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.

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.

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.

Update3: they're still not responding so i have the wrong monitor which doesn't match this product I ordered, this has been over a month. and 3weeks since they've last responded to the ticket. If I were waiting to return the RMA to Amazon this would be horrible ... my Order was ~Nov16 its currently Feb20. This is some of the worst customer services I've seen in the tech industry. Update2: My RMA ticket says it's still processing, but a monitor showed up but it's a different model. So I'm not even opening it until they respond to my new support ticket despite closing the original without ever confirming that I wished to close it and had open questions out to them. Update: They said a week ago that they changed systems and asked the RMA department for an update saying that this is unusual. However with another review saying that they've waited over a month I am not holding out hope that I'll see an update before the end of the year. I took a chance with this monitor because I've trusted their cases and power supplies in the past and since monitors just sources panels with different tick boxes I figured the "Build Quality" warnings from RTING and Hardware Unboxed was mostly limited to the cheap shell. I was wrong, this thing had the light panel set back visibly from the LCD itself so much that aittin 2.5-3ft away ~10-20 pixels would fall off due to seeig the side of the panel frame. It reminded me of LCD panels on the glass side of a computer. This disappeared at about 3 ft away if and only if you were 100% dead center. Additionally the panel had a weird shimmer to everything, I'm not sure if that was a artifact of my issue or the general design. I bought this for work, I'm a software engineer and use small text at the edge of the screen and I do prosumer hobby photo editing and the 1440p and color space coverage is why I bought this, gaming was a secondary concern but vrr and 144hz is a requirement. I used this for maybe 1.5 hours, 15 min of cyberpunk, and the rest trying to figure out if it was a deal breaker. It was on Linux and OSX. Windows and gaming it seemed livable (this is the only reason it gets 2 stars) But I haven't had this monitor for 3 weeks, spent 150$ (+30% of purchase now) on RMA shipping cost and no follow up after saying they would get me a shipping label for a replacement after receiving it. I should have bought the ASUS I was looking at even though it was 4k but missed out on the sale. I should have returned it or sold it to a gamer at a small loss. This is a mistake that puts me out ~600$ over a month of a monitor ... If you have the disposable income give it a shot otherwise wait till a v2 that might address all the issues this product has.

Overall I love this thing. The contrast is great, the bright HDR whites are really powerful, and you can get good detail in dark sections that still feels dark because there's just so much contrast on tap. I never thought I would care much about high refresh before I got my last (barely) HDR display but I just wanted more and this display delivers. Why not 5 stars? Two things: 1) This display suffers from something I've seen on other IPS displays where the edges "lose" a couple pixels due to the viewing angle of being centered on the screen, which is annoying but not a deal-breaker for me. 2) The firmware isn't great, but it has improved with updates and there's another update in the pipeline. The most bothersome firmware issue for me is the display sometimes goes to sleep when I'm actively using the computer then immediately wakes back up, which translates to probably 3-6 seconds of black screen. There doesn't seem to be any consistent pattern to it, it just happens. This can be pretty troublesome when in the middle of an intense fight while gaming, but thankfully doesn't happen often enough to make me switch back to my old display. Update: After growing increasingly tired of the power cycling I did some additional research. The most common cause of this issue is a faulty power supply. I purchased a new 24VDC 240W power supply, spliced the barrel connector on, and so far so good.