Around a year and a half ago I reviewed the Viotek F124D—24-inch, 1440p, 75Hz—and for $140 I was honestly blown away. It felt like the ultimate budget “do-it-all” monitor: 2K resolution for editing (I could work on my 4K videos pretty close to native), a little extra refresh rate for gaming on my budget PC, and surprisingly solid specs on paper like IPS, around 300 nits, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, and near full sRGB coverage. For the money, it checked a ridiculous number of boxes. But then the honeymoon ended. A vertical line of dead pixels showed up out of nowhere, and after swapping PCs and inputs I confirmed it wasn’t a GPU issue—it was the panel. I tried the usual tricks, but dead pixels are dead pixels. When I went to Amazon to see if others had the same issue, the listing was gone and the model was discontinued, so I contacted Viotek directly. Viotek does have a 3-year limited warranty and a dead pixel policy, but the reality is I’d be paying shipping and potentially labor/parts, and I’d be without my main display for about a month. At that point, it made more sense for me to just buy a new monitor (and I wanted higher refresh rate anyway). Because of this experience, I can’t recommend the F124D—and I’m hesitant to recommend Viotek’s similar displays—despite how great the value was at first.