AOC Q27P3QW QHD IPS Home Office Monitor Review

Performance

Powering on the display, my first impressions are really good, it’s actually really good at dealing with incoming sunlight and room lights, as it has a good anti-glare coating on the panel. However, it’s also plenty bright, offering up to 350 cd/m2 of brightness, so again, working in a bright room isn’t going to be a problem, but for most daily uses or use in a dim or dark room, you’ll likely want to turn that brightness down quite a bit to reduce eye strain.

I love the stand too, it may not be a super expensive monitor, but it has really good ergonomics, and while it doesn’t swivel, it’s easy enough to simply turn the whole monitor and stand. There’s 5° of forward tilt and an impressive 35° of backwards tilt, and a 150mm of height adjustment, which is more than enough to get a good viewing angle or turn your screen around to show someone the latest dank memes.

However, the best thing is that it can pivot 90°, allowing you to spin the monitor into portrait mode. This is excellent for using it as a secondary display off to the side, as you can view documents and websites with less scrolling, but it’s also surprisingly decent to use for video calls.

Speaking of which, the camera is decent, it’s 2MP and has a good bright image even in a dimly lit room, but like most cameras, it does deliver its best quality in a well-lit space. Either way, you’ll still likely have better video quality than anyone on your team calling from their work laptop. The built-in speakers are good too, good enough to handle calls, and the microphone is bright and clear too. For blasting Opeth it’s not great, but listening to the radio at low volumes worked well enough.

As far as testing goes, well, it’s an office monitor, so it’s not exactly built for gaming, but hey, I work from home, who’s going to stop me? At 2560×1440 the resolution is very good, and games do look very nice indeed, and while the refresh rate is only 75Hz, that’s still a nice uptick from 60Hz, and it does feel smoother as a result. However, if gaming is your focus, there are monitors from AOC for about the same price (and cheaper) with higher refresh rates at the same resolution.

The resolution and panel size work well for work though, and you can comfortably have two windows side by side and everything is still nice and clear to see.

Plus, the colours are really good too, with it rated to deliver 117% of sRGB, 84.2% of DCI P3, and 84.6% of AdobeRGB. It’s not built for professional colour-sensitive editing work, but for a bit of casual video and photo editing, it will certainly hold up well enough.