This monitor was a TERRIBLE value! 

Dang Jay, your monitor preferences are spot on. No one else mentioned fake bezelness and crap buttons/controls.

I think this format of video is very helpful. Even if you didn't find the "budget king" to show us - you did show what to look out for (and how to check) a poor preforming monitor. Thank you guys!

Hey brother praying for your health and your family

Jay looks great in those blue checkers shirt. Black and grey can be boring at times.

Love the cheap product reviews, it's always entertaining. Hope you're doing well jay.

Hey Jay and team,hope all you guys are doing alright! Loving the series of impulse buys and el-cheapo tech! Please keep them coming as long as you like, love your overviews and semi-reviews of this not often reviewed tech

I am glad you are doing more of this kind of stuff. I never know what to tell anyone about the lower end of the market.

I feel like it's always hit or miss with the Amazon Basics products in general. Also, I've been always happy with the quality of AOC monitors. I have 2 of their low end gaming monitors for work and a curved 4K panel for gaming. They're still reasonably priced, even in the high end category.

TY for the affordable product reviews 🙂

10:34 Inverse ghosting (overdrive overshoot) still very much affects the _previous_ frame, but the pixel values are being overshot and instead of resetting, you get ghosting in the form of an _inverse image_ (a dark object leaves a bright afterimage).

I bought three 27" Asus VA27EHE 75hz monitors 2 years ago, and have been really happy with them for the $130-140 I paid for them. The biggest complaint is the fact that the buttons are on the right side rear of the monitors, which makes it hard to access them in my triple wide setup. Other than that, they've been flawless for the money.

So glad you're doing this, I'm so burned out on "new tech" that I've all but stopped watching most tech channels. Thanks Jay

Blues lookin good Jay! Hope all is well and youre feeling better.

The lumberjack shirt looks really good. But my favorite is Jay in the white admiral's uniform from the World on Warships commercial. It looks so cool.

FYI work my grandson on a NZXT system for Christmas gift. The grandsons are the gamers. Built some of our own configurations. We waited and NXZT then dropped prebuilt specials that the grandson felt were close to what he wanted. In fact I fell better system over all now that he has used it for some time. He is happy, and I am happy. Did want him to build one to gain the experience. I stated a very only time ago building kits system purchase for The Byte Shop. Involved soldering iron to assemble the kit systems.

I've been using some AOC 4K monitors for design work and have been very happy with them for the price.

Got to admit, I've always found front facing buttons more logical. Now I don't mind joystick controls.... Except when we are talking about a dual or triple monitor setup, the joystick is on the rear, and the monitors are placed side by side (then at least one monitor will be a real PIA to get at the controls).

Got this monitor when it first came out and Amazon sold it for 50 bucks. Ordered 6 of them to replace 19-inch 900p monitors in my office. Have been working great so far.

Fantastic video as always my friend 💯

Thank you Jay

Great video as always Jay.

Great video as usual 😀 Thank you Jay!

Jay you are looking great! That shirt looks really nice

i had no idea decent 1080p monitors were so cheap now, even with higher refresh rates. the last time i bought a 1080p panel was in late 2017. just a basic 24" 1080p 60Hz monitor from BenQ with an IPS panel and i paid 150 EUR for it. it also died last year, lol

I rather enjoyed the way vga plugs worked, they always fit in so perfectly and never felt like it was gonna fall out, but then it also had screws usually. Awesome

Screen tearing happens because the output buffer on the video output port of the PC is updated with a new frame while the current/old frame was being streamed to the display device. There is a very simple fix for this fun phenomenon, 2-buffer output. While 1 buffer is streamed to the monitor, all writing to the output buffer is sent to the other buffer. At the end of frame, the output switches to the 2nd buffer, putting all writes to the 1st buffer.

Hi Jay, As that saying goes, "Just what I've been looking for." This will be a great addition to my new test bench. Using an articulating wall mount, I'll place it on the wall behind my workbench. I like that it has front-screen controls like the old-school monitors. Please have more of these "Look what I found" videos. I'll buy one just so my wife will again blame you for my PC purchases.

Digging the blue plaid!

Thank you for the video Jay. I find it refreshing that you WANT to and ARE reviewing some less expensive items. KUDOS. Also it is refreshing to hear you say: "Oops, I should have shopped a bit more" with regards to this monitor being less good than the "cheaper" and "better"-ish vanilla AOC panel. Again KUDOS. The monitor? Does what it says on the tin. That is that and fine by me. VERY glad I can pick up a USEFUL monitor for less than a 100 bucks now and not have to worry about much of anything. Peaceful Skies.

Seems great for a secondary display. I would defiantly mount it and not use the base it came with.

Your way of talking is just so . . . Incredible. Direct. Fresh. Chill. Informative. Friendly and welcoming. It is no wonder you and your team are hugely successful and so admired. YT is hard, but please never stop. Thank you for another great video 👍 For PC builds starting from the very beginning, from scratch, I think monitor target performance (resolution, refresh, colors, brightness) and the target amount of total system power that people want to run are under-weighted in the designing. I know I did so, too, unfortunately. Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

AOC is one of not many brands that still include VGA and it's cool actually. You could use it for any retro things and there are adapters to VGA that cheaper than adapters to HDMI or DP. Adaptive sync is baked in DP specifications

Oh Jay how I agree about the front facing control buttons. Nice monitor. Shame that it is Amazon, over here in Europe, I have had so many issues with Amazon, that I try to avoid them. Bol on the other hand does have a great returns policy, but their products are often more expensive, slightly.

i love this type of content, is there a place we can send product links for review?

i got a Sceptre 32" 144Hz 1440p IPS monitor from Amazon in january 2022, direct from Sceptre's Amazon store. It was $250 but worth it.

The BenQ Mobiuz 24" 165Hz IPS goes on sale regularly. Real nice panel when it's on sale at around $170CAD.

II have an AOC 24B2XH for my 2nd monitor - cost $80, 1080p 75hz, perfect 2nd monitor for my setup! My primary monitor is a 1440p 165hz one

I got the $109 24" 144Hz 1080P AOC. Works well enough for my limited gaming needs. But it's overkill for office tasks. My second screen is a $10 Asus 24" 1080P I got from Goodwill. Ten bucks is a good price for a basic monitor.

It has a real use if it goes on sale. Or if others dont have VGA. For that price, I'd pick one up just to have a spare monitor for troubleshooting and emergency purposes. It's perfect for that.

Dang, flannel looks good on Jay!

Hope you can review the others to see if the lower price is for a better monitor overall.

Use the ghosting pattern in test UFO, which is kind of different from the FPS pattern that you were showing

Bought a Koorui 27" 160hz 1440p monitor last december for about $100 which is a steal no noticible ghosting or any issues at all.

Even in the Windows XP era, 85Hz was considered standard on even CRT monitors. In fact, a lot of businesses would ONLY buy monitors if they supported at least 85Hz refresh, as anything less than this has been shown to cause considerably more eye strain, although ideally you should aim for 120+ when possible. Edit: Oh! And the blue plug means it's not just VGA, but SVGA! With that, you can take full advantage of your 2MB Matrox GPU!

I still have a number of computers that have VGA as their 2nd video output, having that is honestly still really nice.

Almost bought one myself off ebay. Glad i passed on it. I got an lg 29 inch 2k boarder-less used but in mint condt. from an ebay auction for $59 and free shipping. The monitor went at the auction end for $140, but the buyer crapped out, so i was next in line and won.

Love your videos. Just wondering: Do you have a new mic amplifier or something? Dunno, sounds there is a bit too much amplification? Just my 2 cents :p Keep em coming!

the second you start changing the default brightness, it's no longer color accurate. you'll need to calibrate the Red Green Blue setting with a colorimeter or just eye it to make sure you get rid of grading. Especially cheap monitors.

I really need to try an IPS panel I've only owned VA & TN panels, currently my main is a 27" Dell 1080P 144Hz TN I bought on amazon in 2019, also has Freesync & Gsync works correctly, it has the best color accuracy i've seen for a TN but I'm sure IPS is better especially viewing angles.

I got 3 MSI G274QPF 27" 170hz 1440 IPS monitors for $160 each at Costco they are currently $220 these are the non - QD monitors. The -QD screens go for about $80+ more.

Response time is measured gray to gray because that's the worst case transition for an LCD panel. The crystals in an LCD rotate a bit whenever the panel needs to display a different shade. To get it to rotate more (like from white to black) they have to move more. However, to get them to do that, you need to apply higher voltage to the crystals. That makes them rotate faster! It turns out that the slowest transitions for an LCD aren't white to black, it's gray to gray, when difference between the starting and the end voltage is quite low and thus the pixels change more lazily. And that's why the panel speed for an LCD is measured for a certain gray to gray transition.

his is a great example of taking the time to look a little closer and further.

I love the joystick on the back of my new MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD. It's so much better than my old Asus MX27UC. I agree, monitors should make pressing buttons and OSD navigation easier. So many are a pain to use. I generally love Amazon Basics products, but I'd never buy a monitor from them. I got silverware and stuff. 😂 Amazon Basics is actually using other companies to make products and just having them brand it Amazon Basics. I seen a cheap CPU cooler review from them and it was actually a Cooler Master budget cooler rebranded.

that folder on the desktop.. 🤣

Nice shirt and you are looking really good in them 😍

Got an Acer Nitro XF234Y IPS 165Hz for around $120 new at Best Buy, great little 3rd monitor

Still rocking the 1080p 75hz ones I got for $80. Only had to replace a capacitor on the one I had for 6 years.

Thanks, more please.

For european customers the amazon links in description lead to 75 Hz and 165 Hz monitors.

I really enjoy this content.

I don't think I've seen you wear a flannel, but that looks really good on you.

"It displays an image, what more do you want". Thanks, this made my day 😂

I learned some time ago that the so called 'Amazon Basics' deals a lot of times were ripoffs. I guess you could argue that the benefits you get from from the return policy make the extra 20 over the 79 dollar model work as a cheap extended warranty, but they really effed up what could have been a good deal. My first LCD TV\PC monitor was a 22 inch AOC I bought in 2008 and it worked great. I had it for several years and before I had to sell it at a pawn shop. I agree with you on the button placement, I like it best when they're on the front.

thank you!

hey jay how do like the new nvidia app they launched

i'm 50/50 on AOC. my 24G2SE barely lasted two years before the panel slowly started shitting itself. meanwhile my old, third hand 23" Dell S2340L is still going strong after a capacitor replacement.

I use the Onn 1440p 165hz VA monitor for $150 and its perfectly fine for me. Picture quality is good in my opinion.

Could you do a video comparing the difference between IPS, VA, and TN?

I bought a gtek monitor as a secondary and it could absolutely be a main gaming monitor. The thing is 1080p 24in 165hz and ips with really solid colors and accuracy out of the box, 10 bit color and 1ms response time. For $120 on Amazon it's one hell of a deal.

Thanks for the review and info about what is and isn't worth spending money on. Regarding adaptive Sync - as I understand (I may be wrong though) it's a version of sync technology that works with both G-Sync and Freesync, so the monitor should work fine with both AMD and Nvidia cards. Hence adaptive, it adapts to your system.

I'm confused. Should I buy or not?

I got a VA panel 144hz in the 140 price range because I believed the hype of "it combines the best of IPS and TN" and it has big blurry areas around the edges that look like water damage, but apparently is just common in VA panels. I needed a monitor to play games at work (as most of us IT guy like to have) so I didn't want to spend a lot of money. For someone that hasn't ever had a really good monitor, it might have been fine, but when you have a $600 MSI gaming monitor at home and then you hop into the same game on a $140 VA panel... It just hurts your soul. Ended up just buying the same monitor again and having one at work and one at home.

I suppose that monitor wouldn't be bad for, say, home or small business use -- typing documents, filling out spreadsheets, video calls, e-mail, watching YT videos, and so forth. Interesting thing is that I watched this on my XP-PEN Artist 22 2nd Gen graphics drawing tablet that's connected to my Acer Aspire 5 laptop (the laptop's screen is duplicated on the graphics drawing tablet). 😊

This would be a good monitor to try out that "transperent screen" thing you once failed with. I myself am still looking fo a monitor that doesn't cost a fortune to do that.

Throw a little bit more on it, I have now my 3rd AOC monitor and verry happy with it...started with : AOC 24G2U - Full HD IPS Gaming Monitor - 24 inch (144hz) works like a charme then the AOC C32G2ZE - Full HD VA Curved 240Hz Gaming Monitor - 32 Inch (that went to my daughter she has a better GC) and now I have the AOC U34G3XM - Ultrawide QHD Gaming Monitor - 144hz - 34 inch gameganger for me yup I now i'm old and play WOW but sheesh love this one....for our family and yup we are on a budget we love AOC but you need the higher hz

i had AOC 24" Curved C24G2U/BK can be overclocked to 175hz its great liked it so much my wife took it from me... so i got a AOC CU34G2X 34" 144Hz 1ms FreeSync Curved. the 3440x1440 can go up to 165hz . both were great and affordable. still running a 2060 and an i7 6700k so i kept it at 60hz . eitherway its great. never going back to non curved. the c24 cost like 200 euros on sale, and the 34 also on sale was 400ish euros. best monitors ive ever had

Koorui 24E3 24” 1ms IPS 1080p 165hz $115 on Amazon. Bought 3 of these, they’re awesome bang for buck.

Thanks for checking this out and giving a review Jay! BTW thats a very nice shirt, a great color on you!

I trashed my LG OLED monitor when trying to remove the matte finish on it (the glass underneath shattered because I was a little to impatient..). So now a very similar model like this one is my main monitor for now. Small disclaimer: I've done several removals of matte layers before and did my research. It was going well but the adhesive that was in the middle hadn't loosen up enough yet so it shattered the actual 'glass' panel underneath by me pulling to hard. Yes I know, Big Oof. R.i.p $800 XD

Probably an updated model of the 24E2H. HDMI 1.4; 4 ms response time; 23° backward tilt; 5° forward tilt.

Whats your opinion on SCEPTRE monitors? Looking at a 27in curved 75hz.

Jay could you do a system for audio? Recording studios and production machines? Mac's are expensive but they work. I'm looking to build a windows machine that can handle audio but not break the bank. right now im having a hard time with dealing with noise from the interface... and the same interface is dead silent on windows.

Oh snap, Jay is wearing a new shirt I wonder if came up with a new design shirts that are button ups

Sometimes you need a monitor with vga though. This does fit the bill...

Hi Jay, how are you doing? What about the colonoscopy? Do you have a results yet?

Y'all, don't forget Amazon has it's Warehouse and Renewed pages. Open box, returns and refurbished stuff for cheap. It can be hit-or-miss but you might find what you need. I got an open-box ASUS VA24EHE monitor back in 2021 for $80 (new: $120) and there wasn't a thing wrong with it.

You should do a comparison test with the AOC version

I built my son his first PC for Christmas (very budget but all new), and we got him a curved 24" Sceptre: 1080p, 75hz, 5ms response (I think), 2 HDMI, for $89. The stand sucks, but the panel is decent for the price.

Bought two of these when they went on sale for $50 as backup monitors. They both have bad IPS glow and a constant faint but noticeable very high pitch ringing when they’re displaying anything. The ringing goes away when they’re off or in sleep mode

How does this compare to Walmart's Onn brand monitor? They're pretty bad too.

I'm always trying to build entry level gaming PCs,, budget 600-700 dollars. I live by a Micro Center. What would you build with that kind of budget JTC?

The Gray to Gray is measured on an LCD panel because Black to Black can be faked by quickly overshooting to above 100% and then falling back to 0%. The result is not useful for a monitor that really needs to generate fine variations in shades of gray. Another reason is Vertical Alignment (VA) LCD panels are slow to transitioning between two dark shades, say from 5% to 25% brightness.

You should do the ASRock Phantom PG27F15RS1A 27"... I have been wondering if that monitor is good or not. I don't mind the 27 inch and it being 1080p resolution. I often wondered about the grey to grey, motion blur, overall latency and etc.

I got myself a Dell 165hz curved monitor for about £130 1-2 years ago. Very impressed, good colour reproduction, height+tilt adjust, no ghosting that I can see.

built my daughters first pc almost 2 years ago got her an i7 3770s, 16gb ram and a rx 580 8gb. wanted to get her something decent for now and something to grow into. so i looked on amazon. being amazon i wasnt as scared to take a risk on them sub 100$ as long as i ordered from a ship from address worst case just throw it back in the box and ship it back. either way i took a shot on a jlink 25in 75hz 1080p monitor with adaptive sync and for 95$ its actually pretty awesome. especially for the price people may dog on VA panels but because of that cheapo panel let me to getting a 205$ lg ultra gear 1440p 165hz gsync monitor on amazon. you really arent gonna find anything better in either price range.

I'm one of those crazy guys with a second screen mostly used for Discord only and vertical. It's handy though for when I play a non VR game since I can use it for my RSS feeds and all kinds of other stuff too. Mostly Discord tho, that's why I know the pain with buttons behind the screen.

For a 2nd monitor, you should test it for image retention. A lot of cheap monitors have problems with it.

27" is also my Sweet Spot 24" seems to small and 32" is just a Little to large

I like auto detect, but only if it can be toggled off. Sometimes it can be a pain when auto detect swaps inputs during pc reboots. For example I build and setup a fair bit of new pcs, and I'll just plug it into the second hdmi port on my monitor. If I don't turn off auto detect it'll constantly swap inputs on reboots. Maybe I'm just a snob, or maybe I'm not the only one!

Last fall, I had to expectantly replace my computer, an older Dell SFF Optiplex with a newer, but used/refurbished SFF Optiplex, and ended up having to replace the graphics card as the old one, an Invidia GT 610 would not play nice with Windows 11, only to find out why, Ferni, and by extension, Keplar had been depricated, so anything Pascal or later were fine and had the updates for WDDM/DX 12. So had to replace that with the GT 1030. That begat a monitor replacement. My main monitor is a 1080P Dell workstation monitor I had picked up last spring/summer when the older Dell monitor of similar specs died after being used for over a decade. So then tried to utilize the still working 20" Dell 720P monitor, but the new graphics card had no VGA port, only DVI-D and HDMI. So I replaced that monitor with an Onn brand 22", 60Hz monitor for $80 and could get it locally. For a 1080P monitor, it's been quite good. the background photos from MS are really good, clean and full of detail. Yes, the controls are on the bottom edge, but in the middle, and are highlighted by a blue LED when off as the power button is there also.