what I have here is the world's first
240 HZ OLED screen LG's 45 gr 95 QE
Ultra gear monitor Now LG provided the
LG Ultra gear monitor for free and this
is a compensated video but I get to take
a look at what they've been cooking up
and seeing it for the first time in
breathtaking 45 in setup 21 by9 aspect
ratio with an 800r curve so immediately
taking this out of the box the one thing
I noticed is that the 800 R curve is
absolutely tremendous look at how this
just bows on my desk that is a very
tight curve the radius of a circle of
these monitors would be only8 M which is
absolutely tight and enveloping when
you're actually playing the game but
then the second thing I notice is just
how thin this panel is to deliver the
3440 x440 aspect ratio again at 240 HZ
per fresh rate with point 03
milliseconds gray to gray response time
that is tremendously large tremendously
curved and this is going to be fun to
game on now this LG Ultra gear monitor
which has self fit pixels with each
providing their own illumination as you
can see right here as Windows is trying
to boot up you can't see anything else
illuminated besides the white text right
here it has white sub pixels in addition
to the RGB subpixels that you find on
other OLED monitors which allows it to
have a number of advantages including
the fact that they tend to be less
susceptible to burn it which is one of
the things that I think gamers are a
little intimidate about when it comes to
enjoying an olet experience for their
gaming Monitor and I can tell you right
now as I'm sitting here right here one
of the things I noticed with this 800r
curve is that it's so wraparound it's so
enveloping of my experience that I'm
getting audio reflection directed right
back to me my microphone is picking up
not only my voice right here but it's
hitting this monitor curving around and
then coming back so there's a little bit
of reverb when I sit right here in front
of the monitor which is the best gaming
experience simply because of how
immersive this monitor is now I've
investigated a bunch of thirdparty
reviews when it comes to long-term use
of LG's panels and previous monitors
that happen to utilize it and what they
find is that LG's panels have the least
amount of Burnin that you could find out
of the alternative OLED panels that are
out on the market now LG does include a
remote for their monitors which allows
you to control all of the settings that
you could possibly want on it and it
includes a Nifty little locking
mechanism where you can screw in the
battery to make sure that it's not going
to fall out but I have mentioned in the
past with some of my LG monitors that
I'm not a huge fan of the remote
actually replacing having a physical
control button on the monitor which this
Ultra gear does suffer from and if I
could just give LG a little constructive
criticism the remote is great it's a
great additional thing to have but it
cannot be the only thing especially in
environments where you might lose it
your children might take it or you again
run out of the battery and now it's a
little while before I can adjust the
settings to my liking and I have to go
unscrew this again find a new battery
and all of that would be mitigated by me
having a physical joystick on the
monitor that allows me to change the
settings let's go ahead and take a look
at the menu that they provide you can
see here we're already running at a
clear 240 HZ with adaptive sync turned
on we can turn hdr on and you have
different color modes as well as
different calibrations that you can put
in the monitor now for adaptive sync you
do have G compatibility as well as free
sync premium you can put in a Crosshair
if you want display an FPS counter and
adjust things like the brightness the
sharpness and various other settings
that you could get with the picture and
thankfully LG also includes a picture by
picture or picture in picture mode where
you can set it up since it is a 21 by9
monitor you can have two images being
displayed side by side or you can have
one in the side corner right over here
so that you get to enjoy multiple
experiences at once and you can also
change the lighting that is on the back
of the monitor you can see that it is
changing as I'm going through the menu
you can also have it cycled through the
various stages of RGB or even turn it
off entirely if that is your preference
when it comes to having Lighting on your
monitor and you can also set userdefined
buttons on the remote with one and two
and you can set those to do various
things like enable picture in picture
mode and picture by picture mode and
then also do things like change the
input enable game mode set the FPS
counter just giving you some flexibility
with the remote outside of just typical
button settings there's also a deep
sleep mode to reduce power assumption
while it's on idle but that's enough of
checking out the settings now let's go
ahead and check out the gaming
experience and immediately the contrast
looks incredible especially in a game
like this where there is a lot of
grittiness and dark aspects and a lot of
path tracing going on so that lighting
is more realistic this is one of the
best ways that you could possibly enjoy
this game now all of the colors look
beautiful on here again the contrast
cannot be understated one of the things
I like about OLED so much is that it is
just a different experience to your
traditional LCD backlit monitor I
compare it to getting into an EV for the
first time even if it's a low-end EV
that only costs 10 grand what you find
is that the instant torque response of
an electric motor provides you with a
driving experience that is fundamentally
different than a gas powered vehicle and
that is what OLED is to something like
your traditional LED setup having each
pixel self lit having the ability to
have the black parts of a frame actually
be turned off on your mind monitor gives
you yes a gaming experience that you've
had before but it is something that once
you enjoy it is hard to go back to
traditional LED panels and especially at
240 HZ this is incredibly responsive
everything is running smoothly and
crisply and looks gorgeous all of the
lighting scenarios look as they were
designed to look and you also have LG's
anti-glare low reflection screen as you
can see right here I have studio lights
on you can see I have a bright light
Illuminating this studio and here not
seeing that be reflected even though
this does have an 800r curve where
that's actually directly in the path of
the curve of the monitor this screen is
bright enough for gaming every color
pops on this monitor in a way that is
hard to describe again because it's
experiencing colors this is an
experience rather than something that
can be communicated to you orally
because you don't have an OLED monitor
sitting right in front of you honestly
sitting right here dead center would
allow me to actually get lost in the
world of this because my peripheral
vision is taken up by this monitor I
don't tend to get motion sickness in
something like VR so having this
experience wrap around me is a very
preferred gaming experience but in case
you know you don't want to be that close
you can still get that effect of a 21
by9 Ultra wide while still maintaining a
little bit of space from it especially
because it is 45 in this is still going
to give you a lot of real estate for
enjoying a game one of the other things
that LG wanted me to investigate was the
idea of OLED potentially overheating and
making it so that your gaming experience
is uncomfortable especially if you're
sitting this close to a monitor that
packs so much power to it are you going
to be feeling that heat and LG said that
in their testing their monitors stay
around 40° C and in my testing I
actually found that it was a little bit
better than that at least in the scenes
and the games that I was playing and
leaving it on for well over 90 minutes I
really wanted to see after a long gaming
session how warm are the parts of the
monitor that that are facing you and I
found that it was roughly 31 to 32° C at
the worst parts of it but mostly
maintaining in the 29 to 30° C making it
so that the the monitor is not at all
warm to the touch I I don't feel it on
my face at all I'm sitting very close to
this panel having a great experience
playing this game but I'm not actually
uncomfortable because of it and it seems
like even with all of these pixels being
driven 3440 x440 240 times a second in
it still maintains relatively good
cooling especially with the heat sink
that is on the back even though it also
does have super thin bezels so this was
my look at LG's Ultra gear 45gr 95 QE
OLED 240 HZ 21 by9 gaming monitor it
honestly accomplishes everything that I
thought it would it is a great gaming
experience big thanks to LG for
providing this monitor for me to check
out and for compensating us for this
video we will see you again in the next
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