foreign guess I need a new one
this is the god king of gaming monitors
I can't afford that Linus hmm wait
you don't need the god king of monitors I know we talk about expensive stuff all
the time but you can get a really decent display for as little as a hundred bucks
these days yeah right a hundred dollars yeah I'm sure it's only 75 Hertz and
1080p but look at all these reviews isn't this some hunk of junk
would the people steer you wrong tell you what let me figure out why the
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introducing the scepter
e248w19203r or rather the 19203rt we
ordered the first one and we got the other one they have the exact same specs
so we think it's either a newer revision or maybe a regional thing whatever this
thing is it's got over 25 000 reviews on Amazon with 76 percent of
you giving it a 5 star rating that is
really impressive there's not too much
to it two HDMI ports VGA audio in and
out and a barrel plug for power no DisplayPort is kind of odd for a PC
monitor and has some drawbacks we'll talk more about that later the stand
attaches with a couple of screws and in terms of adjustment features this and
that's about it we've got our speaker grilles on the back my hopes are not too
high for these a Kensington lock and then navigation buttons for the OSD
they're labeled but they're labeled on the back which is better than nothing
but not as good as being labeled on the front as for the overall feel well it's
light and cheap but kind of what we like about it and
there's a lot more to like 1080p resolution isn't cutting edge but at 24
inches it's definitely enough and while
75 Hertz refresh rate is less than you might expect for a gaming first monitor
these days it is noticeably better than the 60 hertz that was standard for so
many years it's also vase amountable includes speakers supports variable
refresh rate really that's cool and
boasts three millisecond grade pixel response times 95 coverage of the srgb
color space 250 nit Peak brightness all on a VA panel VA panel the HP that you
guys are buying last time we did this was IPS and it was just 90 bucks did we
take a step backwards here well it might seem like it on the surface and the
Pavilion 22cwa is still a valid Choice
all these years later but last decades Champion is only 21.5 inches is stuck at
just 60 hertz it's created great response times also weren't great and
the stand was pretty weird its main draw
really was just being an IPS panel for cheap which was unheard of back then
let's see if our newcomer can hold up this is not bad we measured them the
Delta E's are eight out of the box and six with calibration meaning yeah you're
not going to be doing any color accurate work on it but like
it's Poppy I mean VA can be a drawback
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
when it comes to contrast like obviously
it's not OLED but it it it pops you know
what blows my mind this is better in every way than my
first like large format monitor it was a
Dell 2405 fpw and it was 16 by 10 and
had a better stand obviously but it did not look anywhere near this good I spent
like six seven hundred dollars on that thing second hand and this just
traps on it in terms of the image quality oh hold on a second David
oh my God are you seeing are you seeing
this motion blur on the high contrast edges here
oh it's playable for sure
um what just happened okay hold on I gotta pay attention here
where's my freaking Oddball that no don't shoot me don't shoot me no damn it
okay sorry I'm paying attention I was busy I was busy observing the smearing okay
come check this out guys oh man you see how it kind of
aside from the tearing okay let me find I gotta find like uh
oh shoot oh God damn I'm trying to look trying to
Benchmark here okay it's two things okay it's the blurriness on the trailing Edge
as we're moving and then it's also the overdrive artifacting on the Leading
Edge so it's just a mess when it's in
motion see that something that really stands out to me is that compared to our
last pick 24 inches is kind of the threshold to me for immersion it doesn't
feel small and it might not have the
sharpness of a higher pixel density display but this is super easy to drive
with an inexpensive GPU and at 1080p you
really want to stick to your native resolution uh at 4K 5K the interpolation
is not as distracting but at this res it
doesn't look great the speariness doesn't look great under any
circumstances it's pretty rough
100 bucks easy that's like the easiest decision ever you know what the 2405 fpw
was also VA and also had Wicked motion
blur I remember it stood out to be the most in freelancer this is basically my
first awesome monitor but it's a hundred dollars now
like yeah how can you argue with that it's compelling
uh 75 Hertz is markedly better than 60.
like it's a huge difference hey I got him yes
sorry look I haven't played in a while okay it's taking me taking me a sec here
it's not a gaming monitor if competitive
Shooters are your bread and butter I'd consider ponying up the extra 25 for
this kurui model but it never claims to be and it's perfectly adequate for just
about anything else and in my opinion good enough for gaming anyway but enough
about what I think what do you guys think the five star folks it seems are
really loving the value they like the picture quality the size the value how
skinny it is how easy it is to set up and the value did I mention the value it
seems like a common use case for these things is to buy a carton of them for a
cheap and cheerful multi-monitor battle station with multiple users pointing out
it's amazing utility for things like security systems some of you are
upgrading from smaller screens and just don't want to go too big While others
are looking for an inexpensive secondary monitor that is both easy to mount and
not total garbage we did find some valid
complaints about missing screws or lackluster durability but over
overwhelmingly you all still gave it five stars does the e248 19203 RT get
anything wrong yes and the most reasonable complaints come mostly from
the four-star crowd you guys are still loving the price compared to a basic
gaming monitor like this viotech but the coffee and donut that you bought with
your savings are long gone leaving behind only sticky packaging and a
bitter aftertaste there is bad smearing the stand isn't all that adjustable it
does feel cheap and plasticky and the speakers well they're they're present
but they're not very good still though for the most part you guys seem pretty
pleased too and four and five star reviews make up about 92 percent of all
user reviews bringing us to the other eight percent almost all of the one to
three star reviews were about bad quality control bad HDMI cable panel
deterioration broke after a move dead pixels the RMA process sucked crappy
stand and then a lot of people with similar complaints to the four star crew
but just louder and angrier that's only eight percent of all reviews even on a
premium product that would be a pretty impressive rating and outside of
failures which typically can be are made within the first year even if the
process for it isn't great there just aren't a lot of complaints I mean the
quality isn't exceptional like the clothing on lttstore.com especially our
new Henley shirt but at least with the scepter you know
you're buying the value option whether it's a three pack for a 300 battle
station set up or just a simple terminal
monitor that only needs to display text I've seen enough at this point to give
it the should be fine Award of sufficiency but if you've made it this far in the
video you might be shopping for a monitor in this range and you probably
want to know if there are other options that could be a better buy and there
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
just a bad price and at anything higher
than the price we paid for this it would be a bad price and you'd be better off
shopping elsewhere the reality is that while this thing is going to give you
exactly what it says for cheap as soon as it goes back to its current Amazon
list price of 125 dollars it gets
trounced by the competition this kurui monitor don't ask I've never heard of
them buy at your own risk is only 22 inches but it's less than eighty dollars
they've got a 24 inch model on sale too that's 165 Hertz for 125 dollars that's
about the same as the Vo Tech that I showed you guys before and if you don't
need High refresh rate anyway this Acer model is also just a hundred dollars at
the time of writing with even more positive reviews the main drawback of
that one though is that it can't be vase amounted which really takes away that
battle station capability for a hundred fifty dollars regularly on sale for more
like 125 to 130 you can get the va24dq
from ASUS same size resolution and refresh rate but it is IPS with better
pixel response times and you're not limited to AMD graphics cards if you
want variable refresh rate support thanks to the DisplayPort connection it
should be noted that while NVIDIA can do variable refresh rate over HDMI it's
only on HDMI 2.1 which this monitor does
not support and if you don't like ASUS for whatever reason in the 1 to 125
dollar price range there are a lot of options with basically those same specs
from a number of different brands which I think leads us to a really good point
here whether you guys keep buying the scepter
e248w19203rt or you end up swapping to basically any other brand with similar
specs around the same price what matters is that decent secondary displays have
reached the point where they are truly cheap now the fact that this little guy
can be vase amounted and quickly incorporated into your setup means that
just about anyone who can afford a computer can also afford a multi-monitor
setup that isn't crap which has a huge impact on productivity which actually
leads us into another important Point don't get drawn into spending more than
you intended with this kind of thing I mean a lot of alternative options we
mentioned were only you know twenty dollars to thirty dollars more but
that's a 20 to 30 percent price increase and when you consider how fast display
Tech is moving these days that might not be worth it for you and that's
especially true if you're picking up two or three of these things and paying that
extra 20 each time so the scepter
e248w-19203 RT then it may not be the
god king of monitors but it's also not the peasant Deuce so maybe keep buying
them then just don't pay more than a hundred dollars we
ran some tests and yep you get what you
pay for but let's be real your security camera feed doesn't need Delta ease of
two or 120 hertz in HDR to see that I'm
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