Gigabyte AORUS FI27Q-P 27 Inch IPS QHD (2560 x 1440) 165 Hz FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible Gaming Monitor, Black

If you only intend to use this monitor for gaming or movies, then I really recommend it. For everything else, this monitor is not optimal. It uses the opposite sub pixel layout to 99% of other displays on the market. This means that text is blurry in random places e.g. PDFs, Amazon reviews, forums, Adobe suite etc. even with ClearType adjustments made. It is very noticeable, not a subtle flaw.What is the point of having a KVM switch if this monitor is not fit for any productivity related tasks? Bought two, did not even bother opening the second one.

Was researching quite a lot into gaming monitors when I came across this with relatively little publicity. Price point is cheaper than what you would get elsewhere for the same features and the quality is great.The curve is immersive not intrusive, picture quality is spot on and the functionality that comes with the monitor in terms of adjusting settings etc is great. The build quality is very high, the stand is sturdy and being able to move the screen up and down as well as tilt is a bonus not many at this price point seem to have.I’m yet to come up with any significant criticisms. For the price I think you would be struggling to get better all round performance.

I’ve been using a LG W2753VC for quite a number of years now. As I am working from home now I thought I would use it as an office monitor and upgrade onto something much better. After some research I decided on the Gigabyte AORUS FI27Q.Assembly is very easy and it is sturdy with a handy joystick style button for power and the OSD. There is a pointless light display on the back of the stand which I’ll never see but that’s easily turned off in the OSD. It also has a carry handle which I do wish that more monitors hadMonitor card is 8 Gb XFX Radeon RX580 so mid-range but capable of handling 1440p and 1080p running through the DisplayPort.After connecting and start up I changed the DisplayPort input to 1.2 from 1.2HDR as I had already read that HDR on this monitor is poor and the image is better without itI first started Skyrim to test it and the image is awful, muddy and flat, it reminded me of an image when someone uses a projector on a wall and the detail gets lost. I tried in various resolutions but with the same result. It may be salvageable by spending a lot of time creating a custom display from the OSD but I would have thought it should at least given a passable image “out of the box”.I then tried with X4 Foundations and the colouration was much better but to be frank was no better than my old W2753VC so I was singularly unimpressedI would have expected something a lot better at this price point but it’s been over-marketed and over hyped, even the 1ms is misleading as it refers to MPRT as is the HDR implementation. I did know that in advance from reviews, I was more interested in actual overall image quality but with hindsight should have stuck with LG or Samsung.This is a very disappointing monitor indeed, I’ll get some use out of it by using it for the office monitor instead of the LG but it’s a bit of a dog to be honest. I don’t know Gigabyte as a company but I would not purchase anything of theirs again.I’ve given it a few stars as it is functional in that you get a usable screen image and the build quality is excellent. Caveat emptor.

I UPGRADED to this monitor from an Acer XB281HK, a 28-inch 4K G-Sync panel, which I'd been using for 3.5 years. I really wanted that high refresh rate, and since I used 175% zoom on the desktop I wasn't really making much use of the 4K. Now I expected a noticeable drop in image quality going from 4K to 1440p, but my goodness, going from a 4 year-old TN panel to a modern VA really made all the difference! I believe the G27QC uses a Samsung panel. Whilst the curve doesn't really add anything to the experience (if anything it's a bit jarring at first to get used to when not gaming), the image quality is so far superior to your old monitor that at this size, you barely notice the resolution difference between 4K and 1440p. The colours are very vibrant, you get excellent contrast and a lot of options for adjusting the picture, all easily accessible via the joystick on the back of the monitor.I've been using the monitor for 10 days now and whilst I think the quality is phenomenal, there are a couple of flaws which means I can't quite give it the 5*. First of all is the "Quality" mode. Even at 60Hz games you'll notice ghosting very easily. This makes the mode useless outside of desktop and watching videos. Thankfully, the Balanced setting is absolutely spot on: no ghosting and no noticeable overshoot. However the Speed setting is by far the worst: everything just turns green, it's far more noticeable than the ghosting in Quality mode. Disclaimer: I'm only using the monitor at 120 Hz and sometimes 100 Hz, not the full 165 Hz.Another flaw is the Gigabyte OSD sidekick. At first this was a big selling feature for me since I frequently adjust my display settings according to what I'm doing and lighting conditions. So being able to do this from Windows seems very convenient. However, the software is extremely buggy. It crashes whenever you switch away and back to it, it's very slow to load, it gets out of sync with the monitor's settings, sometimes doesn't even save or apply the settings, and randomly crashes frequently. Thankfully the monitor's built-in joystick control is very efficient and intuitive, so you can quick assign brightness, contrast and picture mode swaps to a single direction.Another thing is the HDR. Whils tI didn't buy this monitor with HDR in mind, if you start a HDR-supported game like Star Wars Battlefront II, you'll notice that it defaults to HDR, and the picture looks WORSE than standard. Furthermore, you can't adjust the overdrive so you're stuck with Quality, therefore it's unusable for gaming.Finally, I'm having some trouble getting the ideal gamma in various games. Things either look too "washed out" or too pale. Whilst the monitor offers excellent options to adjust this via dynamic contrast, Black Equalizer and 6 different Gamma options, you'll often find yourself spending some time tweaking it to get it right. Oh, and did I mention that the default colour calibration is a little warm? I usually like warm colours as it's better for your eyes (I use heavy blue light filter for example) but you might want to turn the Red down a little. Thankfully you can do this.Overall, the G27QC hits the perfect combination as an all-round monitor: it's G-Sync compatible, high refresh rate, 1440p, 27 inch and reasonably priced. It has good OSD controls, vibrant colours and good enough response times with the Balanced overdrive setting.

The Gigabyte G27Q is a 27 inch, IPS, 1440p, 144hz monitor. Lets first talk about what that means.The first thing to keep in mind is that 27 inches is pretty big. I cannot imagine getting a bigger flat screen monitor and being able to easily use it for gaming without it being much further away than a typical on-desk setup.The second thing to look at is that IPS (a type of panel with the other prominent type being VA) monitors like this one are well known for having black colours appear as grey. In isolation I do not notice this; but if intending to play in a dark room with the light off it could become noticeable. (It is worth noting that although VA monitors have a wider range of black colours they can also suffer from smearing with blacks during onscreen movement such as scrolling or in-game rotation which can be a huge pain.)IPS monitors are also well known for having back light bleed where corners and edges of the screen may appear lighter due to the backlight behind the screen bleeding through the sides. I have not noticed this being a problem with this monitor at all.The 1440p resolution used is the standard resolution of 2560 x 1440; it's a higher resolution display with the same dimensional proportions as a 1920 x 1080 screen. Coming from a 1080p screen it will typically appear to have more detail but if coming from a 1080p screen that is much smaller this may be slightly less obvious.The refresh rate of 144hz means that the display updates the screen 144 times a second, over twice as often as a typical 60hz display. This can make animation appear a lot smoother in games. The downside of this is that it will require a good graphics card to make full use of this as the game will need to be running at at least 144 frames per second to fully make use of this. It is important to note that because of this high refresh rate you will need a particular type of cable to make full use of this monitor, such as a DisplayPort 1.2 or HDMI 2.0 cable. (it may come with a cable, I cannot recall and have made use of my own.)The G27Q is both FreeSync (AMD) and G-sync (Nvidia) compatible. This means that if using an AMD or Nvidia graphics card these settings can be turned on in their respective graphic card control panels to attempt to synchronise the refresh rate of the monitor with the framerate of games in order to eliminate screen tearing (roughly, where sections of the screen load new frames at different speeds).My experience with the G27Q since buying it has been great. I use it mostly for internet browsing, watching videos/tv and occasional gaming.It's a sharp, high resolution display with smooth animation and does not suffer from glare despite my bad lighting setup. The larger size and higher resolution have both been a delight. It also comes with plenty of pre-set picture modes for various uses, some are: Movie, Reader, RPG and FPS. The FPS one in particular apparently raises the gamma level which can help withIt was very easy to setup, though I had to use my own DisplayPort cable as one was not provided. Its stand has adjustable height and vertical tilt which were also easy to adjust.The only issue that I have had with this monitor turned out to not be caused by it. The issue was awful screen tearing in the game Overwatch. Crisp, vertical building edges, during movements, will load in a chunk at a time resulting in an ugly, jagged movement. AGAIN, THIS WAS NOT DUE TO THIS MONITOR. Instead, this was due to settings and was resolved by changing the vertical sync settings for nvidia to Fast from default (possibly not needed, next bits were more imporant), disabling Windows Game Mode and disabling fullscreen optimisations, again a Windows setting.Others online have mentioned an issue with ghosting/motion blur. This has not been noticeable in my normal usage but my previous monitor was quite bad so this might be something to at least lookup, as many people seem to have this issue.Overall, I strongly recommend this monitor. It was well worth the price and is a great upgrade from a 1080p monitor so long as you have a graphics card good enough to make it work for you.IMPORTANT NOTE: this is a review of the G27Q monitor, please do not assume that this is similar to the M27Q or G27QC as they are both very different monitors to this once. The G27QC is a curved VA monitor. The M27Q is similarly an IPS monitor but uses a BGR subpixel layout (contrary to the normal RGB) that can lead to some problems with blurry text rendering; if considering that monitor then please look that up first.