today's video was actually inspired by one of our forum members because people
like to watch stuff get thrown at you so thanks stab your face for recommending
that we do the amazon basics thing again with monoprice stuff stab your face
that's the username well no it's only two words it's stab your face
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so the premise is pretty simple yet again we basically
went on a monoprice shopping spree
not because they paid us or we even particularly like those guys to be
perfectly frank with you i don't slide it too much
whoa whoa it doesn't have doesn't have any feet on the bottom so this thing
will screw up your desk wow and potentially your day
jeez you you know you've as you get that
so obviously this is a dual monitor stand yeah
if you somehow want to put your dual monitors vertically
okay so what are the specs of this puppy this is a 2560 by 1440p 144 hertz
freesync mode 44 hertz yes not bad it also has some kind of quantum
dots okay and i tested the colors and they're actually pretty good over 99
coverage of srgb okay and how much do we pay for one of these 400 bucks
so this was the 36 dollar mechanical feel keyboard yeah which didn't impress
us much city so it's a 10 keyless
and it uses otemu brown switches
how much do i pay for the privilege of a temu browns two dollars more than that
one 38 dollars total and even though this one has the double shot injected
keys that light can shine through yeah it's there's no backlight it's not RGB
and this amazon one is RGB do you hear that backspace when i hit it the key
stabilization is so bad hold on
i'd take this i'd give up my number pad i'd give up my
back lighting i'd give up my macro keys but then i type more than i game
and when it comes to just wasding around back when i used to game a lot
honestly i used membrane keyboard anyway so yeah but now you have taste
wow it doesn't have a forward button please
tell me this is programmable i saw a lot of reviews saying it's not you know what
this thing sucks and i hate it one thing it has
is weight you can change the weight although it says push it actually means
pull or push on this this is actually a
cylinder stack of little weight tuning discs
holy crap brand and check this out
so my gut feeling on the uh
the pixel response time motion blur
look at the trails behind the banner on the LTT website as i move it around that
is disgusting wow
see that i thought it was like an important
parallax effect of the website no
that is horrendous i've never seen that in my life
so that's what happens when you take
a panel that doesn't have adequate pixel response times for the refresh rate
you're running and just overclock the snot out of the refresh rate the worst
part we aren't even at 144 hertz yet but
this is one of those examples of monitor specs being misleading it's like yeah
144 it's get your gaming gaming
this is not going to be an amazing gaming experience what keep hitting me
oh right so their bread and butter is cables yeah so here we have we own so
many modern price tables this is a monoprice displayport cable
them way too much money this is an amazon basics displayport
cable
the monoprice one better be cheaper because this is a really old housing
style with the uh the button lock
this is the one that we had already we didn't just buy this we didn't just oh
this could be older oh remember how on the amazon video you're
like why did you buy this we have a million of these
yes well now i see how it was not
necessarily better to do it the other way thank you james for
illuminating that for me so there's two types this is the ultra
slim one that's four feet for ten dollars
and this one is the premium one which is six feet
for 650. premium is
cheaper than ultraslim right that's probably just because yeah
this is cheaper to manufacture or you can get a nice braided one from
amazon basics six feet for eight dollars
i like the slim one really lightweight and it actually makes
no difference for a digital signal to have a premium cable that's thicker or
braided or whatever else having this nice lightweight wire much easier to
manage super flexible too i like this one monoprice is actually fairly well
known for their headphones headsets at least
that's my understanding so these are their 90 dollar active noise cancelling
gaming headphones interesting
let's have the unboxing experience here my friends you can put your uh name tag
in here put like a business card in there so someone could wait what
is there actually a spot to put it oh yeah there we go it goes in from this
side okay oh but you can take it out if you want
so if nothing else you've got a hook and loop business card
holder even if the headphones are complete garbage and you hate them so
you've got these in-line controls and i like that it's got that soft touch
finish yeah they would have done well to put the same finish on the mouse these
buttons are very rudimentary buttons these are these are cheap buttons
so they're usb to power the active noise cancelling but audio is actually handled
via analog is that correct that's what it looks like oh that's an unfortunate
position for the inline control this thing is heavy
whoa these are clampy yes no length
adjustment on the microphone you know what i actually kind of like the bit of
resistance to the articulation of the ear cups though because it means that
they're not constantly like fighting you and that active noise cancelling is
basically just like someone going
in your ear you're trading hvac for a hiss
well if you don't like the 90 premium ones you'll love the 30 or i
should say 28 worse ones oh wow these are
these barely even have padding in the top they're probably better than what i
was using for 28 bucks back when i was like first getting into gaming
but this is one of those things where i'd really recommend saving up or
waiting for a black friday promotion or something in
our cheap gaming headset roundup there were
other sets for 25 dollars that were better they're done they're done i'm
giving these a recommendation over these
because for ninety dollars you can get some pretty good stuff
whereas for like 30 bucks yeah you can certainly get stuff that's a lot better
than this but like
yeah i don't recommend either
none of what i just did is should be construed as an endorsement
this is the monoprice desk cover modesty panel with wire
management you know your desk you're very privileged there's a wall there but some
people might have you know other colleagues desk cover
modesty panel so you can man spread without your privates exposed on kilt
day so what the idea is you hang this off
the back of your desk with these clips you actually screw this onto your desk
and then you just take your excess cable and just like
put it in your pocket here well i think you run it this way
and there's these little velcros that you could
tie it in there with see that
28 bucks 28 bucks
yeah if it was me i'd probably just get a tablecloth or like
would you believe it has no reviews on amazon yeah i would personally i think it's
great if you're the type to uh stick your boogers to the bottom side of your
desk david ratcliffe how else can monoprice
improve my gaming experience today gaming i don't know but they have
other verticals that they specialize in like smart home stuff with their stitch
line oh interesting what appears to be nintendo switch joy-cons so this is a
door window sensor when it gets opened it'll make an audible beep
but apparently it's not that loud but in addition you'll also get a notification
your phone no matter where you are in the world because it's wi-fi not just
bluetooth so really today's theme is not home security though in home automation
it's like your desk set up right so the way that i see it you got something
really you know valuable in this drawer here or something wait let's put
something valuable in that drawer yeah so if i were to
come in here and steal yours hey
oh there it is
hey let's see if i can get a tamper alarm pull off the big one sure
hey you tampering with my stuff
oh you are tampering
nice that's not a bad delay either bad boy i probably should have given you this
earlier this is the monoprice 5 port 10 100
1000 megabit per second unmanaged gigabit Ethernet switch for 18
that's not even a great price actually hey man it's got five ports even though
the product page says eight um
and this has the fakest review ever it says
works great i love all monoprice products i buy and
they stand behind the quality look i'm not saying i'm too good to wear a
headlamp i'm definitely not too good to wear a headlamp i'm just saying you got
to have the top one because these straps wear out and that's what will actually
hold it in place now with that said this seems pretty alright yeah so you
can get a tp-link switch with a metal housing for 14.99 with prime this thing
is done it's done it's not it's out it's
out it's done you don't blow you just hum
no other way other way
why the hell do they have this because they sell music stuff
i know you're gonna do i should
i should have just bought the 150 guitar
well i'll be keeping that in my high security drawer unless anyone tried to
steal it from me that's a bargain to eight dollars and 26 cents although keep
in mind 22 percent of people gave it a one star
for not working at all so for 65
i got us you know james i think you're really stretching
the definition of desk accessories here what are you
talking about this is diy phone case
dude i'm making a screen protector right now shut up i figured we're not we're
going to vacuum seal your phone all right where's the vacuum sealed vacuum sleeve
oh yeah baby isn't this the vacuumer
this is an accessory hose
seems pretty sealed i think you just hit the release buttons now
can you use it oh yeah sure oh hell yeah
hold on let's see if my fingerprint sensor works
no hold on no maybe if i
okay nope no fingerprint sensor let's try the
iris scan come on baby can you work through that
come on work with me here
no match can you please keep your phone in there
until the end of the day but i can use it can you keep it in this your rancho
no come on please no i'm not doing that i mean how am i supposed to put in your
hoodie okay that's awesome look it's a quick release
so overall then you know what i'm uh
actually kind of disappointed so do you
so does that mean that you don't think that monoprice is clearly better than
amazon basics no i i really don't think i would say
that at all i think they come out ahead on the keyboard even though these
switches are really inconsistent feeling um
but i just the mouse isn't great the mouse pad's
alright i think i'd have a pretty hard time recommending this monitor
uh it's just nothing special
stick to cables monoprice yeah good cables monoprice
good cables and uh i mean this thing seems all right too i
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headphones or headsets um the monitor i'm pretty on the fence on
keyboard i'm on the fence about the mouse is not great the network switch is
a no-go uh the mouse pad mousepad's solid like kazoo though that kazoo
my precious oh god notification
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