24” 1080p 144hz IPS monitors are finally here!

Hey thank you for your feedback ! I’m glad to have bought the 24G2U !

It’s unlikely, I’m afraid. At least from the current batch of models. ASUS are very selective about the models they circulate samples for. And the Acer XV253Q P left me rather unimpressed with its motion performance when I used it at IFA. Far too much overshoot. It was actually more noticeable in practice than the pursuit photo below shows – it was really rather strong, and that’s at 144Hz. Without variable overdrive and Adaptive-Sync active, that’s going to lead to horrendous levels of overshoot at lower frame rates. There are only 3 pixel overdrive setting and you’re locked in the middle with Adaptive-Sync being used. I’ve had confirmation from a user in Taiwan that this is the same for retail units as well.

How much of this is down to Acer and their pixel overdrive tuning and what things would be like with looser pixel overdrive tuning is an open question. It would be nice to find out, but it isn’t something I’ll be able to confirm at the moment. If you look at the top row in the pursuit photo above, you’ll also notice a fair bit of conventional ‘powdery’ trailing rather than overshoot. It’s clear to me that the AOC 24G2(U) is better tuned and likely uses a natively more responsive panel. You have to ask yourself what you’re really going to be getting in return for buying one of the 24.5″ AUO models instead, oher than a lighter wallet.

Thanks for sharing your impressions on the 24G2(U), Turthog.

The colour shifts you’re observing, are you saying they only occur when you’re sitting in a dark room? ‘IPS glow’ and the behaviour of light in IPS-type panels can be a bit odd in darker viewing conditions. It can create some perceived shifts and these can also be exaggerated if the model exhibits uniformity issues. Which the 24G2(U) is far from immune from. I don’t agree that these shifts are anywhere near as pronounced as the shifts in gamma and saturation you’d see on TN models vertically or a VA model towards the bottom and sides of a screen. From ~75cm. I can still see how the shifts you’re perceiving could be bothersome, however.

I didn’t observe any horizontal lines on my unit with the monitor running below 100Hz. Although I very rarely had the monitor running at a static refresh rate below that, aside from for specific responsiveness testing and briefly at other times. I’ve seen this sort of thing on high refresh rate TN models before, if the lines move in a sort of wave-like fashion which you seem to describe. I didn’t observe this in-game either, although I did observe some strange interlace pattern artifacts in places. The horizontal lines could possibly manifest for similar reasons, but I’ve observed those wavy lines on other models before (on some units but not others) so it’s possible that yours is faulty. Flickering with Adaptive-Sync active can also be caused by voltage control imperfections and could potentially vary between units, but I really didn’t notice any on my unit. I spent most of my time testing with an Nvidia GPU and using ‘Nvidia G-SYNC Compatible Mode’. It would be odd if these were AMD-specific issues, though.

Really, it’s a budget monitor with many distinct strengths beyond even many more expensive models. I mean, it was more impressive in some respects than many more expensive models I’ve used. That doesn’t excuse “annoying issues”, although I do need to point out that the issues you’ve raised here haven’t been mentioned to me by others. The feedback on this model on my social channels and via email (plus some comments on the forum) have been largely very positive. But of course everything can’t be universally positive, that’s monitors (and life) for you.

ppn7, just to note the ‘Dawn’ image there is a banded source image. You will see some banding if it’s displayed correctly, particularly near the crescent. But I’m sure you can appreciate the difference between that and excessive banding, which you’d only observe on the AOC if gamma was poorly calibrated. Are the colour consistency issues you’re describing (from a normal viewing position) similar to those described in the review, particularly using Lagom as a reference? Because the slight darkening was something I observed as well and noted, but I wonder if it’s a separate issue to what Turthog is describing? Maybe I was just thrown by the “in darkness” comment when the shifts were being described. It’s also important to stress that the colour shifts from a normal viewing position (plus reasonable lighting) are in no way comparable to the shifts you’d see on VA on TN panels. Off-angle and observing in the dark is another matter, though. And I agree that there could be a definite hazing to the image there (which is stronger on this model than some).

Hi PCM2 & others,

Just wanted to chime in here with a few thoughts. I bought the AOC 24G2U/BK a few weeks back and overall I love it. Such a massive upgrade over my old AOC G2460PF. I don’t notice a downgrade in response, actually it’s better as there’s less inverse ghosting. Colours are really vivid and I don’t get the horrible washing out at the bottom that I get on the TN model. Contrast seems good as well, just a bit of IPS glow but no big isssues. Original plan was to use the monitors side by side but I think I’ll have to get another 24G2U instead. I just hate using the old monitor now.

I haven’t noticed any flicker issues on my RTX 2080. I don’t use the monitor at 60Hz but I sometimes have my frame rate drop below 100fps and haven’t noticed the horizontal lines either. I can’t believe how cheap this thing is. I was going to go for a 1440p but couldn’t justify the extra cost.

Ok, so good news for news for me, I did manage to kinda fix the horizontal lines, they are still present but a lot more fainter to the point they are almost not noticeable anymore. I want to share it to everyone so if they face the same issue hopefully this can help them.
All I did was simply change the GPU output to which the displayport cable was connected to, previously it was connected to the displayport output closest to the motherboard.
Apparently these lines seem to be caused by interference and this monitor (at least my unit) seems to be quite sensitive to it as I have never had a similar problem before.
I also ordered a new high quality displayport cable to hopefully further fix the issue.

On a side note, today I found out i got image burn in of the windows task bar, its icons, the chrome window, the youtube player and every rectangle (video) on its right.
The thing is I have never left any image/content running for a long period of time, the monitor even turns itself off after 5 minutes of inactivity.
It’s like as if the monitor took a screenshot and decided to keep displaying it, this is proven by the fact that i can pretty much see even the time on the task bar.
Hopefully this fixes itself in the next 1-2 days or i’ll have to give mr. Bezos a call.

Good to see you fixed the horizontal lines. I’m not using the DP for now but the HDMI and there is only one output on my GPU so… I keep the idea for next GPU.

Too bad for your image retention I hope it’s temporary !

Response time values for unspecified transition(s) are pretty meaningless, especially without accounting for overshoot. I’d be more interested in some pursuit photographs showing the VG259Q in action for all of the TestUFO transitions. You’re correct that the Acer has weaker pixel overdrive than the AOC, but I’m not sure how the ASUS fits in. If it reduces the ‘powdery trailing’ on the AOC without replacing it with overshoot that would be very interesting.

I’d really like to see somebody like ViewSonic put the 24.5″ AUO panel through its paces, they’re usually very good with their pixel overdrive tuning. ASUS aren’t bad in that respect either, to be fair. It’s just unfortunate that they’re unlikely to have any review samples available as they’re so selective. Who knows, maybe AOC will launch a followup to the G2590PX with the 24.5″ IPS-type panel as well.

Hi,

I was trying to find AOC 24g2 on Amazon(United States), but can’t find any by searching the model name or use the link at bottom of the review. I saw people in another post discussing 24″ips 144 monitors saying that the model is already out. Can somebody please help me out here.

Btw, thanks for the incredible detailed reviews, they were very helpful.

Hi I just picked up an Acer VG240Y Pbiip and the display itself, in my opinion, seems very good. However there’s two major flaws with it:

1) The stand is terrible. This can be rectified with a VESA mount well enough.

2) The real problem. User color modes will not reapply correctly when the monitor is powered on (either by button or even from sleep mode). I spent a lot of time calibrating my monitor to my preferences and if you change the Red, Blue, or Green gain those settings will not reapply once the monitor comes back on. It will say that those colors are applied, but they aren’t. An easy test it to set the red gain to 100 and then shut it off and back on again. It will reset to the default RGB gain but still say the red gain is 100.

If you change the red gain from 100 (say down to 99) it will then correctly apply all color changes.

To me this is unacceptable. I contacted Acer support and they want me to send the thing in for “repairs” which I guess is a firmware update which I also don’t know will solve the problem. I don’t want to spend the rest of my time with this monitor switching color modes literally every single time I turn the computer on.

It’s a shame too and I hope I get to keep this particular panel as the IPS glow on this unit seems to be even and not that noticable. I feel like, besides the ass firmware, I got really lucky with this panel. I just hope it doesn’t get damaged in shipping.

I make good money so being out a few hundred isn’t too bad for me. I will try to find an AOC 24G2 while this thing is in Acer repair hell.