ARZOPA - 16" 2.5K Portable Monitor - Z1RC
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Last updated: Aug 21, 2025 Scoring
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"Yes, good price/features ratio. ... It was the only 2.5 K monitor in their price range (Others were only FHD)."
"I only spent $60 on it"
"I got it as a budget test to see if I would use it and could justify the ASUS price. ... I never needed to upgrade as it actually works very well even for gaming albeit at 60fps max. ... I’m normally quite fussy about my parts and will happily spend big but I will be honest - I think this market is full of frauds and overpriced kit."
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"Minipc powers/displays to a monitor via a usb-c. Very convenient and great for a travel setup."
"It’s incredibly light (lighter than an iPad)."
"if you’re on the fence for a cheap little “throw in a bag” screen - find one on sale and get it."
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"Minipc powers/displays to a monitor via a usb-c. Very convenient and great for a travel setup."
"It works with iPhone and iPad too, only using the included USB C cable."
"Works great for me since I was looking at getting one for my laptop when I travel for work and for my steam deck."
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"The Arzopa is better, the Magic Raven's colours look like dropout canvas and the brightness is low."
"I think you are going to be amazed when you plug it in. ... I am a graphic designer by trade and thus quality/color accuracy is extremely important to me.. it checks every single box. ... comes color accurate out of the box."
"16-inch, 2.5K, 100% sRGB display"
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"Some of these monitors have power pass through. So you connect your steam deck charger to the monitor, and then connect monitor to steam deck with 2nd usbc cable. Steam deck charges and monitor runs just fine. ... I have the Arzopa z1rc, very pleased with it."
"Minipc powers/displays to a monitor via a usb-c. Very convenient and great for a travel setup."
"it has 2 mini-USB ports, one of which can connect to the Deck and the other can hook up to a charger. No need for a dock."
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"Same, they are extremely fragile."
"the arzopa I had fell over while I was using it and the screen got busted."
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"The display works if I connect to the single USB C port in the back of the GPU expansion card, but not at full brightness. ... The brightness can only go up to 50% on each monitor before the monitor reboots. ... The brightness issue bothered me more than I thought ... I swear I could get full brightness with just one monitor before, but that doesn't seem to be the case either."
"The HDR is mediocre."
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"Same, they are extremely fragile."
"The only caveat is that it has an arm stand, but it doesn't include a sleeve bag or hard case."
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"So it came as a surprise when they didn't work with the USB C ports on the FW. ... This is really dissapointing, and I'm not sure I would of even gone for this setup if I had to deal with more dongles and cables. ... I think there is an issue where the USB C port is only outputting power or a display signal. ... Ideally I'd like some sort of adapter or cable splitter combo that will let me use a single USB C cable to the monitor and only take up 1 port on the laptop without some sort of external power. ... After trying numerous cables, dongles, and addaptors, I threw in the towel and bought a different monitor."
"type-c does not provide dp and power at the same time, so i have to use second port (usb-a) for powering the monitor. ... very uncomfortable indeed to have this, while single type-c connection works perfectly fine with macbook pro (2020 intel)"
"every time I plug it in both screens on my monitor and ally go black."
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"Yeah I tried to hang with the HDR but couldn’t do it."
"The HDR is mediocre."
"The display works if I connect to the single USB C port in the back of the GPU expansion card, but not at full brightness. ... The brightness can only go up to 50% on each monitor before the monitor reboots. ... The brightness issue bothered me more than I thought ... I swear I could get full brightness with just one monitor before, but that doesn't seem to be the case either."
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