AOC C24G2U Review – MASSIVE DOWNGRADE

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If you are browsing Amazon looking for a budget 1080p high refresh rate display, odds are you will find AOC’s 24G2U. It’s an amazing monitor that easily secures its spot as the best 1080p high refresh rate monitor you can buy both from a budget and performance perspective. But then you click on the “24 inch FHD Curved 165Hz” option and you see this, the C24G2U. It’s offering all the same specs, it’s 1920×1080, 24 inches, 250 nits brightness, Freesync, 1ms, but it’s 165Hz instead and it only costs £1 more. Seems like a no brainer right?

Well, In short: no. This is a marked downgrade in both the outright performance and your gaming experience. See there is one key spec listed in the title that I haven’t mentioned. The 24G2U is an IPS panel, but this, thanks to the curve, is a VA panel. The significance of that is easy to miss, but man is it a big deal.

Why is it a big deal? Take a look at this. This is the blur busters UFO test for ghosting. In a perfect world, you would see exactly one copy of each UFO on screen. An OLED display for example shows this perfectly, this is a Razer Blade laptop with an OLED and as you can see there is practically no trail or “ghost” copies on screen in front or behind of each UFO. Now look at the C24G2U again. How many copies is that? 8? 6? That’s showing the panel is retaining the image for far, far too long.

Now, you can normally help improve that by using a feature called Overdrive. That’s where the monitor sends a higher voltage to each pixel or subpixel to make it shift faster, but then drops it back to normal just in time to not go over it’s target. It’s kind of like when you are driving, pulling away from a red light. You can gently apply the throttle until you reach the speed limit, or you can floor it and lift off just before you get there. The latter is what overdrive does. Enabling overdrive to its maximum “strong” setting on the C24G2U does help a little, taking the copies from 5 or 6 to 3 or 4. That’s still not great, and is honestly one of the worst results I’ve seen from this test in a while.

But I’m here using a 1000FPS camera to see all this, can you actually notice it in game? I think my face will tell you everything you need to know. In fast paced games like CSGO, you will absolutely notice it when moving quickly. Is it the complete end of the world? No, of course not, but does the standard 24G2U have this issue? No.

On top of the response time, input lag is also markedly worse here too. My time sleuth reported just shy of 5 ms at the top of the display, which is one of the slowest results I’ve had. Most other displays I’ve tested are between 1 ms and 2ms. Using NVIDIA’s LDAT tool, the click to photon or total system latency averaged out to 44 ms. Using my old method of recording the total system latency, the 24G2U clocked in at just 20ms, and even if you add 6ms to account for LDAT taking an extra frame to register the input, that’s still a significant difference.

Luckily, this panel appears to offer slightly better colours, covering over 100% of the sRGB spectrum, 84% of AdobeRGB and 91% of DCI-P3, up from 83% on the standard 24G2U. That still doesn’t make up for the speed, which is reflected in the gaming experience. It’s reasonable enough if you are moving slowly and smoothly in game, but the second you need to move quickly, to snap to an enemy’s head, it’ll be a blurry mess. I had a really tough time hitting what should have been painfully easy shots, even with overdrive on it’s maximum setting and in the “Gamer” mode. I wouldn’t have guessed it was a 165Hz monitor either, as the slow response time makes it feel more like 60Hz.

The rest of the monitor is fine, it’s stand has tilt, swivel and height adjustment, the I/O offers two HDMI ports, one displayport and a VGA, plus a USB 3 hub with one yellow charging port too, and style wise it’s a nice aesthetic with red accents both on the front on the bottom lip, and across the back too – and no RGB lighting either. For content consumption it’s perfectly fine, but it’s just a little too slow for gaming.

So to recap, for your £1 extra you get an arguably worse gaming experience, a slower panel and slower input latency. Sure you technically get a 165Hz monitor over a 144Hz one, but you will have a better experience using the 144Hz one by a good margin, so please, save your money and buy the standard 24G2U over this.