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On the AOC i2369Vm we measured under 4ms (less than quarter of a frame) of input lag, which is excellent. Although felt responsiveness is determined by other factors as well (such as refresh rate) that’s certainly one less thing for gamers to worry about. A nice design overall with very slender bezels, touches of fingerprint-resistant matte silver (plastic), VESA mounting capability and a DisplayPort input The i2369Vm is part of AOC’s value range of monitors, but this 23in monitor looks anything but budget. The i2369Vm’s slim IPS panel is just 14mm deep and its slim matt silver stand and lower bezel look smart with its frameless display.
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The greyscale gradient was very smooth without any banding. There was some slight dithering on some of the medium greys but this was quite well masked. More comfortable brightness, better colour balance (no tint) with good rich look and decent vibrancy. If you’re looking for a low-cost, high-quality monitor then you really need look no further than AOC’s superb i2369Vm. See all The contrast performance very good by many measures and essentially up there with many of the stronger IPS panels we’ve seen. There was the usual IPS glow to contend with but this is just one of those trade-offs that applies to all IPS and PLS panels on the market today. The image was clearer and less grainy than some of the older IPS models (such as the Dell U2312HM), which is good to see. We do feel LG could have gone a bit further here, reducing the haze value a bit more and essentially making the matte surface even lighter. The image was not as ‘clean’ as that provided by some of the higher end AH-IPS panels such as the 27” WQHD models or indeed Samsung’s ‘semi glossy’ PLS surface. Still, that’s something for LG to consider and isn’t something AOC themselves are in control of. A very good static contrast performance putting it up there with some of the best IPS models out thereIf you want to avoid having to do these little tweaks in the graphics driver then make use of the monitor’s DisplayPort. We tested this and found everything set up optimally by default, as you’d expect from a PC-only connection. The table below gives readings for white point, average central gamma and some general observations for each ‘Gamma’ setting. To reiterate, ‘DPS’ was disabled but everything else was kept at default. The table also shows the results from our ‘test settings’ which are described subsequently.
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Image is very bright, rich and nicely varied with decent vibrancy. A slight cool green tint to the image but no issues with over (or under) saturation or crushed shades. The Lagom text appeared a well-blended grey without any obvious red or green tints. This indicates a low level of viewing angle dependency to the monitor’s gamma curve, which is a positive attribute of IPS monitors. We used the MHL feature with an HTC One X+, which has a 1,280×720 resolution. The phone’s display defaulted to a horizontal position that filled most of the screen, but the overall image looked jagged and pixelated. Even so, the MHL feature is a handy way of showing photos to your family and friends on a large screen.
The AOC i2369Vm is an excellent entry-level 23in monitor. It’s well built, offers a sleek frameless design and delivers superb picture quality straight out of the box which can’t be matched by any other display in this group test. It also offers the widest range of inputs and comes with a decent warranty
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Slightly reduced tint but light shades appear overly bright in relation to darker shades which appear a bit ‘underdone’. Contrast performance on Battlefield 3 was respectable overall. Visibility in dark areas was good with even some fairly minor details visible. Towards the corners of the screen, and to a lesser extent the central flanks, PS glow drowned out some this detail. The high end hand plenty of brightness and good distinctions of closely matched shades. Light and light textures had a bit of a grainy look to them from the screen surface, though. AOC are not as well-known as many other monitor manufacturers, but they certainly know how to achieve that crucial combination of style, performance and affordability. The AOC i2369Vm is the latest monitor in the company’s ‘Value’ line. Despite it setting itself firmly as a budget option it uses the latest ‘AH-IPS’ technology to give slender bezels and a competent colour performance. It all seems very promising ‘on paper’, but how does it all hold together in practice? That is what we will find out. We also tested our Blu-ray film titles. Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder is a particularly good test for colour reproduction as it features large areas of solid colour and a dazzling variety of shades. The AOC displayed these shades very well, displaying deep shades and bright neon shades with a good vivid look. Pastel shades looked appropriately muted by comparison and again showed strong variety. The consistency of shades was also excellent; individual shades appeared as they should regardless of their position on the screen.With overdrive disabled (‘Off’) you can see a bold primary trail and faint secondary trail. The ‘Weak’ setting actually provides a good degree of acceleration to many pixel transitions. In this example the secondary trail becomes pretty much invisible whilst the primary trail is weakened. Looking at a broader range of pixel transitions, as we do shortly, you can actually see a significant improvement over the ‘Off’ setting. Despite its name the overdrive is quite strong and effective – there is a degree of overshoot (inverse trailing) in some instances, but this is reasonably light. The ‘Medium’ setting is the monitor default and provides even greater acceleration. In this snapshot you can see a sharpening and brightening of the trail – indications of moderate overshoot. Essentially the mild overshoot using the ‘Weak’ option now becomes somewhat stronger and more widespread. The ‘Strong’ setting gives significant overshoot and as demonstrated by PixPerAn is not a suitable setting to use really. We also tested responsiveness on our Blu-ray movie titles. The fluidity here was limited by the low frame rate of around 24fps at which they are shot and run. This essentially broke up the action in such a way that there were no weaknesses evident from either pixel transitions or overdrive artifacts. If you did observe overdrive artifacts during films you could always disable overdrive with no negative consequences. The native pixel transitions on modern IPS monitors are fast enough for movie viewing even without pixel overdrive enabled. Disabling overdrive, should you wish to, is a nice flexibility that you have on the AOC. Very low input lag and highly configurable pixel overdrive with some good strong acceleration even using the not-so-aptly named ‘Weak’ overdrive setting Battlefield 3 looked very much as it should. Colours were displayed with good richness and variety with some particularly impressive earthy browns and crisp golden greens. Some of the deeper colour, such as strong oranges and dark reds, also had appropriate fullness without appearing the wrong shade. The ‘neon’ in game markers and bright elements such as fires and flares didn’t have the sort of ‘pop’ you might see on a glossy screen but still looked fairly vibrant.
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The AOC i2369Vm gave a good static contrast performance, averaging 1058:1 across all the brightness settings tested for ‘Gamma1’. Switching gamma mode had no detrimental impact here with 1055:1 recorded under ‘Gamma2’ and 1064:1 using ‘Gamma3’. Our test settings involved some colour channel adjustments, reducing contrast slightly to 956:1 which is still good. The maximum luminance recorded was spot on the 250 cd/m2 specified whilst the minimum white luminance recorded was 76 cd/m2. This gives a comfortable adjustment luminance range to play with of 174 cd/m2 with sensible values available for both bright and dimly lit rooms. We used a modified ‘camera and stopwatch’ type method to gauge an estimation of the level of input lag on the monitor. The basic method involves a camera at high shutter speed capturing a running on-screen stopwatch (with millisecond accuracy). The stopwatch is displayed simultaneously on the monitor being tested and a monitor of known input lag. Traditionally the monitor of known input lag is a CRT display that does no image processing and can be considered input lag free. To help improve the accuracy of this test we take an average from over 120 readings and compare with multiple monitors of known signal processing delay. This gives a greater number of milestones to work from and helps narrow down the input lag more reliably.Our main system used for this review uses an AMD Radeon 7950 which was connected using the HDMI cable AOC supplied for us. There are a few tweaks you will need to make when using HDMI, which isn’t a fault of this monitor, specifically, but a problem with the graphics driver defaults. The graphics card essentially recognises anything connected via HDMI as a TV rather than a monitor which means that a suboptimal signal is sent out. On our AMD GPU we were able to increase contrast slightly and eliminate an annoying dithering effect on whites by changing the ‘Pixel Format’ to RGB instead of the default of YCbCr. Open Catalyst Control Centre and navigate to ‘My Digital Flat-Panels –> Pixel Format’. You then change from the default ‘YCbCr 4:4:4 Pixel Format’ to ‘RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format PC Standard (Full RGB)’. This setting is shown in the image below.
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