In static image quality terms, you’d have to class the AOC G2590PX G2 as moderate going on mediocre. Whatever you are viewing, with Full HD it will be displayed in rich detail without requiring a high-end graphics card or consuming a lot of your system’s resources. FreeSync Premium ensures a high refresh rate of at least 120Hz, as well as low framerate compensation for AMD graphics cards. Less impressive are the built-in speakers, which sound about as good as a pair of in-ear headphones rattling around a table top. Joseph has probably spent thousands of hours learning about displays in his free time and prior work experience at HP.

The monitor has red accents which although not overbearing, definitely hint towards a gamer aesthetic. With Full HD resolution, you get a decent pixel density with crisp details, sharp text, and a fair amount of screen real estate. A vital part of this is having a fast monitor that can reproduce with fidelity the movement of characters on your screen.On this episode of “I am way too OCD about the smoothness of my mouse feet”, I decided that perhaps there is a simple solution to making your mouse glide faster and smoother for pennies.

Granted there’s no USB Type-C connectivity, but then hooking up an ultrabook laptop is not exactly the standard usage model for esports. But at CES, Nvidia announced it was unlocking its GPUs to enable support for FreeSync, making the feature much more appealing.In the worst-case scenario, you can simply turn the monitor itself a bit which is not a big deal for most people. Pressing it down places a red ‘Dial Point’ fixed crosshair while pressing it to left opens the ‘Game Mode’ presets (FPS, Racing, RTS, and three customizable Gamer profiles). Erleben Sie extrem flüssiges und störungsfreies Gaming – und zwar unabhängig von der vorhandenen GPU.

In other words, high refresh rates (144Hz here), low input lag and adaptive frame synching, among other features. Indeed, most gamers will find the sweet spot to be a budget-friendly 1080p, 144Hz, 1ms response time monitor like the AOC G2590FX. The AMD FreeSync Technology ensures that the GPU’s and monitor’s refresh rates are synchronised, which provides a smooth, tear free gaming experience.Digital Video Interface was developed to replace VGA as a standard as we were moving away from analog to digital.