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something new for you guys we've actually never covered a product from aoc before but this the cq27 g127 stood out to us for a number of reasons one it's 144 hertz which means theoretically it should be great for gaming two it's running at 2560 by 1440 resolution three it's got a va 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 linus to get 25 off glasswire at the link in the video description 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 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 a fairly tastefully if a touch gamery top tool-less 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 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 i 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 uh the plastic housing here you can actually see some of the tape that they've used to probably put the um see this unit in the back here that houses the power supply and the scaling and all that stuff you can see some of the tape they've used to 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 reasonable if unexceptional i o so there's no built-in usb hub but you've got dual hdmi ports displayport a headphone jack and a 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 better feature all right the toollessness continues here and we're just going to 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 a 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 option 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 why don't we 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 bright 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 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 uh let's get our settings adjusted here oops 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 adjust things that might actually be meaningful like whether you want the low blue light mode on uh so you could have like nighttime gaming mode uh 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 leg we will leave on i will say that there's no discernible increase in input lag compared to what i'd expect from a 144hz gaming monitor so that's nice to see really responsive a 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's that lg released recently you're going to see better readability of 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 cs go and see if my impressions here are correct because it seems like our maximum brightness i mean even just opening up something like you know our own website here by the way linus techtips.com 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 it's 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 uh visual artifact-y 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 uh and it's not great and coming out here into the the daytime arabic freaking sun here um i've been informed from off camera this is a 250 knit 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 can grab a hoodie like the one i'm wearing it's the ltt stealth hoodie ltt store.com 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 the 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 monitor is 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 lose 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 you know what no 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 i mean put the camera on sticks put 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 um 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 going to double check yes we are at 100 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 um 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 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 you're 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 ad27qd 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 250 dollars to adjust a knob every once in a while i still think there's a very compelling value argument to be made for aoc's 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 144hz monitors on the market they are a bit more expensive but there's options from votech rocksol dell has one it's a fair bit more expensive 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 well check out squarespace their all-in-one platform makes it easy to get up and running quickly and their award-winning templates can be used as a starting point for a wide variety of projects if you're having trouble with squarespace they offer webinars a full series of help guides and you can even contact their customer support via live chat and email 24 hours a day seven days a week if you already have a third party domain 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