AOC C24G1 24" Curved Frameless Gaming Monitor, FHD 1080p, 1500R VA panel, 1ms 144Hz, FreeSync, Height adjustable, VESA, 3-Year Zero Dead Pixels Black

Great monitor for the price. Has been good. Great quality and easy set up.

I have been currently using this monitor for the past two and a half months, and my experience with it has been an interesting one.Firstly let's get the specs out of the way. This is one of the cheapest monitors that you can buy that gives you 1440p, 27", 144Hz refresh rate, Adaptive Sync, and 1ms response time. Most other panels of this quality are around $300 minimum, so getting this for $260 is a steal. In addition, the stand for being a budget monitor is fantastic. Giving you both tilt and height adjustment is unheard of at this range. No corners were cut here. The picture quality is fantastic as well. QHD at 27" inches is a treat to look at (I was using a TN 1080p 24" 60Hz monitor before). Also the control quality is fantastic as well. AOC's promise of a 3-year zero dead pixel warranty and 1-year accidental damage is extremely generous compared to the rest of the competition. If you do encounter a problem you should not worry about your few hundred dollar investment.Now here are some caveats and issues that I had faced with this monitor in the first month of use. For my PC I am using the AMD RX 5700 graphics card, which has always been prone to driver bugs and issues. During this first month of use, I had times where the monitor would not detect the GPU output and not switch inputs over to the connected HDMI. I would have to reboot the monitor entirely to get it working again. This however has been fixed with the latest AMD Adrenaline driver update. In addition, I had issues with how Adaptive Sync worked with my GPU. The most glaring issue being when I enable a custom GPU fan profile using MSI Afterburner, the monitor would go black for seconds at a time, and would occur every half minute or so. I would need to turn off my custom fan profile and suffer higher GPU temperatures in order to use my monitor. However, the latest AMD GPU driver patch fixed this issue as well. As of now, I have no issues with my PC detecting my monitor or face any strange issues with the display turning on and off.Aside from driver issues, the usual caveats with VA panels apply to this monitor as well. You have great contrast ratio with the better blacks than IPS or TN, but you do suffer from poorer GTG response times. This can lead to black smearing when your game encounters dark environments. I haven't noticed this smearing in my own use, however YMMV. Also, the brightness is definitely on the lower side at 250 nits. I would have really appreciated 300 nits minimum. I use this monitor in a dark room so 250 nits is not an issue, but if you use this monitor in a naturally lit environment you may struggle to use this monitor.Overall, I am extremely satisfied with this monitor, but my first month and a half of ownership of this monitor could have been smoother. Though this was at the fault of my own hardware and not the monitor. I anticipate anyone with an Nvidia GPU would not have face the same issues as I did. If you have a flat budget of $300, I highly recommend this monitor (if it is ever in stock). Otherwise, I would try to stretch the budget to get a brighter IPS gaming monitor.

UPDATE: 3/25/2023 I've had this monitor for three years now. it does show some age in the form of some random color bars across the bottom of the screen, like in the windows taskbar. they only appear when it first turns on (cold) but they have never lasted longer than it takes me to log into windows (warms up). By my guesstimation, its just the monitor warming up. everything else is still working flawlessly. I don't have much of a baseline to compare longevity but I'm still very happy with this purchase. (:ORIGINAL REVIEW:I bought this monitor with my very own hard earned cash and am receiving nothing for this review except the satisfaction of "paying it forward" to fellow entry gamers, or just anybody who cares about how black vs white or really any color for that matter look on their pc.most of the reviews here are most likely going to be first impressions and may not be updated if the monitor were to fail, mine is not that.I've had this monitor for one year and it still works as new. I've always thought any device would last longer when used at lower power usage and my eyes get tired quickly if I run the brightness to high, as writing this I have the brightness at 20% and contrast at 50%.I was very concerned, a year ago, when I purchased this about "dead pixels" so I am sure that you are as well, the way I countered this concern was to get a 4 year protection plan with my monitor this added $30 to the $150 monitor totaling $180.I cant see it unless I look for it but there is one spot covering about 6 pixels (two tall three wide) where I accidentally had a butterfly knife fly at my monitor and left a small nick in it, to the quality though all of those pixels behind the nick still work perfectly.the bottom right corner of the screen must be where the power supply is because the brighter its set the hotter that spot gets, at 20% brightness the whole screen is cool to the touch and that spot is warm to the touch, even at 100% I don't think it could burn you.the things I think are best about this monitor would be the 144Hz, you can easily notice this by dragging and window in circles, and I really don't know how to explain this but the colors just look so GOOD, anybody who has used a cheapo monitor knows what that white and blue film and washed out blacks looks like. I guess a good way to say it would be that the blacks are very deep and the rainbow colors are very vibrant.with all of the options out there that I'm sure your confused about (because I sure was) this one worked great for me and will probably work great for you as well.