 I just upgraded my home gaming setup to LG's 42 inch C2 and some things about it... It finally went! Well what the hell? I haven't said to one minute! This is what I'm talking about! I just upgraded my home gaming setup to LG's 42 inch C2 and some things about it are great! Basically zero motion blur, inky OLED blacks, and the size is perfect. But using a TV as your monitor is less perfect. Thankfully Asus ROG who sponsored this video has the solution. This PG42UQ they sent over has all the same benefits of my existing display, but none of the drawbacks of using a TV. It's got DisplayPort 1.4 alongside its HDMI 2.1 connection. I no longer need a companion app so my display will go to sleep and wake up alongside my system. And best of all I can disable that accursed auto dimming function for a much more consistent experience. To say I can't wait would be an understatement. On paper it's basically the perfect gaming display. But just because it's sponsored doesn't mean I'm not going to tell you guys if I don't run into any problems. Right out of the gate massive shout out the developer of LG TV companion because it's a lot better than not having it, but this was set to sleep after a minute. It has been like five minutes and it's not asleep. Also there's no way to minimize it so you just just tuck it away. Also you guys notice right when I moved that box the brightness changed dramatically. You can adjust that behavior with a special service remote in the hidden menu, but you can't disable it entirely. Probably the thing that's annoyed me the most though. Aside from coming back to the office right after setting this one up and seeing the better solution sitting in our warehouse. Is that I have been stuck at 60 hertz because my computer is so far away that I need an active optical cable in order to get a signal to it. And while there are HDMI 2.1 active cables available. In my case the cable is so costly that since I already own a long display port anyway even if the monitor version is a little more expensive it's a better bet. Asus sent over not one but three of these which means that with some help from these little doodads which let you extend a USB connection over standard ethernet cabling. I will be able to show you guys the final form of my centralized gaming system where it shouldn't matter if I sit down at it here sit down at it downstairs. The experience should be identical no additional latency. I can help you lift it when it gets to that. I know it's super basic. Yeah why do I need to follow the instructions? Jeff just told me that we've got to do this all right and it's sponsored so I'm trying to make sure we do it. No I open boxes how I please. Oh my god oh my god. All right there's a stand. Yep. Nice. Oh accessory punch. Yeah I actually really like that. Complete with color calibration report. Oh my goodness their calibration report comes in a little sleeve. Power, display port, HDMI, USB. It's really weird the instruction set specifically for the cables over here. Yeah. Did they really? Yep. Did they? Oh. Remote. This is pretty handy I mean it's nice to be able to turn it off and on remotely, change sources all that kind of good stuff. What else we got going here? Okay Ploof do you want to grab an egg? Okay I'll grab the other side. Okay according to the instructions. Okay David. Frame him out. Okay with a helper. Okay place it down like that. That helper that definitely exists. There's a lot going on here. We've got vent holes up at the top. Is this a cooling fan? No. Asus does advertise that it can be overclocked so instead of just 4k 120 it'll apparently do 4k 138 hertz but the cooling required to achieve that is all passive so you don't have to worry about any additional noise. They also advertise 0.1 millisecond gray to gray pixel response times, out of box calibration which I showed you already as well as a whopping 98% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. Pretty freaking impressive. Just like our screwdriver which is now available for order on LTTstore.com which happens to include the hex bit we need to tighten up our monitor stand here so you use the knurling for speed and then the handle for tightness. Love it. I could totally lift this myself but Asus insisted I have a helper so I've got Plouffe here taking the other end. Thanks Plouffe that's really good. All right. Oh that's super handy. It's got a USB 3 port up at the top along with one of these little threaded majigs so that you can put your camera or your webcam or anything else that has one of these. What are these quarter inch? Is that the one? Yeah quarter inch threaded posts on it. Love it. Oh that's nice I was leaning this so David could get a b-roll shot here and it's actually got a little bit of tilt which is something you won't normally find on a TV. In terms of IO we've got oh really it's got the full complement of HDMI ports. Four of them along with display port and this is a pretty robust built-in USB hub. It's got USB 3 in here and then one two three I thought I saw another one somewhere I guess three is oh yeah there's another one down here. Four USB 3 ports there's your headphone jack. Power is here Kensington here and I'm assuming this is RGB. I guess we should plug it in and see it light up. One thing that's conspicuously absent is eARC. So you're either going to be using the onboard speakers or speakers that are hooked up through an AV receiver or similar. Now this is curious there are a couple more threaded mounting holes here. Ploof do you have any idea what these are for? No it does VESA 300 by 300. Well yeah that's here. Standard VESA mounting. I'm actually not sure I never saw anything of any of these before. Yeah they're just labeled mounting port. Oh that's cool though. If you didn't happen to have an LTT screwdriver it does include a little Allen key for the stand so that's neat. It uses a little center mounted nubbin nipple thing for control so I think I just turned it on. The RGB is not on by default. I don't know. Asus ROG who are you? It's got to be RGB. Right. This is interesting the HDMI 1 and 2 are HDMI 2.1, 3 and 4 are 2.0. So that's good to know. Oh no the power button is just to the right of the control nipple. Okay got it. So did I turn it on this time? If I'm gonna fall off this desk I think we all want to see it on camera. Watch your back pocket because you're putting the side of the screen. Oh my god yes. Yeah yeah yeah don't worry I'm good I'm good I'm good. Do you want to hand that to the Ploof? Okay yeah here we go. Do you want to grab the side? Yeah yeah. Why are you doing it like this? So heavy. Oh yeah there we go. Oh wow there we go yeah. All right. Stan's a touch taller but you know what that's probably not a bad thing. It just means that I do need to move my camera a little bit. Apparently it's got a nice anti-glare coating on it which as long as it doesn't scatter the light too much I'd say it would be a boom. Oh wow that is that is quite monitor looking. I mean you look at the like David check out the lights I have behind me. I haven't adjusted these I don't have any real diffusers on them or anything. That's pretty good hey. Before we update the firmware let's just see if it's you know working at all. 4k 120 oh oh. Yay all right cool it works. From our update hey there we go. While we wait for that we're going to head downstairs and roll this one out. Do you mind grabbing an end? Yeah here you go. Awesome thank you. No problem. Good job. Whoa ha ha stairs. Oh yeah. Yeah you gotta keep up pretences don't you have an end to this? You almost wait here you go there you go. There that's awesome yeah. So which station is yours? This station is mine and right now the only problem that I have is that if the kids have their friends over and their friends want to play with them I don't really want their friends poking around in my computer. So there will be a separate machine for them to use but for me I don't want to have to reset up all my profiles and everything just because I'm downstairs. So the idea is I'm using this super cool high bandwidth display port KVM from Level One Techs to switch between those machines with a keyboard shortcut that my kids friends are unlikely to figure out. But we had a problem the shortcuts only work on the mouse and keyboard ports and I only have one fiber optic connection over to that room. That's where those ethernet USB extenders come in. Is this even going to fit here? It's going to be really tight. Okay I didn't really think of that. Yeah I noticed that. What I considered is that it would be really nice to have matching displays. A. So that you don't have you know different scaling or like a different experience on both sides and B. Because I didn't foresee this but having two mismatched displays even though both support high refresh rate has made it so that I can only get 60 hertz on both of them for now. Yeah if you can grab it in. It's so hefty. Thank you. No problem. Thanks okay. Hey it fits. Does it fit? Barely but I mean it looks like it does actually. Yeah we could make that work. Yeah. That is a really really big display to be on a desk this deep. I mean I was using a 48 inch before though so I think I'll probably be okay. If you're not this comes in a 48. I cannot believe how long we waited for. Oh no. It's definitely we shouldn't have dragged it down the stairs. I don't think it's from that. No you sure? That's a crack in the glass. It's an impact. It's a crack. It's right here. There is this is the one with the box. Yeah it came to us like this like me and David did stack them in his car. No but I don't yeah no no totally I don't think it's from us either. And that is why you always legitimately use two people to move things around. In all seriousness based on how beat up this box is we're fairly certain that this thing was damaged in shipping. We probably made it worse. We didn't break it. It didn't help. Let's say that. This is good news I noticed almost immediately that it wasn't very bright. But ah yes we're in power limited mode. There we go and immediately that is way better. Before we dig around too much in the menu I want to show you the thing that is so annoying about using an OLED as a desktop monitor. You see how bright this is when I have this window just in the corner here. Watch as I drag it across the screen. Whoa. Oh that's actually not that bad. It's pretty noticeable though. Is it noticeable to the camera? It's noticeable on camera and like I think. It's overexposed. Great okay so that's what happens. More annoyingly TVs just randomly start doing it sometimes while you're sitting and reading a document. So this because it's designed to be a monitor has a feature called uniform brightness. You enable that and what happens is your maximum brightness goes way down. Like somewhere on the order of around 230 nits. I think 250 to 280. 250 to 280. But it means that when you do this you're not just going to get those wild brightness swings. Is that it seems like it might still be a little bit. It's doing a little bit. It's doing a little bit. Yeah okay yeah not nearly as much. Okay let's turn on overclocking. No dog I'm going for it. 138 here we go. Why don't we do 144 if you're already in a control panel. Doesn't doesn't say it does. Doesn't advertise it. No no we're going to test 138. Only sanctioned overclocking here all right. Hey oh this is interesting. One of the things our firmware update changed aside from making input switching a little bit faster is their screen saving functionality to make it work more effectively in standby mode. You know how the arc could like change the screen. Yes it can do that. So oh cool okay aspect control. So if you want to play one to one or 16 by 9 at a smaller screen size so you want to simulate what it's going to be like in your yeah at your tournament right when you're playing on a 24 inch display you can set your monitor to be a 24 inch monitor. For those of you who are wondering you're not stuck with your 24 inch monitor in the middle you can actually shift it around. Either way it's nice to have the option just like you have the option of signing up for Flowplain where we have amazing exclusives like oh my god all the outtakes from the screwdriver video. Yeah I screwed up a lot. Hey wasn't driving you crazy. This is the LTP screwdriver. We didn't have to do that. There are lots of players that don't do that. The monitor that was supposed to end up on my desk at work because 48 really is a little bit you can look around like that a lot is now for the downstairs and we are going to for realsies you got that side. Yeah I've got yeah. Carry it very carefully. No dragging it down the steps. I would never. I would never do anything like that. To be clear that was obviously not what destroyed the other one. But it didn't help. No. What did he say? He said there's a big cache. Oh stop. You're kidding right. Oh my god David that's not funny. This is not right. This is supposed to just be the display upstairs cloned to this spot but because we haven't set this up yet. It's not working. I have never used one of these before but it looks super cool. It's only USB 2 so it's not particularly fast but for something like a keyboard or mouse it should be perfect. Probably just going to mount this to the underside of the desk or something at some point but we're not there yet. I swear it's going to be clear what's going on at some point here. I'm plugging USB for the keyboard and mouse into my KVM so that that keyboard and mouse can be used with either of these machines. Then I'm going to take this network jack that comes out of that USB adapter. I need a network cable. This one's pretty long. I have not organized my tech stuff yet. It's the one thing that is left to organize. Oh he followed me. Yeah that was a lie. There are some more things other than tech things that are not yet organized. Come on come on come on come on come on come on. Yes. It's doing stuff. Okay this is where things get spicy. Oh oh no please not spice. I just want it to work. No this mouse doesn't work. Kind of expected the mouse and keyboard to work. Maybe I just need to use a different port. Here we go. Okay so PC2 will be Yvonne's computer. PC1 will be my computer. All right we're good. Is it on? Yeah. No way. Okay but the peripherals aren't working yet. Okay I'm uh ploof. Yeah. Uh I'm gonna have you be my hands. Okay go for it. Nothing. Okay go for it. Nothing. This is why I love these iKron dogs. They're super expensive. How much is that dog? Oh it's like $600. Holy ****. But it works. What? Okay. But this is just native. This isn't through the KVM. The KVM now. This is through the KVM. Oh. Yes. This is Wendel's big thing is his DisplayPort KVMs are like full fat bandwidth. Come on Wendel don't let me down. You know what I bet the prompt is up on the other one. Oh you might have to try again. I think I'm gonna miss it. You ready? Yep. Nope. Nope. I've got one more idea. Wait yes. I'm now getting no output to either display. Oh my god. I think they got mad because one was in overclocked mode and one was not. Which was exactly the problem I was having before with the mismatched displays. Because they actually report back to the system differently if they're in overclocked mode. Maybe if we get in touch with Wendel it's just oh wait no. No it's 60. How about 100? I'd settle for 100. 100's fine. Whatever the fiber optic cable is outputting may not be high enough to get through all the connectors in the KVM plus the KVM plus the cable itself. It is like I'm not just making up it is crazy how much better their cables are than everybody else's and when you get like the 25 foot club 3d cable which is copper not fiber it's as thick as a garden hose it's amazing. Right okay. Yeah we'll we'll try that. Thank you. The keyboard shortcut also there are there is a way to make it the right control key and some other different keys. It doesn't have to be scroll locked but you might temporarily need a five dollar keyboard that has scroll lock in order to use scroll lock to tell it which hotkey you want to use. I might have just the thing here. Okay it's not five dollars but it has a scroll lock key. It would be really nice to know if that aspect of this works. Okay scroll locks not doing anything either. I'm plugged into the wait oh no I changed the KVM hold on it might not be plugged into anything yeah no it's not plugged in one sec one sec okay so the head port I should use the front with the one on the front labeled HID. Yeah fine there's three on the back as well. Sure and those are all equally HID. Yeah well HID is the only one you can do the keyboard control on because the USB USB 3 is completely hands off. Right but all four of those HID ports are are the same right. Yeah I am working on an HDMI extender that also runs over cat 6 and it is glorious. Working on you say well a fat lot of good that does me today sir. I can probably need your prototype in like a few days. No it's okay take your time. Okay I think it's just this USB extender I think it's just not working. It also could just be mislabeled it's not the wouldn't be the first time I saw that in this house. Is it possible the KVM doesn't have enough power for this bad boy because it doesn't have external power on the transmitter side. Uh it's possible but it would have to be using more than an amp. Nothing is working instead of running through the network cable in the wall. We're just going to run a cable. Okay. Hello. Fuck either the in wall cable is bad or it's mislabeled. I've got an update for you as it turns out the USB 2 HID ports on the KVM they're not quite full USB 2 they're tailored for HID human interface devices. What that means is sometimes especially if you have like a hub especially with a Mac you can get odd behavior with these extensions. So what I need to do is either get a different extension send one of these over to Wendell maybe he can test it fix it. The point is scroll lock scroll lock source switching is not going to be working today. But damn it I haven't given up yet on 120 hertz. We have an idea also to do with using the KVM and some funkery that Wendell had to do to make G-Sync and FreeSync work. It's particularly sensitive to long runs and we have an extremely long run here. And the more couplers we have in line the more signal loss. He says each one of these connections is probably costing us about 3 dB. So what we're going to do is we're just going to run a little brush plate and we're going to take our optical cable and we're going to run that bad boy ah straight into the back of the monitor. Poof. Yeah. A hand if you will. Yeah what do you want put this? I want that in the thing. Hey 120. No no no no that's display one. Good try though come on come on crap crap come on that was our big idea screw it. No KVM for now the kids friends have can have no computer. Damn it I'm going straight into the back of the computer. If this doesn't run 120 hertz I give up. We're going straight in are you kidding me? Oh yes matching displays there we go 120 hertz. All right let's play a video game. Time to finally try this thing. Yeah. Oh look at that everything just works. Wow. Freaking love it. Oh I want to make it abundantly clear that none of the problems we had today were Asus's fault for real though. When you're trying to do weird stuff weird stuff happens sometimes. Man this looks good. I love OLED. I don't even know what mode I'm in on this one it just looks great. I don't want uniform brightness I want HD oh wait HDR setting is not oh check windows make sure windows is set to HDR yeah duplicating doesn't do HDR. Duplicating doesn't do HDR? Yes you can't duplicate HDR. You can't duplicate HDR. Seriously? Are you even for real right now? Why is it like why are the settings all over the place? That's competitive settings. Yeah shadows all over. I'm just trying to say it's not even serious. It's legit actually those are competitive settings. Whatever just don't even worry about it. You know what matters this looks freaking great. Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no I have no idea how much of the 120 hertz upstairs and downstairs KVM switching for the guest machine USB over ethernet stories are gonna end up being in the video but the one thing that hasn't gone wrong today this monitor for real oh man there's still so many technical issues to solve for my idea here you know what I think we might have to do I think I'm just gonna get like a nook or something. Yeah build a second computer. There'll be a second computer okay there'll be a second computer there'll be a nook and I'll just have cables and then I'll just have a nook and then I'll just have a nook and then I'll just have a nook and then I'll just have a nook and then I'll just plug into them when the kids have a friend over. What is this? An O. Oh I know what game it is I just mean I started in the in this this world and I forgot it I forgot I thought all my stuff was gone. One of the big issues I had with my old OLED was that with these lights on it was just it was they were so bright they overpowered the OLED display. Yeah uniform brightness mode is actually on wow so then we're good well that's fantastic. Yes! Thank you for watching thank you Asus for sponsoring this video. Did we even include like do you have any you've got you like measured stuff on this is there somewhere we can put that just like put it somewhere I guess. Yeah it's it's good it's good it's like actually good we actually measured it I know it's sponsored but we wouldn't lie to you it does the things on the box that it says it does everything it says on the box looks really good if you want this one or the 48 inch model we're gonna have those links down below where's all my crowds at yo get what they're just disappearing.