have you always wanted a 4k monitor but you just couldn't handle spending
hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a freaking computer screen well
have we ever got a deal for you as long as you don't need high refresh rate HDR
10-bit color freesync g-sync or sexy RGB lighting
then this right here is the scepter u27
the cheapest 4k monitor on amazon at
just 179 bucks but is it any good
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all right so james over there has actually seen this already but
i haven't so this is going to be my first 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
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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