It's a built-in hardware monitor that displays framerates, temps, voltages and more - all without extraneous software. The Dashboard feature is one of my favorites. Once in the menu, you get things like picture profiles, Black Equalization, Aim Assist, Blue Light filtering and more.
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There's also the OSD Sidekick, a handy Windows app that gives you the same menu access but you navigate with your mouse instead of the joystick. It's a little thing that can save you tons of time overall. Flicking the joystick over a menu immediately activates after a second. You navigate with the little joystick on the back and I love that you don't need to press the joystick to activate menu options. The OSD on the G27Q opens you up to a ton of profiles and monitor settings. There's also a pair of 2W speakers integrated into the monitor, but they don't sound great-in fact they sound worse than average laptop speakers. The G27Q also has a pair of USB 3.0 Type-A downstream ports and one USB 3.0 Type-B upstream so you can easily attach your peripherals. I like that the G27Q has two HDMI 2.0 ports and a DisplayPort 1.2 so you can connect two consoles and a PC-something streamers and multi-platform gamers will appreciate. The Xbox does play games at either 1080p/120Hz or 1440p/60Hz though, which is cool.
But even the SDR mode on the G27Q is excellent, so I didn't miss much. Sadly, my Xbox One X wouldn't recognize the G27Q as HDR-capable. Movies and video on Netflix and YouTube fair a lot better though. However sunny skies and other bright spots tend to blow out and lose definition at max brightness. From the Division 2 to Marvels Avengers, the colors pop with a visceral impact and there's plenty of separation between dark and brights. And while HDR gaming on Windows is still pretty crappy, when it does work, it's gorgeous. The panel also gets eye-searingly bright-a feat that's necessary for its VESA Display HDR 400 Certification.
Connections - 2x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
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