Caporegime
I have had this AOC Screen for about a week now and i thought i would write down some of my thoughts on it.
The screen it replaced in an LG IPS226V which is 5 years old and has started to develop some slight yellowing down the left hand side of the image.
I'll start with look and feel.
I was not expecting a lot of quality from it because of it low price but was pleasantly surprised on handling it, it is heavy and feels pretty solid, it has black brushed alloy effect plastic casing and bessel, pressing it on the outer edge of the bessel the plastics don't move much, they do and push into the screen on the inside of the bessel, the red trim on the bottom of the bessel looks nice and is well fitted, the stand does wobble the heavy screen a bit if you shake the table but its really not bad, it would take some rigorous mouse action to get it moving and if you do mange it what damping it does have stops the wobble pretty quickly, it also depends a lot on how stable your table is.
The buttons are a little awkward under the bessel but again feel solid, they don't push in like many others do.
Image Quality.
I have to say when i fist turned it on i had my doubts about it, i should say that i had come from an IPS screen even if it was 5 years old the contrast and colour of the Image was gorgeous and i did have reservations and preconceptions of the image quality of TN screens , given that i came from a TN screen to the IPS screen and was blown away by the image quality.
First time looking at this screen to my eye it was very washed out and muddy, muddy it literally had a greenish brown hue that to me just looked awful, but read on.
I was not just going to give up on it because i actually liked the unit its self.
So i set about playing with the controls to see if i could better the contrast and get rid of its muddy tint, first deliberately without the old IPS screen running next to it, to see if i can get the colour to a level that i like in it own right, that didn't really work as well as i hoped, i had managed to improve it but not to a level i was happy with, on using tweaked setting there was always something that popped up which didn't look right during use. so i gave in and setup the IPS screen next to it, then it was obvious, the differences between the two screens was stark, but with the old screen parked next to it i would see what was changing in relation when making adjustments, i quickly realised that there is a lot of blue missing from the new screen, after pushing the blue up really quite far compared to red and green suddenly the colours normalised, what a relief, this screen has that "Anti Blue Light" safety thing, maybe that has something to do with it and i have just thwarted that by cranking the blue right up.... after some more fine tuning i actually managed to get the colours to look almost the same as the old screen, about 95%, which i'm happy with. the intensity of those colours is still not quite there but close enough and pretty good in its own right.
So to sum up out of the box this screen looks horrid, but with tweaking it can and does display a pretty nice picture with those gorgeous blues and yellows ecte...
The image settings i used...
Other Things.
The brightness, much to my surprise despite having the same rating as the Old IPS screen (250 cd/m2) the new one is much much brighter, the old one set at full brightness is dark compared to this one at 70%, as a result there is more detail in the dark areas.
Response Times
The old IPS screen had a response time of 4ms, that is apparently very good for an IPS screen of that era, IE one of the first.
This one is 1ms.
However there is a visual difference, i'm seeing a lot more micro stutter at low Frame Rates, thats not down to some problem, its actually because the pixel refresh rate, in reality is much much faster than it was on the old one, the old IPS screen had a motion blur effect on moving objects that obscured the micro stutter, the AOC screen stays pin sharp during motion so you see the stutter. fantastic, or is it?
The pixel response and real time input lag actually rates very high on this screen, much to my surprise. see spoiler.
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Anyway, this post is getting too long.
So to sum up in numbers.
Build Quality: 7/10
Looks: 7/10
Image quality: 'out of the box' 4/10
Image quality: 'after user tweaking' 8/10
Value for money: its gotta be 10/10.
Overall i'm very pleased with it, i would like to congratulate AOC for making what it a pretty good screen for such a low price.
I should also add that this is a Free-Sync screen, how good it is or what the range is i don't know because i don't have an AMD GPU, according to AMD its 48 to 75Hz, some reviewers say its 35 to 75Hz. all i do know is its a 75Hz screen.
I have tried to overclock it in Nvidia control panel but at 76Hz already i get the "No Input Signal" warring so either i'm not doing it right or AOC looked it, or something...
The screen it replaced in an LG IPS226V which is 5 years old and has started to develop some slight yellowing down the left hand side of the image.
I'll start with look and feel.
I was not expecting a lot of quality from it because of it low price but was pleasantly surprised on handling it, it is heavy and feels pretty solid, it has black brushed alloy effect plastic casing and bessel, pressing it on the outer edge of the bessel the plastics don't move much, they do and push into the screen on the inside of the bessel, the red trim on the bottom of the bessel looks nice and is well fitted, the stand does wobble the heavy screen a bit if you shake the table but its really not bad, it would take some rigorous mouse action to get it moving and if you do mange it what damping it does have stops the wobble pretty quickly, it also depends a lot on how stable your table is.
The buttons are a little awkward under the bessel but again feel solid, they don't push in like many others do.
Image Quality.
I have to say when i fist turned it on i had my doubts about it, i should say that i had come from an IPS screen even if it was 5 years old the contrast and colour of the Image was gorgeous and i did have reservations and preconceptions of the image quality of TN screens , given that i came from a TN screen to the IPS screen and was blown away by the image quality.
First time looking at this screen to my eye it was very washed out and muddy, muddy it literally had a greenish brown hue that to me just looked awful, but read on.
I was not just going to give up on it because i actually liked the unit its self.
So i set about playing with the controls to see if i could better the contrast and get rid of its muddy tint, first deliberately without the old IPS screen running next to it, to see if i can get the colour to a level that i like in it own right, that didn't really work as well as i hoped, i had managed to improve it but not to a level i was happy with, on using tweaked setting there was always something that popped up which didn't look right during use. so i gave in and setup the IPS screen next to it, then it was obvious, the differences between the two screens was stark, but with the old screen parked next to it i would see what was changing in relation when making adjustments, i quickly realised that there is a lot of blue missing from the new screen, after pushing the blue up really quite far compared to red and green suddenly the colours normalised, what a relief, this screen has that "Anti Blue Light" safety thing, maybe that has something to do with it and i have just thwarted that by cranking the blue right up.... after some more fine tuning i actually managed to get the colours to look almost the same as the old screen, about 95%, which i'm happy with. the intensity of those colours is still not quite there but close enough and pretty good in its own right.
So to sum up out of the box this screen looks horrid, but with tweaking it can and does display a pretty nice picture with those gorgeous blues and yellows ecte...
The image settings i used...
Other Things.
The brightness, much to my surprise despite having the same rating as the Old IPS screen (250 cd/m2) the new one is much much brighter, the old one set at full brightness is dark compared to this one at 70%, as a result there is more detail in the dark areas.
Response Times
The old IPS screen had a response time of 4ms, that is apparently very good for an IPS screen of that era, IE one of the first.
This one is 1ms.
However there is a visual difference, i'm seeing a lot more micro stutter at low Frame Rates, thats not down to some problem, its actually because the pixel refresh rate, in reality is much much faster than it was on the old one, the old IPS screen had a motion blur effect on moving objects that obscured the micro stutter, the AOC screen stays pin sharp during motion so you see the stutter. fantastic, or is it?
The pixel response and real time input lag actually rates very high on this screen, much to my surprise. see spoiler.
Anyway, this post is getting too long.
So to sum up in numbers.
Build Quality: 7/10
Looks: 7/10
Image quality: 'out of the box' 4/10
Image quality: 'after user tweaking' 8/10
Value for money: its gotta be 10/10.
Overall i'm very pleased with it, i would like to congratulate AOC for making what it a pretty good screen for such a low price.
I should also add that this is a Free-Sync screen, how good it is or what the range is i don't know because i don't have an AMD GPU, according to AMD its 48 to 75Hz, some reviewers say its 35 to 75Hz. all i do know is its a 75Hz screen.
I have tried to overclock it in Nvidia control panel but at 76Hz already i get the "No Input Signal" warring so either i'm not doing it right or AOC looked it, or something...
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