 GIGABYTE AORUS sponsored this video and while I've been a huge fan of gaming on ultra wide monitors ever since their debut around seven years ago Today they have a bit of a problem and that's price compared to the F048U or other large format OLEDs Ultrawides tend to be priced as though they still have the parts of the display that have kind of been Sliced off to narrow the field of view now this does contribute to a more cinematic experience But it was actually Wendell from level one text that initially made the argument to me he goes Linus Why are you paying extra for a sliced off monitor when you could just have a bigger one and put the black bars on it? For that cinematic view now if we were talking about conventional monitor technology I would say look I don't want two glowing black bars shining at me while I'm trying to experience my game or my movie But with OLED you can turn those pixels off so Why settle why not have cinematic ultra wide when you want it and Full gigantic 16 by 9 when you want to get some work done Let's take a look at the F048U and find out if I am going to be abandoning ultra wide once and for all I Think actually actually can't figure out how this box opens it has the normal conventional monitor opening things here But then it has more TV style ones here Let's try doing it the monitor way now gigabyte aorist did sponsor this video which entitles them to a couple of key product talking Points, but before we even get to those we got to acknowledge the elephant in the room There is only one manufacturer of 48 inch OLED panels right now LG display so that means any price premium gigabyte aorist demands for the F048U will have to be justified whether it's by the accessory package or by the gaming and Monitor centric features that they've built into the display that uphill battle begins with an accessory package That is more interesting than it at first appears to be starting with the remote Unlike an LG smart TV you're not gonna have a built-in Netflix app or anything like that But what you will have hopefully is more gaming centric features in a more conventional monitor OSD The next thing we find here a display port cable That's right No TV on the market that I'm aware of supports display port 1.4 now whether we're actually able to leverage that to run at 144 Hertz 4k with overclocking remains to be seen but a Girl can dream right an HDMI ultra high-speed cable for the included HDMI 2.1 port You could use that for your game console for example There's a USB 3 cable so it'll have a built-in hub like you would expect from a monitor power cord and this product warranty card now while the C10 and the C1 can be used as desktop displays there are a few sort of Quirks that begins with the stand which on the C148 inch is a long wide foot that makes it difficult to run cables Under your monitor with that said I'm not a huge fan of these sort of widespread little feet either Well thankfully both of them have base amounts on the back so you can ultimately put them on whatever stand you like The bigger issue though is that on the TV version of this panel not all of the input modes are optimized for gaming and More importantly the brightness will automatically modulate that is to say it will dim when it detects a static image This is to help reduce the chance of the pixels wearing out or becoming burned in now You can alleviate this and most of the issues with using an LGO led as a desktop display But in doing so you could end up actually voiding your warranty by changing unauthorized settings in the service menu That is why I held up the warranty card and that is where this monitor might end up standing out for people who really want To use an OLED as a large format desktop display Of course some of the other benefits aren't very well laid out on the product page And I don't even know if they are benefits for example. There's a USB type-c port here. What does it do? I have no idea There's a three and a half millimeter input as well as the headphone jack that presumably will carry the audio stream from your HDMI 2.1 or display port 1.4 input and ah this is a key benefit Navigation can be done with the nipple on the bottom of the display rather than using the remote if you want to which is nice I actually am using a C 10 48 inch at work right now and having to have the remote on my desk does add unnecessary clutter Oh shoot. I gotta move my own monitor By the way if you're confused as to why I ended up with the LG ultra gear on my desk after the Asus version Kind of won the shootout that I was doing it came down to the lower pixel response times on this particular model Which is what makes this aorist display such a contender for my desk because OLED inherently has much Much lower pixel response times than well really any LCD based technology one small challenge It was going to be my streaming stuff and the cable management holes that I drilled in my desk though That purple cast when it's off you can really tell it's an LG OLED Hey, so the bad news is you're paying a lot more than for the LG version But the good news is you know that it's an absolutely kick-ass panel. You're just paying extra for warranty the display port port oh Actually and the integrated sound bar I haven't tried this yet But obviously being a TV the C 10 and the C 1 do not have great integrated sound because they have no visible speaker grills Hopefully this is a little better. I already have a USB. Oh my shoot my pre-run cables don't reach Now seems like as good a time as any to get in some of gigabyte aorists is talking points here Let me change my desktop wallpaper. This is a little awkward. Oh This is hilarious. I already mentioned everything organically except its support for 10-bit color obviously and it's 98% coverage of the DCI P3 color space now something that's not well understood about this monitor is its HDR capabilities It does say on the product page it supports both HDR 10 and HLG now I've already noticed when bringing up large full-screen white content I am seeing some dimming of the display you guys notice that you see how bright that is And if I go full screen you can see it's a little dimmer, right? But what I also noticed is it seems to be a bit faster in terms of that responsiveness Whether you prefer that or not is entirely up to you, but let's see what we can do to tune it in the menu So we're in SDR vivid Really my options are custom one custom two and green. Oh green like Green like power saving. I thought you meant green like a green tint. That's very I gigabyte. I'd like you to change that call it eco or something, please. Oh, oh, there's a whole bunch more reader movie RTS RPG FPS arcade standard That's weird. Okay Burn this image into your mind pun intended is green brighter than vivid It is But it is Type C DSC. I think that's display stream compression. I think it has a type C display input Andy I'm gonna go get my laptop and find out man. Imagine it has USB Power delivery and charges the laptop and just like has that completely not dock. It's totally does it has power delivery It charges the laptop since we're poking around in the AMD control panel. The reported free sync refresh rate is 48 to 120 Hertz So as long as you don't dip below 48 frames per second in your game, you shouldn't experience any stutter or tearing After fiddling with it, I wish I had a more complete answer for you guys But I do at least have some information it supports power delivery, but with a very limited amount of power So you'll probably have to plug in your laptop separately and over the type C port It does accept a display input But so far I've only managed to go as far as 4k 60 Hertz or 1440p 120 Hertz It's hard to say whether that's limitation of my laptop or the display at this point and I don't have any alternatives here with me Oh Cool. It has a built-in KVM switch So that's a function of the built-in USB hub I guess of course the type C and the type B can be your alternate computers Freaking sick and then you plug your mouse and keyboard into the USB a ports. I Don't actually need that function personally, but if you frequently use two computers say for example, you're a developer That would be super handy Audio mode out 600 are I have no idea what I just did What is 600 are Okay, we're back on the type C input Okay, we're back 600 are is a setting that allows you to tune the audio output for high impedance headphones It also caused my display port input to immediately cease functioning Actually wait Andy. This is interesting. I'm only getting 4k 60 Hertz here as well. I wonder if there's another display port setting I didn't see before the good news is that 4k 120 Hertz works just fine The bad news is that this Thunderbolt 3 dock that I use actually only supports display port 1.2 So that means 4k 60 Hertz unless I want to drag a display port cable through the wall right now Okay, I'm plugging in a new cable. What is this doing back here? Look at this cute line is plushy lttstore.com It's not exactly ideal, but this is the longest display port cable I have I'm gonna have to fix the cable management later But I should be able to set it to 4k 120 Hertz now. Yeah Hey, I do notice a little bit of a green tinge when I'm off-axis So when I'm looking into the corners just because the display is so large So I would recommend having a solid 18 to maybe even 24 inches between you and the display if you do plan to use it As a desktop display It's hard to really gauge performance without all of our gear and a 48 inch TV to put right beside it but what I will say about the HDR content consumption experience is that compared to gigabyte aoruses specs This is a lot better than I expected of course not everything's HDR. Let's change gears and focus on gaming I'll start with one of my all-time favorite games Which happens to benefit from as much screen real estate as you can possibly throw at it Supreme Commander Forged Alliance So one of the coolest things about this game is the strategic zoom. You don't have a mini map You just use your mouse wheel to see the whole map and And I'm being bombed. I did not build Lay fighters. Well, I did say I wanted this to be a quick one, didn't I? Yep, that was it. That's the GG either way Is this a great gaming experience? Freaking yeah a little bit now Let's change gears and talk about how we can set this up for the more cinematic black bar experience Instead of having the scaling performed on our display We're gonna have it performed on our GPU and we're gonna change our scaling mode to aspect ratio You can also change it to no scaling and then you'll just have Like kind of a however many pixels you specify sized display in the middle like for example the 3840 by 1800 resolution that I made that's gonna give me some kind of Cinematic black bars, but is going to allow me to continue to utilize the full Horizontal resolution of my display. So let's go ahead and fire up to maternal and there you have it cinematic ultra wide gaming experience on a regular 16 by 9 monitor TV whatever whatever this thing is the one thing you can't do is make it curved Obviously and that's something that can be an advantage on a display of this size Which leaves us one more major thing to uncover Can it support? 144 Hertz with overclocking that would be an advantage over a TV So far, it's not looking good. Sometimes monitors will have a setting that allows them to Enable overclocking. I don't see anything like that in here though So all that's left is to try this one more time and see if it clicks Okay, we go into the settings menu. It thinks it's at 4k 144 Hertz. It's actually at 120 Hertz So the scaler might think it can take 144 Hertz input, but the actual panel does not seem to be running at 144 I thought maybe ARS figured out Some kind of super cool way to get it to run at 144 the reality of it is it's not a huge difference between 120 and 144 in terms of the perception but I Mean hey every little bit counts last things left You can't take a step forward without a leap of faith Yeah, the built-in speakers are They're okay They're bigger and they fire directly at you which is an advantage, but they're still monitor speakers and you're still gonna need a nice pair of cans And that's it whether or not you need a Monitor like this. Well, that's up to you But I can tell you that the experience of using a large format display like this as a gaming monitor Un-freaking-believable and I will not be swapping this out for my ultra wide This is coming with me to the new house and my new gaming setup They'll probably get like a base amount for it So it comes off the back of the desk and I have like a nice clean setup