Review AOC Q27G4ZD QD-OLED 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Fast, colorful, and reasonably priced

[Admin]

AOC delivers high speed, wide gamut color and solid value with its Q27G4ZD 27-inch OLED gaming monitor. With Quantum Dot technology, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and 108% coverage of DCI-P3, it’s super-fast and super colorful.

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[Skip27]

The best advice I ever received was not to upgrade your monitor until you are ready to NEED high-end monitors. I used a wonderful 27' Asus for over a decade, and it was great, but when I replaced it with my current 31.5' Dell, I intentionally went 60hz because I do not want to be the kind of guy who thinks a $470 monitor is "cheap." You never get impressed with a better monitor, but once you use one for long enough, anything less feels garbage. The same is true with graphics cards. I never go over the x70 nvidia cards because I do not want to drop a grand every year. I have a 4060ti right now, and it is good enough. My next card will likely be AMD, but it will not cost over $500. Recklessly increasing one's standards gets needlessly expensive.

That said, I hope this Dell will be as tough as my old Asus. That monitor took a beating and it still works, although light bleed started to get our of control in the corners.

 

[Mindstab Thrull]

The big benefit of this AOC is that it's a solid monitor under 500 USD - which means that other companies are going to have to take notice that there's an OLED encroaching on "great VA/IPS/etc" territory.

I hope this means that in Canada, maybe in another year or two we can get OLED's under 500 CAD - which at current exchange rate is about 350 USD. I will be ecstatic when that happens!

Mindstab Thrull
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