BUDGET 1440P 165Hz IPS GAMING MONITOR REVIEW

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Do you want an Aorus FI27Q-P but you don’t have £500+ to spend? You might just consider this instead. This is the X= XRGB27WQ, a 27 inch 1440p 165Hz IPS monitor with a stunning asking price. It did also have a rather shocking issue, although I have a full video on that if you want to catch up, but the good news is they are all good now. This uses the same Innolux M270KCJ panel as the Pixio PX7 Prime, except you can actually buy this here in the UK. The panel itself is pretty great. It’s obviously not the absolute best in the world, but it’s fast enough for a good gaming experience and one you can definitely sit down and enjoy.

The panel offers around 5ms of black to white response times, which while not quite as lightning fast as the FI27Q-X, the 240Hz IPS monster, it’s still mostly fast enough to keep up with the 165Hz refresh rate. That’s with the “response time” setting set to high, although even on high there wasn’t any visible overshoot so if you do have one of these it’s worth enabling. On the UFO test with the “response time” setting off, the image never really gets clear, and you can make out 3 ghosted copies of the UFO in the central band. With “response time” set to high, that drops to just 2 ghosted copies, and the image does get more clear and legible again without any haloing.

Input lag is also a pretty strong suit here, with my time sleuth reporting just 1.7ms of latency at the top of the display making it just as fast as most other monitors I’ve tested, only being bested by the 360Hz insanity that is the PG259QNR, and Gigabyte’s ‘value’ option, the M27Q. In total system latency it’s certainly not bad either, scoring an average of 35ms of click to photon latency. Again, not bad.

Those two decent stats combine to make a pretty enjoyable gaming experience, while I can’t say it made me a ‘LEET PRO GAMER’ I was able to have a good time hitting my shots and jumping around like mad. It wasn’t perfect, in fast motion the ghosting was a touch noticeable. Not enough to be truly distracting and not something you’d notice in anything other than a fast paced FPS while moving rapidly, but I did see it.

Luckily, if you want to use this for more than just gaming it’s still a great option. Content consumption is good with reasonable brightness and vibrant colours – plus the usual impressive IPS viewing angles. Speaking of colours, my spyderX reported well over 100% sRGB coverage, and 95% coverage of the DCI P3 spectrum, making this a great shout for gamers who want to edit photos or videos on the side. It did need a calibration to get the colours looking right, but it’s certainly viable if that’s what you are after and puts it in the same leagues as the FI27Q-P. In fact, it’s results line up almost perfectly, reporting exactly the same coverage of sRGB, AdobeRGB and DCI P3.

As far as added features go, you do get backlight strobing, buried in the menu as “MPRT”, which cuts the brightness in half and gave me a headache almost instantly. You’ve also got some RGB on the back, but not just any RGB, a projector that shines the X= logo on your wall in each shade, all in a slightly different position making it look just a bit more tacky and naff than it already is. The standard RGB strips on the back do look alright but sadly there doesn’t seem to be a way to disable either in the menu.

Other than that, the stand is pretty basic. You get some tilt adjustment and that’s about it. The other downside with getting a more ‘budget’ option is the fit and finish isn’t quite as good as a more established brand might be. The stand straight up doesn’t fit into the back of the monitor unless you absolutely slam it and getting it out is even worse. Luckily that tight fit means the stand is pretty stable once it’s installed so there’s that.

But, for just £300 I can forgive all that. That’s a great price for a 27” 1440p 165Hz IPS monitor with decent performance. But there is one catch. Actually, there’s two. The first one is Gigabyte’s M27Q, a 170Hz (not that it matters) option with an arguably better panel, better input lag, better colours, and is only selling for £30 more – plus it literally has a KVM built in. But I get it, you’ve got £300 and not a penny more. Fair enough. Then I present this, the Acer VG271UP a 144Hz 1440p IPS monitor with equally good stats, but sells for just £290 right now. It has a menu system that doesn’t look like it’s from the early 2000’s, and while it’s stand is equally limited, the overall build quality and… safety… are definitely better.

So, the XRGB27WQ. It’s a great monitor, has great for the category stats and a budget price, but in the current market just not quite cheap enough. I think this needs to be £270 or £280 to make it an easy recommendation, otherwise it gets a thumbs up from me but only if you can’t buy the VG271UP instead.