Keep in mind this (part of the) review is just my first impressions. First off, this display is beautiful when upgrading from a Acer G226HQL 21.5-Inch Screen LED Monitor (shown in pictures the Pixio is set to photo mode and the acer is set to graphics to give the monitors a fair comparison). The ips display is beautiful and vibrant even when its set to its more muted brighter fps mode. The blacks are also quite rich. The veiwing angles on this thing are amazing. Shows a clear image no matter where i stand. This display is also super bright. I would argue the display is brighter or equally as bright as the LED panel on the acer. As for the HDR setting, I personally don't notice a difference whether its on or off. I've just been keeping on for the time being. The bezels are quite thin measuring in at about 1 cm. The build quality is sturdy. I would rate the plastic poly-carbonate material used at about a medium quality. Not the best material i have felt but not cheap feeling either. The overall design is appealing to the eye with minimal branding on the front. The stand is sturdy but not adjustable, but the monitor is vesa mount compatible so you can easily swap it out as i plan to do in the future. There are also no signs of dead pixels. I did my research before I bought from this newer, unheard of, brand. I fell in love with their mission statement. Every single review on their products in the 12 or so reviews I watched was positive. They are delivering high spec products with minimal to no compromises at a fraction of the cost. Would highly recommend. Edit: After continued use i have had no major qualms with the product whatsoever. Though i have noticed one quirk of the product that should be able to be fixed later on with a firmware update. For some reason the monitor wont let you switch input and goes directly into sleep mode if you have removed the cable you were using between your last use. This can be annoying if you usually use a display port and you move the monitor into another room to use with a device that uses hdmi. You would have to switch the input manually before you move the monitor to get around this quirk. But lets be honest, most ppl will just plug in their monitor once and not mess with it again. As far a G-Sync compatibly is concerned i have seen no issues whatsoever. Seems to be working perfectly. Been testing it with fortnite, dauntless, AC: Odyssey, and trover saves the universe. I was also surprised to find how accurate the color comparison image was in the marketing. I tested this by viewing the worse color accurate image in the example on my Acer LED monitor and the Pixio at the same time. I have added a picture of this comparison to my review. In conclusion, this is the best ips monitor at this price range at 1440p 27in. If thats what your looking for i can’t recommend this enough. The 95hz is an added bonus. Would love to pick up another sometime in the future Year 1 Update: I still love this monitor. The HDR looks amazing in games like Destiny 2, though windows 10 still is quite unstable with its HDR implementation. If your graphic settings support it, make sure to switch your default dynamic output from limited to full. The difference is night and day. 12bit color no longer appears as an option, but thats probably my fault for trying to overclock it. Got a replacement arm stand which greatly help my posture and was a worthwile upgrade. Would still recommened this monitor to learning designers who are interested in gaming on the side or vice-versa.

Pro: Good IPS panel, nice viewing angle. Very nice to have wide colour garment in its price (but need calibration out of the box), pixial responce time is decent, no ghosting or pixel overshoot in nomal pixel responce time setting. The monitor itself is light, but still good enough to get the job done, package is solid and does well enough to protect the monitor. Support standard VESA mount. Con: The white balance is way off out of the box, but if your work need a well calibrated display, you already has the tool for it. The metal stand has near to none adjectability, just well enought to get the job done and keep the monitor on the table. OSD control is not as good as those with five way control button, and button feels very cheap. And the speaker, is really really bad. Sound is hollw, no bass, tin can mids, no treble. It's like listen to a cheap single speaker radio from the other side of a tunnel. So even though there is speaker that come with it, you are not going to use it if there are anyother choice available. Overall, it is a very good monitor for its price point, the video quality is well above anything under $300. But you have to know what you are paying for: it is no 165hz gaming monitor, and it is no 99% adobe rgb pro monitor that is that calibrated itself every month. Those feathures only available to monitor cost twice as the px275h. I use it with a desk mount for video and photo editing after calibration, and some light gaming with it. It tick every box that I want, and without paying for anything I don't need (monitor stand, rgb, software). Great value.

I have used this monitor for a while now for gaming and editing videos. The picture quality is very nice with the IPS panel. The 1440p 95Hz panel is nice and a massive upgrade over 1080p 60Hz. It arrived with no dead pixels, and the monitor was packaged very well. The stand is all metal, but it has very little adjustability (but that is expected at this price point in my opinion). The monitor has VESA mounting capability, so you don't need to use the included stand if you have a VESA mount already. Overall, the monitor is very nice for the price, and I highly recommend it at this point in time if you are looking for a budget 1440p high refresh rate monitor. The colors are also fantastic and much more accurate than a TN panel, but the color accuracy will vary between panels as they are not color-calibrated from the factory. For the price, this is an awesome gaming and productivity hybrid monitor.

4.5/5 Stars! Was previously on a 1440p 144hz TN panel with good color but not only was this $60 cheaper than my old Dell S2719 it had a wider color gamut and higher accuracy and better gamut so I leapt on it since Pixio IPS panels sometimes go out of stock. -First panel had a flaw where it would go black and could not connect to any GPU without rebooting. Suspect port/IO flaw. - Second Panel worked flawlessly. Comes uncalibrated with a slight green tint but tinkering in the OSD (geeze I wish they had better buttons or control stick like LG) and caliberating on Spyder 5 had amazing results. 98.9% sRGB accurate coverage, 89.7% Adobe rgb, and 96.5% DCI-P3 coverage. Perfect 2.2 gamut and stable 95hz with 6 sec response time with deep blacks and great color depth. -Gaming like video work was a visual delight. 144hz is more smooth but the difference is small. If all you do is game then yeah TN is the ticket. But for visual fidelity AND gaming responsiveness this is the buy. 95hz is easier to run so a Vega 56/rtx 2060 will still get 60-80 fps. 1440p 144hz still needs $600-1200 GPUs to run well. -Packaging was very good and secure. This is a very good monitor for the money. Has equivalent or often better colors to most sub $500 IPS gaming panels, equivalent response time, wide freesync range. If it had higher Adobe rgb coverage it would be equivalent to photo editing monitors +50% higher in price. -Bezels were comparable to Dell or LG designs. -Great Freesync implementation. Works with my 1070ti and Vega 64LC. Not officially G sync compatible but what is really? Cons: -Camre with a heavy green bias. Didn't expect factory caliberation but it was noticeable. Caliberating it yourself fixed it in a jiffy. -Wish IO was set with a better Backplate it is definitely one of the areas where they cut corners. -The stand sucks. Tilt is difficult and it's far too short. There are a handful of VESA stands that fix this but the stock stand is awful. - The OSD controls are pretty rough. -Freesync is off by default. Most Modern GPUs can take advantage of it and the new Intel ones likely will next year. This should be on by default. -QA going by reviews seems good based on the small amount of reviews but my first monitor was a dud albeit, a small flaw. QA on IPS panels is often a gamble but Pixio can always improve in this even with more budget options. Settings I used: Brightness:50 Red:49 Green:48 Blue:51 Contrast:55 Saturation:45 For those who love tinkering I was able to use the CRU (Custom Resolution Utility) to overclock the frame rate to 100hz and freesync range to 30-100. Caution as with any modifications but it was rather simple and really drives home the value of this panel.

The Pros: - Showed up a week earlier than the delivery date said it would, so that's a bonus. - Menus were easy to navigate and chanting the settings was straightforward and easy. - Image quality is a definite improvement over 1080p. - Sub $300 while maintaining quality. - No dead pixels on my unit - Small bezels. The maybes: - Never owned another 1440p or larger resolution monitor so have nothing to compare the image quality to but it is definitely much better than my old 1080p one. - While 95Hz isn't that much of an improvement over 60 compared to say 120Hz let alone 240Hz, but for 1440p depending on the games you play and your GPU, you may not be able to get higher frustrates in games so 95 is a nice middle ground, (plus this monitor with adaptive sync has support from 30-95Hz so even if you cant hit 95Hz you are good to go) - The included stand. This one is giant hit or miss, it really depends on your current setup and space you place the monitor. The stand holds the monitor decently off the surface and it only has tilt adjust so if the height doesn't work for you, you may need to purchase another stand or mount. lucky it was just right for my case. - This goes in maybe as it is a personal preference thing if you care if your monitor is ips or not, I personally love having an ips gaming monitor over a tn but its truly down to if you care or not. The Cons - Out of the box the calibration settings are pretty awful but this is a giant nitpick as it can just be fixed yourself so not really an issue. But you still wont get a perfect color range. - Monitor only comes with an hdmi cable so if you want to use adaptive sync with an nvidia card you will need to buy or already have a Display Port cable. - No extra IO on the back such as usb or other connectors but again at the price point that is just another giant nitpick. - And just another small thing is the bright blue indicator led that is on the bottom right, but hey electrical tape. Conclusion: If you are looking for a 1440p gaming monitor that is over 60Hz refresh rate that is also ips and are on a budget or just don't want to spend a lot of money on a monitor this is the perfect monitor for you.

People were telling me to get a 144hz monitor, and I am glad I researched long and hard and did not listen. I was looking for a monitor that was 1440p, had amazing vibrant colors, was faster than 75hz, was bright and had a beautiful picture for entry level 1440p gaming. This monitor absolutely checked off all of those boxes. Out of the box, the monitor needs some tweaking. Try the following: Brightness: 31 Contrast: 52 Gamma: 2.0 Color: Red: 47, Green: 46, Blue: 48 Response Time: Middle Saturation: 46 (sRGB) You can keep all other settings Default, but I turned on (within the monitor settings) HDR and Freesync With my current set up, I am likely not going to get more than 90-95 FPS at max/ultra settings in the vast majority of games at 1440p, and to be honest, I am getting between 65-90 FPS in almost all my games with my hardware. My games are almost all JRPG games. Right now, I am playing Ni No Kuni 2, which looks breathtakingly beautiful on this monitor. I had a 29" LG Ultrawide 75hz 1080p monitor, and the colors were washed out, and the letter-boxing in the cut scenes was horribly distracting. With the 27" Pixio PX275h, the aspect ratio is PERFECT in all of my games. In Ni No Kuni 2, this monitor is so so so bright and beautiful, and holy cow, the colors are so vibrant. Done are the days of gaming on a 230-250 nit dull LG 75hz ultrawide, squinting in darker scenes and looking at dull dull dull colors. These colors are so rich and the screen brightness is so bright, you might need some SPF 100 suntan lotion. One big thing you need to know, you can NOT get HDR 10-bit color with a DisplayPort cable with this monitor. The DP port on the monitor is 1.2, not 1.4. I am using an 8K High Speed HDMI Cable (48Gbps, 8K, Dynamic HDR, eARC, (3 foot)), and Windows is showing this as an HDR monitor with 10-bit color. Other thing you need is some tweaking with the color profile/settings. Once you either tweak it yourself, or find and load a good ICC profile, this monitor will look as good as monitors costing well over twice its price. Out of the box, not so good. Once I got a good ICC color profile (from reddit) loaded and tweaked the colors, WOW WOW WOW WOW, it is so so so beautiful. If I have one gripe, it is the stand. I am short, and luckily, height-wise it is good. Unfortunately, I can not tilt it down (it ONLY tilts upward). It does the job as a super basic stand, and to be honest, for now it is fine. I can always upgrade it, and if they needed to save money somewhere to get in at this price point, they sacrificed in all the right places. If you have a 2060/5600XT series video card like me and like playing your games at the max/ultra settings, 95hz is going to be as high as you can probably go in most games anyways. Almost every game I am at 65-90 FPS at that resolution/settings anyways. All in all, I highly recommend this monitor and very happy I got it. I now have completed my gaming rig I built with a beautiful 1440p monitor it needed for gaming.

I consider myself to be a snob when it comes to displays. I have an $800 ASUS ROG gaming monitor, which OC's at 165Hz on an IPS panel at 2K resolution. It is, for all intents and purposes, the best gaming monitor around. I will be using it as the bar for this review. Let me start off by saying that I've only had this monitor for 2 days and will probably update this review after 30. This is just an initial review. I'm going to break this down by pros and cons, while keeping the price into consideration. Keep in mind, this list is strictly a product review and will not be applied to any specific use cases. Pros: - The 95Hz is true to its word and is noticeably better than 60Hz and even 75Hz. - The precalibrated color profile is good (finding colors to be more warmer than my ASUS monitor but it is hardly noticeable) - Picture quality is sharp and on par with high end displays (definitely comparable to my ASUS monitor) - Stand is very durable - The display menu has plenty of options to choose from (includes multi-window functionality) - Amazon product details are accurate and not misleading in the slightest Cons: - Stand, as mentioned by other reviewers, is hardly adjustable but was never advertised otherwise - The display menu UI feels antiquated but it serves its purpose - Bezel-less claim is a bit reaching. While the material that is used to cover the display does reach from one end to the other, there is a quarter of an inch black bar that surrounds the left, top, and right side of the monitor. It does look bezel-less when the monitor is turned off, if that's your thing. As for gaming, I am a snob and wouldn't want to use anything lower than 120Hz. If you are looking for a true gaming monitor at the same price, then you will have to sacrifice resolution. There is no way around it. You could get a 1080P monitor with 120Hz, perhaps even 144Hz, at the same price. So you might be asking, what is the practicality in a purchase like this one? For me, it's very simple. I am software developer and can appreciate the real-estate a 2K resolution display has to offer. The jump from 1080P to 2K is enormous and makes everything look so much sharper, especially on an IPS panel. It gets even more noticeable when you are using 27" monitor. At this size, I will never go back to 1080P. I use a 165Hz monitor on a daily basis. Once you experience this, you will never want to look at a 60Hz display again. This is where Pixio has come in. They are pushing a new standard in display technology that I can appreciate. I hope this helps someone.

I looked at hundreds of different monitors before purchasing the Pixio PX275H, and I bought it because it had just the right amount of features for my needs without getting to be excessive. 1440p, 95 Hz, 27", etc, all for $260! This monitor has great picture quality and was worth every penny. The only hiccup I've had is when using the built-in 3.5mm audio port. Occasionally (maybe once every day or two) it will stop outputting audio and I have to turn it off and back on again to fix it. Just a minor inconvenience that takes 10 seconds to fix, so I'm not upset about it for the price I paid. Other than that, I really like the monitor settings menu because it's easy to navigate and allows for a lot of customization. The metal stand feels very sturdy and looks nice, the bezels are thin, and there's a good selection of ports. It's exactly what I needed in a monitor!

This review is broken up into categories, so feel free to skip to what interests you! History: So, it's been about a year now trying to decide on the perfect gaming monitor for my wife and I. We've been using budget gaming 1080p 24" monitors from Asus/Acer for years now. I was ready for something truly better overall for both of us, but the choice is hard. At first, I was looking primarily at 24" 1440p 144hz monitors. In fact, I grabbed a Dell S2417DG on Black Friday 2018 after some moderate research. I wanted a $500+ panel, but at $299, I thought the Dell would give at least as good image quality as my current TN Asus with better response rate. Then if I got something better later, I could give my wife the Dell. However, the Dell had horrible issues with Contrast, Banding, and Gamma. Tweaking Gamma/Contrast & Applying Color corrective profiles made banding horrible! And even with the colors more accurate, they were severely muted. Increasing them in software just creates more banding and clipping. What a mess! I also realized the 1440p and 24" does not work well in this day and age. Windows 10 scaling is crap, and various games have various issues with interfacing sizing, etc. I got tired of this nonsense and decided to start researching again. Months of research went by and prices were coming down. But honestly, I was scared to buy another TN panel. Sure, they can have fantastic response rates, but finding one that actually has a good picture/color seemed difficult. IPS and VA just look better. VA seemed like a good option, but I didn't really want curved, the Samsung Q70's stand wouldn't work for me, and VA seemed to be back to bad response unless it was the Quantum Dot. So, I nixed the cheaper VAs. So that left the IPS panels. Any 1440p 144hz IPS panel was $400+, and I was almost willing to do it.... But then I kept coming back to this Pixio. I had watched it release and get great reviews, and it always hovered at $260. If I could live with IPS glow and getting "only" 95Hz, it seemed like the perfect option. At least something that will hold us over for 5 years while gaming monitor tech improves. (Can't wait for OLED 144Hz+ to be a feasible thing once they fix burn in) So, I pulled the trigger and ordered two Pixio PX275h. I justified the 95Hz in a few ways. 1. We're not pro gamers, and we don't play FPS that often. 2. Image Quality is more important the slightly more speed 3. 95hz with a good response rate should be clear enough 4. We don't buy top end video cards and like to max our settings, so at 1440p, many games won't average much over 100FPS anyways. 5. The 30-95Hz Freesync range is fantastic and better for strategy games than the 48-144, were it flickers when you drop below 48FPS. Build Quality (6.5/10): First off, after buying and receiving 2 of these monitors, I had to buy a 3rd to replace one of the first two, as it had 2 bad pixels and some kind of splotch inside the screen. That one also had a misaligned stand mount so it was a paint to get it assembled. So it loses a point for the defective model. The physical build of the monitor is fine. Nothing premium or low end, just average, which is fine. The stand is fairly sturdy, and save for the difficulty of getting one of them on due to misalignment of the backer plastic, work fine. Could it be better? Definitely. But at this price point, I’m just happy it’s metal, sleek, not creaky. The screen stays stable on the table, which is fine. Would’ve liked a more adjustable stand like the Dell had, but I do like the look and feel of this simple metal stand. The OSD is a mixed bag. While it has most of the adjustments I’d like, it’s a learning curve to use. The buttons are stiff and feel kind of cheap. They layout of the buttons isn’t horrible, but isn’t terribly intuitive either. I’m also taking points off her due to 1 out of 3 panels having defects. Image Quality (8.5/10): This is why we went IPS. The Image Quality is FANTASTIC! Brightness and Contrast are great, but colors are what really pop, looking real and not over saturated. We do a lot of photo editing, so we were hoping that this would be the case, and it is! My only complaint on the colors are the OSD color adjustments. When you do user adjustment, you get an RGB scale from 0 to 100, but going from the starting point, 50, to 49 or 51 makes a massive difference! It should be much smaller increments. Also, tweaking these seem to mess up different shades of gray. I found 51 on red and 49 on green to be our sweet spot for a slightly warm look but still neutral look. So why only 8.5? Well, 0.5 off for the OSD color adjustment issue, and the other 1.0 off due to mild IPS Glow and mild color banding. First, I expected IPS glow, and all three monitors had about the same amount of glow coming from the bottom two corners. It’s pretty much as expected, not better or worse, but I still take off a point because it does hinder dark scene quality. Then there’s the banding. It’s not bad, don’t get me wrong, but I expected gradients to be perfect. WAY better than the Dell S2417DG, but not as good as I’d expect on an 8-bit IPS panel. Now, I am using Display Port not HDMI, so that may be part of it. I cannot select 10bpc even though it appears as an option. This also means I can’t use HDR, which is fine, as I don’t particularly care about. Viewing Angles are very good. But overall, the panel as a whole looks fantastic 98% of the time, and I’m happy I went IPS with current options. Motion/Gaming (7.5/10) So this was the big one for me. A monitor needs to look good, but for gaming, I really wanted smooth motion and retained sharpness during motion. I really didn’t want to take a step back from the Dell S2417DG, but with IPS or VA, there was no choice without spending a boatload. But I’m fairly happy with how the screen handles motion. Just using my eye, I can tell that moving objects are not quite as sharp as the Dell was. But it is leaps and bounds better than my old 60hz TN panel. But smoothness is great. Freesync works to keep FPS stutters less noticeable, and artifacts such as ghosting or inversion are minimal. I use the “High” option for response rate. That being said, side by side with a good 144Hz IPS panel, I’m sure you’d notice the difference in fast paced action. So the question for the buyer becomes is it worth the added cost? If this monitor is as good as a $450 IPS 144hz with the same specs, save for the slower 95hz, then is it worth the 70% added cost for a 50% high potential frame rate? For me, the answer was no. Had the 144hz version of this screen be available and $350 or less, I would have gone for that. So the conclusion here is that it is significantly better than 60hz, but not quite as good as a good 144hz IPS panel. No surprises there. Sounds Quality: Who Cares? I wish it had been $10 less and not included speakers. What a waste on a screen like this! I guess it’s for LAN parties or for content creators who need just occasional audio, but I feel that 99.9% of users of a screen like this will use dedicated speakers or headphones.\ Conclusion: If you want to get particular about your screen, there is no perfect technology out there. OLED promises to be the future, but not yet, and they still have to fix burn in issues. For now, you have to decide between 1 of the 3 flawed panel types out there. If I could spend $400-500 on a screen and get a perfect 1440p 144hz monitor with no motion blur, no backlight bleed/IPS Glow, perfect color/contrast/black levels, and perfect viewing angles, I would. But even at $600-800, you don’t get perfection, and that’s a shame. But if you want a gaming panel that just compromises a little bit here or there without any major glaring flaws, this is a good option!

LOVE BUY IT!!!! absolutely amazing monitor the colors are great!!!