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welcome back to the channel guys and right on the desk here we've got a monitor sent in from a company that I've actually never had any experience before with and that is vaio tech they've sent out their new GN 27c 2 which is 1080p 144 Hertz VA panels it uses a Samsung panel three display inputs as well DisplayPort and also to HDMI 2.1 but the main thing is is this good value for money it comes in at 240 US dollars in the US I can't find it for sale anywhere in Australia but like with always with the monitor reviews around here we're gonna go through all the paces response times input lag all that goodness so strap on in but I will say before we strap on in one thing I already found a useful with this monitor is I can use it as like a sparring instrument like it's really lightweight so I can pick it up in like box with it so it's pretty cool and here we are with all the testing done and dusted on the biotech monitor some things I have to point out about this panel first of all the overdrive there's three different settings besides off so four in total you've got low medium and fast the fast is the only setting you would want to use on this monitor and in fact it's still even bad at that the average response times were what we were recording with thousand fps camera in csgo on transitions was around 13 to 14 milliseconds and now with a 144 Hertz panel you've got around an average of seven milliseconds before the next frames introduced which means that you will see three different images in one frame on this monitor we just took a look at the film's monitor and on the faster setting there it was able to still transition and it still had a really fast response time with a VA panel so this VA panel it may be okay but the way they've implemented the overdrive is not that good the input lag however is phenomenal it's really good this virtually none total system input lag was 8 milliseconds on the worst frame 24 milliseconds on the best frame so anywhere between 0 to 10 milliseconds on this panel which is really good but going through the OSD it's a basic OSD has 5 buttons you've got the crosshair as well you've got only 5 different modes to choose from there's no real option to make saturation or change the gamma so it's very basic there's also free sync support built into the monitor plus of course you've got no option for low input lag it's just set on by default there's also your basic brightness settings and contrast settings and your red green and blues if you wish to change a color profile towards your own liking but of course taking a look at that brightness setting with the water meter we measured 34 watts with a hundred brightness max CCD which went up to 290 and then on 48 which is where I like to have my monitors 160 ccd this was using up around 24 watts at 144 Hertz so it does have low power consumption relatively low power consumption for a monitor the curve is 1800 R as well and moving through some other tests on this monitor we have the orange background showing a little bit of visible cross hatching when looked at it closely we did get this on camera so you can see this and this is at 144 Hertz to change this to 60 Hertz didn't make a difference so I'm not entirely sure if this is due to the matte coating on it which is anti glare and does have anti glare properties or if it's the actual panel implemented itself whether it be B grade stock or not but moving on with a black background we've got here no backlight bleed which is great to see and the whites were very uniform across the whole panel slight shift to the bottom left on this particular panel the grays and the dark grays as well matching that now there is no srgb option out of the box so there's no profile for that so what you have to do if you want to calibrate this is you have to change the settings quite considerably with my X right device tool I found that the lows mid and high keys were all off as well as pretty much every color so if you're using this for video work and you needed accurate video work on a budget I wouldn't recommend this monitor as it is a little bit off for colors brightness and accuracy now moving on to some other intricacies with this monitor we have a flicker free panel this was shown with the camera going all the way up to 4,000 Hertz exhibiting absolutely no flicker at all speakers that does include speakers and they are so tinny I wouldn't even probably use these for a Skype call I literally this is probably the worst because I've heard on a monitor so do not rely on these for a regular everyday audio even at a hundred volume I couldn't really hear much coming out of these and again it was so tinny it was like they've just put a tweeter in this thing there's no HDR option but that's a good thing on an 8-bit panel like this I'd rather save some money and not have that implemented because I just pretty much looks terrible on any of these VA panels that have come through here at the moment but now moving on to the last thing we've got to talk about with this monitor is base amount Abul so you can take the stand off and then put the bracket on and mount it to the wall or another monitor stand which I actually would recommend if you want to purchase this even just getting like a ten or twenty dollar stand because the included stand is so flimsy the monitor is just shaking there's no height adjustment there's no tilt adjustment no swivel it's just a stand that makes it so lightweight that as you saw in the intro I could use this thing as probably a sparring tool and yeah it's that light which is weird for a monitor I just pick this up I was like wow where's the weight in this and after all this testing and tinkering this leaves us to conclusion time with the vo-tech GN to 7c - you're getting a lot of panel for your money $240 144 Hertz VA 1080p 27-inch curved as well 1800 our curvature has good viewing angles backlight bleed is not noticeable great white uniformity colors are good but the response times are some of the worst I've seen for a 144 Hertz a VA panel so the implementation of the overdrive just seems like it's probably not even there it's just a fake overdrive I don't even know because we had a response time of 13 to 14 milliseconds and at those times it can even get a little bit worse than that and sometimes it's even slightly worse than that because sometimes you're seeing three images on one frame so if you like motion blur automatically on default when you're playing any single game at 144 Hertz then you're gonna get that with this vo-tech monitor I recently reviewed the Philips monitor and although it's of course more expensive it has a much better overdrive feature and implementation of that now however the input lag is really good it's low it's extremely low some of the best I've seen yet but the build quality really is the main thing that's stopping me from making this a solid recommendation it is easily the most flimsiest and cheap feeling monitor that I have had come through here and actually owned or experienced in the last decade for instance when I was using this as well after testing it there's this little smell coming out of the top of the monitor - smells like something's burning a little bit - and the power consumption isn't even that high it's actually really good at 34 watts max and so now this leads me to the recommendation of unfortunately no with this monitor but I can see the appeal of it it does have a really good panel for the money but there's just a couple of problems mixed in the main being the slow response times even on the best overdrive setting it's just too slow in my opinion for a hundred and forty-four Hertz and that coupled with the poor build quality I mean just look at this thing it's just wobbles so easily and there's absolutely no adjustments on the included stand itself leaves me just feeling like they could have done a lot better even just for a little bit more and on top of all that they only give out a one year warranty with this monitor but let me know what you guys think in the comment section below what do you think of the vo-tech gn2 7c ii would love to read your thoughts and opinions and I hope you enjoyed this review if you did then be sure to hit that like button and I'll catch you in another tech review very soon peace out for now bye