I Bought a Gaming MONITOR From ALDI for $130...! Does it SUCK? (R25F-30)
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- In difficult economic times one tends to lean more towards value orientated products, and in today's video we have found one of the best value gaming monitors I have ever seen. This is the R25F-30 24.5" Monitor from Lenovo, that ended up on a discount bin at Aldo Supermarket for $199 AUD ($131 USD). At this price, what can this 1080p VA 240hz (280hz OC) monitor do? Let's put it to the test.
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00:00 Finding this monitor on sale.
01:17 Setting up the monitor, out of the box settings are unoptimized.
04:05 Input Latency and response times, color accuracy and more
08:01 Conclusion and recommendation.
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Lenovo is selling it for $153 in America. Just thought I'd share the info.
Thing is though it's a VA panel, if you want IPS then Sceptre has some 165Hz monitors on Amazon for $120 USD, and have been known to go as low as $99 USD on a sale that include the display port cable. Also I think 165Hz is better for a multi monitor setup, and on mid range to lower end GPUs so they are not stressed out as much.
there's also the R25i-30, the ips version of this @@CommodoreFan64
my parents bought a 60hz toshiba 720p 32" from Aldi in like.. i have to say 2006? 2007? i used that tv until last year. never once made a problem, and even fell 6ft from a shelf to the ground when my uncle forgot to unplug the hdmi while playing skyrim on his laptop and brought the whole thing with it. it never skipped a beat.
That's amazing. I have a Samsung which didn't survive anything except it's warranty period. It took 1 little bump and now the center of the screen is a veritcal bar of random color while pushing what should be there to the left covering about 1.25" of what should be just to the left of the missing data zone.
cringe
Toshiba's bombproof.
I bought an hd 1080p 42" in 2006 and only replaced last December.
Admittedly it cost £2000+ at the time but I definitely got my money's worth ...and it STILL worked when replaced
@@cmcc3721 mine also still worked. i fear it wouldve worked another half decade if i didnt make the decision to replace it out of sheer desire for better. it was a trooper and a half. mad respect. but even then, eventually.. everything has its limit lol
@@randomname2914 How?
Costs about 280 USD in Hungary at the moment
Yeah,it's a bugger.We don't have any deals like that in Europe!
@@Djare915 199 USD in Poland, we have deals like that in Europe...
190 USD in India.
i got a LG 32" 4k 60hz hdr10+ monitor with usb C at aldi the other day for 299 AUD to replace a xiaomi ultra wide 2k. go to aldi to buy some frozen quesadilla's walk out with what looks like a 500 dollar plus 4k monitor.
Same mate!
Probably a VA monitor that is more sluggish than my 19" 1280x1024 75hz TN monitor from 2006/2007 lol.
Fuck my aldi only has trash cans😢
@@basshead.If you're still using that and think it looks good please get some glasses
@25566 he said sluggish, not necessarily higher image quality overall. He could be right.
Deym, 130$ 240hz gaming monitor and with a decent stand 😲 .
Yeah seems like an actual crazy deal?
@@robertfarmer6316 now when i google it,it says VA panel type . I tought at first it's ips . In my area where i live in Europe cheapest VA is 200$+ still . I would go with an ips . I've heard people complaining about ghosting in fast pace games with VA,but they prase the black levels on them .
Seems a good deal i payed 200 for a simular asus one
@@watchyojet but your Asus probably can clock up longer than 30 minutes without burning out.
its a VA PANEL
Haven't seen this in Aldi here on Long Island NY. Will be keeping an eye for it. Thanks for another TYC video.
I assume you are American from your post if so then you won't see it because they obviously do not sell the same products at the same time every country in the world they operate. I live in the UK and from watching youtube alone I have found out that even some of their own brand products have different "brand names" in countries outside the UK. I can't remember what the brand name for their frozen pizza was in the USA but I saw Good Mythical Morning do a frozen pizza taste test and the Aldi one had a different name to the UK and over here it is called Carlos
ALDI USA doesn't do this kind of stuff. BUT, a lot of those house brand small appliances ARE Lenovo. Lenovo owns German brand Medion. An appliance maker. As ALDI is German, they've had a relationship for years. I had an ALDI Ambiano Air Fryer I bought when COVID started. It was a rebadged Medion. I believe some ALDIs in certain country also act as travel agencies, offering package deals.
@@zahidshabir4038 Some of that might be they wanted a certain name in a country, but the name was already taken. But, not in others. In the US, the pizza is branded Mama Cozzi. In the US, copyrighted names are fought over like a MMA blood sport. There was a US TV show in the late 80 to early 90s called Rescue 911. A small/tiny dirt parking lot restaurant called themselves that about 10 minutes from me. They got sued. They modified their name. I looked up Carlos Pizza. There's one in Oxford Massachusetts. Depending on who used it first, that one would sue the other party over it's use. Either change the name or pay a licensing fee.
The name Carlos I equate with Spain. I equate pizza with Italy. Maybe it's different for you.
Yes I am American. I thought this seem strange. I have really never seen any Tech, outside of a Bluetooth speaker and such, at Aldi. Shame I would have picked one up at that price.@@zahidshabir4038
Great review! Gracias ❤
What's up with that eye?
Possible Answers:
1)Mosquito bite
2)Spider bite
3)Sucker punch from some Drunk Australian dude in the bar didn't like Tech Yes City
kangaroo tried to knock bryan out but broke it's paw on the most masculine aussie brows EVAAAAAAA
Knowing Australia it was probably a horse spider.
Take your head outta your backside and you might be able to see better.
Nah, that's just Lez reminding Bryan to never say no and walk away from an Optiplex deal
4) emus are gearing up
I'll be looking for those deals when I need to restock my kitchen
Nice one! Please check if the refresh rate will overclock any more.
New Bryan video! You know it's gonna be a great day!
I think the fantastic part is that it's from a well known brand and not a random brand from China you never heard of.
I feel you get the most value of the Chinese brands
Lenovo is a random brand from China though, and their quality is mostly shit
@@gospelachuenu8873 oh cool, what brand you have right now? I'll remember it nex time I go monitor shopping 😬
LENOVO is Chinese brand….
@@maciekb26 I never mentioned Lenovo as a random brand from China you never heard of now, did I?
Switched accounts. Haven’t seen you in a long time. Glad the Bogan (or whatever) is still at it. You’re one of my favorite creators.
I saw this monitor sold at aldi here in sydney. Cool to see its actually a decent monitor.
Good review.
A heatsink mod is a thing people are doing to these . they get a very cheap 5 dolor copper heatsink for ram chips and they stick it on the led driver aka bellist once doing that use CRU and force it to 280hz with reduced blanking 2 and its awesome
Thanks for a informative video, was wondering if you have posted the color color correction you did, on you Patreon ?, so we can see if we like your calibration, instead of factory
I got a Q6600 pc from Lidl (just like Aldi) in highschool. I doubled the ram and put a decent GPU in it and it was amazing for years.
Aldi also had an LG monitor on sale recently as well.
Any chance you could post the RGB settings you used for calibration?
I bought one of these. Two things I noticed, one good thing, one bad thing.
The first is the good, while the official 280Hz OC is locked to 30 minutes, I've found you can OC manually to 280 Hz with NVIDIA Control Panel, by creating a custom resolution and basically copying the official OC settings. This disables the time limit so you can game at 280 Hz for long sessions and it works with UFO test and in games etc just fine. But it might ruin or degrade the panel over time, I'm not sure. Your risk if it does ruin it, I'm not responsible. But considering how cheap it was for the monitor I'm willing to risk it before a long gaming session, if it breaks, by then 240Hz and 280Hz monitors at 1080p will be just as, if not more affordable, to replace it.
Second is the bad, I noticed that it has like a checkerboard pattern or grain on certain gray colours or black colours after its first turned on, I noticed it in games of characters with colorful outfits too and this is at stock 240Hz without the OC. But it's also noticeable on desktop when using a browser and stuff, but it's more noticeable on fullscreen games for whatever reason. After the panel warms up a bit it tends to go away. It's random whether it appears or not and I've seen it come back too after a long session. At least this is what I noticed with my unit that I got, but perhaps I just got a bad unit. I'd return it but I couldn't be assed to put it all back in box, go down to Aldi, go through the whole process and potentially be told there's no more in stock (I haven't seen them at my local Aldi since, looks like they sold out). Before anyone says "It's 1080p what do you expect?! 1080p is not sharp". I have an AW2521H which is 1080p, 360Hz, IPS and it does not exhibit this grain behavior with the same cable, same PC, same NVIDIA card, same port etc. It's just a feature of this monitor's panel for whatever reason, might be some sort of dithering or firmware problem, I dunno. Apparently, from what I could gather about the panel, this is an 8-bit panel with FRC, with a standard RGB sub-pixel layout, so who knows what Lenovo has done to cause that grain on my unit. Also these could be B-grade panels, as in they're not perfect like an A-grade panel would be, but they're good enough for usage and maybe that's why the monitor's so cheap because they've used cheaper panels that have some imperfections.
It honestly doesn't bother me because by then I'm clicking heads on CS2 or I am playing whatever eSports game and I get lost in the gameplay for me to care about the dithering/grain/checkerboarding. So it's not really that big an issue, it's just something I noticed. Also another thing is I noticed the sharpening on the monitor's OSD is either "Blurry as shit" or "just slightly sharpened" or "over sharpened" There's no "neutral or no sharpening" setting. So I settled with "slightly sharpened" and I forget what number it is, but it's something like 3/6 or one notch above the middle. And before anyone asks, lowering the sharpening did not remove the grain effect, it just make the image look doubled almost with the grain still there.
Overall, I got this when they were being sold for $249 AUD and I think it's a great monitor for the price. To get any other 1080p 280 Hz monitor is either $100-250 AUD more depending on your region and sales. Decent buy and a good stand.
I just picked one up today from aldi for $150 AUD. Have you colour calabrated yours? I have a samsung monitor that I am comparing it to the samsung has better colour all around. I really want to upgrade to this lenovo one but i'm really strungling with getting the colour right...
@@THiNK103088 I don't have a colour calibrator device, so no I have not. I just use it for eSports gaming on a second rig. From my usage, I was never really upset by the colours, just that weird grain/checkerboarding effect that I have sometimes. I do think the colour is bad though compared to my AW2521H, so if colour is a deal breaker, then either calibrate it or return it and try something else.
@@NANOTECHYT just found 2 of these at aldi on clearance for 79.60 each.. have you got some rough settings? ive got a BenQ xl2411k 144hz tn which im a fan of the bright washed colours dont ask me why lol im just trying to set this up similar
Man I'll have to keep an eye in Lidl & Aldi UK 😅
I don't need one but at that price to pair with a AM4/6600 build to flip ❤
9:50 proper ragging that monitor around 😂😂
During Black Friday i got a Acer AOPEN 25XV2Q (1920 x 1080) 390Hz monitor for $105 USD on ebay. Great monitor so far, havent had a problem yet.
What about the Panel Uniformity and Dirty Screen Effect on the panel?
You got a deal on that. The one I picked up was an ips 100hz 1080p monitor for around $130 CAD. Meant for my sister.
🤔 U have ALDI there, we have them here in Chicago, in times past ALDI sometimes would sell a handful of Desktop PCs in the electronics aisle, I haven't heard if they started doing that again recently 🙂
I've never heard of that in a US store. I've never seen any in mine. How many years ago was it? They've opened a lot of stores in the last few years. Maybe they dropped it.
@@dlewis9760 😊 im a boomer but yes they sold a low spec desktop pc in the electronics aisle long time ago
You're a Legend! Good looking out mate! I was only just able to get to my local Aldi and there was one left but they reduced the price to $149.99!? A 240hz monitor for $98 USD! Freakin steal!
Nice grab. Im looking for a cheap 144 (or more) for a second display.
Could you please list out the settings you used so i could copy it to my monitor also
Can you share the color profile that you created after fixing the colors? Or help us with a way to calibrate this monitor for those of us who do not have a color calibration tool :(
Hey man, I want to buy this monitor and overall besides the black uniformity and need for color calibration it looks solid. Could you please share you calibration settings, both the OSD and Color Profile file if possible?
I bought this monitor, been using for a week. Using Overdrive level 4 does has black smearing but its noticeable when scrolling through text and webpages in browser. While playing I dont notice it. I just usually keep it at Overdrive level 3 though.
How did you connect the monitor? Like, which cable did you use please lemme know
Aldi in the states also has some random deals like this one.
you can make the monitor stay at 280hz easy without the 30min timer if you use custom resolution utility by toastyx but no adaptive sync hdr works fine at 280hz
After using the same 24 inch monitor for about 12 years and not owning a decent PC until the end of last year. I went out and bought this monitor from Aldi for $249 AUD the day it came out.
Then 1 month later I find a 34 inch KOGAN 144hz monitor.
Even though the refresh rate and response rate on the KOGAN, uses more power and isnt as good as the LENOVO.
I still use it as my main screen unless I play a FPS then I use the LENOVO because of the higher refresh rate and yep it only gets max 240hz
Still no Aldi here in tiny market of Suomi Finland. Lidl we've luckily had for 20 years maybe.
Wow,amazing!
To be honest i think it's a great deal for such low price. Has adjustable stand too which is also a bonus,also i don't think any monitor in that price range has the color accuracy and quality to for someone to actually use for photo editing and stuff like that
over here in the UK that is £249.99
I got an 8 year old 23" Asus IPS monitor for $10 US at the thrift store. Only 60Hz but how many people who can only afford a $130 monitor can afford a PC that can push 280fps, even in Fortnite performance mode?
If you are wondering how good an 8 year old IPS display from a major name brand could be, the answer is 'surprisingly good'. I will also note the one I got was clearly not used much. You could also find an 8 year old display with a bunch of dead pixels and other screen blemishes.
I'm a fan of modern VA panels because of the contrast and black levels. There is little performance difference between VA and IPS these days. But there are better VA panels out there and if color accuracy is important to you, you need to be spending $3-400 to get something that is good out of the box. But if you are only spending $100 US for a monitor and mostly play esports, you should probably get an IPS display.
The magical legendary middle isle. Would love to find a GPU in there one day
what issues did you run across in windows 11? My friend just asked if he should upgrade to windows 11.
Weird question, but does anyone know why we don’t have threadripper boards on AliExpress like we do for X99? Really want some PCIE lanes…
The best Aldi comercial ad ever!
Gonna have to check out the local aldi
Aldi has some pretty wild stuff sometimes
on the box itself it had large text explain how to set it to 280hz right underneath the 280hz text.
I live in Turkey. Today, I bought two of them for $160 each. I inspected them in the store; overall, the design is very elegant, and the fact that the screen rotates 90 degrees is an advantage for me.
Reis ghosting ve pixel testi yaptın mı memnun musjn ?
I wonder how bad is ghosting / black smearing on this model? Choosing between this and AOC 25G3ZM
here in Ph it cost 182USD on official website
Freaking marketing got a hold of the team and was like let's get it to 280 I don't care if it only runs for 10 minutes we can put 280hz on the box.
Got it today. Fantastic monitor. Connected it up to my 3080ti gaming laptop. Both are 240hz and 1080p. So fast. Get one
Lenovo has been bringing out some value oriented gamer peripherals as of 3 or 4 years ago. I'm actually impressed as to how good their products are compared to their competitors at the price segment.
How is your monitor 10 bit? I have the same one, 8 bit.
Anybody else love it when he says Aussie dollars? I get a giggle out of it every time.
In Germany, Aldi is actually well known for their tech offerings, usually it is all Medion stuff, but they expanded to other brands in the years. They used to have occasional offerings but kicked it out of the park in the early 2000 with their first entry level PC for an absolute killer price, it sold out within hours in the entirety of Germany. From then on they were doing so well that others like LIDL, Penny and such started to offer tech deals.
for 130$US i would say it is a decent deal, VA is a bit of a downside IMO, but for that price we can"t expect a IPS or OLED panel, 1080p 240Hz is still good, 1440p would be better but eh.
Medion is Lenovo. I bought a Aldi Air Fryer in the US that was a rebranded Medion.
Yeah you wouldn't find that in the UK , good find and not your first either from Aldi as I accidentally commented on your older video 😅
could plz you share the calibrated .icm file
Love Aldi's, here in America food is insanely high priced but Aldi keeps my kids fed properly on the cheap. They have some amazing and unusual buys from time to time, nice catch.
Foods even more here in Australia 😅
Hey I’ve got the same monitor but my over clock setting is disabled for some reason and I can’t get to it
you are probably using HDMI. you need to use DP to enable any OC iirc
No-name 240Hz monitors started appearing in italian supermarkets as well lol, that’s very odd. I guess it goes to show how popular gaming is getting, I’ll be buying one to test out for myself!
Take a photo of all the serial and Id numbers that you can. You may be able to find out what name is behind the no name.
If any one in South West Sydney wants one just saw 4 on the shelf in the Macarthur Square Store (3PM 23 March '24)
Picked up one of these today at Aldi for $79.59 aud reduced couldn’t say no
good price
Seen a lot of negative stuff about VA is it worth getting?
Nice lil monitor. But I stick to second hand buys.
i went through so 5 shops and i cannot find it anywhere. i live in nsw
I bought a new monitor 3 months ago, but I don't care. I'm still gonna check this out tomorrow first thing.
wow nice deal, ALDI do this in portugal please 🤑
does this have black smearing due to being a VA panel? considering to buy this monitor for fps.
most, if not all VA panels will suffer from some level of black smearing. its practically one of its characteristics
@@seibertron500 yes i just bought this panel and it does show black smearing when i set it to level 4 OD. Its obvious when scrolling through white text on black backgrounds but playing i dont see it.
I can see this monitor as being a really good cheap option for those that only care about e-sports types of games such as Counter Strike
i got a very similar monitor from aldi about 2 months ago for my first pc lol
Is that why my HDR screen is always turning pink, windows 10? Asus 32" curved 1440p 160hrz
🙂 Is there a 65 inch version for my living room?
All in all, this was a very good buy at that price point. Near every hardware is geting cheaper now, with maybe the exception of Nvidia cards....
The Middle Isle is a glorious place. High refresh rate monitor? They gotcha. Scuba gear? Ezpz. I've even seen a welding mask in the middle isle. Fucking love Aldi, Urban Safari.
I had this monitor in the past, i used it for CSGO, the response time was really good and no issues with flickering, but the color accuracy was a bit off, i had to download a RGB picture from internet and adjust the colors manually, at the end i got really good picture, it was just the red and blue which were very saturated and i did not really like it. But in general this is a very good monitor which need a little bit of tweak, not good out of the box... For 130 USD i would take that any day!
my gf has it and imo the contrast really sets it apart in cs2. I find it far better and far easier to see enemies than my viewsonic xg2431 with their custom overdrive tool.
@@mmaayyssoonn8858 wow that is weird!!! I was actually looking to buy the ViewSonic but it was very overpriced where I am based... The Lenovo Is really good monitor tho. It is just the color accuracy which is a bit off.
Hey, stupid question but I just bought this monitor and I'm also having color issues. Can you share the monitor settings you ended up tweaking to fix yours?
@@shwepp_YT type "RGB" in google and click pictures, find a big grb picture, download it and adjust your color settins according to your taste :) thats all
hello i have this monitor what overdrive level should i use?
either 3 or 4
i bet the local Aldi in the uk wont have this
You have Aldi in Oz?!
ok i get it so my headache is not from being tired, it's from MPRT being enabled.
basically since there's no VRR and you'll probably feel some juddering if you don't consistently run the same FPS (or at the very least, close to max refresh rate)
Greetings from Aldi's home country 🇩🇪
149 quid in the uk by the way not a bad price .
Haha it looks really similar to the BenQ MOBIUZ EX240 even with a similar OSD :)
do a review on color calibration devices next
Man Europe fucking sucks. Having to pay 2x this just for a generic 60hz 1080p monitor from Curry’s
in game u need HDR on absolutely
Nice to see Lenoooovoooo, getting a fair review on at least one product. Will be looking at the prices in my market.
Even if it was truly 280hz you won't notice the difference from 240hz.
Libby Lenton loves Lenovo
25w max power draw? Surely that's an error
what happened to your eye brain, looks like you have been playing in the NRL
Blurr on even the best VA panels is unacceptable for competitive gaming but for casual stuff you'd be fine
He said this in the video (just not acceppetable) but I know someone's gonna look at comments and press buy
Tech Yes Daddy, your eye looks a little bit rougher than usual.
Are you alright mate? Your right eye has some bruise 😮
That 280hz might as well be false advertising lol. Still a good price for the monitor so idk why theyre adding bs like this.
As a German, it's really strange to see that Aldi is represented everywhere. 😅
Why? Companies are global. Dolla Dolla bills y'all 😅
130$ for a 240hz is kinda wild.
I bought my monitor for 80$ with discounts and it's alr 165hz
the monitor was SpecterPro 24GX-2 24inch IPS
Which aldi is this at
I would assume most/all Aussie ones. It's rare that a store in any country is the only one carrying something. This would never show up in the US. US stores aren't into this. They have half an aisle for non food items. Some pots, pans, small rice cookers, coffee makers, air fryers, and not at the same time.
Yea I'm talking about Australia, unlucky for the people in the us