Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and this is a video to talk to you about my experiences with
the Samsung Odyssey G9 two years later so this is a gaming monitor that I have been
using as my main monitor for the last two years I originally unboxed and reviewed it back in 2020
and now two years later I want to talk to you about my experiences after using this monitor
on a daily basis I have used a number of other monitors in the meantime including the Samsung
Odyssey Neo G9 the new and improved version of this monitor but if you've seen that versus video
you'll know that I didn't think the upgrades made it worth the extra cost for selling my monitor
and purchasing that newer model in fact I'm happy enough with this monitor I will stick
with it and I have thought hard about whether there are any other options that I'd consider
and the answer is I don't think there are I think that this monitor ticks a lot of boxes for me and
I'm going to talk about why as well as showing you footage from a number of different games
and my experiences and the features of it as we go through this video because I want to give a
long-term demonstration of what's good about it what I've been doing with it and how I've been
playing with it now you'll see a lot of different clips in this video from various different time
periods over the last couple of years where I've been testing out different things so you'll see
different keyboards appearing for example and a variety of different games I've tested in both
full widescreen with that glorious 32 by 9 5 120 by 1440p aspect ratio it's a really big
aspect ratio also I've upgraded my system a number of times over the last couple of years
as well so now I have a bit more processing power when I originally reviewed this monitor
I had a 28 tei and now I'm packing a 30 90 so I have a little bit more processing power
under the hood you know in my gaming PC in order to push this monitor and it is something that you
do need a lot of power to push if you're running games on the maximum settings in this maximum
ultra wide glorious view that you can see here obviously with graphics cranked up as high as
possible frame rates will suffer and that's what I found when I originally played on it and when I
originally tested it and that's what I covered in my original view is one of my complaints was that
if you wanted to put everything up to maximum your PC would probably struggle to get a decent FPS now
things have improved obviously drivers have come a long way since then my hardware has improved
as well my experience is a much better one a much smoother one it does however vary depending on the
games you're playing if you're running red dead redemption 2 for example on its maximum settings
the FPS is still pretty low well I'm willing to take that trade off in terms of the visuals
because as you'll see from these various different shots the G9 is a fantastic monitor now these
shots won't do it justice I think that the Odyssey G9 is something that you have to experience in
person in order to appreciate I've had a number of friends come over and play on it and just be fully
immersed by the glory of it now obviously 49 inch monitor and it has a large curve to it so it has a
really decent curve but not one that's so shocking that when you sort of start using it you think wow
this is ridiculous it's really horribly curved it actually works really well to let you look around
the screen now in my reviews and versus videos on this monitor in the past I've had people comment
about how you'd get neck ache from having to turn your head and things like that I don't think
that's the case at all my experience is if you position it correctly on your desk you basically
are absorbed into the game it makes gaming a lot more immersive essentially the sides of the
monitors to the very edges become your peripheral vision so you are fully immersed in the experience
obviously you mostly spend your time looking at the center and then everything on the outside of
that view is in your peripheral vision and just as it is in real life if you're wandering around and
absorbing the world around you you're not constantly turning your head to look at everything
you are experiencing it through your peripheral vision as well and this is a really immersive
experience and one that you really need to experience in order to understand what it's like
once you go just ultra wide you don't go back when you go super ultra wide
like this 49 inch 32x9 monitor you really do find the experience changes there are some downsides
as I mentioned in my original review gaming developers don't tend to account for ultra wide
games and they especially don't account for super ultra wide games so what you'll find is often
the black bars appear at the top and bottom of the screen and the sides and cut scenes are
squashed down into a tiny box which really ruins the immersion but if you're concentrating mainly
on the actual gameplay and the shots that you're seeing here you'll notice a much more immersive
experience now the other thing that I really like about this monster and one of the reasons is
one of my favorites and highly recommended is essentially you can split it into two
so on a regular basis I have my computer plugged in with two display port cables I then have it in
picture by picture mode which essentially turns the screen into two different screens separated
with just a line down the middle obviously and you then have the ability to be a bit more productive
and this is how I mostly use it on a daily basis I generally have the two screens side by side so
it's like having two monitors except it's one big one with a slight curve in it there's no
break there's no bezels in the same way it would be if you jam two monitors up against each other
you instead have these sort of seamless experience of the whole screen being there so here you can
see me chopping up and editing video checking on what sort of clips I want to use where I'm going
to position and which ones I want to look at I can sort of sample what they look like on the
left screen make sure I'm happy with those clips and then drag them into Vegas Pro on the right and
obviously flicking between these with ease now this picture by picture mode enables you to do
various things obviously this is in windows 11 you can snap multiple windows together and I'll show
you that more in a second but what I actually do when I'm running in a bit more of a productive way
sometimes I'll have two windows on one side and two on the other I might have explorer
or chrome on one side or both together and you can see a sample shot here where I'm basically
streaming so this is another use case that I like to use where when I'm streaming gameplay at the
weekends because twitch and YouTube don't play nicely with the 32 by 9 aspect ratio
you can use the screen so you're essentially having a 16x9 1440p display instead 120 Hertz
refresh rate on the right hand side so I've got rainbow six siege on the right hand side
on that screen there and on the left hand side I then have OBS or Streamlabs OBS or Streamlabs as
it's now known and obviously the stream chat and maybe discord and other things in there so you're
basically treating it like a dual monitor setup but in a single PC solution now I have upgraded
my monitor since I originally purchased it and recently very recently I purchased an ergotron
arm which is an expensive upgrade to the monitor but essentially allows you to maneuver the monitor
around in various different positions so rather than being stuck on the standard monitor stand
you have a bit more flexibility now this is one of my complaints about the monitor is the stand
I found over time wasn't that great I'd adjust it all the way up to its maximum height and it would
drop down a little bit it wouldn't sit where I wanted it to it wasn't as good I feel like the
stand wears out a little bit over time so this is a really nice upgrade which makes it a lot
more flexible because I can move it closer to me I can move it back I can move it left and right
I can move it up and down you can tilt it you can turn it is however a very expensive
purchase because you need a really expensive monitor arm to be able to support the weight
of a 49 inch monitor I think this purchase speaks to my love for this monitor and the fact that I'm
willing to spend money on it and I'm not thinking about how I might be upgrading my monitor in
a couple of months because unlikely that I'll find anything that ticks all the boxes
in terms of the flexibility of what this offers so as I said already the picture by picture mode lets
me do my streaming and my productivity but then when I want to I can just flick that picture by
picture mode off so you can turn that off within the monitor settings and then go into the single
display basically telling your PC that you're running a single massive monitor then obviously
also you can take advantage of the 240 Hertz of 5120 by 1440 so you've got a bigger resolution
a faster refresh rate across the two so if you split it into p by p you basically have two 120
Hertz refresh rate monitors at 2560 by 1440 but if you go full screen you can get 240 Hertz across
the entire thing so there are some differences in the settings now the other minor gripes I've had
is if you ever need to update the firmware it's a real pain because you have to get a USB stick or a
thumb drive and insert that into the back of the monitor you have to find the right model number
for your monitor you have to download the firmware manually you can't update it through software it's
real pain I found it a real chore for that system but that is a minor complaint that I have the
other highlights I really like are the eye saver so there's an eye saver mode which you can turn on
that eliminates a lot of the blue light this makes it a lot easier to work on during the day so if
I'm doing something that requires a lot of white screens a lot of white on black or black on white
the text is going to hurt my eyes over time if I'm spending a lot of time looking at the monitor
I want to make it easier on my eyes and that blue screen compensation really makes life a lot more
comfortable so the overall experience is fantastic I would highly recommend this to anybody that's
considering it there are a number of complaints online with people saying there are issues with
the quality however I haven't had any experience with myself it has served me well over the last
couple of years the original one that I got when I reviewed it was a review sample directly from
Samsung and that had to go back and at that point I was so pleased with it and so enthralled with
the device that I decided to purchase one myself I bought one and I got exactly the
same experience no issues with it at all fantastic looking monitor loads of great gaming experiences
and a really fantastic all-round joy the only downside is I have a lot of cables on my desk
just look at the chaos and that's because I'm testing out multiple things so don't judge me
too hard this has been the Provoked Prawn hope you enjoyed this video let me know in the comments if
you've got any questions and be sure to check out the links in the description to the other videos
including the one on Neo G9 if you're curious thanks for watching
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