Have to say I was skeptical. This is not a Korean monitor if anyone is wondering. It’s a company in Cali but still small nonetheless. When I got the packaging open I was pleased to see the amount of foam protecting my monitor. The monitor stand while not adjustable is completely solid and made of metal I did not expect this and was absolutely impressed because I didn’t even get a metal stand for my 700 dollar ultrawide that’s in my bedroom. Got everything put together with the bolts provided which are very easy to work with. Now came the moment of truth turning the monitor on was kind of a moment I was fearing because you never know what kind of problems can happen with the panel. Turned my computer on and the monitor fired right up. I let out a sigh of relief because Everything was perfect. No dead pixels. No uneven backlighting. No strobing. No problems! I am absolutely shocked and pleased with this purchase. I can’t belive this kind of quality that beat out lg and Samsung (both are high dollar past purchases for me) came from a small company in Cali. Good job pixio team. You built a great product and you just earned a repeat buyer.

Im going to make this short and sweet. This monitor is exactly what you are looking for when gaming on a budget. (minus the stand, its not bad but if you want to be able to adjust height and rotation get a third party VESA mount for your desk or wall) Response time: Immaculate - dont let these overly in depth reviews on YouTube discourage you. You will definitely experience the 165 Hz refresh rate whether performing simple tasks or while gaming. Size: Perfect. 1080p is best experienced at 24-25 inches. Anything higher would make the image less defined and stretched. Speakers are terrible but you definitely shouldnt game with display speakers. The speakers are just super low. but this is a sacrifice for image quality and response times. It is an IPS panel so the colors are accurate. The overall picture quality is incredible and colors are so vibrant. Overall it is the best budget gaming monitor i could find and definitely worth your money.

Pros: - Great picture quality. Deep whites, rich blacks, vibrant colors. Good color accuracy after some minor tweaks. Great white and black uniformity. Contrast ratio is lower than most VA panels but still a huge step up from an IPS or TN panel. Gaming is where this monitor really shines! - Two display ports, two HDMI ports - Joystick OSD control was snappy and response. Lots of options in the OSD - Very low input lag, very response Cons: - Small text is blurry and has noticeable fringing. I tried solving this by maxing out the sharpness and using Cleartype and several solutions I found online. This seems to be an issue inherent with VA panels. I planned to use this as a work monitor, but this issue was too noticeable for me. Some will be less sensitive to this though - My unit came with some minor scuffs on the back of the panel Misc: - Stand is very study, but has only tilt adjustment - 32 inches is big for a monitor. Great if its your only monitor, but I had this as a second display and my neck was not happy from needing to move so much - Response time is a mixed bag. Most of the time motion is clear, especially in bright areas. Smearing becomes somewhat noticeable in dark areas. I didnt mind it because it was brief, but if response time is important, then a TN panel or a high end IPS panel will work better for you. Hardware Unboxed stated in their review for this monitor than in terms of response time, its closer to 120hz panel overall

Image quality out of the box is great, I only applied slightly different calibrations based on what looks good to me. I cannot detect any dead pixels. The stand doesnt offer height adjustment, but it does the job in my opinion. This monitor comes with the standard VESA mount if you want to use a monitor arm. The bezels are nice and slim, and the monitor doesnt have that tacky gamer look. Gaming performance is great, Freesync works well on my Radeon 5500 XT and gaming is smooth and very enjoyable. This is my first 144hz monitor and im glad I gave Pixio a chance, they seem to make fantastic monitors. Buy this monitor if your interested in getting into high refresh gaming at a good price.

if your not looking to break your bank account this monitor is a pretty good value for a 144hz panel. i tend to lean towards ips because of the picture quality. i really did not see any ghosting in this monitor so that is a plus. it does have freesync and that is another plus. the built in speakers i would not recommend using long term, i would either get a nice pair of headphones or speakers to really get a better experience.

Owned now for 3ish months. Pretty much none stop abuse between family. Short version. Perfect condition, Contrast is off, fixed with PC RGB. Hat switch not broken just lazy. Long version. Bought for xboxonex. The price/size/specs fit our needs to not ty up tv. Monitor arrived perfect condition. Well boxed, NO bleed, NO dead pixels that i can see. Very Happy. Some reviews stated contrast is off and Yep, contrast is off for my eyes to. And no settings compisate for it. No luck trying known settings. I found a setting iam darn sure ive never seen/used before called pc rgb. Wich flags a warning!!! this setting extremely darkens screen. And no joke its dark. Had to counter with monitor brightness maxed out. Absolutely fixed mine. Do like screens a bit on bright side. Probably some wiggle room on max bright for most peeps. Biggie is i now have ingame and monitor presets for useable Options/adjustments. Games/movies for my eyeballs, looks wonderful. Did have both pc and xbox hdmi,s plugged in and powered on when i made the setting. PC rgb setting did stick. No intensions of having pc hooked up full time. And have not after day 1. Xboxonex Side by side same game running on last years 24inch LG gaming pc monitor glad to say looks great considering the huge difference in all system specs and 300$ bigun vs 450$ LG little bugger. happy with both. Even with contrast being off target i might have given a 5 star except had to draw the line at no power button. Play alot online always turning off LG leave game running take a break. Silly not to have one. Reviews stating returned, hat switch was broken or not responding. I found same issue. In my case, noticed not broke just a heavy sleeper. When monitor goes sleep mode so goes the hat except the hat refuses to insta wake monitor per say. Its on its own life path or just needs a cup of joe before responding. Hat mashing did nothing. Trust me i tried while cranky. I hit it and wait it out or send fire to a hdmi port. Xboxone hdmi 1. Pc hdmi 2 monitor will only wake to last used hdmi. Auto detection for both hdmi,s would rocket costs from 300$$ to 301$$ so iam thankfull. Since mine is xbox dedicated none issue.

My 15yr old son loves this monitor for gaming. Says it has better graphics than his curved monitor that was three times the price, happy buyer!

I bought this along with a new Gaming PC, just so I could have a starter monitor that could utilize some of the GPU features like V-Sync and a higher refresh rate. The preset FPS1 setting is pretty solid, but I should probably fiddle with the settings more for when Im using it to work. Easy to setup, worked right out of the box no dead pixels. Cant beat this price for the specs offered IMO, and will use this until I decide on a beefier gaming panel.

Easy setup and works very well for gaming and more!

Ok so the first thing I want to get out of the way is, the monitor has to be tweaked a bit when first using it out of the box. You can use it right away out of the box no problem but you probably want to fidget a bit with the settings because text looks a little blurry and if you have a Freesync compatible GPU then obviously you want to enable that. Also you have to manually set the refresh rate to 144Hz in the display settings but I think you have to do this with all monitors. Anyways for the most part, this monitor definitely has a good price to performance. Being a highschooler that has no job and in this crazy year of 2020, I was still able to afford it.