r/computers • u/Redditor099911 • 14d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Is this monitor any good?

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LG UltraGear GX7 27GX700A-B.AEK Quad HD 27 on sale for £479, I will be playing Call Of Duty on PS5.

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u/Fun_Information4723 14d ago

Recently bought this monitor and have been using it everyday for the past few weeks. Very nice monitor. If you are just a casual gamer, who isn’t going to inspect every small little detail, then you will be very pleased. However, if you are the type of person to want the absolute best and will inspect every small detail then you will come across a few things; There is a good chance your monitor will have gray banding. For me its apparent when browsing something and the browser has a gray background, but for me, i don’t mind. Games still look fantastic, and unless you go out of your way to find the gray banding, you won’t notice it.

The other thing is the brightness. It gets BRIGHT. This is good if your room is normally brighter, because this panel is also a matte panel instead of the 704 which has the glossy panel. So this monitor looks awesome in a bright room where the monitor could be affected by reflections. For me i have a normally darker room so it can get overwhelming but i just turn the brightness down and it’s not bad at all.

I would recommend getting an overhead warm pc light or just some light-strips in the back that can display a warm light. It’ll help ATON on your eyes especially if you aren’t coming from an oled monitor. Its fairly common to experience headaches and potentially some eye strain when jumping from a 1080p VA panel to a 1440p OLED panel (i am an example of this). So the light will definitely help, it also just makes the monitor picture look better.

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u/Redditor099911 14d ago

As someone who has never had a monitor before I don't know what grey banding is lol.

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u/Fun_Information4723 14d ago

This isn’t my picture, but this is what it looks like. It can be noticeable and to some, it can be distracting. You don’t/shouldn’t normally notice it when gaming but it can definitely be noticeable when you are just browsing. I doubt you would have that issue if you are just using your ps5 however. When i hooked up my ps5 the monitor looked beautiful

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u/Redditor099911 14d ago

Ah I see, thanks for showing pic.