LG 24GM77 144hz Full-HD monitor review

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I had someone ask me about reviewing my monitor and asked him if I should "publish" it. Here it is

Hey, I saw a post where you said you bought it, how did you like it? Can't decide between BenQ XL2411Z and LG 24GM77-B ;( . Mostly because there aren't many LG 24GM77 reviews out there. Care to share your thoughts with me? I would really appreciate it.

Performance: It is my first 144Hz monitor so keep that in mind.

Build quality:

If you want pictures of the whole unboxing, I have them, just ask me to send them to you.

BUILT QUALITY:

The chassis feels well built and stable. I has little to know wiggle at at any point to it.

The plastic has no sharp edges and is overall very smooth (had problems with me BenQ on that).

The stand is REALLY large and takes up about 2 times the space my BenQ does. It is built solid and has the piano-black-glare to it (sry missing vocabulary here).

The frame is a a non-glare plastic and definitly more convenient than the glaring reflecting frame on my BenQ.

Tilting and left and right is done by turning the whole stand--> takes even more space. This works because of the metal ring in the stand it stands and slides on.

sliding the panel up and down is smooth as well.

I haven't used the "pivot"- funciton yet but the display never tilted sideways when I didn't want it to.

BUTTONS AND MENUE:

The menue is by far more easy manouverable than my BenQ's menue.

There are a plethora of options to change. E. g: you can change the colour as RGB or as 6 colours with yellow cyan and another one added.

Other than the coulours there are a few more features affecting the picture quality such as e. g. DAS MODE , gamma value(only 3 steps!!), sharpness(i think 5 steps)........ and a few more.

Sometimes it is a bit unclear as to way some options are gray-->you can't edit them.

You just have to take out the manual than. The manual is basicly not needed imo(in my opinion) except it tells you about the two features that exclude each other (I can't recall the right here)

The button you will use to move all the time is a push-in+joystick. You can go left, up, right and down and you can push it in. I feel as if this is by far more natural to use than the stupid buttons on my BenQ on the side.

Additionally there are 5 buttons on the front of the monitor below the panel. going from left to right the are named:

• < (arrow to the left e.g. used to switch GAME MODE))
• BLACK ST. (which stand for blackstabalizer and is used to balance the overall image from dark to bright but works different the gamma or brightness. Hard to explain )
• GAME MODE(opens dialogs to change the game mode from e. g. RTS to FPS1 or FPS2 or default)
• DAS MODE (Dynamic Action Sync shortens the response time significantly when using in 120Hz and some lower modes that i don't use)
• >(arrow to the left e.g. used to switch GAME MODE)

If you want to compare two monitors to each other side by side and you have the LG on your left side than you might have some issues because the menue on the LG takes up about one sixth of the horizontal screen space and stretches from the top to the bottom. Therefore side by side coparison can be a bit tricky

TN-Panel:

The colours are ok. (For all the following I will have to consult me BenQ GL2450 (I think HM) and my iPhone 6 at full brightness as the two best references I have. They BenQ and the LG both have colours pretty intensely modified to my likes.)

I would not reccommend moving to much when sitting infront of it. Looking from an angle below the screen makes the picture more red-ish.

Left and right is not as bad but overall the colour shift is definitly more noticeable than on my BenQ which I think is also a TN-Panel.

From the top it is mainly stable except the picture gets a bit lighter and brighter.

You can use it in 144Hz, 120Hz, 60Hz (and yome other modes which I will never use).

Fiorst eb sure to enable 120Hz in your OS(Windows 7 --> control panel--> resolution-->properties of the monitor(somewhere on the right when you chose the monitor)--> change to the thirtd-or-so tab of the new menue and set it to 120Hz.

You might ask: Why 120Hz when I have 144Hz?

I will answer: Because you have DAS MODE which lowers the reaction time of the screen by a noticeable small little tiny bit - opinion of an mostly 60Hz gamer (or it is placebo). I feel as if this is more useful than MOTION 240 which reduces ghosting (that is imo not even there). AND DAS MODE can only be used when on 120Hz or lower (and I can't get 144Hz anyway).

Also be sure to change your refreshrate in all game to 120Hz because:

• the games don't do it by default(or refere to Windows in any way )
• You WANT the benefit you monitor has to offer, don't you? ;-)
• Even if you want to switch refreshrates for whatever reason--> I can only warn you. It takes FORRREEEEVVVEEEER to change the refreshrate. I think once I had my monitor black out for roughly 30 SECONDS!! It is not a fun experience but don't be shocked if it happens. Your screen is working fine but SLOOOOWLY

Sorry for any bad spelling or grammar mistakes. Feel free to ask me about anything you don't understand

If you want me to add anything--> just ask me and always keep in mind asking is free so... do it

If you still have any more questions about this product feal free to ask them below.