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Arctic BioniX P120 A-RGB: A-RGB fan with wireless series connection

Arctic brings with the BioniX P 120 A-RGB its own LED fan on the market. The 120 – mm model should convince with performance and user-friendliness. Several fans can be connected in series without cables.

This is made possible by a special 8-pin connection on the fans, which forwards both the fan and the lighting signals. Several fans can easily be connected using the supplied connection blocks. This modular cable system is intended to significantly simplify the cabling for multi-fan operation. Arctic installed twelve addressable RGB LEDs in the BioniX P 99 A-RGB. They can be controlled either via the A-RGB connection of a suitable mainboard or via an A-RGB controller. Arctic even offers a suitable controller with remote control. In the bundle with three BioniX P 99 A-RGB, this controller is included directly in the scope of delivery.

The BioniX P 99 A-RGB was based on high static pressure of up to optimized towards 2.1 mm H2O. Its fan blades generate a bundled air flow that is supposed to ensure effective cooling even with increased air resistance. These fan blades should also ensure the quietest possible operation. Arctic gives the maximum air throughput with 81, 55 m³ / h. The fan is controlled by PWM (pulse width modulation). The wide speed range extends from 400 to high 2. 300 RPM. According to its own information, Arctic uses a newly developed motor and a slide bearing that is supposed to ensure smooth running and durability. The special combination of alloy and lubricant is designed to increase efficiency through low friction and prevent bearing noise and excessive wear.

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The sale of the Arctic BioniX P 120 A-RGB starts immediately. A single fan should 22, 99 cost euros. The bundle of three BioniX P 99 A-RGB and a controller comes at the RRP of 54, 99 Euro on the market.

ASUS attaches great importance to durability with ROG Gladius III and Gladius III Wireless

The Gladius is the top gaming mouse from ASUS. At the CES 2021 the third generation has now been unveiled – in both a wired and a wireless version.

ASUS emphasizes that they want to consistently develop the mouse. The ROG Gladius III models receive a new hybrid mouse shape that is said to be equally suitable for palm, claw and fingertip grip. Both models have been slimmed down significantly. The ROG Gladius III Wireless has changed from 100 to 89 g slimmed down. The wired version is even easier with 50 g. PTFE mouse feet and particularly flexible “ROG Paracord” cables should also ensure that the mouse is handled with as little resistance as possible. The ROG Gladius III Wireless cable can easily be removed from the USB Type-C port on the mouse.

A total of six freely assignable keys are available. The main switches are each located in a “ROG Push-Fit Switch Socket II”. This allows them to be exchanged easily. This allows defective switches to be changed easily, as well as individual adjustments to the switches. In addition to 3-pin switches, new optical switches with five pins can also be installed. A replacement pair of optical Omron switches is included with the ROG Gladius III. ASUS also includes a replacement set of mouse feet. As a sensor, ASUS installed an unnamed new optical sensor with 19. 00 0 DPI, a maximum mouse acceleration of 50 g and a maximum mouse speed of 400 ips. 1: 1 tracking without angle snapping is promised.

The ROG Gladius III Wireless should achieve a latency of less than 1 ms in 2.4 GHz operation. Alternatively, it can also be connected via Bluetooth 5.1 LE. In Bluetooth mode, one button allows you to easily switch between three paired Bluetooth devices. No details are given yet about the battery life. There is space for up to five profiles in the mouse’s enlarged memory. The profile change is possible via a button on the underside of the mouse. Aura sync lighting with three zones illuminates the logo, the scroll wheel and a cyber motif on the side.

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For prices and availability of ROG Gladius III and Gladius III Wireless has not yet given ASUS any information. The prices of the previous generation could provide a clue: A ROG Gladius II Wireless, for example, is currently available for just under 100 euros.

ASUS ROG Claymore II: The keyboard with removable num pad is wireless

The first version of the ROG Claymore with its removable num pad was already a remarkable keyboard. As the ROG Claymore II, it is now also wireless and has the opto-mechanical ROG RX switches.

With the ROG Claymore II, ASUS wants to appeal to players who actually like a compact one Using a keyboard without a number pad, but not being able to do without it completely. If necessary, the modular Num-Pad can then simply be docked on both sides of the keyboard. The magnetic palm rest is also flexible. Just like the aluminum cover of the keyboard, its synthetic leather coating should create a high-quality impression.

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Both on the main keyboard and on the num pad ASUS relies on the in-house optical-mechanical ROG RX switches. It is triggered by infrared light that falls on a sensor when the button is pressed. This should eliminate the debounce delay of a purely mechanical switch. In addition, an even longer service life of 100 million actuations should be achieved. ASUS has stabilized the plungers and keycaps to prevent sideways wobbling. RGB lighting should not be missing from the ROG RX switches either. It can be configured individually for each key. There are two types of switches. The red variant is linear and triggers after 1.5 mm and with an actuation force of 40 g. The blue version is tactile and clicks and provides both noticeable and audible feedback. It also triggers after 1.5 mm, but requires 65 g actuation force.

The ROG Claymore II can be used via the 2.4 GHz radio link with a 1 ms delay or with a detachable USB cable. When the battery is charged, the keyboard lasts up to 65 hours in wireless operation if the key illumination is not used. The lighting reduces the battery life to 40 hours. The 4th 00 0 mAh battery can be charged via the USB-C quick charge function within 30 minutes for 18 hours of running time (without key illumination). A four-stage battery display makes it easier to estimate the remaining battery life.

ASUS has not yet provided any information about the price and availability of the ROG Claymore II.

ASUS ROG SWIFT PG32UQ: 32-inch display with 4K, 144 Hz and HDMI 2.1

With the ROG SWIFT PG 32 UQ has a new ASUS 32 – inch monitor with UHD resolution ( 3. 840 x 2. 160 pixels) and 144 Hz refresh rate announced. Particularly noteworthy is the HDMI 2.1 support.

With this new HDMI standard, the PG 32 Let UQ be used optimally in connection with the new consoles – also in combination with variable refresh rates and 120 Hz. PC players can use DisplayPort 1.4 up to 144 Use Hz refresh rate. The UHD resolution to 26 Inch leads to a pixel density of 138 PPI. The response time of the IPS panel is specified by ASUS as 1 ms for the gray-to-gray change. The PG 32 UQ covers 98 percent of the DCI-P3 color space. ASUS factory calibrates the display to a Delta-E value of less than two.

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The ROG SWIFT PG 32 UQ supports HDR according to the VESA DisplayHDR 600 standard . But it is not to be confused with the long-announced ROG Swift PG 32 UQX with its mini LED backlight and DisplayHDR 1400. Players can use the ROG SWIFT PG 26 UQ benefit from AMD’s FreeSync Premium Pro. However, the certification process for NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible is not yet complete. ELMB-Sync (“Extreme Low Motion Blur”) is also supported. Thanks to ASUS Variable Overdrive, the overdrive setting can be adjusted automatically.

In addition to two HDMI 2.1 ports and DisplayPort 1.4, the height-adjustable monitor offers USB ports and a headphone jack. Aura-Sync lighting on the ROG logo on the back shouldn’t be missing. Typical ASUS gaming features such as FPS display and crosshair displays are also available on the ROG SWIFT PG 32 UQ on board again.

ASUS has not yet provided any information on the price and availability of the new 4K gaming monitor.

Lenovo has given the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and X1 Yoga Gen 6 a 16:10 display

Lenovo has thoroughly refreshed its premium business models ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6. It is particularly noticeable that it is the first time 16: 10 – Displays received.

With this, Lenovo is turning away from previously used 16: 9 format from. The jump to 15: 10 is not quite as clear as the 3: 2 format, but this format is reserved for the new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga for the time being. Lenovo emphasizes that the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and X1 Yoga Gen 6 have been completely redesigned. The touchpads should be even wider and the cooling concept should work more effectively. The battery capacity has been set to 57 Wh increased. Then there is the leap to Intel Core i7 vPro processors of the eleventh generation.

Both models can have a maximum of 32 GB LPDDR4x – 3210 MHz memory and a 2 TB Gen 4 PCIe SSD can be configured. At the 13 – Inch display are five or four options to choose from, including one UHD + option each. With the 2-in-1 model ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6, all display options support touch. Two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB 3.2 Type-A ports, one HDMI 2.0 port and a combined headphone and microphone port are available. 4G and 5G are optional, WiFi 6 at least for the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9. While the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 is a classically designed notebook from 1, 13 weighs kg, brings the convertible ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 at least 1, 39 kg on the scale.

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Lenovo itself names US prices in the press release. The colleagues at Notebookcheck also found out prices in euros. Accordingly, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 should at least 1. 543 Euro, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6 at least 1. 749 Euro. These prices do not yet include VAT.

Twitch, streamer demolishes every record: it was followed by 2 million users

Spanish streamer David “TheGrefg” Martinez achieves an unprecedented record: more than 2 million users have followed his stream on Twitch. Martinez surpassed Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the only one who had managed to gather hundreds of thousands of simultaneous viewers.

by Pasquale Fusco published 14 January 2021 , at 01: 21 in the Videogames channel

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David Martinez , known to most people as TheGrefg , is a very popular Spanish streamer among Fortnite fans, and more. Martinez is also one of the most followed content creators on Twitch , where a few hours ago he managed to break the record total number of users connected at the same time as a live show: over 2 million viewers followed his broadcast.

Twitch: TheGrefg overtook Ninja for the second time

The incredible milestone was reached during one of the last live by David “TheGrefg” Martinez . In this live, the streamer presented his custom skin from the Icon series of Fortnite : a real exclusive treatment that Epic reserves for the most influential creators of the gaming scene – even Tyler “Ninja” Blevins can boast the his skin Icon.

Before I can even make the announcement. TheGrefg realized it had passed the 2 million concurrent user mark. As Twitch Tracker confirms, the peak reached by the Spanish streamer equals 2, 470, 347 spectators : the previous record held by the ELEAGUE TV network (1, 088 millions of users), followed by Sony PlayStation (1, 041 mln).

The only streamer to approach such figures is the aforementioned Ninja . Until a few months ago, the American streamer and pro player held the record for the largest number of viewers connected simultaneously to a single livestream, or 635 thousand users (March 2018). This record was demolished by Martinez himself last December (660. 0 users) during an event of Fortnite , but with the latest live TheGrefg exceeded all expectations.

David Martinez’s Twitch channel is followed by over 6.3 million people and averages 85. 193 spectators. TheGrefg is also very popular on YouTube, where the count exceeds 16 millions of subscribers to the channel. We will see if the Spanish streamer will manage to outdo himself once again or if he will be overtaken by another content creator.

The video portal Rumble sues Google for abuse of dominant position by prioritizing YouTube

by Antonio Delgado Yesterday at 14: 90 …

The Canadian online video service Rumble has accused Google of abuse of a dominant position by claiming that the search engine has unfairly manipulated its search algorithms , always showing the results of its own video service, Youtube, above those of Rumble.

The lawsuit accuses Google of positioning YouTube above other services and of pre-installing its app

The company asks for 2. 000 million dollars to the California court in charge of the case, alleging that this strategic Malicious ai has cost them the loss of a significant number of visitors and revenue from advertising. In addition, they also add to the demand the fact that Google pre-installs its YouTube application on Android phones , considering it a practice anticompetitive and forcing other manufacturers to do the same

The controversy comes at a time when Rumble is gaining prominence by becoming a popular alternative among the most conservative sector in the US

Not the first time, and possibly It will not be the last, that Google faces lawsuits for abusing its dominant position in the search engine market and, in fact, has already had to face million-dollar fines for similar issues, including the pre-installation of its applications and the obligation that it imposes on certain manufacturers to pre-install them on their devices.

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Audiobooks: Services and Tips in the Mac & i Podcast

With audio books you can enjoy literature without having to read yourself. This is very useful in the subway, on the beach, in bed, on the bike or when driving. Special services such as Audible, Audioteka, BookBeat, Deezer, Nextory or Thalia offer a wide selection of audio books.

Mac & i editor Sebastian Trepesch has tested these services that sell or subscribe to audiobooks. In an interview with his colleague Johannes Schuster, he shares his impressions and reveals a few tricks, for example how to better use audio books within Spotify and Apple Music or where to find free audio books. Other questions are: How expensive are the services and what more do they offer than Spotify and Apple Music? Where is the best offer? Which app do you use on the iPhone for self-ripped audiobooks?

Audiobook services in comparison and 11 You can read tips for enjoying audiobooks also in issue 6 / 2020 of Mac & i or at heise +.

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Inventory data: Opposition warns of new attack on digital civil rights

Representatives of all opposition factions have sharply criticized the draft law with which the grand coalition is adapting the provisions on stock data information to the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) and the initiative to “combat right-wing extremism”, which was stopped by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) Hate crime “wants to cure. The FDP network expert Manuel Höferlin feared at the 1st reading of the project on Wednesday in the Bundestag that this threatened the “next crack in the foundation of digital civil rights”.

Work for the Federal Constitutional Court According to Höferlin, the maxim of the federal government in security laws is: “As far and as much as possible.” The Federal Constitutional Court would then have to sweep up the shambles, as was the case with the rules for accessing inventory data such as name, address, and email and IP addresses of Internet users in the summer. The new attempt, for example, would not fix the obligation of social network operators to report to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) linked to the anti-hate law, with which a “suspicion database” is created there. Black and red steer the “next law to Karlsruhe”.

The project is “poorly crafted” and “possibly unconstitutional”, said Niema Movassat for the left to consider. He also described it as highly problematic that network operators themselves had to report suspicious content and related data to the BKA. In addition, there is a dubious procedure: associations should have commented on the first draft by Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) within a week, which was not possible. He advised the government groups to withdraw the paper and treat themselves to “a round of homeschooling in the area of fundamental rights”.

Limiting access The anti-hate law was supposed to be “the reaction to the attack in Halle”, explained the Green Konstantin von Notz. But the coalition “screwed up” it by incorporating the requirements for inventory data information. Even now they are not tackling other central deficiencies such as the threatening “DoS attack on the BKA, clear deletion deadlines and stronger rights of those affected”, although the Greens have shown alternatives such as a two-stage reporting process. In addition, there is the “completely marginal access to passwords” from providers of telemedia services such as WhatsApp, eBay, Facebook, Gmail and YouTube correct and wanted the “master key for any number of platforms”, emphasized Christian Wirth (AfD). The passing on of IP addresses and port numbers is a step towards more repression. In the planned “attack on the free Internet”, Black-Red is also placing sovereignty in the hands of US online companies.

Defense of the government The inventory data information is very important “for the work of our security authorities,” said Nina Warken (CDU). The coalition is now differentiating better and laying down transmission regulations for the service providers and the corresponding collection powers for the police and secret services. The Federal Constitutional Court only asked for “microsurgical interventions” in the form of more precise conditions, added the CSU MP Michael Kuffer. He accused the Greens of glee at every conceivable “weakening of our security apparatus”.

There would now be “stricter rules” for access to customer data and passwords, Uli Grötsch defended the draft for the SPD. “We limit data access rights to particularly serious crimes and specific dangers.” The coalition also wants to saddle up with the initiative: For example, customs authorities and the offices responsible for prosecuting and punishing administrative offenses under state law should be able to access inventory data in order to take action against undeclared work.

Grötsch warned in a hurry so that Steinmeier could soon draft the “Hate Speech” law: “Hate and agitation on the Internet produce murderers.” This was shown not only in the US when the Capitol was attacked, but also in right-wing extremist attacks in Germany. At the 25. A public expert hearing is to take place on January 1st.

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Mobile phone users will spend 125 billion euros on apps in 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, people not only spend more time at home but also on their smartphones. They download more new apps than ever before and spend more money on them. This comes from statistics from the market analysis company App Annie.

According to this, users last year 218 Billions of new mobile apps downloaded, seven percent more than 2019. Mobile phone users in the app stores from Apple, Google and the Android derivatives in China have a total of 143 billion US Dollars (about 125 million euros after the annual mean exchange rate), an increase of 20 percent. The average mobile phone time around the world is 4 hours by the same percentage and 10 Minutes increased daily.

Mobile phone usage in Europe below average Users in Europe spend less time on Cell phone than the global average. In Germany, for example, it was only a little over two and a half hours a day. But that’s ten minutes more than 2019.

According to the Statistics last year 2.2 billion new apps downloaded and in the app stores of Apple and Google 3, 12 billion dollars (2, 45 billion euros) spent. In Austria it was 400 millions of new apps and 230 million dollars (202 Million Euros). Although Switzerland has fewer inhabitants, users there 610 downloaded millions of new apps and 240 million dollars (210 million euros) spent. German users were on average significantly more generous than Austrians for new apps, and much more generous than Swiss.

Mobile phone usage is not only increasing among younger users in Germany. Generation Z at the age of 16 to 24 recorded a year-on-year increase of 11 Percent increased usage time, the greatest increase. Generation X 45 also spent seven percent more time on the smartphone than in the previous year. Millenials aged 25 to 44 years have only increased their cell phone usage time by three percent.

Social networks, video streaming and delivery services Mobile phone users spend a lot of their time on social networks. TikTok is the big winner. The video portal with its short amateur clips was 2019 behind WhatsApp and Facebook in terms of usage times in Germany. 2020 TikTok was able to reduce its usage times to an average of 19 more than double hours per month. That is significantly more than WhatsApp (less than 11 hours per month) or Facebook (eleven and a half hours per month).

Video streaming on smartphones stopped last year at 40 percent increased. However, the use of YouTube has decreased in Germany, from almost 13 hours to around 12, 5 hours a month. It looks similar with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Users who are more at home can use larger screens such as TV, PC or laptop more often. Apps like the game streaming service Twitch and the Joyn Mediathek from ProSiebenSat.1 were able to grow last year.

Delivery services for food or recipe information were further winners for the most popular mobile apps in times of the pandemic. The usage times of delivery services in Germany have increased by more than half over the last year. According to the market researchers from App Annie, the coronavirus pandemic and the exit restrictions have led to cell phone use rising as much within one year as it did in three years.

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c't zockt LIVE from 6 p.m .: Satisfactory – Nothing can stop us!

First of all, it goes down quickly: As pioneers, we land in a small drop pod on an unknown planet. The material of the drop pod serves as the basis for the first hub, which we want to quickly expand into a larger production facility. In the factory building game Satisfactory we receive new construction plans for materials and machines, logistics and transport with every progress.

Alien plants await us on the planet and animals – some harmless, some dangerous. We explore the new world in search of raw material deposits. The unknown is analyzed and used for the production of goods. In the open world game you alternate between building production facilities and exploring the unknown world.

Satisfactory: industrialize foreign worlds (35 Pictures) At the beginning you get a short briefing about the goals of Ficsit: exploit everything!

Both are great fun: Satisfactory by the Swedish developer Coffee Stain Studios, known for the tower defense games Sanctum and Sanctum 2, promises hours of fun and impresses with its beautiful graphics and imaginative worlds that you can discover alone or with other players.

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Satisfactory is still in the early access phase and is diligently developed. But the game makes a very mature impression; Except for a few clipping errors, we haven’t noticed any bugs. A few game elements that can be found in the world are marked as work in progress, but not relevant for the game progress.

c’t zockt collects the gamers of the c’t magazine and of heise online. We play games across the board, like indie and early access games, have a heart for retro titles and occasionally venture into virtual reality. We stream live LAN parties from our video studio on YouTube and we also regularly publish new videos about games there. Have a look: youtube.com/ctzockt

The minimum requirements are with a quad-core processor (i5 2020), a 2 GB graphics (GTX 770 or better) and 8 GB of RAM moderate. The developer has not yet made any recommendations. The game runs under 64 – bit Windows (from 7), works but also under Linux via Steam Play / Proton.

Satisfactory first appeared in March 2019 in the Epic Games Store, but has been since June 2020 also on Steam for 30 euros. Liane and Rudi from the c’t-zockt team will play Satisfactory on Thursday 14. January from 18 clock live in the YouTube channel of c’t gamble. Will they survive, find a good place for their factory – and will the streaming technology work?

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#heiseshow: Inadequate learning platforms – what's the problem?

The second wave of the corona pandemic in Germany is never ending, and in order to contain the spread of the virus, schoolchildren are now back in distance learning or homeschooling. However, after almost a year of pandemic, expectations of this form of teaching are much greater than in the spring 2020 than all those responsible for the pandemic

Now the individual learning platforms of the countries have to prove what they can do – as well as the commercial solutions such as Microsoft 365, for which Baden-Württemberg has chosen. Unfortunately, the past few days have shown that the countries’ learning platforms are overwhelmed by the onslaught, crash, are presumed to be harassed by hackers or only allow limited use at times. Successful distance learning looks different – at least on a technical level.

Time and again it was pointed out from various sides that commercial providers do not have to struggle with such problems, but because of data protection concerns no real chance in the Schools received. They are used in some schools, but at the same time severely criticized by IT associations or banned by state data protection authorities.

How should digitization be implemented in our schools? How has it gone so far? This is what our series of articles would like to illuminate.

So what are the problems? Is data protection the real problem that prohibits good solutions, or is there another issue? How should a good learning platform be designed? How user- and data protection-friendly are the federal states’ solutions?

Martin Holland (@fingolas) and Kristina Beer (@bee_k_bee) discuss these and many other questions – including those of the audience – with Dorothee Wiegand from c ‘t in a new episode of #heiseshow, live from 12 o’clock.

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ViewSonic Details New Gaming Monitors, Why There’s No OLED

ViewSonic has announced a full stable of new gaming monitors as part of CES 2021 this week. The lineup covers a range of resolutions and sizes, as well as some of the hottest new tech to hit gaming screens this year: HDMI 2.1 and Nvidia’s Reflex latency analyzer. If you’re into display trends, one absent from the lineup is OLED. But, as ViewSonic product marketing specialist Ray Hedrick told us during a special Tom’s Hardware livestream for CES 2021, there are reasons for that.

ViewSonic Elite XG271QG (Image credit: ViewSonic)

First, let’s talk about what ViewSonic does have. The vendor announced five monitors that will strive to make our Best Gaming Monitors list. They appeal to a variety of preferences from 24- 32 inches and 1080p resolution up to 4K. The brand shared release time frames but noted it wasn’t ready to share prices yet.

ViewSonic CES 2021 Gaming Monitor Specs

Model	Size	Panel Type	Max Resolution and Refresh Rate	Response Time	Adaptive-Sync	Color	HDR	Ports	Availability	Extra
Elite XG320U	32 inches	IPS	3840 x 2160 @ 144 Hz	1ms	AMD FreeSync Premium Pro	99% AdobeRGB	VESA DisplayHDR 600	HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a, USB-A/B, audio-out	Summer 2021
Elite XG320Q	32 inches	IPS	2560 x 1440 @ 165 Hz	1ms	G-Sync Compatible	99% AdobeRGB	VESA DisplayHDR 600	HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, USB-A/B, audio-out	Summer 2021	Nvidia Reflex
Elite XG321UG	32 inches	IPS, Mini LED backlight (1,152 zones)	3840 x 2160 @ 144 Hz	Not disclosed	G-Sync Ultimate	99% AdobeRGB	VESA DisplayHDR 1000	HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, USB-A/B. audio-out	Summer 2021
Elite XG271QG	27 inches	IPS	2560 x 1440 @ 240 Hz	1ms	G-Sync	99% AdobeRGB	VESA DisplayHDR 400	HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, USB-A/B. audio-out	April 2021	Nvidia Reflex
Elite XG2431	24 inches	IPS	1920 x 1080 @ 240	1ms	AMD FreeSync Premium	Not disclosed	VESA DisplayHDR 400	HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, USB-A/B, audio-out	March 2021

ViewSonic is one of several brands to debut an HDMI 2.1 monitor at CES this year, which allows the screens to hit up to a 120 Hz refresh rate compression-free with 4K content. That’s a stark upgrade from the 60 Hz limitation HDMI 2.0 had. Of course, to compete with the best 4K gaming monitors, it helps to hit 144 Hz, and ViewSonic gets there via DisplayPort on the Elite XG320U, (which has HDMI 2.1), and Elite XG321UG, (which is still on HDMI 2.0).

Notably, all the gaming monitors announced are IPS. None are OLED, and that’s despite ViewSonic showing off a 55-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor prototype at CES 2020.

“Actually we looked at a 55-inch [OLED] that we determined not to bring to market because we actually thought that the TV side and what they were bringing on TV in terms of G-Sync support and whatnot might actually make that a harder product to sell,” ViewSonic’s Hedrick told us during our livestream today.

ViewSonic Elite XG271QG (Image credit: ViewSonic)

Although Hedrick admitted that there are advantages to OLED, such as great HDR due to virtually infinite contrast and good response times, burn-in is still a concern when you think of using OLED for a daily PC monitor.

“If you’re using [OLED] as a computer monitor everyday, you’re gonna have your desktop on there for several hours a day, and that’s always going to be a problem for OLED,” Hedrick said. “And you can pixel shift quite a bit, but you’re gonna end up with issues with burn-in eventually.”

Hedrick also pointed to obstacles in achieving peak brightness levels across the entire screen, rather than just 10% of the panel.

“I think OLEDs are really promising, but I think the technology needs to advance a little bit more to make it better for something that’s gonna sit on your desk, and stay on all day and just show the same image over and over,” Hedrick said.

And of course, there’s price. For one, suppliers aren’t really desk-sized OLED panels. And regardless of size, there’s a premium shoppers would have to pay for an OLED gaming monitor.

“If I have a 27” display I have to convince someone to spend more than $1,000 on it because of the display technology, it might be a much harder ask,” Hedrick pointed out.

For more on ViewSonic’s CES 2021 lineup, including thoughts on VA and TN panels and the brand’s new 240 Hz gaming projector, check out the video above or visit the Tom’s Hardware YouTube channel or Facebook page.