Terial
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What’s a TN panel?? Dammit I’m not happy. It’ll be here tomorrow. I can open it or send it right back and get a different one
New Monitor - what's good now?
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Vorph
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"Gsync compatible" means it's one of the Freesync monitors that passed Nvidia's testing. Easy way to save a couple hundred by avoiding the Nvidia tax on their proprietary nonsense.
TN is the worst of the three main types of panels. Generally VA is second and IPS is the best. About the only thing TN panels are good at is response time. Some people don't seem to notice though, so you might as well hook the monitor up and try it. It won't make it any more of a hassle to return to Amazon (and might give you an excuse to return it as defective if there's something wrong with it like really bad backlight bleed or some dead pixels) and at least you'll have a baseline to compare the next one to. It'll also give you an opportunity to turn on Gsync and see exactly what it does.
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Mist
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TN panels are not that shitty. They just have bad viewing angles. They generally have good black levels and good ones have extremely low pixel response times, way lower than IPS or VA panels.
OLED gaming monitors still don't really exist.
MicroLED gaming monitors are going to start appearing over the next year.
OLED gaming monitors still don't really exist.
MicroLED gaming monitors are going to start appearing over the next year.
Rajaah
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I need a new monitor since one of mine got knocked over by pets fighting, any suggestions as of January 2022?
Preferably something sold by Best Buy since I have a bunch of store credit there. Looking to spend $80-200, so a fairly large range. The desktop that the monitor is for isn't a particularly fancy desktop and is primarily used for video calls and on rare occasion EQ, no major gaming or anything like that, so I'm thinking the lower range is probably fine. Mainly wondering what the good brands are. Is Lenovo still rad? Are LG monitors as good as their TVs are?
Preferably something sold by Best Buy since I have a bunch of store credit there. Looking to spend $80-200, so a fairly large range. The desktop that the monitor is for isn't a particularly fancy desktop and is primarily used for video calls and on rare occasion EQ, no major gaming or anything like that, so I'm thinking the lower range is probably fine. Mainly wondering what the good brands are. Is Lenovo still rad? Are LG monitors as good as their TVs are?
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Gaming and general purpose monitors
Looking for help FOHBROSKI's. I need (want) a new monitor. I've narrowed it down to a few. I am using an EVGA 1080ti and a i7 7700K with 32gigs...so I want to get away from 4K for now.
Vorph
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Oops, I missed the part about it not being for gaming. Starting over...
I'd look at the ones Best Buy has on sale, narrow it down by size (imo you're not going to find a decent 27" panel for under $200, better to get something higher quality but only 24" unless you absolutely need the size) and then see if any of them have reviews on rtings.com.
Slightly outside the price range is this one that rtings is calling 'best budget gaming' right now:
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Malakriss
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That's not the only monitor on sale from BB right now, but yeah you only have 6 hours left. Note that it's HDMI 2.0 which only does 144 Hz and you would need Displayport to hit 165 Hz.
In the next few months as 2022 models with 2.1 come out expect some good deals on older 2.0s
In the next few months as 2022 models with 2.1 come out expect some good deals on older 2.0s
joz123
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I had to ditch my Dell monitor which lasted a good 15 years, ended up getting this one.
www.bhphotovideo.com
Great monitor for the price.
ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD 27" 16:9 144 Hz FreeSync IPS Gaming Monitor
Buy ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD 27" 16:9 144 Hz FreeSync IPS Gaming Monitor featuring In-Plane Switching (IPS) Panel, HDMI | DisplayPort Inputs, 2560 x 1440 WQHD Resolution, 1000:1 Static Contrast Ratio, 350 cd/m² Brightness, 178°/178° Viewing Angles, 1 ms Response Time (MPRT), 144 Hz Refresh Rate...
Great monitor for the price.
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Costco has a 2K 165mhz 32" LG for like $250. I bought it for my kid and his xbone5 for xmas. I have the 1K version of it and its great. It even has HD.
Well it was $250 now its back to $300.
Well it was $250 now its back to $300.
Mist
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Pretty good deal. Not the best monitor, but one of the best for that price.$200 is pretty unrealistic, especially at Best Buy. Maybe on black friday, but not in the middle of January.
If you can kick it up to 300, I'd go with this one:
Dell S2721DGF Review
The Dell S2721DGF is a 27 inch, 1440p monitor gaming monitor with a fast refresh rate and great gaming features. The IPS panel delivers wide viewing angles, and ...www.rtings.com
Gotta decide fast though, that sale is only good for about 6 hours.
I think you can do a lot better for that price these days.
Any monitor more than 15 months from date of first sale is probably very obsolete FYI. Things have changed a lot with the past few iterations of IPS or even VA panels.
Newegg generally will list when a product first went on sale.
Mist
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I'm not talking about price (though yes, those expensive monitors ARE that much better, but that's a whole different story. Don't pay more than 450 dollars on a monitor unless you have no other use for money.)
Older monitors are generally not reduced in price. So you can end up paying 300+ dollars for a monitor manufactured in 2019 or 2018 that looks, spec-wise, to be similar to other 300-400 dollar monitors manufactured in 2020 or 2021 that look and perform a whole lot better. For instance, an LG 27 GN or GL model will often have a similar price to a GP model, yet look quite antiquated in a side-by-side comparison.
Rajaah
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Best Buy is having a monitor sale that ends tonight? That sucks, I planned on going there tomorrow for a look, can't tonight.
Thanks for the various input, I'm gonna see what Best Buy has.
The best screen I've ever had was on my Lenovo Yoga laptop in 2013 or so. I don't know if it was an OLED screen or not, but it was a glass screen and the picture was INCREDIBLE. No computer I've had since had a remotely comparable picture. None of them had glass screens either. My LG OLED TVs are the closest thing so I'm wondering if that was some sort of early OLED panel.
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Glossy + VA can have really popping colors due to its nice contrast ratios so I'd imagine that was the case.
Mist
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These are interesting monitors at their price points.
Of the Best Buy sale monitors:
and the previously mentioned:
are definitely the best.
Of the Best Buy sale monitors:
and the previously mentioned:
are definitely the best.
Rajaah
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I'll probably go for an LG monitor whenever I get a gaming desktop. Mostly stick to laptops nowadays. LG TVs are so ridiculously good compared to their competition. That Ultragear monitor looks sweet, probably worth it even at $400.
This particular monitor really is just for video calls and EQ. Probably doesn't even have to be any bigger than 19'' or 21'' or whatever "small" is these days. Be a waste to get anything super-nice yet.
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Probably outside of what he's looking for although those would probably be great for EQ once it goes 64bit.