AOC C32G2 32 Curved Frameless Gaming Monitor FHD, 1500R Curved VA, 1ms, 165Hz, FreeSync, Height adjustable, 3-Year Zero Dead Pixel Policy, Black

AOC CU34G2X 34 Curved For gaming,this monitor rocks. Alot of games support 3440x1440. World of Warcraft/Warships, Division, Wildlands, etc. The features for this price point are impossible to find elsewhere...maybe a few more years and others will start coming down in price. Viewing the monitor at 3 feet or more, the curve is kind of annoying. But at 2 Feet and closer, it feels like it makes sense. I ran a free web based monitor test, and so far, all pixels are good and response times are as expected. Im ok with the stock color settings. Im keeping the original packing materials in case anything goes wrong and I need to rely on the manufacturer warranty. Mounting the base to the neck can be done with hand tightening nuts they include on the base. Mounting the monitor to the neck didnt require any tools. Super easy set-up. For comparison in the photo, the monitor next to it in the photo is a 24 1920x1080 Acer. I enabled G-Sync and the adaptive sync appears to be working. To see the monitors resolution and refresh rates, navigate to the extra menu selection. I can see that Adaptive-Sync is set for V.Frequency. On an ASUS ROG SWIFT 27 144hz monitor, i only need to click the menu button to see the details, without having to navigate to a different menu area. ** Update: Although the Adaptive Sync is enabled, I can see that the refresh rate doesnt quite compare to normal G-Sync. If you are expecting super smooth and clear visuals with fast movements, recommend getting a real G-Sync monitor if you can afford it. *** The monitor controls are clumsy, but workable.

I use this as a home office monitor, driven by a Nvidia 1060 video card, and do a fair amount of getting killed in Fortnite. The monitor is great, but there seems to be a visible distance between the LCD shutters and the backlight, where I can see the icons move around and the edge of the screen. Its only distracting in some Windows apps and only when Im looking for it. Overall Im happy.

I purchased this monitor about a year and a half ago, and recently noticed I had one pixel stuck on blue all the time. I submitted a warranty claim under their 3-year zero dead pixel policy and my replacement arrived within about a week and a half, no issues at all. Very happy with the monitor. If I had to make a complaint, it would, as usual for monitors, be the on-screen display, which is not intuitive. Other than that, it has a beautiful picture and has replaced two smaller monitors.

This is my first curved monitor and being I wear glasses for reading, it took a bit to get used to. My peripheral vision was a bit bothered for awhile. As for the monitor, it has your basic controls, from the power button to the adjustments, they are all on the bottom right and better seen with a flashlight. The controls dont adjust a lot, but enough to make it comfortable to use. I had an issue while gaming (key words while gaming), the monitor crashed, it went black and the power light shut off...I could hear the game still playing, so I knew it wasnt my computer. It rebooted itself and I played on. Then it crashed again 2 more times in roughly an hour. I was done playing, so I shut it down for the night. The next morning I found and contacted AOC with a support ticket on 9 Aug 22, ..its 13 Aug 22, and Ive yet to receive a reply. I stated what happened and inquired if I should have the monitor on certain settings for gaming, is all I asked. I also stated what my computer was and it used the GeForce video card that this said it was made for. Since those 3 crashes, it hasnt done it again, but I havent played a lot. It seems fine just for standard web, video and business use. If I receive a response to this support ticket, I will update this review. Michael Burgess review on 9 Jan 22, states about going to UFO Test to check out the refresh rates. Basically it confirms, you get what you pay for, this is not a high end platform. **UPDATE 4 Sept** So, finally got a response 19 Aug., by then the Amazon return policy had expired. The respondent was quite helpful though. They even got me a copy of the instruction manual, which wasnt in the box. But, though that I tried to reset it and use different settings, it crashed again and I requested an RMA. Well, here we go again, its been 6 days and I havent even been told if they are going to replace it, refurbish it, or refund me? *NOTE* I lowered my rating as well. **UPDATE 11 Sept** Well, since AOC was dragging their feet to get back to me, I contacted Amazon who had removed the No returns after 15 days notice. They quickly asked what I wanted to do, I said an exchange would be fine and they had me the new one the next day. I had the other returned the evening before. Ironically, AOC contacts me the next day saying I didnt provide all the information required. I told them I had and it was right there in the conversation record, and I told them Amazon took care of this already, ..yesterday. The new monitor has much better color, even without adjustments, now Ill have to see if this one crashes. Hopefully all I received was just one bad unit?

Everything about this monitor is great so far. I have had it for almost 1 year and it has not had any issues at all. Picture quality is amazing. Refresh rate is perfect for PC gaming. I have a 3060 graphics card and no problems.

Impressed with the build quality and attention to detail (especially like the stand).

I rarely give negative reviews, but I never was able to get this monitor to work for more than a few minutes. It arrived on time and very well packaged in foam, looked like it was factory new. I was eager to use it as it comes with 2 Display Port Inputs; unusual for this type of monitor. I have 3 machines, two with Display Ports and one Hdmi. It worked right out of the box for 10 minutes using Display Ports. When I attempted to switch over to my Windows 10 Tower, Hdmi 1.4 with the OSD, it went downhill fast from there. The OSD menu is a horizontal strip along the bottom of the screen using left and right arrow to navigate and up and down to select. That in itself is not a problem except that the menu buttons are tiny and slightly recessed behind the lower front bezel edge. I struggled to use the buttons with my fat fingers and had to increase the timeout and still had some difficulty navigating the menu. I spent enough time that it should have gotten easier with familiarity, but it remained clumsy and unwieldy. I hesitate to make a big deal out of it, but Ive used dozens of monitors, some more user-friendly than others and never had this much trouble. If everything else was working it would not have been a problem as once its all set up, you probably would not need it to use the Menu except to switch inputs. Because of the problem I was having, I spent some time trying in vain to switch to HDMI when finally I couldnt get a menu screen at all. I suspect that it may be some OSD setting about DDC/CI or hardware that may be simple to fix. with 20/20 hindsight I should have used the Factory HDMI cable before returning it. but there is no good reason to be totally locked out from the OSD Menu as it never has been a problem with any other monitor, so I decided that for this reason alone I didnt want to mess with it. To have this occur right out of the box is probably rare and it did start out just fine, so theres no reason to assume that this product would not work well for a majority of users. The specs for this monitor are really good, and I suspect that if used with Display Port on a single PC, it should work out well for gaming. I never got that far as the HDMI was inconsistent, and with the on/off LED indicator lit, (i.e. the monitor is powered on), and three active inputs, when I tried to switch between the them, the menu screen would not come up at all and I was unable to use the monitor with a blank screen with no way to access the menu. Now the Display Ports are also down. Recall that it did work for a while. The picture was good and I was pleased for as long as it lasted, before I started having problems. My Hdmi cables were labeled 4k cables I bought at Best Buy so I assumed they were OK so I didnt use the cable that came with the monitor, as mine worked fine with the same setup on another 21:9 monitor. That I could not get access to the OSD menu is a sure indication that the monitor is not recognizing the HDMI input. No input signal, no OSD. No OSD no way to switch input back to a working display port, Catch 22! I believe this to be a design flaw in the menu system that could be averted by having a little red reset button providing a means of mechanically resetting the system to a workable default state. A real manual with enough information to avoid trouble would be nice. I tried all the usual steps to breath some life into it, Power cycle, check cables with another monitor etc. Power PCs off/on. Nothing to be done. Dead in the water. Bad cable? Maybe something to do with DDC/CI but at this stage you absolutely must be able to use the menu, again, Catch 22! Ive used a lot of devices that got poor ratings from others, where they were 5 stars for me. Certainly not all the same products will be unusable. This is the first time in twenty years of online purchases that Ive had a fatal failure, so I consider myself fortunate and am not upset. Because I had a problem does not mean its inevitable that others will have the same experience; so I rated it with three stars instead of one. Walter O.

I am an average user that has only had basic monitors, but since I built this PC primarily for gaming/part-time productivity and spent so much on its components I had no choice but to purchase a monitor to match. This was it, and the colors look amazing when compared to a 4yr old Dell that I have dual mounted. I followed a couple different tutorials on how to set this specific monitor up for G-Sync but it does flicker a lot. With G-Sync enabled, the screen would also periodically go black for a few seconds so I had to turn it off. However, I paired it with a 9900K/2080Ti, maxing out frames in almost all games, and I do not experience any screen tearing or notice any type of draw back that makes me regret not buying an officially supported G-Sync monitor. For the negative side of things, I only had the monitor for two months before it went dead and would not turn on. Just a black screen. I filled out a RMA form and was issued a refurbished monitor in its place, but it took a long time before I received the replacement monitor. From the time I submitted the RMA form to receiving the replacement, almost five weeks had passed. Thankfully I had an old Dell to get me through. The first contact from them only took about 48hrs like their RMA submission form stated, but it took 2 weeks without any form of communication from them and a complaint to Amazon Customer Service before they contacted me to proceed with the RMA. The RMA submission process was very third-rate, in that I felt like I was speaking to someone that was enjoying their meal at a restaurant, and with very little info (and no troubleshooting) was very quick to say that the monitor needed to be returned. The entire time spent on the phone with support was less than two minutes before they determined it was a bad monitor. I gave four stars because the monitor is really great at a $450 price point, but left off one star because of the lack of communication and lengthy RMA process. So if youre in the market for a new monitor or wanting to purchase your first gaming monitor on a medium budget....this is a really great monitor for that. I honestly would buy again even though the first time around was not perfect.

I dont know much about monitors, never really cared about it lookin fancy but my boys were teasin me about playing on an old tv so I bough this. They seemed impressed and theyre those picky gamer types so its probably real good. Whatever, that aint the reason Im writing this review. After about 6 months one of the guys tossed me somethin, it went right into the monitor, CRACK, screen was done. I was googlin to see if this was in my wheelhouse to fix and I found out that THEY WILL REPLACE IT FOR A YEAR EVEN IF ITS YOUR FAULT. So I tried calling em, not expectin much. YO THEY AINT LYIN. They had me mail it in and sent me a replacement right away. Using it right now. No run around, no bs, just like YOU GOOD, SEND IT IN. MAN. An actually good company that makes a good thing and stands by their guarantees. Im sold. AOC for life.

Awesome monitor! Can see so much better now!