Samsung could also be most well-known for promoting gigantic ultrawide displays, however it’s not the one one within the sport. In reality, the competitors is heating up, as evidenced by the presence of Gigabyte’s Aorus CO49DQ 49-inch gaming monitor at CES 2024.

First introduced in December 2023, the CO49DQ is a double quad HD (DQHD) show boasting a 5120×1440 decision—the equal of two 2560×1440 panels side-by-side. Gigabyte’s model is flippantly curved and helps a 144Hz refresh price. For now, the launch value is about at $1,299, although the corporate says the associated fee might drop decrease by the point the monitor hits cabinets. (Speaking of cabinets, they’re going to have to be sturdy, as this 49-inch monitor weighs in at almost 25 kilos.)

You can catch a better view of the CO49DQ in our video embedded above, the place PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray runs down the specs. Though sponsored by Gigabyte, the video additionally incorporates Adam’s ideas on Gigabyte’s noteworthy merchandise at CES 2024—like one other Aorus-branded OLED monitor. This smaller 27-inch 1440p monitor incorporates a 360Hz refresh price and 0.03ms response time, in addition to one notably smooth design component: the slender monitor stand, which has the barest of footprints.

Gamers may also sit up for Gigabyte’s revamped Aorus X16 laptop computer, which is newly infused with 14th-gen Intel “Raptor Lake Refresh” Core CPUs, as much as a Nvidia RTX 4090 laptop computer GPU, and AI capabilities that assist handle the battery and efficiency boosting, and with content material creation. Despite the revamp, although, this gaming pocket book nonetheless sports activities all kinds of ports alongside its sides (Ethernet, HDMI, micro-SD, USB-A, and USB-C)—and in addition packs in a nifty trick: A tiny projector on the again beams the Aorus emblem onto no matter floor the laptop computer’s sitting on.

For these closely concerned in content material creation, Gigabyte showcased a few highly effective Threadripper builds at its sales space, too: one working a Threadripper Pro 7960X, and the opposite a Threadripper Pro 7985X, with each techniques crunching by means of punishing workloads.
Keep testing PCWorld all week lengthy for extra enjoyable, bizarre, and funky issues from the CES 2024 present ground—like this tiny but killer motherboard feature, dual-screen laptops, and our personal hands-on showdown between portable gaming PCs.