 This video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance K70 and K95. These fully mechanical keyboards are designed for performance gaming. Visit corsair.com slash Vengeance Gaming to learn more. Now we've all seen those cheap Korean IPS, greater than HD resolution monitors on eBay. Okay, so we're familiar with those. They're actually fairly inexpensive, all things considered, you know, considering that you're getting an IPS screen that runs at 2560 by 1440. They're usually 27 inch models, but not everyone is comfortable with buying from these weird, sort of direct from Korea eBay sellers, and not everyone is comfortable knowing that they are getting a non-A grade panel, or sometimes a non-A plus grade, because there's a wide variety of different grades of LCD panels. So not knowing what they're getting and obviously not having any recourse if there are dead pixels or whatever else. So that, my friends, is where Nixious comes in. They have got their own version of what would be these 27 inch, not quite A plus grade panels, but the key difference is that you have a North American company to go to, assuming you live in North America. So you have a North American company to go to if there's some kind of a problem, and you have someone actually doing like some rudimentary quality control on them, as opposed to just going with sort of off the the not quite correct manufacturing line, and just shipping them out to you. So that's Nixious' value add here. They're QC-ing it, they're giving you a support contact that you can actually talk to here in North America, and they are delivering you an IPS screen that is capable of 2560 by 1440 resolution, also known as, what was it, a 2.5K, and they have also made some modifications to the monitor that make it a little bit better than the cheapo ones as well. So check this out. Number one is you have multiple display inputs. So HDMI, DVI, VGA, and DisplayPort, although it should be noted that the only two that are capable of displaying at full resolution are going to be DVI and DisplayPort. That's dual link DVI, not single link DVI. Single link DVI has only the resolution of HDMI, which is not quite enough. They've included all the accessories you need to get it mounted up. I think this is the first time I've ever seen like a mounting arm that just clips onto a standard VESA mount on a monitor like this. So we're going to have to go ahead and sort of figure that out. I guess I should finish showing you what's on the bottom. So other than that, there's audio as well as DC power in, and you've got all your ventilation holes on the bottom, as well as on the top of the monitor up here. Now the front of the monitor, this is a 27-inch screen, so you can expect a little bit of a wider bezel, but it's not super wide. It is a glossy monitor, so it's glossy on the bezel as well as on the screen itself, and all of your on-screen menus are controlled by the buttons down here at the bottom. So I'm actually going to throw this together off-camera, and we'll be back in a moment. All the mounting hardware is helpfully labeled, so we're going to start with the the screw for connecting monitor and shaft, as opposed to the screw for connecting the base and the shaft. So we just position this guy right here over the four holes, and then I guess I probably should have opened up this little baggie. There we go. So those are four VESA compatible screws, and just go ahead and position those right there. You can see that the arm is height adjust, which is really nice to see, just because especially with these larger size monitors, it's nice to be able to move them around to suit sort of your individual viewing style, because they're so heavy and so large compared to smaller monitors. Now, while this is an LED backlit model, it's still a little bit on the thicker side and heavier side, again because of that size. Now, I have a lot of people sort of, you know, wonder, ask me, what are the advantages and disadvantages of larger resolution versus lower resolution? And so I would say, well, there's a couple things. So advantage number one is having that pixel density gives you more clarity to the image, so it is going to look nicer. Disadvantage number one is expect to be upgrading your graphics card a lot more often if you are wanting to play at native resolution, which will obviously look a lot better than if you play at sort of not a native resolution, where you'll have that interpolation that you encounter with that. You can see there's a bit of play there, so let's see how sturdy it is once we've actually got it fully attached here. So there it is, eight screws to get it set up, and you can see I've positioned it on the included styrene so that it isn't resting on the screen itself. Once it's on your desk, I guess that's not too bad actually. I'm probably not going to bother you. So you've got swivel like that, little bit of tilt, not much tilt, a little bit. Oh, okay, it looks like it clicks into place for some reason. Oh, okay, it's just caught on the plastic a little bit. So there's the tilt. I'll go ahead and show you guys what degree of... there we go. See, there's a little plastic piece there that just catches like that. Not a problem. Okay, and then last but not least, you do have height adjust, which goes all the way down to here and all the way up to here. Right, included accessories. So they do have an audio cable, a USB extension cable, and finally a dual-link DVI cable. Nice black cable, looks pretty slick, and there's obviously instructions for all the stuff that we just did. And I think that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Nixieus' 27 inch, 2560 by 1440 monitor. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.