 Today's video was actually inspired by one of our forum members. Because people like to watch stuff get thrown at you. So thanks, Stab Your Face, for recommending that we do the Amazon Basics thing again with Monoprice Stuff. Stab Your Face? That's the username? Well no, it's only two words. It's Stab Your Face. Got it. And what is this? Don't look at that. Spoilers! You'll find out soon enough. Hehehehe. And this Monoprice gaming adventure is brought to you by... Storyblocks! Well, I was expecting you to say, can't tell you, that's a spoiler too. Storyblocks Video offers you studio quality stock video clips for a fraction of the price. Check them out at the link in the video description. So the premise is pretty simple yet again. We basically went on a Monoprice shopping spree... Not because they paid us or we even particularly like those guys to be perfectly frank with you. Now don't slide it too much. Whoa! It doesn't have any feet on the bottom so this thing will screw up your desk. Wow, and potentially your day. Geez, you know, you get that. So obviously this is a dual monitor stand. Yeah. If you somehow want to put your dual monitors vertically... Okay, so what are the specs of this puppy? This is a 2560x1440p 144Hz FreeSync monitor. 144Hz! Yes. Not bad. It also has some kind of quantum dots. And I tested the colors and they're actually pretty good. Over 99% coverage of sRGB. Okay, and how much do we pay for one of these? 400 bucks. So this was the $36 mechanical feel keyboard. Yeah, which didn't impress us much. Much city. So it's a 10 keyless and it uses a Otenu Brown switches. How much do I pay for the privilege of a Otenu Browns? $2 more than that one. $38 total. And even though this one has the double shot injected keys that light can shine through. Yeah. There's no backlight. It's not RGB. And this Amazon one is RGB. Do you hear that backspace when I hit it? The key stabilization is so bad. Hold on. I'd take this. I'd give up my number pad. I'd give up my backlighting. I'd give up my macro keys. But then I type more than I game. And when it comes to just WASDing around, back when I used to game a lot, honestly, I used a membrane keyboard anyway. So. Yeah, but now you have case. Wow. It doesn't have a forward button. Please tell me this is programmable. I saw a lot of reviews saying it's not. You know what? This thing sucks and I hate it. One thing it has is weight. You can change the weight. Although it says push, it actually means pull or push on this. This is actually a cylinder stack of little weight tuning discs. Holy crap, Brandon. Check this out. So my gut feeling on the pixel response time motion blur. Look at the trails behind the banner on the LTT website as I move it around. That is disgusting. Wow. See that? I thought it was like an intended parallax effect of the website. No. That is horrendous. I've never seen that in my life. So that's what happens when you take a panel that doesn't have adequate pixel response times for the refresh rate you're running and just overclock the snot out of the refresh rate. The worst part, we aren't even at 144 hertz yet. But this is one of those examples of monitor specs being misleading. It's like, yeah, 140, 40 hertz. Get your gaming, gaming. This is not going to be an amazing gaming experience. What? So their bread and butter is cables. So here we have we own so many monoprice cables. This is a monoprice display board cable. Way too much money. This is an Amazon basics display board cable. The monoprice one better be cheaper because this is a really old housing style with the button lock. This is the one that we had already. We didn't just buy it. So this could be older. Remember how in the Amazon video you're like, why did you buy this? We have a million of these. Yes. Well, now I see how it was not necessarily better to do it the other way. Thank you, James, for illuminating that for me. So there's two types. This is the ultra slim one that's four feet for ten dollars. And this one is the premium one, which is six feet for six fifty. Premium is cheaper than ultra slim. Right. That's probably just because, yeah, this is cheaper to manufacture. Or you can get a nice braided one from Amazon basics. Six feet for eight dollars. I like the slim one. Really lightweight. And it actually makes no difference for a digital signal to have a premium cable that's thicker or braided or whatever else. Having this nice lightweight wire, much easier to manage. Super flexible, too. I like this one. Monoprice is actually fairly well known for their headphones, headsets. At least that's my understanding. So these are their 90 dollar active noise canceling gaming headphones. Interesting. Let's have the unboxing experience here, my friends. You can put your name tag in here. Put like a business card in there so someone could wait. What? Put it. Oh yeah, there we go. It goes in from this side. Oh, but you could take it out if you want. So if nothing else, you've got a hook and loop business card holder. Even if the headphones are complete garbage and you hate them. So you've got these inline controls and I like that it's got that soft touch finish. Yeah, they would have done well to put the same finish on the mouse. These buttons are very rudimentary buttons. These are cheap buttons. So they're USB to power the active noise canceling, but audio is actually handled via analog. Is that correct? That's what it looks like. Oh, that's an unfortunate position for the inline control. This thing is heavy. Whoa, these are clampy. Yes. No length adjustment on the microphone. You know what? I actually kind of like the bit of resistance to the articulation of the ear cups though. Because it means that they're not constantly fighting you. And that active noise canceling is basically just like someone going... In your ear. You're trading HVAC for a hiss. Well, if you don't like the $90 premium ones, you'll love the $30 or I should say $28 worse ones. Oh, wow. These are these barely even have padding in the top. They're probably better than what I was using for 28 bucks back when I was like first getting into gaming. But this is one of those things where I'd really recommend saving up or waiting for a Black Friday promotion or something. In our cheap gaming headset roundup, there were other sets for $25 that were better. They're done. They're done. I'm giving these a recommendation over these. Because for $90, you can get some pretty good stuff. Whereas for like 30 bucks, yeah, you can certainly get stuff that's a lot better than this. But like, yeah, I don't recommend either. None of what I just did is should be construed as an endorsement. This is the Monoprice desk cover modesty panel with wire management. You know, your desk, you're very privileged. There's a wall there, but some people might have, you know, other colleagues. Desk cover modesty panel. So you can man spread without your privates exposed on Kilt Day. So what the idea is you hang this off the back of your desk with these clips. You actually screw this onto your desk and then you just take your excess cable and just like put it in your pocket here. Well, I think you run it this way and there's these little Velcros that you could tie it in there with. See that? 28 bucks. 28 bucks. Yeah, if it was me, I'd probably just get a tablecloth or like. Would you believe it has no reviews on Amazon? Yeah, I would. Personally, I think it's great if you're the type to stick your boogers to the bottom side of your desk. David Ratcliffe. How else can Monoprice improve my gaming experience today? Gaming? I don't know. But they have other verticals that they specialize in like smart home stuff with their Stitch line. Oh, interesting. Of what appears to be Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons. So this is a door window sensor. When it gets opened, it'll make an audible beep, but apparently it's not that loud. But in addition, you'll also get a notification to your phone no matter where you are in the world because it's Wi-Fi, not just Bluetooth. So really today's theme is not home security, though, and home automation. It's like your desk set up, right? So the way that I see it, you got something really valuable in this drawer here or something. Wait, let's put something valuable in that drawer. Yeah. So if I were to come in here and steal your scissors. Hey! Oh, there it is. Hey, let's see if I can get a tamper alarm. Pull off the big one. Sure. Hey, you tampering with my stuff. Oh, you are tampering. Nice. That's not a bad delay either. Bad boy. I probably should have given you this earlier. This is the Monoprice 5 port 10 slash 100 slash 1000 megabit per second unmanaged gigabit Ethernet switch for $18. That's not even a great price, actually. Hey, man, it's got five ports, even though the product page says eight. And this has the fakest review ever. It says works great. I love all Monoprice products I buy and they stand behind the quality. Look, I'm not saying I'm too good to wear a headlamp. I'm definitely not too good to wear a headlamp. I'm just saying you got to have the top one because these straps wear out and that's what will actually hold it in place. Now, with that said, this seems pretty all right. Yeah. So you can get a TP link switch with a metal housing for $14.99 with Prime. This thing is done. It's done. It's out. It's out. It's out. It's done. You don't blow. You just hum. No, other way. Other way. Why the hell do they have this? Because they sell music stuff. I know you're going to do... I should have just bought the $150 guitar. Well, I'll be keeping that in my high security drawer lest anyone try to steal it from me. That's a bargain at $8.26. Although keep in mind, 22% of people gave it a one star for not working at all. So for $65, I got us... You know, James, I think you're really stretching the definition of desk accessories here. What are you talking about? This is DIY phone case. Dude, I'm making a screen protector right now. Shut up. You're not. We're going to vacuum seal your phone. All right. Press vacuum seal. Oh yeah, baby. Isn't this the vacuumer? This is an accessory hose. Oh, that's working. Seems pretty sealed. I think you just hit the release buttons now. Can you use it? Oh yeah, sure. Oh hell yeah. Let's see if my fingerprint sensor works. No. Maybe if I... Okay, no fingerprint sensor. Let's try the iris scan. Come on, baby. Can you work through that? Come on, work with me here. No match. Can you please keep your phone in there until the end of the day? But I can use it. Can you keep it in this your Wancho? No. Put it in your hoodie. Look, it's a quick release. So overall then, you know what? I'm actually kind of disappointed. So do you... So does that mean that you don't think that Monoprice is clearly better than Amazon basics? No, I really don't think I would say that at all. I think they come out ahead on the keyboard, even though these switches are really inconsistent feeling. But I just... The mouse pad's all right. I think I'd have a pretty hard time recommending this monitor. It's just nothing special. Stick to cables, Monoprice. Yeah, good cables. Monoprice. Good cables and... I mean, this thing seems all right too, I guess. You don't know that. Speaking of seems all right, our sponsor for today's video, Storyblocks. With Storyblocks video, you can get studio quality video clips for a fraction of the cost. 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