A Closer Look
When you’re spending over £1000 on a 27-inch monitor, you no doubt want it to be one of the best-made and designed monitors you’ve ever seen in the past, present and future of your entire life. Fortunately, AOC is one of the biggest and the best in the world, and it really shows, as this monitor looks every bit as premium as its price tag.
The materials feel really robust, and actually, for a 27-inch monitor, it feels pretty heavy overall. That big backlight array is a lot of hardware, and there’s likely a significant heatsink component too, ensuring everything stays performing at its best.
The extra hardware does mean it’s a bit thicker than most, but that’s hardly a deal breaker, and it’s not like it’s built like a CRT monitor or anything, so wall mounting it is still going to look great.
The AGON series is the flagship gaming division for AOC and has pretty much always deployed the classic PC gaming black and red aesthetic. However, from the front, the only red is this little AGON logo.
Around the back, however, there’s plenty more red to be seen, with some RGB lit aggressive shapes on the sides, a much larger AGON logo at the top, and red details on the robust-looking stand. Will this be to everyone’s taste? I doubt it, but I think it looks pretty awesome.
The stand is gorgeous though, with a really nice overall finish, but also a rather nice design too. It’s pretty robust, which helps keep the heavy monitor much more stable, and it uses a wide tripod design.
The monitor is mounted using a bracket that has more movement than it looks, offering a good range of height adjustment; here it is at the lowest setting.
And of course, here it is at the highest settings.
There’s 20° swivel from this adjustable mount too, which also allows for some forward and backward tilt.
Furthermore, despite looking rather rigid, the mount even allows you to put the monitor in portrait mode.
Tucked into the side, you’ll find this little pull out arm, allowing you to hang your headset on the monitor.
One of the biggest quirks of this monitor, however, is the built-in projector… nope, that’s not a typo.
There’s a little slider, it changes the picture!
Not a death ray though, I’m totally safe.
Finally, there’s also a built-in four-port USB hub with KVM switching functionality too.
Finally… the power brick is more of a power breezeblock. That’s all I can really say about that beast.
