Tempest GP2711 27” 2K 165Hz Mini LED VA Quantum Dot QHD 2560 x 1440 PC Monitor, HDR1000, 4ms (GtG)|1ms (MPRT), DCR, FreeSync Premium, DP1.4 * 1, HDMI2.0 * 2, USB C*1, KVM

The monitor is brigth, perhaps too bright for me (I suffer from migraines, and Bright light can be a trigger sometimes). The monitor had a few theething issues, and they are slowly being resolved via firmware updates. I am still on the OG Firmware, as a mew firmware is incomming, I'll be updating when I get the new firmware. The monitor is an absolute blast for the price, tested it with a movie (Lucy) and some light gaming (SOMA & Arkam City), and performed absolutely well. The base is, how to put it, sturdy buy sloppy, if you shake your legs the monitor will move, also it will be difficut to have it 100% horizontal or 100% vertical, if you care about those things, but it will not topple or fall over. and you will have space to put papers and trinkets in the hexagon, unlike other monitors ;-) There is some weird curvature optical effect in the left and right borders of the screen, but I (and probably you) will not even notice. The nub control is a tad fastidious, but bearable. Other than those minor things, I am 107% satisfied!

Overall: It's a pretty solid monitor but has some pretty big issues. The Design Defect really kills a lot of enthusiasm I had with this monitor. Pros: Local Dimming: 5xx dimming zones is a must have for true HDR. Works great in HDR supported games. Ideally you'd get a nice and bright OLED but those just don't exist under 32". Brightness: It's basically a miniature sun when it wants to be. Price: It's basically the cheapest real HDR monitor you can get. Text: Text is so incredibly crisp. I didn't know I needed this in my life until now. It's my main drivers for upgrading to 4k. Ruined my second monitor for me though.... Cons: You have to restart the monitor every time it falls to sleep or enjoy a black or purple image. Design Defect: Monitor seems to have a design defect. The left and right sides of the screen are noticeably dimmer with the far most lines being completely invisible when you sit at a normal viewing angle. The closer you are the worse it gets. Seems to be an issue with the anti-reflectent coating. Local Dimming: It distracts from the experience when viewing non-HDR content. Text becomes hard to read in some situation and there's so much noticeable haloing on all websites. In games that don't support it bright objects in a dark scene become so fuzzy. Don't use it. Backlight glow: Never understood the whole thing with backlight bleed or glow but man do I now. It's BAD. VERY BAD. Wouldn't be an issue if Local Dimming worked in SDR content though. I initially though the monitor had some crazy bad anti reflective coating until I enabled Local Dimming. Software/OSD: It's a mess. It's easy enough to navigate as a tech enthusiast but so many settings are arbitrarily locked and some settings that don't make sense. (Example: There's some sort of "MPRT" thing that trails to everything that moves and idk what it's for) The software developers seem to have no clue what they're doing either releasing untested and broken or buggy software updates. Slowest monitor on Earth: It is by far the slowest monitor I have ever seen. Switching inputs, changing resolution, or turning HDR on and off takes a full 5 seconds. My computer literally gets to the login screen from a real shutdown and I'm STILL waiting for the monitor to turn on. Pressing the wrong key or dealing with a screwy game is just made even more frustrating when you're stuck waiting on this thing. Neutral: VRR: It does exist and it might work for you. It might not either. I don't use it.

Great hardware for the price. You get a 1440p, mini-led, Quantum Dot, 165hz monitor for less than a thousand dollars, thats a great deal. Colour looks way better, more vibrant and accurate than my older monitor, which looks a little too warm. HDR also looks good because the monitor can go up to a thousand nits, while the black is really black due to the mini-led's local dimming. There are also a lot of downsides to this monitor, firstly in dark background, small bright icons like profile picture icon etc looks very washed out with HDR + local dimming and window's SDR content brightness settings up(Under HDR section), not sure why but might be due to the way HDR is implemented(?), i also couldnt turn the settings down to 0 as SDR content would then look really dim in comparison. And especially when I like to use dark mode, this could be quite a huge problem. Another huge downside to me is that with the latest firmware, HDR+165hz can cause colour banding, reducing the refresh rate down to 144hz fixes this issue but it should have never been the problem in the first place, it sucks how they manage to miss this huge problem before releasing the latest firmware, hopefully they fix this issue soon as it has been 3months since they released the last firmware. Last bummer for me is that with my old monitor, I used the built in 4w speaker to just watch random youtube videos which works great as they dont sound like total garbage, but with this monitor, although being more expensive the speaker is worse than the one in my old monitor as it sounds really holo and lack of bass. This may not be a huge problem for people with standalone speakers, but for people who does use the built in speakers they are horrible. Hopefully they fix all this issues soon in a new firmware as this would otherwise be a great monitor with vibrant colours and great blacks without the worries of burnin that comes with oled monitor, and even with all these issues at hand I still love this monitor due to the great price.

This packs a wallop for the price. 1440p HDR on a midrange budget. The local dimming doesn't look as good as an OLED but for the price point it's phenomenal. I recommend turning off local dimming completely for non-gaming use, which is really easy to do. Medium or even High look excellent in most games. Ergonomics and adjustability are excellent. The sound is just okay, I only tested it once before switching to my speakers. Color depth and clarity is excellent. I didn't notice the pink that some reviews seem to be complaining about.

I love this monitor. I've tried so many edge lit monitors over the last year, Hoping one of them would be a display I wanted to keep for years to come. Unfortunately none of them were good enough, It was mostly due to the really low contrast and terrible glow and backlight bleed. The GP27U has been an amazing experience so far, The colors pop beautifully, Performance is excellent, and the local dimming is miles better than any edge lit display. You get deep blacks and amazing contrast, There are a ton of settings to play around with. I can definitely recommend this monitor to anyone looking for a great monitor for consoles and pc, I really have no complaints about it. It is expensive though, It costs around $1000, but I did see it available a little while back for $800 from INNOCOOL. I still think it's worth the price if you want a smaller screen with great contrast and performance to pair up with your PS5/Series X and pc.

This review is for the GM2711S model. RESPONSE TIMES: 2.5/5 stars The response times are pretty good at 180Hz using "Level 2" overdrive. However, there aren't enough overdrive settings for good performance across the entire refresh rate range. The overdrive modes are: "Off", "Level 1", "Level 2", "Level 3" and "Burst". Overdrive off is only really suitable for 60Hz. Level 1 and 2 are basically the same. Level 2 works okay for the top end of the refresh range but pushes the display too far at like 144Hz, and even worse at 120Hz and 100Hz. The problem is in the middle of the refresh range, you have either too much ghosting with overdrive disabled or too much inverse ghosting with even just Level 1 overdrive. So this monitor is best at the top of its refresh range (165-180Hz) or at 60Hz. There is no variable overdrive. PANEL UNIFORMITY: 1.5/5 stars My unit has bad backlight bleed, most noticeably on the top edge and IPS glow in the corners. The contrast looks okay for IPS, considerably better than another IPS monitor I've used but still bad contrast in general. ASSEMBLY: 1/5 stars Assembling the monitor was annoying. You have to screw in the (backplate?) into the stand pillar and you'll also need a screwdriver to attach the stand to the back of the monitor rather than the easy "click-in" design. ERGONOMICS: 3/5 stars The stand has height and tilt and probably swivel and pivot as well. The height doesn't go that high though and requires a good amount of force to adjust. EXTRA THOUGHTS: The anti-glare coating they are calling "A.R.T. Film" actually has impressive reflection handling. Still, it's matte, and although the grain level is low, it's still noticeable.

I bought this monitor a couple of months ago, mostly for the mini LED feature and 90-watt USB-C/DisplayPort. It works as a monitor should, though there are issues preventing me from recommending it. During gaming, it looks amazing, but there are issues with FreeSync not working properly and it may need to be configured on a per-game basis. The build quality is good, and the USB-C 90-watt power delivery and display function work great for connecting a laptop or phone without needing multiple wires. Honestly having it for a couple months I kind of got use to the issues, but I would not recommend this to anyone, better to just get a basic led monitor or wait for a good sale on other mini led monitors, just not this one. I am hoping this monitor last for the next five years. You shouldn't hope and look for something else. -Flicker: You can be casually browsing the web (YouTube or Amazon), and if the page has certain elements, it causes a very noticeable flicker. It only lasts as long as you’re on that part of the page, so if you’re on the page for a while, it will flicker randomly—and it’s very noticeable. The flicker leaves half of the monitor off for a couple of milliseconds, but you will notice it. -Menu Navigation: The default monitor navigation leaves a lot to be desired, as it is very slow to respond, especially if the monitor is off. During normal operation, it’s fine, but if the monitor is off, you can’t bring up the full menu. If your PC is off, it will only show a quick navigation menu, which requires you to press up, down, left, or right—but not center. The center button is how you access the default menu when the PC is connected and on. The quick navigation menu is very noticeably slow to appear when the monitor is off, and sometimes it feels like it didn’t even detect a button press. -Bug: I’ve encountered an issue where the monitor periodically tries to turn on to detect an input signal, but it doesn’t detect anything. If your PC is in your room where you sleep, or anywhere you can see it, you will notice it turning on and off looking for a signal. This is made worse by the fact that the backlight shines against the wall and also turns on during this time. It does this multiple times until you manually turn off the monitor using the button, since the sleep function doesn’t work properly.

It is definitely bright. My monitor does not have any dead pixels yet. I've had it for about 3 days now. The picture is clear, contrast is very good. I had to set the OSD up myself to what looks good to me. Local dimming not too useful at the moment because it makes things too dark. With HDR in windows on, Local Dimming works better but because the monitor locks the color space to Bt. 2020, the color looks worse than SDR. The blacks are still sharp in SDR but it does have backlight so that affects it. I returned a VA panel and got this instead. It is definitely IPS with decent quality at different viewing angles. Overall, great monitor. I took 1 star off due to value for money. I'll say that it's brightness is really good and the "sharpness" of the image quality is definitely noticeable over the regular monitor due to contrast + brightness but I would still say that the cost for this image quality is a bit high. It would be worth it to someone that really wants high brights but still with sharp blacks. Cons There are some issues that weren't a deal breaker for me but may be for some. This monitor also suffers from one of the issues with the VA monitor I returned. On the very edge to either side there is a blur effect where image/text on the very edge blurs out when you look at it from an angle. This also exist on the very bottom edge but less. This isn't a deal breaker for me because majority of the time I don't notice. Other thing is that the previous monitor I bought had an "auto" option for local dimming. It made the blacks darker but also kept the brights highlighted. On this monitor, it doesn't have that option, it just adds local dimming with low, medium and high to the entire monitor. I'm guessing the local dimming auto on the other monitor made the dimming specific to certain areas at a time.