AOC AGON 27G2SAE – 27 Inch FHD Gaming Monitor, 165Hz, 1ms
AOC AGON 27G2SAE – 27 Inch FHD Gaming Monitor, 165Hz, 1ms MPRT, VA, FreeSync premium, Shadow control, Speakers (1920 x 1080 @ 165Hz, 350 cd/m² , HDMI 1.4/ DisplayPort 1.2)
6 GAME MODES
Tailor your display to the game with a click of a button. Switch settings between in-built presets for FPS, racing, or RTS games, or customise your own ideal conditions and save them. The AOC Settings KeyPad makes switching profiles or adjusting features quick and easy.
AOC GAME SHADOW AND CONTROL
Bring the battle out of the shadows with AOC Shadow Control and AOC Game Color! Adjust grey levels for better picture detail and brighten dark areas or sink them back into blackness on the fly, without affecting the rest of the display.
AOC G-MENU
AOC G-Menu is a tool that you can install on your PC to have complete customization paired with maximum convenience for any AOC or AGON monitor.
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| Monitor size | 27 inch flat | 27 inch flat | 28 inch flat | 23,8 inch flat | 27 inch curved |
| Resolution | 1920×1080 – HD | 1920×1080 – HD | 3840×2160 – UHD | 1920×1080 – HD | 1920×1080 – HD |
| Refresh rate | 165 Hz | 144 Hz | 60 Hz | 144 Hz | 165 Hz |
| Response time MPRT (mprt) | 1 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms |
| Panel type | VA | IPS | IPS | IPS | VA |
| Brightness | 350 | 250 | 300 | 250 | 250 |
| USB | – | – | – | – | USB 3.0 x 4 |
| Ergonomics | Tilt -5° – 23° | Tilt -5° – 23° / Pivot/Swivel -32° – 32° | Tilt -5° – 23° | Tilt -5° – 23° / Pivot/Swivel -32° – 32° | Tilt -3,5° – 21,5° / Pivot/Swivel -30° – 30° |
| Speakers | 2W x 2 | 2W x 2 | 3W x 2 | 2W x 2 | 2W x 2 |
| Sync Technology | FreeSync Premium | FreeSync Premium | FreeSync | FreeSync Premium | FreeSync Premium |
| Weight: | 6.03 kg |
| Dimensions: | 9.91 x 60.5 x 36.75 cm; 6.03 Kilograms |
| Brand: | AOC |
| Model: | 27G2SAE/BK |
| Colour: | black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | AOC International |
| Dimensions: | 9.91 x 60.5 x 36.75 cm; 6.03 Kilograms |
I bought those monitors for my fianc as he plays games a lot and also works from home so they are very useful to him. The colours on them are super vibrant. The monitors were very well packed which is amazing as sometimes products which should be well packed aren’t. Overall very happy with them and probably will be buying two more for myself. Very good price as well for them.
Excellent monitor. I set it to 140Hz to match my desktop monitor and running out from a HDMI splitter.
Fast response time.
High refresh rate.
Panel is excellent.
No complaints.
Purchased 2 for my gaming and productivity setup. Use them for gaming, video editing and other tasks. Very happy. There are tiny gaps at the bottom left corner of the bezel but otherwise very happy for the performance and price.
Bought it for my son, and this is a great value for the price, all the YouTube reviews were very positive about the monitor and I can’t aggree more. This is a great value and I definitely recommend this monitor.
Excellent pixelation and graphics looks great, would be perfect if this model had sound which I didn’t realise when I bought it, however that was my fault for not reading the description of the product properly. Need 34″ if you want speakers attached. Son uses his wireless headphones to communicate with his mates so not to fussed, but would have been nice for him to have the option !
Brought this for my younger brother and it’s a great monitor. It looks good and the speakers are mediocre. There’s not much you can complain about with the price point.
Ps. There’s no adjustment in the stand at all. Only til
Has deep blacks and smooth motion, ideal for gaming. Nice step up from a 1080p scree
I didn’t need it for any ‘gaming’ so I don’t know about that, but as a desktop screen its great and good value.
I have used so many gaming monitors but this one is the best so far.
Bought this monitor when it first came out and has served me well for years. That is until i managed to knock it off my desk while moving stuff around and it landed screen down on my metal microphone.
I ordered the AOC 24G2SPAE version which is 165mhz compared to the 144mhz of the previous model.
After ordering it and it being dispatched I noticed there were other variants of the same monitor on here and to my disappointment I realised that the version I ordered came with a stand that was not height adjustable. My old monitor was the version with a height adjustable stand and lucky for me it fits into the new monitor 🙂
SO JUST TO HELP PPL OUT
AOC 24G2SPAE – ips screen, no usb ports on the back and the stand is fixed height.
AOC 24G2SP – ips screen, no usb ports on back and the stand IS height adjustable.
AOC 24G2SAE – va screen, no usb ports on the back and the stand is fixed height.
AOC 24G2SPU – ips screen, does have usb ports on back and stand IS height adjustable.
I hope this helps a little. either way it’s a great lil 1080p monitor 🙂
Great monitor – Really glad I bought it. I am a casual gamer but still want to have an enjoyable gaming experience. This is a great monitor and I struggle to identify flaws. Maybe a gaming connoisseur would disagree but monitors these days are of such high standards. Thoroughly recommend this monitor and great value as well.
This is a great little monitor for the price .
Speakers are what you can expect from a 2w .
Tinny as ever haha
Overall it’s great value for money and works well
Received this monitor today. It took a while to figure out the settings. It is ok, but the sound is really bad. If you do purchase this monitor then you will need to purchase some speakers too, if you need good sound.
Update: It has taken a bit of research to work out why the screen was slightly blurry when connected to a laptop computer. I had to download an application called g-menu to make life easier and also play around with the graphics card settings to help improve the picture quality. It is still not perfect, but it is much better than it was previously.
HIS DISLIKES:- THEIR NO SPEAKERS ON THE MONITOR, ( he asked them to be capital) their is a ear phone hole so you can attach speakers, or if you got Bluetooth you can Bluetooth it with your tower, ( which he has done ) he said the sound is crisp and clear is alot of bass, no static in background, he said you can play around with the equaliser through you speakers or headphones anyways,
He loves this and we’ll impressed, I even had to show him reciept as it wasn’t more than it feels, he would recommend this pc to anyone
I purchased the AOC Gaming 32 Inch QHD Curved Monitor when I was in need of a new display, and I’m absolutely thrilled with my purchase. This monitor is perfect for gaming, with its 165hz refresh rate and 1MS response time, it gives a smooth gaming experience even with the fast paced FPSs I enjoy. I’ve played several games on this monitor and noticed a significant improvement in performance and responsiveness compared to my old monitor which was 75hz one.
Setting up the monitor was very easy, couple of screws was all it was, and I appreciated the inclusion of a variety of connectivity options, including HDMI and DisplayPort. Options are always good!
If you’re in the market for a new gaming monitor, I would highly recommend considering this one.
After watching quite some reviews, I decided to go for the AOC 24G2. Since most of the videos were aimed to the US audiences and mostly refer to the older version, I had my fair share of doubts. However, those went away quickly. The image is very sharp, the ergonomics are awesome, speed s brilliant (specially for those wanna be pro FPS players). Absolutely recommended
As someone that is only just getting into gaming, this is a great gaming monitor, the image quality is amazing. However, the only small things I’m not a fan of are the red on it and the buttons on the bottom which are a bit hard to navigate – nothing major at all.
One of the best features of this monitor is the ability to use it as a vertical monitor. This was a must-have for me as I often work with long documents and having the ability to view them in portrait mode is a game changer. The setup process was very easy and I was able to adjust the monitor to the perfect viewing angle without any hassle.
The only downside to these monitors is the speakers, which could be better. However, they are perfectly acceptable for someone who doesn’t have any other speakers. The sound quality is a bit tinny and lacks bass, but this is a minor issue in my opinion.
Overall, I highly recommend the AOC Gaming 27G2U monitor for anyone looking for a reliable, responsive, and versatile monitor that can be used in both landscape and portrait mode.
I looked at the competition and was almost tempted by a 300 gigabyte monitor with similarly good reviews, but at 250 and with a slight (and actually awesome) curved display, I went with this.
Right out of the box it looked…disappointing. So I fiddled with the display settings and very quickly had the brightness down and the contrast up and, well, it looks great. The blacks are deep and the colours rich (I am not into natural-looking colours) and my first game test was Crysis Warhead, a game that always felt washed-out on my old monitor). Looked great, very happy, so loaded up Firewatch, a game where the colours really pop and it too looked great. Finally, Dishonored 2, and yet again I was delighted…until I noticed some light/dark flickering. I jumped into the forums and there were a number of people complaining about this. Seems it’s par for the course for VA monitors. It was too noticeable to ignore and not fixed with a display driver update or the monitor’s own drivers installed via Device Manager. Seems it’s a g-sync thing, so I turned off DCR but still no difference.
This may be a deal-breaker for you, but as someone who doesn’t do any gaming that requires stupidly high FPS in order to be a twitchy-shooter god, the fix I found (and it has completely fixed the problem) was simply to change the display to 120hz, from 144hz. My eyes do not notice the difference; maybe some of you will but I do not. This monitor does have Overdrive settings that I may play around with at some point but one quick setting change and everything is fine.
For the money, no buyers regret. Can’t 5* because of the screen flicker at 144hz (it’s on the box, so disappointing that I probably won’t ever use it) but after only ever having used 60hz monitors, it’s still a joy to use. Oh, and the screen curve feels entirely natural and does add something to gaming that I didn’t expect it to.
Purchased this product last year and till this day has not let me down no issues with the monitor but few things could be adjusted to make the product even more better. One thing that could be improved is that when u go onto setting and choose the game setup it has a red crosshair right in the middle which may useful for some users but when it comes to removing the crosshair from your screen its an issue it does not go away with one button and for me to take it of the screen I have to either unplug the monitor or turn of the monitor. Another thing that could be fixed is that the display of the screen does not meet every corner there’s a thin black lane on the sides which could also be developed to meet each sides. Apart from that I am satisfied with the product!
My old monitor was 2k resolution and 144hz, but it was the 1st gen of those monitors so after 6+ years of heavy use it had been burnt in so badly at the top where my tabs are that it hindered me playing games. It was also flickering and the black was more like grey and super pixel-y.
I got this Aoc monitor in the NYE sale and I am SO happy with the value for money, really wasn’t expecting this kind of quality for the price.
It did take some tweaking and fiddling to get everything just right for me, felt like the red was so bleeding red it hurt my eyes when I first turned on HDR. Sad to say the software (G-menu) for the monitor is terrible, but in the end the monitor was calibrated and the picture quality is top. I went from saying “where?!?” all the time to “I see them”, amazing what some more colours and better contrast/depth can do. I also have a lot less eye strain, I never even considered the old monitor had that much impact on my eyes.
Very highly recommend this monitor as a fantastic value for money high quality monitor, even at full price.
The monitor was delivered next day and I had to provide a numerical password to the driver – nice touch amazon apart from the fact that the monitor just had a label slapped on the outside of the box and it was fairly obvious what the item was! I do think with the extra security that helps but I don’t like the fact amazon sometimes sends items without packaging the boxes to hide the items inside.
Once I took the monitor out of the box it was incredibly simple to set up and I had the monitor on my desk within 5-10 minutes. The monitor is adjustable on a tilt and can be adjusted up and down for the perfect height. The monitor also has a USB hub and built in speakers which admittedly I haven’t used yet.
Monitor worked perfect from the start – no fiddling with picture settings, colours and brightness it was perfect straight from the box. Once I made sure my monitor was set to 144hz it was like relief being able to play on a screen that was bigger than a laptop with no lag, tearing or colour issues. It felt fluid, smooth and vibrant exactly everything I wanted!
The price as well is phenomenal, I paid 158 for this monitor which to me is a bargain. I know some people have gotten it cheaper during lightning deals, however 158 for what you get feels more than a decent price. If you want a gaming monitor that is a reasonable price, give this one a go I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!
I’m usually a savvy, budget-conscious shopper where PC peripherals are concerned. However, the one area in which I’ve always been a little hazy is monitors, given that all the ones I’ve used have been hand-me-downs from friends.
I decided to go beyond 60hz to finally put my GPU’s capabilities to use and finally push my games past 60 frames per second. So, not having the luxury of a 300+ budget, I ended up with this model. Having used it at a friend’s before (and playing Elden Ring on it currently) I can confirm that, at this price, it’s an excellent purchase!
This model has great picture quality for 1080p; it performs very well at over 60 FPS; the colour is good; it has a versatile stand with plenty of options for height, tilt, and it’s wall-mountable as far as I know. If around 200 is your budget and you don’t care for going beyond 1080p, then this is the monitor for you.
HOWEVER, I originally bought the VA panel model. It was the 165hz version with “VA” in the title. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU DO NOT BUY THE VA PANEL VERSION! Instead, you ought to go for the “IPS” version.
It turns out that VA models have a slower pixel response time. In practice, this means that the pixels go from light to dark and back again much slower. When you move in a game or turn the camera, this translates to a horrible blur effect and a burnt-looking distortion in games with lower lighting. This won’t bother some people, as I’m overly sensitive to this kind of thing. However, I feel obliged to tell you that for me, the VA model would cause eye strain long-term, and it was just noticeable enough to take me out of whatever I was playing, even when I tried to ignore it.
I would give the VA model a five star for picture quality, but I’d go as low as two and a half or three stars for gaming. If you can’t take me at my word, then you’d be best off doing some research before you buy! I certainly wish I had so I didn’t have to go through the hassle of returning it.
The stand is awful. The long leg spikes will try to go under your mouse matt unless you angle them just right (which you will need to do to stop your mouse bumping into them in the heat of battleXD). And the OSD buttons are a clown show, but the part that counts is…
Frankly I can’t imagine any 240Hz monitor being faster or clearer for fps gaming. Even TN panels. I also can’t imagine the LMB on the 240Hz Zowies being any better for fps. I’m not an expert and have upgraded to this from a 144Hz TN panel, so my experience with various monitors is modest to say the least. But I am very good at fps games and play competitively. To my mind this is as good as a 240Hz gaming monitor can/needs to be. And being an IPS panel, movies/media looks really good too.
As far as someone commenting that it doesn’t come with a USB to USB B cable so you can’t connect the monitors USB HUB to your PC…I honestly can’t remember whether I got that cable in the box or whether I’m using the spare I had lying around. However the USB hub is super useful and the fast charge USB really is faster than PC USB charging. The speakers are there just for convenience, not for any serious listening, but they are there, unlike similar monitors from other manufacturers at higher prices.
Simply put: if the stand was a classic square/round unobtrusive foot and the monitor had a nipple at the back instead of the worst bottom mounted OSD buttons ever (though the OSD software provided by AOC does the job just fine) in my opinion this would probably be the best price/performance competitive gaming monitor in the world by a country mile.
As it stands, it is still deserving of that title, only (at least for me) not quite so emphatically…
EDIT;
In March 2022 I’ve had to RMA the monitor because it started developing a blurry picture when in BIOS of my motherboard and it had weird white trailing on the AOC logo even when not connected to any display output. The RMA process is done through Amazon for the first 2 years of the warranty and was frankly as easy as an RMA as I could imagine (by the way you get 3 years warranty in total, I think, but didn’t confirm that). The replacement monitor works fine so far.
Does this incident make me reconsider the 5 star review I gave the monitor originally? Not really, but there are caveats.
Firstly, the complaints I had with the original monitor regarding the menu buttons don’t apply to the replacement. The new buttons are a lot less stiff and thus infinitely more usable and no longer a nuisance. It didn’t occur to me at the time that this was the real issue with the original buttons, I thought they were a pain to use because of their placement. Anyway, that’s certainly a plus.
Secondly, it’s also worth noting that the replacement/perhaps new? monitor (and I mean new as in they changed some things, not as in “it was new in the box”, which of course it was, I wouldn’t have accepted a “refurbished”/used replacement) is noticeably heavier. I didn’t have scales at hand to weigh them both before I sent the old one back, but me and a few other friends could feel the difference just lifting it up, it was obvious to the average human touch. Makes me think they put in a more substantial PSU inside compared to the old version…this is the only reason I can think of for such a weight difference. From that I could make a whole bunch of other speculations, but don’t want to do that in a review. I’ll just say that for your consideration the original faulty monitor was made in 05/21 and the replacement was made in 09/21.
Having said all that I still feel a 5 star review is justified because I accept that a small percentage of faults will happen on mass produced products, that is a fact. In this case perhaps I just happen to be the unlucky one that got hit. I certainly don’t have evidence to the contrary at the moment. Also, considering they made the RMA process so effortless I wasn’t particularly inconvenienced.
However I hope the replacement will hold up because if it doesn’t, then I will certainly be changing the nature and rating of my review.
If like me you are coming to an IPS screen for the first time, and are unsure about it’s glow, then absolutely it does have a glow, and it is distracting. I came from an old TFT monitor, which had perfect viewing angles (you could see the screen fine at almost 180 degrees), however here you can see the discolouration and mist in the corners of the screen while playing or watching something dark. I find it quite distracting as it makes me want to crane my neck in an attempt to find a better angle to view that portion of the screen. I might get used to it (I’ve had the monitor about a week) but it’s not something you really want to have to deal with when upgrading from a 12 year old 60 second hand monitor, to a 160 brand new product. Also if you try look at the monitor from any angle that isn’t straight on, you’ll be looking at a murky greeny swamp, though I recognise most of the time you’re not doing that.
The colours and brightness are definitely great though. They’re very vivid, and the screen is clear and sharp (though I did have to use Windows ClearFont to make text slightly more comfortable).
A few issues: I did have some issues getting freesync to work properly with an nVidia 1660S, having to download a tool to adjust the range of freesync supported frequencies to get it working smoothly with some games. I also still have an issue where the monitor (using DisplayPort) won’t wake up from sleep without reconnecting the cable, so I’ve just settled to not having it go to sleep at all!
I must say however, that the build quality feels excellent. The stand is very nice, quality material, easily put together, sturdy without consuming much space and has adjustable height. You can easily raise or lower the screen as well as rotate it about 45 degrees while using it.
In the end, I personally don’t appreciate the vibrancy enough to make up for the glow. I’m only really keeping this screen because its bigger and 16:9 vs my previous 16:10 18″. If you worry about IPS, then don’t get one. Other screen types are not nearly as bad as people say and IPSes don’t live up to the hype. I rated it 4 star because if you do like IPS, then this is probably an excellent choice.
Well I’m happy to say that deciding on this display was one of the best purchasing decisions I have made for quite a while. Now anyone with any common sense would not expect a monitor that cost around the 200 mark to be on equal footing with a monitor costing 300 or more. HOWEVER I can assure you that this monitor punches well above it’s price point.
Firstly the overall build quality is excellent. The screen unit it’s self is of a robust & high quality standard, certainly far from the cheap and ‘plasticky’ unit I was expecting. Likewise the stand is sturdy, substantial, well made and perfectly stable, more so than some of the stands I have seen supplied with other well respected monitor brands. The mount is a doddle to fit to the screen and provides enough height and tilt adjustment for any type of use, and in addition the mount provides for full 180 degree pivot should you need it. Included with my monitor was a European 2-pin power lead, a 3-pin UK power lead, a Display Port lead and a HDMI lead. These are all of good quality and is a great touch that I think shows good customer consideration.
When it comes to the all important question of picture quality this monitor certainly doesn’t fail to deliver excellent results which go way beyond what I expected for the price. The colours are rich and accurate, blacks deep & uniform and the whites crisp and clean with no hint of colour cast or muddiness. The contrast ratio is likewise excellent and, in combination with the high scan frequencies, produce a beautifully steady image that has punch and vitality. Finally being an IPS screen the viewing angle and colour rendition is a big improvement over my admittedly rather old TN display. Naturally there is always a bit of tweaking to carry out whenever a display is connected for the first time but with the unit I purchased this amounted to no more than a slight alteration to the brightness and contrast to get a truly beautiful quality image. An unexpected bonus was the fact that this monitor is Nvidia G-Sync compatible which my Nvidia graphics card recognised and configured as soon as it was connected.
Aesthetically I think that the whole unit is very pleasing to the eye. The red accents to the stand and screen look good without being garishly over the top and the incredibly thin (about 1mm) top and side bezel gives the screen a clean and elegant appearance. When the screen is up and running there is a very slight black border to the top and sides of the screen but this is only about 4mm wide so even when running the screen keeps it’s sleek spacious look. I was also happy to note that the size of the black border does not vary with the scan frequency. With some cheaper monitors I have seen the black border increase in size quite noticeably as the scan frequency is raised, but this is not he case with this monitor.
I was surprised to see that one of the reviews written here has given this display a bit of a slating but, based on my own experience, I have to disagree. One complaint was that there was a strong red colour cast that could not be tuned out and another that the scan frequency would keep dropping back to a lower setting. I have my monitor connected to a Nvidia GTX1660 Super via the Display Port input and can honestly say that I have experienced neither of these problems whatsoever, whether I’m gaming (though I’m only a casual gamer), or whether I’m using productivity software and the like.
Another complaint (in the same review) was that the monitor disconnects it’s self when switched off but again I have found this not to be the case with my purchase. I can switch off my monitor and it remains fully connected and synced to my PC as expected, there are no problems with remote connecting and any items connected to the very useful USB hub on the back of the monitor remain connected and fully functional. I can only guess that the reviewer was unlucky enough to receive a faulty unit which sounds like it should be returned for replacement or refund.
While on the subject of faults I’m glad to report that my display has no dead or stuck pixels and shows no light or dark patches or uneven brightness or colouration which can sometimes be a bit of an issue with less expensive monitors, particularly those with 27″ screens.
Now not everything in the garden is rosy and I do have a couple of criticisms but these are pretty minor and certainly not deal breakers. One is that the speakers are pretty under- whelming, something which is pretty much standard for slim-line monitors and TVs these days. For general use I have the sound coming out of the monitor via the DP port and have to say that the quality is pretty poor and is definitely on the quiet side. I would say that it’s fine for the burbles and tinkles Windows produces and for listening to the odd video stream but for anything else I find the speakers very much lacking. However, as most users will undoubtedly have speaker and/or headphone set-ups anyway I don’t see this as a big problem.
Secondly the on/off and function buttons at the bottom of the screen are small and very low profile which I find makes them fiddly to use. This is not helped by the fact that the legends for these buttons are merely engraved into the lower bezel which makes things very difficult to see. Ideally I would have liked to have seen slightly larger and higher profile buttons and to have some degree of infill to the button legends to make things less fiddly and more visible. But this is probably just me being a bit nit-picky as by now I have got pretty used to using them.
In summary I would say that overall this really is an excellent full HD monitor that represents incredible value for money, indeed, based on my own experience so far I would still be just as happy had I paid a fair amount more. I have only had my monitor for a little over a month so cannot comment on long term reliability. However I have used it pretty heavily during this time and, so far, things have been fine, hopefully this will remain the case over time. Naturally if things do take a turn for the worse then I shall update my review and rating accordingly but for now I’m more than happy to give this terrific monitor a definite 5 star rating. Would I recommend this monitor to other’s considering a purchase ? Absolutely !!
Best regards
Ade.