Cooler Master GM27-CF Curved Gaming Monitor, 27"

It's always nice to welcome a new manufacturer to the monitor segment, especially one who has been around the wider PC market for a long time and are well known. Cooler Master have done a nice job with their first venture and the 27" GM27-CF offered some solid performance for gaming. The high refresh rate was welcome as always and delivered significantly improved motion clarity compared with lower refresh rate screens. This high refresh rate was accommodated well by the panel and response times. We were pleasantly surprised to see variable overdrive being used, allowing solid response time performance and minimal noticeable overshoot all the way up to 165Hz. The overclocked 200Hz mode didn't really offer anything extra sadly, but 165Hz should still be attractive to many gamers. The availability of adaptive sync to support VRR from both NVIDIA and AMD systems was also very good, and input lag was very low too. The choice to use a VA panel might not be to everyone's liking, and this tech has it's issues with response times in some cases, with the common black smearing still being present. The rest of the response times were very good though for a panel of this type. You do of course also get very high contrast ratios and good all round performance with decent colours and viewing angles too.