I always had monitors (from TN, VA, IPS the last one) but I always looked for the inches I wanted with FHD resolution and a well-known brand name at a good price, but it was time for an upgrade and I decided to read a bit more. I wanted to try OLED since in recent years it’s been talked about a lot (at least abroad).
I ended up with GIGABYTE’s offering since they’ve been in the field for years with their pros and cons. The price was tempting at 600 euros, although it still hurt a bit (you can find it for 540-580).
The monitor is brand new, only a few months on the market, and it is EXACTLY THE SAME as the more expensive and successful FO27 Q2, which means we have the same QOLED PANEL, 240Hz 2K, and all the other features (PLENTY OF VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE), you just pay for the "AORUS" logo, which is supposed to be the HI-END GAMING series with better quality. Others say (reddit) that the (region) country where these batches are shipped plays a role.
Let’s get to the point now, the monitor ROCKS... from colors, clarity, but most importantly its incredible BLACKS that make the contrast, it’s like playing with sunglasses and suddenly taking them off.
It has many preset settings with warmer colors, more natural, cooler in the color palette, where everything is adjustable in terms of brightness, contrast, etc.
The panel is glossy (fewer reflections from external lighting), it’s the same one SAMSUNG uses in its monitors.
If you’re a competitive gamer (I’m not), the 240Hz will cover you, the monitor has no motion blur, and response times are at 0.03ms, plus it has a button on the screen where you press it and it automatically reduces the screen coverage from 27" to 24" and switches the resolution to 1080P for those hardcore players who play like professionals....

Now, about its HDR, I wasn’t impressed, it has HDR400 certification but from what I found online, this is entry level, there are other levels I think which have better brightness, color palette... hdr1000, 1400, which didn’t excite me. I played dozens of videos in HDR content and they are amazing, but as soon as I switch to SDR mode, jaws drop and that’s when you realize it comes calibrated for SDR content, which is what most people will use... (there is an HDR calibration app to adjust the colors with a profile of your liking but it requires Win11, I have 10 so I couldn’t try it, I settled for the slider in Win10 that adjusts brightness, clarity, contrast all together... hmm, doesn’t sound very good because it isn’t... so the selling point of the monitor isn’t its HDR and be careful because in this price category and a bit higher, they all have the same... hdr400... which left me indifferent for now, but I’ll look into it a bit more of course... there are settings through the Nvidia app which I haven’t bothered with, as well as ready monitor ICC profiles you can download and install from experienced users (see rtings site), if not for the same, there are for all similar types with the same panel, as we said FO27Q2 or Q3, I’ll look into it in time.

The monitor is not officially G-SYNC certified but no problem since you put it in compatibility mode through the Nvidia control panel and everything works fine.
It comes with all the cables, from HDMI 2.1, DP 1.4, USB to type C, even a power adapter if you’re in America... The fact that it has HDMI 2.1 means it has greater bandwidth, which as I understand means better signal transfer quality, the signal isn’t so compressed, helps in many cases, mainly in gaming and displaying high-resolution and refresh rate content.
It has 5w speakers which are quite good compared to others I’ve heard, they do their job.

Menu changes are made with a mini joystick cross under the screen, easy to learn, but Gigabyte also has its own app you can download and make some settings from there via Mouse from the desktop. The only useful thing I found is that you can see if there’s a firmware update and install it. It also found my SSD and because it’s Aorus Gigabyte, it shows you the health of the disk and some more info...
But I didn’t like the app’s appearance, I still haven’t found a save in the settings and it’s slow. Also, add a manual so we know what we’re pressing, even the ones you download from the site, since the package doesn’t have a manual to read, it’s bad.

The stand does what I wanted, height, tilt up and down... the construction is minimal and sturdy, it also has a plastic adapter to run the cables through for a tidier result, whatever...
Note that in other countries the monitor has a 3-year warranty, but in ours it comes with 2 years, as Gigabyte itself says, it depends on the country you’re in... what can I say, I won’t comment... but I realized it after the fact, of course Skroutz gives you another year with 12 euros extension at purchase but I didn’t choose it because I thought it had 3 years... so be careful.

Now, many worry about the so-called burn-in of the image, reading I saw that it happened in older generations of Oled and now it has been largely eliminated, here comes the built-in program of Gigabyte (other OLED brands have it too, OLED CARE) which every 4 hours through the menu tells you to turn off the monitor for 3 minutes to refresh the pixels (that’s how long it takes), I do it religiously, it also has a counter with hours of operation and how many times you’ve done it. It also automatically does some actions like moving some pixels slightly right or left, reducing brightness of some logos that stay on the desktop for a long time, etc., which you can disable but I don’t see the point since I didn’t even notice these functions were happening!!!

I read that oled monitors are not good for reading text from the screen or writing, it’s something I didn’t see... however, I didn’t get it for professional purposes or office work, let’s not become like those demanding types who look to see if pixels are visible when writing from 10 centimeters from the screen... or the so-called color fringing phenomenon, which is basically an outline around the characters you write in text towards pink...
these are just to mention, if you’re a professional you’ll go for another monitor, this one is mainly for gaming, movies, surfing...
and that’s how it should be judged!!!

KVM function, you connect the mouse or keyboard to the monitor and it is automatically recognized on any other device you connect, e.g. a laptop, I didn’t try it, I don’t need it...

In summary, steep price to enter the world of oled (for Greece at least, but I hope prices drop so they become more mainstream products), incredible blacks, many functions, good brand, does what I want for gaming and movies, the difference with the very good LG ips I had is not in resolution but in colors and vibrancy, it’s noticeable, I would hardly go back (damned light bleeding of ips monitors) and I probably won’t go back because think, I had 12 hours in Last of Us 2 with the ips, everything maxed out very high without dlss (4080 super + i7 14700) and the monitor arrived and I put it on and it was like playing a different game, before I admired the textures and environments outdoors which are amazing in the game... then I wanted to go into dark areas with torches, explosions, fires, and interiors because the black and reflections go to another level....
in some menus I saw some flickering which I read is the so-called flickering in some static images... my opinion, whatever... these are not a deterrent to not get this monitor... or any other in the category as they all more or less show it, reading in foreign forums with experienced users.

Don’t forget to set the monitor from Windows to 240Hz, same in the Nvidia app, mine was set to 60Hz....
Connect consoles without fear, it’s compatible..
happy gaming to all, I hope I helped a bit as I have been helped by others with their writings

edit 07/06/2026 14 months in my possession with 3910 hours of use according to the monitor’s counter and the screen is like the first day with no sign of burn-in.