AOC AGON PRO AG276FK Review

How much really, do you really care about delay and smoothness? AOC AGON PRO AG276FK hopes it’s a lot. Because this 520 Hz game monitor costs a lot, but it only gives a resolution of 1080p.

Prices in the USA have not yet appeared. But AOC AGON PRO AG276FK is about 500 pounds in Great Britain, which means a probable sticker in the amount of approximately USD 550. If so, it will be valued next to such as ASRock Phantom Gaming PG27FFX2Awhich is a dead bell according to most specification indicators.

We manage here the 27-inch IPS 1080p game monitor, which is clearly sold at a speed of speed. Along with the 520 Hz refresh rate that causes nose bleeding, AOC the response indicator of this monitor at 0.5 ms GTG and packed 0.3 ms for MPRT. It’s terribly rapid.

Such numbers rarely if you are well faced in reality. But they are useful as comparators, and AOC certainly positions this monitor as one of the fastest IPS panels. Of course, rapid for IPS is nothing for the OLED monitor, of which almost all are estimated at 0.03 ms, the order of faster size on paper. But then good luck finding the OLED 520 Hz monitor for 500 bucks. They barely exist at any price.

Elsewhere, AOC claims that this monitor is good for 400 rivets and has a HDR400 certificate. To make it clear, this is not a real HDR panel. There is no local darkening and is unable to render a high animated range. But correctly decide the HDR signal. It is almost better than nothing, especially considering that HDR Sizzle is really not what this monitor is about.

In addition to the high refresh rate, AOC justifies its price with a well -built, versatile stand, which offers a full range of adjustment, including height, tilting, agility and rotating. Design, AOC went on a bizarre asymmetrical atmosphere, slim frames on three sides of the 27-inch IPS panel, a little RGB lighting, as well as a retractable headphone hanger on the right frame.

In the case of connectivity, there are two DisplayPort 1.4 connections capable of maximum refresh rate of 520 Hz. It must be admitted that a pair of HDMI 2.0 sockets is only good for 240 Hz, but there are primarily for console communication, which requires only 120 Hz.

Rounding the basic functions is a comprehensive OSD menu, which includes over -control and low delay modes, plus the AOC Gmenu application, which provides access to most OSD functions in Windows.

Ultimately, there is nothing too exotic in this monitor on paper, refresh rate and reaction. So the question is how rapid it feels? Oh, and how bad 1080p looks on a relatively vast 27-inch panel?

To solve this second point, the pixel density works only up to 82 dpi. This week I was also playing one of the novel breed of 27-inch OLED panels. It offers more than twice as much as the DPI figure. And, boy, you can really see the difference. On the Windows desktop, the fonts look terrible, and the whole panel has a fairly pixel look.

In fact, the game is not so bad. Certainly it is not as pointed as the 27-inch 1440P monitor, not to mention 4K. But the level of details is tolerated. And, of course, the lower resolution means that you have a better chance of reaching a refresh rate of 520 Hz in terms of actual frame rates per second.

Well, much more chances in some games and with some graphic processors. Ultimately, it is a display designed for E -Sports, for online shooters. So you can press 520 FPS-Plus in something like Counter-Strike 2. But you will not see such a number of frames, say, Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tacing on, probably even from a really high-class NVIDIA GPU.

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Speaking of the NVIDIA GPU, the novel RTX 50 series with the technology of generating many frames will certainly aid to escalate the number of frames per second in some games of the carrier of this monitor refreshing indicator. The problem is that although you will receive smoothness of movement, you will not receive a second significant benefit of refreshing 520 Hz, namely low delay.

The delay depends completely on the fully rendering frames in the 3D pipeline, without guessing them with the aid of AI. So to get full benefit with AOC AGON PRO AG276FK, Frame Gen will not aid.

In any case, if you manage to get your favorite shooter, which runs about 500 Hz, the sense of immediate reaction is very sweet. I usually think that the returns decrease above 240 Hz. But really competitive Esports players will certainly appreciate how I immediately feel this panel in terms of response to the input data. This is quite electric.

The second factor in a sense of speed is, of course, the pixel reaction. Qualifications are needed here. In the case of the LCD monitor, this thing is really rapid. Four Pixel Overdrive levels are available in the OSD menu mentioned above. Fortunately, the fastest mode is actually useful.

This is not always the case. With many game panels, you’ll find that max overdrive mode is a mess and opposite ghosts. Here you can see a breath of exceedances when you move the application window on the Windows desktop. But it is really barely perceptible. Certainly there is a slight change in the color of the movement, something that can be quite distracting.

So this AOC is as rapid as the current LCD technology. What is not as rapid as OLED. Of course, even the cheapest OLED is about $ 100 more steep and will not approach $ 240. So to some extent you have to decide where your preferences are. Personally, I prefer a general compromise of the 240 Hz 1440p panel. But then I am not a really earnest lover of E -Sport. The days when I was really good with a counterattack are unfortunately behind me.

Apart from the speed, it is a very nicely calibrated monitor in SRGB SDR mode. It looks powerful and lively, the colors are true, it’s just a very nice belt that blocks the density of pixels. HDR mode is also well configuring, including nicely made sdr tones. So, if you want, you can leave this monitor in HDR mode all the time and get great image quality for all types of content.

Personally, I wouldn’t bother HDR at all. This is due to the fact that, as mentioned, this is not a real HDR monitor and where both SDR and HDR versions of any given content are available, there are no benefits when choosing the latter.

So saying that I feel quite prone to AOC AGON PRO AG276FK, even though it wasn’t my type of monitor. Nowadays I am not interested in E -Sports, so 240 Hz or later there is a lot for the immense majority of my games, and I prefer something with better pixel density.

But this is my firehouse and not necessarily yours. If yours actually strives to refresh Sky-High and Ultra Low delay, this AOC definitely provides and does it with excellent image quality, taking into account the limitations of this type of panel. This is not for me, this AOC. But if you seriously like E -Sport and do not care about the overall performance of Windows, it can simply be for you.