AOC Agon 4 Pro AG324UX: Finally in the big leagues

Conclusion

I usually praise AOC in our tests for its great price-performance ratio, as the monitors we’ve tested so far have been aimed more at the lower to mid-range segment. Thus, there were usually a few compromises that the manufacturer made to keep the price attractive. The new AG324UX, however, is something entirely different. It is the first truly high-end gaming monitor from AOC in our tests to offer 4K at 144Hz, Adaptive Sync, HDR and USB-C.

Conclusion

The AOC AGON 4 PRO AG324UX is a big step forward for AOC in the field of gaming monitors. It brings a number of improvements in areas that I’ve often criticized with other monitors from the brand, whether it was the OSD menu, hw buttons, panel quality and its backlight bleed, service apps, or the absence of RGB. All of these areas have been vastly improved and most of the problems have been eliminated, which is definitely to be commended.

I also praise the good connectivity, the presence of a USB hub or the KVM switch function, which works very well. The new materials and the design of the stand or the overall impression of the workmanship are also a level above the predecessors. The speakers are also surprisingly good, which can rarely be said for monitors.

However, the new product is not perfect and could have performed better in a few areas. HDR support is again rather on paper and in this price range it would be nice to see at least HDR 600, if not HDR 1000, which can already be realistically used, since the present HDR 400 is only for show.

The color rendering is not bad, but somehow it is not equal to what the manufacturer presents in the specifications, and then there are problems such as low brightness in SDR mode, the inability to combine AdaptiveSync and MBR/Boost OD, which we have already seen with predecessors. So there’s definitely room for improvement here. This is also true for the OSD menu, which is miles better than the previous one but the lack of the ability to change quick options, for example, disappoints. With a price of around 1,000 euros, the AG324UX certainly won’t have it easy, and it doesn’t help that I couldn’t find it anywhere in our eshops. The closest I found it on sale is in Germany, for 1049 EUR, which is dangerously close to the Asus ROG Swift PG32UQ, which has HDR 600, 450 nit brightness, official G-Sync Compatible support, and certainly a more sophisticated OSD and apps to make it more enjoyable to use.

AOC’s price has put it in the big leagues, where, however, some shortcomings are hard to justify, and we’ll see if the AG324UX’s availability and price development improve over time to make it as attractive a model as some of the more recently tested pieces from this manufacturer.

English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš

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