You could make a video that you’re watching on a webpage or an in-game map stand out more, for example. Due to a production fault with our review unit these were printed onto a temporary sticky label but on actual production models they are printed properly printed onto the bottom bezel. This allows you to select a rectangular portion of the screen and independently set its brightness and contrast. The i2369Vm’s slim IPS panel is just 14mm deep and its slim matt silver stand and lower bezel look smart with its frameless display.

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This monitor doesn’t actually have any real ‘presets’ to speak of, which we don’t feel is necessarily a bad thing. Although not fans of dynamic contrast modes this is one of the more flexible and usable ones we’ve seen. The contrast performance very good by many measures and essentially up there with many of the stronger IPS panels we’ve seen. The highest white luminance, lowest black luminance and highest contrast ratio recorded are highlighted in black.

The table below gives readings for white point, average central gamma and some general observations for each ‘Gamma’ setting. Although felt responsiveness is determined by other factors as well (such as refresh rate) that’s certainly one less thing for gamers to worry about. In this snapshot you can see a sharpening and brightening of the trail – indications of moderate overshoot.

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People don’t tend to spend a lot of time staring at a black screen in a dark room, so it’s important to consider the uniformity of lighter colours as well. The maximum luminance recorded was spot on the 250 cd/m2 specified whilst the minimum white luminance recorded was 76 cd/m2. Traditionally the monitor of known input lag is a CRT display that does no image processing and can be considered input lag free. You can’t change the brightness, contrast or gamma mode with this feature enabled but can access all other adjustments. Instead of testing these out we tested its 3 ‘Gamma’ settings and maintained default settings elsewhere.Switching to ‘Gamma2’ knocks off the balance a little by intensifying light shades at the expense of dark shades. As usual for an IPS panel you get 178 degree viewing angles whilst AOC also provide grey to grey acceleration with a quoted 5ms grey to grey response time. A higher pixel density translates into more clarity and sharpness for the images rendered on the screen, thus improving the quality of the viewing experience.

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Towards the corners of the screen, and to a lesser extent the central flanks, PS glow drowned out some this detail. Uniformity can vary between units but this is very pleasing to see for any class of monitor, not least a budget model. The ‘Strong’ setting gives significant overshoot and as demonstrated by PixPerAn is not a suitable setting to use really. The last pattern was very faintly visible but largely drowned out by the slight grain from the screen surface.Switching gamma mode had no detrimental impact here with 1055:1 recorded under ‘Gamma2’ and 1064:1 using ‘Gamma3’. If you want to avoid having to do these little tweaks in the graphics driver then make use of the monitor’s DisplayPort. If you’re looking for a low-cost, high-quality monitor then you really need look no further than AOC’s superb i2369Vm.

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Skin tones, most of the greens of vegetation and the brickwork of buildings also showed appropriate tone and saturation. The i2369Vm is part of AOC’s value range of monitors, but this 23in monitor looks anything but budget. The ‘neon’ in game markers and bright elements such as fires and flares didn’t have the sort of ‘pop’ you might see on a glossy screen but still looked fairly vibrant. Resolution is an essential indicator of a screen's image quality, representing the maximum amount of pixels that can be shown on the screen. The image below shows the colour gamut of the monitor under our test settings (red triangle) compared to the sRGB reference (green triangle).Due to the ‘ultra wide’ aspect ratio there were black bars around 30mm thick at the top and bottom of the screen. Here there was a significant level of blur – but no real weaknesses that you wouldn’t observe on even the fastest 60Hz LCDs. We used some familiar desktop backgrounds, icons and a range of familiar applications (including the Lagom.