[Cesar]

Hello,

I would like to know if you can recommend me a monitor, I have a specific problem to find one that have 1.77165 inch (4.5 cm) maximum of thickness (without the holder), and not curved.

It’s really hard to find this measure, I hope you can help me with your experience.
Ideally I search for a 27″ with 100 Hz or more, 3000:1 contrast and 2ms or less time response, 1440p resolution and less than 400$. I find some of them but they all seems to be very thick but I am not sure :-/

Also I really enjoy your reviews on youtube, your recommendations are really helpful 🙂

Thanks a lot.

[PCM2]

Hi Cesar,

I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad you find the content helpful.

I have to say this is a very tricky one because, as you say, it’s very difficult to find screen thickness (excluding stand) as a measurement. It is sometimes embedded in the specifications as part of a measurement ‘without stand’, but not always. It’s also challenging to accurately measure, which is why in reviews we take the measurement at the thinnest point of the screen and quote that. It’s also not something most people will need to consider, which is probably why manufacturers don’t tend to specify this. Are you planning to wall mount the screen? To give you an idea, the AORUS FI27Q-X I’m currently using has reasonably slender to average overall screen thickness and seems to be very close to 4.5cm thick. I think you’d probably find quite a few models around this size, but there will be a bit of variance either side. And having a curve would indeed increase the maximum bulk of the screen and make it less suitable if you’re looking to mount it as close to a wall as possible.

Aside from screen thickness, your requirements are a bit muddled I have to say. Because you seem to be seeking good responsiveness yet also a high contrast ratio. With your budget and requirements in mind you simply can’t have both and as you’ll know from our reviews and other content you shouldn’t pay much attention to specified response times. They give a terribly misleading indication of real-world performance. You will have to make a sacrifice one way or the other, either a responsive IPS model or a high contrast VA model, really. The appropriate choice would depend on your intended uses for the screen and personal preferences. And the VA route is awkward as they’re generally curved.

[Cesar]

Thanks for your answer,

For the story, I will need to move my workstation quite often so I am making a transportable workstation that have to to fit in the flight case I use, and it only have 4.5 cm space in height available

Indeed, it’s a bit hard to measure this thick point, I did not expected that the AORUS FI27Q-X-EK to be 4.5 cm ! The price is a bit high (700 $) but it means that the FI27Q version of 500 $ would be the same thickness, in theory.

I think that extra thickness is caused by the back leds decoration that I really don’t need, so I was looking at the other AORUS models like the M27Q. It seems thiner (and more affordable (330 $)), do you think ?

[PCM2]

Yes, this is what I was getting at really. The FI27Q-X is a model you wouldn’t expect to be all that slim but it’s still reasonably slender if you measure it (or at least try to – I think the quick release mechanism would make it a bit thicker than 4.5cm actually). But there are plenty of models that are slimmer. Using it as a reference I would indeed agree that the M27Q will be slimmer. The LEDs don’t take up much space on the AORUS models, the main reason the M27Q is slimmer is because it has an external power adaptor (‘power brick’). Note that the M27Q is a Gigabyte model but not an AORUS model.

Edit: Gigabyte does list this as a depth measurement without stand it seems – 42.22mm for the M27Q and 60cm for the FI27Q-X. Must be partly due to those little protrusions where the stand would attach on the AORUS. And also shows why I don’t try to measure such things myself. 😉

[Cesar]

Oh, that’s very interesting, about the power adaptor. I find on the net that the M27Q have a 4.3 cm panel thickness so I guess it’s my choice so far. I will continue to search screens that have external power adaptor, it definitely makes sense.
Thanks

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