Cheap AliExpress Monitor – Good Idea?? #Helpful Post

o you can get some really cheap stuff

on Aliexpress one of their appears like

this monitor so we ordered this what

like a month ago or something like that

it was cheap there's only 200 bucks and

the reviews for it are fantastic

oh wait if you look closely err those

reviews are from Amazon and they're not

even for a modern therefore am

understand so wait a minute what even is

this thing is it any good and can you

trust Aliexpress at all it doesn't look

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so we already did the very cheap feeling

external power brick made by judging

hdmi cable that is actually really nice

to see included metal stand full sheet

metal stand this is really cool this is

you know what functional I like it

having the screws already installed

where they go is handy

I do wish that they weren't quite all

the way in oh it's curved it's curved

baby 3,000 R that's interesting so it's

got actually yeah quite a tiny curve on

it

another thing you notice is uh this is

not the brand name that was on the

product page and this appears to be just

spray-painted oh this is straight yeah

but is it okay so that's about no that's

clearly for no it is not in fact level

it goes it goes down this way so you got

your stereo speakers HDMI VGA that's it

baby

power in know DisplayPort literally the

very worst kind of on-screen display

controls the kind that's on the back

you're supposed to have one tactile bump

and the stupid part is it's not even a

cost-saving measure because it's not

like they took one button and then just

reuse the molding for it there's one

molding for the entire back panel of a

monitor so it was just a stupid decision

it's like this is what happens when you

clone a product without understanding

why they did it on the original product

so they probably saw a button that had a

tactile bump read or review somewhere

that was like yeah a helpful tactile

dump on the button and we're like oh

well they cheap go they only put one

tactile dump we're gonna do five so you

reach around behind the monitor and you

don't know what button that is you know

what though

major kudos for them having a vase

amount even though I have absolutely no

idea how exactly you would put a

backplane hundred there's your screw

again now watch how this works well the

table you gotta lift it lift it there

you go

here I'll hold up for ya alright

incredibly light this is scarily light

okay in fairness to it in spite of the

cheap stand the tilt adjust that it does

have actually feels really solid like

it's it's really firm

first impressions not very strong it's

only 1080p yeah it's fine if the whole

thing crooked hmm yeah that's like 83

but this is way off it actually has a

bit of like a screen door effect I'm

just looking at how there's like there's

a mesh there's a grid that you can see

just on a gray background but like text

looks like hot garbage

oh wow this menu graphics which one are

we on right now and what do the buttons

do Oh No so it changes part of the frame

according to the parameters you set here

to look different from the rest of the

frame what even is this why what is this

feature who could want this when I click

the right side it goes to the left like

this it goes this way through them and

when I click the left side it goes this

way warm use Oh green is what I think

they should call that one that's custom

though srgb okay that seems fine cool

normal and hence full Full Sail here on

what the hell

it must be maybe you don't see it when

you have vested no no I can see it both

hands off full enhance oh it's like

saturating it yeah it's not treating it

ever so slightly uh-huh what the hell

what is this demoing for a second I

thought maybe it was demoing like on or

off for your color boost but it's not

it's demoing if your monitor was

actually broken versus if it was saved

maybe it's meant to be you put like a

before and after thing so it's like this

is us inferior monitors look like this

an arm

looks like that that's not even remotely

close though like you can't even look at

this exactly the competition pales in

comparison like this is this is like

what three bit color lately you know

what I mean like when you because you

can see a big difference in like banding

and in being able to see the

discrepancies between the shades of gray

if you go from like a 6-bit to an 8-bit

panel or a 10-bit panel right so this

what what monitor are they simulating

here where you can't tell the difference

between these colors in black does just

that was fell by the wayside that's a

low priority I mean there's only two

inputs so by this point it's pretty

clear this monitor is terrible but you

guys can keep watching for just more

pain train here I think so csgo demo

mode yeah yeah what even it's all up

here

like happy I think it's all in here oh

my god it is we can't even see the menu

dishonest sales tactic mode it's like do

you want to lie to your customers press

this button to return the dumb one what

off now I give this thing a fair shake

all right let's do it let's do it you

know I don't actually feel a discernibly

large amount of input like like I you

know if we without the makey makey or

something and measure it it might not be

poor which is what I did it's not

terrible are we gonna be able to show

these side by side because this one's 4k

and that one's super definitely not I

don't actually know if we can clone

display a game like that we might have

to run this one at 1080 okay so they're

both 1920 by 1080 they're both

hundred-percent okay is it gonna clone

but actually I don't remember ever

trying to do this cool it's not working

yet

it's dull or lifeless let's be more fair

let's be even more fair let's be as fair

as we can let's try some different

loads or something okay cuz we're in

srgb mode which is not like the most

vibrant mode or anything oh my god

they're all awful

that's just pink go to normal very green

okay so we're resetting this to factory

defaults I'm getting pro so yeah it's

pink it's a pink monitor you can really

see it's not bright at all like the

contrast is so low like this is brighter

than this this is darker here which is

what you want and then this like these

bright spots where it's supposed to be

bright white it's just dull it has no

punch to it so to be clear we're

comparing two monitors that would both

have obvious differences between the

image on their screen and a known

subject like someone you've seen in

person many times well you can see the

actual and the drawn or rendered color

right there right we're looking at it on

these monitors but we're talking an

average Delta II of five point five four

and seven point one six so it's

considered indiscernible to the human

eye when it's sub 2

so that's fascinating so you wouldn't

use out of these four color critical

work but I think if you're just a

regular gamer movie watcher normal stuff

you're not gonna really care about

either of those values but meanwhile

actually using it you hated this it's so

dim and it looked so green yeah I hate

it here's the thing just because the

panel is made by a reputable

manufacturer doesn't necessarily mean

that they are to blame for a crappy

image on it because the electronics that

drive the panel the tuning of the panel

the calibration of the panel all of

these things affect the final image the

quality of the backlight the quality of

the intermediate layers there's really

not much benefit to finding out who's

responsible for the actual panel itself

I guess there's just an additional

appreciation for that most monitors

that's bad okay there's one more thing

we can test though sure if you remember

we hated the speakers on that thing yeah

we were happy that it came with them I

guess they were really bad though yeah

could these speakers be worse it's my

tone do I really need any more than the

windows test tone to know that this

sounds horrible he's not a good tester

with me bear with me no just come over

here just come over here and listen to

it it's obviously bad already that's

pretty bad okay let's try the other one

it's not picking it up I think the

NVIDIA audio streaming output thing can

only do one at a time so see if it picks

up this one you are you are you just

messing with me no you think they're

just grills there's no real speakers in

there they're not picking up I don't

know if I ever heard them are you

messing with me right now

no not are you sure could they be fake

I'm pretty sure the product page also

says it has speakers though all right so

we're giving it another shot

oh my god there aren't speakers in it

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