KTC 27 Inch 280Hz Gaming Monitor, FHD 1080P 240Hz PC Computer Monitor, Fast VA Panel, 1ms GTG, FreeSync G-Sync Compatible, HDR Support, 126% sRGB, HDMI and Displayport Inputs, H27E22P

When I bought this monitor I wanted a high refresh rate because I'm sensitive to flickering after 30 years in the Tech Imaging Field using 60Hz Monitors. The monitor was rated for 180Hz and I couldn't get it higher that 144Hz. I had just bought the new Apple Mac Mini M4 and there should have been no problem because Apple rated it capable of 4K @ 240Hz. When I did a search in Apple community others were having the same problem but with other Brands so I complained about it to Apple Customer Service and They couldn't give me an answer and would get back to me . . . They didn't. I was working on another project so 144Hz was fine. But then I needed the promised 180Hz and almost a year had went by. I went back and checked the 3 year warranty and it should have been covered because by then I had discovered that the Problem was not with Apple but with KTC. I contacted them about the problem and and they did the right thing and sent me a Fedex label to ship back to them and shipped me a bran new monitor to replace my defective H27S17 Curved monitor and it does 180Hz all day long! This is superior Customer Service that says A lot about this Brand. I now have other monitors from KTC. They stand behind their Warranty.

I do most of my gaming on the PS4/5 these days so I don't need to push frame rate on my PC as much. Out of the box this monitor was impressive at the price point. On sale $150 is a deal, and it was well packaged - comes with HDMI cable and a screwdriver so about 10 minutes from opening the box to connected. Got the refresh rate set, enabled FreeSync, adjusted the color saturation up a bit and its bringing nice contrast and deep colors. Really good monitor in this spec/price range.

This is a 5/5 for me. The color is great, the MS is great, and the DPI is realy good. This is NOT an OLED, and you dont get the blacks that an OLED does, but over all, for the price, I am going to buy another. I love it. I like to have to 24 inch moinitors. This blows my second monitor out. I have an ultra wide (34 inch), and though it has more pixels, the DPI is not nearly as good as this.

It's a good budget monitor. I would say check Newegg before buying, it can be cheaper there and comes from the same place regardless if you order here or Newegg.It's perfectly capable of handling everything I've thrown at it as far as gaming goes. I've yet to experience any blur or distortion on it even with games being at high or ultra graphics settings. It handles it like a champ.It's a typical gaming monitor as far as response times go. Your splitting hairs if you go below 1ms and most humans can't see that short of a blur if there's one.Overall I'd definitely buy this again, and I may just do that for my Xbox/laptop setup. Obviously overkill for it but it's always nice to have the headroom if I ditch console and go with a 2nd gaming setup for my house.

Edited 15 July 2025:Original review stated that FreeSync would not work, but I was able to get it to work. This monitor has a great picture for the price. The menu options are nice but the control mechanism is a bit unconventional. Most monitors use a button press to select, but this one uses a stick move to the right. This caused some confusion on settings. I'm currently using this with an RX 6700 XT and FreeSync is detected and is used. Hopefully it lasts a long time.

It was a really worth it. I upgraded from 144h, ips 1080p monitor that I've owned for closed to five years.The response time is great, much faster than the latter. The colors are also very very good, the hdr is not that bad, I just had to lower the brightness a bit.No built in speakers, but, I do have a small sound bar so it really isn't a deal breaker. I sit about 3 feet away from the monitor. So for the price paid it was totally worth it. This one should last me another 5 years easily.Being VA panel you tell the diffrence in the blacks compared to an ips panel. Is it better than oled, no.

The media could not be loaded. Typically, i like to wait a bit before reviewing anything i buy online. But honestly, this KTC monitor impressed me for being a budget option at this price point so I’m going to go ahead and five my thoughts on it. packinng was what you would expect, nothing too fancy. Included was the mount and and stand for the monitor as well as the power cord, an HDMI cable and a DisplayPort cable.The Good:- Picture quality on this monitor is really good. 1440p looks crisp and clear and even downscaling to 1080p, while degrading the image a bit, still doesn’t look overly fuzzy. So if you really wanted to play or use this monitor at 1080p you could. (But being a 1440p monitor, don’t know why you would want to)- there is very very little ghosting with this monitor at stock settings, i found that setting overdrive to low makes the ghosting pretty much go away without reducing image quality at all so that what I’ve kept mine on. I’ve attached a video to try and show an example of what it looks like.- Freesync/ G-Sync works well without issues, there was no flickering at all during gaming at 165hz. Gaming felt smooth and i had no issues with stuttering or response time. Just note, 165hz only works with the DP cable. If you decide to use HDMI, you’ll only be able to go up to 144hz.- Talking about the picture quality, the colors are vibrant without looking overly saturated, the blacks, while not being as dark as you’d see on a VA monitor, are still pretty good. Out of the box, you probably wont need to adjust the settings at all, unless you want really want to.- Speaking of settings, i thought that using one button to essentially control everything would be annoying, but it’s actually pretty easy. Just press the button once to access the menu, and then move it in the direction you want to change whatever settings you want and then press the button again to turn off the menu.The Bad:- the monitor did arrive with some stuck pixels at the bottom right corner of the screen , just above the power button. It wasn’t enough to make me want to return it, as it isn’t noticeable when using the monitor for gaming or when using it for day to day tasks. This is more a QC issue more than anything, so your mileage may vary. I’ve attached a picture of it so you can see it for yourself.- although it doesn’t affect performance at all, the RGB lights on the back of the monitor only have the option to turn it on or off and no setting to change the color to whatever you want. Out of the box, it just changes colors in this slow wave like effect. But this is just me being nit-picky.- HDR on thins monitor is pretty bad, it does increase the brightness a bit if that’s what you’re looking for, but it washes out the colors too much and overall just looks too bright imo without manually changing settings in both the monitor and windows. If you’re looking for a monitor for primarily game in HDR, you might want to look at other options.- this one is me being nit picky again, but the USB port on the back of the monitor doesn’t seem to have functionality, seems its just there to use a USB stick to update firmware or something. I plugged a mouse in there and a USB light strip, the mouse didn’t work at all and only half of the light strip lit up. So while a cool feature, doesn’t seem all that useful. I don’t know, maybe it’s in a firmware update that I haven’t done yet? Ill update this if i’m able to figure out more.UPDATE: the USB port on the back works, i ended up swapping out old parts for new ones and it suddenly started working. I tried a LED strip and a mouse and both worked fine. I don’t know why or how this would interfere with the monitor, but it is what it is.Overall, this monitor is really solid for the price, it comes with decent enough features to make it comparable with other options, but keep in mind it is a budget monitor so you won’t get some of the features here like you’d see with higher end models. But if you’re looking to get a gaming monitor with good image quality, good colors, high refresh rate, a 1ms response time and no ghosting, you’d be hard pressed to find a better monitor at this price point.