Amazon Basics 27-inch Gaming Monitor, FHD 1080P, 165 Hz, VESA Compatible, Adaptive sync, 1 ms response, Black

Great value, surprisingly good quality!
Fantastic monitor for the money. Even though it’s only 1080p at 27” the image is superb. The high refresh rate is perfect for my use case (mostly rhythm games which require high refresh rate). I did have to create a custom resolution in nvidia control panel to get it to run at 165hz but that is not an issue with the monitor it is a quirk of running multiple monitors at different refresh rates.The colour accuracy is really good, surprisingly good for such an affordable panel.It does have built in speakers (not the best but in fairness no built in speakers are ever very good) that’s a nice bonus but not a selling point, the refresh rate, viewing angle and colour accuracy are the selling point at a astonishing price for what it is.Would also be really good in a virtual pinball build as playfield display….

Faulty screen with stickers unremovable
In the 2 corners of the screen a 1BD0802 and a 1BD2628 text is flashing constantly and cannot get rid of it via any settings change. In addition, the edge of the screen cover is full of small bubbles and they sticked the yellow sticker to the screen and it took ages to remove and still you can see its place.Do not order this product, if you want to save a headache. Rather spend £10-15 more and get a decent quality and packaged monitor.

You get what you pay for.
Nice looking matte finish monitor but you get what you pay for, my 1st order had a dead pixel in the lower right corner, had a replacement sent out to me the following day and that arrived with a dead pixel in the middle of the screen….Ended up keeping the original since it was in a less inconvenient place and sent back the replacement, and was given a partial refund.Besides that issue its not a bad monitor, 165hz as stated, nice and bright, hdr, very thin bezel, not a bad stand, but again you are getting what you paid for, lucky for me it was to replace a 2nd monitor not my main one, i just didnt want the hassle of trying for a 3rd replacement and have the hassle of more returns.Buy with caution.

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I purchased the 27″ variant when it was on special offer for less than 73 squid. These notes are in addition to the other reviews for the same monitor.I looked at the monitor and shipping box. There is no clue as to who manufactured this monitor for Amazon. I don’t think it is AOC because of the joystick menu control and the design of the stand. The build quality is remarkably good. The stand has a large a large foot print.The monitor is supplied with a 12v @ 3.7A power adapter with a standard 2.1/5.5mm barrel plug.The front of the screen is covered with a large protection film, and there are a further three 3cm wide strips protecting the sides of the plastic bezel. The feint dot matrix numerals reported by other buyers on the screen is actually printed on the protection film.I forgot to buy a Display Port cable, and so all testing was completed using HDMI cables. Windows 10 and the monitor both reported 165 Hz. I am using a MSI RTX 4060 Ventus gpu.I haven’t noticed any backlight bleed around the edge of the screen as reported by another 27″ owner in normal use.The computer is used in a dimly lit room. I had to lower the Brightness setting from 80 to 18, kept Contrast at 50, and changed Colour Space to Standard.Picture quality of Youtube and other 1080p videos look okay to me. I was worried about poor contrast and black crush with the IPS panel, but it is not as bad as I feared.I tried the testufo dot com test with ‘Ghosting/Pursuit camera’ setting. At 165 Hz, it looked very good. Far better than anything I’d seen on 32″ LED TV I had been using and my other Benq 24″ 60 Hz VA monitor.The built in speakers are not the best, but is usable. I connected a set of Creative Labs T10 speakers to the headphone jack socket of the monitor.I’m no expert when it comes to games. I tried F1 24 on PC. At 60 fps with VSync enabled, the ghosting I was seeing on the VA TV screen is gone. At 120 fps in the game, ‘wow’ what a difference the higher refresh rate makes.Unlike F1 24, I observed with Euro Truck Simulator 2, the monitor’s refresh rate does not match the game settings. eg. if I enable VSync and set the refresh rate to 60 Hz in the game, the monitor still reports 165 Hz (as set in Windows display properties). Tinkering with nvidia control panel doesn’t make any difference. I read it may be attributed to the game using a very old graphics engine.I discovered that G-Sync with nvidia RTX gpu only works with DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 2.1. The monitor is only rated at HDMI 2.0. I’m currently awaiting delivery of a new DP cable to test VRR later.I briefly tested a PS4 Pro and observed the monitor is receiving a 4k video signal. I changed the PS4 to output 1080p and I think turned off HDR.Update:A pair of new DisplayPort cables 5 days later. Make sure the DP plug is pushed fully into the DP socket. The cables I purchased don’t have the optional latch, so I didn’t realise the plug wasn’t fully inserted when I was wondering why the video signal sometimes disappeared.I was able to find and enable G-Sync in the nvdia control panel.For ETS2, when I disable VSync and enable the monitor’s OSD to show the refresh rate on top right corner of the screen, I can see it fluctuating around ’60’. Previously, it was fixed ‘165’. I no longer see screen tearing with VSync disabled.With F1 24, I am using DLSS DLAA with FrameGen Enabled, RT effects turned off with 120 fps set in nvdia control panel and in-game for my i5-12400f/RTX4060.I learned enabling VSync in nv control panel allows the monitor to ‘fall back’ on using VSync when monitor is operating outside the VRR range of GSync capability of the monitor.In Flight Simulator 2020, I’ve previously had to enable VSync to lock it to 60fps, otherwise the graphics stutters when panning the external camera 360 degrees. I can now disable VSync and set the maximum fps to 60 in the nvidia control app.