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hey guys and welcome back to hardware unboxed I know you guys that they were very interested to see some more monitor review coverage on this channel and I'm delivering for you today with the AOC Aegon AG 2 v 1 SZ another monitor with a rubbish product and specs it really hard to remember but this is a quality monitor nonetheless now if you guys watch my review of the asus rog PG 2 v 8 q a couple of weeks ago this is essentially a freesync equivalent of that monitor so it's still a twenty four point five inch TN panel with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 and it supports that extremely high 240 hertz refresh rate with adaptive sync so despite the fact as a sloth on the screen at the moment this monitor is no slouch at all while many aspects of this monitors specifications are very similar to the PG 2 v + q like it's 1000 to 1 rated contrast ratio 1 millisecond greater gray response times and it's 170 160 viewing angles this monitor is cheaper than the PG 2 v 8 q by quite a considerable margin because of the difference between the three sync modules that you find in a susur's offering and free sync in the AG 2 v 1 after that boy that product name this model is $300 cheaper in australia so it comes in at $600 e 2 is right here and for those of you in the United States it's a little bit hard to get because it hasn't quite hit the United States just yet but we should see it coming in at around 500 US dollars around $100 cheaper than it vpg 2 v 8 q and for a monitor with very similar specifications this could be quite a bargain for some of you guys out there as always let's start with the design and to be honest this is a much more attractive monitor than the PG 2 v AQ as you'll see the AG 2 v 1f said it has a much more understated design there's lot of gaming elements in the PG 2 v AQ but you won't find this here on the AOC offering and i think that makes it look a lot better on your desk i love the wide silver stand that you'll find here it's made of metal it's very sturdy and although it's large it does provide a number of manoeuvrability options I think most of you will be after including height adjustment in my opinion the most important adjustment feature of any monitor there's also your standard tilt and swivel adjustment so you can turn this from portrait to landscape mode and vice versa and it also supports your pivoting options from the base so you can rotate this monitor without having to adjust the base itself you simply plant the stand on once and adjust to your heart's galore as the standard supports height adjustment it still uses a pillar design that takes up a fair bit of space on the back so it's not particularly slim monitor that says the actual display section is a bit slimmer than the PG 2 v 8 q and that makes it look a little bit nicer you'll find a large red strip along that back panel which adds a little bit of you know highlights to the design I guess you'd have to say but again no massive game of style elements like on the PG 2 5 X 2 and even though there's a large red back here I think it looks quite good in general and I appreciate the design that a OC has used here as far as connectivity is concerned there is a lot of it on the AG 2 v 1s then you'll find DisplayPort which is necessary for achieving 240 Hertz and for free sync there are also two HDMI ports one of those supports mhm L you also get a DVI port and even a Reggie a port for those of you still using that legacy connector there are two 3.5 mm audio jack pass-through so you connect your audio cables up to the back of the monitor and you can plug in your headphones and microphone to those convenient ports on the right hand side also on the right side two USB 3.0 ports with a further two USB 3.0 ports on the rear of the monitor from that USB 3.0 hub again quite a handy range of connectivity here on the front of this monitor you'll find 10 millimeter wide bevels on the left and right hand side so slightly larger than the PG 2 5 8 2 but slim nonetheless and the on-screen display controls are basically four buttons that you will find along the bottom edge in the right-hand corner it's pretty difficult to control the OSD through these sort of buttons and I prefer the toggle design of the PG 2 5 8 Q but you do get quite a range of features in the screen display including a whole bunch of gamer modes things like shadow bite brightness boosting you've got some saturation controls as overdrive is even something that allows you to make a certain area of the screen bright I'm not quite sure why you need that feature but it's all including the on screen display here you don't get some of those crosshair features like you're playing the PG to 580 I think there's still enough customizability available through the on-screen controls on the AG to 5-1 at set and for those of you who are fighting it too difficult to control the monitor through those buttons on the bottom power IOC is included this it's a comically oversized dongle obviously the text is designed for elderly people is no other explanation for why this thing is so massive but basically this brings out some of the controls from the monitor and puts it on this button so it's a little bit easier to control and navigate through the on-screen display using this little dongle it plugs in through a USB type B port which I can find here that plugs into the back of the monitor so you can simply plug it in set up the monitor however you want using this little dongle and then unplug it and throw it away which is kind of a neat feature to be honest considering that those consequences play control can be a little bit difficult to use up with those buttons on the bottom and I kind of appreciate it though I guess the dongle is a little bit too big for my liking obviously the standout feature of the AG 251 FZ it is 240 Hertz maximum refresh rate as I mentioned in my previous monitor review I can definitely tell the difference between 60 Hertz and 144 Hertz makes a massive difference in the general usability of your PC and in the responsiveness of games however when you upgrade from 144 Hertz to 240 Hertz there's diminishing returns for sure I definitely can't tell as much of a difference between those two refresh rates but for those of you who are into extremely responsive gaming your love planning esports tiles or comparative shooters or whatever you will benefit from the reduced input latency and increased responsiveness of your gaming experience when playing at 240 Hertz and that's obviously why a or C has decided to produce a 240 Hertz more it's for those guys out there who are gamer's and love playing those sort of eSports titles also is pretty interesting to see 240 Hertz support in a free sink motor obviously on the Nvidia front was pretty easy to hit 240 FPS and some games using like a GTX 1080 or GTX 1080i and adjacent monitor like the PG 2 5 8 Q but on the freesync front it's pretty hard to hit 240 frames per second using an iOS 480 or a fury X you probably need to run our X 480 crossfire sort of hit those upper frames limits that you'll need for 240 Hertz or you could simply wait for Vega that should be coming in the next couple of months so not the best moment to buy just at the moment but I think AMD will have some solid graphics offerings in the next couple of months that will really take make use of the children foyers refresh rate you'll find in smaller alright let's jump into spectra Cal Cal Man 5 and take a look at how the AG 251 F said performs in our usual range of color performance tests obviously this is a TN panel so we're not expecting the best viewing angles or contrast ratios and that's definitely the case with this monitor a contrast ratio of just 868 to 1 is below what you'll find on IPS monitors and the viewing angles on this panel are not too amazing particularly in the vertical direction you can achieve 411 nits of peak brightness when you set the brightness level to 100 but adds to fault level of 90 we achieved 336 nits of brightness together which is a bit too bright for most indoor viewing conditions at least in my opinion and what you should definitely calibrate your monitor too as you'll see here the default color temperature average is 64 97k which is very decent and close to the accurate value however the display is cooler at those mid gray levels and warmer and pure white and this is reflected in a grayscale Delta a 2000 average value of 2.39 during a grayscale sweeps there so not the most accurate display in terms of grey performance and gamma performances well pretty disappointing at just a value of 2.0 by default as we move on to our saturation sweeps we find a delta 80 mm value of 2.1 for decent but not outstanding let's remember course that a delta e value of under one is considered pretty much accurate and anything after delta a of two to three can be considered good but not fantastic as we move on to our color checker custom tests the AG 251 s then produced an average delta e mm value of two point nine one so again not fantastic but not terrible for a monitor out of the box if you want to calibrate this model now but you don't have a color calibration tool available to you you can make some adjustments in the on-screen display I recommend changing the contrast to 45 brightness to 49 leaving the gamma setting at gamma one the other two settings don't really impact the accuracy too much setting the color temperature to the user setting and setting red to 51 green to 49 and blue to 44 and just need to leave most of the other settings at their default level however I would recommend to them on overdrive and switching it from off to strong I think that gives the best anti-ghosting performance after performing these OSD adjustments you will see pretty decent grass Gaillard performance here the Delta II mm value has improved to 1.69 gamma still remains pretty poor at 2.0 and the ccc average is decreased to 6 6 7 9 k however i do appreciate that increased accuracy in the grayscale sweeps looking at our saturation sweeps and the average Delta II mm o has improved a 2.01 so pretty decent is certainly getting there and the color checker results we're dancing an improvement a delta e value of 2.73 so you can make some minor improvements the on-screen display adjustments but not quite as good as you'll get from the PG 2 5 8 2 using the kalman 5 utilities to calibrate this monitor using my eye 1 display Pro you can achieve very accurate results on the hd25 1 FZ we're seeing an average grayscale Delta e 2008 of 0.75 sets essentially accurate and an average color temperature of 6 506 K again very very accurate here probably the weakest aspect of this display and something that we be calibrated out is the gamma value still sits at two point one after calibration I guess it's not too much of a big deal but I would have ideal I have seen that at two point two color accuracy is also improved it's not dead accurate within our saturation sweeps an average Delta e value of one point five three again an improvement over dis calibrate using the OSD and again you can see here in our color checker test that the average delta 2000 very has improved you above one point eight seven so not as accurate as you'll find from an IPS level professional-grade Mona but with some calibration you can still achieve really good results with the AG two five one I said I think will be suitable for most gamers and people after just sort of your decent levels of color accuracy and performance so the AOC Aegon AG 251 F set is certainly a very decent gaming monitor for those of you who want something that's twenty four point five inches and they can hit a two hundred and forty Hertz refresh rate it is only 1080p but you do get a very responsive gaming experience from that high refresh rate and support for free sync will please both on AMD systems the color performance out of the box is decent though not outstanding and it can be calibrated to a decent level after the fact it's not as good as you'll find from an IPS level display but still decent nonetheless and the main feature here at the AG two five one and said that I really appreciate is it's designed much better than the competing a seuss rog PG 2 582 that i reviewed previously i love it's much more understated and professional design that looks a bit better on your desk and you get an increased range of ports including two HDMI ports and even VGA if you wanted to use it the pricing that's another important aspect of the hd25 one I've said that makes it a more compelling option than the PG two five eight two for those of you on a budget obviously if you're on an Nvidia system you'll still need to spend a bit more to get that g-sync module but for those that don't care or on an Ambu system you'll be saving at least a hundred US dollars compared to the PG to 5aq with this guy coming in and around five hundred dollars when it hits the u.s. officially and for those of you in Australia this is a $600 ozzie monitor pretty expensive for a 1080p to twenty four point five inch more I know but it is $300 cheaper than the PG 2 v 8 q making one of the options available for the specifications that you get and that's where I think the AOC Aegon AG - v 1f said really succeeds anyway that's it for this review of the monitor I hope you guys enjoyed it don't forget to check the written review on text but calm and we'll catch you in the next one