NZXT Canvas 27F 240Hz Full HD Gaming Monitor Review

Performance

In terms of ergonomics, the stand is pretty versatile. It offers -5°~+20° of tilt.

It can swivel 20°~-20° too, any more and you’ll need to turn the base of the stand too.

Plus, it has 90° of pivot and 120mm of height adjustment, so you can quickly get into and out of portrait mode should you need it.

The panel looks nice and vivid, with up to 400cd/m² brightness, it holds up really well in a sunny office space. Plus, the anti-glare matte finish does a good job of diffusing any reflections from the panel.

As for colour, it offers up an impressive DCI-P3 89%, sRGB 99%, which lends to rich-looking colours with great depth to them. The backlight isn’t causing any unwanted torching in the corners and it retains a good contrast overall too.

At 240Hz this panel is fast, you’ll find yourself making patterns with your mouse pointer and following it like a catch watching a laser pointer… or at least, that’s what I did. That wraps up the testing then!

Seriously though, at 240Hz the desktop experience is very nice. Scrolling reddit all morning when I should have been working was nice, and the clarity of memes while scrolling quickly is nice.

Getting games up to that speed though, that’s a different ball game. 240Hz is easy for a modern high-end graphics card, but as I’ve said before, it’s at higher refresh rates that games get tripped up by other elements that are CPU or even memory and storage bound.

So a very fast CPU is recommended if you want to play at such high refresh rates. However, as far as GPU goes, typically FHD 240Hz is the rendering equivalent of 4K60. This display does offer up FreeSync Premium and VESA DisplayHDR™ 400 technologies too though, which only improve the experience further.

Without a doubt though, all of these features come together in spectacular fashion. HDR, FreeSync Premium, 240Hz, good colour reproduction, good contrast levels, and bright backlight. Playing some Apex Legends things look superbly clear and vibrant, and the monitor is (unsurprisingly) exceptionally smooth.

BattleField 2042 reaps the high frame rate benefits too, albeit it is running on an RTX 4090 right now, but honestly, any fast-paced FPS game is going to benefit from the higher refresh rate. However, I wholeheartedly think around 140 FPS/Hz is more than enough for any serious gamer. So 120Hz, 144Hz, or 165HZ (that’s what I use) is plenty, it just is.

So why am I playing at 240Hz right now? Latency and response times. This is where we get into diminishing returns. Sure, it looks smooth as hell, but half this frame rate is hardly what I would call rough. However, those frame times are where the real pros seek to get the edge on their competition. If you can cut a few milliseconds down, it could be the difference in a podium finish or going back to the new game lobby.