AOC i2470 series?

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Am looking for a new monitor, and overall I think IPS is the way forward for me, i don't have a great deal of money to spend but it MUST be 24" or bigger

Have found AOC I2470pwqu within my price range but can't find any actual reviews on it just a guff page that praises it but doesnt appear to actually have used the damn thing
I will be gaming on it but only on the single mid-range GPU, occasional use level. The main use will be browsing and movies. The screen must do well on streamed broadcasts of F1.

any reason not to buy that screen? Anything better below £150?
 
Before offering any useful advice, could I ask which 'guff page' you're referring to?
 
http://pcmonitors.info/aoc/aoc-i2470swq-23-8-of-ips-glory

How can they say it has glory? i note the paragraph which starts
'The current available information suggests that the monitor features VGA, DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort inputs as well as a headphone jack and at least one integrated speaker.'

Which suggests they haven't got one, a suggestion confirmed by the lack of a review of it in their archive

edit: forgot to mention, the model in particular is the i2470pwqu. I'm upgrading from an old basic screen so i don't really care about any extras, just a nice screen. I like that the AOC has internal PSU. Don't know if external psu is common in monitors or not but i'd like to avoid it
 
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That is a news piece that was never trying to masqaurade as anything else. The title is designed to grab one's attention, which it seems it did. Sensationalist perhaps, but still simply a news article and nothing more. 23.8" IPS monitors were a new and quite desirable thing when that model was released and still are really. The title was praising those panels and the fact they were used on that monitor.

I doubt you'll find anybody who has used that particular model but I suspect it is quite comparable to other 23.8 inchers. Only a few panels of that type exist and monitors that use them all offer somewhat similar performance.
 
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TYVM.

It's ordered, anyway. I expect i'll be pleased with it coming off an 18.5" 50 quid acer that's had a line of green pixels top to bottom in the middle of the screen for a couple of years and a hp 4:3 15" lcd

Also, that's what i meant by guff page. No actual review but praising the thing which the person who wrote the article has not used. That's like saying 'buy this kia, i've never driven one but it uses the same engine as the daihatsu charade which means it must be good'

there are a lot of such pages on the internet and i can see the potential for them to be misleading.. the page mentioned very nearly had me and i'm a cynical old sod who's been around computer tech for two decades
 
Skree said:
TYVM.

It's ordered, anyway. I expect i'll be pleased with it coming off an 18.5" 50 quid acer that's had a line of green pixels top to bottom in the middle of the screen for a couple of years and a hp 4:3 15" lcd

Also, that's what i meant by guff page. No actual review but praising the thing which the person who wrote the article has not used. That's like saying 'buy this kia, i've never driven one but it uses the same engine as the daihatsu charade which means it must be good'

there are a lot of such pages on the internet and i can see the potential for them to be misleading.. the page mentioned very nearly had me and i'm a cynical old sod who's been around computer tech for two decades
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The page never claimed to be a review or test, simply a news article with an attention-grabbing headline. It is possible to praise part of a product (panel) without having actually tested the end product (monitor). If the title had contained a phrase like "a glorious monitor" that would have been different. The use of IPS and a 23.8" panel was worthy of praise at the time as those 23.8" panels are impressive in many respects. And AOC have a good track record of putting budget IPS panels to good use.

At any rate I hope you enjoy the monitor, I look forward to your feedback.
 
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The i2470pwqu arrived yesterday. I haven't really used it to play any games or hd video yet but no dead pixels that i can see, seems perfect. Quite like that it has a usb hub built into it. Would be interested to know how much power i can draw from that hub, it's in a convenient spot. Manual is on a CD, and i don't have an optical drive in my rig, don't generally need one as much as i do the drive bay it would use. Will have to remember to download the package or root out my usb burner. Viewing angles seem excellent, the picture seems nice but haven't properly tested it yet. Nice smooth matte screen, doesn't seem a fingerprint magnet.
The stand is neat. I like it. Can't compare it against anything modern but compared to the crap bottom mount stands with a laughable tilt and little to no height adjustment i've had in the past it's brilliant. Loads of height adjustment, plenty of tilt and it's stable enough. The screw that mounts the base to the stand has a little wire tab built into it to help you set it up without a screwdriver. A little bit of attention to detail nice enough to mention, i think. I don't know if that's common on modern screens or not.
Tactile test yields good results. It feels nicely made - the bottom buttons feel a bit cheap to me but not the worst i've ever used.

Overall, for £155 delivered, i am happy with the purchase so far.
 
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