This right here is Xiaomi's new gaming monitor it's the me fast 165 hertz gaming monitor
that does have a 24.5 inch size to it full hd resolution a greater gray two millisecond response
time that is their claim their other claims are 400 nits peak brightness hdr 400 support
and g-sync support so is this ips gaming monitor one to look at well i'll find out in this review
and i'll let you know all the pros and cons in my now three days of testing this gaming monitor out
it comes well packaged up we have an instruction manual right here and an hdmi cable we have the
stand and the base our power supply here this one is rated to 36 watts so it doesn't need a
lot of power this monitor now like the stand i just showed you the base heads made out of
alloy it has the matte gray finish to it and true rubber feet there at the bottom to stop
it from slipping around so you simply need to just place this here and it slots in only one direction
and then screw it into place and in every box you will find this which is the me monitor color
calibration factory report and this basically outlines the calibration which they've done in
the factory which is good to see not a lot of manufacturers do this but the best ones
will of course your factory calibration is really good to have and then you can see there that the
measurement condition was the gamma curve of 2.2 color temperature of 6500 k and it was in the srgb
mode so to get the factory calibration you do need to set it in the smart modes then to srgb
okay so 24.5 inches 165 hertz nvidia g-sync support with this very slim bezels top left and
right there is a bit of a bezel here and chin on it which is kind of normal but it's a sleek nice
looking design for a gaming monitor and it doesn't scream gaming monitor to me at all i mean there's
no gamer bling there's no different colors there's no glowing red there's no rgb on it so we're not
getting those extra frames per second from the rgb here now the adjustments of this one up and down
so it can go right down nice and low and you can put it up nice and high there we've got tilt you
can use it left and right here and you can even rotate it right around so it does cover everything
there when it comes to where we can move this about with the stand here so you can use it in
portrait mode there like that and portrait but of course most people will be using it in landscape
but at least we do have that option there now the stand is it sturdy it does seem sturdy it's a nice
thin base that they've gone with metal and overall a very good finish so really typical xiaomi build
quality and finish with this one now there is a little bit of cable management that they do have
so the flap on the back here that has magnets that is holding it into place so right here when you
plug in your hdmi cable the power you simply clip that back and the magnets will hold it into place
and that keeps everything nice and simple out of the way there's also a hole right here
in the stand so you can put the power cable through this and the hdmi cable if you wanted
to push it down on a desk just to make things a little bit tidier so it's a very nice touch here
and again no rgb no screaming glowing logos or anything like that is something i really do like
with this gaming monitor and the inputs from right to left so audio out with this one so it
does not have any built-in speakers we've got a display port that's 1.3 hdmi to two of them
which is hdmi 2.0 a and then a dc in of course to power it as mentioned it's a 36 watt adapter
now for controlling the on-screen display here we do have these four buttons and our power key
which acts as the okay button here so that's to go through the menus and i'll show you that on
screen display setup now so tapping here you can bring up then all the different menu options but
settings so language is the one you need to change other originally it's in chinese of course input
source self-explanatory smart modes this is only changing just the color mode really of the screen
that's all it is okay so low blue light srgb movie game echo and standard i do test it srgb mode
which is the one that they've calibrated for from the factory pro function so this is interesting
because we have adaptive sync that we can turn on so if you needed that you're able to turn that on
and i've tested this on and off just trying to test out g-sync if i could get it to work
and the high refresh rates which i haven't had any luck with uh which i'll talk about soon and
then brightness of course we do have under here uh response times you can set it onto ultra maximum
normal and i just get out of this and i wanted to show you too in the pro functions there is another
handy little feature in here which is aiming sight i've seen this before now the gaming monitors so
if you play a lot of say counter strike this is a handy one to have or any other well first person
shooters very good to have that option there and what else do we have right here so just a couple
of options so i don't want to go into this color mode sorry and get out of that keep it in srgb
and you get you're still using it but it is a little bit tricky at times so brightness is there
okay and response time sharpness display i can't change this one right now because i have it set
in the s rgb mode and the ultra response time as i mentioned at the start the screen has 165 hertz
it's ips tech full hd resolution so 1920 by 1080 now i would have preferred 1440p so 2560 my 1440p
would have looked better on the screen at 24.5 inches i can see the pixels of text quite a bit if
you look at it really close and i've just zoomed in now just to show you what i mean there that you
can make out those individual pixels when looking close at this that's why i think a high resolution
would have been a little bit better with this screen here if they could achieve maybe 120
hertz or 144 hertz that would have been fine there so maximum brightness manufacturer's claim is 400
nits and the color gamut in coverage i'm going to measure now but before i do that i just wanted to
show you what the blacks look like on the screen and here you can see them so what i will do is
just adjust a little bit here the aperture of my camera just to increase the brightness to show you
the light leakage so down in this area there is a little bit there are some on the side present
and overall the blacks are going to look more like dark gray this is not an oled screen so not
super deep the blacks you get with this particular monitor here now what looks like light leakage or
bleeding on the right hand side just along here that actually isn't that's my lighting that's
doing that now the coating over this is anti-glare and so it's a matte coating and that definitely
works out well for a gaming monitor and these are the results so for gaming monitor
well 95 srgb they claim it's a 100 so slightly under but not really too much of a problem there
ntsc is 67 on the low side adobe rgb 72 for a gaming monitor that's actually okay p3 of 71
color gamut coverage now i did measure the brightness with this and it's disappointing
280 nits only i was expecting 350 to 400 well 400's their claim and it falls well short of that
all right so here we have a 165 hertz our refresh rate with this now i did have a bit of a problem
getting this 165 hertz a lot of the times with my rtx 3070 and the 3080 that i also do own
it didn't want to run at 165 hertz and i would find myself stuck at 120 hertz now what i did to
fix this was i reset the monitor through the on-screen display settings there and did the
reset of the monitor and now it did actually work there but there is still one thing that i cannot
get to work no matter what pc i try what graphics card i try and that is when you go into the nvidia
control panel you'll see here see here when i bring it up uh that yeah refresh rate's fine but
where is my setting that would normally be listed in here for g-sync now with my lg cx that's a 4k
120 hertz screen that supports g-sync i would get a setting that would show on here would be
nvidia g-sync you can turn it on you can force it on in desktop mode as well or disable it if
you didn't want to use it so g-sync support with my rtx 3070 and rtx 3080 just doesn't seem to be
present at the time of this video perhaps it's a issue with my model perhaps early versions of it
if i do find something out about that i'll let you know in the comments of this video
and of course a little bit of gaming test here so i'm running at 165 hertz the screen and the frame
rate is getting up around close to that so we're able to achieve that now when i look around really
quick i do notice that sometimes it looks like uh the response time of the screen well they claim
greater gray is 2 milliseconds but i do sometimes see like it's almost playing like a bit of a catch
up when i look very very quick here of course i'm only recording at 30 frames per second 4k
so you're not going to be able to pick up on that but i am seeing a little bit of something here
still though very enjoyable to be playing this at the 165 hertz getting a frame rate that's close to
that well well over 100 and in some areas of the map here with my rtx 3070 with the high settings
i am getting over the 165. oops guys almost crashing into me so yes it is good for gaming
it's just the lack of g-sync and i really wish it was a lot brighter that is disappointing for me
okay so final words on this one the pricing is what really puts me off so 300 euros about
that approximately compare that to what you get locally from brands like say acer zeus or samsung
about 100 euros cheaper for a very very similar spec 145 or 165 refresh rate on it and probably
brighter screen than this one so i do like the design that is one of the best things about it
the design the build quality is typical xiaomi very very good it's excellent the panel quality
from the ips as i pointed out i think it's okay the color gamut the coverage for a gamer screen
isn't too bad now response times unfortunately i don't have the professional equipment to monitor
and give you the exact response time with this but to my eyes it doesn't look like two milliseconds
i mean that's great to grade two milliseconds but i don't think it is okay i just got a hunch that
that it actually isn't able to achieve that it just seems sometimes in some of these games when
i look around and things it doesn't quite seem as good as you would think it would be
the same for that brightness now i went through all the different settings because i was adamant
that it was my fault that i'm not able to achieve anywhere near the claimed 400 nits of brightness
so 280 only standard mode eco mode srgb mode gamer mode all of the different modes i went through and
i set the brightness through the controls to 100 of course and that was it 280 nits it's okay for
indoors i've got it turned right down at the moment too by the way so it's not overexposed
not great now i had trouble getting 165 hertz refresh rate i had to go through two different rtx
cards nvidia drivers i went through quite a few different versions i was starting to go a little
bit crazy uh and then i did a factory reset on the monitor i got 165 hertz after uh basically a
whole day of messing about with it so yes you can get 165 which is good which is claimed but those
two rtx cards i was unable to achieve or enable or see anything to do with g-sync okay now i've
used the same cable i use on a g-sync tv which is my lg cx it supports 4k 120 hertz g-sync with the
cable with the same graphics cards that i used on this monitor no gc so something's really up with
this maybe i've got a faulty unit i don't know but hey it's not working for me and that's just it if
that's a fact so really a disappointing display i think if you can get it for a really good price
yeah okay if xiaomi can fix the brightness fix the g-sync support i think then it might
be good and of course get that price right down because right now it's about 100 euros
120 us or so overpriced currently so there you go now you know the full story here of xiaomi's 24.5
inch ips full hd 165 hertz gaming monitor with hdr 400 support nvidia support which well g-sync
doesn't seem to be working and 400 nits which you cannot achieve at least not my unit right here