Gigabyte GO27Q24G Best Settings Guide (Patreon)

Review here: https://tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/gigabyte-go27q24g

General settings

OLED Care = leave as many of these turned on as possible. If you find any distracting or problematic you can disable them if you want

APL stabilize = for SDR usage you should leave this on low if you want a uniform brightness behaviour. That's better for desktop and general usage. For SDR multimedia and gaming you can experiment with the other modes which will give you a brightness boost, but you'll have to live with some ABL dimming as content changes. The middle mode is not too severe, and gives a decent bump in overall brightness without drastic dimming. The high mode is probably a bit too aggressive we think

Low input lag = on

VRR = enable

Anti-flicker = use if you find VRR flicker problematic in real use, the middle setting doesn't make much difference, but high mode can reduce it a lot due to changes to VRR range / LFC area

HDMI CEC = turn on if you want it to auto-switch to HDMI input when you power on a device like a console.

SDR

Preset mode = Custom

Brightness = 42 (for 120 nits) but set this to whatever you find comfortable and appropriate for your ambient light conditions and usage

Contrast = 50

Gamma = 2.2

Colour vibrance = 10

Six axis colour = default

Sharpness = 5

Colour temp = User define

RGB = 100, 99, 100

Colour space = Native (if wanting to use the full colour space or if you're pairing these with our calibrated ICC profile)

ICC profile = attached below for use in colour aware applications. it will clamp the colour space back to sRGB in those situations where required, as well as perform some gamma and colour corrections, including improving shadow detail somewhat.

Other SDR options

If you want to work with sRGB / SDR content and clamp the colour space for all applications, you could switch to the sRGB preset mode in the menu instead. don't use our calibrated ICC profile though, that's designed to be paired with the native mode only. The sRGB mode is configured to a different sRGB gamma instead of 2.2, and drastically improves shadow detail and brightens darker content. You could certainly use that mode if you want to improve that area.

If you want to use the wide gamut of the panel and prefer the more vivid and saturated appearance that offers then one option might be to switch to the DCI-P3 colour space setting instead of native. That operates with an sRGB gamma curve (NOT sRGB colour clamp though) and improves shadow detail significantly. The colour space is very close to the native performance anyway, so that's a viable option if you simply want to brighten darker content and improve shadow detail.

Black equalizer = experiment with this for darker gaming and movies if needed if you're using the 'native' colour space mode. Moving it up to a setting of 12 improves shadow detail nicely in the native mode, without raising the black point visually. Anything higher starts to raise blacks so is undesirable. You shouldn't need to use this at all if you're using the sRGB or DCI-P3 colour space modes due to their different gamma configuration.

HDR

Only enable Windows HDR when viewing actual HDR content (explained here)

HDR mode = Either Game mode or Peak 1300 mode. Ensure you keep APL stabilize on high (in the OLED care menu). If you're using peak 1300 mode make sure you also enable HyperNits on high. the two modes perform very similarly to one another then

Brightness = 100

Contrast = 52

Light enhance = 0

HyperNits = High (only available when using Peak 1300 mode)

Color Enhance = 0 (or turn this up a bit if you like an accentuated vividness)

Dark enhance = off (we prefer to use shadow boost, and you can only use one of the other)

Shadow boost = On

APL stabilize (in OLED care menu) = High (if available to select)