AOC Gaming CQ32G2SE – 32 Inch QHD Curved Monitor, 165Hz, 1
AOC Gaming CQ32G2SE – 32 Inch QHD Curved Monitor, 165Hz, 1 ms MPRT, VA, AMD FreeSync Premium, Low Input Lag, Speakers (2560×1440 @ 165Hz, 250 cd/m², HDMI/DP)
1500R CURVED
Curved design wraps around you putting you at the center of the action and provides an immersive gaming experience.
SPEAKERS
Built-in speakers make it easy to catch up with family, friends and colleagues. For movies, music, games and more, you’ll enjoy quality audio without the hassle of connecting external speakers.
LOW INPUT LAG
Unleash your reflexes by switching to the AOC Low Input Lag mode. Forget graphical frills: this mode rewires the monitor in favour of raw response time, giving the ultimate edge in hair trigger stand offs.
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.
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| Monitor size | 32 inch curved | 27 inch flat | 23,6 inch curved | 28 inch flat | 23,8 inch flat |
| Resolution | 2560×1440 – QHD | 1920×1080 – FHD | 1920×1080 – FHD | 3840×2160 – UHD | 1920×1080 – FHD |
| Refresh rate | 165 Hz | 144 Hz | 165 Hz | 60 Hz | 144 Hz |
| Response time (mprt) | 1 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms | 1 ms |
| Panel type | VA | IPS | VA | IPS | IPS |
| Brightness | 250 | 250 | 250 | 300 | 250 |
| USB | – | – | – | – | – |
| Ergonomics | Tilt -5° – 23° | Tilt -5° – 23° / Pivot/Swivel -32° – 32° | Tilt -5° – 22° / Pivot/Swivel -35° – 35° | Tilt -5° – 23° | Tilt -5° – 23° / Pivot/Swivel -32° – 32° |
| Speakers | 5W x 2 | 2W x 2 | 2W x 2 | 3W x 2 | 2W x 2 |
| Sync Technology | FreeSync Premium | FreeSync Premium | FreeSync Premium | FreeSync | FreeSync Premium |
| Weight: | 7.4 kg |
| Dimensions: | 24.49 x 52.44 x 70.99 cm; 7.4 Kilograms |
| Brand: | AOC |
| Model: | CQ32G2SE/BK |
| Colour: | no USB |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | AOC International |
| Dimensions: | 24.49 x 52.44 x 70.99 cm; 7.4 Kilograms |
Was looking for a monitor for my secondary setup so didn’t want to spend a fortune, came across this monitor that has all the features my main setup monitor has but at half the price! I am honestly very happy with this monitor, can’t fault it.
High resolution is an improvement over 1080p , and its nice that its 165hz (personally anything 144hz or more is good to me)
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Monitor can be rotated easily to be vertical. I’m not going to use this feature, but could see it being kinda cool for a 2 monitor setup e.g. a twitch streamer using it vertical for chat.
I use it mostly for gaming but also office use. Generally a pretty good monitor for the money and a decent stand with height adjustment. I find the G-Menu download handy for setting adjustment rather than the physical buttons which I find fiddly.
I’ve had this monitor for about a month now and it’s been incredible seeing the difference from my 1080p monitor, to the 1440p monitor.
The picture quality is much sharper and gives more accurate colour. It does se to struggle a bit with low light scenes in games but that’s about the only drawback I find. It’s nice that it has slim borders as well as it makes you feel more engrossed on the game.
Great graphics and arrived a lot earlier than expected but as soon as I begun to play music, I realised that the speakers sound like they’re echoing and not coming from the actual monitor. I’ll have to buy my own speakers but other than that, I’m happy with the price paid.
Bought 2 of these a year a part and the old one functions as new so its long lasting & picture is great, 144hz is ideal for gaming & keeps up with all the fps games I play, Would recommend
I got this monitor for a mix of gaming and work. I was sceptical as how a curve would feel with work related use, however its really good. 32 inch widescreen with a slight curve works very well. 165Hz makes suck a difference to gaming. I had a 4K 60Hz previously and this in my opinion is a huge upgrade.
It does take a little setting up the right picture brightness etc but once you have it where you like its great.
The main positive is the value for money. Im glad i went with this monitor. There is similar spec’d monitors out there but this one is the best value in my opinio
Very nice switch from my old 24″. Has great display quality, It feels really sharp. Going from 75hz to 165Hz makes a HUGE difference. Working on it, playing games, watching videos feels very smooth. Not sure if that why but after I start using it I went up by almost 10k ELO in CS2. Love AOC monitors.
I just got this monitor for my ps5 i love the quality it looks as clean as my 4K tv with hdr10. It dosent support VRR or HDR on the ps5 but apart from that its perfect gameplay feels smooth and the size is perfect for gaming.
I am happy with this monitor which is a replacement for my old 24″ AOC. It finally gave up after many years of reliable service. This one works straight out of the box, but I might tweak it a bit when I get more familiar with it. I bought this as an upgrade in size and not as a gaming monitor.
Bought from Singapore. Was in perfect condition fortunately. Years of wait for a 24″ 1440p IPS that has high refresh rate. My eyes couldn’t comprehend all the pixels in front of me suddenly.
A great upgrade from my 27″postage stamp looks great only thing dont like is the buttons at the bottom seems very fiddley going through. All the picture options , but all in very happy with it first time going curved screen will never go back to flat .
Replaced a samsung 24″ curved display which I always found slightly blurry and left me with headaches if I used it too much. This monitor is excellent, great screen image right up to the edges and good brightness. So far, can’t rate it highly enough.
I’m not using it for gaming, so can’t comment on refresh rates but for multi-screen documents its amazing
I got two of these AOC 24″ QHD 165hz panels. Not a common combination for sure. But I’ve been able to set them up nicely with pin sharp text, a comfortable size and higher refresh rate on both Mac and Ubuntu. Obviously for my use case, the 165hz refresh rate isn’t that important. But it certainly feels nice when things scroll or move around.
I was slightly concerned the red strip at the bottom would look too much, but I barely see it, and it’s actually quite nice. I’d never heard of AOC before, but am really placed with the quality.
These were available on a 7-10 day lead time from Amazon when I first checked. But they popped up with 3 in stock available next day.
I’m using a thunderbolt 4 dock and usb-c to displayport 1.4 cables. On Mac I did need to use the BetterDisplay app and had to explicitly enable smooth scaling. On Ubuntu I needed to enable “Large Text” to make things a comfortable size. 165hz on both no problem.
I found this monitor really good for gaming and running at such good definition and gaming is really
a good experience. I would recommend this AOC 34″ curved screen monitor. Another plus factor is there
has been a price drop since I purchased it over a year ago.
The only very slight niggle is the colour adjustments under bottom right of screen can be fiddly and confusing till you get used to them.
Bought this for my mum as she now works from home. Seems to be doing its job, definitely better than the screen her work gave her to use. Can’t beat ultrawide’s for productivity.
This monitor is great if you do not want to spend a ton for the most pricey ones out there. Had to get used with the curvature and my eye did strain a bit at start, now all is ok. What I dislike is lack of any support on how to make the most of this screen (not all of us are pros at screen settings – I think I have too many screen utilities downloaded that take from the processing speed and afraid to take any off as not sure which are needed and which aren’t as important). Great picture quality, I don’t mind the bad speakers as I have my own, separate ones,plugged in. Just wish Cust Support would guide people that never used these monitors and help them make the most out of these.
Overall an excellent and budget-effective product. The refresh rate is perfect and gives a tiny bit extra over 144hz, but not too noticably different. Doesn’t show much glare thanks to the matte finish, and looks nice when off for a clean aesthetic. On black screens, there is some light bleeding – however it’s only minimal and doesn’t detract from the overall experience. The menu is okay, but as with most monitors it isn’t the most intuitive. Not much of an issue though, as you’re probably only going to tweak a few things and then leave it for the rest of its life. The speakers aren’t great, but are bearable – in the menu they’re set to 50% by default so definitely crank it up to 100% and adjust volume in your operating system instead.
Now this was my first step in to 1440p gaming experience, and i must say that after using the monitor for about a month, i love the experience, the colours are vibrant, and going from 60Hz to 144Hz is Night and day, the smoothness of the monitor, No longer do I deal with frame tearing or Stretched Images, The monitor with its overdrive Mode makes sure that every movement and action I perform it clear and smooth, really allowing me to make the most of the games that I Play, I was massively happy when testing out FPS games E.G escape from Tarkov, The improvement that i had with the increase frame rate and the colours was amazing, being able to correctly identify things at distance things which were near impossible with my old Monitor,
Overall Great monitor for the price, My only advice is if you dont have experience gaming with a 1440p monitor, you are going to have to mess around with the colour settings in the OSD to get the Image look right for you!
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.
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 the display looked…disappointing. So I fiddled with the colour 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 g-sync and the flickering has gone. Read a lot about this – as it’s not an officially supported monitor it seems the flickering occurs when the framerate is adapting to big changes. I honestly can’t say I’ve noticed any great difference since turning it off – play your games at settings that won’t result in wild framerate swings and it’s really not an issue.
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, I don’t see this being much of a problem. The smoothness of 144hz vs 60hz is huge and as long as you’re not exceeding the power of your GPU the monitor will seem buttery smooth. My eyes do not notice the difference with g-sync off; 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. FYI, my GPU is an RTX 3060.