Cooler Master GP2711 - REAL HDR you can actually afford!
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2024
- Proper HDR monitors are getting increasingly common, but they have never been cheap. Until now, that is, as the Cooler Master GP2711 offers mini-LED tech with 576 dimming zones, and a claimed 1500 nit brightness, for less than £380 here in the UK... Read more here: bit.ly/3PvWcpL
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00:00 Intro
00:54 Design overview
02:20 I/O and OSD
04:19 Brightness + contrast
06:37 SDR panel analysis
10:44 Response times + real world gaming
13:22 HDR analysis
15:58 Closing thoughts
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Dominic your monitor reviews have improved so much in the last year. I use this as a resource so much. Almost bought the Corsair oled you reviewed but I’m still weighing my options. 😊
thanks, we have worked hard on the metholodogy.
Agree. Great detail
They are awesome
Thanks for the review! I still am mixed on HDR gaming in general. Bright screens on my desk monitor kind of strain my eyes after a while. Like, why am I staring at the sun two feet in front of me? HDR really benefits dark rooms as well, which I typically find depressing (except for movies), but it does make the HDR more vivid when the eyes can just adjust to a dark room and see dark contrast better. One promising thing though, is the Nvidia beta app's HDR filter that adds fine tuning controls after it is set up. There is no HDR fine-tuning equivalent for AMD Adrenalin yet.
Great review Dominic thank you 👍🏻
My pleasure!
Another superb review Dominic. 🤘🏻
Thanks again!
Great review man
Glad you liked it
You should test the cooler master tempest gp27q it has rec 2020 coverage of 86% which is higher than all the new gen qd oled gaming monitors. Same 576 dimming zones but ips instead of va.
We will ask coolermaster. This one seems a focus for them now.
good video dominic!
Glad you liked it
How is this monitor for the PS5? I am confused between a colour/HDR/Contrast focused monitor like this or an HDMI2.1 monitor like the Dell G3223Q. I am on a budget so yeah.
Thanks for review. Were those Corsair’s Headset’s holders?🤔
they are LT-100 RGB towers, that also have a headset holder attachment :)
Great looking screen. Technically seems very good. Shame it seems quite slow in some regards. Was surprised
Unfortunately all too common with some VA monitors, it's very good in almost every other regard considering the price
good work I'm looking to upgrade my monitor which is a 1080p 144hz 24GL600F to a 27in (or bigger) 1440p with high refresh rate and low response time and G-SYNC Compatible would be nice as well but it must be under £250 do you know of any good recommendation
That's a great question, I've not looked at a monitor from that segment for a while but the iiyama gb2770qsu is very good, or if you are happy with something smaller the AOC q24g2a is also solid
Oh wow that's a decent price for real HDR and local dimming on the desktop.
Mine glitched out after 8 months. Trying to get Cooler Master to respond to my ticket. That’s been ignoring me for the last two weeks I updated the firmware like they asked and the lower left quarter of my screen’s dimming zones aren’t working.
What part of the world are you in ? Are they not helping you ? 😮
@@Linusfikfaps-ez2qg I’m in the US. They were helping me but haven’t responded to my update in weeks.
Cracking job. It's a shame that this monitor doesn't quite get there but it's promising for the future. And why are manufacturers persisting with DP 1.4?
Thanks Quentin! DP1.4 is still enough to drive most screens with DSC - certainly more than enough for 1440p/165Hz like this one - and is likely a good chunk cheaper than DP2/2.1
@@KitGuruTech Mea culpa. You only require 18.25 Gbps at 1440p with no DSC required - if you have a good DP cable. I plugged it in to the calculator as 4k - despite you detailing it as 1440p.
I doubt they would put dp 2+ on a screen at this budget pricing. Res and refresh wouldn’t need it anyway
Great indepth review dominic I like your new testing methoology. seems like a decent screen but not ideal for gamers with sensitive eyes.
Thanks! Plenty more monitor reviews to come
I figure a lot of people would live with compromises on a screen like this at the price it’s selling for. I can’t wait for oled to become mainstream.
I love mini led screens. This one looks great and while your technical analysis is very in-depth I’m wondering if in the real world my eyes could see the problems you mentioned. 😅
You absolutely can, mini-led backlight eliminates the bad contrast of IPS so always go with that panel type.
Thanks! The smearing is unfortunately quite noticeable, otherwise this is a very solid monitor
@@anitaremenarova6662 what screen are you using ?
@@canarychrome7012 I have a mini-led ultrawide but if you want a regular 1440p then the overclockers uk store is selling the AG274QXM for like 400 pounds rn
Specially if you compare them against oled pricing!
It has been a bugbear of mine that computer monitors appear to be standing still in their technology, whereas bigger and frequently cheaper TV's have great tech. For example, OLED, Dolby Vision, HDR 10, plus.
Whereas PC users, have to pay the same price for something stupid like a 27 inch screen with below par speakers and no TV tuner...
Which is why many people are buying TV's as PC monitors. Not me, but many. Because tech is more advanced and importantly you get more bang for buck.
VA panel on a premium monitor is an automatic no-go unless it's Samsung or one of their panel suppliers that have their own brand now.
That price its not really a premium price its quite decent considering mini led with proper local dimming.
@@festerleech4952 Non HDR monitor with the same specs would cost you half the price. If you want the best at least get an IPS at this price point, not much more expensive.
Mini-LED: Yes!
VA black smear: NO THANKS
Great price but VA panels are cheap for a reason. Still, overall its a good product for someone on a budget. good review 👍🏻
Thanks! 👍
OLED cant wait for it to be cheaper kn the 400$ like the bighend tn monitor at 280hz going to 200$
Even my 19" 1280x1024 75hz TN monitor from 2006/2007 is snappier lol.
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Looks like you are going to have to properly calibrate this one as it doesnt look very colour balanced out of the box. Must be a cost cutting measure.
It's not that bad to be honest, our sample does have a warm tint but this can vary from unit to unit, plus there's good customisable colour balance to tweak that
You lost me at VA.
What screen are you using atm ?
cooler master monitor. what the heck.
Not impressed ?
VA panels are just bad... I can't stand them. So it's either IPS or OLED... I stay with my IPS panel for a little longer until there is the perfect monitor.
VA on Samsung G7 is great. Better then IPS for me. Other VA have really bad black smearing. But samsung monitors are legendary for other faults like flickering, slow sleep wake up etc.
It is better to wait 2 years for OLED to get cheaper.
There's definitely pros and cons - Samsung have shown you can tune them to reduce dark level smearing, plus there's no IPS Glow effect and the native contrast is a lot better than IPS. But unfortunately most do still have motion clarity issues
Not the best for gaming for sure looking at that blur around 11:42 but it's a funny mix because it has hdr.
OLED is absolutely the best panel type for HDR due to its ability to display a completely black pixel alongside a white or bright one, something that these VA panels cannot do. Good HDR in my experience isn’t about having a full screen at 1,000+ nits but about how the smaller highlights pop against the darker elements of the picture such as candles or fires at night. I actually find that games can look stunning in SDR because of the per-pixel lighting control that OLEDs have. DiRT 5 looks absolutely stunning on my AW2725DF QD-OLED monitor, as does the recently released, Horizon: Forbidden West, both of which have superb implementations of HDR. Not sure I could ever go back to a VA panel having experienced black smearing and poor viewing angles on my previous Sony Bravia TV.
@@DoctorHades We would agree OLED is fantastic in so many areas, including latency.
I don't like watching your videos. And the only reason is the socially awkward intro where you say "alright guys"... What's that suppose to mean? Can't you just say hey everyone or something?
Edit: If I offended anyone I'm sorry, truly, was not intentended to sound harsh and offensive. Perhaps I could have worded my comment better, it can be really difficult to convey sentiment without voice and facial expressions when it's just a comment text. I was being silly, my fault for even typing this comment.
Hey Ols how's it hangin' dude?
I think thats kinda more a reflection of you, than anything else. If it annoys you so much to post you dont like watching any of Dominics videos, they perhaps just don't watch them, or perhaps skip 15 seconds at the start and watch the other 17.30 minutes of excellent technical analysis. Might educate yourself a bit.
S’up ols ? I said that in my coolest non social awkward voice so I could be blessed with your approval. Cause well that’s important. 😂
‘Alright guys’ roughly means ‘all you alright guys’ or ‘hey how’s it going’. Dominic can I vote for what you say next time , I don’t like ‘hey everyone’. Can you say ‘what’s shakin homies?’ Just for me ? Would make me feel almost as special as ols7462.
Im proud of being socially awkward. Been into tech since I was a kid. So rude and unnecessary. Cant be bothered skipping 5 seconds to watch the rest of the video - which incidentally was very good - full of proper technical analysis you dont often see on youtube. What a joke.