ASUS VG245H Monitor Review

The design of the ASUS VG245H is good. It has a sturdy stand that supports the monitor well with excellent ergonomic adjustments that allow you to place the monitor in almost any position to suit your needs. The build quality is good and will not cause any problems. 

The stand is plastic but feels very stable. It provides good support to the monitor and there is a hole in the stand for cable management.

The range of ergonomic adjustments is excellent. You can adjust the monitor to almost any position you want to match your working preferences so that you have a comfortable setup.

The back of the monitor is plastic with a nice V pattern that allows for the vents to spread evenly across the height and width of the screen. If you want to detach the stand to VESA mount the monitor, remove the base, then remove the screws on the hinge and remove the hinge.

The borders, just like the rest of the monitor, are plastic. They are not too thin, but this gives a sturdy feel to the whole design.

The monitor has an average thickness when viewed from the side and will not protrude much if you VESA mount it. The small footprint of the stand means that you can place it close to a wall.

The built quality of the ASUS VG245HE is great. It is sturdy and feels very solid and stable. You will not have any built issues with it.

The contrast of the ASUS VG245HE is decent. In dark rooms, blacks are not very deep and they look grayish but in brighter rooms, you should have no problem.

The ASUS VG245H does not have a local dimming feature. The video is for reference only.

Decent SDR brightness. The screen sustains the brightness at almost all window sizes except when there are small highlights that look dimmer.

HDR is not supported.

The horizontal viewing angles are poor. Blacks wash out first as soon as you move from the center axis and colors lose accuracy right after. Finally as you move away from the center the brightness starts to diminish.

The vertical viewing angles are bad. When you look from above the whole image has changed. Blacks have faded, colors have shifted and the brightness is gone. The situation does not look any better if you look at the monitor from below. This is typical behavior of TN panels.

The gray uniformity is decent, but the clouding is evenly spread throughout the screen and you will probably not observe a dirty screen effect when browsing the net. In our image where the edges look darker, it is due the to the poor viewing angles and not due to the gray uniformity.

Bad black uniformity for this ASUS VG245H. Unfortunately, this monitor cannot produce uniform blacks and thus dark scenes will look cloudy.

Remarkable out of the box accuracy for the Asus VG245H. The Racing Mode was the best out of the box picture mode and gave us very low white balance dE and color dE values, and a Gamma of 2.23 which is very close to our target of 2.2. Therefore most people will not notice any color inaccuracy with the out-of-the-box settings of the monitor.

Excellent color accuracy was obtained after the calibration. The calibration was done on the Racing Mode, even though this mode lacks control over the 'Saturation' setting and the 'Skin tone' setting, which for most people should not be very useful. After the calibration, the White Balance dE and the Color dE were reduced further, so it is highly unlikely that at these levels anyone will be able to notice any inaccuracies, and the Gamma was lowered to 2.16 which is still close to our 2.2 target.

You can download our ICC profile calibration here.

This ASUS VG245HE has a great color gamut. It covers almost all of the s.RBG color space and about 70% of the Adobe RBG color space. You should have no problem with the colors of this monitor during most uses, but it isn't enough to edit colors in the Adobe RGB color space.

The SDR color volume coverage is ok. This monitor can produce rich colors but not at all darkness levels. Therefore some colors might look dim as they cannot get bright in darker shades.

HDR is not supported.

HDR is not supported.

Perfect score on our image retention test for the ASUS VG245H as no retention was measured on our image analysis.

The gradient test images shows very well on the ASUS VG245H. A few little color issues can be noticed in the darker grayscale and the green and blue, but this does not cause significant banding and the result is very good.

Perfect score in color bleed. Nearby colors are not affected by large uniform shades which is good for accuracy.

The reflection handling of the ASUS VG245H is very good. The light matte filter diffuses reflections across the screen. This technique reduces their intensity, but increases the size of direct reflections, and might be an issue in very bright rooms.

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The response time on the VG245H is excellent. This results in very little blur around fast-moving objects, which is great for gaming. The Trace Free 80 option is the most balanced and provides the best response time without adding any significant overshoot.

Just like almost all monitors the ASUS VG245H does not flicker its backlight to reduce brightness. This is good for smoother motion and those who are sensitive to flicker, but flicker is useful otherwise to clear up persistence blur in fast motion.

The Asus VG245H has a native refresh rate of 75Hz and this is good for most usages including gaming. It supports variable refresh rate through the FreeSync implementation and this is great for gamers.

Update 01/15/2019: Unfortunately, the VG245H is not compatible with NVIDIA's FreeSync implementation, as it does not have a DisplayPort connection.

Non-native resolution tested: 1280 x 1024

Excellent low input lag on this ASUS VG245H. Unfortunately most resolutions cannot be displayed at 75Hz, only 1080p, 1280 x 1024 and a few others can. This is usually not a problem since most graphics cards will just upscale to 1080p without you even knowing.

The Asus VG245H monitor has the very common FHD 1080p as native resolution and 24" size, thus resulting in the usual 92 PPI pixel density.

All of the inputs are on the back of the monitor. Note the lack of DisplayPort.

The total inputs for this monitor are pretty basic. Note that it is not equipped with a DisplayPort which is uncommon.

The monitor comes equipped with the following gaming features:

• Crosshair
• Timer
• Fps counter
• Display alignment (which just displays markers around the edges of the screen)

The on-screen display is well-organized, quite intuitive and easy to use.

This monitor features a joystick that allows you to easily navigate the menus. All controls (buttons and joystick) are situated on the back of the monitor.

• Manual and drivers
• Power cable
• HDMI cable
• VGA cable
• 3.5mm aux cable