KTC H27T22C-3 Gaming Monitor Review

Do you know the random monitors that you see at Nevengga or Amazon? Those that look like a star value on paper? Are any of them really good? Or maybe they are in some way fundamental, and therefore ultimately a loss of money? At least for KTC H27T22C-3 I can answer this question. The risk of giving away too much, too early, is a decent 1440p game panel at a very attractive price.

Of course, rejection of KTC as a “random” brand may not be completely fair. According to the company’s website, it has 6,000 employees and offers a wide range of IPS, mini-subtrained and OLED. To be forthright, the very fact that they contacted us on PC Gamer and delivered this display to the review, suggests that they are seriously approaching the gaming market. You have the impression that KTC wants to be among the best PC game monitors.

In any case, KTC H27T22C-3 certainly looks like a perfect value-oriented game monitor on paper. Oh, and pay attention to the key “3” at the end. There are two previous models KTC H27T22C with lower refresh rates and brightness. This modern one is again a 27-inch 1440p model with an IPS panel, but with a refreshing 210 Hz, 450 brightness rivets and HDR400 support.

Still not quite spectacular numbers? No, but then you just look USD 160 to secure this monitor from NewEgg When I write these words. On our website the best offers for the game monitor there are cheaper 1440p panels. But it does not work with over 200 years senior Hz.

Of course, at this price point you cannot expect an absolutely full game monitor. KTC H27T22C-3 has one HDMI port constrained to 144 Hz, two DisplayPort inputs that will perform a full 210 Hz, 3.5 mm audio socket and all this. There is no USB-C or USB center.

Physically, the stand is also revealed by the cost of cutting costs. It only adjusts the inclination, not the height, rotary or rotating to the portrait mode.

To say, although the monitor chassis is plastic and seems a bit empty and skinny, the stand itself is at least all metal and super-supporting. It is quite well built for money.

And look. It is a monitor worth USD 160 with an IPS panel, refreshing 210 Hz and 410 pop backlight rivets. At this price, you just can’t expect luxuries, such as Thunderbolt and the USB center. And you certainly don’t need them to play on a computer computer.

Speaking about how this monitor really likes to utilize, and indeed, the game? After removing from the box, it is immediately impressive. It is a very vivid and sturdy panel and it is immediately obvious that it has IPS unlike the VA or TN panel. For the most part this is good news.

Watching angles are good and the colors of pop. In fact, the colors probably pop up a little too much in the “native” panel mode. It’s too saturated. Switch to SRGB, and this is a bit more correct, although the white balance is very slightly colored in the direction of green. As a reminder, this is your fate in terms of preliminary settings. Such as DCI-P3 and other pre-color settings are not supplied.

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To make it clear, these are great judgments. Factory calibration is not perfect. But it’s not terrifying. For the most part, this is only a lively, pleasant game panel. It is also quite speedy. The OSD menu offers three levels of Pixel overdrive. The highest is called “Ultra Fast” and is certainly an ultra -aggressive with the most obvious crossing and the opposite spirit I’ve seen for some time.

It is probably useless, but useful if you sometimes understand what pixels look like because it is quite exaggerated. The next level of “Advanced” probably still has too much exceeding for my taste. But the “standard” is nicely rated for perhaps the slightest breath of exceeding, but at high speed. In combination with a refreshing of 210 Hz, and therefore a fairly low delay, and you have a type of reaction and performance that would be very premium and much more pricey just a few years ago.

Of course, there are much faster displays in terms of refreshment. But for most ordinary 210 Hz mortals there are plenty of, even for online shooters. And to play in more demanding state-of-the-art games for one player, if your budget is below USD 200 per monitor, the chances that you do not have 1000 USD graphic processor, which in any case will be able to conduct Triple titles with well above 200 FPS.

If this is SDR experience, what about HDR? Like any HDR400 monitor, this is not a real HDR display. But he has a lot of pop. Indeed, they whisper, but in the vivid scenes of HDR in the fresh air it looks a little better than any OLED monitor.

OLED panels, even the latest ones, can not even reach 350 rivets to the full screen. This one will go over 100 lighter rivets and you can really see it in some game scenarios.

On the other hand, this monitor cannot show very lithe objects and very murky objects at the same time. Like all IPS panels, there is a constrained contrast and a lot of backlight bleeding. In addition, if you want this sturdy brightness of the full screen, you will have to endure washed black shades and lots of lithe bleeding in darker game scenes.

To say, it is impressive to notice that if SDR calibration at all is better in HDR mode than in SDR mode. If I used this monitor as my daily, I could start it well in HDR mode for this reason.

All this means that I was impressed by KTC H27T22C-3. It is not clearly different from most other IPS 1440p panels that I have seen recently. And this is a very complement.

Fear with a affordable monitor from a less known brand is that it may suffer from some or other really obvious flaws. Perhaps calibration is a mess, the overlap does not work or the backlight is terribly darkened. But nothing applies to it. This is not a perfect display, but there is a pretty good indicator. And in the context of the price it is quite damn brilliant.

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