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so you can get some really cheap stuff on aliexpress

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monitor appears like this monitor so we ordered this what like a month ago or

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something like that it was cheap it was only 200 bucks and the reviews for it

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are fantastic oh wait if you look closely here those reviews are from

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amazon and they're not even for a monitor for a monitor stand so wait a

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minute what even is this thing is it any good

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and can you trust aliexpress at all it

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so we already did the very cheap feeling

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um external power brick uh made by dodging HDMI cable that is actually

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really nice to see included metal stand

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oh uh sheet metal stand this is really

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oh this is you know what

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functional i like it having the screws already

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installed where they go is handy i do wish that they weren't quite all the way

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in oh it's curved it's curved baby 3000 r that's interesting so it's got

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actually yeah quite a tight curve on it another thing you can notice is uh this

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is not the brand name that was on the product page

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and this appears to be just spray painted

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at least it's straight yeah but is it

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okay so that's about no that's clearly four no it is not in

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fact level it goes it goes down this way

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so you got your stereo speakers HDMI vga

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that's it baby power in no DisplayPort

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literally the very worst kind of on-screen display controls the kind

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that's on the back you're supposed to have one tactile bump and the stupid

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part is it's not even a cost saving measure because it's not like they took

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one button and then just reused the molding for it there's one molding for

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the entire back panel of the monitor so it was just a stupid decision it's like

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this is what happens when you clone a product without understanding why they

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did it on the original product so they probably saw a button that had a tactile

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bump read a review somewhere that was like yeah helpful tactile bump on the

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button and we're like oh well they cheaped out they only put one

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tactile bump we're gonna do five so you reach around behind the monitor

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and you don't know what button that is you know what though

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major kudos for them having a vase amount

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even though i have absolutely no idea how exactly you would put a back plate

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on it there's your screw again okay now watch how this works

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well the table you got to lift it lift it there you go here i'll hold that for

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you all right incredibly light this is

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scarily light okay in fairness to it in spite of the cheap stand the tilt adjust

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that it does have actually feels really solid like it's

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it's really firm first impressions

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not very strong it's only 1080p

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yeah it's fine is the whole thing crooked

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um yeah that's like 83. like this is way off it actually has a

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bit of like a screen door effect i'm just looking at how there's like there's

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a a mesh there's a grid that you can see just on a gray background but like text

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looks like hot garbage oh wow this menu

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these graphics which one are we on right now and what

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do the buttons do oh no

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so it changes part of the frame

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according to the parameters you set here

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to look different from the rest of the frame

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what even is this why what is this feature

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who could want this when i click the right side

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it goes to the left like this it goes

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this way through them and when i click the left side it goes this way warm

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use oh green is what i think they should call that one that's custom though srgb

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okay that seems fine cool normal

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enhance full full sail here

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on what the hell

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it must be maybe you don't see it when you have s

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no no i can see it phone hands off

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full enhance on it's like saturating it yeah it's saturating it ever so slightly

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what the hell what is this demoing

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for a second i thought maybe it was demoing like

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on or off for your color boost but it's not it's demoing if your monitor was

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actually broken versus if it wasn't

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maybe it's meant to be you put like a before and after thing so it's like this

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is a inferior monitors look like this and our monitor looks like that that's

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not even remotely close though like you can't even look at this exactly the

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competition pales in comparison like this is this is like

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what three bit color like like you know what

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i mean like when you because you can see a big difference in like banding and in

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being able to see the discrepancies between shades of gray if you go from

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like a six bit to an 8-bit panel or a 10-bit panel right

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so this what what monitor are they simulating here

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where you can't tell the difference between these colors

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input select is actually that just that was it fell by the wayside that was a

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low priority i mean there's only two inputs

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so by this point it's pretty clear this monitor is

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terrible but you guys can keep watching

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for just more pain train here i think so cs go demo mode yeah yeah yeah what even

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it is it's all up here no it can't be

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i think it's all in here oh my god it is

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we can't even see the menu

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oh my god it's like dishonest sales tactic mode

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it's like do you want to lie to your customers press this button oh that's a

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bad guy can we turn demo mode off now and give this thing a fair shake

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all right let's do it let's do it you know i don't actually feel

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a discernibly large amount of input leg like i you

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know if we whip out the makey makey or something and measure it it might not be

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perfect which is what i did it's not terrible are we going to be

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able to show these side by side because this one's 4k and that one's

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super definitely not i don't actually know if we can clone display a game like

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that we might have to run this one at 1080.

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okay so they're both 1920x1080 they're both 100

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okay is it gonna clone i actually i don't remember ever trying to do this

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cool uh it's not working

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it's dull and lifeless let's be more fair let's be even more fair

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let's be as fair as we can let's try some different um

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modes or something okay because we're in srgb mode which is

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not like the most vibrant mode or anything oh my god they're all awful

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that's just pink go to normal

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very green okay so we're resetting this to factory

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defaults i'm getting pro

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so yeah it's pink it's a pink monitor you can really see

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it's not bright at all like the contrast

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is so low like this is brighter than this this is

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darker here which is what you want and then this like these bright spots

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where it's supposed to be bright white it's just dull it has no

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punch to it so to be clear we're comparing two

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monitors that would both have obvious differences

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between the image on their screen and a known subject like someone you've seen

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in person many times well you can see the actual and the

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drawn or rendered color right there right but we're looking at it on these

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monitors but we're talking an average delta e of 5.54 and 7.16 so it's

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considered indiscernible to the human eye when it's sub 2. so that's fascinating so you

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wouldn't use either of these for color critical work but

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i think if you're just a regular gamer movie watcher normal stuff

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you're not gonna really care about either of those values

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but meanwhile actually using it

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you hated this it's so damn

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and it looked so green yeah i hate it

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here's the thing just because the panel is made by a reputable manufacturer

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doesn't necessarily mean that they are to blame for a crappy image on it

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because the electronics that drive the panel the

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tuning of the panel the calibration of the panel all of these things affect the

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final image the quality of the backlight the quality of the intermediate layers

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there's really not much benefit to finding out who's responsible for the

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actual panel itself i guess there's just

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an additional appreciation for that most monitors aren't this bad okay there's

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one more thing we can test though sure if you remember

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we hated the speakers on that thing yeah we were happy that it came with them

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i guess they were really bad though yeah could these speakers be worse

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all right let's find out do i really need any more than the

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Windows test tone to know that this sounds horrible here just not a good

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test bear with me bear with me no just come over here just come over here and listen to it

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it's obviously bad already that's pretty bad

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okay let's try the other one uh

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hold on it's not picking it up i think the

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NVIDIA audio stream output thing can only do one at a time so

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let's see if it picks up this one are you are you just messing with me no

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you think they're just grills and there's no real speakers in there

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they're not picking up i don't

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know if i ever heard them

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are you messing with me right now no no i'm not are you sure

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could they be fake i'm pretty sure the product page also says it has speakers

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though all right so we're giving it another

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shot oh my god there aren't speakers in it

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well speaking of good ideas

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video more than that except with the exception of maybe the amazon basics gaming keyboard that's not very good

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toss up there no no it's better than this it's just

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i'm not really recommending it this is cheaper