 Do you guys have any idea how long I've been waiting for this? Actually that can be calculated because I first showed this off. What was it? CES a year and a half ago this it's finally here is a SUSES 144 Hertz 4k HDR with a thousand nit peak brightness G-Sync gaming monitor This is it. This is quite literally monitor god mode it has Everything and we get to be the first to take a finished model for a test drive and Finished comes with a big asterisk because this isn't quite final hardware, and we don't have quite the final drivers But I couldn't wait Speaking of not being able to wait you won't be able to wait to try out glass wire Glass wire is a firewall that displays your PC's incoming and outgoing network connections in real time And you can use offer code Linus to get 25% off glass wire 2.0. Check it out at the link below Okay, so step number one is to get this bad boy And I did assume it's gender. I'm sorry get this bad mo foe Is that better? Neutral? Get this thing set up I have waited so long for this and it's not a SUSES fault or so they say although I think Nvidia has actually been a little bit of a pain in the ass I mean, I think it's a little bit of a pain in the ass I mean, I think it's a little bit of a pain in the ass Or so they say although I think Nvidia has actually been pretty upfront that it's that it's been their fault So what has delayed it is not anything about the panel like they showed this thing working They had they had games running on it in the past What's delayed it has been getting HDR working with G-Sync because individually those technologies are complicated enough and having them work at the same time because this isn't like your typical HDRnt like those monitors out there that claim to have HDR support where they'll accept an HDR 10 input But they have maybe 350 or maybe 450 nit peak brightness this uses 384 zones of full array backlighting in order to achieve 1000 nit peak brightness and deep blacks at least in theory So we've only seen it at this stage of production on the BFG big effing displays that Nvidia showed at CES this year And you can actually see like physically this thing is loaded for bear I mean you don't have a full array backlight without compromising on things like thickness so Asus's literature claims it can draw up to a hundred and eighty watts from the wall. It's thick It's got big old thick bezels which they justify by saying Realistically you weren't going to be running more than one of these off of a single system at 4k 144 FPS anyway, and I Mean I guess that's all there is to really say about it physically isn't there Let's get it turned on. Oh, oh no there is more while James is getting the system set up Let's take you guys for a quick tour of the stand so it goes up and down about like yay It goes side to side about like yay it tilts up and down about like yay, and it pivots about like yay So if you if you like your 4k 144 Hertz this way because you're some kind of a monster You're playing Peggle or something Alternately you can use this for exactly what I use it for which is easier access to the IO So it's got a single HDMI 2.0 though it should be noted that even HDMI 2.0 is nowhere near able to run 144 Hertz 4k you're gonna be limited to 60 Hertz and then Displayport 1.4 and that is where the magic happens with a compatible graphics card You can drive that massive resolution over a single cable. Oh, and it also has a USB hub and a pass-through audio jack oh Okay, okay, so no we're not ready to turn it on quite yet because I guess we have to talk about the lighting effects So it's got It's got a customizable underglow You can put your own lens in there and have it say or show whatever you want you just write on the included blanks with a sharpie It's got a projected Rog logo that it fires at the wall behind it see that coming out of the back here It's got a matching ROG It's got a matching ROG logo on the stand right here, and then it's got full R-Sync compatibility on the RGB logo on the back because that's the side of this monitor that I'm gonna look at him I don't actually know the final pricing, but if I'm gonna pay however much this thing's gonna cost I want to enjoy it from every side every side Let's start by making sure that we're running at 4k 144 Hertz ah Okay, because getting that going is a little bit tricky You do need to make sure you're using a high quality display port cable, and that's actually an overclocked refresh rate So what happens is you enable max refresh rate? 144 Hertz in the control panel of the monitor and then it enables 144 Hertz 4k now you are giving up something here because As soon as you go past I think it's 96 Hertz at 4k You're gonna be giving up some of the chroma subsampling so you're gonna be giving up some of your color reproduction and If you actually look really closely here We're getting a little bit of fringing on the text, but the theory is that you're not gonna really notice this in games So let's go ahead And hit up CS go now. This is a game that should actually be able to run at 4k 144 frames per second even at pretty high details on this hardware But that's not gonna be true of most things even though we're running a GTX 1080 Ti And we got an email from a sues literally nine minutes ago saying that Titan V Should also work a lot of games are just straight up Not going to be able to take take advantage of the 144 Hertz refresh rate Which is I guess where G sync comes in because even if you're hovering between 45 and 85 it's gonna look smooth so CS Go doesn't support HDR so what we've done is turned it off in the windows control panel this thing is butter smooth You can't even see an individual pixel now I've seen this display running in demos, but I've never actually been able to drive We check this out like brand even look at stuff. That's like far away like this and we're running at 144 frames per second like from a reasonable distance and like even without any backlight strobing as I move back and forth you can still read text So fortnight's not the most demanding game out there, but at 4k everything but a set to epic I Still am expecting this to be a little bit challenging Here we go so even with a GTX 1080 Ti We're looking at about 75 65 frames per second is this guy following me Dude, I don't know what I'm doing So initial impressions here although. We aren't running in HDR Are that dang it are that the chroma subsampling? Doesn't seem to be hurting us yet But we are going to reserve judgment for when Is this really a real player? Wow you suck It actually helps to offset it that you've got these nice little Backgrounds or drop shadows on all the text because that's where you'd be most likely to see it But we're going to reserve full judgment for when we do the full review on the finished hardware with the finished drivers This does look really good though I Gotta say I am impressed with everything depth of blacks vibrance of colors without overdoing it It looks really good Okay, so for HDR. We're going to enable it within the windows control panel You do need a handful of things obviously a supported graphics card with the right firmware Apparently Nvidia is planning to release a firmware updater tool just in case you have an older 1080 Ti that needs to be flashed You need the latest spring creators update and of course you need a title like destiny 2 That has support for HDR so we're tuning up our graphics settings for destiny 2 Honestly, we're not even going to try and crank this because even with SLI which has been sort of a An abandoned stepchild for both Nvidia and game developers over the last little while We're not gonna expect to be able to run a game like this at max settings 144 hertz Are these bad guys cool? I can definitely feel the reduction in frame rate But it's very usable I gotta say my biggest criticism of the big effing gaming displays Was that while the blacks are really deep like you can see here in the shadows on the truck Or like under the shadows of the trees and the whites were really bright It was really noticeable when a light moved from one zone into another one in the full array backlight On the smaller display Not so much It is a lot harder to pick up on while there's a little bit. Okay, just go go away While there's a little bit of halo, it's not bad Like you see that so I gotta tell you guys first impressions Very impressed. Is it worth the money? 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