Gigabyte M27Q Review – THE ULTIMATE LINUX GAMING MONITOR

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This is Gigabyte’s M27Q, one of the best 1440p 170Hz IPS monitors I’ve seen with a surprising and unique feature built in that makes it literally the perfect monitor for Linux gamers. It has a KVM built in, so with the press of a button you can swap from your main Linux OS to your VFIO Windows VM and your keyboard and mouse come with you. Amazing! I set up a system to test this out, so lets get that up and running and see how it goes. But first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

So right now we’ve got CSGO playing on Ubuntu, and considering my host GPU here is a 2080ti it’s running very, very well. And the monitor is great, it’s very similar to the G27Q I reviewed fairly recently so if you want a more regular review of this monitor go check that video out. But to give you the condensed version, it’s a 27” 1440p 170Hz Freesync display that covers 97% of the Adobe RGB spectrum – a wider colourspace than the much more expensive FI27Q-P. It has an amazing 1.1ms of input lag over HDMI with my time sleuth and a black to white response time of just 4ms, with a white to black time that’s a bit slower at 12ms although that’s with overdrive set to it’s slowest “Picture Quality” setting. It doesn’t cost much more than the G27Q, but it’s quite possibly better than even the FI27Q-P which costs almost twice as much. Even forgetting the KVM feature, this is already a must-have monitor.

As for the KVM, that’s pretty simple. Plug your mouse and keyboard into the dual USB 3 ports on the monitor, plug displayport or one of the two HDMI’s in, alongside the USB 3 downlink cable, then connect up a second system via the USB C port and your all set. Just press the KVM button on the back and you’ve switched over, mouse and keyboard included.

So lets do that, I’ve got an RTX 2060 as my secondary GPU here, as it uses the “DisplayLink” connector, aka an active USB C port meant for VR, but since I’ve passed through both the GPU and the onboard USB Controller to the Windows VM, this should just work™.

It takes a second or two to switch over, but once it fires up it’s like using it all natively. As an aside, if you want a video on how to setup a VFIO system like this from a beginner like me let me know in the comments, it’s pretty easy but there are a few quirks and hoops to jump through.

Anyway, lets fire up CSGO in Windows. Of course since this is an RTX 2060 and is now using half the CPU and RAM it’s not quite as fast, but with averages over 150FPS we are doing just fine. I actually checked the total system input lag on both my usual underdesk PC for reference, CSGO in Linux and here in virtualised windows and they are all pretty much the same, so it’s a great experience across the board.

The thing is, playing CSGO on windows doesn’t make all the much sense – i mean it works on linux so why play it on a second GPU when you can play it natively? Well, you probably wouldn’t. But a game like COD Modern Warfare that isn’t ported to Linux, and thanks to it’s anti-cheat systems is pretty difficult to get going on Linux. So, let’s play that instead.

Of course there are plenty of other use cases for having a KVM like this built into your monitor, even for Linux gaming, including using the Adobe suite – something that thanks to the frankly amazing panel in this monitor is a dream to use – or if you want to use it for the more expected use case of say a work laptop then switch to your gaming machine in the evening, that’s good too.

There are a couple limitations of the KVM here, namely that it only has 2 USB ports. You can get around that with a USB 3 hub, something I’d recommend if you were going down the VFIO route with this as you could then plug in all your USB peripherals like microphones, headsets and controllers and have them all automatically switch over with you.

As for the monitor itself, there isn’t many limitations on hand. The only possible gripe you could have is with the stand and its relatively limited movement, but honestly who cares when you get such an incredible display for your money. The only downside to the panel is my particular unit had really bad backlight bleed in the bottom right corner, but that could very well be shipping damage on this exact one rather than an indication of every M27Q made.

The fact the response time was so good even on the slowest overdrive setting, the distinct lack of ghosting in the UFO test, and the coverage of the Adobe RGB colourspace, all at almost the same price as it’s slower, less impressive counterpart the G27Q, this has to be the best 1440p high refresh rate monitor on the market. Period. And looking at the Amazon review count for this vs the G, this is criminally under represented, so I highly recommend you change that and pick one up now. I don’t give out awards much these days, but this gets a Top Tier Award from me because frankly, I’m blown away.