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foreign guess I need a new one

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this is the god king of gaming monitors

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I can't afford that Linus hmm wait

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you don't need the god king of monitors I know we talk about expensive stuff all

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the time but you can get a really decent display for as little as a hundred bucks

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these days yeah right a hundred dollars yeah I'm sure it's only 75 Hertz and

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1080p but look at all these reviews isn't this some hunk of junk

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would the people steer you wrong tell you what let me figure out why the

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everyone is buying this thing give me a few days and I'm gonna get back to you

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introducing the scepter

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e248w19203r or rather the 19203rt we

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ordered the first one and we got the other one they have the exact same specs

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so we think it's either a newer revision or maybe a regional thing whatever this

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thing is it's got over 25 000 reviews on Amazon with 76 percent of

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you giving it a 5 star rating that is

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really impressive there's not too much

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to it two HDMI ports VGA audio in and

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out and a barrel plug for power no DisplayPort is kind of odd for a PC

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monitor and has some drawbacks we'll talk more about that later the stand

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attaches with a couple of screws and in terms of adjustment features this and

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that's about it we've got our speaker grilles on the back my hopes are not too

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high for these a Kensington lock and then navigation buttons for the OSD

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they're labeled but they're labeled on the back which is better than nothing

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but not as good as being labeled on the front as for the overall feel well it's

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light and cheap but kind of what we like about it and

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there's a lot more to like 1080p resolution isn't cutting edge but at 24

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inches it's definitely enough and while

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75 Hertz refresh rate is less than you might expect for a gaming first monitor

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these days it is noticeably better than the 60 hertz that was standard for so

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many years it's also vase amountable includes speakers supports variable

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refresh rate really that's cool and

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boasts three millisecond grade pixel response times 95 coverage of the srgb

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color space 250 nit Peak brightness all on a VA panel VA panel the HP that you

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guys are buying last time we did this was IPS and it was just 90 bucks did we

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take a step backwards here well it might seem like it on the surface and the

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Pavilion 22cwa is still a valid Choice

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all these years later but last decades Champion is only 21.5 inches is stuck at

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just 60 hertz it's created great response times also weren't great and

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the stand was pretty weird its main draw

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really was just being an IPS panel for cheap which was unheard of back then

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let's see if our newcomer can hold up this is not bad we measured them the

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Delta E's are eight out of the box and six with calibration meaning yeah you're

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not going to be doing any color accurate work on it but like

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it's Poppy I mean VA can be a drawback

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in terms of pixel response time we're going to play around with that once I actually get in game but it's a benefit

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when it comes to contrast like obviously

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it's not OLED but it it it pops you know

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what blows my mind this is better in every way than my

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first like large format monitor it was a

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Dell 2405 fpw and it was 16 by 10 and

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had a better stand obviously but it did not look anywhere near this good I spent

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like six seven hundred dollars on that thing second hand and this just

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traps on it in terms of the image quality oh hold on a second David

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oh my God are you seeing are you seeing

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this motion blur on the high contrast edges here

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oh it's playable for sure

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um what just happened okay hold on I gotta pay attention here

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where's my freaking Oddball that no don't shoot me don't shoot me no damn it

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okay sorry I'm paying attention I was busy I was busy observing the smearing okay

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come check this out guys oh man you see how it kind of

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aside from the tearing okay let me find I gotta find like uh

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oh shoot oh God damn I'm trying to look trying to

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Benchmark here okay it's two things okay it's the blurriness on the trailing Edge

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as we're moving and then it's also the overdrive artifacting on the Leading

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Edge so it's just a mess when it's in

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motion see that something that really stands out to me is that compared to our

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last pick 24 inches is kind of the threshold to me for immersion it doesn't

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feel small and it might not have the

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sharpness of a higher pixel density display but this is super easy to drive

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with an inexpensive GPU and at 1080p you

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really want to stick to your native resolution uh at 4K 5K the interpolation

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is not as distracting but at this res it

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doesn't look great the speariness doesn't look great under any

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circumstances it's pretty rough

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100 bucks easy that's like the easiest decision ever you know what the 2405 fpw

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was also VA and also had Wicked motion

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blur I remember it stood out to be the most in freelancer this is basically my

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first awesome monitor but it's a hundred dollars now

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like yeah how can you argue with that it's compelling

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uh 75 Hertz is markedly better than 60.

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like it's a huge difference hey I got him yes

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sorry look I haven't played in a while okay it's taking me taking me a sec here

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it's not a gaming monitor if competitive

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Shooters are your bread and butter I'd consider ponying up the extra 25 for

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this kurui model but it never claims to be and it's perfectly adequate for just

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about anything else and in my opinion good enough for gaming anyway but enough

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about what I think what do you guys think the five star folks it seems are

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really loving the value they like the picture quality the size the value how

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skinny it is how easy it is to set up and the value did I mention the value it

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seems like a common use case for these things is to buy a carton of them for a

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cheap and cheerful multi-monitor battle station with multiple users pointing out

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it's amazing utility for things like security systems some of you are

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upgrading from smaller screens and just don't want to go too big While others

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are looking for an inexpensive secondary monitor that is both easy to mount and

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not total garbage we did find some valid

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complaints about missing screws or lackluster durability but over

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overwhelmingly you all still gave it five stars does the e248 19203 RT get

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anything wrong yes and the most reasonable complaints come mostly from

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the four-star crowd you guys are still loving the price compared to a basic

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gaming monitor like this viotech but the coffee and donut that you bought with

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your savings are long gone leaving behind only sticky packaging and a

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bitter aftertaste there is bad smearing the stand isn't all that adjustable it

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does feel cheap and plasticky and the speakers well they're they're present

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but they're not very good still though for the most part you guys seem pretty

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pleased too and four and five star reviews make up about 92 percent of all

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user reviews bringing us to the other eight percent almost all of the one to

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three star reviews were about bad quality control bad HDMI cable panel

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deterioration broke after a move dead pixels the RMA process sucked crappy

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stand and then a lot of people with similar complaints to the four star crew

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but just louder and angrier that's only eight percent of all reviews even on a

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premium product that would be a pretty impressive rating and outside of

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failures which typically can be are made within the first year even if the

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process for it isn't great there just aren't a lot of complaints I mean the

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quality isn't exceptional like the clothing on lttstore.com especially our

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new Henley shirt but at least with the scepter you know

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you're buying the value option whether it's a three pack for a 300 battle

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station set up or just a simple terminal

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monitor that only needs to display text I've seen enough at this point to give

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it the should be fine Award of sufficiency but if you've made it this far in the

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video you might be shopping for a monitor in this range and you probably

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want to know if there are other options that could be a better buy and there

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might be there's a saying that you might have heard a few times on this channel there's no such thing as a bad product

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just a bad price and at anything higher

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than the price we paid for this it would be a bad price and you'd be better off

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shopping elsewhere the reality is that while this thing is going to give you

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exactly what it says for cheap as soon as it goes back to its current Amazon

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list price of 125 dollars it gets

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trounced by the competition this kurui monitor don't ask I've never heard of

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them buy at your own risk is only 22 inches but it's less than eighty dollars

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they've got a 24 inch model on sale too that's 165 Hertz for 125 dollars that's

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about the same as the Vo Tech that I showed you guys before and if you don't

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need High refresh rate anyway this Acer model is also just a hundred dollars at

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the time of writing with even more positive reviews the main drawback of

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that one though is that it can't be vase amounted which really takes away that

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battle station capability for a hundred fifty dollars regularly on sale for more

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like 125 to 130 you can get the va24dq

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from ASUS same size resolution and refresh rate but it is IPS with better

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pixel response times and you're not limited to AMD graphics cards if you

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want variable refresh rate support thanks to the DisplayPort connection it

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should be noted that while NVIDIA can do variable refresh rate over HDMI it's

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only on HDMI 2.1 which this monitor does

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not support and if you don't like ASUS for whatever reason in the 1 to 125

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dollar price range there are a lot of options with basically those same specs

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from a number of different brands which I think leads us to a really good point

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here whether you guys keep buying the scepter

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e248w19203rt or you end up swapping to basically any other brand with similar

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specs around the same price what matters is that decent secondary displays have

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reached the point where they are truly cheap now the fact that this little guy

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can be vase amounted and quickly incorporated into your setup means that

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just about anyone who can afford a computer can also afford a multi-monitor

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setup that isn't crap which has a huge impact on productivity which actually

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leads us into another important Point don't get drawn into spending more than

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you intended with this kind of thing I mean a lot of alternative options we

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mentioned were only you know twenty dollars to thirty dollars more but

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that's a 20 to 30 percent price increase and when you consider how fast display

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Tech is moving these days that might not be worth it for you and that's

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especially true if you're picking up two or three of these things and paying that

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extra 20 each time so the scepter

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e248w-19203 RT then it may not be the

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god king of monitors but it's also not the peasant Deuce so maybe keep buying

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them then just don't pay more than a hundred dollars we

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ran some tests and yep you get what you

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pay for but let's be real your security camera feed doesn't need Delta ease of

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two or 120 hertz in HDR to see that I'm

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