this just very well might be your next
monitor ktc reached out to us to sponsor
this video for us to check out their 27
inch 4K 160 Hertz HDR 1000 IPS gaming
panel that has mini LED technology I am
excited to see this and it's even won
the Red Dot design award so many LED
technology is great because it offers a
lot of benefits that you don't get in
traditional gaming panels similar to
what you would get with OLED where you
have fewer pixels illuminated at a given
time so that your image has higher
contrast but as opposed to OLED it's
actually not going to have a tremendous
cost associated with it and when I found
out how much ktc is selling this monitor
for I thought this is actually a
remarkably good deal considering that I
just purchased an OLED gaming monitor
for more than what this cost but this
has better specs for what I would want
it for 4K 160 Hertz as I mentioned and
it has 2 304 LEDs with 576 zones so I'm
expecting that we are going to get some
really crisp contrast a lot better
illumination backlight bleed is going to
be less of a thing and I recently picked
up a mini LED TV as well and I can
instantly notice the difference between
that and a regular LCD television in
terms of the amount of backlight that's
existing in a dark environment so the
packaging on this is actually remarkably
clean there is not a whole lot of fluff
in there and it's just everything you
need so here's the panel itself with the
back aspect in order to connect the
stand and vase mounting if you want to
do that no screws necessary in order to
get that on but what ktc is also saying
about their panel is not only is it many
LEDs or getting that high contrast but
it also has HDR 1000 so it can get up to
a thousand nits brightness on HDR
content as well as 600 nits brightness
on SDR content on top of that it has
Delta e values of less than two so it's
going to make it so that this is
actually a much better color accuracy
experience than you get on a lot of
gaming panels it looks like there's just
one screw to get the whole monitor put
together this has a latch that allows
you to attach it and now we have a
monitor all put together I do like that
they have protection paper along the
entire display before you even open it
up so that I can set it down and prepare
it without having to worry about
scratching anything which not every
gaming monitor does the stand itself you
can pivot it you can height adjust and
you can tilt so that you can have this
monitor in any orientation that you want
it looks like they include a DisplayPort
one and a half meter cable now the
connection on here is DisplayPort 1.4
which is about going to allow you to hit
that 4K 160 Hertz then we have a USBC
cable plugged in here because it does
have a USB type-c port on the monitor
itself which can actually deliver 90
watts of power and then finally an HDMI
one and a half meter cable which is
going to be HDMI 2.1 which again does
support that 4K 120. so if we take a
look underneath you have the DC power in
as well as two USB 3.0 ports which are
actually part of the KVM switch that's
baked into this monitor so if you want
to connect multiple devices to this what
you're going to be able to do is have it
switch over your keyboard and mouse if
it's connected to the monitor to
whatever advice you would happen to have
on so that's great if you're using a
laptop a Mac Mini or anything else
connected to this on top of your gaming
PC you're going to be easily able to
switch between them there's USBC as I
mentioned which can also deliver 90
watts of power that can still do 4K 160.
you have a single DisplayPort 1.4 and
then two HDMI 2.1s and then an earphone
jack in case you want to connect your
audio to the monitor itself but with
that 90 watt charger that's going to be
great if you're trying to connect it to
any type of laptop that can charge over
USBC but you can also connect it to the
display that way you're powering your
laptop with only a singular cable and
still getting display out this is has a
lot of different options that you're
going to be able to use but I am really
excited to see what the mini LED looks
like when we're actually gaming just a
couple of other details as I get this
plugged in the mean pixel response time
on this is one millisecond so you're
going to have super fast grade degree
response times additionally it has
support for both Nvidia g-sync as well
as AMD freesync so whatever adaptive
refresh rate technology you're trying to
use it's going to be able to do that
there are built-in speakers it's got two
by two watt speakers in case you want to
play audio out of your monitor and I
believe I said this earlier but I'm just
going to make sure right now this is an
IPS panel so that you're gonna have good
viewing angles no matter where you're
sitting in relation to the monitor
itself so that's powered on let's go
ahead and remove this for the first time
oh that is good oh that is a nice matte
display right there not a ton of
reflection even in a super bright
environment you can see we have our
studio lights around you're not seeing
those very clearly at all but what you
are seeing is the mini LED right there
you see the power saving but because of
the mini LED technology the entire panel
is not lighting up it's only doing it in
the zones that the LEDs existed so again
this is close to the benefit of
everything that Ola gives you but
without the cost and capable of giving
you a lot of good gaming economics so
let's power this up I in this PC right
here I have a 5800 X 3D and an RTX 4090
so we're going to power this 4K 160hz
display there we go booting up for the
first time and again just even in that
bios menu right there you see very very
liminal illumination that zoned LEDs are
actually just perfectly Illuminating
let's turn off the studio lights to just
see that well I get a few things set up
let's just take a look at the RGB
backlight that it has this is absolutely
pure gamer aesthetic right here looking
gorgeous before we fire up a game I just
want to show you the OLED test you see
the contrast on this is incredibly good
there's very minimal backlight bleed
that's happening especially as it fades
to Black what you're having is the
actual colors are staying illuminated
down here in the zones where it's not as
bright it's not Illuminating those LEDs
as much and it allows it to get closer
to perfect black levels without that
kind of Sheen that you might see some
light ghosting that you have on certain
LED panels that might have a local array
dimming but now we need to see how it
looks for gaming so let's go ahead go to
display settings and we're already
default 4K 160 Hertz only an SDR so
let's go ahead and switch this over to
HDR HDR looking good now we have up to
that thousand nits brightness just want
to take a look at the menu settings on
here if we possibly can it has a
joystick at the back which is always
preferred for actually navigating menus
like this I turn g-sync on to make sure
that there's no screen tearing while
we're gaming you also have OverDrive
selection in case you want to turn that
on as well as game assist features like
timer Crosshair and FPS counter HDR
settings you can change the RGB Lighting
on the back to either be red green blue
off or breathing like we have it now you
can have the KVM switch set up to be
Auto USB up or type c display stream
compression as well as model information
of the actual display that you have this
is actually a fairly simple menu but it
does everything right the joystick at
the back is super easy to use so just
loading up cyberpunk to take a look at
how this monitor looks and hdr on this
is incredible you have so much of the
Highlight in the sun right here while
still maintaining all the details in the
shadows thanks to the fact that it has
HDR 1000 but even as I'm trying to show
you this on the screen my camera is
blowing out just with how bright this
monitor actually is so if we low lower
the iso and then also lower the aperture
you can see that the sun is right there
you just can't see it on this normal
camera setup because this monitor gets
so bright and that's exactly what you
want from HDR you want High dynamic
range where the brights are still going
to be really bright but then you have
proper details still going on in the
shadows right here mini LED adding that
extra contrast getting closer to the
black levels and it also being a really
fast IPS panel this monitor honestly is
delivering a top-notch experience taking
a look at the test UFO blurbusters I'm
seeing minimal ghosting the mini LED
backlight is actually working really
effectively to distinguish between the
active parts and the non-illuminated
parts this is actually looking really
good and just playing a few other games
I am blown away by the HDR content in
here being able to illuminate everything
properly having the high dynamic range
this thing's running flawlessly at 4K
That 160 Hertz is coming into play here
40 90 is probably one of the very few
cards it's going to be capable of
actually prop properly driving this
display but that's one of the benefits
of getting a display that's better than
your graphics card it's going to last
you a long time you're going to be able
to enjoy High refresh rate gaming I'm
just sorry I'm just blown away by this
Sky my goodness I don't think I've ever
seen it this crisp on a monitor before
getting a monitor that exceeds your GPU
allows you to enjoy High refresh rate
for Esports titles you know if you want
to play CS go League of Legends Etc you
can play it at 4K and get 160 Hertz but
then also you when you're finally ready
to upgrade to the 50 60 series get a
higher end GPU eventually this thing is
going to hold up buying a high quality
monitor is a long-term investment and
honestly this one really shines here and
they're just checking out one last game
The Witcher 3 with the new Ray tracing
update and yes this is looking
incredible on this monitor I had no
doubts after checking out a couple of
other games this is honestly how I want
to play like I just want to get so close
into it and look more because it's just
so beautiful
this is this is a way I've never played
this game before with HDR at a thousand
nits brightness Ray tracing on 4K Max
settings everything on a 40 like this is
this is a new experience right here it
is incredible this monitor has so many
Pros for me it's one of the highest in
gaming monitors that I've been able to
test but comes in at a price point that
doesn't break the bank I mean just a few
years ago if you wanted to get 4k 144
Hertz you're spending thousands of
dollars to hit that price point and the
price point that ktc has come in with
this is much better but you're also
getting 160 Hertz refresh rate you're
also getting IPS you're getting mini LED
added in on that technology a KVM switch
HDR 1000 this thing is hitting so many
points this is honestly a super deal for
a high-end gaming monitor so you can
check the link out for this monitor down
at the video description again big
thanks to ktc for sponsoring this video
and for sending over the
m27p20p this is a high gaming monitor at
a great price point big thanks to them
check it out I'll see you guys in the
next video