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What is the "C bit"? It is the most important, the most central, the most central "Center"! If you want to become the "Center" of the crowd center, you must have the ability to "carry" the whole field and lead the team to victory. The HKC PG27P3Q is a high-value, high-performance display that gives you the ability to "carry"! It is equipped with an IPS panel with 2K resolution, 144Hz esports refresh rate, and provides a "C-bit pink" color scheme that is very popular with female gamers or fans of pink. Is a frequent highlights of the display products, the following to bring you a detailed review of this monitor.
Before officially starting the evaluation, the author summarized the most important features of the HKC PG27P3Q monitor so that you can establish a preliminary understanding of the monitor.
1, 27 inch, 2K resolution, 144Hz refresh rate IPS panel, smooth picture, full color and delicate.
2, Type-C + HDMI + DP interface, to meet the connection needs of current and future equipment.
3. Full of macaron color, more in line with the aesthetics of young players.
01 External viewing analysis
The e-sports monitor reviewed this time is the HKC PG27P3Q with "C bit pink" color, which looks pink and cute, girly, and is very in line with the aesthetics of female players. The display bezel adopts a three-sided narrow-sided design, which increases the user's visual immersion a lot.
The back of the HKC PG27P3Q features pink as the main color scheme, making it look clean, pure and breathtaking. The body painted with piano paint gives users a sense of quality that other displays cannot. Both tactile and visual, it's delightful.
Below, let's take a look at the features of the HKC PG27P3Q monitor.
In terms of adjustment, the full-featured ergonomic stand provided by HKC PG27P3Q can be adjusted up and down, horizontal rotation, front and back pitch and horizontal and vertical screen rotation angle adjustment, and players can adjust the monitor to an angle that meets their own habits.
The interface locale of the HKC PG27P3Q is centered below. From top to bottom, it is 3.5mm audio interface, Type-C interface, HDMI interface, DP interface, dc power interface. In addition to connecting the PC host to the monitor, the game consoles such as XBOX and PS5 can also be connected.
In addition, mobile devices such as laptops and mobile phones can be connected to displays in the form of C TO C. The Type-C interface provided by HKC PG27P3Q supports 15W of power supply power, and one cable can solve the functions of video signal transmission and device power supply at the same time, and the desktop becomes cleaner!
HKC PG27P3Q's OSD menu adjustment button is located in the right position at the bottom of the monitor, the display adopts button adjustment, the button feels crisp, and the adjustment experience is OK.
Let's take a look at the OSD menu for this monitor.
As you can see, the HKC PG27P3Q has a lot of functions built into the OSD menu, providing players with a rich variety of presets. In terms of color, the display provides regular brightness and contrast adjustments, as well as advanced gamma values, cool and warm color temperature adjustments, and five preset screen modes, which are convenient for players to switch with one click when playing different kinds of games.
In addition, as an esports monitor, the HKC PG27P3Q also has a wealth of game-related functions in the OSD menu. Among them, Free Sync Premium adaptive variable refresh rate technology can make the refresh rate of the display change with the frame rate of the graphics card, whether you are AND graphics card or NVIDA graphics card, it can be used compatibly.
High refresh rate esports displays may have problems with smearing, and the OD acceleration technology (OverDrive) provided by the HKC PG27P3Q can improve the grayscale response time of the display. When turned on, the monitor's responsiveness is faster, reducing the smear generated by the game screen and allowing players to enjoy a clearer game screen.
03 Screen performance
Players and friends familiar with display products should know that the current display panel can be basically divided into three categories: TN, VA, and IPS. Among them, the IPS panel is more powerful than the TN panel in terms of color display and viewing angle, and most of the professional screens related to image processing currently use IPS panels. And in terms of response speed valued by esports players, it is also better than the VA panel.
The panel used by the PG27P3Q uses IPS technology, which means that it can bring players a fuller, more realistic color effect. Coupled with the fact that this monitor has a resolution of 2560*1440, the performance of picture detail is also very good.
Here we also test the color performance of the HKC PG27P3Q with the help of professional instruments, including the Spyder X Elite color calibrator, which includes color gamut, tone response, grayscale, color temperature consistency, color uniformity and color accuracy. The monitor was factory reset and warmed up for one hour prior to testing.
In the test of gamut coverage, HKC PG27P3Q has a coverage of 100% for sRGB gamut, 86% coverage for Adobe RGB gamut, and 95% coverage for P3 gamut.
In terms of hue response, the measured black curve should be consistent with the light blue "luminosity 2.2" curve as much as possible, and it can be seen that the measured black curve and the "luminosity 2.2" curve are slightly deviated, and the performance is OK.
In terms of grayscale, the display performs stably at 30%-100% brightness, and the overall color temperature is maintained at about 7300K.
In terms of color temperature consistency, this display has a stable color temperature of 7000-7300 at 25-100% brightness, and the overall performance is cold.
In the test of color uniformity, it can be seen that the 6th quadrant of the middle right position of the display is closest to the standard of D65, and the 7th quadrant of the lower left position of the display panel has a certain gap with the standard color temperature value, the gap value is 4.1, and the overall color uniformity performance of the display is OK.
In terms of color accuracy, the average △E value of the 48 colors tested by the monitor was 0.69 when 0
04 Review summary
In my opinion, the HKC PG27P3Q monitor is not really an esports display. Although it has an esports-level refresh rate of 144Hz, built-in free Sync Premium, OD acceleration and other game technologies, the player's gaming experience is also very good. But its innovative design and realistic and stunning picture rendering effect seem to be excellent in other scenes.
The whole machine macaron color matching, giving people the most intuitive feeling is youth and fashion. On the one hand, there is a very tense color matching, on the other hand, there is a conservative and dull color matching, if you are a trend maker in the new era, how will you choose it?
In the picture performance flash, the HKC PG27P3Q equipped with the IPS panel also measured a good score of 100% sRGB color gamut coverage and △E value of 0.69, which has reached the requirements of professional displays. In addition to playing games, whether it is used to design editing or watching movies and chasing dramas, it can bring users a very realistic and delicate picture effect.
So, whether you are an e-sports player who wants to pursue a smooth and smooth game screen, a user who pursues a full color and realistic look, or a young player who is tired of cookie-cutter and pursues individuality, HKC PG27P3Q is an e-sports monitor with good graphics, appearance and dynamic display capabilities!