Cooler Master GM2711S, 27"

Der Monitor-Markt ist umkämpft wie lange nicht. Dabei drängen zunehmend auch Anbieter in das Segment, die dort nicht zum Establishment gehören. So beispielsweise Cooler Master mit dem GM2711S, einem 27 Zoll großen Gaming-Monitor, der ein IPS-Panel mit der Wiederholfrequenz von 180 Hz kombiniert. Das A.R.T.-Coating soll gleichzeitig dafür sorgen, dass Reflexionen des Umgebungslichts auf ein absolutes Minimum reduziert werden. Wie gut das gelingt, klären wir in unserem Review.

Cooler Master is ticking all of the right boxes here, and this is easily one of the best mid-budget gaming monitors on the market right now. They’ve got more accurate and more colour reproduction than pretty much every gaming monitor in this price range, at least when it comes to the high refresh rate models, as you can get very colour-accurate panels with 60Hz refresh rates for the same money if that’s what you care for. At 180Hz, it’s also one of the fastest monitors in this price range, with many still coming in at 144 or 165, and while you won’t see much difference in gameplay, the higher refresh rate does shave down the response times a little, and that’s always good for fast-paced gaming. Plus with the Ultra-Fast IPS technology, you can get the response time down to 0.5ms using the MPST mode, which is awesome. The strongest competition is likely the AOC Gaming Q27G2S, it’s similarly equipped at 265Hz, and also has a similar peak brightness, but it has a stand that only allows for height adjustment, while Cooler Master offers a massive range of tilt, pivot, and a portrait mode on their stand, making this an ergonomic hero. The A.R.T. coating on the screen is in another league for anti-glare too, as it still allows colours to pop from the screen, but even in a fiendishly bright-lit room, it manages to avoid any issues with glare, and the peak brightness was impressive, so it’s possible to game with a great looking screen in a sunlit room, and on the lowest brightness, you can game in a dark room without blinding yourself, while still retaining good contrast. The only thing that lets it down is the HDR400 mode, but honestly, short of high-end HDR panels with multi-zone backlights, HDR is an overused marketing quirk that should be largely ignored. However, with good brightness, colour and contrast, the monitor looks more than good enough in SDR mode that you won’t care anyway.