so my buddy dongsu park over at zeotac
he emails me every once in a while going yeah we've got more cheap korean
monitors just like that last time we sent you a cheap korean monitor and a
lot of the time i'm like ah that doesn't really look that amazing you guys not
that impressed
not this time i have not been able to find anything
online that is comparable to the cheap
korean monitor deal that i have for you guys today this is the crossover fast
144 it is a 2560 by 1440
ips panel 144 hertz display
that i will get out of the box eventually for 299
us
okay so first things first let's have a look
at uh what kind of goods we get for our
299 us dollars we get a lot of bubble wrap wow okay
we get uh a remote that's weird
we get a power cable we get uh
i love this apparently it is easier
slash cheaper for them to do this this way they just send you an asian power
cord and then they send you an adapter
so that you can adapt it to your north american plug
not the most elegant solution ever but hey it gets the job done we also get a
displayport cable we get a closer look at that
remote that i alluded to before got kind of like a
little winky like napster guy on there
and then we get our own tool and screws to presumably assemble
this thing and assemble we shall this comes in more pieces than your typical
monitor stands i like the construction though
you hear that it's a
train it's the game train
it's coming into the station okay i'm done
so the way you orient this bad boy is you kind of look at the the marks and
the angles and you kind of align the thing and then it kind of goes on a little something like that 10 out of 10
instructions dick not stuck inside the
monitor stand this feels like kind of a stupid thing
to do but i'm actually going to set up the monitor in front of the
65-inch OLED tv from lg that i've got
going on here and the reason being is that that's really not actually that
great for gaming so it's nice to have other options
first we got to get the stand on here though
this also well built i will give them credit for
that but not especially outstanding in terms of
like height adjustment or anything so you're you're definitely giving up
something for your 299 144 hertz freesync ips display and that
is uh the robustness of the stand to their credit though at least they've got
a vase amount that one really drives me crazy when you got a cheap stand
and they didn't build in the necessary internal reinforcements
for a third-party mount
i'm stripping this
you guys want to see me strip on camera
and of course it doesn't slip anymore perfect now i've cranked that so tight
all right so
there it is pretty
bare bones if you ask me
but can it make up for it with the gaming
experience to find out we are going to
be using something really really
special now i'm not a televangelist so i'm not going
to give you guys a whole thing about planting a seed of a dollar and someday
it will return to you a 10 000 x
but that is what happened today so i
first met charles about 10 years ago
how what's the safest way to take this out of here i won't be able to pull it up
can i try
whoa that's a heavy system
feels like a yeah i was gonna say
oh this is weird you're not making it better right now
so i first met charles ten years ago um
uh this was back when i was building high-end systems or at least what i
thought were high-end systems we're about to see that redefined when i was
building high-end systems back at ncix
and uh i had noticed him originally because he had all these really
expensive invoices like like six thousand dollars like regularly i'm like
dude what are you doing with all this stuff turns out he was building
some really special systems also in
we had we we shared we shared we had something in common right off the bat
our favorite case the silverstone tj07 anyway
the first time i met him in person he was in desperate need of a really
special set of fittings for a thermo-chill radiator some british
standard plug that was very uncommon even for water cooling crap 10 years ago
and i actually didn't want to get rid of
them because they were they were fairly unusual they were
like even finding nickel-plated thermo-chill fittings back then was
really tough these were really nice ones they had ribs all the way down so they
sealed really nicely and i was like i only have one set of these
you know what charles just for you
so since then he's actually been i mean
not full-time but he's been hard at work on what he calls the x-format mbx-2 this
is a truly special case based on the original tj07 and he brought this here
for me a special system that he hand built himself
in this chassis absolutely one of a kind
and we're gonna use this to power up our monitor
okay here we go so some assembly required you guys see that
totally custom fan mounting all aluminum but i'm not gonna like bang it together
this is not a train okay this is
this is a piece of art we're going to do a full showcase of
this thing down the line for now we're just going to be using it to yes
i'm going to draw your attention stop stop back to the monitor back to the
monitor so it's got 4 HDMI ports i
didn't talk about that before one DisplayPort an audio passthrough and
a dc in jack let's go ahead
and get this baby fired up
this is pretty cool
to put it mildly
like i feel like an idiot having a blue Ethernet cable now
like look at this now i have to fix everything
thanks charles
this is not a gift this is an obligation
look i said look at the monitor this video isn't about that we're going to do
a video about that later stop
okay oh yeah that looks good that's just a
little piece of gunk is this on
i can't tell
hey wow okay quick boot
okay i gotta say i'm glad it comes with a remote though
it doesn't come with batteries so i'm gonna have to go find some because the
this buttons on the back of the monitor thing is basically unusable i'm just
trying to adjust the brightness color effect temperature
gamma ultra vivid what like what is this where's just brightness
look at this hey you're supposed to be looking at the monitor not the computer we've been
through this oh and i lost it
like like what is this what is ormation set apparently it's
what i need because that's where brightness is and we are back
this is actually really impressive
like this is right up there with some of the lowest motion blur that i've
seen on an ips that and this
this machine and this monitor are a match made in heaven this thing's
actually running at over a hundred frames per second
at uh 2560 by 1440. so if i lose it's
only because of me there is uh no excuses for anything at this point
like here you can actually maybe even see it a little bit here
just how there's no there's no motion blur there's no
streaking behind that i am really impressed with this thing especially for
the price like it won't make me good at counter-strike that's for sure but
ah ah i'm still reloading i got two guns here come on it's not fair
you're dead like this gaming experience has been
available for a while but now the difference is that it's cheap
and like to be clear 300 is still a lot of money but
in the context of what we would have paid for this kind of an experience
before it's pretty affordable the only comparable things i could find was a
144hz 1440p 300 monitor on mono price but that was a
tn panel and then for an ips with those specs you
were paying quite a bit more
so to be clear not everything about this thing is
perfect this menu can die in a fire
and i'm just turning up the brightness a little bit because this game's kind of uh
kind of dark yeah that looks that looks fine now
but it's got a lot going for it i am super
impressed for 300 bucks and uh
yeah you can check that out at the link in the video description while you're at
it if you guys are interested in learning a little bit more about this beast before we do our follow-up video
uh the case itself is actually for sale on mod1 so we'll have a link to that in
the description as well