Aorus CO49DQ

Aorus lowers the bar to accessing premium 49-inch monitors, but does performance suffer?

Nick Ross

LABS PRICE $2,095 WEB www.aorus.com/en-au People are falling in love with 49-inch monitors: gamers love the additional, immersive and performance-enhancing screen-based real estate while workers and content creators love the productivity boosts. The models we’ve seen so far have primarily targeted cashed-up gamers but Aorus’ CD49DQ seeks to buck the trend. The super-wide, 49-inch, 32:9 aspect ratio, 5,120 x 1,440, curved (1,800R) display sure can fit lots on it. For sim racers it’s a similar size to some real racing cars’ cockpits, making laps around Mount Panorama feel that much more immersive. You can also more-easily hit apexes and see rival cars in your peripheral vision. Flight simmers receive a more lifelike world view, FPS players get real-world-like peripheral vision and RTS players receive more on-ground intel than many opponents.…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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