Top 3 GAMING Monitors Under $200

hey how's it going guys jack and matt here with the toaster bros and today we're going to be showing you guys the top three gaming monitors under 200. you bought your brand new gaming pc and need an awesome monitor to play games on well we got you covered but before we talk about these monitors let's hear a word from today's sponsor today's video is brought to you by aries game and their new 850 watt semi-modular power supply this power supply boasts an 80 plus gold efficiency rating full voltage protections a double bearing 120 mil fan that is whisper quiet and some super clean black cables that will make your next gaming pc look super great not only is this power supply awesome we have used so many of their power supplies in our pc builds on the channel and i've been very satisfied so if you're interested in picking up this power supply or anything else from aries game check the link in the description down below and special thanks again to them for sponsoring today's video so you guys have seen our other roundups where we've done cheaper budget monitors and a little bit higher in ones now we're finally getting to the decent territory where the type of monitors that we'd be using to play our video games so these are all high refresh rate they're at least 1080p so not only you're getting 1080p you're also getting 144 hertz or more and you're even getting one millisecond response time on some of these as well so these are the true gaming monitors we do roundups with like the basic office monitor that can be used for gaming but if you're somebody with a pretty high-end computer or want to take advantage of all the technologies that the pc gaming experience has to offer then you should definitely consider these how would i not waste any more time and open the first one up don't know which one it is but we're gonna open one up all right ladies and gentlemen so the first monitor we have is this asus 24-inch monitor this exact model is the vg248 and how we'll probably do this is we'll just read off the main specs in the front because they're pretty much always going to be there so we have a 24 inch monitor that has g-sync it's 165 hertz which i believe is the highest refresh rate we have in this roundup 0.5 millisecond response time which i don't think we have any others that have that low response time and if that's correct that's pretty cool uh game plus i don't know what that means but all right let's go ahead and open it we also know it's a tn panel we're going to use our massive knife which honestly is kind of scary for unboxings there we go there we go all right so with any monitor there's going to be some assembly required i don't even think i've ever seen a monitor that just comes like with the stand put on it because you know manufacturers got to save some money on shipping and not ship it in a square box so yeah but one thing we will check out on each of these monitors is this stands um because some monitors honestly kind of come with crappy stands while some come with nice stains anything gonna fall out nope you're good good all right oh gosh oh i thought he said i was good it wasn't gonna fall oh that thing face planted oh no linus what have you done linus what have you done to him all right let's just continue and act like it didn't happen let's just hope that monitors okay yeah yeah all right so we're about i think i just made it one millisecond response time um stand wise wow that's a beefy stand and it looks like it rotates yeah so it can do like dude it can crank 90s just like matt and fortnite he's like yeah so that's pretty cool um yeah be careful opening that i i didn't why don't they tape okay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna ask questions um very small power brick i don't really know if that matters to anyone but yeah it's really cute it does use a proprietary brick which that does matter to some people i'm not i'm not a huge fan of the power supplies that use proprietary bricks but you know some of them do and it's not a huge deal but it [Music] figured out you got to plug it in right it does make it to where if you ever go to swap out monitors like matt and i do quite often you got to find that dang power brick and sometimes it really sucks it does come with a display port so that's nice sometimes they only include vga um i'm hoping in this monitor right up we don't get any of that but i feel like we might we might get some bga right matt you might get some vga vga might get some broken monitor this is interesting look at this attached oh yes you don't see everyone else yeah that's big like that's a beefy stand that was one thing i pointed out was um asus doesn't really go as fancy on their boxing so i thought uh actually it still looks pretty nice i thought maybe this one was going to be like the cheaper one but really uh matt pointed out they're pretty much all right around um the same price of like touching 200 they're like you know 198 196. so this is cool completely tool-less i like that i don't know if any other one's going to come like this but i really appreciate that that it just comes ready to go and you screw this on normally you're going to be looking at putting two to three pieces together and look at that it's already important ready for matt my favorite and it does it does click into place uh it's fully adjustable i mean this thing has every adjustment angle you could possibly need i could see these being really awesome for running dual or triple monitors especially if you don't want to worry about getting a base amount because i mean this is just it's really nifty you don't see a lot of monitors that are under the 200 range that come with this range of motion now one of the last things we'll talk about physically on the monitor is it does have vasa mounting you can obviously look at the amazon description or new description to make sure it's the right millimeter apart for your mesa stand but as i base the mounting as far as the ports go can we actually get this i can't quite get it tilted that far up but it looks like we have a dvi hdmi and display port and then this probably a speakers because we have a speaker in um and for the buttons if this matters to any of you we have one of those nice little toggle switches and we have buttons in the back too which is interesting normally you either get a toggle switch or you get buttons this one you get both so what we're going to do is go ahead and test this monitor in a couple games actually just one game we're going to play some fortnite because you four tonight kids out there you know 144 fps ready to crank 90. pretty consistent most consistent of all games but yeah we're gonna play some fortnite on it give us our give our impressions of it and then switch up to the next monitor all right guys so we are now testing out the acer monitor first and uh yeah don't mind any of the frame drops because you know that's just the laptop just roaring and soaring matt is doing the widest stance i've ever seen because our keyboard stopped working so we're now using the laptop keyboard with a separate mouse but yeah that tn display though is looking real nice one of the first things matt pointed out was just how freaking bright it is it's real bright it is bright it might burn your retinas my retinas are totally scorched it's always good though to have a monitor it's too bright because you can just lower it it's bad though to have one that's not bright enough because well you're just kind of stuck with there's nothing you can do yeah we are using the audio on the actual monitor and it's like really quiet so just keep that in mind we'll try to switch to the laptop audio once we go to another monitor probably like yeah you can try turning it off i'll mess up your gameplay turn it up on the go let's do it so it's not super loud i mean it's a good thing like to have so you can just hear something if you don't have um speakers plugged up it's better than nothing but yeah still if you're someone who really uses speakers it's probably best to invest in the size speakers and also man if you're using a laptop you're not going to hear anything [Music] all right let's see if matt can wide oh my that how did that grenade get me what the hell my god those are my grooves i failed oh my god it was a shotgun dude that like obliterated you that was so bad wow yeah so overall those monitor it looks really good um i definitely i don't know about you matt but i'm putting best stand on this one yeah the best stand for sure there's a lot of different settings with blue right filter built in there's different uh settings for brightness contrast color temperature skin tone so i mean yeah if you really want to tn panels aren't the best for like color accurate work but i guess in theory this can be uh programmed to be a little bit better but yeah i love the menu love the overall build quality of it if you're looking for a tmr that feels really responsive this definitely is one to consider let's switch to the next monitor next up we have the aoc c24 g1 which is a 24 inch monitor with well it's curved we have freesync on board it's a va panel so it's going to be kind of the best of both worlds between ips and tn good color accuracy but also pretty decent response times and also it's 144 hertz with that one millisecond response time so i do like aoc with their monitor box here like showing how this works really well for dual monitors or they're just click baiting i don't know man aoc what are you doing we're gonna go ahead and open this thing up with the big old knife and see how that goes it looks like it's already partially open that's kind of concerning but we're just gonna continue with this okay now let's open this thing up maybe oh my god i don't know the knife just throws me off here we go all right now let's see if i can manage to drop this monitor the box is really wide so i mean it's a 24 inch monitor it is curved so that's probably a reason why it's extra wide we have like a really weird warning thing that's in another language oh wait check if fastener hole of the carton is flipped without obstruction okay we're not going to read that let's go ahead and get this thing out real quick um looks like the monitor is on this side so we're just gonna do he's scared after what i did yeah i'm not gonna do it we're gonna do like this and then we're gonna pull it out the rest of the way huzzah there we go the monitor is free from the box and we're gonna go ahead and open up something else it's just unboxing simulator at this hey look what they did yeah we could have done it that way yeah they could have this is like the best way to hold it so it doesn't do what happened with the other one so there you go all right oh look at that curve you can instantly see that curve looking nice we're going to push this off to the side and get the power brick and everything else out of the box i appreciate the extra space yes i like this it's great and then there oh look at that beautiful well done all right so we have the stand here the stand looks like any other stand not as impressive as the asus one um but it is still pretty nice um this monitor has been on amazon for a while but it's like really hard to actually get i managed to buy it but we did have to wait like about two weeks for it to show up compared to the other monitors so keep that in mind it might take a little bit for this one to show up but it supposedly is prime shipping but really anything from amazon right now does not seem to actually be prime shipping um you know the world we live in your definition of prime yeah i know prime just means it gets to you it'll get it'll get to you um but how fast i can't promise anymore okay now we have the standout there it is kind of basic none of that crazy functionality that you get with the asus one but still kind of cool um it looks like we can't we get a oh hdmi and display port that's that's pretty cool right there and look at this no power brick we got the straight power cable that's always nice to see so um i guess some of the sacrifices for this stuff was getting a cheaper stand probably would have rather had a better stand but if you're just going with like a you know vase amount anyways doesn't really matter but uh this looks pretty toolless as well i think at least yep same tool is designed so it should be as simple as taking this off what a packaging it's not super easy is it it's not very eco-friendly no a lot of plastic not a huge fan of all that plastic yeah this is tool-less so move our dangerous weapon out of the way lay down this monitor and all we got to do is take the stand put these little clips in like so boom look at that and if you want to eject it eject there you go you're good to go and then all we got to do is put this on the bottom and we are using the same little twist uh screw right here so you can just grab that and it is absolutely tool-less you can use the tool if you want to but you mean you don't have a tool all right look at that thing looks pretty nice you know if you want a curved monitor i mean this is really your only option in this roundup i believe but um yeah curved display is pretty popular um and you got the sticker on here which i don't want go away but the build quality is pretty nice i mean you do have the ability to well actually you can't you have no rotation so the stand's not the greatest um you have up and down though so you can do some height adjust um and you can oh you can swivel this way uh-huh look at that there you go fun but uh yeah looks pretty good have we go ahead and test it in some games oh wait whoa there's a there's a big no no maybe let me see it looks like it does have vasa support but you do have to take the stand off to see it so you unscrew these screws which actually might be pretty good because i think you can use these screws on a vase amount that would work really well sometimes like finding the right screws for a vase amount is really difficult so having these don't lose them it's really good um in terms of ports which we probably does this way different to begin with uh we have a displayport two hdmis and a vga wow we actually have a vga on here which is kind of weird but hey you got two hdmis in a displayport that's probably all you're gonna need three inputs on one monitor for like a game console and a pc so you got that going for you but yeah curve monitor nice input va panel so you get the best of both worlds um yeah let's just see how it looks in gaming all right guys the true gamer is talking this is the aoc 24 inch curved monitor matt has got a keyboard working matt has got a keyboard working so now he is probably going to pop off and get like 20 kills 20 kills but this uh va panel is a little bit darker out of the box we noticed and it is at 100 brightness you could turn the contrast up as well but then you're gonna get some color deficiencies and inaccuracies but color wise looks pretty good it's nice and vibrant definitely not uh like ips type it almost looks like ips without the vibrant colors you know yeah yeah so it looks like va yeah yeah it does what it does like you don't have the brightness of the tn yeah exactly um but yeah it's definitely very angle uh based because like just leaning down actually looking at face on we haven't adjusted for our lighting here um it does look a bit better better it does look a little better um so we're gonna go ahead and try to kill somebody yeah yeah it is definitely dimmer so i mean if you really want like a super bright like monitor that's gonna be like burning your eyes in your gaming setup late at night while you're grinding fortnite i mean then that team modders probably your best bet i definitely think that if you're one of those people that plays in the dark a lot which i know there are some people that you know really don't enjoy playing um with the lights on i definitely think uh you would you would want to make sure that that uh you do get a monitor like this or one that you can you know lower the brightness which now that i'm saying that you can do that with any of them that that ladies and gentlemen is a bot by the way was it about oh oh god that is not a bot dude you were oh my god can you do this he did it yes he has four hp dreams on the side maybe i don't know scared but yeah i mean it's definitely very smooth that 144 hertz is awesome all these monitors gonna be very smooth because high refresher gaming is just far superior i mean you know it's an awesome experience and uh yeah definitely able to get good frames on pretty much any kind of piece you're playing fortnite should have any problems as long as you have a decently high end rig and i will admit the curved portion of it definitely does make this a little more appealing and also the sides are very bezel-less that's one thing i've noticed about the other two monitors is they have pretty large bezels um yeah personally i like curved monitors so that does give this one a little bit more points for me if it wasn't curved i don't know that i'd love this one honestly you like them curvy i actually kind of do like the stand more but i also don't like the stand it's like it's like the least functional stand but in terms of like looks it looks the nicest yeah all right so we're gonna see if we can find somebody real quick hope i see somebody this is gonna be my last prey he's a runner he's attracted a blizzard beard why is every single person had a b like their name starting with a b maybe they're bots i don't know but hey you know what i killed them let me know down below if you think they're bots let's just go ahead and test another game because i could be here a while you know winning a victory royale game you made another monitor let's test another monitor i keep saying game and i'm used to just benchmarking like one pc but we're testing monitors so we're gonna test another monitor slash game just kidding still fortnite uh yeah let's go do that real quick all right guys so next up we have the acer xfa240 once again 24 inch monitor that seems to be the trend here to be able just to get the most performance you know if you go with a bigger monitor you're just going to spend more money on the bigger monitor so 24 inch we have 144 hertz one millisecond response time it is a tn panel which is really nice to have and it's of course 1920x1080 it's not curved or anything so this one's going to be a little bit more uh comparative to the first asus one we took a look at stan looks a little bit more similar to that one although the one with square so let's go ahead and unbox it there we go easy unboxing that's pretty oh they actually have pictures on how to unbox it wow so they i i don't even get that it looks like it shows pictures of wheels wheels i think they expect to use a dolly to unbox this oh nice monitor dolly all right so i'm gonna do it matt then i get it a little bit out no that's the safe way to do it get started is it is it a little it's not really kind of though they definitely did not tape it together i can already tell because it's trying to fall apart on me all right so this man i'm the first monitor really had me with this packaging like there was almost no plastic and it was all put together like these ones i look inside i'm like all right time to build so this one looks the exact same mounting as the other one it has like a hinge system where you put it on and then clip it i think they're shooting darts at each other i don't know what's going on over there uh once again no power bricks so that's uh pretty similar to the one that matt just checked out where it is a power brickless design so nice and hot swappable if we wanted to go between those two monitors all we have to do is move the monitor and plug the new one in this one clearly has audio as well which is always a plus but of course if you're buying a nice monitor like this you probably have a good setup already um displayport so just like the first one we checked out let's go ahead and get the stand out and uh get that built real quick and then we'll check out the monitor going in a nice reverse order you know it's this is fun you got this okay oh whoa whoa for the monitor once again going in reverse order because you guys get how this goes on it goes on the exact same as the other one we have dvi hdmi displayport audio in and then we have the actual power and this actually has a power button on it interesting i don't know why that's a powerful switch rocker switch which is weird like why does this have um it does it has a power button up front i've never seen that before so it basically has like two points of power on and off which is really interesting to see like i mean i'm not complaining but okay so let's go ahead and get this off the table and show you guys the range of motion once again very very tall stand um and i could just really see this being useful in a lot of situations my understandings have came a long way i don't remember stan's ever coming like this they never used to like even if you spent 200 bucks in a monitor you did not get a stand that allowed you to do stuff like this out of the box or you know this or this like really this monitor stands back in the day you had this that's like barely that yeah and you know did you do you want to turn the monitor towards you yep there it is you want to change the height matt get some vans uh boxes you know and set them on top of that like that that's how we used to do it back in the day kids but uh overall though pretty nice looking monitor very large bezels we never really talked about the look of the other one yeah so we'll talk more about it when we're gaming on it but yeah all right well i think that's pretty much it i think we're ready to be gamers is this nice to see this that found oh oh that's a little okay we're moving on from that one but all right here we are in fortnight oh wow i didn't know fortnite would be like that yeah i might i think you might turn the iso down is it a little like washed out man is it yeah yeah all right so guys this is gonna look a little bit different but yeah this this one is stupid bright i we did turn it up to user and i never did confirm what brightness that actually is but for some reason this monitor comes on eco mode and by the way this is the acer monitor i probably should have done the intro but the eagle really got to us so i mean looks wise i don't know it's bright but i don't know if it's bright for a good reason i mean it's still good like don't get me wrong it looks nice but i feel like the first one does a better job of being bright while also looking really also not washing out yeah it almost looks like it's contrasted weird yeah well like all this could be optimized we really did like i'm i'm just going to do this i'm going to once again mess up matt's gameplay and just see what the user settings are oh don't change the source on me oh my god um we don't like the menu first of all oh god the menu is kind of meh oh wow the brightness is only at 77. my god um blue lights off okay so yeah i mean you could totally adjust the settings more and probably get a much sharper and much more vibrant looking image because this once again is a tn monitor i mean it's just like the first one we tested so i mean in theory this should be able to look almost the exact same as when we test oh my god give him the dinky you look at him trying to use the doorways he had no shot he had no idea what he was up against he didn't he didn't know he was going up against fortnite resident what is that purple is that like a rocket launcher yeah that's what he was shooting right you wouldn't kill someone with it let's try it are we shooting at you dude this man didn't even damage himself point blank rocket shot that's how you game on him in fortnite 100 oh oh my god i don't want to swap guns i heard you wouldn't mail him heard you wouldn't oh wow yeah they're better than i thought but hey oh they just got killed oh there we go but yeah this monitor i mean got the adjustability kind of limited it's not nearly as good as the other stands i would say it's a pretty good value it gets really bright you know just for the fun of it let me see if i can create is that is that an energy sword from uh from uh fortnite fortnite fortnite energy all right so we're just gonna crank this i'm just kind of curious like how bright it can get yeah let's see that like that's that's pretty good to compare it to the other ones so i mean yeah that's a lot better it looks a lot better um so yeah i would say adjust the brightness all these monitors can be programmed a little bit in the settings not a huge fan of how the settings are on this one but i mean overall it's a nice monitor now let's go and wrap this video up real quick so as you guys know typically with these top three top five roundups we usually kind of put them in order of the way that we like them and i'm gonna be honest these are all extremely close they all really have their own features that make one better than another but they're overall really good my two personal favorite monitors are the asus and the aoc the aoc is the only curved monitor so if you're looking for a curved monitor definitely the one to go with and it is va while be it it's great for well things other than gaming it is a little too dim to my liking so i do lean a little bit more towards the asus the acer with a little bit of customization would work out really well so really as jackson mentioned these all have pros and cons and i think one of these monitors will definitely fit your use case so be sure to use the link in the description down below to pick up any of these monitors that are affiliate links and they do help us out so as always we hope you guys enjoyed today's video make sure if you haven't already check out our other two youtube channels and also our twitch.tv slash toasty bros and don't forget to like comment and subscribe and we'll see you guys in the next one goodbye and hey just so you know matt was saying these would look good on your setup well these will actually be for sale at pc bros probably locally but who knows maybe they'll end up on the website too so make sure you keep up with it pcbros.tech prebo pc store monitors peripherals all that sort of fun stuff link in the description down below yeah go gamers

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Length: 23min 33sec (1413 seconds)

Published: Mon May 24 2021