"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're checking out the latest and greatest in gaming monitors from msi holy cow the specification list on this thing this is a 360 hertz g-sync monitor it's called the nx g25 3r and it has esports in mind look at the back of this thing g-sync 360 trademark nvidia this one is 24.5 inches a very popular size for gamers if you get a monitor that's too big sitting at a particular distance you may have to have uh more head movement in order to see the entirety of the display if you care about competitiveness that could be a disadvantage this for the competitive types that are looking for that edge uh this is what you're going to be looking at rapid ips 360 hertz one millisecond response time and of course that rgb led lighting it has 400 nits of brightness 1001 contrast ratio and it is 1080p obviously for a gaming monitor that tends to be the target all right now over here we have some different models so we kicked it off with kind of the most aggressive and intense 360 hertz version which is the one we have over here now if i do flip it down for a moment hdmi times two there's a display port over there a headphone output your barrel style connector for power and then there's an upstream usb but there's also another model different price point this is the 240 hertz and this one's called the optics mag 251 rx so this one has the msi logo gaming and esports written on the back same joystick on the back gives you that nice kind of mechanical input for dealing with your menus and such on this guy we have display port first two hdmis this one has a type c connector a headphone jack as well power and another upstream usb you have the upstream usb because there's a built-in usb hub so we have three usb a ports on the side which are gonna be nice for peripherals obviously so this one is also 24.5 inches and that type c port on the optics model is going to be capable of displaying video as well so if you want to connect a laptop that can output over type c and then you can have that single style connector so that's a nice little option over there i like that this is the one that that kirk likes he likes optics i need 360 hertz needed this holiday season why would you have such cool graphics on the back of your monitor but if you've ever watched esports you see the back of the monitor frequently i mean previously you would have your sponsors i guess but in this case you have something some of your specs performance specs what could also be your sponsor you get a much bigger dragon msi dragon on this one as well which i just noticed and beyond the ability to spin there's also some cable management here obviously run your cables through the base and you have nice height adjustability you can get this very low position you have tilt in here as well you can come all the way up to here and we get a nice portrait ability i mean you can use it for productivity obviously and then the most obvious would be in some sort of a streaming environment where you might want to have your chat or whatever over here and you want to have matching monitors so you might have more than one of these every angle in between and you can spin it the other way and it has a stopping point this stand setup is very configurable i'm a big fan of this stand this one i think will do tilt and up and down and that's that no fancy spinaroo so yeah oculux versus optics some benefits and drawbacks for each obviously different price points and then if you want something bigger which you know some people are going to want if it's your only monitor if you're also watching a lot of content on it movies and things like that you might want to have a 27-inch monitor which is what this one is so you can see the difference there it's also from the optics line this is the mag 274 qrf dash qd the more letters the better performance goes up with the number of letters in the actually you know the oculus has less anyway this one is 2560 by 1440 so you're getting more pixels as well and that's something you'd expect uh with more bigger screen size 165 hertz refresh one millisecond response quantum dot and gaming osd app so they're talking about the on-screen menu system cable management is built in here same little joystick on the back you can see the styling here very stealth fighter like only 165 hertz on this model i don't know how you're going to survive i'm joking tons of performance there still and we have our tilt and we have our part if it's all mlg all day then you probably go for the one on the far left if it's a more of a mixture of productivity and maybe content consumption maybe you go for a slightly bigger monitor if you have the space for it you might go for this 27 inch unit we have displayport two hdmis that type c connector which is also capable of doing video we have the upstream usb and two usb a ports there are no ports on the side so that's another interesting finding on the bigger model they don't bother putting the ports on the side they put them on the back and i'm kind of split on that because if you have the ports on the back you can run the cable management with the remainder it can be a kind of clean setup these other two models with the ports on the side that's really easy access it's a lifestyle usb port placement is a lifestyle all right so the one that i'm most curious about is this 360 hertz monitor i'm not sure we've had one in studio previously so we're going to hook it up to this gaming pc right here and we're going to experience what 360 hertz g-sync looks like feels like does for us see what it does for us should i do an intro yo what up it's your boy uh your boy and uh i'm gonna i'm gonna rip some apex legends right now on this new monitor on this new 360 g-sync msi professional 24-inch it's gonna make me a pro gamer i'm essentially gonna win this match right now so let's let's get it ripping let's go the main feature of this monitor definitely is 360 hertz you're gonna get a refreshed screen 360 times per second everything is gonna be looking silky smooth there's not gonna be much motion blur it's gonna be really really crisp and vivid and intense it's gonna feel like real life it's gonna feel like you're stepping in to real life but you're already in real life it's like a second layer of reality that's how silky smooth it's gonna be at 360 hertz per second uh the second key feature of this monitor is the nvidia g-sync which is hardware acceleration inside of the monitor that essentially syncs up the monitor's refresh rate with the frames that your gpu is pushing out so you're going to get way less tearing which is when the first top half of the screen shows up rendered before the bottom half does you're going to get way less motion blur and it's just going to make sure that you're the gpu that's crushing these frames is gonna sync up perfectly with your monitor nvidia g-sync no tearing no fuss no muss pure immersion and then one millisecond response time this can get a little bit confusing with refresh rate refresh rate is going to be refreshing the screen the response time is going to be how quickly those pixels react to the refreshing screen so the new screen gets refreshed and the pixel that's going to change color to represent that refresh screen is going to do it in one millisecond so that's the optimal sweet spot this monitor essentially hits all the sweet spots you have 360 hertz refresh rate you have one millisecond response rate you have nvidia g-sync and you have a 24-inch panel the reason why 24-inch monitor is perfect is because you don't have to move your head all you have to do is move your eyes instead of covering this distance all you have to do is cover this distance with your eyes which means that your reaction time can be a lot faster the real pro guys won't go above 24 inches then you've got like an extra bit of screen on either side and it's just way more head movement and then you're you're not gonna win like that you can't be tactical like that you gotta use your eyeballs see how fast i am see how fast that is i got you already i got you way faster all right we're doing arenas because i don't got time for this looting i need this straight action into my eyeballs through this monitor right away as fast as it can go so we're doing arenas boom so right now we're like 160 170 fps on this and it's looking so silky smooth it's ridiculous i actually have an extra reticle on the monitor it's an option you can put on so i have a reticle on the reticle twice the aim baby boom oh he's not dead yet eat it that's smooth baby that's butter i got really it's a flawless round it really ends me up i'm buying it's a buy round the skin on the r99 look at the skin on the r99 you like that oh eat it you got bamboozled you both got bamboozled i bamboozled them both you got bamboozle whoa no this is not looking good i may have gotten overconfident last round with that great play oh the championship kill baby five kills one assist five knobs that's the mvp level round right there bamboozling everyone it's easy when the monitor is so silky and smooth and immersive like this you get right in it i have to say the 24 inch is the perfect size all right so there you have it the latest gaming masterpieces from msi all the way up to 360 hertz gaming with g-sync pick your poison pick your pick your favorite let me know in the comments which one would you go for is it max refresh is it bigger screen size is it the convenience of usb type c let me know what matters most also what do you think is the optimal monitor size for competitive gamingwe're checking out the latest and greatest in gaming monitors from msi holy cow the specification list on this thing this is a 360 hertz g-sync monitor it's called the nx g25 3r and it has esports in mind look at the back of this thing g-sync 360 trademark nvidia this one is 24.5 inches a very popular size for gamers if you get a monitor that's too big sitting at a particular distance you may have to have uh more head movement in order to see the entirety of the display if you care about competitiveness that could be a disadvantage this for the competitive types that are looking for that edge uh this is what you're going to be looking at rapid ips 360 hertz one millisecond response time and of course that rgb led lighting it has 400 nits of brightness 1001 contrast ratio and it is 1080p obviously for a gaming monitor that tends to be the target all right now over here we have some different models so we kicked it off with kind of the most aggressive and intense 360 hertz version which is the one we have over here now if i do flip it down for a moment hdmi times two there's a display port over there a headphone output your barrel style connector for power and then there's an upstream usb but there's also another model different price point this is the 240 hertz and this one's called the optics mag 251 rx so this one has the msi logo gaming and esports written on the back same joystick on the back gives you that nice kind of mechanical input for dealing with your menus and such on this guy we have display port first two hdmis this one has a type c connector a headphone jack as well power and another upstream usb you have the upstream usb because there's a built-in usb hub so we have three usb a ports on the side which are gonna be nice for peripherals obviously so this one is also 24.5 inches and that type c port on the optics model is going to be capable of displaying video as well so if you want to connect a laptop that can output over type c and then you can have that single style connector so that's a nice little option over there i like that this is the one that that kirk likes he likes optics i need 360 hertz needed this holiday season why would you have such cool graphics on the back of your monitor but if you've ever watched esports you see the back of the monitor frequently i mean previously you would have your sponsors i guess but in this case you have something some of your specs performance specs what could also be your sponsor you get a much bigger dragon msi dragon on this one as well which i just noticed and beyond the ability to spin there's also some cable management here obviously run your cables through the base and you have nice height adjustability you can get this very low position you have tilt in here as well you can come all the way up to here and we get a nice portrait ability i mean you can use it for productivity obviously and then the most obvious would be in some sort of a streaming environment where you might want to have your chat or whatever over here and you want to have matching monitors so you might have more than one of these every angle in between and you can spin it the other way and it has a stopping point this stand setup is very configurable i'm a big fan of this stand this one i think will do tilt and up and down and that's that no fancy spinaroo so yeah oculux versus optics some benefits and drawbacks for each obviously different price points and then if you want something bigger which you know some people are going to want if it's your only monitor if you're also watching a lot of content on it movies and things like that you might want to have a 27-inch monitor which is what this one is so you can see the difference there it's also from the optics line this is the mag 274 qrf dash qd the more letters the better performance goes up with the number of letters in the actually you know the oculus has less anyway this one is 2560 by 1440 so you're getting more pixels as well and that's something you'd expect uh with more bigger screen size 165 hertz refresh one millisecond response quantum dot and gaming osd app so they're talking about the on-screen menu system cable management is built in here same little joystick on the back you can see the styling here very stealth fighter like only 165 hertz on this model i don't know how you're going to survive i'm joking tons of performance there still and we have our tilt and we have our part if it's all mlg all day then you probably go for the one on the far left if it's a more of a mixture of productivity and maybe content consumption maybe you go for a slightly bigger monitor if you have the space for it you might go for this 27 inch unit we have displayport two hdmis that type c connector which is also capable of doing video we have the upstream usb and two usb a ports there are no ports on the side so that's another interesting finding on the bigger model they don't bother putting the ports on the side they put them on the back and i'm kind of split on that because if you have the ports on the back you can run the cable management with the remainder it can be a kind of clean setup these other two models with the ports on the side that's really easy access it's a lifestyle usb port placement is a lifestyle all right so the one that i'm most curious about is this 360 hertz monitor i'm not sure we've had one in studio previously so we're going to hook it up to this gaming pc right here and we're going to experience what 360 hertz g-sync looks like feels like does for us see what it does for us should i do an intro yo what up it's your boy uh your boy and uh i'm gonna i'm gonna rip some apex legends right now on this new monitor on this new 360 g-sync msi professional 24-inch it's gonna make me a pro gamer i'm essentially gonna win this match right now so let's let's get it ripping let's go the main feature of this monitor definitely is 360 hertz you're gonna get a refreshed screen 360 times per second everything is gonna be looking silky smooth there's not gonna be much motion blur it's gonna be really really crisp and vivid and intense it's gonna feel like real life it's gonna feel like you're stepping in to real life but you're already in real life it's like a second layer of reality that's how silky smooth it's gonna be at 360 hertz per second uh the second key feature of this monitor is the nvidia g-sync which is hardware acceleration inside of the monitor that essentially syncs up the monitor's refresh rate with the frames that your gpu is pushing out so you're going to get way less tearing which is when the first top half of the screen shows up rendered before the bottom half does you're going to get way less motion blur and it's just going to make sure that you're the gpu that's crushing these frames is gonna sync up perfectly with your monitor nvidia g-sync no tearing no fuss no muss pure immersion and then one millisecond response time this can get a little bit confusing with refresh rate refresh rate is going to be refreshing the screen the response time is going to be how quickly those pixels react to the refreshing screen so the new screen gets refreshed and the pixel that's going to change color to represent that refresh screen is going to do it in one millisecond so that's the optimal sweet spot this monitor essentially hits all the sweet spots you have 360 hertz refresh rate you have one millisecond response rate you have nvidia g-sync and you have a 24-inch panel the reason why 24-inch monitor is perfect is because you don't have to move your head all you have to do is move your eyes instead of covering this distance all you have to do is cover this distance with your eyes which means that your reaction time can be a lot faster the real pro guys won't go above 24 inches then you've got like an extra bit of screen on either side and it's just way more head movement and then you're you're not gonna win like that you can't be tactical like that you gotta use your eyeballs see how fast i am see how fast that is i got you already i got you way faster all right we're doing arenas because i don't got time for this looting i need this straight action into my eyeballs through this monitor right away as fast as it can go so we're doing arenas boom so right now we're like 160 170 fps on this and it's looking so silky smooth it's ridiculous i actually have an extra reticle on the monitor it's an option you can put on so i have a reticle on the reticle twice the aim baby boom oh he's not dead yet eat it that's smooth baby that's butter i got really it's a flawless round it really ends me up i'm buying it's a buy round the skin on the r99 look at the skin on the r99 you like that oh eat it you got bamboozled you both got bamboozled i bamboozled them both you got bamboozle whoa no this is not looking good i may have gotten overconfident last round with that great play oh the championship kill baby five kills one assist five knobs that's the mvp level round right there bamboozling everyone it's easy when the monitor is so silky and smooth and immersive like this you get right in it i have to say the 24 inch is the perfect size all right so there you have it the latest gaming masterpieces from msi all the way up to 360 hertz gaming with g-sync pick your poison pick your pick your favorite let me know in the comments which one would you go for is it max refresh is it bigger screen size is it the convenience of usb type c let me know what matters most also what do you think is the optimal monitor size for competitive gaming\n"