The Lagom text appeared quite a blended grey throughout the screen, with a dark red striping to the text introduced further down and a bit towards the left side. The images below show the refresh rates supported for the native 1920 x 1080 (Full HD or 1080p) resolution. This is a strobe backlight setting that causes the backlight to pulse at a frequency matching the refresh rate of the display – 120Hz, 144Hz or 165Hz. This ‘IPS glow’ was at a moderate if slightly below average level for a screen of this size but is brought out more strongly if you sit closer to the screen, use a higher brightness setting or have a unit with significant dark uniformity issues such as backlight bleed and clouding.

The resulting gamut was very similar to that shown above with the AMD tweak – this is expected given it uses the same data from the EDID of the monitor. As usual, we tested various titles using AMD FreeSync and experienced similar things across all of these.Most content on platforms such as Netflix and YouTube in particular is designed around the 16:9 aspect ratio of this monitor and wouldn’t have black bars when viewed full screen. The horizontal scan rate/frequency shows the number of horizontal lines, displayed by the monitor per second, when it is plugged to a digital source. The frame rate of the content itself rather than weaknesses related to the pixel responses of the monitor are really the key barrier to visual fluidity here. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Box Limited acts as a broker and offers finance from PayPal Credit. As usual we found this a compromised setting as the backlight is adjusting as a single unit and can’t account for the mixtures of light and dark that grace most scenes.

Your warranty applies when the product has been handled properly for its intended use and in accordance with the operating instructions. million colours Colour Gamut 126% sRGB (CIE 1931), 94% Adobe RGB (CIE 1931) Response Time 4 ms (grey-to-grey) Vertical Refresh Rate 48 - 165 Hz Horizontal Refresh Rate 30 - 200 kHz Gaming Yes Horizontal Viewing Angle 178 Vertical Viewing Angle 178 Backlight Technology WLED OSD Languages Czech, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean Features Game mode, FPS Mode, Flicker Free technology, RTS Mode, AOC Shadow Control, Low Input Lag, Racing Mode, Low Framerate Compensation (LFC), AOC Game Color, Low Blue Light technology, 3-sided frameless Colour Black, red Dimensions (WxDxH) 53. We explore the ‘Game Mode’ presets briefly in the OSD video, but for this section we’ll focus on various manual adjustments instead.

Some greens were brought out quite strongly, particularly yellowish greens which appeared more yellow. It would’ve been nice if these could be quickly cycled or enabled and disabled without entering the main menu, but they’re still quite easy to access. We’ve also included the refresh rate used in Windows and our preferred ‘Overdrive’ setting used for most of the review, just for reference.