AOC 24G2SPU 165Hz G-Sync Gaming Monitor Review

Performance

The colours on this panel are vibrant, with good peak whites and decent black levels. The monitor can hit about 250-nits brightness in SDR mode, and while it does have an HDR mode… meh, it’s nothing exciting given the edge-lit nature of the panel, so just leave it in the rather excellent SDR mode instead.

With a full HD panel, everything you would expect is easy to read and display. Websites are still built with 1920×1080 in mind, and it’s a resolution we’ve had as standard for over 15 years at this point.

The pixel density is superb, given it’s “only” a 24″ panel, so even sitting close to it, details on the display look excellent. Plus, the monitor handles motion really well thanks to its 165Hz refresh rate, FreeSync Premium and even G-Sync support.

The colours are surprisingly accurate and usable for content creation, making it a surprisingly adept work and office monitor too.

But when it comes to gaming, that’s where this budget gaming monitor really shines. Fast, smooth and colourful images abound, making it great for my daily dose of Starfield.

Halo really pops, and again, hitting 165 FPS+ to get the most out of a Full-HD monitor is pretty attainable for most modern gaming systems too, so you can really enjoy everything it has to offer without spending huge on a gaming PC.

Of course, taking pictures while gaming isn’t great for my teamwork skills, I died a lot.

Ratchet and Clank is a very colourful game, and honestly, pictures don’t do this panel justice, but it’s also a great high-refresh-rate game with lots of motion vectors going on at once, and again, this monitor handled it well. The overdrive modes work well enough too, but it can very from game to game, but I found just leaving it on the first or second setting generally netted a good result before any overshoot or ghosting became an issue.