since Gigabyte launched their gamer-focused aorus sub-brand back in
2014 the company has expanded the product line from laptops and
peripherals to motherboards and video cards and now finally to
what is apparently the world's first
tactical monitor whatever that means the
product page is actually a fascinating specimen the the bezels are
portrayed as unrealistically thin there's a couple of i think somewhat
misleading statements and then there's this what is active noise canceling in a
monitor are you kidding me
well as it turns out they're not and we're going to find out exactly what
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i'm gonna be upfront with you the active noise canceling feature is the reason
that this monitor made it to our studio it just it just raised
so many questions for me when it hit my inbox so we're gonna start with what's
up with that the monitor has three microphones on the front that actually
listen to the ambient noise in your room so then my first thought was
maybe it would use them to try to add
anc to whatever headphones you happened to be
wearing if they were plugged into the audio pass-through port
but no it's actually kind of the opposite the anc isn't there to help you
hear content better it's meant to help others hear you better
so what you do is you plug your microphone into the monitor's three and
a half millimeter jack uh no dice if you use a usb mic by the way oops and then
you use aorus sidekick software to specify what kind of mic setup you have
and how much noise cancelling you want to apply
so then does it work actually yes the monitor was able to cut
out our office's hvac noise and it actually sounds pretty good with my
hyperx cloud 2s but other mics i tried had a significant
trade-off to voice quality regardless of whether we set it to very low
or very high so whether you'll end up using this
feature probably depends on your mic and your room but i'm guessing a lot of
people especially the ones that watched our budget mic roundup a little while
back are going to end up leaving it off that doesn't mean this review is over
though because as it turns out the noise cancelling is only one of several gamer
focus features that are actually pretty cool
mostly like the sidekick software itself which provided you have the monitor
connected via usb gives you access to all the options that you'd normally find
in the on-screen display except way less cumbersome so yes the monitor still has
the joystick nipple which still is a lot easier than discreet buttons on the back
with no labels but if you're watching this channel i probably don't have to
explain to you guys why a keyboard and mouse is just plain better than anything
else and there's also added functionality like being able to bind
just about any setting to a hotkey it's
super cool and something that i hope gains mainstream adoption
even if there is a slight input delay this is also where you find the rest of
the gaming features like another one that's done right the onscreen reticle
now you might think that using one of these
counts as cheating and you'd be correct but hey at least if
it's built into your monitor you can get away with it and what sets the ad27 qd
apart is that unlike other monitors with this feature the stock crosshairs are
visible without being distracting or blocking your view plus if you're not
happy with it you can actually draw your own completely custom one and go ahead
and put that on there so it could even just be a tiny little dot if that's what
you're into next we've got a couple of more maybe
features so there's screen overlays for vital stats that you can customize the
displays refresh rate and timers and counters that you can bind to hotkeys
and then use for things like tracking an opponent's attack cooldown
in a moba or reminding you to scout in an rts or counting your headshots in an
FPS or i mean a million other ad hoc things a gamer could do but that i
suspect few would do maybe i'm wrong hit
me up in the comments and then there's the aim stabilizer which appears to be
yours name for motion blur reduction now the marketing
claims that it removes in-game motion
blur like from weapon recoil
to help you see better but in practice it appears to be simply
the same backlight strobing that's been present on gaming monitors for years now
and like those features it effectively reduces smearing but it also reduces
maximum brightness introduces some strobing crosstalk and it can't be on at
the same time as freesync then finally there's some features that are just
bad like super resolution which is just
gross sharpening and black equalizer
which claims to increase visibility in dark areas without overexposing the
bright areas but appears to be the usual
crank the gamma approach to this function one that we wouldn't recommend
let's get back to freesync though because all these tactical gaming
features aside this is actually just straight up a solid monitor in its own
right it's 2560 by 1440 144 hertz and
it's got a freesync range of 48 to 144
hertz with low frame rate compensation which you can actually see at work right
here so the frame rate is below the freesync range which means that our low
frame rate compensation inserts duplicate frames and the panel refreshes
at double the FPS this does improve the
perceived smoothness oh and by the way yes that is the NVIDIA pendulum test
thank you for asking because even though this monitor is not at the time of
writing on NVIDIA's new white list of free sync monitors that are g-sync
certified a quick update of our NVIDIA 10 series graphics card drivers to
version 417.17 does allow us to turn it on and it
appears to be working pretty well another pleasant surprise is actually
the color accuracy now this monitor isn't designed for
professionals that do color critical work it's still an 8-bit panel plus frc
nor is it a top-of-the-line HDR monitor with full array local dimming but
it does have vasa display HDR 400 certification so it is technically an
HDR monitor even if the peak brightness is just 400 nits and perhaps more
importantly it has excellent coverage of the dci p3 color space with
wow like really wow color accuracy
that's just about as close as the human eye can discern so that is a total bonus
for something that's being built as a gaming monitor
as for the industrial design it's got a sharp kind of aggressive look with a
matte black anodized finish the stand assembles with just one screw and is
very robust articulating on all four axes and we even saved the best for last
it's got RGB panels on the back so that you can configure individually
i mean so what if the user can't see them and most people put their monitor
against a wall they're gonna know they're there
in conclusion then for six hundred dollars aorus's first foray into
monitors delivers performance commensurate with other offerings in
this price range and with a handful of extras for gamers that push me into yes
territory we recommend this monitor
even if the product page did lie about the thinness of the bezels
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