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

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.

I can also vouch for the Carpio. Wish it was around years ago when I needed carpel tunnel surgery on both hands. Great video. Enjoying the daily uploads as well.

Your channel is such a great way to unwind and relax.

Great video!! keep'em coming chief!

What a nice in debth review - Thanks!

Such great videos as usual! Thanks for the advice

I’ve been watching your videos for years love the quality and detail of every episode

Such a damn informative video. I had to subscribe brother.

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

Great review! Wonder if ULMB2 is still better than the Benq XL2586X with DyAc2 that just got announced today.

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!

+1 for Carpio. Legit game changer product for office work. It's basically like sleeping without a pillow your whole life and then somebody invents the pillow.

Thank you! So many games cannot even run at this. It makes more sense to round out features for ALL the gamers a user is going to play.

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😇💪👍!

I knew going into this video I couldn't afford any of this, I just watched for your b roll shots, they never disappoint, and this video didn't ether. That 4090 and pc build 👌 🤯🤯🤯

Great review!!!

you grew your channel really fast keep it up dude!

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.

Thanks for the insightful review, mate. I also envy your beard/barber magic. Cheers!

It's monitors like this and all the new GPU's that have me scratching my head everytime I go into PC Graphic settings on a video game to find V-Sync Ticked ON. lol one of the first things I uncheck these days...and then motion blur right after. Stellar vid as always!

I can confirm I use the Carpio G 2.0 (G standing for gamer I'm pretty sure) and it has a rubber strap instead of just being a free wrist support like the 2.0. I personally love the G 2.0 as it helps me when editing or when I'm playing an extremely high APM game (RoR2 with huntress or mercenary). With valorant it's a bit tough but my wrist issues have gone down tremendously since buying the G 2.0 so I don't need it for everything anymore. HIGHLY recommend. I have also bought third party 3D printed wrist supports on amazon and they do not work the same at all. They feel either too stiff or don't support my hand as well. Highly recommend just buying the Carpio :)

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.

7800x3D is a must surely.

just for accuracy, the monitor size is 24.1 inch, so a tiny bit smaller than 24.5, thought this might be useful for those looking into the specifics.

You should see if you can get your hands on the two new oled Alienware monitors coming out next month for review. One is 4k 32" 240Hz, and the other is QHD 27" 360Hz.

for fortnite you should've used preformance mode in the rendering mode section instead of the low preset as the majority of people that play it run it on preformance mode to squeeze out as many frames as possible

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.

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.

I loved my matrix 4090, except its not in a case. Can’t wait for the y70 to come in stock and build in it

You sold me on the audeze Maxwell and now I’m here to work on my pc since I love the Maxwell on ps5 :)

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.

You going to review the Astro a50x. If so looking forward against the stealth

i got my responce time under 1-2ms of my current hz. probably gonna pick the 540 up just cause im aware my current bottleneck is my monitor. gg and ty for the review

I was thinking of getting a carpio years ago but I was always skeptical. Might have to grab one now.

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.

@badseedtech can you PLEASE review the geon raptor he switches in the wooting and do a stem swap with lekker stems

Just to note, rainbow six is my main game and the benchmark compared to in game is drastically different. I get 600 in benchmark and in game I sit around 340 - 450 (depending on what operators are being played).

Great review. I bought the same monitor few days ago but after only 2 days of use I noticed it developed some weird dark spots in the middle of the screen. These are visible when I'm displaying a black background and slightly on gray, not visible on other colors. Could you please check yours and let me know if you are having the same issue?

nice finally a new monitor video! could you review the Innocn 27G1S? its a 27ich 1440p 240hz monitor for 300$ and every review i found says it can easily be on par or surpass ips/tn panels in clarity and motion handling without the typical black level smearing. but i think the most reviews are probably bought... would be amazing to have a trusted reviewer check it out!

I returned mine as it was unstable and the base was loose and moved too easily. It was actually a pain in the behind to get it to position the way you wanted as its hard to hold both feet to adjust the monitor. It would freeze up, not recover from sleep occasionally, and sometimes go black screen and need to be restarted or turned off and on again to get it to work again. The Aura sync also never worked for me with the RGB lighting on the back either. On the plus side...the colors and refresh etc...was crazy good! However, the Zowie XL2586X 540 HZ is coming VERY soon!!!

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

Have you ever reviewed any good 32" monitors for gaming? (yeah I know 27" is the apparent king but I have reasons for 32")

The Matrix 4090 gots a liquid cooled 12pin on it? Built in *Fire Suppression System* 🤘🧐

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.

It was hard to decide between the ASUS ROG Swift Pro PG248QP 540hz TN with 1080p and ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQN 360hz IPS with 1440p… I went with the PG27AQN and I’m really impressed. Great review, thank you.

Brother, that shit is wild!!

yo when you doing an corsair m75 air review

For the siege benchmark were you using the vulkan api? The fps on vulkan is wayy higher!

What should pulse offset be at?

Can you do a comparison between the 360hz PG27AQN and the 240hz OLED PG27AQDM because i can't find the PG27AQN anywhere where i live and only the OLED is available and not sure if i should go for the oled because of burn in and if 240hz is abit outdated compared to the 360hz options

Which cpu did you run with the 4090?

What is the best 1080p 360hz monitor option?

same panel up for preorder on taobao at $500. or you can get 2566k equivalent for $200.

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

does G sync matter for the 540hz and the new oled 240hz monitors?

if i'm playing a game at 400fps with the 540hz , it will stutter or something like that? because for example, i'm planning to buy it for high level cs.. but nowadays more at the 400fps mark . (i'm not considering buying the 360hz tho, because other games i can play with more fps, but afraid of not achieving the 540avg might be bad)

Who are the other 6 people that kept watching?

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

I play competitive fornite and i was about to get the asus 540hz But the 360hz oled just got out What should i buy?

do you turn off gsync and hdr when using UMLB 2? thanks

Can thunderbolt 4 or usbc to dp even do 540hz on my 4090 laptop?

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.

tell me pls pg248qp or xl2586x which one good? and why? PLS

You need tuned bdie ddr4 to get 300fps 1% lows and avg 400fps with your cpu. I play 360fps locked on my pg27aqn with tuned cpu/ram and oc'd 4090 at 1440p low rebar off.

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?

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.

I bought the xl2566k 5 months ago. Ive only used it for maybe 6 hours. Been trying to sell it but im going to take such a loss on it. So its being used as a secondary monitor now.

I got hyped when you said it is a TN panel. i dont like IPS or VA or OLED at all. I play games wich dont take much to run. So this monitor would be great for smooth gameplay at 540Hz. I think it is funny how people allways forget that there is other games than the mainstream games cuz there is thousands of games that will run way above 540hz . But the price is to high. Might wait a year or two and hope the price drops

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 😂

Should of done the tests on a ryzen 7000 x3d pushes alot more fps on 1080p

Sir, it's finally a good time to upgrade to DDR5. I'd recommend the Asrock Z790 Nova WiFi with GSkill F5-6000J3636F32GX2-TZ5RK

I’m well happy with mine, I also run pg42uq as my main so versatility is not a huge concern for me. Maining OW 2 and I can pretty much run 500+ on a 4090

Had zowie 360hz but bought this monitor last month beautiful love it anyone knows how to go yo service menu?

Did you run ulmb2 @540hz? Because mine got white screen

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!

DyAc2 vs ULMB2 next video

I am ready to pull the trigger on either of these monitors and have a new concern. I am currently running a i7 13700f, 4070ti. Will my cpu bottleneck my gpu on cod mw3 with 1080p low resolution, to achieve max fps for the best competitive edge?

7800x3d would help close up some of these 1% lows

For mw3 wouldn’t it be beneficial to use frame generation for this monitor

i get similar fps/benchmark results on COD with a Ryzen 5 3600 and 4070. I blame the game engine tbh, plus, it's not Overwatch or CS levels of optimized

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.

That new zowie one 👀

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.

When we gonna see those MW3 stats? 👀

im a grandmaster 1 overwatch 2 player and was peak ranked 70 before this monitor. after this monitor, my peak was 69.

Yeah I'll stick with 240hz 1080p for less than $250 :) **most notably the viewsonic xg2431 very low input lag and response time and way cheaper*

I recently bought Zowie and I don’t regret it even going from a 27 inch 1440p 144hz monitor.

I probably could get it maxed out on Rocket League.. butter smooth goals and dribbles..

My friend chicken and rice just got here, and i get this banger to watch with it ?? 🔥🔥

Waiting for Zowie 540hz… Their dyac technology should support both AMD and NVIDIA, so I’m looking forward to that. Might return my Asus 540hz for that.

This video just serves to highlights the absolute ridiculousness of the monitor & that 4090. Great entertainment as always.

Can someone just tell me what to buy

I prefer higher picture quality with my 4k 120hz OLED over low res and high refreshrate. Everything over 90FPS is smooth enough for me.

There's something wrong with how your CPU performs on COD. I get pretty much identical numbers with my 5600X. Usually changing the RendererWorkerCount value in the config to something close to your core count can squeeze out a decent amount of performance but your 13900K should be reaching 400+fps so it can't be just that.

Opti Mum and Monitor Subboxed are great channels.

"Scale back from the PC or the Gym". Bro that like 95% of my life lol

I think a 1440p is prob a better choice for high end Gpu if there’s a market for it

Your CPU is kinda underperforming. Slow ram?

I think the ultimate esports panel shall be: 600Hz WOLED/AMOLED with HDR True Black 400 even at 1080p, absolutely crushing 540Hz E-TN panel