The CHEAPEST 1440P 144Hz Gaming Monitor on Amazon

recently we checked out the three cheapest 144 Hertz gaming monitors that we could get on amazon.com and we were pretty impressed well mostly except for one common problem that they all had they're all running out by modern standards lower 1920 by 1080 resolution so today we've got something new for you guys we've actually never covered a product from AOC before but this the CQ 27 G 127 stood out to us for a number of reasons one its 144 Hertz which means theoretically it should be great for gaming too it's running at 2560 by 1440 resolution 3 it's got a V a rather than a TN panel and four it comes in at just 280 US dollars we couldn't find anything else that has this feature set at this price point so we've got high expectations and hopefully they don't disappoint us instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device with glassware use offer code Lynas to get 25% off glass wire at the link in the video description [Music] I'm actually pretty excited about this because we've had a ton of requests to cover AOC in the past but the main reason that we haven't done it is that ever since the CRT days their presence in North America has been fairly limited so I've been aware that they're kind of a big deal over in Europe and I believe Asia but over here they've had basically very little availability and certainly no marketing so I don't really know what to expect because even from other media outlets I haven't like read a ton of reviews of their products or anything like that first impressions of the stand are pretty good it's got a nice metal base under fairly tastefully if a touch gamer II top to list assembly is always a nice touch honestly I gotta say initial impressions pretty positive so far height adjustable stand I mean to be clear this is not like a 140 dollar gaming monitor or anything like the ones we looked at last time but considering how much higher their costs would be to get this better panel technology it's a larger display ah I am I'm pretty pleased so far with the overall fit and finish now I can't say that this is a perfect job that they've done of the the plastic housing here you can actually see some of the tape that they've used to probably put the see this unit in the back here that houses the power supply and the scaler you know and all that stuff you can see some of the tape that used to it like tape it on but in terms of the like the overall feel of it it doesn't feel cheap it doesn't feel crappy and we've got a reasonably fun exceptional i/o so there's no built-in USB hub but you've got dual HDMI ports DisplayPort a headphone jack and power supply built into the monitor rather than as an external brick which some people care about it's not a huge deal for me but it is considered a a better feature all right the two lessness continues here and we're just gonna peel this off bezels are looking pretty slim actually and this is nice not just power cable included but also DisplayPort and HDMI so in terms of adjustability we've got your tilt we've got your swivel no pivot but we do have height adjust I still remember when that used to be like a super premium feature now it's only really cheap stuff that it's not included on it's really nice makes a big difference immediately the deep blacks on this monitor are quite noticeable compared to if we were looking at like an entry-level IPS or especially a TN like as this wallpaper fades off towards the edges it's it's quite dark not bad at all all right 144 Hertz showed up just fine there yes and because this is a variable refresh rate monitor that means that even if it is not certified g-sync compatible we can enable G sync and it is in fact enabled right now so without further ado I don't fire up some games now feels like a good time to have a look at the on-screen menu everything here is reasonably intuitive personally I prefer just an instant switch rather than animation I can see how they might do that right frame what even am I looking at here can you see anything let's see Oh what the crap Oh what it just brightens the top corner of the screen so it's like a faded out washed out section in the top-left corner so there you can change the brightness contrast you can move the position of it around actually you can put it wherever you want guys let me know in the comments what is this feature for I would love to know I thought that was interesting game mode is off by default oh that's the FPS mode that looks terrible okay hold on a second let's get let's get our settings adjusted here I have to say I have just never understood these weird color profiles that they create for particular genres of games the correct color profile is the accurate color profile because that's the way that the developer intended it quite frankly at least they've got customizable ones so you can have gamer one gamer two gamer three and then you can just things that might actually be meaningful like whether you want the low blue light mode on so you have like nighttime gaming mode whether you want the built in frame counter on that's pretty nice to have so their gamer display modes are not necessarily useless just the canned ones are stupid okay overdrive can be adjusted to weak medium or strong medium is usually the best bet there but we'll play around with that a little bit and low input lag we will leave on I will say that there's no discernable increase in input lag compared to what I'd expect from a 144 it's gaming monitor so that's nice to see really responsive I touch on the smeary side so these are not the fastest pixels that I've ever seen by a long shot if you pick up a like a decent TN gaming monitor or you know even one of those really high-end IPS is that LG released recently you're gonna see better readability of things like text as you're as you're moving around like this you see that everything's got kind of a trail behind it but for a VA panel I would consider this perfectly reasonable and acceptable now one thing that's hard for me to tell right now because I'm playing kind of a dark and gloomy game is whether this gets any brighter so what I'd like to do is get rid of doom let's switch to something like csgo and see if my impressions here are correct cuz it seems like our maximum brightness I mean even just opening up something like you know our own website here by the way - tech tip song is awesome forum you guys should go check it out this is supposed to be pretty much white white and it's kind of a gray and not like we're at a very very low brightness even actually the brightness is cranked 100% already actually before we do that I wanted to play around with the overdrive settings a little bit off is clearly terrible like you guys I'm sure you can see these comet trails behind icons as I'm dragging this around on the desktop here but as usual strong also yields a really kind of over sharpened visual artifact e-type look and our best bet does once again appear to be medium overdrive in fairness white to dark is a very challenging scenario so let's actually get that game fired up now so this is a little bit more fair and it's not great and coming out here into the the daytime Arabic freaking Sun here I've been informed from off camera this is a 215 it peak brightness display and I believe it because while the blacks are deep and that was impressive it's a lot less impressive to have deep blacks when your monitor is just dark I mean maybe this would be the monitor for you if you're trying to game at night and be stealthy and while you're at it you could grab a hoodie like the one I'm wearing it's the LTTE stealth hoodie LTT surakameth now to give credit to the strength of this monitor the 1440p resolution does look a lot clearer than what we were dealing with with those 1080p monitors but something that you guys have got to consider is that there is more to perceived sharpness of an image than just the number of pixels and contrast is actually a big part of what makes an image look clear and sharp and crisp so yeah the lines are fine but the image doesn't look great so it just feels like the monitors a little self-defeating because it's key feature is that it manages 144 Hertz and higher resolution but it gives up so much contrast that you a lot of the perceived image quality and that's not a problem just for like scenic games it's it's a problem in general like it's noticeably bland this is a bland looking game in the first place but it's really bland like can you tell on camera how bland this is new it nope hold on I think what we need to do is grab another monitor and swap it out for you guys so David hold as still as you can or even put the camera on sticks but the camera on sticks now this monitor costs about twice as much and actually you might have noticed that especially in terms of brightness it looks pretty similar except funny story this is actually the monitor that we use for b-roll shots so it has its brightness turned down to 20 out of a hundred in order to make it appear not too bright for certain shots that we do so putting it up at something more reasonable like around 80 Wow that is a really really different experience back to our AOC the difference is very clear and I'm just gonna double-check yes we are at a hundred percent brightness on this thing that's a little unfortunate this looks a little bit more palatable right I think that's why all the gamer modes have this game color option turned up because it might hurt the accuracy of your color but it'll certainly make your games as long as you don't go too far like their fps and their RTS modes it'll certainly make your game look a little bit more vibrant you can see I've overdone it a little bit here so I'd probably say that if it's purely for gaming use knowing that you're giving up some of the color accuracy that you might have gotten in the native profile going to a game color of somewhere in the 11 to 13 range improves the playability a lot like it makes it not look like I'm looking at a super cheap you know washed out monitor and what's interesting you saw how that flashbang wasn't even bright what's interesting is part of the reason for that is that the way that humans perceive brightness is affected by the saturation of the color so looking at a more saturated color makes you think that your looking at something brighter even though the panel itself is not particularly bright and if we were to alt-tab out of the game you can see things like my icons look way overdone here so this is a monitor that you're definitely giving something up at the price point but if you're willing to fidget around with your on screen menu which to their credit is quite usable actually has workarounds that work if you're willing to go around them so bringing our 8020 7qd back up on the table this is a clearly better display it looks great not only in games when you adjust this dial or on the desktop if you adjust it the other way but in both all the time thanks to its 10 bit IPS panel and it's much higher brightness but if you think about it as paying yourself two hundred and fifty dollars to adjust a knob every once in a while I still think there's a very compelling value argument to be made for a OCS display here even if it does give up some of the creature comforts that you might get with a higher-end panel so guys let us know does this look like a great option or do you want us to explore some of the other 1440p 144 Hertz monitors on the market they are a bit more expensive but there's options from vo-tech Roxul dell has one that's fair bit more expensive and make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it if you do leave a comment about that do you need to create a beautiful website without the hassle we'll check out Squarespace their all-in-one platform makes it easy to get up and running quickly and there are word winning templates can be used as a starting 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Length: 14min 49sec (889 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 01 2019