 So my buddy Dongsoo Park over at Zeotac He emails me every once in a while going Yeah, we've got more cheap Korean monitors Just like that last time we sent you a cheap Korean monitor And a lot of the time I'm like, ah, that doesn't really look that amazing you guys Not that impressed Oh, not this time I have not been able to find anything online That is comparable to the cheap Korean monitor deal That I have for you guys today This is the Crossover Fast 144 It is a 2560 by 1440 IPS panel 144Hz display That I will get out of the box eventually For $299 US Okay, so first things first Let's have a look at what kind of goods we get for our $299 US dollars We get a lot of bubble wrap, wow We get a remote, that's weird We get a power cable We get, I love this Apparently it is easier slash cheaper for them to do this this way They just send you an Asian power cord And then they send you an adapter So that you can adapt it to your North American plug Not the most elegant solution ever But hey, it gets the job done We also get a display port cable We get a closer look at that remote that I alluded to before Got kind of like a little winky Napster guy on there And then we get our own tool and screws to presumably assemble this thing And assemble we shall This comes in more pieces than your typical monitor stand I like the construction though You hear that? It's a train It's the game train It's coming into the station Okay, I'm done So the way you orient this bad boy Is you kind of look at the marks and the angles And you kind of align the thing and then it kind of goes on a little something like that 10 out of 10 instructions Dick not stuck inside the monitor stand This feels like kind of a stupid thing to do But I'm actually going to set up the monitor in front of the 65 inch OLED TV from LG that I've got going on here The reason being is that that's really not actually that great for gaming So it's nice to have other options First we got to get the stand on here though This also well built I will give them credit for that Not especially outstanding in terms of like height adjustment or anything So you're definitely giving up something for your 299 144 Hertz free sync IPS display And that is the robustness of the stand To their credit though at least they've got a VESA mount That one really drives me crazy When you got a cheap stand and they didn't build in the necessary internal reinforcements for a third party mount I'm stripping this You guys want to see me strip on camera? And of course it doesn't slip anymore Perfect now I've cranked that so tight Alright So there it is Pretty bare bones if you ask me But can it make up for it with the gaming experience? To find out we are going to be using something really really special Now I'm not a televangelist so I'm not going to give you guys a whole thing about planting a seed of a dollar And someday it will return to you a 10,000X But that is what happened today So I first met Charles about 10 years ago What's the safest way to take this out of here? I won't be able to pull it up Can I try? Hoooooo Whoa that's a heavy system Grrrr Feels like a, yeah I was going to say Oh this is weird You're not making it better right now So I first met Charles 10 years ago This was back when I was building high end systems or at least what I thought were high end systems We're about to see that redefined When I was building high end systems back at NCIX And I had noticed him originally because he had all these really expensive invoices Like $6,000 like regularly And I'm like dude what are you doing with all this stuff? Turns out he was building some really special systems also in We had something in common right off the bat Our favorite case, the Silverstone TJ07 Anyway, the first time I met him in person he was in desperate need of a really special set of fittings For a thermochill radiator Some British standard plug that was very uncommon Even for water cooling crap 10 years ago And I actually didn't want to get rid of them because they were fairly unusual They were, like even finding nickel plated thermochill fittings back then was really tough These were really nice ones, they had ribs all the way down so they sealed really nicely And I was like, I only have one set of these You know what Charles, just for you So since then he's actually been, I mean not full time But he's been hard at work on what he calls the X-Format MBX2 This is a truly special case based on the original TJ07 And he brought this here for me A special system that he hand built himself in this chassis Absolutely one of a kind And we're going to use this to power up our monitor Okay, here we go, so some assembly required You guys see that? Totally custom fan mounting All aluminum, but I'm not going to bang it together This is not a train Okay, this is a piece of art We're going to do a full showcase of this thing down the line for now We're just going to be using it to, yes I'm going to draw your attention Stop, stop, back to the monitor, back to the monitor So it's got four HDMI ports, I didn't talk about that before One display port, an audio pass through, and a DC in jack Let's go ahead and get this baby fired up This is pretty cool To put it mildly Like I feel like an idiot having a blue ethernet cable now Look at this, now I have to fix everything Thanks Charles This is not a gift, this is an obligation Look, I said look at the monitor, this video isn't about that We're going to do a video about that later Stop Okay That looks good That's just a little piece of gunk Is this on? Can't tell Hey, wow, okay Quick boot Okay, I got to say I'm glad it comes with a remote Though it doesn't come with batteries, so I'm going to have to go find some Because this buttons on the back of the monitor thing is basically unusable I'm just trying to adjust the brightness Color effect, temperature, gamma, ultra vivid What is this, where is just brightness? Look at this, hey you're supposed to be looking at the monitor, not the computer We've been through this Oh, and I've lost it, Bella Like what is this? What is Ormation set? Apparently it's what I need because that's where brightness is And we are back This is actually really impressive Like this is right up there with Some of the lowest motion blur that I've seen on an IPS That and this This machine and this monitor are match made in heaven This thing's actually running at over 100 frames per second At 2560 by 1440 So if I lose it's only because of me There is no excuses for anything at this point Like here you can actually maybe even see it a little bit here Just how there's no There's no motion blur, there's no streaking behind that I am really impressed with this thing Especially for the price Like it won't make me good at counter strike, that's for sure Ah, I'm still reloading I got two guns here, come on, it's not fair You're dead Like this gaming experience has been available for a while But now the difference is that it's cheap And like to be clear, $300 is still a lot of money But in the context of what we would have paid For this kind of an experience before It's pretty affordable, the only comparable things I could find Was a 144Hz, 1440p, $300 monitor on Monoprice But that was a TN panel And then for an IPS with those specs You were paying quite a bit more So to be clear Not everything about this thing is perfect This menu can die in a fire I'm just turning up the brightness a little bit Because this game is kind of dark Yeah, that looks fine now But it's got a lot going for it I am super impressed for $300 And yeah, you can check that out at the link in the video description While you're at it, if you guys are interested in learning a little bit more about this beast Before we do our follow up video The case itself is actually for sale on Mod1 So we'll have a link to that in the description as well