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The design of this display is nothing fancybut it has slim, low-profile edges and a generally compact design that means it doesn’t dominate your desk, though the flashes of metallic red on the stand and bottom bezel look a bit cheesy. Its V-shaped base projects further forward and wider than necessary too. On the plus side, the stand offers height, pivot, rotation and tilt movements, so you can easily set up the display how you want it. This is a budget gaming monitor through and through, and a good one at that. If you’re just starting out in the world of PC gaming, or you’ve blown your budget on LED-lit water cooling, the AOC C27G2 is proof you don’t need to spend a fortune to enjoy smooth, colourful 1080p gaming with a few thoughtful extras thrown in. The brightness could be better, too, at only 250 nits. 300 nits is pretty much the standard these days – but it doesn’t really feel all that dark. The contrast and color are both decent, however, at 1000:1 and 94% Adobe RGB coverage. For general use, a 27-inch monitor like the AOC CQ27G2 strikes a good balance of size and usable screen area. It doesn’t take up a lot of room on the desktop but provides plenty of space for documents. The thin bezel and low price means putting two screens together is a reasonable can be done without breaking the budget. Photo editing where the graphic sits on one panel and your tools and utilities sit on the other is a very efficient way to work.
Game Setting has more picture modes though we found the best image with Game Mode turned off. You can adjust Shadow Control for more visible dark detail and color saturation. There’s a low blue light mode for reading here too. Video processing options include a three-level overdrive, Adaptive-Sync toggle and motion blur reduction. It’s grayed out in the photo but when you turn off Adaptive-Sync, it comes on with a 20-level slider control. Higher settings reduce what little blur there is but also reduce brightness. The stand offers a 5.1-inch height adjustment with 30° swivel to both sides and 5/23° of tilt. There is no portrait mode, not unusual for a curved monitor. Movements are firm and have a quality feel; there is no play or wobble here.Testing the AOC 27G2 with Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus, Anno 2070, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, Firewatch, and Sayonara Wild Hearts, we haven’t seen any discernible screen tearing and stuttering. Nor were there any signs of ghosting and latency, even in the faster-paced games. The menu control system could be better, though. It uses a row of four buttons on the underside of the panel’s edge, where they sit alongside an identical-feeling power button. Not only is it easy to hit the power button accidentally and turn the monitor off, but the buttons are small and difficult to press, plus the menu system isn’t intuitive. Accuracy is about as good as you’d expect, with an average Delta E of 2.66 when tested against sRGB and 2.23 against DCI-P3. These aren’t mind-blowing results but anything under three indicates that inaccuracies in colour reproduction will be near-impossible to spot by anyone other than professional content creators. Being an IPS panel, viewing angles are excellent too. All told, there’s no need to touch any settings but the brightness control on this display, unless you’re using the sRGB mode, which also delivers spot-on image quality just with a color gamut reduced to 100% sRGB and fixed brightness of 277cd/m² (which is a bit higher than ideal but usable).
If you’re looking for the aiming point, press the third button from the left. You get a single choice, a red circle with a crosshair inside. AOC CQ27G2 Calibration SettingsMoreover, in every other regard, this screen’s image quality is exceptional. Its out-of-the-box color temperature of 6,474K isremarkably close to the ideal of 6500K and its gamma of 2.21 is also very close to the 2.2 measure that we expect. Contrast is also very high for an IPS panel at 1276:1. We also measured a maximum brightness of 354cd/m²– miles above its rated 250cd/m². That said, there are issues with the C27G2’s panel – as you’d expect from such a resonably priced product. While the VA technology produces a great contrast ratio it also creates a noticeable amount of ghosting. Cranking the Overdrive settings up to the maximum (level three) mitigates this somewhat but introduces a little bit of inverse ghosting to brighter scenes.
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