AOC 23 inch IPS Monitor, Display Port, 2 x HDMI, VGA, MHL, Speakers, Vesa I2369VM

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The AOC i2369Vm is an excellent entry-level 23in monitor. It’s well built, offers a sleek frameless design and delivers superb picture quality straight out of the box which can’t be matched by any other display in this group test. It also offers the widest range of inputs and comes with a decent warranty

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Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame.For our testing (below) we set overdrive to ‘Weak’ as we felt this offered the best balance. Users should feel free to experiment with the other settings to see what works best for them. Contrast performance on Battlefield 3 was respectable overall. Visibility in dark areas was good with even some fairly minor details visible. Towards the corners of the screen, and to a lesser extent the central flanks, PS glow drowned out some this detail. The high end hand plenty of brightness and good distinctions of closely matched shades. Light and light textures had a bit of a grainy look to them from the screen surface, though. If you’re looking for a low-cost, high-quality monitor then you really need look no further than AOC’s superb i2369Vm. See all Very low input lag and highly configurable pixel overdrive with some good strong acceleration even using the not-so-aptly named ‘Weak’ overdrive setting Image is very bright, rich and nicely varied with decent vibrancy. A slight cool green tint to the image but no issues with over (or under) saturation or crushed shades.

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The i2369Vm is part of AOC’s value range of monitors, but this 23in monitor looks anything but budget. The i2369Vm’s slim IPS panel is just 14mm deep and its slim matt silver stand and lower bezel look smart with its frameless display.The AOC i2369Vm is in many ways an impressive monitor, not least for the image quality on offer at such a low price. The monitor provided a rich and fairly well balanced image straight from the box with excellent gamma performance. There was a slight colour imbalance (green tint) on our unit but the flexible and well-laid out OSD allowed this to be easily rectified. The variety and consistency of colours made for a rich and rewarding gaming and movie experience. The matte screen surface didn’t provide quite the same vibrant punch as a glossy (or semi glossy) one, but the image was far from being bland or washed out. A very good static contrast performance putting it up there with some of the best IPS models out there The Lagom text appeared a well-blended grey without any obvious red or green tints. This indicates a low level of viewing angle dependency to the monitor’s gamma curve, which is a positive attribute of IPS monitors.

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The matte screen surface gives a slightly grainy appearance to light colours – it’s lighter (lower haze value) than some older IPS models but not quite ‘semi glossy’ On the AOC i2369Vm we measured under 4ms (less than quarter of a frame) of input lag, which is excellent. Although felt responsiveness is determined by other factors as well (such as refresh rate) that’s certainly one less thing for gamers to worry about.We also briefly tested the monitor using an Nvidia GTX 670 just to see if there were any obvious colour differences. As usual the Nvidia card sent out completely the wrong colour signal to the monitor, washing out colours and hugely reducing contrast. To rectify this and make everything look as it should for PC use the following steps should be taken in Nvidia Control Panel. The AOC i2369Vm gave a good static contrast performance, averaging 1058:1 across all the brightness settings tested for ‘Gamma1’. Switching gamma mode had no detrimental impact here with 1055:1 recorded under ‘Gamma2’ and 1064:1 using ‘Gamma3’. Our test settings involved some colour channel adjustments, reducing contrast slightly to 956:1 which is still good. The maximum luminance recorded was spot on the 250 cd/m2 specified whilst the minimum white luminance recorded was 76 cd/m2. This gives a comfortable adjustment luminance range to play with of 174 cd/m2 with sensible values available for both bright and dimly lit rooms. The responsiveness of the i2369Vm was mostly pleasing. There was very little input lag and good flexibility with the strength of pixel overdrive (grey to grey acceleration). Even using the ‘Weak’ setting, which is the lowest available level of acceleration after ‘Off’, there was some inverse ghosting in places. This was relatively mild, though, and despite its name this setting was anything but weak. The acceleration was effective enough to reduce trailing to some of the lowest levels we’ve seen on an IPS monitor. If you want to avoid having to do these little tweaks in the graphics driver then make use of the monitor’s DisplayPort. We tested this and found everything set up optimally by default, as you’d expect from a PC-only connection. The table below gives readings for white point, average central gamma and some general observations for each ‘Gamma’ setting. To reiterate, ‘DPS’ was disabled but everything else was kept at default. The table also shows the results from our ‘test settings’ which are described subsequently.

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Battlefield 3 looked very much as it should. Colours were displayed with good richness and variety with some particularly impressive earthy browns and crisp golden greens. Some of the deeper colour, such as strong oranges and dark reds, also had appropriate fullness without appearing the wrong shade. The ‘neon’ in game markers and bright elements such as fires and flares didn’t have the sort of ‘pop’ you might see on a glossy screen but still looked fairly vibrant. On Dirt 3 low-end (dark) detail was again good in most cases with all important details visible. There was some loss in peripheral sections (particularly corners) due to IPS glow but nothing game breaking. The slightly grainy look at the high-end prevented lights looking ‘pure’ but there was plenty of brightness. We used a modified ‘camera and stopwatch’ type method to gauge an estimation of the level of input lag on the monitor. The basic method involves a camera at high shutter speed capturing a running on-screen stopwatch (with millisecond accuracy). The stopwatch is displayed simultaneously on the monitor being tested and a monitor of known input lag. Traditionally the monitor of known input lag is a CRT display that does no image processing and can be considered input lag free. To help improve the accuracy of this test we take an average from over 120 readings and compare with multiple monitors of known signal processing delay. This gives a greater number of milestones to work from and helps narrow down the input lag more reliably. More comfortable brightness, better colour balance (no tint) with good rich look and decent vibrancy.Some overdrive artifacts (overshoot) even using the ‘Weak’ setting – relatively mild but still there The luminance uniformity was pleasing. The maximum luminance was in the centre of the screen (‘quadrant 5’) where 172.6 cd/m2 was recorded using our test settings. The most significant variation from this was observed left of centre (‘quadrant 4’) where the screen was 10% dimmer at 155.4 cd/m2. Elsewhere deviation was a single percentage point away from the central value, most commonly 6%. The lowest deviations occurred at the top central region (‘quadrant 2’, 4% deviation at 165.6 cd/m2) and the top left (‘quadrant 1’, 1% deviation at 171.1 cd/m2). Uniformity can vary between units but this is very pleasing to see for any class of monitor, not least a budget model. We also tested responsiveness on our Blu-ray movie titles. The fluidity here was limited by the low frame rate of around 24fps at which they are shot and run. This essentially broke up the action in such a way that there were no weaknesses evident from either pixel transitions or overdrive artifacts. If you did observe overdrive artifacts during films you could always disable overdrive with no negative consequences. The native pixel transitions on modern IPS monitors are fast enough for movie viewing even without pixel overdrive enabled. Disabling overdrive, should you wish to, is a nice flexibility that you have on the AOC. We used the MHL feature with an HTC One X+, which has a 1,280×720 resolution. The phone’s display defaulted to a horizontal position that filled most of the screen, but the overall image looked jagged and pixelated. Even so, the MHL feature is a handy way of showing photos to your family and friends on a large screen. A nice design overall with very slender bezels, touches of fingerprint-resistant matte silver (plastic), VESA mounting capability and a DisplayPort input