AOC Gaming CU34G2X - 34 inch WQHD Curved Monitor, 144Hz, 1ms MPRT, VA, AMD FreeSync, Height Adjust, USB Hub (3440x1440@ 144Hz, 300 cd/m², HDMI/DP/USB 3.0)

Wow, blew my socks off!Managed to get this on Amazon renew for around £350. What a bargain that was!Incredible colours, incredible dark blacks, excellent quality and sharpness for the price. I upgraded from a BenQ Mobius 27” curved. While it’s a great monitor with fantastic speakers, I’d out grown it as I use my monitor for both work (MacBook) and high intensity games like CoD.I opted for the 32” IPA screen with adjustable stand. The IPA is much better for me, functions as a tv when I need it too as well. The input lag being so small on this monitor is definitely noticeable for me and is a vast improvement, no more issues with opps being able to shoot me before I even lift my gun lol.If you can pick this item up on Amazon Renew then it’s absolutely worth it, easy to set up, and just plug speakers in through the headphone jack. To clarify the model I got does not come with speakers so you do have to drop maybe £70 extra on decent ones. I went with the Anker speaker as I have their lower end model and sounds great.

Stunning picture quality. Great value and has all the bells and whistles for a great gaming experience.Massive upgrade from my standard office style monitor. Videos are crisp and vibrant with a decent HDR picture. The on screen menus and buttons are a bit lame but do the job.Works great with 100x100 vesa mount

Very happy with this monitor. HDR looks very good indeed and the screen is able to get very bright making HDR content really pop. As it’s a VA panel the blanks are inky blank too compared to the washed out blacks you’ll see on an LCD panel. Monitors far more expensive than this don’t have HDR or have a poor HDR implementation, so if you’re looking for a great value good performer that renders HDR content incredibly well, you can’t really go wrong here. Reading reviews about VA panels online, I was worried about the smearing effect but honestly, if you need a high performance camera to try and spot it, for any normal human eyes, you’re not going to notice it. I certainly have had no issues gaming on this and the high refresh rate will keep the pixel peeping idiots that need absolute perfection fairly happy I’m sure. Can’t comment on the speakers as I use separate speakers for my PC but I’d assume they’re fairly mediocre like most built in monitor speakers. I use a £30 Creative speaker setup which is more than enough for my needs. Also, the OSD when setting it up at first is a bit slow and fiddly but once it’s setup you don’t need to touch it again, so no big dramas there. Overall, an amazing monitor and for a price that can’t really be beaten given the HDR capabilities, nice resolution and inky blacks from the VA panel. As I say, for any normal human eyes I think you’ll be very pleased. Other reviewers seem to agree here as well it seems.**UPDATE** This monitor does not have any built in speakers. As metioned in my review, not a problem as I use a set of external speakers, and built in speakers would probably sound pretty poor anyway, but thought I'd update my review to highlight their absence on this monitor. Still a great screen though, and everything I mention above still stands. Recommended.

Great picture, hilariously awful sound, honestly though, I didn’t even know it had speakers and they’d be better off not bothering with speakers and dropping the price another £10+. The OSD menu on the monitor is awful (adjusting settings on monitor) you need to download “G Menu” software on the manufacturer website, which allows you to control settings via app on PC. GMenu is much easier to use, but still not brilliant and doesn’t seem to allow setting a profile by HDMI socket, which is annoying, as it means the PC needs to be turned on to switch settings when using Xbox for instance, as the OSD menu doesn’t allow me to toggle between profiles, I think it’s meant to, but it doesn’t. However, all that said, I bought it for picture quality on budget 1080p gaming and it is fantastic on all games, the picture is undeniably excellent, at a great price.

Great VA monitor. Picture looks good once you set it up. Got help from youtube to do that. Nice colours for a VA panel

Decided it was time to upgrade from my 2 DGM IPS-2701WPH 27" IPS LED Monitors that are over a decade old and cost £319, at the time. What a difference it's made.I've got the AOC Gaming Q27G4XD side by side with one of my old DGM's and initially thought I had dead pixels on it. However it turns out the image quality is so good that it picked up some white dots from my desktop background image that the DGM didn't display.Good points✅ As mentioned above the image quality is astounding in comparison. but there are lots of options in the OSD to fine tune to your requirements.✅ At £134 on sale, it was an absolute steal. it's currently back up to £189 as I write this review. I intend to buy another if / when the price drops again>✅ The frameless border is great, coming from the DGM which had a massive side frames.✅ Although not immediately apparent, it is VESA 100 for wall/arm mounting.The only niggles are:❌ There's some very minor black space on the left and right of the screen before you reach the frame. I'm not sure if that's because I have the DGM connected as a 2nd monitor but it's hardly noticeable anyway.❌ There's no USB hub although it's advertised, never needed it though.❌ No built in speakers, but again I didn't need them.All in all , this monitor is a steal when it's on sale and I'm really happy I found it.Just a word of note, there are several variations in the AOC Gaming Q27G4X range. From what I can tell the AOC Gaming Q27G4XD is the newest version that has FAST IPS, the Q27G4X does not, and the latter is sometimes more expensive than the Q27G4XD