AOC Agon AG271QX

SiDeards73 · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:43

Havent seen any posts regarding this

http://aoc-europe.com/en/products/ag271qx

Looks like a damn fine monitor, do we know if OCUK Will be stocking these? €500 is the MSRP for them, so i reckon around £480 uk prices?

Looks to offer decent Freesync range as well 30-144hz it seems? 1ms response time, cant wait to see some reviews on this, sounds perfect.

Marky · 8 Jun 2016 at 13:54

We need more 1440p, 144hz, IPS monitors - Hopefully this one has some decent QC...

Apparently, there will be a G-Sync equivalent also, but it isn't showing on their product pages just yet... AOC AG271QG

EDIT: Just to stop any confusion... The Freesync monitor originally linked is TN - The G-Sync equivalent I linked, is apparently and IPS panel...

Drollic · 8 Jun 2016 at 16:59

AU Optronics AHVA (Advanced Hyper Viewing Angle) IPS-type panel.

Oh great, another one using it.

Legend · 8 Jun 2016 at 17:11

Drollic said:
AU Optronics AHVA (Advanced Hyper Viewing Angle) IPS-type panel.

Oh great, another one using it.

If that's the same as used in the XB271HU and PG279Q then it's definitely going to be a monitor to avoid. That is simply a joke of a panel and they should destroy all in existence... keeping just one as a reminder, "never again".

Finners · 8 Jun 2016 at 17:53

Legend said:
If that's the same as used in the XB271HU and PG279Q then it's definitely going to be a monitor to avoid. That is simply a joke of a panel and they should destroy all in existence... keeping just one as a reminder, "never again".

To save me googling, what's wrong with it?

Legend · 8 Jun 2016 at 19:23

Finners said:
To save me googling, what's wrong with it?

As IPS goes it's tragic. Yellow-ish whites, poor colour, notorious for bleed and glow and terrible QC (dirt and dead/stuck pixels commonplace).

SiDeards73 · 8 Jun 2016 at 22:19

Damnit

AOC UK · 9 Jun 2016 at 19:35

We haven't seen these issues in recent usage at our European HQ however we will be getting samples out for review and we will all find out more then :-)

, I will also be in front of one next week and will be thinking of your comments while I am scrutinising it!

Marky · 9 Jun 2016 at 19:43

AOC UK said:
We haven't seen these issues in recent usage at our European HQ however we will be getting samples out for review and we will all find out more then , I will also be in front of one next week and will be thinking of your comments while I am scrutinising it!

Will you be seeing the G-Sync version?

titaniumx3 · 9 Jun 2016 at 20:58

Yay, another manufacturer regurgitating this same godawful panel. Someone needs to file a lawsuit against AU optronics for this travesty. :mad:

JamesMay · 9 Jun 2016 at 21:04

Legend said:
As IPS goes it's tragic. Yellow-ish whites, poor colour, notorious for bleed and glow and terrible QC (dirt and dead/stuck pixels commonplace).

Have none of that on my PG279Q, just typical glow in the bottom right. But you know more.

Legend · 9 Jun 2016 at 22:51

JamesMay said:
Have none of that on my PG279Q, just typical glow in the bottom right. But you know more.

Well I did go through 4 myself, so that means I know 4 times more, but that's not a patch on the thousands of irate owners and what they collectively know. You are lucky. Just search, this panel is notorious.

JamesMay · 10 Jun 2016 at 13:02

Legend said:
Well I did go through 4 myself, so that means I know 4 times more, but that's not a patch on the thousands of irate owners and what they collectively know. You are lucky. Just search, this panel is notorious.

The minority is the loudest you know. I know plenty of users with XB270/271 and 279Q and none have issues except one of them.

Legend · 10 Jun 2016 at 13:20

JamesMay said:
The minority is the loudest you know. I know plenty of users with XB270/271 and 279Q and none have issues except one of them.

I've not seen ANY with proper whites though. I have seen many examples with decent bleed/glow and no dirt under the panels, but when it comes to the white reproduction they totally screwed this up, and when you compare to a quality IPS you will see the difference.

JamesMay · 10 Jun 2016 at 13:43

Legend said:
I've not seen ANY with proper whites though. I have seen many examples with decent bleed/glow and no dirt under the panels, but when it comes to the white reproduction they totally screwed this up, and when you compare to a quality IPS you will see the difference.

My PG is white.

Quality IPS such as?

LokiS · 10 Jun 2016 at 15:17

JamesMay said:
My PG is white.

Quality IPS such as?

I agree with Legend about this panels quality on the Asus and Acer. I'm glad you got a good one, wish I did, my 2 deserved to be in a bin rather than being sold. People should not have to pay a premium price and get bad quality panels at all. I'm still seeing people posting images of horrible bleed and uniformity/pixels etc over at overclock.net

I also watched a video of a group where they open 20 retail boxes of the Asus panel, at default settings all the monitors had horrible backlight bleeding with only 1-2 being `acceptable`, they didn't check uniformity or pixels either. The panel and Asus QC quality is dire. Lemme find it. Heres the photos if cba for video: http://imgur.com/a/jWO59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mje_fmayu0k

Really want a high refresh ips, but the quality and the prices simply don't match, not worth half their asking.

JamesMay · 10 Jun 2016 at 19:05

LokiS said:
I agree with Legend about this panels quality on the Asus and Acer. I'm glad you got a good one, wish I did, my 2 deserved to be in a bin rather than being sold. People should not have to pay a premium price and get bad quality panels at all. I'm still seeing people posting images of horrible bleed and uniformity/pixels etc over at overclock.net

I also watched a video of a group where they open 20 retail boxes of the Asus panel, at default settings all the monitors had horrible backlight bleeding with only 1-2 being `acceptable`, they didn't check uniformity or pixels either. The panel and Asus QC quality is dire. Lemme find it. Heres the photos if cba for video: http://imgur.com/a/jWO59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mje_fmayu0k

Really want a high refresh ips, but the quality and the prices simply don't match, not worth half their asking.

Ive seen those images, and the camera overexposes the shots.

You need to set the shutter to 1/8 in order to get a somewhat representative shot. Their settings are whack. Its like taking your phone without touching anything and then uploading it.

Legend · 10 Jun 2016 at 19:26

JamesMay said:
Ive seen those images, and the camera overexposes the shots.

You need to set the shutter to 1/8 in order to get a somewhat representative shot. Their settings are whack. Its like taking your phone without touching anything and then uploading it.

From personal experience, and many others, yes photos can not be representative, but sitting in front of a duff one is just horrible. In broad daylight you can still see the bleed. Again, you did well to get a good one, but you seem to be taking that as evidence that the problem doesn't exist. As for the whites, if you compared yours to another IPS panel, you WOULD see the difference.

titaniumx3 · 10 Jun 2016 at 20:44

The backlight bleed was excellent on both the XB271HU I tried, but the white uniformity was awful on both of them. The second one was so bad I sent it back as faulty and managed to get a full refund with the retailer and they even covered the cost of shipping it back to them.

I am also willing to bet that other faults like dead/stuck pixels are significantly above the norm with this panel. Out of the 3 XB270/271 monitors I bought, I had stuck pixels on two of them.

As Legend explained, if it's not stuck pixels or backlight bleed, you will with a relatively high probability get poor white uniformity. I'm guessing many people don't actually realise this, as you it's not always noticeable until you put it next to a quality IPS panel. Next to Dell U2515H, both the XB271HUs looked absolutely terrible. It's laughable that they even call panel IPS with such horrendous whites.

JamesMay · 10 Jun 2016 at 22:57

Legend said:
From personal experience, and many others, yes photos can not be representative, but sitting in front of a duff one is just horrible. In broad daylight you can still see the bleed. Again, you did well to get a good one, but you seem to be taking that as evidence that the problem doesn't exist. As for the whites, if you compared yours to another IPS panel, you WOULD see the difference.

I've had other IPS panels.

And you're making it sound like EVERYONE has a problem.