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In speaking to LG about some of the bugs we’d experienced with the sRGB mode and hardware calibration (now fixed ad discussed earlier), they also gave us early access to a new feature that was being added with the same new firmware to enable the missing 160Hz overclocking mode! In the absence of that, you have the same overdrive timings at all refresh rates which leads to some increase of the overshoot at lower refresh rates.
For these tests we will plot the average G2G figure at a range of measured refresh rates, while operating at the optimal overdrive control. The screen has also been officially certified under the NVIDIA ‘G-sync Compatible’ and AMD ‘FreeSync Premium Pro’ standards which should give assurances around its performance. There are different types of matte and glossy coatings, each of which has its own advantages and drawbacks. This was a reasonable adjustment at the lower end, and should allow you a low luminance option for working in darkened room conditions with low ambient light although it was not as low as some screens can reach.This might not be quite dark enough for some people who want to use the screen in lower ambient light conditions, including darkened rooms but it’s not bad.
The SpyderX Elite sensor works in tandem with a software suite to assign a score to different sections of a display’s performance and you can see how it fared on the score card above. That said, this is the first monitor backlight I’ve encountered that’s actually bright enough to light up the wall behind it and act as a bias light. It’s better than basic stereo, so it could be an improvement over a budget headset, but wasn’t for me and I quickly switched back. Some screens also feature “variable overdrive” which helps control the response times and overshoot depending on the active refresh rate.There is hardware calibration support along with a factory calibration, and it also features some modest HDR capability, conforming to the DisplayHDR 600 standard and therefore supporting some level of backlight local dimming, and the prerequisite wide gamut with 98% DCI-P3 coverage and 10-bit colour depth support quoted. There is control for the overdrive impulse available via the OSD menu as listed above, but there is no variable overdrive used here which is a feature of Native G-sync hardware modules (not featured on this screen). It’s not really very noticeable in games and multimedia, but certainly more noticeable in desktop use where fonts can look blurred and show colour fringing.
Even motherboard companies have dog shit for software which is better to not use then be happy to use. It brings back much of what made the 27GL850 great, including the rapid refresh rate and Nano Cell-infused IPS panel, and then turns the dial.
cd/m 2 at this default brightness setting, giving us a decent 979:1 contrast ratio for an IPS panel and close to the spec. Most of the OSD controls are locked at the end, although brightness is left available which is good news if you want to change that for different times of the day, or to your liking.
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