Yes - I know I missed a number on the graphic at 11:23 - it wasn't worth re-rendering the whole video again lol OH and the PG27AQN is on sale at Amazon rn for $899 and the lowest I've seen it. Still a ton of money for sure, but if you're been waiting for a sale, here it is - geni.us/BPs76T
Thing to note on Optimum’s recommendations is that he’s a competitive nut. It’s his bread, butter and crack. The guy made the lightest mouse in the world and would sell his own mother for a higher refresh rate. So if that sounds like you then yeah he might be your go to for recommendations. Anyone else nah.
Rhythm games. That is another thing this would be good for, DJMAX, EZ2ON are two I play and I use a 360hz monitor for them, don't think a 540 would matter too much tbh but there are more games than just the ones you mentioned. OSU Mania maybe ( I don't like it so don't know how much FPS they allow up to ), Etterna and more. This is 100% a niche product but its awesome to see them pushing for more stuff like this.
Personally I think grasping for higher refresh rates on rhythm games is a bit of a red herring. Just in terms of peripherals, I think low latency controls make a bigger difference and no one seems to be talking about the role low latency audio has in keysounded games. The Presonus Quantum series of Thunderbolt interfaces boasts sub-millisecond latency. I love to know if it makes any difference in EZ2ON, which already has industry leading audio latency, but I'm not about to throw down $700 to find out.
@@lilpain1997 ehhhhhhhh it's important to a point. look. the monitor on the IIDX Lightning Model is objectively bad. TN, ghosts like a motherfucker. Doesn't matter, the jump from 60 to 120fps was a game changer. We are getting 12 MAXs now. That did not happen before.
I love that you watch optimum. Every video he posts is so premium IMO. He is not as widespread or as continuously posting as you are, ut whenever he does post, he's got me and probably just about every subscriber HOOKED from start till finish. Not to take anything away from the Badseed, quite the opposite, but the production quality and niche on optimum tech is just.. something else
they have 360hz 1440p 27 qd oled panels coming from samsung next year. the native pixel response time of oled will likely mean a 360hz oled will be similar or faster responding compared to a 500hz tn with the added bonus of much better picture quality and contrast.
Still my favorite channel when it comes to reviews and takes on tech. Came for the mice back in the day, stayed for the professionally structured videos and transparency on biases and opinions.
if you are having wrist issues I urge you to do hand stretching exercises at least 2-3 times every session(2-3hours) and also if you add pull ups and dead hangs the problem will be gone forever.
Hi Bri, 🥰👋. I’ve been using the original Carpio wrist wrest for over 2yrs now and for me, they are worth the money and are great for long gaming / productivity sessions😇💪👍!
Never knew this channel existed but this dude is one of the best momitor reviewers already in my eyes after just watching this one review. Really good stuff!
GPUs are so stupidly overpowered its ridiculous and overkill af. I think anything 4070ti/7900xt and below just needs a really good CPU to benefit from, thats it. 4090, 4080, 7900xtx is just unused potential really, no CPU gonna match with them good. Im definitely upgrading CPU to match my gpu sometime next year, cheers to a good video as usual
try out osu where i got 1000 fps with a vega 64. there a 540hz monitor will be noticed the most, its also the only game in which i notice a change from 240hz to 360hz
Thanks for the review. Just a point. RAM is proven to be very important for 1080p when GPU is under-utilised. Your CPU is also under utilised and that’s because of the RAM. Running ddr4 here doesn’t make this monitor review justice as I’m sure if you were running high speed DDR5 (~7000Mhz) kits you would see much higher results across the board, upwards of around 10-20% in some cases or even more I’m sure. Don’t neglect the importance of RAM these days. I run CS2 on 1440p with a 4090, 13900k and DDR5@6000Mhz and run consistently above 500 fps, often in the 6-700s. I just ordered this monitor to try out some gameplay in CS2, overwatch, warzone etc.
The Carpio's are nice, but I'd also recommend getting a Logitech MX Vertical. Being in IT - on a computer for 8+ hours a day - it's been a WRISTsaver. Think of it like when you put your arms down on the table. You're not putting your hands down, you're putting the side of your wrist down, which is where the logitech slots nicely. No twisting necessary in the forearm to hold your mouse is nice to have.
MW3 .. You're missing a setting for unlimited FPS. The column that you're under caps it at 300 FPS. I would try DLSS Quality and there's no way that you can't get your frame rate at least into the 400s if not the 500s @1920x1080. I can easily get my i9-13900K / RTX 4090 to ~300FPS @ 3440x1440 with MAX (High/Ultra) settings and DLSS Quality. CPU-Z J8P8UR
@@futureitpro3511its probably your CPU. CPU wont let you go very high unless its a year old or less and absolute top of the line. But its under settings>graphics>display and about halfway down under “sustainability” you can set your custom framerate limit or uncap it completely. Make sure you read carefully because there are setting for in game, menus and out of focus mode.
@@mryellow6918 .. Unless you are using some form of Frame Synchronization e.g. FreeSync or G-Sync then you're going to have "smudge" in the form of tearing. However, the video has more to do with a 500 Hz / 540 Hz OC G-Sync monitor so you need to unlock the unlimited frame rate, the custom slider limits your frame rate to 300 FPS not 250 or whatever. _FYI: As far as the Unlimited setting, I have no idea how high that can go. When I use it I see an occasional 340 FPS, but the frame rate is very erratic and unstable at least for my max settings with DLSS Quality on my RTX 4090. I have not tried nor do I care to try 1920x1080 to see the absolute max possible on my PC._
A note about Siege, It's one of my primary games and on both my systems, I can maintain above 540 fps pretty much all the time so I jumped on this monitor as soon as I could find it available. Fast forward to actually getting it and testing it, Siege doesnt even support 540hz... Or 500. Or anything in the 400s or even 390. The game stops support at 360hz and a brief trip around R6FIX and reddit indicates that the developers of the game dont plan on supporting anything above 360hz. The quote on this was from about a year ago but from what I can tell, nothing's changed. When youre in-game, you can SET the refresh rate to 540hz but it will always revert back to 360hz as soon as you leave the display tab. You can double check/confirm this via the monitor's built in display that shows what refresh rate it's actually running. Super disappointing, because yeah, This is one of the very few games out there that I can consistently run 500+ all the time (14900K/4090/7600 DDR5/Intel APO system and 7800X3D/7900XTX) on this game specifically. I also own the PG27AQN and find myself running that instead!
One slight caveat to this is you can get around the "non-support" of 540hz or anything above 360hz by playing in borderless windowed mode. It will run at 540hz there but is incompatible in fullscreen exclusive for some awful, unknown reason. @@badseedtech
yeah i can confirm this is true. i own the pg248qp and when u switch to 500hz in game settings, it reverts to 360hz. Its really disappointing. This is the only game i play. @badseedtech
Even at lower fps like 60fps and 120fps gaming such as consoles, its response time is an unbelievably 2.5ms. 16.7ms / 8.3ms VS 2.5ms. So fighting games, GTA 5, PS5/Xbox players will hugely benefit from that eTN panel unbelievable speed. Visual beauty? ❌️ Winning in multiplayer?✅️
Turn frame gen on in mwIII. I get 540 fps in cod with a 5800x3d and a 4090. It bumps my total system input lag from 6-7ms up to 11-13ms but the motion clarity is worth it and the input lag isn’t really noticeable. 540hz is something to behold for movment men.
There must be a problem with your rig, I have no issues running Overwatch at 480+ average ultra textures on a 3080 10GB and 12700k, DDR5 manually tuned to 7800mhz.
And yes, everything for me is manually overclocked to the max, but there's no way I should catch up to your rig. DDR4 4100mhz+ should be near my performance level.
Im thinking memory speed has a lot to do with it. I have a weird motherboard that dropped when the 12900k did but still supported DDR4 bc the early DDR5 was still wip. Gonna rebuild in a couple weeks with a 7800x3d and some DDR5 and revisit
i think the excitement should still be there cause its what the future holds, i think there will be games and optimizations for certain games so they can hit that 540 htz. It reminds me of the first 300 hertz monitors when they first came out, now we got 360 hertz 1440p with good colors and some games that can play it.
Oh my god that gpu is incredible. The price matches the wow factor but damn that’s the first time I’ve seen an after market card that actually seems worth a hefty premium over a founders. If I was going for some sort of no compromise build, that would be the pick 100%. Also great monitor, but I just switched from the Alienware aw2523hf (1080p 360hz) to the ASUS xg27aqmr (300hz 1440p) and I think it’s a much more balanced experience. Having been on 1440p since 2016 or so, the switch to 1080 was rough for everything but competitive games. It’s becoming a weird niche in 2023.
i really value your opinion, and im wondering at the moment where i should look or ask for advice on acoustic wall panels. are they all foam? do you have brands or design that you recommend? im looking to get black ones unless i was gonna throw an odd color or two if i decided to go with hexagon shapes. i like the ones that kinda look like faux bricks. or ones that have low profile with line designs inside of them. theres so many options i really dont know for sure, i have a hard time with decisions. i saw yours in the background and i like those as well....any advice you have would be appreciated. i struggle with design choices....brands?.....and how many of them i would need like if i should just do a few and have them set up to be more visually pleasing or if i should do from like the half way point in the wall or a little higher and go down to the floor. Or if i should just cover my entire wall behind my desk with them, if that would have better performance. also becuase i kinda have a crappy old white paintjob on my walls that would be difficult to repaint any time soon (so im definately going for a Black/White color scheme), so covering as much as i can of the wall would give my apartment a major uplift. They definitely serve a purpose though as i have a neighbor behind my desk wall and she cant stand my speakers of volume levels at all....which puts a major damper on my hobby of editing and remixing music. any advice or help would be greatly appreciated, i know you take audio pretty seriously so i cant think of a better person to ask.... edit: i should also add that i have some govee glide hexagon pro panels and also a couple boxes of their Y Lights that im hoping to incorporate into the whole look to also go along with my Yellowpop neon user name light that i want to keep placed around the area above my monitors, so im wondering if i will have a hard time trying to stick these things on top of acooustic panels or if i should just try to go around them with the panels. i feel like going around them would make a panel design a lot more difficult to figure out as i obviously dont want the wall to look goofy.
For PUBG, testing a big city would be more beneficial as it affects the GPU the most. With a 4090 on 1080p low you're lucky to get 300 fps while being in a major city like georgopol or yasnaya. Fighting there is pretty demanding on the GPU and you always run into a cpu bottleneck.
I have this monitor. My system is: CPU: 5800x3d RAM 32GB 3200Mhz 14 timings GPU RTX 3090 Honestly I mainly play Apex at 240fps, and I'd say if you can afford this monitor it's worth it, I know everyone will have their own opinion, but in terms of motion clarity it's just amazing. I came from a 240hz monitor and only bought this one due to the 240hz dying. My goal was "Ride this monitor out another 3 - 5 years and then upgrade to OLED once the tech has gotten there, and once 4k may be able to hit current 1080p frame rates" I just really can't say enough good things about it. It was everything I was wanting it to be.
Nah I didn't. I've never played Siege and when Vulkan launched years ago iirc it was mainly for AMD cards? so I haven't stayed up on it. Good looks though.
I've been a gamer all my life, PC and Console, but now I am strictly PC. Played diablo games as a kid as young as like 6. Wrist issues are something that I am SO thankful I have never encountered yet, but is on my mind because I don't know what I would do if I had to stop playing because of it. My biggest concern, I'm a wrist gamer, I don't really use my whole arm. Do you think the Carpio is still something I should look into, or in your experience with it it's more of an arm gamer type of thing?
So it helps you engage your whole arm and *not* depend so much on your wrist. But even if you choose to keep wrist aiming, it will probably still help loads just having it elevated. For productivity its a godsend bc - especially wehn doing thumbnails and photoshop work I have a trigger depressed a lot so there's constant tension on the wrist joint while I'm moving it and that smokes it fast. It will take some getting used to if you're primarily a wrist aimer and you intend to keep wrist aiming. But it will probably benefit you in the long run. Personally, I wish I would have found it *before* I started having wrist issues.
be look at these two monitor for a while now i still do not know what to go with coming from a 360hz 1080p do i got to 27 1440p 360 or jump to 540 at 1080p
I have a Acer XV242F which is the same panel as ASUS and it's only half price, the experience is good however I eventually go back to 2K 240Hz OLED because the clarity in far distance is way better than 1080p, you can really aim at a target, not some pixels 😂
I mean, i am getting an 4090 pc next week.. and i will be playing 24 inch 1080 yes i know sounds stupid but i want 4090 for my Vr sim racing that i do next to comp fps. And yes i play low settings for max fps. And my main games are literally cs:go valorant and rainbow six siege. So i guess this for me would be amezing right.
FYI, I own a PG27AQN with a 4090, Ryzen 9 7950X, and 64GB DDR5 6400mhz CL32, so a pretty darn fast rig. At 360hz, there are still lots of games that don’t get up to that margin. COD, Battlefield, Apex, You name it, it’s probably capped at something lower, or in the case of Battlefield, too unoptimized to hit 360fps. Overwatch is fantastic though. CS2, Valorant, Fortnite, they are all great games for high refresh rates. Unfortunately, it’s very game dependent and it sucks that some company’s (dice in particular, seriously fuck you guys) have to suck so hard.
I used it for several days, the image problem is not caused by the resolution but by the poor quality coating which adds a multitude of shiny parasitic effects, to judge for yourself, you can do the experience and reproduce this effect on your current monitor by placing a wet finger, this is really the major fault of this monitor, I hope that the origin of the problem is not the liquid crystal pixels of the AUO panel otherwise Zowie XL2586X and Acer XV242F will have this same problem
Ive got 390hz monitor and i dont use it. Higher res > higher refresh rate as long as its minimum 144. Perdonally 240 is the sweet spot which is y i have 3 monitors. 1080p 390hz, 1440p 240hz and 4k 144hz. I use 1440p for online fps and 4k for aingle player games. 1080p is just there on the side
Call of Duty, is literally the ONLY competitive game that cannot run that high. All the others can, and well, Apex but that's because of framecap. But Overwatch, Valorant, Fortnite, CS2, League, Dota, etc. all of those can hit those frames.
I play on 240fps in warzone but it fluctuates in the map but lowest I have seen is 210. If I try on 1080p, I can probably hit 300 plus if cpu doesn’t bottleneck me.
God I wish the industry would move past 1080p already. I don't care how fast it is, 1080 will always look bad. And honestly people who actually think it makes much of a difference once it's that fast are either full of shit or .00000001% of players.
Dont forget that is your OPINION. No company would go to the lengths and cost of producing a monitor like this if people werent buying it. Your OPINION may or may not be wrong, but its only that. An opinion.
@@Viknee They officially revealed XL2586X a few hours ago (along with an updated 240hz XL2546X). 540hz with DyAc 2. Couldn't find any information on the pricing.
@@fimdy6530 well samsung is apparently starting mass production soon so im sure they will be around in a couple months. January seems soon but i domt have any inside info or anything on that. But my guess would be announced in january at CES, shipped out for review in february and majorly available in feb or march at the earliest
