CHEAP Korean 144Hz Gaming Monitor - Classic Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,669 words · ~8 min read
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so my buddy dongsu park over at zeotac
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he emails me every once in a while going yeah we've got more cheap korean
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monitors just like that last time we sent you a cheap korean monitor and a
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lot of the time i'm like ah that doesn't really look that amazing you guys not
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that impressed
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not this time i have not been able to find anything
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online that is comparable to the cheap
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korean monitor deal that i have for you guys today this is the crossover fast
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144 it is a 2560 by 1440
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ips panel 144 hertz display
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that i will get out of the box eventually for 299
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us
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okay so first things first let's have a look
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at uh what kind of goods we get for our
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299 us dollars we get a lot of bubble wrap wow okay
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we get uh a remote that's weird
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we get a power cable we get uh
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i love this apparently it is easier
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slash cheaper for them to do this this way they just send you an asian power
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cord and then they send you an adapter
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so that you can adapt it to your north american plug
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not the most elegant solution ever but hey it gets the job done we also get a
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displayport cable we get a closer look at that
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remote that i alluded to before got kind of like a
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little winky like napster guy on there
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and then we get our own tool and screws to presumably assemble
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this thing and assemble we shall this comes in more pieces than your typical
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monitor stands i like the construction though
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you hear that it's a
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train it's the game train
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it's coming into the station okay i'm done
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so the way you orient this bad boy is you kind of look at the the marks and
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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
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instructions dick not stuck inside the
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monitor stand this feels like kind of a stupid thing
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to do but i'm actually going to set up the monitor in front of the
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65-inch OLED tv from lg that i've got
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going on here and the reason being is that that's really not actually that
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great for gaming so it's nice to have other options
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first we got to get the stand on here though
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this also well built i will give them credit for
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that but not especially outstanding in terms of
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like height adjustment or anything so you're you're definitely giving up
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something for your 299 144 hertz freesync ips display and that
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is uh the robustness of the stand to their credit though at least they've got
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a vase amount that one really drives me crazy when you got a cheap stand
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and they didn't build in the necessary internal reinforcements
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for a third-party mount
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i'm stripping this
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you guys want to see me strip on camera
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and of course it doesn't slip anymore perfect now i've cranked that so tight
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all right so
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there it is pretty
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bare bones if you ask me
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but can it make up for it with the gaming
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experience to find out we are going to
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be using something really really
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special now i'm not a televangelist so i'm not going
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to give you guys a whole thing about planting a seed of a dollar and someday
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it will return to you a 10 000 x
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but that is what happened today so i
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first met charles about 10 years ago
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how what's the safest way to take this out of here i won't be able to pull it up
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can i try
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whoa that's a heavy system
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feels like a yeah i was gonna say
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oh this is weird you're not making it better right now
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so i first met charles ten years ago um
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uh this was back when i was building high-end systems or at least what i
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thought were high-end systems we're about to see that redefined when i was
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building high-end systems back at ncix
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and uh i had noticed him originally because he had all these really
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expensive invoices like like six thousand dollars like regularly i'm like
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dude what are you doing with all this stuff turns out he was building
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some really special systems also in
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we had we we shared we shared we had something in common right off the bat
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our favorite case the silverstone tj07 anyway
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the first time i met him in person he was in desperate need of a really
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special set of fittings for a thermo-chill radiator some british
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standard plug that was very uncommon even for water cooling crap 10 years ago
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and i actually didn't want to get rid of
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them because they were they were fairly unusual they were
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like even finding nickel-plated thermo-chill fittings back then was
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really tough these were really nice ones they had ribs all the way down so they
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sealed really nicely and i was like i only have one set of these
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you know what charles just for you
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so since then he's actually been i mean
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not full-time but he's been hard at work on what he calls the x-format mbx-2 this
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is a truly special case based on the original tj07 and he brought this here
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for me a special system that he hand built himself
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in this chassis absolutely one of a kind
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and we're gonna use this to power up our monitor
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okay here we go so some assembly required you guys see that
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totally custom fan mounting all aluminum but i'm not gonna like bang it together
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this is not a train okay this is
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this is a piece of art we're going to do a full showcase of
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this thing down the line for now we're just going to be using it to yes
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i'm going to draw your attention stop stop back to the monitor back to the
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monitor so it's got 4 HDMI ports i
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didn't talk about that before one DisplayPort an audio passthrough and
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a dc in jack let's go ahead
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and get this baby fired up
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this is pretty cool
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to put it mildly
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like i feel like an idiot having a blue Ethernet cable now
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like look at this now i have to fix everything
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thanks charles
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this is not a gift this is an obligation
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look i said look at the monitor this video isn't about that we're going to do
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a video about that later stop
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okay oh yeah that looks good that's just a
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little piece of gunk is this on
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i can't tell
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hey wow okay quick boot
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okay i gotta say i'm glad it comes with a remote though
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it doesn't come with batteries so i'm gonna have to go find some because the
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this buttons on the back of the monitor thing is basically unusable i'm just
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trying to adjust the brightness color effect temperature
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gamma ultra vivid what like what is this where's just brightness
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look at this hey you're supposed to be looking at the monitor not the computer we've been
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through this oh and i lost it
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like like what is this what is ormation set apparently it's
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what i need because that's where brightness is and we are back
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this is actually really impressive
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like this is right up there with some of the lowest motion blur that i've
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seen on an ips that and this
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this machine and this monitor are a match made in heaven this thing's
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actually running at over a hundred frames per second
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at uh 2560 by 1440. so if i lose it's
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only because of me there is uh no excuses for anything at this point
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like here you can actually maybe even see it a little bit here
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just how there's no there's no motion blur there's no
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streaking behind that i am really impressed with this thing especially for
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the price like it won't make me good at counter-strike that's for sure but
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ah ah i'm still reloading i got two guns here come on it's not fair
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you're dead like this gaming experience has been
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available for a while but now the difference is that it's cheap
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and like to be clear 300 is still a lot of money but
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in the context of what we would have paid for this kind of an experience
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before it's pretty affordable the only comparable things i could find was a
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144hz 1440p 300 monitor on mono price but that was a
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tn panel and then for an ips with those specs you
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were paying quite a bit more
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so to be clear not everything about this thing is
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perfect this menu can die in a fire
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and i'm just turning up the brightness a little bit because this game's kind of uh
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kind of dark yeah that looks that looks fine now
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but it's got a lot going for it i am super
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impressed for 300 bucks and uh
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yeah you can check that out at the link in the video description while you're at
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it if you guys are interested in learning a little bit more about this beast before we do our follow-up video
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uh the case itself is actually for sale on mod1 so we'll have a link to that in
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the description as well