Behold the first sub-£400 OLED gaming monitor in the UK, courtesy of Prime Day
AOC Agon PRO AG276QZD2 | 27-inch | 2560 X 1440 | 240 Hz | OLED | £489.99 £399.99 at Amazon (save £90)
Give it up for the cheapest OLED gaming monitor yet from a big brand. At £399, this 27-inch QD-OLED is similar money to an LCD panel of otherwise the same specs from just a couple of years ago. But no LCD monitor can hit 0.03 ms response or offer the perfect per-pixel lighting of this OLED beauty. View Deal
Until now, I'd never been much of a fan of 27-inch 1440p OLD monitors. They've simply been too much money for too little screen. Well, not any more.
Amazon Prime Day has served up this beauty, the AOC Agon PRO AG276QZD2 for just £399. That's fully half price compared to the cheapest comparable OLED panel from just a year or so ago. Prices really are falling, and fast.
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The main upside here is the Samsung QD-OLED panel. QD-OLED colour rendering tends to have more pop than competing monitors based on LG's WOLED tech, which offers better full-screen brightness but only for white tones.
The obvious downside with QD-OLED tech is that characteristic greyness in bright ambient conditions. But for most gamer's setups, that's a non issue. Instead, what you'll actually notice is the perfect per-pixel lighting and ridiculously fast pixel response performance.
Once you've seen HDR on an OLED panel, you'll realise what a hopeless kludge mini-LED powered local dimming on an LCD monitor really is. Of course, personally I still favour the 34-inch ultrawide form factor and would probably try to stretch to a little over £400 for something like the Philips Evnia 34M2C6500.
But if you're all about esports, the refresh rate advantage and standardised 16:9 aspect ratio of this AOC is certainly more suitable. AOC also provides a reassuring three-year warranty with full OLED burn-in cover. OLED burn-in is increasingly looking like a non-issue with these modern panels. But it's nice to know you can drive this thing hard for at least three years without having to worry about burn-in.