whatever, that's fine.
But aside from like the GS-Sync sticker
and this little Elite branding,
there's no like ViewSonic all the way across the bottom.
Same with the stand.
It just says Elite in this bottom right corner here.
- [Hoffman] I would rather have the ViewSonic though
'cause more professional.
- Yeah, you're not wrong.
I guess if you're a creative,
you want it to save ViewSonic rather than Elite.
They are still branding it as like a gaming monitor
so I can see why they've got the Elite there
for you know, the Elite gaming experience.
One thing that we didn't really mention
is this OSD sticker that I peeled off.
It's basically just showing us quick access, OSD joystick,
and power.
So I'm actually gonna feel down here.
Yep, okay.
So we have a quick access button here,
navigation nipple here, which is always preferred,
and then there's a power button here.
I do love the navigation nipple,
but I don't like when that's the only button there.
I like when they have a dedicated power button.
And then you can take off this little guy here.
I hate plastic clip-on stuff because I'm always worried
that I'm gonna break one of the clips,
'cause I've totally broken them.
Not frequently, but you know it does happen.
But anyway, you've got a nice cable cover
and then you have these little guys here
for more cable management.
And then our IO consists of, it looks like a barrel plug
for the power, headphones jack, HDMI,
oh, you get three HDMI ports.
That's not bad.
And then we've got a display port 1.4.
And then, what is this?
Looks like a way to plug into the board.
And then on top of that, we've got our USB-B port
to hook up to our PC.
Oh, and there's a green dedicated mouse port.
That's kind of neat.
And then two other USB-A.
- [Hoffman] The green one's for gaming.
- [Nicholas] Yeah, green is for gaming.
One thing that we're missing,
that a lot of creatives might be looking for
is USB-C power delivery.
There's no USB-C at all,
and there's then no power delivery through USB-C
because it's not even there.
It's not the end of the world.
I think that most people do use for a monitor like this,
they are gonna use like a dedicated computer,
a dedicated tower.
But it is handy, especially in a creative studio
to be able to take a laptop with a file on it,
walk over and be like, boom, plug in your laptop,
show someone whatever you need to show them, walk away.
Can't do that with this one, but that's okay,
'cause it's significantly cheaper than the competitors.
- [Hoffman] And this one's made for gaming!
- Yeah, this one's made for gaming.
Gamers don't care about plugging in a laptop to it.
We kind of forgot to talk about how good the stand is.
You got some swivel.
That's not bad.
Can it-
It can't pivot, but it can tilt.
And then I think it's height adjustable too.
Yeah, there's actually a lot of height adjustment.
Boom. - [Hoffman] Nice.
- Take that, Apple.
It doesn't pivot, but that's okay.
Honestly, unless the stand was higher or something,
it probably wouldn't even clear the table anyway.
And really, are you gonna use a 4K, 144 hertz display,
no matter what the rest of it is,
are you actually going to use that vertically?
- [Hoffman] Yes. - Maybe.
Some people might.
Jono might.
I'm not gonna, so it's totally okay.
And honestly, if you really want to do that,
just put it on a VESA mount and do whatever you want
at that point.
That's pretty much it.
Let's turn it on, let's game on it.
I wanna see the RGB.
We've got some pretty sick RGB on the back here.
It helps that blue is my favorite color.
But they've got the same problem
I had with the last one still.
Basically, there is this strip
and then they've got these five lights,
and I really wish it had the same treatment
as it does on the back
where it's like a really nice solid diffusion layer.
I don't know.
I understand you're not looking down there,
but like I said before,
when it shines down on this reflective surface,
you can see individual lights instead of like a light strip.
It's an incredibly minor detail, but I really would like it,
especially if they're already putting
some kind of diffusion layer here.
Just make the whole thing diffusion.
All right, we've got it on our desk.
We've got it set to everything we need it to be.
It's in 4K.
It's running at 144 hertz or ever so slightly under.
10 bit color.
HDR is turned on.
And yeah, I think it looks gorgeous, honestly.
It's super crispy.
They've got the really good borderless design
all the way around the top here
with the classic chin on the bottom.
We think this might be an ambient light sensor,
but we're not a hundred percent sure.
The bezels are okay.
I've got the same problem with lot of monitors
where especially in the middle here,
you've got this big chin.
Give it just like a touch more plastic
so that this little tiny black bezel on the bottom
is fully covered.
You can see that near the corners,
they've almost got it down there.
And I don't know if it's just like a weird curvature thing,
but once you get into the middle,
you can see it on the bottom,
and it's a really minor thing
that you stop noticing almost instantly, but it bothers me.
The bezel on the outside isn't too bad.
It's present, but could be a lot worse.
We've got our ViewSonic Elite display controller.
Jono will pointed out
that you necessarily need the OSD.
RGB Alliance.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so if you've got other devices that are all RGB,
like I've got a Razer thing
and I've got a Logitech thing on my desk,
and so this would be really great.
This will just kind of put them all together.
Oh, yeah, that's bright.
We're still only getting like 48, 50 frames a second
because it's Cyberpunk and it's running at like ultra
or high settings on a 3090,
and HDR is turned on and DLSS is on.
But this is exactly why I don't own a 4K monitor.
It's because it's just way too many pixels
for you to try to put out like a new AAA game
with crazy good settings turned on.
Like, yeah, there's others that are better optimized
and they still look really good,
but like, this game is almost two years old now.
Actually, it is.
It's like two years old now and it's 4K,
and it's just, my God 45 frames per second.
But nonetheless, this looks super pretty.
Everything's crazy bright.
That sign right there was like blindingly white
for just a moment.
Mini LED looks great.
One thing to note is that even though we're only getting
like 42 frames a second,
we're not seeing like any tearing or anything like that.
Not a bunch of garbage ghosting or trailing or anything.
This is thanks to our G-Sync Ultimate module.
What that module does is it's basically the normal G-Sync,
except it's rated at over 1,000 nits peak brightness.
So because this thing hits like 1,400 nits,
it's got the nice G-Sync Ultimate, and that alone,
the module is usually adding another hundred dollars
at least to the price tag of your display,
so factor that into the cost at least a little bit
when you're thinking about buying this thing.
- [Hoffman] Is it better than G-Sync compatible?
- It is better than G-Sync compatible.
But you know what,
we're thinking about doing a video
where we're doing G-Sync versus FreeSync
versus V-Sync again,
because we haven't done that in a few years
and you know, a lot of new displays
are coming out with the new G-Sync modules and stuff.
So yeah, you know, get subscribed to LTT
so you don't miss that one.
We're just watching YouTube footage.
You know, if you've got proper like HDR gaming
or like if you've got a 4K Blu-ray
or something hooked up to this thing, man, this looks good.
It's not Dolby Vision,
but it's still hitting 1,400 nits and peak brightness,
and like, man, it's pretty.
Hoffman worked really hard on making this footage HDR
so we gotta show it.
And it looks beautiful.
Oh man, that Porsche.
I love the color it came in, that like powder blue.
All right, we have to address it again.
Yes, QD-OLED is out and it is cheaper.
The Alienware monitor is like $1,300
versus this is about 2,500.
There are some major differences.
I mean, the QD-OLED is only in 21 by 9 aspect ratio
so it's ultra wide.
It's curved.
It's not 4K.
It's 1440p.
And if you want to buy it right now,
scalpers are scalping it for like $3,000,
which is about what this costs anyway, if not more.
And then on top of that,
if you do want to buy it, you gotta wait
like at least a couple months.
I'm on the waiting list,
and I don't get mine until like June 20th.
Whereas this, you can just buy it right now,
and it's more creative.
Like, if you want something that can both game
and then do creative work reliably,
this is a pretty good option.
There you have it.
Thanks for watching.
This was the ViewSonic XG321UG?
Yeah, I got it?
- [Hoffman] You got it! - All right!
XG321UG.
Yeah, I hate those naming schemes.
Anyway, if you wanna watch more ShortCircuit,
feel free to watch any of our other monitor videos.
We've got quite a few of those.
Maybe watch Linus with the Samsung G9.
But anyway, thanks for watching.