Review on 🖥️ LG 27GL850-B Ultragear Gaming Monitor 2560x1440p, Adjustable Tilt & Pivot, High Dynamic Range (HDR), 27GL850-B.AUS, HD by Steve Spencer

Although I think it is a beautiful monitor panel with rich colors and great resolution, my issue with this monitor was that it was not compatible with the highest settings of the X/S series. I think LG should update the firmware of these models. let me explain. The highest settings you can run on an Xbox is 120fps at 4k, but as of Feb 2021 you can only buy 2 sane, reliable screens that will do 120fps at 4k with adaptive sync (since Xbox uses AMD) over HDMI 2.1 . It's a 32-inch Samsung OLED TV and an Acer Predator X27, but most games aren't yet fully in sync for 4k/120fps, and the two screens cost $1,500 and $1,300 respectively. The market for 4k monitors at 120fps for HDMI 2.1/next generation consoles (as opposed to 4k monitors from LG/Dell which only support it via DisplayPort) is currently virtually non-existent and will emerge in the next few years. Streamers/youtubers have also tested games claiming to be 4k 120 fps and most of them don't even make it. It will be another 3-4, maybe even 5 years before 4k 120fps gaming via HDMI 2.1 really becomes commonplace and the price of 4k 120fps monitors comes down. Like me, most people who buy an Xbox Series X/S (and I actually bought one through Bestbuy) will only spend around $500 on a new monitor to get the 120 fps at 1440p that the Series X PS5 doesn't support 1440p, so this only applies to potential Series X buyers. I prefer the frame rate over the resolution for competitive gaming, and 1440p still looks fantastic. However, if you run the game at 120 fps, you run the risk of screen tearing if the screen flickers or lags. This occurs when the console/PC refresh rate is not in sync with the monitor refresh rate. To counteract this, Freesync was developed. It stabilizes and syncs frame rates from console to PC, eliminating screen tearing and ensuring colors and full graphics load evenly. Freesync is known as adaptive sync for AMD graphics card users and G-Sync for Nvidia graphics card users. Some monitors may be compatible with both Adaptive Sync and G-Sync if you see a green sticker in the corner of the monitor. Both Xbox and PS5 use AMD cards and are programmed for adaptive sync. However, this monitor inexplicably, and the same is true of other LG monitors, only supports adaptive sync over HDMI 2.0 (which is important since the Xbox Series X/S doesn't have a display port and there are no DP-to-adapters) to HDMI 2.0). exist for Xbox) up to 100 frames per second. This is not suitable for Series X/S because if you run the game at 120 fps at 1440p without adaptive sync, you will experience screen tearing and your resolution will not load fully. Also, you cannot run the game at 100fps on Xbox Series X/S as it is only locked at 60Hz or 120Hz. As such, this monitor is basically the same as the 1440p 60Hz Adaptive-Sync X/S Series monitor in that it does not support 120fps/1440p Adaptive-Sync for HDMI 2.0 as there are no DisplayPort to HDMI adapters for the Xbox, and you will experience screen tearing when running the game at 120fps/1440p without adaptive sync. It doesn't make sense for LG to limit the HDMI 2.0 adaptive sync frame rate to 100 since the HP Omen 27i, Samsung G5 and Dell S2721DGF use the same panel as this LG monitor for native gaming at 1440/144-165 Hz. Monitors, but all support adaptive sync at 120 fps for HDMI 2.0. In addition, Acer, Asus, Viewsonic, Gigabyte, AOC, and Viotek have 1440p 144-165 Hz monitors that support 120 fps with adaptive sync for HDMI 2.0. To take it a step further, most of the companies listed above, even those using this particular LG panel, are moving towards making their own 4k 120fps monitors that support adaptive sync over HDMI 2.1. The fact that LG hasn't even made this monitor and other similar LG monitors compatible with 1440p 120fps with adaptive sync for HDMI 2.0 while others already have 4k 120fps for HDMI 2.1 and are moving to 4k 120fps is shocking to say the least . LG may be the only company not to support 120fps with adaptive sync over HDMI 2.0 at 1440p. I really wanted to love this monitor but I couldn't because it doesn't support 120 fps adaptive sync. If you're paying $500 for a gaming monitor, it should support 120 fps at 1440p with adaptive sync. Unfortunately I had to return this monitor and bought an HP Omen 27i from Bestbuy instead. I really like the Omen and it can actually support up to 144fps over HDMI 2.0 at 1440p and 165Hz for the adaptive sync display port for both, although the Xbox can't even reach those fps, but I insist on LG's limitation of adaptive sync support for 1440p at 100 fps makes absolutely no sense. Aside from me, I'm not the only X Series owner looking for a 1440p monitor capable of running at 120fps with HDMI 2.0 support and adaptive sync so people will recognize or know that this monitor isn't 120fps at 1440p playback via HDMI. 2.0 with adaptive sync through word of mouth, Youtube and Reddit will likely cost LG a few thousand leads and a lot of money for not updating their firmware to make it fully compatible with the X/S Series. LG urgently needs to solve this problem. Я не понимаю, почему они не сделали монитор со скоростью 120 кадров в секунду с адаптивной синхронизацией, включенной для HDMI 2.0, в первую очередь, учитывая, что они, вероятно, знали, что это были поддерживаемые спецификации, появившиеся для Series X/S почти 2 years ago. support financially. It doesn't make any logical or economic sense to them, especially when other gaming monitors support it.