Philips 272E1GAJ 144hz Gaming Monitor Review

Performance

The monitor is easily adjusted to find a suitable angle. One thing that does surprise me is that you can tilt it back quite a lot. I like this a lot as I often stand up while checking emails quickly and this makes it a lot more viewable.

It’ll tilt forward too, not much, but it can still be helpful.

Of course, the first thing I did was put the monitor through our testing suite to check colour accuracy and more. I could help but notice though that the colours look really fantastic and uniform, which is always a good early indicator. The monitor was then calibrated and tested again.

Being 144hz, it really takes some serious graphics horse power to get the latest games up to the big refresh rates. Here’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider running on an RTX 3080 with ray tracing. The monitor looks utterly smooth and tear free and with this refresh rate, that’s hardly surprising.

Pictures obviously don’t do the monitor justice. I’m a 4K60 gamer myself. However, the perceived resolution on this 1080p feels higher than it actually is. The extra visual information from clean motion and panning really makes up for the lower pixel count. Doom was built for higher refresh monitors and the higher it goes the more alive it feels. The same goes for fast response games like CS:GO. That being said, I mostly spent the day playing Elder Scrolls Online on it… I mean I was busy “working”, yes…

Of course, pretty much all of us are familiar with full HD/1080p, it’s a great resolution and has been with us for a very long time. The pixel density at 27″ means this monitor looks super clean and sharp overall. Great for reading eTeknix.

Even at this size, I think it handles dual windows rather well too.

For movies, the black levels on the monitor are really good. Of course, the 144hz isn’t much good to improve films, but it does mean less ghosting between frames, and 24fps movies don’t suffer from frame loss, as 6 x 24 = 144.