Noise Cancelling Monitor? How Even?! #Helpful Post

since gigabyte launched their gamer

focused a or a sub-brand back in 2014

the company has expanded the product

line from laptops and peripherals to

motherboards and video cards and now

finally to what is apparently the

world's first tactical monitor whatever

that means the product page is actually

ADA fascinating specimen the bezels are

portrayed as unrealistically thin

there's a couple of I think somewhat

misleading statements and then there's

this what is active noise-cancelling in

a monitor are you kidding me

well as it turns out they're not and

we're gonna find out exactly what that

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i'ma be upfront with you the active

noise-cancelling feature is the reason

that this monitor made it to our studio

it just it just raised so many questions

for you when it hit my inbox so we're

gonna start with what's up with that the

monitor has three microphones on the

front that actually listen to the

ambient noise in your room so then my

first thought was maybe it would use

them to try to add ENC to whatever

headphones you happen to be wearing if

they were plugged into the audio pass

through port but no it's actually kind

of the opposite the anc isn't there to

help you hear content better it's meant

to help others hear you better so what

you do is you plug your microphone into

the monitors three-and-a-half millimeter

jack no dice if you use a USB mic by the

way oops and then you use a horse's

sidekick software to specify what kind

of mic setup you have and how much noise

canceling you want to apply so then does

it work actually yes the monitor was

able to cut out our offices HVAC noise

and it actually sounds pretty good with

my HyperX cloud twos but other mics I

tried had a significant trade-off to

voice quality regardless of whether we

set it to very low or very high so

whether you'll end up using this feature

probably depends on your mic and your

room but I'm guessing a lot of people

especially the ones that watched our

budget Mike round up a little while back

are gonna end up leaving it off that

doesn't mean this review is over though

because as it turns out the noise

cancelling is only one of several gamer

focused features that are actually

pretty cool mostly like the sidekick

software itself which provided you have

the monitor connected via USB gives you

access to all the options that you'd

normally find in the on-screen display

except way less cumbersome so yes the

monitor still has the joystick nipple

which still is a lot easier than

discrete buttons on the back with no

labels but if you're watching this

channel I probably don't have to explain

to you guys why a keyboard

is just plain better than anything else

and there's also added functionality

like being able to bind just about any

setting to a hotkey it's super cool and

something that I hope gains mainstream

adoption even if there is a slight input

delay this is also where you find the

rest of the gaming features like another

one that's done right the on-screen

reticle now you might think that using

one of these counts as cheating and

you'd be correct but hey at least if

it's built into your monitor you can get

away with it and what sets the 8027 QD

apart is that unlike other monitors with

this feature the stock crosshairs are

visible without being distracting or

blocking your view plus if you're not

happy with it you can actually draw your

own completely custom one and go ahead

and put that on there so it could even

just be a tiny little dot if that's what

you're into next we've got a couple of

more maybe features so there's screen

overlays for vital stats that you can

customize the displays refresh rate and

timers and counters that you can bind to

hotkeys and then use for things like

tracking an opponent's attack cooldown

in a MOBA or reminding you to Scout in

an RTS or counting your headshots and an

FPS or I mean a million other ad hoc

things a gamer could do but that I

suspect few would do maybe I'm wrong hit

me up in the comments and then there's

the aim stabilizer which appears to be

yours his name for motion blur reduction

now the marketing claims that it removes

in game motion blur like from weapon

recoil to help you see better but in

practice it appears to be simply the

same backlight strobing that's been

present on gaming monitors for years now

and like those features it effectively

reduces smearing but it also reduces

maximum brightness introduces some

strobing crosstalk and it can't be on at

the same time as free sync then finally

there's some features that are just bad

like super resolution which is just

gross sharpening and black equalizer

which claims to increase visibility

in dark areas without over exposing the

bright areas but appears to be the usual

crank the gamma approach to this

function one that we wouldn't recommend

let's get back to free sync though

because all these tactical gaming

features aside this is actually just

straight up a solid monitor in its own

right

it's 2560 by 1440 144 Hertz and it's got

a free sync range of 48 to a hundred and

forty-four Hertz with low framerate

compensation which you can actually see

it work right here so the frame rate is

below the free sync range which means

that our low framerate compensation

inserts duplicate frames and the panel

refreshes at double the FPS this does

improve the perceived smoothness oh and

by the way yes that is the Nvidia

pendulum test thank you for asking

because even though this monitor is not

at the time of writing on invidious new

white list of free sync monitors that

are g-sync certified a quick update of

our Nvidia 10 series graphics card

drivers to version 4 17.1 7 does allow

us to turn it on and it appears to be

working pretty well another pleasant

surprise is actually the color accuracy

now this monitor isn't designed for

professionals that do color critical

work it's still an 8 bit panel plus frc

nor is it a top-of-the-line HDR monitor

with full array local dimming but it

does have vasa display HDR 400

certification so it is technically an

HDR monitor even if the peak brightness

is just 400 nits and perhaps more

importantly it has excellent coverage of

the DCI p3 color space with Wow like

really Wow

color accuracy that's just about as

close as the human eye can discern

so that is a total bonus for something

that's being billed as a gaming monitor

as for the industrial design it's got a

sharp kind of aggressive look with a

matte black anodized finish The Stand

assembles with just one screw and is

very robust articulating on all four

axes and we even saved the best for last

it's got RGB panels on the back that you

can configure individually I mean so

what if the user can't see them in most

people put their monitor against a wall

they're gonna know they're there in

conclusion then for $600 Horace's first

foray into monitors delivers performance

commensurate with other offerings in

this price range and with a handful of

extras for gamers that push me into yes

territory we recommend this monitor even

if the product page did lie about the

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