Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Viewsonic ELITE XG270QG – Review”.
Up until now, committed gamers have always gone with monitors with a TN panel, since they always offer the highest refresh rates would be fastest response times. However, all that changes today, ladies and gentlemen, introducing the viewsonic elite. This is one of the very first gaming monitors introduced into the market with super high refresh rates and fast response times on an IPS panel. That’S right guys. We no longer have to sacrifice image, quality and viewing angles to get the fastest response times. Also, I apologize for starting like a dying walrus, I’m actually recovering from a cold, but the show must go on and I have to review this today. So I’ll jump right in happiest monitors have always had the best color reproduction and viewing angles, but the slowest response times making it less appealing for competitive gamers.
The viewsonic elite is here to change that with a 165 Hertz refresh rate and a 1 millisecond response time. On an IPS panel now the elite does come in two versions: a 1080p 240hz annal and a 1440p with 165 Hertz, which is the one I’m reviewing in this article. The setup is really easy, as it doesn’t require any tools. The neck piece snaps in place in the back of the monitor and the bottom base, has it’s very own tightening method.
Overall, the build quality is really good. The monitor doesn’t wobble while you type or rage, and it hardly has any play it is basic compatible. However, if you don’t plan on mounting it on anything, then you’ll be pleased to find out. It has a lot of adjustability.
Aside from the usual tilt, you also get height adjustability from the lowest point at 4, inches off the table up to 8 and 3/4 of an inch. The bottom can also swivel and it can rotate a full 90 degrees on either direction. The model does look pretty cool with the three sided thin bezels. However, the base looks basic.
It is made out of aluminum with a cutout in the middle to help with cable routing, and it even has a handle up top to help with moving it around, which I actually found very useful during b-roll. The viewsonic elite also comes with a lot of extras like two side shields which get screwed on the sides of the display to add a bit of privacy or block out sunlight depending on your situation. It also comes with a built-in headphone hanger on the left side. However, you have to be mindful of the side shield, since you can’t really open it all the way with the phones hanging on, but it doesn’t even stop there. He also included two built-in Mouse anchors and I loved that they included it on both sides for left-handed people as well. And finally, of course, we got to have some RGB.
After all, it is 2020. The bottom part of the monitor has two LED strips, and the back has a hexagonal outline around the face amount. You can control the lighting using the OSD menu. However, you only get three simple options to choose from.
If you want to really customize the lighting, you have to download the software now, the lighting yourself is pretty faint and you can’t really see it in the daylight. You would need to be in absolute darkness to even notice it it’s more of a soft ambient lighting. More than anything, but personally I find it useless and I would have preferred them not to include it at all that way they could have lower the price of the monitor a little bit. Speaking of the OSD on the bottom, you’ll find three different buttons.
The first one is a power button followed by the joystick, which is used for navigation and, finally, the exit button. Now the monitor does come out of the box with 1/144 refresh rate, so you would need to visit the overclocking tab to change it to 165 Hertz. For ports, it does come with the USB pass-through with three USB threes. We got an audio jack and, of course, HDMI and display. It also comes with a cover, but it does feel very flimsy, so I would be careful when removing it. Alright, let’s talk about the panel, they are using this IPS nano color technology to bring the colors to life and it really does bring them to life. I mean the colors on this monitor are so damn vibrant that the camera just doesn’t do it justice? You can look out at any angle, you want, and you will experience little to no color shifting and it pretty much past the viewing angle test with flying colors. The black levels are also really good on the elite.
Monitor all shades of grey are visible from top to bottom on. The black level test, with the exception of the first square, which is barely noticeable enabling dark boost through the OSD menu, will enhance the blacks, and I found that level 2 is the best setting for this monitor for watching movies and gaming. It softens the colors slightly, but it does make the darkest blacks more noticeable. Speaking of noticeable backlight bleed, unfortunately on the elite monitors backlight bleed is everywhere. However, it’s most noticeable on the bottom near the corners.
However, color accuracy is pretty good with a hundred percent srgb coverage and nine 7 % of dcpip 3. So if you do both gaming and color sensitive work, then this monitor is great for you. The built-in speakers are pretty bad.
You don’t get that loud and IMAX volume they get pretty muddy, so I don’t recommend watching any type of content on here, always plug in your speakers or a headset for gaming. As expected, it’s amazing 165 refresh rate is really nice, although it is slightly noticeable coming from 144 Hertz. It’S nothing groundbreaking. The 240 Hertz model is the one that you will notice a bigger difference on, obviously, the higher the refresh rate, the smoother your game, will look and feel, and arguably give you an advantage over people playing on lower refresh rate monitors.
Now this monitor is advertised to have a one millisecond response time on the grayscale and with the ghosting test I found very little to no ghosting or Corona artefacts present as fast as the response times are on this monitor, my reaction times have suffered a lot ever Since I switched over simply because I’m still adjusting to the massive size, I’ve been playing on a 24 inch monitor for over three months now so transitioning to a 27-inch is a huge jump and my eyes just aren’t used to a bigger screen. I used to just look straight in the center of my monitor and have my peripheral vision through the rest of the scanning, but with this monitor, my peripheral vision doesn’t quite cover all of the area resulting in my eyes scanning more frequently. So that is something to keep in mind if you’re, switching over from a smaller display.
I found that increase in the distance between a monitor and my eyes helped a lot, but time is still needed to adjust. I would have liked to see a 24 inch version as well, maybe in the future, aside from the notice of a backlight bleed the table, speakers and the useless RGB lighting, this monitor does check all the other boxes. I really enjoyed my time with it and I can easily recommend this for any gamer or professional.
However, with that said, I would hold off on purchasing this until we see similar monitors from other brands just to kind of see what they have to offer as well and, of course, more competition means lower prices and, at this of my review of the viewsonic elite, Xg 270 q G, if you found this video helpful, consider leaving a like and also subscribe, because I have a top gaming monitors dollars coming up very soon drop a link to both monitors below. If you guys want to check it out. Thank you so much for watching. I love your beautiful eye holes and I will see you in the next article .