Element Electronics - Element 27" IPS LED 1080p Full HD Frameless Monitor - Black

Great Monitors, they are clear and sharp! I have 4 of them for day trading and have really enjoyed them!

Excellent monitors for the money!!! I would totally recommend this to anybody for anything.

Great monitor. At 27 inches I couldn't resist buying two of them. My desktop has a connection for both hdmi and vga so buying two monitors worked out perfectly for m. The only issue that I have however, is the vga connected monitor. Compared to the hdmi connected one, the vga is not going to show the same crisp hd resolution. However, the screen is often blurry and Element didn't include in its settings a sharpness feature to adjust the picture. I'm fine with the non hd look of the monitor. I just need not to have to strain my eyes just to make out what I'm viewing due to the blurry image.

For the price. You cant go wrong. Im using it as a second monitor as i game on my better monitor. So for its purpose it’s great and doesn't break the bank.

Great picture quality and clarity no issues owner over a year now

Amazing product and shipping was pretty fast! Much larger than it looks in photos.

Very Slim w/ Great Picture. Only downside is the plug is a brick and restricts space on a surge protector.

The Element 27” class frameless monitor, technically named the EM2FPAB27B, is an entry level 27” 1080p monitor boasting an IPS panel and 75Hz refresh rate. For 2021, the monitor is about as inspired as its name, suffering from a low DPI, poor cable management, poor controls, screen door effect, washed out blacks, and just ok colors for IPS. However, at its budget price is it worth living with? The first thing you’ll notice is that this monitor is definitely thin. The box itself is quite thin, and yet the panel is quite protected. Inside the box you’ll find a two part powder coated cast aluminum stand. It’s heavy and wide enough to keep the monitor stable, and connects to the monitor with 4 screws and gives 20 degrees of tilt. The base connects with a single screw, so unlike some of the upper level competition, you’ll need to bring a screwdriver to set up this monitor. Further, there is a 100x100 VESA mount found on the lower half of the monitor which is a plus at this price point. Bringing your own stand could be quite helpful given the limited adjustability of the included one. Once set up, the panel sports both HDMI and VGA inputs. You’d be forgiven if you were born in the past 15 years if you didn’t know what VGA was. The lack of an included VGA cable won’t help its use. Ostensibly years ago the VGA and HDMI combo could be justified for a PC and game console to share a monitor. Of course if you have a recent vintage computer, it most likely doesn’t have a VGA output. Analogue video is so 90’s, but I suppose it’s better than a sharp stick in the eye. Dual HDMI really should be standard these days. The only other port on this monitor is for DC power input. Yes, the thinness of the design doesn’t afford an internal DC converter, so you’ll be stuck with a barrel jack and arbitrarily short power cord with a brick on the other end. This may be a concern to you if you’re looking at VESA mounting. Furthermore the cables plug in less than an inch from the bottom of the monitor, facing straight down. While normally straight down is an excellent way to hide connectors, here the cables themselves are directly visible below the monitor. Even the DC barrel jack sticks out below the monitor making clean cable management impossible. There is a small plastic clip that helps with cable management, but it’s position and height are inconsequential to the actual issues: cables are front and center sticking out of the bottom of the display. There is no audio processing over HDMI here, so you can’t hook speakers up to the monitor. It’s just as well given the single HDMI port. The rest of the physical design is pretty basic. The frameless design is simple but handsome, with only a very small chin at the bottom. Bezel's are under a centimeter (0.9cm). A 5 way switch sits behind the right side that toggles the menu. Small red grills flank the VESA mounting holes and a stylized Element logo appear to give this monitor a very slight ‘gaming’ edge. Speaking of the 5 way switch, it’s obvious whoever designed this monitor adapted it from flat buttons. While the switch is a common design, most un-intuitively pushing the center button toggles power, and pushing right does absolutely nothing. Pushing down starts to adjust the aspect ratio forcibly, and up will adjust brightness. Finally pushing left will open the menu, but god help you if you think following the direction of the on screen menu with the dial will work, in fact it is the opposite. Bring the menu up and pressing right to dig into a menu will close the entire menu. You need to keep hitting left to drop into a menu and up and down to adjust values. Right backs out of a menu. This is the WORST setup ever because it goes against the general usage of the 5 way button setup on every other monitor I’ve ever owned. It’s really just a small annoyance with this monitor, but definitely a symptom of the overall issue with this monitor. So on to the actual display. In a word ‘basic’ comes to mind. This isn’t entirely all bad, as budget panels that are ‘good enough’ make perfect productivity monitors or even entry level gaming monitors depending on the genre. In fact, while a basic IPS, setting the monitor’s overdrive setting to ‘Weak’ produced relatively good motion handling at 75Hz. Very little inverse ghosting was present and ghosting was minimal. The default setting of ‘Medium’ produces some inverse ghosting I found distracting. Overall colors were fine, if a bit muted for IPS. sRGB color preset hits the gamma spot on, while “User” defaults to a decent 2.2 gamma. Viewing angles are ‘meh’ for IPS, with some shifting present in as little as 30 degrees. Colors and gradients are what they are - as this is an 8-bit monitor with SDR. Still on the plus side, text is clear, sub-pixel arrangement seems standard RGB, so no weird artifacts. Output in both Windows and MacOS were clear and pleasing. Sitting at least 2.5ft away meant that any screen door effect or other negative effects from the DPI weren’t as noticeable. Closer, and the DPI really starts to become a problem. One thing I liked about this monitor a lot was the uniformity of grays, perceived brightness, low IPS backlight bleed. Also if the monitor uses PWM for brightness control, it isn’t noticeable. If you’re using this in an office environment, I’d suggest moving to QHD at 27” to get the most out of your investment. Still as an entry level gaming panel, extra small conference room display, or other tertiary concern, this isn’t a bad panel. Good color reproduction, and uniformity are highlights for me. 75Hz does make a difference in smoothing, but don’t think it makes it a gaming monitor. Sadly there is no freesync or other VRR technology here. Overall it’s a worthwhile display that is frustrating to use and sports a middling physical design. It’s attractive, but little details like cable management, and control layout really make it a compromise to live with.