- AOC’s Agon Pro monitor is huge and fantastic for gaming.
- It’s not my favorite as a non-gaming computer monitor.
- You’ll want to be sure to have plenty of desk or table space for this one.
Dropping in front of this massive, curved gaming monitor from AOC is a an immersive delight.
The curvature is so great that it’s hard to capture in photos. The monitor is so large that you need a panoramic photo to capture it up close.
I’m having a ton of fun playing a variety of games on this monitor, from PC Steam and Game Pass titles to PS5 and Switch games. All of them look great—the screen has a fast 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms GTG response time, low input lag, and AMD FreeSync Premium to make sure the images you see match the power of your gaming device. The curve is an industry-leading 800R (basically the most curved you can get without messing up the images), and it includes a fun little color LED on the back that you can control with the included remote control.
Honestly, it’s a bit much, but sometimes you gotta go big, right?
The resolution is a high 3440×1440 pixels, and you can connect your PC and consoles to it via two HDMI inputs or a USB-C port, which will also power devices that can use it.
The stand the Ago Pro comes with is heavy duty, which befits such a big monitor (honestly, the box is almost as large as the loveseat in my living room). You can easily move the monitor up and down to set the best ergonomic height for you, and it will rotate to a landscape orientation fairly easily. Though why you’d do that with a curved monitor, I don’t know.
Using the AOC Agon Pro 45-Inch Curved Gaming Monitor
I’ve got my MSI Gaming laptop plugged into this monitor via HDMI and a second monitor (a Samsung M7) off to the right connected via a USB-C adaptor with HDMI out. The second monitor I’ve got set up in portrait mode so I can stack Discord and Chrome on top of each other for easy access while gaming on the big curved Agon Pro.
Honestly, it’s a bit much, but sometimes you gotta go big, right?
My desk isn’t super deep, and it’s in a smaller room, so there’s not a ton of space for me to back up away from the monitor, esp when using a keyboard and mouse to game with. The curvature of the screen actually reflects sound back at me, too, which is a little odd at first, but easy to get used to. The built-in speakers are fine, but I game with a headset most of the time, so I didn’t spend a ton of time with them.
Gaming on the monitor is fantastic. Working on it, though, can be a little less than satisfactory.
Playing a first-person shooter like Halo:Infinite or Lightyear Frontier on this monitor makes me a little queasy, so I end up trying to back off a bit or use a controller. Looking around quickly with the mouse can be disorienting, so I tend to set the point of view on games like Fallout 76 to third-person, which can make it a little less nausea-inducing for me.
Titles like Stardew Valley or Baldur’s Gate, with less of a first-person view are the sweet spot, for me, and I ended up playing them far more on this monitor than I have on the similar-sized flat one I’ve used for years. Playing my PS5 on the screen is similarly immersive, which just gets me gaming more often.
There’s a fun little colored hexagon on the back that you can customize via the monitor’s settings, letting you light up your wall or room with fun rainbows or reds, greens, and blues. It’s not something that sells me personally on a monitor, but it’s a fun extra that adds to the whole package.
Gaming on the monitor is fantastic. Working on it, though, can be a little less than satisfactory.
Plugging my Mac into the Agon Pro to do some daily work tasks, I noticed that the colors were a bit off. Also, while it might just be the way Macs manage resolution, the screen image is just too big up close to really put a lot of windows on the screen at once. I get the same ratio of on-screen things on the big monitor as I do on my small laptop screen. It’s not more real estate, just bigger sizes.
Is the AOC Agon Pro 45-Inch Curved Gaming Monitor Worth It?
At $1399.99, this gaming monitor fits in well with the pricing of other similar devices. The LG 45 UltraGear OLED Curved Gaming Monitor came out at $1699.99 (though it’s now down to $1,199.99), making the Agon Pro a solid choice.
If you’re looking for a OLED gaming monitor with great tech, a fun design, and big curves, you can’t go wrong with AOC’s Agon Pro.
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