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so 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 promising but what we can promise you is that this video is brought to you by thermal takes a 500 has a modern minimalistic design brushed aluminum panels and dual hinge wing tempered glass doors check it out today at the link in the video description 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 well speaking of good ideas ending this video now because realistically you guys are no more likely to check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description then you were three or four 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it's just I'm not really recommending it this is cheaper