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welcome back too hard wrong box today it's monitor review time and this particular model I'm looking at today has been reasonably heavily requested by our patreon members as well as a few people via email not sure what was going on there anyway it's the pixie opx 275 H a highly affordable semi high refresh 1440p gaming monitor with a bit of wide gamut and HDR thrown into the mix I was very impressed with the previous pixie monitor I reviewed so I was pretty keen to get this new release in my office for some testing so let's run through the details 27 inches in sight is 2560 by 1440 resolution and it uses a flat IPS panel maximum refresh rate is 95 Hertz minimum is 30 Hertz so we also get free sync with low framerate compensation and great support with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs it's a wide gamut panel with 95% DCI p3 coverage and its HDR ready although there's no true HDR support here as I'll get to later the key feature here is the price of just 260 US dollars through Amazon this is basically the perfect price for these specs we have entry-level 1440p 60 Hertz monitor sitting around $200 these days and then you start seeing higher 144 Hertz refreshes at $300 in both curved and flat TN and VA options with IPS variants often another step above in price tag so what the pic co px 275 H is offering is really a unique middle ground between entry-level 1440p and true high refresh 1440p compared to the standard 1440p 144 hertz $300 options the only major compromise here is in the lower refresh rate of just 95 Hertz unlike a lot of other budget 1440p displays we're still getting a high quality IPS panel with great color support its position well for gamers that don't quite have the cash on hand for the $300 plus models but still want to get into 1440p gaming without having to suffer through sixty Hertz refresh rates or crappy tea and displays I can definitely see why this monitor in particular has generated a lot of buzz right now right out of the box unfortunately not a good start for the PX 275 eh my retail unit shipped with a set of bent legs something I haven't encountered before and really surprised me consuming the strength of the metal used and a lack of damage to the box I believe this was simply a manufacturing issue that wasn't picked up in quality control and not sure I really blame them too much given issue is hard to spot at first glance in fact it wasn't until I was completing the review process that I noticed the issue anyway sometimes you run into issues like this actually buying these products in the real world which is why I've talked about it here picks yo were quick to send out a replacement stand so that should arrive soon and luckily the monitor is still usable as it is right now as I mentioned I was surprised to see the stand come bent because it's made using a strong sturdy metal and visually it looks quite good even with the bends there's still very little wobble in the construction although there's limited adjustability only tilt is supported if you need to adjust the height or swivel it around you'll want to buy a stand that's compatible with the vase and mount on the rear aside from the stand rest of the design is simple effective and in my opinion looks pretty good nothing crazy in terms of RGB lighting or gamer design elements just a basic black plastic construction with a minimalist rear that gives most of the attention to the 27-inch screen on the front slim bezels a few small logos and moderately thin builds and that's about all worth mentioning the one major omission is the directional toggle pick cor continuing to use a row of buttons along the bottom right edge which makes the on-screen menu hard to navigate there aren't a ton of features in the menu most of the options are for color and image controls which are set and forget type stuff but the HDR toggle and crosshair options are things you might want to toggle on and off from time to time let's talk about performance starting with the refresh rate 95 Hertz is a little unusual it's not a typical refresh rate we see but it is notably higher than 60 Hertz and even 75 Hertz which are the refresh rates that dominate budget 1440p offerings to me 95 Hertz is noticeably smoother than either of those low options while 144 Hertz is another step above with that said 95 Hertz is a lot closer to 144 Hertz than the 60 Hertz in terms of how smooth games feel and really at around this Mark II getting many of the benefits that high refresh rates bring just not to the level that your premium offerings deliver the other huge benefit having this monitor refresh at 95 Hertz is proper low framerate compensation support many 75 Hertz and 60 Hertz monitors in fact most on the market do not support LFC which severely limits the usefulness of variable refresh rates it can be quite jarring to jump in and out of the supported refresh rate window but this isn't an issue whatsoever with the px 275 H as it supports LSA and that means the gaming experience is rock-solid be sure to turn on free sync in the monitor settings though it is disabled by default gaming performance is backed up by strong response times falling right in the typical zone for an IPS display I recorded a greater great average of six point five four milliseconds using the middle response time setting which offered the best balance between quick responses and minimal overshoot this doesn't make it the outright fastest IPS I've reviewed but it's right around the mark for a gaming grade panel and is one to two milliseconds quicker than VA options and that 95 Hertz or responses are well within the refresh window so there's nothing to worry about there this display does work as advertised also good to see is minimal input latency of around 3.2 more seconds which again is right around the mark of other gaming grade monitors it's rare to find a gaming monitor that suffers in this department but once again no problems with how the px 275 H performs in this regard where the PX 275 h falls away is in the standard area most budget gaming monitors struggle with and that's color performance pick CEO has made no attempt to factory calibrate this display so my unit arrived with a moderate green tint across the grayscale range this throws up the CCT curve as you can see and when combined with incorrect gamma leads to a high Delta a average of eight point zero three which is far from accurate and then for saturation performance and incorrect white point is mixed with an unclamped gamut to again produce a high Delta a of five point seven nine there's no srgb toggle in the settings so unless use the software profile you will always get over saturation when viewing srgb content which is still the majority of modern imagery that's one of the downfalls of a wide gamut gaming monitor and some pretty common issue and again we see a high Delta average on 5.99 in color check again due to the combination of factors well this is a poor result out of the box the benefit to having an IPS display is it's highly tuneable and can often corrected without much drama in fact with just a few OSD tweaks I was able to achieve strong greyscale performance with a correct white point and good performance throughout the range as seen in that sub 1.0 Delta average which is perfectly accurate I don't expect every px 275 H to ship with a green tint but I should be able to bring whatever white point they end up with back to an accurate position using either a white reference or calibration tool unfortunately there's not a lot you can do to correct the over saturation issue which is why Delta is in our color tests are still above 2.0 and average performance U is good and will be fine for those that like a bit of unnatural vibrance to their image but if you want accuracy you'll need to take it further with a full calibration and once you do that as expected you get perfect performance all of this is down to the IPS panel to begin with pulling these sorts of displays back to an accurate level is often easier and more achievable than with VA or TN at least in my experience however as it requires a software profile you left with all the usual issues like limited compatibility as always the profile we created is available for our patrons although juda panel variants the profile won't be accurate for everyone I should make note here though that after fixing the white point using OSD tweaks wide gamut DCI p3 performance is very accurate so if you are if you are working with DCI p3 content this is a great result in terms of brightness my unit peaked at 430 nits or there abouts although that drops somewhat after calibration for contrast by default we get a 10 20 to 1 ratio which is bang on a typical IPS and of course well below VI panels this drops slightly to 942 one when a calibrated however average contrast is made up for with excellent viewing angles and a flat display which I prefer over curved in this 27 inch form factor uniformity is also a better-than-average with this monitor the center zone is extremely uniform much more so than most gaming monitors however this fall's away going along the top edge despite this you're getting a generally uniform image here which you can't guarantee with VA or TN panels in particular I'll make a brief mention of HDR support here at the end as well it's not a major selling point of this display but pic co does advertise this as HDR capable and indeed it can accept HDR inputs as you can see in our HDR a checklist it fails two of the three key pillars for true HDR support while sustained brightness of over 400 nits is good peak brightness is low and that's combined with no local dimming so the contrast delivered by this monitor is simply too weak for proper HDR content with that said I don't really care about the HDR performance because we're not paying extra for HDR it's not display HDR certified at all and it's only a minor note on the product page in fact pic co gets pretty close to delivering a good wide gamut only experience through the HDR toggling windows it just falls slightly short of being properly usable which is better than I can say for most monitors that support HDR so you've reached the end of the video and you're here for some overall thoughts well firstly I think this is a really good concept for a budget gaming monitor take a high-quality IPS panel with great color support and instead of offering it at 144 Hertz you shape off some of the refresh rate and offer it at 95 Hertz if you're going to make a compromise to bring the price down I think this is one of the better choices to make pick cos execution of this concept is generally pretty good aside from the quality control issue with my review unit that I don't expect most buyers to run into the only major issue I had is a standard one for entry level gaming monitors and that's a lack of calibration which means it ships with poor color performance out of the box but because it's an IPS panel it is relatively easy to fix aside from that pixie o ticks a lot of boxes great response times and input latency proper adaptive sink support with low framerate compensation excellent viewing angles a basic yet attractive design and the fact it's wide gamut with 95% DCI p3 coverage is a neat bonus the price tag as well I feel is excellent 260 dollars is a great position for this display to sit and allows it to be laser focused on buyers that want a gaming grade 1440p monitor but don't have 300 to 350 dollars to spend I still think those more expensive 144 Hertz options do offer enough to justify the higher price but this new pic serial monitor is pretty much the best you can get for around two hundred and fifty dollars it's is encroaching as well on the territory of your $200 1080p 144 Hertz monitors so it's great to see higher resolution is really challenging those budget offerings for the first time unfortunately pixel monitors are only available in the United States which continues to annoy me because this is the second time I've been really impressed with their offerings but at least if other versions using this panel become available from other companies and other territories you will know what to expect that's it for this review subscribe for more monitor content especially as we push towards the end of July which is looking to be a big release period for many companies consider supporting us on patreon for access to cool perks like our monthly live streams and discord chat and I'll catch you in the next one