AOPEN by Acer 27HC5R Pbiipx 27 1500R Curved Full HD (1920 x 1080) VA Gaming Monitor with AMD Radeon FREESYN

Had to request a refund and order again. The two monitors that Amazon sent looked like the monitor I wanted to buy but were only 75 hertz and were missing the display port in the back. They came with old vga inputs.,

everything about this monitor is great, the refresh rate, the size, brightness and so on, the only problem ive been having with it is it turns off and on randomly, if i could maybe get a replacement that would be wonderful and i would change my review, but until then it will stay at 3 stars. UPDATE-it no longer lets me do the advertised 165hz, I have to do 144 for it to work, if I can get a replacement I will change my rating but for now its a 1 star.

In case anybody is curious about this monitor. There isnt a lot of information online about it. Fire Legend: Big and not too expensive. Got mine for 438 with tax and prime shipping. Its not listed anywhere but its gsync compatible. Also not listed anywhere it has 2 levels of motion blur reduction with the backlight strobe. Also not listed anywhere (seeing a pattern here) it has a form of local dimming when HDR is activated. There is about 16-20 vertical zones. On an all black background you can see each zone light up as you move the mouse. Coming from a monitor that is a level below HDR400, I thought that was pretty cool. Also not listed anywhere you can enable 10 bit color at 144hz in the Nvidia control panel. I see no difference between 8 and 10 bit, but maybe somebody will find that info useful. I feel like this has a better contrast ratio than most IPS panels Ive seen lately. I have no way of measuring this. It just looks really nice. HDR actually looks like its doing something in BFV and Doom Eternal. No dead pixels so far. Back light bleed exists but its not terrible. Fyre Festival: Motion blur reduction dims screen too much on its most aggressive setting making it almost useless. There is a medium setting that is brighter but less crisp. Cant use it with Gsync enabled. Not the fastest panel out there. Using blur busters UFO test its not as clear as the 200hz 30inch MSI ultrawide this is replacing. Its not terrible, Ive just seen faster. The stand sucks. The monitor isnt level after mounting it to the stand. Confirmed this with my bubble level. I put a little felt adhesive circle under the right side monitor base and it sits perfectly level now. Such a stupid problem to have when everything else is really good. **UPDATE April 6th 2023** While I still enjoy using the monitor a few issues have popped up. Sometimes one of the dimming zones sometimes gets stuck. So if your using HDR than there will be one vertical zone that is dark while the others are lit. It looks as bad as it sounds. The other issue is that sometimes the monitor will crash and you have to completely power it off or wait for it to recover to get video again. These issues are VERY intermittent but they are a PITA when they do happen. Knocking off a star for now.

Worth the buy

Looks good

I bought this monitor on July 1st 2021 it came fine plugged it up it was all nice and dandy, keep in mind I’m not an everyday gamer so this monitor wasn’t abused at all! I played with this monitor last December 15th more or less and then i traveled out of the country and i left the monitor just fine and working. Came back home January 22nd found this huge crack in the screen out of nowhere! Contacted aopen and told them about it they said it doesn’t fall under warranty and that i would have to pay $179.99 to have it repaired excluding shipping expenses ( keep in mind i paid $190 for this monitor) amazon made some what of an effort and gave me the opportunity to return the item despite being outside the return window however, there’s a 20% restocking fee involved which is about $38. TO MAKE IT WORSE the item went up in price to $220. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND FIND ANOTHER MONITOR FOR YOUR GAMING NEEDS. THATS WHAT ILL BE DOING

I had ordered this as my first monitor and have had it for around a year. I love it. It works great for gaming and has a really nice refresh rate. Brightness is good, colors are good, and everything looks beautiful on the screen. In fact, I love this monitor so much that I ordered a second for my second monitor extension. Problem was, I had to return it because it was missing the AC power adapter and it states no where if you can replace it or what kind of power adapter it is. I was upset because I really like this monitor, but without the power adapter I can’t even turn it on! Anyways, it’s a great monitor overall, just disappointed in the missing parts.

Cant change refresh rate when using included DP cable and the screen keeps going black, but HDMI lets me change refresh rate to 120hz and seems to be stable. Not sure if its faulty or not. UPDATE 6/17/22 the monitor glass is now separating from the frame along the top. the actual monitor picture is not affected yet, but i do see the light display now where the glass is separating. Picture is still pretty good, but they definitely use cheap parts for this monitor. Would not buy again.

After having this monitor for close to 2 months with not many hours of usage, the monitor failed from the inside and shows distorted black and broken lines through the screen. This monitor is unable to use and after forwarding all the information to vendor we have not heard anything back.

Good value for the money spent