Review on AOC C27G2Z Frameless Ultra Fast Adjustable 1920X1080P 🎮 Gaming Monitor Curved - Enhanced Features for Optimal Gaming Experience by Matthew Staton

I tend to be verbose in my reviews. If this isn't for you, just skip to the last section as I think it's the most important. I'm also not too picky if I like something, but will point out any dissatisfied feature or marketing inconsistency if I'm dissatisfied or hesitant. Picture Quality: Comes from a vintage 15 inch VGA monitor with a resolution of 1400 x 900. The real estate and permit increase is great. Unfortunately, the bezels on the monitor are not exactly as shown on the product image. In the picture they appear dull and part of the frame. Actually they're not, they're just part of the screen and therefore as shiny as the screen. This can result in the bezel being only part of the screen in a dark scene of a movie or video game, making menus difficult to navigate with a mouse. At least it would if the 3 corners of my monitor weren't lit up like a Christmas tree - seriously, it's like someone shining a flashlight through your curtains. - "120% sRGB": That's honestly typical marketing slang for "scam" (sorry Frank), and it's not unique to this monitor or the AOC. This monitor has decent color reproduction compared to what I tested at the hardware level, but it wasn't 100% accurate as "120% sRGB" would suggest, and the blues were matte. I can't add more to that, I can't see blue so I don't care but the hardware I borrowed from a friend said there wasn't enough blue. Menus and application software: The menu buttons built into the bottom of the monitor worked well for me, it was just awkward to use as the buttons didn't have a great feel, making it a bit difficult to know which button I was using. The app software is a huge no from me. I was a little confused that there were two versions on the AOC website (10 months ago) but I used a VM to download it for Windows. Both versions had icon themes that looked straight out of Windows XP (Yes, I'm old, sue me), and neither of them worked properly. One never started and the other stayed as an overlay and refused to close via task manager/terminal, causing the VM to shut down and clean up. For those who don't know, the VM should be able to run such basic software without any problems, so it must have been some kind of bug in the monitor software. Free-Sync: In my opinion, just disable it by default. I'm not the type to be sensitive to flashes or strobe lights, but even at a steady 120Hz in brightly lit games, the strobe was enough to make me sick after 15-20 minutes of running and checking the monitor. Bug: I've tested the monitor on 4 systems, once with an AMD RX 6800 XT and once with an NVIDIA 3080 12GB (otherwise identical specs), then again on a different motherboard/CPU/RAM platform (with the same graphics cards). On all 4 systems, the monitor would occasionally lose the picture for a few moments and then turn back on under heavy use, prompting me to test a few hardware settings. Frame loss was more common on a system with an AMD graphics card (perhaps simply due to AMD's notoriously buggy drivers), but it occurred on both. This happened with the base display drivers and updated AOC display drivers. At the time of writing this review, I've had the monitor for 10 months and still haven't been able to fully resolve this issue.