Behold the first sub-£400 OLED gaming monitor in the UK, courtesy of Prime Day

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Until now, I'd never been much of a fan of 27-inch 1440p OLD monitors. They've simply been too much money for too little screen. Well, not any more.

Amazon Prime Day has served up this beauty, the AOC Agon PRO AG276QZD2 for just £399. That's fully half price compared to the cheapest comparable OLED panel from just a year or so ago. Prices really are falling, and fast.

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The main upside here is the Samsung QD-OLED panel. QD-OLED colour rendering tends to have more pop than competing monitors based on LG's WOLED tech, which offers better full-screen brightness but only for white tones.

The obvious downside with QD-OLED tech is that characteristic greyness in bright ambient conditions. But for most gamer's setups, that's a non issue. Instead, what you'll actually notice is the perfect per-pixel lighting and ridiculously fast pixel response performance.

Once you've seen HDR on an OLED panel, you'll realise what a hopeless kludge mini-LED powered local dimming on an LCD monitor really is. Of course, personally I still favour the 34-inch ultrawide form factor and would probably try to stretch to a little over £400 for something like the Philips Evnia 34M2C6500.

But if you're all about esports, the refresh rate advantage and standardised 16:9 aspect ratio of this AOC is certainly more suitable. AOC also provides a reassuring three-year warranty with full OLED burn-in cover. OLED burn-in is increasingly looking like a non-issue with these modern panels. But it's nice to know you can drive this thing hard for at least three years without having to worry about burn-in.

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Best gaming monitors 2025

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1. Best overall: MSI MPG 321URX

2. Best 4K: LG Ultragear 27GR93U

3. Best budget 4K: Gigabyte M28U

4. Best 1440p: Xiaomi G Pro 27i

5. Best budget 1440p: Pixio PXC277 Advanced

6. Best budget 1080p: AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE

7. Best Ultrawide: Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDM

8. Best 32:9: Samsung Odyssey OLED G9

9. Best budget ultrawide: ASRock Phantom PG34WQ15R2B

10. Best WOLED: LG Ultragear 32GS95UE

11. Best 1440p OLED: MSI MPG 271QRX

12. Best budget OLED ultrawide: Alienware 34 QD-OLED

13. Best dual-mode: Alienware AW2725QF

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Jeremy has been writing about technology and PCs since the 90nm Netburst era (Google it!) and enjoys nothing more than a serious dissertation on the finer points of monitor input lag and overshoot followed by a forensic examination of advanced lithography. Or maybe he just likes machines that go “ping!” He also has a thing for tennis and cars.

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