LG UltraGear 27-Inch QHD Gaming Monitor

I had been looking at two different monitors and I finally decided on this LG Ultra Gear monitor. I have to say coming from a very old monitor (with VGA and DVI) I am beyond impressed with this monitor. It’s a steal, I got it on sale for $346.99. The brightness is higher than I expected and the menu is beyond easy. Just so everyone knows I used this with my Xbox Series S and it was fully compatible with AMD Freesync Premium and 1440p 120fps. I don’t know if it’s the Xbox or the monitor but if you have HDR enabled your framerate drops to 60fps which is fine with me cause the only time I would use HDR is with movies. The only downsides are quality control. Backlight bleed and dead and/or stuck pixel are relatively common and multiple people have had reviews on this monitor saying it has a dead pixel or severe backlight bleed out of the box. I had no dead pixels and a very VERY tiny amount of backlight bleed at the top. I don’t know if I’m lucky or if they just fixed some production errors. I also was missing an HDMI cable that comes with it. All in all very happy with this monitor and would recommend to anyone in the price range.

I just got this monitor today, so I can’t tell you how it will last. I have an Acer 1440p 144hz 27″ monitor, and up till now I have been using an older 1080p 65hz 27″ monitor as my second monitor. I wanted this monitor so that when I moved things from one screen to the other they stayed the same size, and the mouse stopped jumping. This new monitor solved that, but the picture is SO much prettier than my Acer 1440p monitor. The blacks are much darker, the whites are much brighter, and everything just looks so much more vivid. Now I am tempted to buy a second monitor so that both screens have the same pretty image.

I got this moniter when it was on sale so I’m slightly biased, a qhd 144hrz moniter for the price I got is amazing, it has good color and clarity but awful glaring looking at an angle. Overall pretty good

The colors are vivid and nice, the refresh rate is buttery smooth, the build quality is strong, the monitor seems sturdy, the menus are easy to use, comes with different presets that you can change. The brightness is really good, and all in all this is a great monitor!

Bought this back in August 2021. Thought it was a great monitor that worked really well! Brought it through its paces, did nursing school work with it, played Apex Legends, Ark, Halo, any other steam game you’d think to play. It was good! until about a little more than a year later, and the screen started to look a little funky. I thought nothing of it, made sure that the monitor temperature was ok (I would occasionally literally put my hand on the front of the monitor to make sure there wasn’t any heated places). So far there was none, but I should have known better. Come to this night, April 19th, 2023, and I’m working on Clip Studio Paint art for one of my friends, and my screen starts freaking out with the big white lines that are very visible as shown in the picture. I’ve turned it off and on again about 4-5 times, even unplugged the display port cord to make sure it wasn’t the GPU (thankfully it wasn’t, goodness), so it got me thinking. Then I noticed that the bottom right portion of the screen was starting to turn from green to black, and made the mistake of touching that part. It was literally like touching a hot part of a stove, yanking my hand away, and proceeded to turn off the monitor for good. I didn’t think that the monitor would malfunction so much that it would start interfering with the pixels and melt the internal side of the monitor. If I had ignored it for much longer, it could have turned from a small bunch of dead pixels to a possible fire hazard from knowing how hot it was. So yes, I am not using this brand ever again, or at least not for a long while until I see reviews that are the most promising for the future. The most embarrassing part with this product? I have 2 other monitors that are Samsung, running 60 hz, one of them going on 12 years (24″ LED Monitor S24A300B) and the other going on 8 years (Samsung S27D360H 27″ Widescreen LED LCD Monitor) and they both are in prime pristine condition, not to mention they have been with me in the trenches going to college, through 3 apartments, occasionally in the back of cars, a moving truck, and back. Understatement to say those two monitors were a steal. Overall, I honestly don’t know if you’ll get what you pay for. Definitely not in terms of monitor quality and life. Nice framerate for 144 hz, but at what cost, haha. Consumers, please be sure to do your proper research for your monitors and choose the ones with absolute solid high rate reviews. Don’t only look at the top reviews, but the most recent to gauge the product and its quality. Watch videos with reviews, check what is the best for your budget. As for me, I do not think this monitor is worth it (unless for some reason it’s almost 50% off). Spend wisely folks!

El monitor llego dos días antes de la fecha prevista y se encontraba en perfectas condiciones. En términos estéticos es un monitor muy atractivo, aunque cabe destacar que los bordes no son tan delgados como se muestra en las fotos promocionales pues, aunque los bordes físicos son bastante delgados, la pantalla muestra un borde adicional que en conjunto le otorgan bordes negros de alrededor de un centímetro en las orillas superior y laterales, no es un problema, pero creo que vale la pena mencionarlo. En términos de calidad de imagen el monitor es simplemente fantástico, colores super precisos y vibrantes, así como un brillo espectacular, lo uso en un estudio con ventanas de pared completa que dejan entrar mucha luz y no tengo problemas de visibilidad aun con el brillo al 50% por lo que dudo que alguien batalle en este aspecto. Una característica que me sorprendió muy gratamente es el back light bleed o traspaso de luz que es un problema muy común en monitores IPS y que básicamente destruyen el contraste y se vuelven muy evidentes en ambientes oscuros y observando imágenes con negros, los cuales se terminan viendo grises debido al paso de luz del monitor, bueno pues estaba esperando ver el mismo problema en este monitor pero simplemente no sucede, el contraste y la representación de negros es fantástica, rivalizando incluso un monitor tipo VA (en la imágenes muestro una comparativa entre un monitor IPS de oficina que uso como monitor secundario y este lg 27gn800, como se puede observar incluso con una imagen oscura y en un cuarto con poca iluminación, el monitor LG logra mantener negros con buen contraste y al mismo tiempo colores nítidos, fue la mayor sorpresa que me lleve con este monitor y lo que más me impulsa a recomendarlo. Fuera de eso otro punto positivo es el tiempo de respuesta de poco menos de 5ms en el modo “fast” con un ghosting imperceptible, los 144hz y la resolución. Y un último punto en contra es que el soporte es bastante básico en funcionalidad ya que no permite ajuste de altura, ni girar la pantalla, pero nada que no se pueda arreglar con un soporte vesa 100×100. El monitor es altamente recomendable siempre que no pagues más de 300 dlls por él y supero mis expectativas en cuanto a calidad de imagen y contraste, altamente recomendable.