- You ever working from home
and you just wanna go straight to gaming?
You just wanna click a button and go,
boom! All I've got is games.
No more spreadsheets, nothing.
Just games.
Well, GIGABYTE has the solution for you.
We've got the
M34WQ
gaming monitor.
It's a 34 inch display,
3440 by 1440,
which a lot of people say is like quasi 4K, it's not.
But it's a lot of pixels.
They've labeled this as a gaming monitor,
and it kind of is, it's got 144 Hertz refresh rate.
It's IPS, but I mean,
most of your decent panels are IPS these days.
It's got a one millisecond response rate.
The one nice thing though,
there's not really any RGB.
So you can put this in your office,
and then you can play games on it.
It's not gonna be flashing colors everywhere.
Your partner's not gonna walk in and be like,
"Hey are you gaming right now?"
And you'd be like, "No. Check it out,"
Press the button, boom! You're back to spreadsheets.
You've got pretty much everything that you need to know
on the box as they usually do.
You know, it's got a Type-C connector.
So the KVM is kind of the big deal.
They made the world's first gaming monitor
with a KVM recently.
This is basically just the next step up, I guess.
So KVM, it's a switcher.
They're not that expensive typically.
The cheaper ones come in at like 30 to 40, 50 bucks tops.
I think they're great.
I think a lot of people need them.
I think a lot of people love them.
(box swooshing)
There's the box.
(box dropping)
All right there it goes.
Ooh, this is a very robust power connector.
Can we plug this in?
There's a big base for the stand.
Oh, this is actually real nice.
And most of the ones that I've dealt with,
are usually a single piece of stand here,
but this guy has got these two huge pylons
for it to clip onto.
Look at that, that's crazy. This thing's pretty robust.
It's kinda like if you have tire tread, right?
Like if you've got just a little bit of tread
you're gonna slip all over the place.
But if you've got some nice,
like snow tires with that thick, deep tread,
and like there's lots of it, you're in business.
It's another tool list design here,
which is great.
This has been super common on monitors for a while now.
And then you pop it in.
Then is nice and flush with everything.
This is a nice stand.
It's a hundred by a hundred base mountable.
So if you want put it on an arm or on the wall,
you totally can.
We're not gonna do that. We're gonna use the stand.
Oh, this is actually a little harder to get out
than I thought.
Do not use this bag in cribs, beds, carriages or play pens.
It is not a toy.
It's got a bit of play, but not a ton.
Like you can't
pivot it at all.
Like it it's Ultra-wide.
It's super long and this stand is not super tall.
So even if it could pivot,
I it would probably touch the bottom.
That being said, there's the arc coming out.
That thing is huge.
I don't know how the curved vertical is gonna look
but hey, that's, you know, it's a pro-,
someone's gonna buy it.
It does have a bunch of like wet swivel.
(upbeat music continues)
There's like a fair amount of up and down play.
We've got the good old fashioned power button
slash navigation nipple that we basically love here,
'cause it's just so easy to move around the OSD.
And then above it is this handily labeled KVM button.
What else do we wanna look at?
Oh, the IO. Our power, two HDMI ports,
a display port, a USB type C, USB type B,
and then two USB 3.0 ports as well as a headphone jack.
I can't remember if that has power tube as well.
It would be really nice
if this was like even 60 watts of power.
It would also be great if it does display port.
Pretty sure it does.
But we'll see.
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So we powered it on.
Looks pretty good.
We're hitting 3440 by 1440.
Oh, and you know what?
This is a minor thing.
I like that it goes over 144,
instead of like 143.25
or whatever.
I don't really know why monitors do that sometimes.
Where they give you this weird refresh rate.
If you don't please tell me in the comments and educate me.
The outer bezels are great. They're super thin.
You barely see them.
The inner bezel leaves a little bit to be desired.
It's just a bit too thick.
It's not the end of the world.
And honestly, once you start gaming
or watching TV or whatever,
you just forget all about it.
My complaint, they put this giant chin on the bottom
but it doesn't hide your inner bezel like all the way.
If you're already putting a giant piece of plastic here,
just put it up.
I just want that borderless display of the future
that we've been promised
for how many years now , you know?
One thing to note,
it doesn't have a G-SYNC chip in it,
but like most monitors these days,
it has FreeSync.
So it's G-SYNC compatible,
always a big plus.
So instantly we can see that there's these big black bars,
'cause it's 1440P but there's all these extra pixels
that aren't really being used for a lot of content.
Whether it's movies, you're just watching Netflix,
maybe you're just watching YouTube like we are right now.
The reality is the color on this thing is pretty good.
It's only, I think about 91 or 93% DCI-P3 coverage.
And there's only about
115% of the SRGB coverage here as well.
The HDR is only HDR400.
The base brightness of this thing
is probably 300 CDM squared, 350 CDM squared.
So what are we even getting outta that HDR?
Like not a whole lot if it's only going to 400.
I mean, it does look nice though.
Like it's not QD. There's no quantum dot here.
But it's still 144 Hertz.
I think 1440P is a great resolution.
And when your Ultra-wide like this,
you're just getting like extra pixels on the sides.
And that one millisecond gray to gray response time
is great.
It's gaming time.
Wow, it's beautiful.
Honestly, I haven't really been
into Ultra-wides until recently.
Even now, I just think it's a little too much
in your field of view especially at this 34 inches,
but we did the QD-OLED,
and that's only gonna be available in Ultra-wide.
And I don't know. I like it a bit more.
I wanna be able to see the whole thing
without turning my head corner to corner.
It's fringe, its borderline.
You can set your monitor deeper in,
and you can just sit back if you wanted to.
I don't want to do that. I'm gaming, I wanna be-
You gotta be right up here.
You know those epic gamer moments
where you're like you're gonna lose.
The keyboard is starting to feel gross,
and your hand is clammy, but you gotta get head shots,
'cause your team is like two points away from winning.
I can't remember any controls 'cause it's been a while.
How do I fist E?
All right, I gotta use this thing. I hate this part.
Hookah.
- [Andy] That's Ironman.
- So we're hitting like 150,
155. Ooh 160.
But we are seeing lows.
Like our 99% is more like
the 130, 140 and yes we have a 30, 90 in there,
but there's these huge pieces of panel here
that are just a ton of extra pixels.
That's why some people are calling it like Quasi 4K,
or whatever they're calling it.
As soon as you go to that 21 by nine.
There's just so many more pixels that you have to push,
and it looks pretty good.
There's not a ton of smearing or anything,
like I've seen clearer monitors,
but it's not that bad.
Ooh, this glass looks really good,
but the blacks look black.
Like this hallway looks dark.
All the brights look bright.
Like HDR still looks good in games that implement it well.
And I've always thought
that doom did a pretty decent job with it.
This looks good.
I would totally game on this thing.
Let's go to actually checking out the KVM stuff.
So let's go back to the desktop.
Ooh, beholder, you're not gonna get me, aright.
Let me shoot you in the mouth,
and then punch you in the face.
Let's say you're a developer,
and so your work from home setup includes a desktop
that work has sent you,
and you've still got your own personal computer,
like right next to it.
You've only got one desk,
but you want both PCs on there,
just get a KVM.
It said just hit KVM to switch to it.
I just press the button, setting up device.
Let me sign in and make sure there's nothing incriminating
on my desktop at the moment.
Yeah, you know, I watch porn on my work laptop.
Isn't that what you guys do?
- [Jono] When you're in a pinch.
(both laughing)
- Okay, I'm gonna try that again.
Try another cord, yeah.
Like it's detecting something.
Look at that.
And the keyboard still works. Let's not go to teams.
Oh my God, it works.
Obviously there's some limitations here.
If you hook up to a laptop that doesn't have Ultra-wide,
which maybe I don't think there's a single-
When is that gonna happen?
When are we gonna get an Ultra-wide laptop?
It's like this thick.
(unclear chatter)
(laughs)
Amazing.
Let's see if we can extend the displays.
Like let's...
No it won't.
And the reality is that's just
because of the limitation of the laptop.
This thing doesn't seem to do power delivery through USBC.
You should be able to just plug your laptop in.
And if I've got it hen plug this in,
and plug this in as well,
it just seems pointless.
Like a lot of monitors do power delivery through USBC.
So I'm gonna knock them points for that for sure.
But it totally works though,
like keyboard, boom,
it's hooked up directly to the monitor.
(keyboard clattering)
Nope.
(keyboard clattering continues)
It's pretty big, you know, 34 inches.
It's like two whole bananas.
It's got a lot more length than it's got girth.
I'll tell you that much.
- [Jono] No. Stop.
But you know, it works great,
and it does what it says it's gonna do.
The one thing that actually didn't really come with
was a USBC cable.
So if you want to do any sort of laptop stuff,
make sure you have one
that'll actually do proper data transmission.
It can do all these things, but not every cable does it,
because cables respect stupidly.
Would I buy this monitor?
You know, these days, no.
'Cause I'm coming into the office all the time,
but I worked from home for about a year before I came here.
Man, it would've been nice to, at the end of the day,
just be like, yeah let's-
No not that button. Not that button.
Let's game.
So I don't.
What's the price at? Like a thousand dollars, 1200 bucks?
- [Jono] The original price is 539.99.
- No way.
- [Jono] And, but right now it's on sale for 499.99.
- No, 500 bucks!
- [Andy] Give me your credit card.
- Okay around $500 for a 34 inch Ultra-wide,
144 Hertz, 1440P that also has a KVM attached.
That's pretty good value.
Yeah, you can get some 27 inch, 1440 P monitors
for like 300 bucks or whatever.
But frankly, I didn't wanna give this thing a ton of praise
but at 500 bucks-
Yeah, this is kind of getting to be the best bang
for your buck monitor.
And you know what?
If you wanna buy it yourself, we'll have it linked below.
Feel free to check that out.
If you enjoy the short circuit, check out the LG DualUp.
That thing is not an Ultra-wide.
It's completely opposite to that.
(laughs)
- [Jono] It's a rectangle.
- Yeah, it's a rectangle.
Ultra tall.