Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ review

Gigabyte has created an excellent ultrawide QD-OLED gaming monitor that focuses on what's important to keep the costs down. It's not cheap, but it's cheaper than rivals which might have more bells and whistles but which provide few benefits. There are faster screens out there but this isn't slow.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.

The anti-glare, semi-gloss coating means there are impressively few distracting reflections in dark scenes. Also, it goes some way to keep small text looking neat and not spidery—although some fonts perform better than others in this area. We certainly had no issues working and writing using it and having several windows open at once seriously helped with productivity.

In terms of performance, we were very impressed. Colors are vibrant and the display is uniformly bright. It's rated at 250 nits but we felt more comfortable turning it down to 85 per cent in day-to-day activities when using white-backed browser windows. It should be noted that Aorus adds some automated APL settings that aim to equalize screen brightness if a window gets too bright , but it did this with minimal impact, whether set to Low, Medium or High.

The screen has a 144 Hz refresh rate and a stated, 0.03ms, GTG pixel response time that's good enough to keep most games looking silky-smooth. However, ultra-competitive FPS types may lament the absence of additional speed afforded by faster screens but they'll usually be using much smaller monitors anyway. Still, for pure immersion and a competitive boost, it's hard to beat.

Caveats include having HUD readouts located in your visual periphery meaning you have to turn your head to read them. As for pricing, we've seen rival 49-inchers costing loads but Aorus has successfully kept the price down with the CO49DQ. In the US it's available for $999. In the UK its RRP is £1,200 but we've seen itit's generally much cheaper. That said, it's worth shopping around we found both models with discounts in different stores in different locales.

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