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time unboxing just how much monitor you can get for 180 bucks i'll tell you you're not going to get a lot of packaging so i mean it should be fine as long as ups doesn't you know drop kick it or anything outputs wow it's got built-in speakers so that's not bad although my expectations are pretty low in terms of what kind of speed wow you get a metal stand i wasn't really expecting that i was expecting it to be pretty low plastic all right that's cool included accessories you got your screws you got your other more different screws you got your driver of screws also known as a screwdriver uh one HDMI cable one pretty skinny power cord but that's fine i guess huh i guess they didn't need a third ground prong for this for some reason and some other more different screws you also get the monitor itself and we have come to the point where even literally the cheapest displays are super thin with narrow bezels these days 2018 is a great time to be alive isn't it look at that oh thank god i mean if it wasn't compatible with Windows 10 whatever would i do the craziest thing about this sticker is that that doesn't happen by accident someone somewhere went out of their way to obtain reams upon reams of these stickers and find some way to work into the workflow of producing this monitor that they get applied to them who made that call base screw hanging screw so these are for for if you're face amounting it okay that's cool that is actually a really nice inclusion that's one of the ways that conventional you know the monitor brands you've ever heard of tend to differentiate their low end products is they don't allow them to be mounted on a third-party ARM well this is a serious advantage for this one it's always been something that's kind of triggered because it doesn't cost them really anything to put four freaking holes there this is not even the worst screwdriver i've ever encountered and basically for free uh you probably need to know which way the stand goes on though uh so there's these convenient rubber feet on the bottom of the metal stand i gotta say the i o is a little better than i expected so we've got two HDMI ports though you should note and they've marked this very clearly one of them is only HDMI 1.4 so it doesn't have the latest hdcp as well 4k 30 hertz and it won't be able to play the latest protected content one of them those HDMI 2.0 hdcp 2.2 4k 60hz it's also got displayport and dvi curiously along with a headphone jack now you're not going to get like a usb hub or anything like that but frankly at this price you shouldn't be expecting that moment of truth scepter worst peel ever it should be illegal to ship monitors with stickers that not only are just completely superfluous but also cover the screen uh let's go ahead and have a look at the at the menu here so we've got our they've they've committed a cardinals in here they've put buttons on the back without labels on the front so we're just kind of i'm just kind of guessing here overdrive is on just does nothing they call us they do nothing no never mind i just had it wrong blue light shift so you can it's kind of like a reading mode now that we're running at 60 hertz my immediate impressions are pretty good like it there's no obvious like oh wow this is really you know pretty crap input leg or dang can we actually cut the lights like do you guys remember when every cheap monitor had like the grossest tn panel and just like epic amounts of backlight bleed along the sides like this is not bad like obviously you get a bit of that ips glow but frankly that's never really bothered me and you know the stand's not amazing you know it has height adjust in the sense that you can put it put it it okay that's some tilt that's good that's better than nothing so next up here is how suitable would this thing be for gaming well frankly there's a fair amount of motion blur there it's possible that we could actually bump the refresh rate someone on reddit apparently reported getting as high as 71 hertz on this thing i don't know if i'm necessarily going to aim that high but why don't i try setting it oh oh i have not seen that before okay so your mileage may vary this worked but is clearly a terrible experience you want to get in close to that brandon so they can really they can really have the experience here yeah look at this razer logo it's alive squirming like a snake all right so we're gonna call it quits on the display overclocking at this point but you know let's fire up a game let's fire up cs go those are not great speakers at 3 watts i mean i wasn't expecting much but those are quite bad this is actually a lot better in terms of responsiveness than i was expecting sorry the game's not rendering like that it's just it's i'm just moving it around like this like i mean obviously it's not a you know 240 hertz gaming monitor or whatever but like it doesn't feel like oh my god i suck the thing is that if you're spending 180 on your display like running 4k has inherent problems because you probably aren't spending enough on your pc that you can comfortably game at 4k 60 but if you happen to be hooked up to something that can game at 4k 4k60 this is not a terrible experience so the last real question mark for us then is color accuracy and thankfully james has actually run it through our gamut of tests using the i1 pro from x right here and in terms of results this is far from amazing so a delta e of 7 is well within the range that it would be a noticeable difference to the eye but it's not the worst we've seen for sure and let's actually check out our gamut test here and with 90 coverage of srgb like with calibration yeah you wouldn't be doing any serious photo or you know video work on it but it is more than usable for casual use you're not gonna you're not gonna notice like oh yeah red is pink or anything like that i consider this very acceptable considering the price of this display now with all that said something that you're going to run up against with any kind of value monitor these days is that you might be getting sort of the reject from a more reputable factory so the word on the street is that these are using cast off samsung panels which to be clear that's actually a pretty good thing even a b samsung panel is not going to make for a terrible display but you're more likely to run into things like this so we actually have a dead pixel on ours right about yeah you can see that black spot right there sometimes you can actually kind of massage them out it looks like that is not going to be happening the good news is that at 4k 10 pixels are actually far less of an issue than they used to be back when we were running 1280x1024 where you could like really see them and dead is better than stuck like if you got like a like a freaking blue stuck pixel that's that's quite a lot more noticeable than this like i probably wouldn't notice that if i hadn't known it was there i think it's just like a tiny little piece of dust or something what's that oh we got another one okay yeah actually we've got we've got a handful we've got one here got one here got one here that one there it took me till now to notice them and i don't think anyone sets their desktop background like that either though so in conclusion this thing is actually kind of awesome like i don't know is it would you put it a different way like at this price for at least for the unit we got which by the way we just bought so your mileage may vary but like clearly this can happen like i'm impressed as hell 180 bucks i mean when you compare that to the most popular monitor on amazon which is that hp 1080p one yeah it costs twice as much but it absolutely blows it out of the water this thing's great and this video is brought to you by something else that's great storyblocks with storyblocks you can get studio quality stock footage for a fraction of the price you can download all the stock video your heart desires from their member library 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totally join i am impressed as hell by this thing like it really doesn't it doesn't have any glaring problems get it glaring problems because it's a matte screen"}