AOC G-Line C27G2ZU 240Hz Gaming Monitor Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The stock is a little sparse on this display right now, which isn’t surprising given we’re on the far side of Black Friday and CyberMonday. However, I’ve seen stock at various retailers from £275 to £325. However, you can keep an eye on the AOC Amazon Store for stock too if you prefer to shop there.

Overview

This monitor is clearly not for everyone, as it’s very focused on being a gaming monitor and, frankly, little else. That’s fine though, there’s a massive and growing market for that. eSports is still big business, and even many gamers at home want to be as competitive as they can be. For those gamers, this monitor makes absolute sense.

Calibration

The stock performance on this monitor wasn’t ideal, at least not for editing work and media consumption. It’s very strongly skewed to be a good gaming monitor… no shock there. Black levels were pushing into the greys, which makes darker scenes easier to see in games. Reds were pushed, which warms up the picture and strips out much of the strong blue hues, reducing eye fatigue. Subjectively, I thought the picture looked pretty great actually, but I certainly wouldn’t use these settings for editing photos etc.

I calibrated the monitor, which drastically improved the colour performance to respectably accurate results, so the monitor is CLEARLY capable of such things. This came at the cost of tone response, but overall, it was a very good result.

I tried my own subjective mixture of the calibration, setting the monitor to gaming mode and warm profile. This is basically the monitor with all the gaming features on, 240hz, a custom colour profile and how I would want it if I were playing competitive games. This dropped the colour accuracy a bit, but still better than the out of the box performance. It massively improved the tone resonse, and actually got our gamma rating right on track too (using Gamma 2 in the OSD).

There’s a hilariously looking high rating for yellows, reds, greens and blues in the colour accuracy, but they balanced out rather well on the display. I was purposely using a boost colour profile, so that was not an unexpected result.

Every Day and Beyond

For a 1080 monitor, it feels just fine really. I’m working on this review with this monitor right now. It leaves me wanting for my 4K panel, I will admit. However, the contrast and brightness feel comfortable, and boy is my mouse curser moving around smooth! It’s absolutely fine for a bit of YouTube, Reddit, etc, but I wouldn’t put it in the office.

Should I Buy One?

If all you want to do is see more information while you’re gaming, get that performance edge, nail those fast paced head shots, and rip through mostly FPS, MOBA, and Battle Royale games, then this is the monitor to get. It’s eSports ready hardware that any at-home gaming enthusiast can enjoy and at a reasonable price. However, I would be even more tempted by the larger 31.5″ version if you’ve got the budget for it.