We have highlighted some key talking points in blue below. That’s about one one-hundredth of a second at most. One of the best ways of consistently hitting the frame rate hard in this title is to pump up the ‘resolution scale’ slider value so that the GPU has to work (potentially a lot) harder. The stand attaches by 100mm VESA and can be unscrewed if you wish to use an alternative VESA 100 stand or mount. The following settings are just an example of the sorts of adjustment you could make to achieve this.Brightness= 0 (according to preferences and lighting)As noted earlier it was not possible to get a particularly pleasing image using OSD adjustments alone on this monitor.

Some reasonably well-masked temporal dithering could be seen on some of the medium-dark shades as well. We are now very familiar with this panel, as it’s used on the vast majority of 24” 144Hz monitors currently. No manual adjustments were actually required to the colour channels of our unit, we simply had to change to the ‘User’ setting for ‘Color Temp.’ However; be aware of inter-unit variation and the fact that some units may require slight tweaks to the colour channels. Eco Mode is AOC’s term for picture mode and there are six to choose from. The brightest point recorded was ‘quadrant 5’ in the centre of the screen (165.3 cd/m²). There is a dark red clip-on cable tidy that can be attached to the stand neck. Also provides four different filtering modes – reading, web browsing, multimedia, and office.The 4-way adjustable stand allows effortless height adjustment, 90° pivot, full swivel (both directions), and tilting to position the monitor exactly where it needs to be.HDMI compatibility unlocks a wider array of connectivity options for users, including gaming consoles, laptops, Blu-Ray players, and more. That’s the amount of time it takes all those electronics inside your TV or monitor to process the image, apply different settings like brightness, contrast, and color correction, and light up the portions of the LCD panel and backlight with the correct data. The ‘Weak’ setting meanwhile seems very similar to ‘Light’ aside from adding a little bit of conventional trailing here and there. That depends. Note that the attractiveness of having the monitor in portrait orientation is severely limited by its viewing angle restrictions. But if you’re desperate to get every last shred of speed out of your display, it might be worth it to turn it on. The contour map below represents these deviations graphically, with darker greys representing lower luminance (greater deviation) than lighter greys.Due to the aforementioned viewing angle limitations, we will not be providing any analysis of colour temperature uniformity using a colorimeter.

This is especially true for less expensive budget models, where minimizing input lag isn’t a priority feature.Unfortunately, the on-screen menu systems in monitors and TVs tend to be a bit vague about this distinction. You can adjust these values manually with the color settings, but these broad modes are meant as a quick way move between them like equalizer presets on a stereo.If “game mode” on your TV or monitor is just a color setting, it might look brighter and more colorful in a generally appealing way, but it isn’t affecting the input lag in at functional level. This enables variable refresh rate technology such as AMD FreeSync to be used. This proved a practical speed for these photographs to be taken and showed all of the key elements that constitute perceived blur on a monitor. A range of refresh rates (60Hz, 120Hz and 144Hz) and ‘Overdrive’ settings were used (Off, Weak, Light, Medium and strong).

This is trailing from slower than optimal pixel responses. It might just be another color profile. AOC Shadow Control enables fast contrast adjustment of the in-game image. In this respect whites and light colours do have a bit of a grainy look to them, although not to the same extent you’d see on some models (particularly older IPS panels).The usual RGB (Red, Green and Blue) stripe subpixel layout it used, shown in the image above. There are actually multiple overshoot trails here if you look carefully. Surprisingly, this isn’t the worst default setup we’ve seen from 24” models using the same panel – but it certainly wasn’t the best either. Windows users may wish to use ClearType to fine-tune according to preferences, though.As a rather unusual step for an AOC monitor, there are some presets known as ‘Game Mode’ options in addition to the simple ‘Eco Mode’ preset brightness values. Unless otherwise stated assume settings were left at default, with the exception of the ‘Test Settings’, ‘Relaxing evening viewing’ and ‘Calibrated Settings’. From these readings, static contrast ratios were calculated. There is just a tiny sliver of under-coverage and actually a bit of over-coverage in the green corner of this diagram. Amongst these are the viewing angles, which are somewhat higher than would usually be specified for such a panel – but really, it’s just AOC being a bit cheeky with the figures.