How Bad Are $100 Monitors From Amazon For Gaming?

for today's video I bought I think five monitors  that cost about a hundred dollars each so that   hopefully by the end of the video we can see which  one is the least likely to aggravate your glaucoma [Music] Contender number one is this Sansui es 24f1 I'm  sure all of the monitors are going to have at   least equally sexy names it is a 24 inch monitor  that has USBC which is reasonably useful it's full   HD and has an above 60hz refresh rate which is  great for some additional smoothness while gaming   and then according to the box it's got reasonable  color space coverage and it's frameless and I   bought this provocatively named Sansui off of  Amazon Canada for the equivalent of 97 US Dollars   although bear in mind these prices fluctuate as  wildly as employment figures at a Fan Company   accessory wise it comes with everything you need  to get started so there's this external power   brick there's a pretty losery stand down there  which we'll talk about later cable wise Sansui   spoils us with both an HDMI and USB type-c cable  nice and finally in terms of I O It's Perfectly   reasonable and we even get the inclusion of our  old friend the Mesozoic period part Contender   number two is the pixio PX22 with literally no  other information on the box but according to   the Amazon listing it's also a 1080p display like  the Sansui one with a 75 Hertz refresh rate which   I think is great to see at this price point oh  and that price point is an eye-watering 98 US   Dollars it has probably the thinnest sand I've  ever seen on a monitor it's so tiny and cute   cable wise this one also comes with an external  power brick and an HDMI cable and finally in   terms of i o it is very similar to the i o on  the Sansui except we don't have a USBC port   on here which makes it a little less convenient  to use with certain laptops oh and both the Sansui   and the pixio have vase amounts on the back  Contender number three is the kurui I think   a 24 E4 which is a 24 inch monitor again with  very little information on the box instead they   decided to go with this gamer graphic I guess  now specs wise the E4 is suspiciously good   considering that I paid the equivalent of 102  US dollars for it it was on sale but still and   for that money apparently you're getting a 165  Hertz VA panel with a one millisecond response   time which should make it a god gaming panel but  it's got my Spidey Sense dingling accessory wise   the suspicious monitor comes with a display port  cable which is very gamery and an external power   brick the stand is about as losery as the other  two monitors but it has a much more complete IO   it's got two inch HDMI ports Contender number  four is another kurui monitor but this one is   the 24n1 another 24 inch monitor that also has  some gamer branding on the box specs wise the N1   seems a lot more realistic than the other kurui  monitor and price wise I got it for a little bit   more than the other monitor but it wasn't on  sale accessory wise the N1 comes with a very   standard HDMI cable and power brick in terms  of i o compared to the other monitors it seems   to be on the Spartan end of standard and for the  final Contender I went a bit name brand with this   Samsung SR-71 which is another 24 inch monitor  in fact specs wise aside from the one outlier   all of these monitors are very similar and we  didn't even have to pay any more for a Samsung   and in terms of accessories you get what I'd say  is a better external power brick solution because   you have the power brick and then a separate power  cable for it so that you can get longer reach out   of it and then it also comes with an HDMI cable  what's been really good is all of the monitors   in this Roundup have vase amounts on the back but  I do still want to talk about the terrible stands   on all of them which we'll do in a second ioi  is this monitor is right in the middle of the   pack although we get a little joystick to control  the OSD as opposed to a bunch of buttons [Music]   now ergonomically all five of these monitors  kind of suck equally it's very difficult to   pick a winner because they all have the same  problem and the problem is that they have these   very low stands with no height adjust which means  that when you're using them just on their own you   have to peer down at them and the reason this is  a problem is if you're using your PC for ages and   you're looking down it's just not good for your  back it's going to give you neck pain and stuff   like that it just don't do that if your monitor is  very low now put it on something so that it brings   it into your eye line it'll make a big difference  to like your just general Comfort long term using   your PC now luckily all of them do come with vase  amounts which is great it helps the problem but if   you're buying a hundred dollar monitor you don't  really want to also have to buy a Visa stand for   it why not just spend that money on a monitor  that comes with a better stand but with that   monitor placement lecture out of the way let's  get into the first impressions [Music] foreign   just a quick heads up in terms of use case I'm  going to primarily focus on gaming for this video   but we'll mention some other things as well now  straight off the bat with the little pixio monitor   the image quality falls apart the moment you're  not looking directly at it and aside from that   because of how the iOS angled down it's all just  sticking out the bottom of the monitor like that   and there's nothing you can do about it I mean the  HDMI port is right here now my modern standards   the 22-inch pixio is a Post-It note of a monitor  but because it's still 1080p the image is actually   very sharp like it looks pretty good and it's  75 Hertz so it feels reasonably smooth as well that is maximum volume on the speakers and not  only is it barely audible the sound quality is   also horrible I don't really know why they  bother putting speakers on a monitor like   this I really like the 75 Hertz on this  monitor it makes a pretty big difference   over 60hz the colors are definitely not  great but in terms of brightness it's   not quite Max brightness here and it is  bright enough even in this quite well-lit   room the motion rendering is perfectly  fine we don't have any obvious ghosting   over any of the image yeah I like the image  quality is not amazing but it's very usable   it is Tiny though and after a reasonably  competent first Contender things got dicey now the San Tsui uh is already very concerning  but before we get to that it's a 24-inch monitor   as opposed to the 22-inch pixio it's also 1080p  with 75 Hertz and it also has the cable under   dangle issue of the pixio oh yeah this is  a VA panel oh this is a bad VA panel oh no   this is a horrible monitor what in the world  oh this is a really not nice monitor is there   anything we can do about that in the OSD like  and after spending a while playing around with   the OSD I just couldn't get it to not assault  my eyeballs I'm not sure if you can tell over   camera but this monitor is wild now I don't want  to only be negative so um in terms of positives   it's switched on I guess yeah I don't know I I I  don't know if I've got more than that [Applause] wow the kurai also has some  pretty rough motion rendering   it's definitely better than the Sansui but  to be fair rubbing gasoline into my eyes is   likely better than the Sansui monitor yeah  there is like a bit of ghosting around stuff   and despite it being at 75 Hertz again it doesn't  look as smooth and as natural as the the little   pixio monitor did the N1 also has the same  dangly problem that the other two monitors   had but it does have a slightly taller stand the  additional size going from 22 inch to 24 is is   quite nice it feels a reasonable bit bigger I'm  surprised that this is what's happening here but   so far in terms of image quality the unassuming  little pixio curb Stomps these other two monitors so this kurai e 3 or E4 or whatever is actually  a 165 Hertz panel which is crazy that's like   more than double any of the other ones but it's  a really bad one oh no oh that motion rendering   like the moment you move everything just smears  wow I don't know I I feel like the 165 Hertz   is actually a detriment to this monitor  because look at that movement the motion   rendering on all of these monitors aside from  the little pixio has been deal breakingly bad   I then again spent a while playing around with  various OSD settings changing the frame rate of   the Monitor and turning on panel overdrive in the  OSD helped a little bit but damn this monitor was   also doing unconsensual things to my eyeballs  [Music] I'm really hoping that the Samsung is   less terrible than the other ones 72 Hertz okay  that's weird now at this point I'm not even sure   I remember what correct colors look like but the  Samsung's looking okay you know it's it's not   doing too bad there's a bit of a brown tinge to  the color but as we've seen it could be way worse   and at least the motion rendering is a lot better  than the other monitors aside from the pixio I   think the pixio still looks better but this is way  better than like the Sansui for example but in all   fairness I feel like watching my grandmother  emerge from a bath is less of an affront to   my eyes than that's ensuing but yeah I I guess by  these standards the Samsung's doing okay foreign first impression I went and measured all of  these monitors and I was surprised at how   well they measured none of them measured great  and some of them worse than others but compared   to the image quality I was seeing in game I was  really surprised by the results but I think what's   happening here is that all of these monitors are  okay when it comes to static images but aside   from the pixio and at a stretch of the Samsung  the image quality disintegrates the moment the   monitors have to render any kind of movement and  my best guess as not a monitor engineer for why   this is happening is I think the manufacturer's  overclocked panels that couldn't handle it to hit   those 75 Hertz and 16500 refresh rates that look  so good on the spec sheet but then it completely   ruins the panel's motion rendering that's just  my guess though either way the pixio and Adder   push the Samson are the only two of these  monitors that wouldn't at least cause a fresh   glaucoma [Music] so which of these five monitors  would I buy um none of them I I wouldn't buy any   of them what I would do instead is save up a bit  of money and buy this LG monitor which at the   moment is on sale for a hundred and thirty dollars  so it doesn't even cost that much more than these   monitors again bear in mind availability and  price does fluctuate wildly with this stuff   but it is a significantly better display I spent a  month living with that monitor and I really liked   it you know monitors make such a big difference  they're the thing that you see your games through   and they last a long time I just I wouldn't cheap  out on a monitor I'd save up and buy something   better however if I was forced to pick one like  for example it's the apocalypse these are the only   five monitors available in the entire world I'm  a little bit blind due to radiation poisoning I   picked the pixio with very little hesitation and  maybe give an honorable mention to the Samsung   though those two are in a different League to  the other three monitors especially the VA kurui   Monitor and that's at Suey display I I'm surprised  companies sell monitors that terrible in 2023 even   for a hundred dollars so yeah if these are the  only five monitors in the world and all I want to   really do with it is read emails and occasionally  stalk people on Facebook I'd pick one of those too   but I don't know if I'd be happy about it which  I think brings me to the end of the video thank   you very much for watching if you enjoyed the  video consider watching another one a suggestion   will pop up in a second subscribe to the channel  for more videos and until the next video bye-bye [Music] thank you

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Length: 13min 48sec (828 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 04 2023