£139 AOC 27G4ZR IPS 1080p 260HZ Gaming Monitor | 2 Weeks Later — Transcript

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1. 0:00Yo, what's going on people? It's manlike
2. 0:02Jamal back again with another gaming
3. 0:04monitor review. This one's from the guys
4. 0:06at AOC. It's their 27 G4 Z R, 27-in
5. 0:111080p fast IPS, easy overclock to 260
6. 0:17hertz. Let's see what this thing is
7. 0:20saying for the e-sports warriors.
8. 0:22>> [music]
9. 0:28>> Now, just in case it's the first time on
10. 0:30the channel, people, quick disclaimer,
11. 0:32this was sent to me for free directly
12. 0:34from the guys at AOC just for review
13. 0:37purposes. It goes straight back to them
14. 0:40after I'm done and they don't get to see
15. 0:43any of this content before it goes live.
16. 0:46So, now with that being said, let's get
17. 0:48into what makes this thing special.
18. 0:50Starting off with the unboxing, pretty
19. 0:51much simple procedure. Obviously, you
20. 0:53get the monitor, the stand, the arm. You
21. 0:55get a HDMI, DisplayPort cable, and you
22. 0:58get the little power cable to plug it
23. 1:00in. Port selection on the back ain't
24. 1:02saying a lot, fam. Literally, one
25. 1:04DisplayPort, two HDMIs, and the little
26. 1:073.5 mm headphone jack, which you're
27. 1:09going to need because there are no
28. 1:11speakers built into this thing. You do
29. 1:13get a little hole in the monitor stand
30. 1:16for cable management though, in case
31. 1:17you're looking for that. Now, I'm
32. 1:19actually kind of impressed with the
33. 1:20viewing angles. Like, the same kind of
34. 1:22color quality that you get from sitting
35. 1:25dead set in the middle of the front of
36. 1:27the monitor, you get that from the sides
37. 1:29of the monitor, you get that from above
38. 1:31the monitor, from below the monitor.
39. 1:33Basically, [music] as long as you're in
40. 1:35front of the monitor, you're not going
41. 1:36to get any color degradation or any
42. 1:39brightness degradation [music] in the
43. 1:40picture you're seeing. Now, the stand
44. 1:43that you get inside the box is actually
45. 1:44pretty decent in terms of the way you
46. 1:47can maneuver it, fam. Like, you got the
47. 1:49up and down thing, [music] you've got
48. 1:50the swivel left and right thing, you've
49. 1:53got the diagonal rotational situation,
50. 1:56you've got the tilt backwards, tilt
51. 1:58forwards. You've got all that good stuff
52. 2:01just on the default stand from. So,
53. 2:03you're pretty much good to go.
54. 2:05Just wanted to quickly jump into Windows
55. 2:07display settings to make sure that the
56. 2:08specs on the box are actually the specs
57. 2:10on the monitor itself. And yes, we got
58. 2:131080p 260 Hz. So, it must mean that the
59. 2:16overclock mode [music] is already on cuz
60. 2:18it's supposed to be natively 240 Hz. But
61. 2:21we'll check that out later on. Now, as I
62. 2:23said before, this thing is an IPS panel
63. 2:26from. So, obviously, the color, the
64. 2:28saturation, the brightness, the darks,
65. 2:30the contrast is not supposed to be as
66. 2:33good as an OLED panel. But I keep saying
67. 2:36every video from, IPS panels have gotten
68. 2:40so good, sometimes I can't even tell
69. 2:43that they're IPS. And this is an example
70. 2:45of one of those panels from. Colors look
71. 2:48wicked, contrast looks wicked, dark
72. 2:50areas, bright areas, all that looks
73. 2:53really good regardless of whether you're
74. 2:54playing console, PS5, Nintendo, or
75. 2:58you're doing something on PC. Even a
76. 3:00little pixel game like Mirror the
77. 3:02Hollower looks really good on this
78. 3:05screen from. So, just in terms of the
79. 3:07people that want something that looks
80. 3:09good at 1080p, this monitor is
81. 3:12definitely one of those for me
82. 3:14personally.
83. 3:15Now, one of the best ways to see how
84. 3:16fast a monitor is is to play fast games.
85. 3:19So, that's why man's on that Race Driver
86. 3:21Grid. Furthermore, I would down with you
87. 3:23that Race Driver Grid. Codemasters
88. 3:26racing games are the je ne sais quoi of
89. 3:29racing games on console cuz like they've
90. 3:33just got that perfect blend of racing
91. 3:35simulator and racing arcade. Like it's
92. 3:39just fun from and it just looks good.
93. 3:41The frame rate's nice. You're getting
94. 3:43good good latency on this, which is what
95. 3:46you need for racing games anyway. So,
96. 3:48perfect for any racing game you're going
97. 3:50to play basically. Again, sticking with
98. 3:53gaming kind of thing, eSports warrior
99. 3:55kind of thing. We got to play some
100. 3:57Street Fighter 6, even Tekken 8 would
101. 3:59have done from. You need to know that
102. 4:03the response time on these monitors is
103. 4:06good enough for you to lay the smack
104. 4:09down on your favorite fighting game.
105. 4:12Now, bear in mind these fighting games
106. 4:14only go up to 60 frames per second from.
107. 4:16So, basically mostly overkill for this
108. 4:20monitor which does 260 frames per
109. 4:22second. However, again, that response
110. 4:25time needs to feel perfect from. You
111. 4:29need to be able to be comfortable enough
112. 4:31to know that you can put the work on
113. 4:33someone on one of these fighting games
114. 4:35because they're frame by frame. Do you
115. 4:38get it from? You need to know exactly
116. 4:41what you're doing, especially when it
117. 4:42gets up to those competitive levels.
118. 4:44Now, for the keyboard and mouse
119. 4:46warriors, the proper eSports warriors,
120. 4:48all them guys there, you'll be happy to
121. 4:51know that your Counter-Strike 2 [music]
122. 4:53goes up to 260 frames per second on this
123. 4:57thing. And whilst my skill level is
124. 5:00nowhere near good enough to show you the
125. 5:02benefits of that higher refresh rate, I
126. 5:05can definitely report that the game felt
127. 5:09fluidly fast from. It felt super
128. 5:12responsive. Every little mouse flick,
129. 5:15every little bits that I'm walking up
130. 5:17and down and them kind of thing there,
131. 5:19clicking the mouse button and seeing the
132. 5:22trigger, all that response time, all
133. 5:24that FPS, obviously this is the game for
134. 5:29that higher reaction time from.
135. 5:32Especially you're seeing lots of CS: GO
136. 5:342 people them doing their thing now on
137. 5:37the eSports warrior scene. This this one
138. 5:39it felt perfect for it. Definitely felt
139. 5:41perfect for it. And especially cuz it's
140. 5:421080p and that 27-in, I thought that
141. 5:45[music] this for me probably would have
142. 5:47been the perfect size for me to go. How
143. 5:49I actually didn't do too bad
144. 5:51>> [music]
145. 5:51>> in the lobby even though I think it was
146. 5:52a bot lobby in the end. But um yeah,
147. 5:56basically let me not digress, fam.
148. 5:58CS: GO 2 definitely looks and feels
149. 6:02really good and really responsive on
150. 6:05this monitor, fam. Definitely happy with
151. 6:07how that felt. Now, although everything
152. 6:10about this monitor is screaming e-sports
153. 6:13warrior, super high refresh rates, super
154. 6:16high frames per second, super low
155. 6:19latency, and all that kind of good
156. 6:21e-sports warrior stuff, this monitor is
157. 6:24actually still pretty sick for your
158. 6:27chilled out one player games, your
159. 6:29chilled out story games. Man might even
160. 6:31do a farming sim on this kind of thing.
161. 6:33Do you get it? Like it's it's actually
162. 6:35quite good. I'm just playing a little
163. 6:36bit of Horizon [music] and it looks
164. 6:39decent. And that's bearing in mind that
165. 6:41it's at 1080p. And because it's at
166. 6:431080p, I can max out those graphical
167. 6:46video settings if I'm playing on PC. If
168. 6:50I'm playing on console, obviously it
169. 6:51doesn't really matter kind of thing. And
170. 6:53there's always the debate of does 1080p
171. 6:56look good enough to have fun?
172. 6:59I I still feel it looks pretty decent
173. 7:00and I'm sitting maybe less than a meter
174. 7:03away from the monitor itself. So it's
175. 7:05not like I can see the pixels. But on a
176. 7:07game like this, I mean see for yourself
177. 7:09kind of thing. The camera is literally
178. 7:12probably at the same distance that I'm
179. 7:13sitting away from the monitor itself.
180. 7:16And this 1080p monitor looks really
181. 7:19good. Let me know if you guys also
182. 7:22[music] feel like that. Maybe maybe it's
183. 7:23because I'm looking at it through the
184. 7:25preview on this video editing thing.
185. 7:27But yeah, man. Now 1080p actually looks
186. 7:30really good.
187. 7:32Almost forgot to show you guys the
188. 7:34in-screen monitor settings menu. You've
189. 7:36got color balance on there. You've got
190. 7:39language. You've got lots of different
191. 7:41options of how you want the display to
192. 7:44look. So, you can go and customize that
193. 7:46to your heart's [music] content.
194. 7:47Brightness, color, saturation, all that
195. 7:50good stuff that you usually would have
196. 7:52on a monitor, let alone any other gaming
197. 7:55monitor. So, um yeah, man. Definitely
198. 7:57will have a little fiddle through that.
199. 7:59I almost forgot to mention that if you
200. 8:01want to overclock this monitor from 240
201. 8:03[music] Hz native to 260 Hz overclocked,
202. 8:08you can do that in this menu. It's
203. 8:11literally a flick of a button, fam.
204. 8:13Like, I've never known how to overclock
205. 8:15monitors in the past. I thought you had
206. 8:17to go into like the settings through the
207. 8:19monitor or something like that, like how
208. 8:21you'd overclock a PC. But, um the fact
209. 8:24that this has the overclocking utility
210. 8:27built into the monitor settings
211. 8:29basically meant that I had 260 Hz
212. 8:32outside of the box. I don't know why I
213. 8:35would want to go down to 240 Hz.
214. 8:37So, um yeah, I'm going to leave that as
215. 8:39it is.
216. 8:40Now, at less than 150 pound, I think
217. 8:45personally it's a lot of monitor for the
218. 8:49price. You're getting 240 Hz native,
219. 8:52which you can literally switch to 260 Hz
220. 8:57via the in-screen monitor menu. You've
221. 9:00got your two HDMI's there in the back,
222. 9:02DisplayPort, 3.5 mm. Would have been
223. 9:06nice to have a speaker in this out, fam.
224. 9:10That That would have been good. Um it
225. 9:12also would have been nice to have
226. 9:13[music] a USB hub in this monitor.
227. 9:16Again, I get it. The price point is very
228. 9:18low, but if you managed to put those
229. 9:20features on a monitor at this price
230. 9:23point, I think we're onto a winner, fam.
231. 9:26We're We're definitely onto a category
232. 9:29winner. But, as it is, as a decent 1080p
233. 9:32260 Hz eSports warrior monitor for under
234. 9:36150,
235. 9:38Not bad. I'm I'm game. Like maybe three
236. 9:40of these in your setup, you're pretty
237. 9:42much good to go and you're not breaking
238. 9:44the bank. But, let me know, [music]
239. 9:48more importantly, what you guys think in
240. 9:52the comment section below, fam. Like,
241. 9:54[music] would you go for a monitor like
242. 9:56this? Let me know and hopefully I catch
243. 9:58you in the next one.