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mistakenly sent me is the GN 24 C a 24 inch 1080p VA monitor with an 1800 R curve and a maximum 144 Hertz refresh rate with free sync of course the geode 24 C is currently going for 220 dollars so that's a little bit more expensive than the 24 inch 1080p TN panels at 144 Hertz those retail for around 190 to 200 dollars but considering we're looking at a VA panel instead that's a small bump in price and it could be worth it if there's an improvement to performance personally I'm not a huge fan of curve 16:9 displays as I don't think the curve improves the viewing experience whatsoever at 24 inches the monitor it's simply too small for it to have any impact curved displays are a bit of a personal preference thing though so I'm not gonna mark down Vitek for choosing a curved panel I really like to design this model a it's probably my favorite monitor design of the past dozen monitors I've reviewed and that's for one reason it's simple despite being marketed as a gaming monitor the GN 24 seat doesn't feature any crazy RGB LEDs or read gamer patterns it's just a basic functional design that looks great in particular is a single piece of curved matte plastic which in conjunction with the three pronged metal standard is a fantastic minimalist aesthetic it's reasonably thin for a curved model as well I honestly wish more gaming monitors looked like this rather than the usual stuff you get with Sade and a soos rog display while the design looks great it's still pretty basic from a functionality perspective this Dan only supports tilt adjustment so you don't get height adjust which I find to be the most critical adjustability feature like a lot of fixed height monitors the June 24 C sits pretty low on your desk I suspect a lot of people have to raise it up a bit for comfortable usage the OSD control is also very basic with four buttons along the bottom edge I really wish WyoTech adduced a directional toggle here but it's not quite as bad as other monitors that opt for a basic face button simply because the OSD doesn't include a ton of features aside from a quite limited array of color controls overdrive and free sync settings and a cheat crosshair feature there's nothing else to see here really four inputs you get two HDMI ports and DisplayPort that's it there are built-in speakers but the only way to use them is via HDMI or DisplayPort audio and the quality of the speaker's isn't great so perhaps forget I ever mentioned them one last thing to talk about before looking at performance and that's the bezel size biotechs website definitely exagerate s-- the slimness of the bezels the product photos show the image extending all the way to the outer plastic edge but in reality the panel begins about five millimeters in from that edge bezels of just eight point five millimeters or so are still quite slim but don't be fooled by the product shots on biotechs website so the panel we're looking at is a 24 inch 1920 by 1080 VA LCD with a maximum refresh rate of 144 Hertz it supports free synchroflow frame rate compensation and it has an 1800 hour curvature compared to the TN panels used in Cheaper 24 inch 1080p 144 it's displays this VA panel does bring significantly improve viewing angles though slightly reduced due to the curve and of course a much higher contrast ratio with superior blacks typically VI panels feature slower response times compared to TN so we'll look at that later and the cheaped here in displays are flat rather than curved if that makes a difference for you thing checks out in terms of brightness and contrast ratio biotech claims a 215 it peak brightness and I measured around 278 notes out of the box and that's a suitable brightness level for indoor usage contrast ratio hovers around 3200 to one beating via text claims and that ratio is held well throughout a range of brightnesses competing TN panels are more around the nine hundred to one mark so this is one area you are going to get a massive improvement to performance and that's all down to V as much lower black levels unfortunately the GN 24 C does suffer from poor display uniformity the flat TN panels I've tested around this price aren't amazing either but when you add a curve it tends to be harder to keep the backlight uniform the edges of the June 24 C are particularly inaccurate compared to the center more so than other curve displays I've looked at and there's a noticeable glow near the edges when viewing darker content out of the box color performance is also poor the GA 24 C gets its white balance approximately correct but the rest of the grayscale range isn't great and you can see that in the CCT average chart and also in the Delta II chart the average grayscale delta a comes out at 3.97 but those mid Gray's are clearly well above that gamma of just one point out is bizarrely low as well most monitors get that much closer to 2.2 at the factory this lackluster performance continues looking at saturation sweeps where the G and 24 C produces a delta a of just four point three four and that's even higher in Co checker at five point five with a maximum Delta a of nine point nine two to me these results indicate that no factory calibration has been done whatsoever and biotech a basically just taking the panels as is without considering accuracy and to be fair to them that is expected of a budget monitor though this one is particularly inaccurate out of the box at least we are getting near full srgb coverage normally this is the part of the review where I talk about addressing these performance issues through the settings provided in the on screen display because normally you can get some quick and easy fixes through twiddling a few settings and that allows you guys to get the most out of your display with that a calibration tool but in this case the case of the jehan 24 C the OSD only provides a few basic controls and from my testing I concluded that changing any of them actually makes the performance worse compared to the default mode the main setting you have act - is a standard user color control with sliders for red green and blue but bizarrely tightening up say 100% white and a dark gray value causes mid Gray's to get less accurate while tightening up mid Gray's blows out a hundred percent white part of this is like me down to the lack of a proper gamma setting you're still going to be stuck at gamma 1.8 so my advice unfortunately is to leave the display on its default setting and leave any calibration down to a software profile the good news is the display is actually quite easy to calibrate so it would have definitely been nice to get more control on the OSD to make proper changes after a quick run-through using spectral Cal's Cal Man 5 the GN 24c ended up with a proper gamma curve around 2.2 a good CCT average and good Delta ease across both our grayscale saturation and color checker tests even the maximum de in color checker was respectable just 2.27 which is a better result than I achieved with the equivalent TN panel it's also great to see the calibration had only a minor effect on contrast ratio dropping from 31 to 60 3 to 1 to just 30 88 to 1 one of the major issues with calibrating TN panels is a loss in contrast the kg to 5 1qf with its 24 inch 144 Hertz TN drops to just 728 to 1 which is significantly lower than what the GN 24c provides when calibrating so when you do get the TN and VA panels providing similar color accuracy the VA option is providing a much better image due to superior contrast and better viewing angles and as always our patreon members can download the calibrated display profile I created for this monitor over on our patreon page links to that in the description below for this monitor in particular I think it is worth grabbing that profile to improve performance significantly as for response times this V air monitor actually performs quite well with an average greater gray response time of 5.2 2 milliseconds all but one transition I measured the full black to white transition took less than the refresh rate window of 6.9 4 milliseconds so this display is definitely capable of displaying a true 144 Hertz the black white black transition time of 13.8 eight milliseconds is decent for a VA panel as well biotech do claim a 3 millisecond transition time for this display so the actual results are a few milliseconds off again this isn't bad for a VA panel few things to mention though as you'll see in the chart competing at 1080p 144 Hertz tan panels are around twice as fast so you'll experience less ghosting and smearing with the tea and offering that's it transition times around 5 milliseconds don't usually result in a lot of ghosting anyway and with the superior color performance of this video I think overall you're going to get a better experience I also tested with overdrive disabled there are three overdrive modes but all introduced overshoot sometimes significant overshoot which causes issues like reverse ghosting which i think is unacceptable even with overdrive disabled one transition did show a slight overshoot of around 10% is 0 to 50% great transitions so it seems vaio takes default drive through this panel is pushing it pretty close to the limits as its it's also worth looking at input lag and this monitor is undoubtedly very fast in terms of processing at just a few milliseconds the kg 2 5 1 qf which again is one of those $200 or so 1080p 144 Hertz TN displays exhibited significantly more input lag so even though the k g2 v 1q F's TN panel is twice as fast the GN 24c is actually faster overall when input lag is factored in so that's a great result for gamers wanting to buy the GN 24 see there is one downside though and that's power consumption the GN 24 seed uses a huge 49.8 watts when calibrated which is significantly higher than the 17.4 one so measure to the kg 2 v 1 qf but at an average power price of 13 cents per kilowatt-hour in the united states it'll cost you just 19 dollars a year to run the June 24 C for eight hours a day compared to seven dollars for the K t25 1qf and I'll leave it up to you to decide whether that price difference matters I'm a bit torn on whether to recommend the vo-tech GN 24 C or not I really like the design and most importantly I do think the VA panel offers better color quality and performance than competing TN panels that are available for around $20 less so while the GN 24 C is $220 compared to $200 for 10 competitors the way better contrast ratio viewing angles and overall input lag is worth the 10% price increase in my opinion but you really need to care retina monitor to get acceptable performance the out-of-the-box calibration is poor and this little you can do to address the problem in the OSD so you either calibrate yourself which isn't cheap if you don't already have the required software or you download a software profile like we provide for our patrons but that only gets you so far and due to variance in panels and software compatibility issues it doesn't guarantee great performance in every application I really wish fire tech had tightened up calibration at the factory or at least included a wider set of controls to fix accuracy using the OSD because then the June 24 C would be an easy recommendation it's better than the 10 offerings for a small increase in price but as it stands whether this monitor is right for you will come down to whether you are willing to calibrate it or really how much you care about color performance that's it for this review of the vo-tech G + 24 C there's links to check out this monitor and a range of others we recommend in the description below along with links to that display profile I mentioned over on our patreon page if you are interested in becoming a patreon member you'll also get access to our private discord chat and monthly livestream so that's a nice bonus don't forget to subscribe for more in depth monitor reviews and I'll catch you in the next one you