 Here at Linus Tech Tips, we know we are occasionally a little late to the party for example Uploading videos about a new Apple product days after the initial coverage wave has come and gone You know, it is what it is. We try whatever get off my back But not today no What I'm showing you guys today is Is not stale at all. In fact, I don't think I'd even describe it as ripe yet I mean look it doesn't even have room in the box for the power adapter. It's just it's just separate this is the first look at the full 4k 120 kit, but what's that and where did it come from? Browse privately and securely with TunnelBear the simple VPN app start your seven-day free trial at the link in the video description Okay, so first things first. I gotta say I'm a little unnerved by this box because There is no friggin way that a monitor and a stand for a monitor are Fitting in here and like look at this. We got like a handwritten note here Take care Made by hand and then we've got the name of the guy a Z's who made it. So this is Z's from Z's works Oh boy Wow, what the heck? This thing is just like a completely naked panel and oh my gosh There's just like exposed PCBs on the back. There's no stand no plastic housing To its credit, okay to its credit it does have a vase amount here, but no way There okay. There's only three. There's only three mounting points here There we go, I got it and I oh this is I Think I found the nut Okay, so we've got it mounted now. We just used this random monitor arm that we found and Look at this weird stuff. We got going on here. So this right here is a JTAG programmer for updating the firmware of and debugging the main chip and This like taped on dude ad here is actually a USB To serial adapter for debugging everything else the monitor comes with a heap of technical documentation to help you do all of these things and you can even Reprogram the LED backlight driver if that tickles your pickle, okay So it's probably clear to most of you by now that the reason This thing is here in our shop is clearly nothing to do with how polished and finished it is as a product It's because it's the first monitor to reach our lab that runs at 3840 by 164 K at a hundred and twenty Hertz that's right you gamers can have your cake and eat it too with high resolution and high refresh rate but how did a small fish like Aziz pull this off before the big dogs like a sues and Acer who showed off their high refresh rate displays at CES this year a quick implementation of the DisplayPort 1.4 standard and That is a negatory general because check this out. We've actually got two DisplayPort inputs here one right there and one right there, so I guess let's Start by firing it up with just one connected There Okay, so check this out There's no normal on-screen display, but it does have these Completely unlabeled buttons up here that hold on a minute Is this thing completely held on by one screw at the top? Yeah Okay, so as I was saying it has these unlabeled buttons that helpfully Come with this handwritten user guide to tell me what they're for so there's power. Oh, so oh sorry No power is labeled, so why don't we start with that one? Well press it? Wow that turns on really quickly okay, so the next two are for adjusting brightness, okay? So technically there's a label there. There's a plus and a minus. I'm pretty well here and then There's other ones for switching between a bunch of different EDID profiles for reported resolution and refresh rate starting with 540p at 480 Hertz and Wow this looks pretty crap I Mean it it has like an interlaced look to it and quite honestly like in motion that's even the tn pixels can't switch fast enough to avoid having like a Purple trail behind black objects, but boy does that ever feel Butter smooth wow then the next switch is 720p at up to 300 Hertz which is still really darn smooth and Is at least I can tell if it's a CT or a terrorist at this resolution compared to 540p the next one is 1080p at up to 240 Hertz And I can see how this feature would be useful when you look at how quickly it switches modes if you're the kind of person Who often finds yourself? dialing back the resolution to get more FPS out of games like CS go and then wants to turn up the resolution for sightseeing games like Civilization 6 or Skyrim, I mean these buttons really do make switching Super easy, or maybe it's dumb. Let us know in the comments if you think you would actually use these or not So okay here. We are 1080p 240 Hertz pretty Sick, but it's not the native resolution, so you're dealing with interpolation and There are already monitors that are actually designed to run at that resolution and that refresh rate so then Let's get finally to good old-fashioned 4k 60 Hertz and then BWAH Okay, so we were expecting 4k 120 Hertz here, but we got a visual demonstration of the limits of DisplayPort 1.2. It just can't push that much data so instead it has to compromise Let's plug in a second DisplayPort cable Well that didn't happen in any of our testing before we go to film You can see the right side of the screen is a little bit wonko, but We have still had for the first time the experience of 120 Hertz gaming at 4k resolution and given that we've got this game running at about 150 to 200 FPS it is Definitely a thing to behold now Is this the optimal situation with the whole thing going on with the flickering on the right hand side of the screen and all that Obviously not, but I guess we all learned a valuable lesson about shipping Display controllers that literally have unstable Penned on to the back of them so in summary then aside from this glitchiness right when we go to film This works, but how do you buy one? The answer is you don't yet, and you may never be looking at a traditional Finished monitor from this works Their special sauce is in the development that they're doing on custom Electronics and the concept that they want a crowdfund is the idea of DIY enthusiasts Being able to buy their module and slap it onto an existing panel Whether through a bundle from Zeiss works or off eBay or whatever There will always be drawbacks to an approach like this The calibration and display tuning that goes on with a finished product was clearly not present on our in a lux M280djj Dash L30 and you won't get fancy features like G sync anytime soon, but these work has Tested other options like a 39 inch MVA panel And they say it works pretty similarly and they're also expecting costs for DIY Monitor solutions like this to be hundreds of dollars cheaper than 120 Hertz 4k gaming monitors from traditional companies So yay or nay DIY mix and match monitors and electronics whatever you guys say down in the comments below I know I'll be watching this concept really closely Have you ever thought to yourself if only there was some easy? affordable way to make my own website Well, you're in luck because Squarespace is just that you pick one of their gorgeous templates And whether you coach the local softball team or you run a restaurant or you want to promote your Your artist artistic portfolio, whatever it is you want to do you just pick a template you populate it with all the pictures and text You want and boom you've got a website that looks great on any device With responsive design and a ton of other great features it starts at just 12 bucks a month and you get a free domain if you buy Squarespace for the year and If you just want a super simple site you can use their cover pages feature that lets you set up a beautiful one page online presence in just minutes So why wait why not sign up for Squarespace today start a trial with no credit card required and when you decide to sign up for Squarespace permanently head over to Squarespace.com forward slash LTT and use offer code LTT to get 10% off So thanks for watching guys if you just like this video you can hit that button But if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out the products We featured at the link in the video description also down there We've got our community forum, which you should totally join as well as our merch store, which has cool shirts like this one.