0:00 - Intro 0:27 - Brightness 1:06 - Correct White Point 3:09 - Correct Gamma 3:31 - Correct Colour Space 4:56 - Pixel Overdrive 6:20 - Backlight Strobing 8:08 - Adaptive Sync 9:42 - Black EQ

This is why I subbed to you, you provide information I didn't know I want to know about computer gaming and computers in general, thanks Ali.

Thank you so much Optimum never really delved into my monitor settings but this helped me a lot. Have a AW2518H and noticed tearing a long time ago but thought it was just part of the monitor. Turns out the pixel overdrive in their settings is called "Response time" and I set my response time to Super fast obviously! Having it on Superfast caused trailing and murky images. Then looked up a professional color tutorial for it and after playing around with what they recommended the blues and colors on my monitor look really nice. Love your videos only found your channel like 4 days ago and been watching a ton of your videos!

Just found this channel and this is gold mine when you're trying to do things perfectly for your needs. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge & recommendations.

This couldn't have come at a better time!! Just got a new monitor arriving in a few hours! You rock Optimum

A great video as usual, I love the effort you put into every single one.

I never regretted my sub for you. All videos posted were useful!

I absolutely love your content. Helped me on a lot of purchases. Always a pleasure to watch! ^^

Best video I've seen explaining this. Much appreciated after searching through the swamp of mis information.

Thought I had my monitor fully optimized already, went and made a few adjustments and every game I play now feels brand new. Thank you so much for this!

This is what I needed so bad! Thank you. Going to fix my settings when I get home

Keep in mind some people are very sensitive when it comes to ULMB/DyAcc/Backlight strobing and don't even know about it. When I turn it on, I get extreme eye-strain which eventually turn into a huge migraine. If you ever have sore eyes or some sort of headache while gaming, turn Backlight strobing off.

I was just sitting at my desk fiddling with the settings on my new monitor after purchasing a 3080ti and was wondering what settings would be best, and here you are again reading my mind with uploads as per usual 😅😌

This video is amazing, recently got a new monitor, just want to say this was greatly appreciated. :)

Much needed vid as usual. Ali the goat

perfect video. just got a new pc and an acer xv272u 170hz monitor to go with it. this helped tremendously. I already had the settings at a good point, but this video helped me with getting the settings perfect. thanks so much brotha, you earned another sub. keep it up

DUDE you've been pumping out so amazing content lately (as always) thanks for the consistent content!

really comprehensive video. will reference this when i get a better monitor

While a bright monitor might not damage your eyes permanently, it can screw with your vision for days and in extreme cases up to a few weeks. If you play in a dim room with a really bright monitor for 8 hours a day it can cause problems with recognizing depth, focusing on objects further away and it can cause pain in general. You really don't need to have a super bright monitor as in most cases it won't actually help you see enemies better, try to find a good balance between bright enough and not too bright, on most monitors its around 40-70, I personally use 45. Other settings like contrast affect the perception of brightness but always try to balance things out and find what feels good for you and not copy whatever settings some pro player might use as they were already better than you without them.

You deserve way more Subscribers. The video production alongside the highly accurate details is truly insane. Thank you so much.

Man I needed this mor my new monitor bro thanks

This video could not have been out at a better time. Just got the mobiuz ex2510. Thanks Optimum

What I found really helpful is that having some bright light behind the monitor, like an RGB strip will help prevent eye strain....

Great info, when many settings are available it's easy to get lost or confused aswell as thinking its all properly setup out of the box. Great video

What a treat, monitor settings and Optimum Tech’s example monitor happens to be the same model I use

love your content man keep it up!

this is literally my go-to channel now. even though i have ancient gear, i still learn a lot that's pretty useful!

Awesome video Ali 🔥🙌🤩

thank you so much i had my pixels on od and i finally got it fixed, you are a absolute legend!

This was a really excellent video 👍

Great video dude, cheers

thansk for this i love these kinda videos

Highly recommend linking research cited in the description. Great video regardless 👍🏻😊

This video is so informative. Thanks.

played around with all kinds of settings for months and i gave up on trying to remove the ghosting and figured that my monitor was just shit and had too much ghosting and i couldnt do anything about it and then i find the overdrive setting and it fixed everything its so stupid how hard it is too find such simple solutions thx alot

YOU ARE MY GUY , Love your content

I was just thinking about these and how on earth would I find a good video on this. Thank you. You're something else.

Great tips! Thanks

thank you so much for this video!

Great vid. After years of using a Colorimeter for Pro + Personal use I think people get lost in the weeds thinking you should use the same setting for both. I advocate that personal use should be subjective. I calibrate to the native gamma curve of the display at 6000k for personal use. Native gamma curve reduces color banding and 6k feels slightly more cinematic and warm. If users do not have a colorimeter, putting up a white wallpaper and turning the brightness down to where the white wallpaper is comfortable to your eyes is a good brightness baseline.

your tracking is insane !

Right on the money with this upload

unboxing my monitor today so perfect timing

Loved the info. I can't wait to see the full review of that asus xg27 as it's on my wishlist currently

in a world full of overly saturated, mid gaming/tech youtube content, this man stays delivering top quality.. even for monitor settings lmao

Great video as always! One thing you didn't mention, probably because it's so basic, but that I think is super important is making sure in the advanced display settings in windows, that the monitor refresh rate is adjusted. With my monitor, windows set the refresh rate to 60hz by default and I didn't notice for a long time. Figuring this out and fixing it made a world of difference in my fps aiming ability.

yessir been waiting on this one

holy shit really needed this! Changed my gaming experience

You're really one of a few reviewers that is actually playing on a high level in competitive games, so you know what you're talking about. Also great quality content as always!

Hey, I have the benq zowie xl2546k and I was wondering what settings you suggest. there are a million different options, and when I turn up nvidia vibrance combined with modes i found online, it can never be right.

thx this helped make my office monitor look a little better than before

I was just having this thought today as I was thinking of upgrading my monitor. Really helped :)))

Thx for da upload

Techless is a great channel for monitor reviews and calibration!

Something to consider, at least on the XG27AQM (featured in the b-roll a couple of times and the main talking point when first discussing color temps, and is also my main gaming monitor) is that you can enable the sRGB mode and change brightness if u know what you're doing. By default the srgb mode is locked to 43%, which for me is way too bright. You can force override the brightness by entering service mode. The displayninja review has a how-to. I'd assume this is going to be similar on most ASUS monitors. Additionally, it has readouts on how to adjust the RGB values to get certain color temps.

FINALLY a review using the xg27aqm! What color settings did you use on Racing Mode? This monitor has been out for a while now and still has no tested calibration settings recommendations from the likes of something like Rtings or Tftcentral (only Display Ninja and Bijan have reviewed it so far, still good they did at least but still don't know best calibration settings)

I recently got an LG monitor, and turning on Motion Blur Reduction (backlight strobing) causes the brightness to change over time, even with auto adjust backlight turned off. It's extremely annoying and makes the feature unusable to me, is it so hard to make proper firmware for monitors?

Just got a new monitor. Several tips I didn't know about. 👌

Needed this a lot thank you

did this on my VG259QM asus monitor, stuff worked! Very nice video!

What do you think of the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9? I keep gravitating towards it as the monitor I want to get or waiting for their next one, but I've seen such a drastically contrasting opinion on it that I'm not sure what to think myself. Split between love and hate, issues or working perfectly, etc.

looking aesthetic af lately brah ;)

Whats settings for that exact monitor do you run (XG27AQM)? I have the same monitor but was wondering what you run.

I've never understood why people want displays super bright. I run my LG monitor at 10% brightness. If I'm in the dark I'll sometimes set it to 0%. I don't think I've ever had it above 20-25%. Even on a bright sunny day I can still see it perfectly and comfortably. I also hate when my iPhone automatically switches over to HDR on KZfaq or Reddit, especially if I'm in bed. it's blinding.

This vid made me realize how much I miss playing BF1, game was super solid

amazing video thank you

Great video

The quality of your videos never disappoints

Older monitors used PWM to dim the backlights, so some people max their brightness as a habit. Newer monitors should be using DC based dimming so should be fine.

Thank you! I just bought my first gaming monitor and was completly lost

Hi bro Absolute Top channel !! Really..none better imo What are the best gaming monitors with eye care features? 33in to 40+ inchers Cheers

Extended color gamuts for games that are created using the srgb standard would just over saturate the colors right?

Number one thing I change is the display settings in windows to the max refresh rate available for the monitor

I love this guys cojtent

What purexp settings would you recommend for tacfps? Ive been using the 30, 11, 45 mode recommended in your review but heard it can introduce input latency

Hey man. Thanks for the videos. I’m looking to buy the absolute best monitor for FPS gaming on PC. What’s your current recommendations?

dude, your videos are incredible. I have been a building pc's and such since i was 12 and i never thought to really change other monitor settings like this other than refresh rate settings. I have homework to do and things to check when i get home! lol. \m/

Question: I am using the XG27AQM, so do I have to select "No" for the Adaptive Sync option in the monitor menu settings if I arleady dont use G-sync in nvidia settings? Or does it not matter in this case. Thanks

Hey Ali! Maybe once the next Gen gpu launches, can you review your custom loop experience in the Asus Prime AP201 matx case? More room than itx but still not too big I guess...

I feel that one other angle for this type of content would be dual-monitor setups and the challenges involved. I had a mismatched dual-monitor setup for a while with a Gigabyte 1440p monitor on one side, next to an Acer 4K monitor on the other (I had bought and used the 1440p monitor by itself for some time first). And BOY, did the Gigabyte (M27Q) look bad color-wise next to the Acer. There was no amount of Nvidia nor monitor settings that could resolve it either. Even when I was able to get the color balance looking somewhat reasonable on the M27Q, the contrast and brightness still looked awful when set directly next to the Acer, and reds especially looked faded. I eventually just sold the M27Q even though smoother gaming at 1440p was preferable at times and two monitors made some things more convenient. Lesson being that either monitor seemed fine on its own to the untrained eye, but using them together was just unbearable for someone who values visual experience highly.

Just got a new monitor yesterday good timing

Ali, did you keep Backlight Strobing active on your XG27AQM? Do you think it is implemented well?

super helpful

My gamma has gamma 1, gamma 2 and gamma 3 witch one should I use?

Hands down my favourite Tech YT Channel at the moment!

If I’m going to get the XG27Q, these exact settings should just carry over right? Having the M version wouldn’t change much in terms of settings?

Good guide, i like the BF1 gameplay too lol, great game

There's something unique about all your videos

i see new Optimum Tech video, i click

glad to know that i knew all of these

Can you please share the settings you used on your Zowie XL 2546K? maybe here in the comments if possible

haven't been using OD since the start cause i couldn't figure out a good setting. of course the ufo test is how...im such an idiot. thank you

cant quite get ghosting to get as good as yours but it did reduce it thank you brother

I got the titan army 27 4K 144hz hdmi 2.1 and after a cod session my eyes are bleeding it’s got too many features I don’t understand what’s what but your video helped me understand a bit I don’t use HDR it makes the colours look washed out looks better with it off

hi i own a msi mag251rx and i was just wondering if you could review that monitor again and let us know what are the best settings for that monitor since there are not alot of reviews on that particular monitor

Hey optium, would you say a used almost brand new shure sm7b (only the mic i believe) for like 289 on ebay is a good deal?

Genius video to make

I have the same Asus XG279AQM monitor, do you know if there is a way to keep the ELMB setting turned on? It always seems to turn off after my computer restarts and I have to manually enable it again on the OSD

Do you also have problems with gray color on the edges (outline) of applications, folders when working in Windows on the xv252q monitor?

My AW2521H just arrived last night. What insane timing hahaha