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Used for: More than a year
Faultless for eighteen months
Heavy matte coating dulls whites
The panel has been faultless and I still use it for anything competitive. One star off for the coating, which is a heavy matte that takes the edge off everything. Whites look slightly grey and small text has a soft halo. You stop noticing after a while, but eighteen months in it is still the first thing I would change.
Used for: More than a year
Easy frames at 380Hz because the resolution is modest
1080p on a 27 inch panel looks soft up close
Bought as a dedicated esports screen and it has done exactly the job. 1080p across 27 inches is not sharp, and I knew that going in. What you get instead is a card that can hold 380fps in the games I play without dropping settings to the floor, and motion that stays readable during a fast strafe. For anything competitive that trade is worth making. Fifteen months in, that trade still looks like the right one. For everything else I use the laptop.
Used for: Less than a month
Plug in and 380Hz is just there, no driver wrangling
Pixel structure is visible on text at desk distance
Built a new machine and this was the panel I paired with it, having decided that at 27 inches I would rather have frames than pixels. Setting it up took ten minutes. The stand clips on without tools, DisplayPort cable is in the box, and 380Hz appeared in the Windows display settings straight away without any of the messing about with driver overrides I have had on other panels. In use it is startling if you are coming from 60Hz. Moving the mouse pointer across the desktop looks like a solid object rather than a series of stills, and in game the difference during fast turns is not subtle at all. The caveats are honest ones. Sat at a normal desk distance you can see the pixel structure on text, and the viewing angles wash out slightly if you stand up and look down at it.
Used for: 3–6 months
Overdrive is tuned properly across the whole sync range
The standout is the motion handling rather than the raw number. Whatever GAMEON have done with the overdrive tuning, the transitions are clean at every point in the sync range rather than only at the top, so frames in the 200s look as tidy as frames near 380. Four months in I have not touched the overdrive since the first evening!
Used for: More than a year
Fifteen months without a single fault
Colour work is not what it is for
No dead pixels, no dimming, no dodgy ports, and nothing at all has gone wrong. Fifteen months of near-daily use and it is still exactly as it was. It is a one-trick monitor and the trick is speed. If you want something to edit photos on, look elsewhere, but for pure frame rate it is remarkable value!
Used for: Less than a month
Pointless RGB on the rear
The only thing I would moan about is the RGB strip on the back, which serves nobody
Used for: 3–6 months
A midrange card can actually reach the refresh rate
Chunky text and a tilt-only stand
This lives in a shared house setup and it has become the screen everyone wants a go on. The reason is simple. At 1920x1080 even a midrange card gets nowhere near the panel limit, so you are actually seeing 300 plus frames rather than reading a number on a box. With the overdrive on normal there is no smearing and no purple halo behind moving objects, which is more than I expected from a Fast IPS panel at this price. The compromises are where you would expect. Text is chunky at this pixel density, the stand only tilts, and the plastic on the back is the cheap-feeling sort. None of that matters at eye level in a game.
Used for: Less than a month
External power brick is huge
No complaints about the picture, but the power brick is an enormous external lump