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Starting first with the design, I must say I was a little disappointed to see ASRock carrying over essentially the same core design that we saw on the budget PG27QFT2A I reviewed last year. There's nothing objectively wrong with it, it just looks (and feels) cheap to me, given it is made entirely of matte black plastic. It's also surprisingly light at barely 6kg, which doesn't make the best first impression.
Again, it works fine and it's not hideous, but if you're paying £800+ for a premium 4K OLED monitor, I'd really expect to see a metal stand and a slightly more refined overall design.
ASRock has included two RGB strips on the back of the monitor which are configurable in the OSD, but they're not a patch on the Philips Ambiglow lighting we saw recently with the Evnia 27M2N8500.
As for the included stand, this offers up to 100mm of height adjust, 20 degrees of swivel both left and right, and then tilt from -7 to +20 degrees. That does mean no pivot, but that's more forgivable on a bigger display, and VESA 100×100 mounts are supported too.
ASRock is persisting with its built-in WiFi antenna feature that we first saw on the PG27QFT2A – it might be a value add for some, but it's not something I'd personally use.
We can also note the OSD joystick on the back right corner of the screen, with a power button above it and the dual mode button below. The dual mode functionality itself is very straight forward – you simply press the button to switch from 4K/240Hz to 1080p/480Hz, or vice versa. The screen goes black for a few seconds so it's not an instant process, but it worked every time without a hitch in my testing.
As for ports and connectors, these are split into two banks. The right hand side houses video inputs, with two DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.1, alongside the USB-C which supports DP-Alt mode and 65W power delivery. Next to that is a USB Type-A, used for updating firmware, an audio jack and the power input.
On the left hand side, a Type-B upstream connector feeds three Type-A downstream ports, running at 5Gbps.
