Customer Ratings & Reviews

The visuals of this monitor are extremely good for the price. The pros: It has 1152 local dimming zones using mini-LED tech and that translates into gorgeously vivid (quantum dot tech) and bright (windows HDR calibration tool has my panel rated at over 1300 nits in HDR mode) images on the screen in HDR content such as PC Games and videos. The black levels look impressive as long as the settings are dialed in correctly on your game or video. SDR mode is rated at 450 nits and with tweaking it can also display content to a good standard, although this monitor really shines in HDR content. The viewing angles seem pretty good for a VA panel. Responsiveness in PC Gaming feels the same a my previous IPS monitor and black smearing is very minor on the UFO test although I haven't noticed it while gaming at all with the 2nd highest overdrive setting. You don't have to worry about burn-in like OLED users have to worry about. Some negatives of this monitor are that it is not very robust with features such as lacking USB ports, the HDMI port is limited to HDMI 2.0, there's no way to update the firmware, the stand only tilts the screen, and the AOC USA website doesn't yet have a dedicated section to this monitor with drivers, software, or manuals (although you can go to the Australia AOC site and get everything you want there for this monitor). The bottom line: Great bang for your buck monitor that delivers great visuals while somewhat lacking extra features and ease of use options.

The monitor offers an insane value, especially if you manage to get it for $250 when its on sale. Its extremely bright. The local dimming feature is not perfect but still works really well in SDR. I have it set at the medium setting and the contrast can look as good as oled at times. The colors r very vibrant and while the monitor did have a slight red tint to it out of the box, it was easy to adjust using the OSD. As for ghosting, the “Faster” overshoot is by far the best and offers a fast response time with minimal ghosting. OSD is a bit hard to navigate using only buttons. The stand isn’t the best but I have it mounted.

I bought this to replace a 32 inch, 1080p, LG monitor I had been using with my PS5 for several years. The difference between the old 1080p IPS panel and this 1440p mini-LED panel is a night and day difference and I’m mad at myself that I didn’t switch sooner. I thought downsizing to a 27 inch monitor would be more of an inconvenience as I have been used to the 32 inch size, but I think I actually prefer the 27 inch size now. Many negative reviews talk about the frame rate not being high enough for PC gaming, but for new-gen console use, it’s perfect. I mostly play BF6, Helldivers 2, and GT7. For each one of these games, they look and play incredible with this monitor. Smooth frame rates and excellent quality. I also cannot overstate how bright this monitor can get! I mostly play in a dimly lit room and I have to squint my eyes if I turn the brightness up high enough. If you game in a brightly lit room you won’t have any issues with not being able to see the screen well. Overall the best way I can describe this monitor is that the brights are brighter and the darks are darker than a traditional IPS or VA panel. Its not quite on par with an OLED panel, but I think mini-LED is very close and a better deal when comparing the price. No worries about screen burn-in like an OLED either. I would buy this monitor again and would recommend it to anybody looking for a 1440p monitor.

Good: - Doesn't look blurry in motion. - Mini-LED on a VA = better picture quality than most other non-OLEDs, and a good experience when viewing HDR content. - No dead-pixels on my unit or other signs of poor quality control. Bad: - 10-bit mode only works up to 120hz at 1440p which seems like a very unnecessary limitation. Overall: good value all-around monitor. This is the best budget 1440p monitor for singleplayer games. If all you play is competitive games, I would recommend something with a higher refresh-rate and/or an OLED. It would be very nice if AOC released a 240hz+ upgrade or a 32' 1440p version.

Overall, I'd say this is definitely still an improvement from my 1080p IPS monitor. However, what at first feels like a premium product quickly gives way to limitations. Other reviews have already gone over the coloring situation for the most part. However, other reviewers claim that they simply had to lower their framerate to 170-179 to get the full dynamic 8bit range without dithering. This doesn't seem to be the case for me. My two choices seem to be 10-bit color at 120hz, and 8-bit with dithering at any refresh rate above that. I have not been able to disable dithering at any refresh rate above 120. After adjusting some other variables I've limited the color banding caused by this (which can occasionally be egregious on bright blue skies in games with HDR enabled), but be aware this is only a 120hz monitor if you plan on taking advantage of all of its features. I feel like displaying it as 180hz is almost false advertisement. I would've payed an extra $100 for a monitor that could run 10bit color at 180hz, and I would've been happy if I could've gotten rid of dithering above 120hz at the current price, but so far I haven't been able to. Haven't really noticed much (if any) black smearing or VRR flicker, but I'm not really a monitor snob. I'm overall happy with the picture, but I still regret my purchase. I wish I would've just saved my money and gone with an OLED instead, or at least a mini-led that provides full color. I'm not going to return it, but I imagine I'll be upgrading again within a year or so.

Pro Great HDR, Contrast, Colors, Blacks, 180Hz, Price Con Stand (Buy a VESA stand) The one included is garbage. 8bit color at max refresh (not a big deal for me but still) Other Make sure to get March or later manufacture date Early ones have bug in Local Dimming on Strong Using Sapphire Nitro X 9070XT with it. I bought it for the HDR (love playing games with it)

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I ordered this — there wasn’t much info out yet — but after a few days of use, I’m really impressed. The colors are close to IPS, and the blacks are surprisingly deep for a VA panel — about 80% of the way to OLED to my eyes. Even with full daylight coming into my room, the image holds up without looking washed out. Motion clarity is great too — I don’t notice any smearing or ghosting in games, and text looks sharp with no weird fringing like you sometimes see on OLED. VRR works fine — no flickering that I can see — and overall the monitor just feels good to use whether I’m gaming, browsing, or watching videos. For the price, it’s hard to beat. Definitely one of the best all-around 1440p monitors out there right now.

Love this monitor, but a few complaints. Bought it on sale for around $220, which fits the monitor's size and features well. The picture is amazing, and the HDR is out of this world. It's blinding sometimes when you catch a sunrise over the horizon. It's not full 4K, but it is 1440, so higher than 1080P. For the size and price, I think the picture is magnificent. My biggest complaint is that it doesn't have speakers or too many input/output options.

Excellent image on this monitor. Very clear motion and very bright HDR with rich colors. Definitely outperforms my previous LG HDR monitor. Haven't had the chance to put it through its paces with VRR, but I'm happy so far. Shout out to Alan in Victorville for helping me find the very last one in stock. You are the MVP!

$249 - $300 is a very good price for a MiniLED display that has 1152 zones. Monitor has less than ideal viewing angles due to its VA pane, but has great picture quality and contrast with decent motion performance and latency for a VA.

Beautiful monitor, the blacks look way better than my IPS, even with local dimming set to low or medium (which are the 2 modes I would recommend, as on the strong setting there is a visual glitch but I never use that mode anyways). If you plan on using this for the max HDR effect and max local dimming you may be disappointed due to the high odds you get a model with this visual glitch on strong mode, however for casual use with still great features and image quality in low or medium local dimmming its great. (My settings are low local dimming, sRGB color space, and I always run it in SDR mode).

Pros: + Great contrast + Great Blacks + Lots of picture options + Nice HDR image Cons: - Almost too many options and image combos - VA brightness shift - If there's any light in the room, where your head is will be a dark spot compared to the rest of the image - No height adjustment Summary: While this AOC had local contrast and slightly deeper blacks than my current ips monitor, the VA black-level shift pretty much cancels out the image gain unless you're in a completely dark room. So, not helping my photo editing, I decided to return it.

Monitor can’t run at advertised 180hz without it limiting the color range. You have to create a custom resolution at 179hz to get the full color space. No speakers, no height adjustment. Horrible on screen display which locks a lot of options. No drivers, can’t update firmware. Vrr flickering, colors/hdr is good

This would otherwise be a great monitor if weren't for the fact that it is plagued by a bug thats been around since it came out. The bug is that having high local dimming on while having DisplayHDR enabled causes it to wash out things when high local dimming is on even if DisplayHDR is off. I bought my unit in December 2025, and while I havent checked when mine was manufactured, I figured that it would have been fixed at this point given that reviewers noticed this bug a while ago. Since there is no workaround (aside from resetting the monitor) or a way to update the firmware, my unit will forever be bugged. For that I can't recommend this monitor, which is a bummer, given how much I like about this monitor and is basically the only good true hdr monitor at this price point at the time of me writing.

The monitor is very bright very good for hdr content.The short comings is some bugs with the local dimming on strong will over time desaturate the image which requires a restart to fix. The monitor stand is horrible I would highly recommend a 3rd party vesa mount.

Bought when on sale for 250. Monitor looks amazing after tweaking osd settings. I like to keep my brightness down and not being able to use local dimming in the dark (because of how bright it gets and not being able to dim) is unfortunate. Other than that super solid. I was upgrading from a 60 Hz 1080p IPS so this is a huge improvement.

When you put the local dimming higher, it makes smaller objects VERY dim (like the Youtube scroll bar on the bottom of a dark video for instance). Other than that, pretty good looking monitor. Color settings were a little red heavy out of the box, but was an easy fix.

This monitor is awesome! Blacks are amazing on it, There is an issue trying to reach 180hz, you're limited to 170hz, unless you go to nvidia display panel, and do a custom resolution of 179 and other things. Its a firmware issue I think. I returned it because that.

Very good full screen brightness in both HDR and SDR I primarily play multiplayer FPS games but I also wanted a good display for consuming HDR content I'm very satisfied with my purchase I did face an issue where I couldn't use 10 but color with 180hz but I set a custom refresh rate(179Hz using Nvidia control panel) and was able to utilise the monitor to its maximum potential

I am torn on this monitor. The blacks as advertised are pretty good, much better than your average IPS... The display is bright compared to an OLED. It's a lovely monitor... But there are issues. Sometimes I do see black smearing, particularly in scenes where there is a region of dark surrounded by light or light surrounded by dark. Sometimes small white objects like a mouse cursor will be dimmed to keep the blacks dark, which sort of ruins the illusion somewhat. I tried to plug in DisplayPort, but it kept flickering on and off. Looking online, it might be my graphics card not liking two DisplayPort outputs or it might be the monitor. HDMI works, but limits this monitor to 144 Hz. This monitor was supposed to tide me over until Black Friday (bought in prime day window) so I wouldn't miss my previous OLED that died tragically, but ultimately I bought another OLED soon afterward. This will become the Discord/other screen while the OLED becomes the Game/Video screen. I didn't return it because the sale window passed and it's pretty good when it behaves. I was trying to decide between a 4k monitor and this one for 50 bucks less, and I'd have chosen the 4k monitor if I could go back in time. However, I also have a 1080p monitor that it will replace that is super old (2014 vs 2025 time of review post). And again, the blacks are very nice. If I could give it 3.5 stars I would. However, when choosing between 4 and 3, I had to lean toward the negative because it's hard to put too much weight into the basics. It's a 1440p monitor... and you can buy one of those from 150 nowadays. It's 180 Hz if you can get DisplayPort to work... also 150. And the backlight is good... but when OLEDs keep falling down in price... It sort of feels like a half-step. It's a good monitor. It's just that we're in an age of 300 dollar 4k monitors and 400 dollar OLEDs during Prime Days or Black Fridays. A good monitor in an age of great monitors. 250 was the price I paid, and chances are that monitor prices keep going down. If only graphics cards would follow, one reason I chose this one was because a 4k monitor risks pushing modern graphics cards to an early grave nowadays...