I'm in GAMER Heaven - HP EmperiumX 65 Gaming #Helpful Post

C gaming from the couch in many ways

it's the Holy Grail but it takes a few

special ingredients to make it work

bringing your computer into the living

room well that's easy enough and these

days there are plenty of powerful small

form-factor machines that look perfectly

at home in your entertainment unit then

there's the wireless controls well

fortunately cordless peripherals have

made huge performance and battery gains

in recent years and now they fit nicely

inside these cushioned lap boards sorry

couch wood and then finally there's the

TV which is probably 4k and definitely

bigger than your gaming monitor but

usually only 60 Hertz and bound to

suffer from dog slow input lag so yeah

the TV is basically always the weakest

link when it comes to living room PC

gaming setups or is it this right here

is the HP omen X Imperium 65 the first

production BFG D or big format gaming

display to reach our studio but could it

possibly be worth the diaper filling

price of $5,000

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then the TLDR is this this puppy here is

just about as ballin as that $2,000

panty butter was but at over four times

the surface area it's pretty much the TV

we have always wanted like I am already

trying to figure out how to get this

video done as quickly as I possibly can

so that I can just take it home and play

games on it by myself

in a dark room for all time why you

might ask

well because the Imperium 65 like all

BFG DS right now is guaranteed to have a

laundry list of vital stats including 4k

resolution g-sync ultimate which means

not only g-sync but also HD are a 120

Hertz native refresh rate ultra low

input lag and as a total bonus a

built-in Nvidia shield TV I mean I

already have one of those but like hey

values value and those things are worth

like 180 bucks on their own so then

let's go through each of these points in

finer detail starting with appropriately

resolution its 3840 by 2160 UHD so you

can get inside of 2 feet from this thing

before you start seeing the individual

pixels now it's thick by modern TV

standards but that's for good reason it

uses a direct rather than Edge LED

backlight with full array local dimming

across 384 zones which means they're

just under 5 square inches each and they

managed to sustain brightness on this

thing of 715 it's with peak brightness

of 1000 nits earning this puppy the

display HDR 1000 certification

along with that of course comes great

colors so it's an 8-bit plus FRC panel

but in our tests it achieved over 94% of

the DCI p3 color space and it's got

professional-grade color accuracy right

out of the box also while they are by no

means OLED level the blacks are pretty

deep because it uses a VA panel so if

you have black bars on your content it's

not nearly as distracting as it might be

on an IPS type display with that said

for strictly movie watching the Imperium

65 was never gonna be a great value so

let's talk gaming now this is far from

the only TV with a 120 Hertz refresh

rate but the difference is that it's

real like the actual screen refreshes at

full 4k resolution 120 times per second

no dropping down to 1080p no frame

interpolation BS and it can actually

even be overclocked to 144 Hertz by

exposing the option through the

on-screen display we were able to get a

stable overclock with no problems and

the experience is just buttery smooth

it's got all the modern g-sync features

like support for windowed mode and fast

sync vsync and no sync options for if

you somehow get FPS higher than the

displays maximum refresh rate which

would take some serious hardware at 4k

residential TV though is something that

you won't find on the spec sheet input

leg that little delay between moving the

mouse and seeing the action on the

screen now there are plenty of TVs out

there with input lag around the 50 60 or

even 70 milliseconds pretty bad since 30

milliseconds is what would be considered

noticeable as for this unit honestly it

feels like a gaming monitor now we

measured lag times of about 30 to 35

milliseconds but keep in mind that our

matter of mesh

now measures the delay of the entire

chain from mouse to PC to game engine to

display electronics to pixel response

times so the display lag is lower than

our measurements show now we do have

some tools on the way that should help

us get more accurate results and I plan

on doing a follow-up video or actually

bring one of these puppies home and

decide for good what's going to live in

my living room but for now let me just

say it this way this TV feels responsive

AF but everything we've said so far is

gonna be the same for all of the Nvidia

BFG DS that are coming out what makes

HP's offering different to be frank not

a lot it's mostly just down to the

physical design which my opinion is kind

of a mixed bag one of my favorite things

about this display is the little light

bar that they put by the eye oh isn't

that awesome

you just wave your hands and it lights

up this might seem trivial but it can be

really hard to plug in a cable

especially with your TV mounted tightly

against the wall and like trying to hold

your phone as a flashlight in your mouth

rarely improves the situation speaking

of wall mounting this set is also

interesting because it comes with a

sound bar and offers two different ways

of standing it up the first way is to

attach these beefy matte black legs to

the TV and then according to the

frustratingly brief instructions just

kind of slide the sound bar underneath I

guess now it's kind of inconsequential

but this method felt kind of weird

because we weren't actually attaching

the sound bar to the TV even though they

come together in the box so then if you

want to do that then you use method

number two where you don't use the legs

and instead you mount these brackets to

the sound bar first and then everything

to the bottom of the display which by

the way takes forever because you can't

just lay the display down on the table

like the instructions say because the

bloody sound bar is thicker than the

display meaning that you will cross

thread the screws which you can barely

turn because the allen key doesn't fit

anyway look it doesn't matter we got it

done but if all that sounded like it's

not worth

then mission accomplished I guess

because don't set it up this way unless

you're going to wall mount it because

it's tippy to the point of being very

dangerous like this thing is puppy

crushingly heavy on the subject of wall

mounting though that works great and I

was very pleased to see a standard face

amount with no curvature and no nonsense

but don't expect to get that sexy flush

mount look because this TV as I alluded

to before is really thick and then again

the soundbar makes it jut out even more

than it absolutely has to yeah you know

what the soundbar overall it's just kind

of a contentious issue for me so on the

one hand it is nice that a $5,000 TV

comes with speakers that are at least

halfway decent though to be clear not

amazing but on the other hand I mean

isn't it fair to assume that most people

who are in the market for a $5,000

display also have money for decent

speakers so I guess that's a tidy

transition into the imperium 65 suite

points and the first one is a real

doozie screen uniformity the edges and

particularly the corners have this sepia

toned grandma's attic

almost dirty look to them when you're

looking at white or a bright background

now in fairness I wouldn't notice it in

a game where I'm typically pretty

focused on the crosshair right in front

of me but once you see it it's hard to

unsee it if you're doing something like

web browsing or really anything that's

light-colored also there's some pretty

noticeable vertical banding going on and

these things contributed to while using

it just this feeling of having bought an

oversized gaming monitor versus a

premium television and it gets worst one

of the biggest improvements to TVs in

the last few years has been there nearly

perfect off-axis viewing experience at

least to a degree pun intended

and the BFG D falls well short of what I

would consider to be acceptable for a

large living room viewing experience

where someone like even on a couch like

the one I'm sitting here on right now

someone is gonna end up either off on

the side or on a beanbag chair over

there and they are not gonna have as

good an experience both color and

contrast are affected but it's the

banding and the halos around bright

objects because of the local dimming

that are truly distracting now they get

better if you turn the local dimming off

but that's not what I want to do when

I'm gaming or watching a movie in HDR on

my $5,000 display and finally keep in

mind that like anything using

DisplayPort 1.4 running 4k at 144 Hertz

comes with the trade-off of chromophore

2 to subsampling rather than 4 for 4

which we discussed in more detail in our

PG 2 7uq review also the screen takes a

good 10 to 12 seconds to turn on whoof

and when it comes to HDR support the

imperium does not support Dolby vision

instead only offering HDR 10 which HP

somehow thinks can be appropriately

described as one of the most ambitious

HDR standards

okay in conclusion this display is

kick-ass and I really really want to

play what I want to play with it and

then and then clean it and tuck it in at

night and the thing is that I already

have it it's here an HP sent it to me to

review so then yeah if you're a

billionaire you should go get one right

now for your dedicated gaming salon but

I just have a harder time recommending

this to anyone for whom $5,000 is a

stretch and here are the reasons number

one while I've been referring to it as a

TV

it isn't strictly speaking a TV it's

actually missing some TV features like

for example a TV tuner I don't

personally consider that a big deal

because I don't remember when the last

time anyone used their TVs onboard tuner

was but it's an important enough a

distinction that HP sent us an irate

email because we kept calling it a TV

and they were like no it's a display so

fine I'm mentioning it there you go -

it's really tough to push Triple A games

past about 70 FPS at 4k and the thing is

if you're not going to game at either 4k

or 120 Hertz or more specifically both

of them then you might as well save

yourself some cash with a free sync 120

Hertz 1080p TV then perhaps most

importantly three within the next year

we're gonna see a lot of the gaming

features that make the imperium so great

start to appear in mainstream TVs since

with HDMI 2.1 are due out this year that

means 4k 120 Hertz and again with free

sync support so then as long as they

have low input lag and a fair number of

TVs out there do now they'll probably

offer up a very similar gaming

experience compared to the BFG D but

they could be as much as a few thousand

dollars cheaper

so this was an amazing product concept

that addressed a huge gap in the market

when Nvidia in Vail did at CES 2018 now

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