AOC G2460PF-B 24" 1ms 144hz FreeSync Monitor

Seems great at first, but glitchy and poor colors are the reason I'm returning it for the ViewSonic XG2401 instead. This AOC is a true example of you get what you pay for. The poor colors, contrast, and gamma, as well as some glitches it has with V-Sync were the reason this monitor just wasn't for me Pros: -Very nice build quality. Swivel stand + metal construction. -OSD was very responsive and not too hard to use -No dead or stuck pixels, or noticeable backlight bleed. -Full 144hz with wide FreeSync range of 35-144hz after driver install. Very smooth experience Note: you do need to boot into a type of safe mode to properly install this monitor's beta drivers correctly. Tutorials are on youtube. Very poor software release by AOC, forcing customers to jump through so many hoops just to get their monitor to properly us FreeSync to it's full range. Cons: -Very poor colors, don't look right no matter how much you calibrate it. I even installed an ICC profile, and it still looks worse than any panel I've used before. -only 3 gamma settings, and ALL of them makes things look too bright and/or washed out. -Contrast is very poor. You can't distinguish between greys and blacks, so instead of looking like a dark gradient area is smoothly growing darker, they just look pitch black black, and often get that pix-elated boxy look with a hint of green look to them. See image to see what I mean. tweaking the contrast even a little makes things worse, however keeping it at 45 instead of 50 made things slightly more bearable. -VERY GLITCHY with Freesync on. Explained more below If you have FreeSync enabled, and attempt to switch from a low refresh rate to a high refresh rate setting in a full screen game or program's settings, it results in what you see in the video, a chopped up mix of squares of your image, or this horrifying overexposed blue LCD effect across the whole monitor which definitely cannot be good for it. Until yu switch the monitor speed back (good luck maneuvering back through the game settings), the glitch remains. If you get the blue LCD effect, you must turn the monitor on an off, and sometime it fixes it, other times a full PC restart is required. Sometimes just tabbing out of fullscreen programs causes these glitches as well... I run into these issues daily, they are not easy to work around as you may think. These glitches are not because of monitor defects, but rather issues with the monitor's firmware inside every monitor. I have tried multiples of these displays, they all do it. I tried using 4 or 5 Catalyst drivers, and all 3 known version of this monitor's drivers all installed correctly, using 2 computers to make sure it wasn't just one PC's issue, and it still occurs every time UNLESS you turn FreeSync off. Very surprised others are not running into this defect more, or are simply ignoring it when it happens, thinking it's a coincidence. Even though I am returning it for it's less than acceptable image quality, and FreeSync is nearly impossible to use unless you very carefully set your game settings and don't tab out of fullscreen applications EVER, every other aspect of this monitor is acceptable, and if you don't mind the poor image quality, could still use this monitor flawlessly if you turn freesync off or simply don't use it with an Nvidia GPU, and you'd still have a very affordable 144hz monitor. However, my recommendation is to buy another monitor model, as both the image quality and freesync will likely work better on monitor's worth just 10's of dollars more than this one.