Anyone bought the Gigabyte AORUS FI27Q yet?

I had a chance to try FI27Q about a month ago. I posted the impressions on Reddit, but here it too:


I returned the monitor, and why follows soon. First thing first, the build quality is absolutely superb, it's heavy, it's sturdy and it's stable. Looks are always subjective, but I like the design because it's not intrusive as some other gaming monitors. It has RGB on the backside, but you can turn it off and no one would know that it has lights there. The picture quality was damn nice, but only after some fiddling in settings. Now, I don't have a calibration tool, so it was done by just looking at it, at the retina near it and other monitors I had around it. This is an 8bit + FRC monitor so the colors are a bit oversaturated for my taste, especially the red and orange ones. But that's the case with all of these monitors because the digital products are made with sRGB in mind in 99% of cases. But after some time I have managed to town it down to a more natural look. It also has sRGB emulation mode, but it sucks because you can't change a bunch of settings then, like contrast for example and it's too dark.

Contrast, while I don't have tools to measure it, was quite good. I've tried a bunch of games on it, from CS, Quake, R6, LoL, RE7, Tomb Raider, ArmA, etc. and they all looked good, except maybe RE7. That game is by default quite... bad looking one and weird contrast inside the game didn't help it out.

The panel didn't have any dead or stuck pixel so that was quite a nice feeling. There was some BLB at the right side of the panel, near the corner of the screen and in some very rare situations it was a bit too visible than one might like, but nothing game-breaking. Regarding the IPS glow, it ofc had it, and it was maybe a bit too noticeable at the lower-left corner because it was spread over a little bigger portion of the screen than it usually is. But again, nothing game-breaking and if I positioned the monitor right in front of me, it basically was not visible at all. But I had it side to side with my LG 24GM77 so I couldn't have it right in the center of the table.

Now the responsiveness, overshoot, and blur. Same as the AD27QD, this monitor is not meant to be set to Speed setting because you will experience drastic overshoot if your FPS dips below 100, especially bellow 80. Setting it to Balanced eliminated that problem pretty much entirely and I didn't experience any visual artifacts on 120, 144 and 165 Hz with that setting, while at the same time performed a lot better in range of 60-100 fps. Blur, it was visible in some instances if you were looking for it, and comparing it to my LG 24GM77 which is 144Hz TN, I really didn't notice big differences. Yes, TN is a bit faster, but I noticed that only when comparing them side by side and looking for it.

So all in all, you could say that this is damn near the perfect monitor. So why did I return it? Because it has two annoying bugs. One of them is tied to firmware definitely. And here is the scenario. The monitor has those picture modes, FPS, Standard, Aorus, Multimedia, etc. For example, if I set the overdrive mode to Speed, and the monitor went to sleep mode, I would get locked out of ever-changing that setting again. So as you can imagine, I was stuck with the overdrive on the Speed mode. Then I switched to another mode, adjusted contrast, gamma and all of that again, set it to Balanced, and after the monitor went to sleep mode, I was again locked out, but this time the overdrive was also switched to slower, Picture Quality mode without any way of changing it back. same thing happened again and after that. And it again randomly switched to one of the three available overdrive modes. I just disabled the sleep mode after that. And now, I'm not sure, but I also think the same thing happened on of the other modes after I turned the monitor off and on again.

Then here and there I would notice some weird, white, blur, behind the letters on a white background when scrolling. And once you notice that, there is no way of not seeing it ever again. And the only way to fix it was to switch between overdrive modes. So for example, if I had it on Balanced, I would switch it to Speed and then back again to Balanced. But as you know, I was constantly getting locked out of those settings.

After a while, I was just too frustrated by that and at the same time, Viewsonic announced the new Elite lineup. So I returned it. Now, the monitor itself is really, really good and if Viewsonic fails me I might buy it again if they ever fix those firmware problems.

I contacted Gigabyte and explained the problem, but they were surprised how I even managed to get it because at the time it wasn't released yet and they couldn't help me out because even they didn't have it their offices yet.
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But, the more I look at monitor choices, the more I'm thinking of getting it again if the firmware is fixed. My friend bought is two weeks ago so I will stop by his place to check it out.
 
s1blyx said:
I had a chance to try FI27Q about a month ago. I posted the impressions on Reddit, but here it too:


But, the more I look at monitor choices, the more I'm thinking of getting it again if the firmware is fixed. My friend bought is two weeks ago so I will stop by his place to check it out.
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Regarding the Overdrive mode lockout. I think the AD27QD had the same issue which was fixed in the latest FW9. (It's not an issue I've experienced as i never change it, but, it had been mentioned on Reddit)

The blur behind the lettering is something i noticed when the overdrive mode was set to Speed (Again on the AD27QD). Almost like it was too slow to respond to the scroll and it took it a little while to 'Catch-up')


Same issues on my AD27QD.

  • BLB in two spots which is noticeable when the room is darker (Had the monitor 2 and a half months and i only noticed the BLB on friday night!)
  • Glow is an issue too but adjusting the height of the monitor so i'm viewing it straight on, so my eyes are more or less in the centre of the screen or just above.
  • Panel uniformity is annoying. Especially greys.
 
superleeds27 said:
Looks like it's up there now.

£569.99
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I think that is the non P. I emailed Overclockers today as I want to get my order sorted and got the following response

Thank you for getting in touch.
I'm afraid we are unable to source this model at this time.

Sorry for any disappointment. If you have any other queries, please let us know.

Regards,
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So still no clearer is its actually going to appear or not
 
Is it even worth paying so much for the P model? 700€ is a lot of money for something that should be the same cost as the non-P variant.
HDR is useless on those monitors anyway and 10 bit color at 144Hz (and 165) works just fine on the normal FI27Q.
 
s1blyx said:
Is it even worth paying so much for the P model? 700€ is a lot of money for something that should be the same cost as the non-P variant.
HDR is useless on those monitors anyway and 10 bit color at 144Hz (and 165) works just fine on the normal FI27Q.
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Have you seen a confirmed price? Thats what I am looking for before ordering something whether is be this or something else.
 
It's 700€ in Germany.

Edit:
I just snatched the LG one for 505€ and will post a comparison between it and FI27Q sometime next week. A friend has it so I can compare it side to side.
 
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There should be only one model, FI27Q and that's it.
They are charging 150€ - 200€ more for Black Equalizer 2.0 and DP 1.4. That's insane.
And judging by poor availability and lack of communication I think that even they are not sure what to do with it. Seems like they are too afraid to commit to it fully.
 
After been undecided for so long I think I am gonna go for the Pixio PX7 Prime and save myself 150ish quid. The reviews seem pretty positive.

I emailed 4 companies today and none of them seemed to know anything about the P varient.

I am coming from a 7 year of 1080 60hz so what ever I get will be a great upgrade.
 
The pixio has poor response fall times.
up to 12.19ms in some cases.


2 mins 40 for the response times etc

removed review as i made a mistake could have been the earlier non prime version.
 
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Are you sure that review is from the PX7 Prime as i thought that model was just recently released and he's stating he's had it for about a year.
 
So I purchased the LG 34GK950F, Gigabyte have really dropped the ball on this one! The lack of anything concise has really put me off.

First impression of the LG is excellent, the Jayztwocents video where he hugged it sold it for me and at its current price was just about affordable. If you can stretch to it guys, go for it!
 
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