LG 27' Ultragear OLED Gaming Monitor After One Month! [PC + PS5]

The is the 27" LG Ultragear OLED Gaming Monitor and my thoughts on it after one month of use.

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0:00 Intro
0:19 Unboxing & Build
1:58 I/O Ports & Audio
3:07 OLED Display
5:43 Settings & Remote
6:49 PC & Console Gameplay
8:59 Productivity
9:09 Final Thoughts
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[tropicalpromised]

loving the way you put all your setups together, cleanest tech guru on YouTube hands down 🙏🏽

[Tectosaurus]

Finally someone like me who plays in the dark! I’ve been reading and watching reviews about this monitor for the past day and the anti-glare costing alongside the brightness seem to be the biggest “issues”. Everyone I see is reviewing this with huge, bright studio lights and I’m wondering, so people actually play like this? When I play games or watch movies, it’s black out in my bedroom so this monitor would be good for me I think. I currently have a 1440p144hz IPS panel and I absolutely hate the IPS glow, it ruins dark scenes in games so I’ve been playing on my Sony TV instead while playing competitive games on my monitor. This seem like the perfect solution for me since I’ll be able to play both story games with controller and competitive games with KBM on the same display.

[IKharku]

After a lot of mixed reviews and videos online, I finally went and ordered mine today. I can't wait and feel reassured by you saying its perfect for fps and story driven games which is perfect for me. Really amazing and helpful video

[Harvester]

I just snagged this as an open box for $678 at best buy, was basically barely used, only had 8 hours of use at my time of purchase. Love it so far.

[renatomendoncaYT]

Mine is arriving monday. I'll be using it exactly to play multiplayer and singleplayer on PS5. Nice video!

[Kaos]

Great review, I play on PS5 only, and I'm in need of an upgrade from my BenQ. I decided to go with this monitor as it also has hdmi 2.1 which many other 1440p monitors do not. Need it for VRR on PS5.

[ronaldbrandt]

If you do hardware calibration with with a colorimeter & LG's Calibratiin studio. This will give you more brightness in SRGB content than the monitors own SRGB mode, about 200-225 nits compared to about 150 - 160 in the monitors own SRGB mode. This quite a substantial increase in brightness.

Full white screen display is still cut down a little in brightness, though that can be a rare occurrence if you don't use full screen apps that have an all white background. More & more apps on pc are defaulting to dark mode & many web pages nowadays have dark backgrounds, so it should not really be much of an issue.

[AceMcPippen]

Just found your page young king. Good work and stay blessed.

[Spinelli__]

Get a generic brand LG service remote for like 7 dollars and you get 3 options in the secret menu which all increase brightness further. Disable the following settings: CPC enable, LEA refresh. Both will increase overall brightness. Both can be disabled simultaneously. Both work for, both, HDR and SDR mode. Then, for SDR mode, you also have a 3rd setting which noticeably increases brightness, the setting is "HDR mode". Enable that and you get big jump in brightness. Use all 3 settings simultaneously for amazing brightness.

On top of those 3 settings. You should increase contrast to 70-75. Higher than 75 can kill very, very light / white details which you may not even notice or care about depending on your game and preference. 72% is about perfect from my tests. 70%, maybe, showed the slightest tiny extra details compared to 72% but you have to switch back and forth with a very specific monitor calibration picture to tell the difference, even then, it's so subtle that I sometimes think it's just in my head. Don't go less than 70% though, as you won't gain any detail.

Black level should be set to 60%. 50% seems to "artificially" try and make too many parts of the picture too black, which creates black crush so it doesn't seem like 50% is the true "neutral" or "native" point. The correct setting seems to be 60%. 60% gets rid of the unnatural, "forcing areas to be too dark" look while still allowing the darkest parts of the image to display full black (OLED pixels shut off). Over 60% though, and I believe you won't get the full blackness of the OLED pixels. So, basically, after 60%, you've gotten into the "black booster" mode. 60% seems like the "proper" setting - not boosting blacks, not blackening blacks, just proper "native" mode or whatever.

For SDR, if Gamer 1 and Gamer 2 mode, with the 3 secret menu brightness tricks above, and with the contrast set to 72-75% is STILL not bright enough for you, then try vivid mode as it'll be brighter still, specially with the 3 secret menu settings. Even though DAS is not on with Vivid mode, it's input lag is still not, or barely, humanly perceptible. I can't notice the difference at all while playing Battlefield 1, Cyberpunk 2077, Metro 2033, and Forza Horizon.

For HDR, Vivid is a no go - at least in a couple games I tried. It seems to be completely messed in terms of HDR and HDR calibration. Also, Gamer 2 is sometimes a go and sometimes not. Gamer 2 unfortunately has boosted black levels so it can have that greyish look. It depends on the game if it's noticeable or not and how picky you are. It's ridiculous that LG currently locks all settings (besides brightness) during HDR. Gamer 2 would be great - less warm, slightly brighter than Gamer 1 - if LG could just allow us to adjust it's black level to the proper level (the equivalent of 60% in SDR mode). Vivid would be good too if it's HDR calibration wasn't all wacked.

The above is from my experience with the LG 45" OLED 240 Hz version on the latest firmware (late March 2023). I believe it should all also apply to the 27" version - at least the service menu adjustments should. I'm not sure if they all still apply to the other re-branded versions (eg. Asus, Corsair, Acer).

[kashibansari]

I always wanted to play these high graphics games but the tv, pc are soo costlier🥲

[tobmanTV]

Great review. Got this monitor for 2 days. gaming is awesome, but desktop usage is really dark even with 100% brightness. and with burn-in in your mind, its not worth for desktop / productivity use imho

[eddieos]

So happy it is getting easier to get this OLED monitor now. Will make the upgrade next year when more 1440p options show, we just have this and ASUS for now. And nice content my guy

[puskinas]

nice clean setup bro! Only thing needed is some quality speakers.
I recommend Edifier S360db

[Captain-Chats]

Brilliant review! Im holding out for the 32 inch they have coming later this year. I'm a bit annoyed they wont use a glossy Pannel though

[ImakeTanks]

I returned mine, the LG 27 OLED it isn't 100% flicker free it makes me sick and eyes hurt, can't run it in 1080p over 60hz, too bright at 0% in dark room. 27 is too big for competitive gaming which is why all pros use 24 inch 1080p. The stand doesn't adjust all the way down in bottom out position, at 1000 dollars and 27 inch it doesn't have speakers built in and it has very little opinions in the menu for such a high dollar monitor.

I am 10x more happy with my $150 100% flicker free 165hz Asus Tuf gaming 23.8” 1080p monitor ips monitor with built in speakers, the VA version is good too.

[projectpandatv]

Was torn between this monitor and the new alienware 27 360hz 1440p oled. After watching your review ill be picking up this monitor today! Especially because best buy is having a sale on it now. $750 and new open box which they have 2 are under 650!!! As somone who 90% plays in the dark and coming from an alienware 1080p 240hz i think this will be a much needed upgrade for me!

[celticfan]

Hey man, I’ve just discovered your channel and it’s great! A couple of days ago I also purchased the LG 27GR95QE but I didn’t realise it doesn’t have built in speakers. Do you use headphones all the time for sound, even if you are playing a single player game? Or do you have a speaker set up to use for some games? Thanks!

[rThorStone]

Are you the guy who deos he workout videos? I didnt know you did these type of videos too. I subscribed

[BioticElite]

My favorite part about this monitor is the optical port. I Can finally use my Astro A50 to its full potential when I game. Lol

[Carlos-zqsq]

Hola!, Saludos 🇵🇪, me encantó el monitor 😮