Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'm just going to jump right in and state this. If a gaming monitor doesn't have speakers in two thousand twenty-six and beyond, are we really showing effort? Thank you. Now we can begin. The HyperX- OMEN 24 is sleek and styling. It fits just about any starter PC gaming set-up, outside of gaming laptop, right out of the box. And in the box, you're going to get the 24" screen, a HDMI cable, display port cable, power supply, back cover, and adjustable stand. Now, this isn't the usual (one positioning) style stand, here. Oh, no. You're getting upgraded office-style stand, that can raise the screen vertically, as well as the tilting option. And there's also a nice little cable management attachment, for the four possible cables [2 HDMI cables. 1 display cable, and the power supply cable.] The headphone port (the 3.5 mm jack, to be precise.) doesn't require managing. Well, it wouldn't need it if there were speakers on this one. That is the main qualm that I've got with the OMEN 24, but not the only thing. I mentioned earlier that the OMEN 24 works great with everything, accept laptops. That is, without some tweaking to the system, of course. With that being said. It does, indeed, work on my desktop, PS5, Xbox, and Switch. The screen fills up and looks great. There's one multi-functional knob on back, to adjust the settings. And there's a nice back panel, albeit pointless, separate piece, in the box. This is a pretty monitor, and I will always recommend a good 24" monitor, for gaming.

Displays get overlooked. When people talk gaming monitors, the conversation usually starts and ends with refresh rate and how crisp the graphics look. I come at displays from a different angle though, mostly photo work. Color, brightness, contrast, saturation, that kind of thing. I’ve also been gaming since I was a kid. I started on old tube TVs back when you could actually feel static coming off the screen as soon as you’d shut it off, and worked through whatever monitor generations came after. So I have a sense for how displays have evolved and what actually matters when you’re staring at one all day, I do about 12 hours a day. Anyway, I’m reviewing the HyperX Omen 24G2 and after satisfactorily slicing through the taped edges, the contents are a monitor, a stand arm, a base plate, cables, a face plate, and a little cable guide clip you’ll lose if you’re not careful. Setup is straightforward. Screw the stand into the base. It’s a bendable-tab screw, but a star screwdriver works if you want more torque. Then you dock the monitor onto the stand. It’s spring-loaded, clicks on, and there’s a button underneath to release it. One thing I caught flipping through the manual for VESA mount info: you’re supposed to assemble the stand first and dock the monitor while it’s still in the packaging. I’d already pulled it out and stood it up, so I just docked the stand on top of it, kind of like a spaceship landing. Same result either way, but the intended order makes more sense once you see it. Build is all plastic, curved back, HyperX logo on the front. Looks clean enough. The neck rotates multi-directionally so you can flip horizontal to vertical. Around back you’ve got HDMI x2, DisplayPort, an audio out, a 5-way joystick, and a power button. Here’s where I have a problem with it. The build feels cheap. It looks like one of those monitors a company orders in bulk because it’s bland and forgettable. There’s nothing about the design that says gaming monitor to me. I’m not talking about RGB. I’m talking about materials, how it feels in your hands, the overall execution. For a gaming-focused product, that’s a miss. But practically? You’re not really holding it. You’re looking at it. So it doesn’t move the needle much for day-to-day use. On VESA mounting, I didn’t find anything in the manual. Something on the back is protruding in a way that suggests you’d have to remove a metal plate to mount it, but I wasn’t about to start unscrewing things to find out. If wall-mounting matters, verify before buying. Menus are standard: gaming, image, color, input, power, OSD, info, exit. Color presets run FPS, RPG, RTS, sRGB, native, cinema, and HDR Enhanced Plus. HDR Enhanced is the one HyperX is pushing, and honestly it looks solid. Bright too. Running it on a MacBook Pro, it picks up native 1920x1080 at 180Hz. YouTube plays well. I bumped a video from 720 to 1080 and it looks beautiful at this size. It’s a 1080p panel, which is basic, but I shoot at 4K so I always have room to crop. I’ll calibrate with my Spyder before I trust the color long-term, but out of the box it looks good. At $200 for a gaming monitor I can’t complain too much. It’s a budget entry pick and what I see as a caveat might actually be a step up for someone coming off something older.

Great monitor! But most definitely better for a gaming environment, than a pure office environment... Let me start by saying, I am not going to get into any of the particular specifications of this device, as they are readily available from the Best buy site, the manufacturers site, and from my peers reviews here. What I will comment on, is the user experience... My son is a 24 year-old U.S. Navy Nuclear Engineer, and an avid gamer. I bring this up because it is a testament to his over-all ability focus, and find details (or lack thereof), that a simple 55 year-old man may no longer have the physical ability to experience, or differentiate. Why is this important? Well, this is designed, marketed and sold as a "gaming monitor". I was fortunate enough to have him on leave and home for a couple weeks as we tested this out.  To test, we played several games, each one at a time, through this monitor, and then back-to-back on a similar, but non-gamin monitor. To my eye, there was a difference without a distinction between the two monitors. This may have been somewhat "brighter" in movement to my eye, but old eye's lie. To him, he said there was a distinct difference in clarity and "speed" of refreshment in display. Why does this matter? Well, if I am using this as a word or number-cruncher. it's just fine. But so are most monitors. But if you are using this as a gaming machine, where clarity of detail, and refresh rate of viewed information, this is a considerably better choice. That is especially true if you have the advantage of being as mentally acute as a Navy Nuke, but also the joy of having 24-year-old eyes... If however, you are a 55 year-old dude, with the joy of youth in the rearview mirror, this is a great monitor, but the perceived value may not have the same impact on you as it once did. End of the day, this is a gaming monitor, and it serves that purpose well. It also serves an INternet cruiser, word processing, number-crunching platform just as well. If you are a gamer and looki g for a highly accurate platform at a reasonable price, you can't go wrong. I would reccomend to a friend.