Gaming monitor recommendations

[3xAAA]

I currently have two Thinkvision 24" monitors, which I use for work and the occasional game (think BF5 or Flight Sim).

I'm looking for something a bit bigger (maybe 27-28 inches), and more focused on image quality and gaming.

My laptop has a 360Hz display and is smooth as silk, so I know that's important, as opposed to the 60Hz on my desktop screens.

I'm not really computer savvy these days, so I'd be interested in people's recommendations.

What else should I be looking for?

[dalzo]

I’ve got an asus tuf vg32vq and it’s excellent, bit bigger than what your looking for but they do smaller sizes

The newer version is 165hz with a 1ms response time it’s also a 1440p monitor.

Only criticism I could give mine is that the speakers are crap but they generally always are on monitors

[Brainpox]

LG has a 27” OLED now, 240hz: https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-27gr95qe-b?

[pills]

Another vote for ASUS, I've got a VG27AQ which I highly rate for gaming.

[offspring86]

dalzo said:

I’ve got an asus tuf vg32vq and it’s excellent, bit bigger than what your looking for but they do smaller sizes

The newer version is 165hz with a 1ms response time it’s also a 1440p monitor.

Only criticism I could give mine is that the speakers are crap but they generally always are on monitors

I've had the VG24VQR for almost a year. Managed to pick it up on a deal on Amazon at £159. Been extremely impressed with it (no speakers on mine though).

[mmm-five]

What spec is the PC/laptop that's going to be driving this monitor.

No point spending £1500 on an all-singing, all-dancing, fast-refresh, 4k OLED if you've only got a GT730 or Vega graphics


But saying that, I've bought the Alienware AW3423DW ultra-wide (3440x1440) OLED when it was on offer for less than £1000. That is matched to an RTX3080Ti...and it's purely for gaming, so the burn-in issue isn't a worry (along with the 3-yer burn-in warranty).

Edited by mmm-five on Friday 12th May 12:55

[JagYouAre]

mmm-five said:

What spec is the PC/laptop that's going to be driving this monitor.

No point spending £1500 on an all-singing, all-dancing, fast-refresh, 4k OLED if you've only got a GT730 or Vega graphics


But saying that, I've bought the Alienware AW3423DW ultra-wide (3440x1440) OLED when it was on offer for less than £1000. That is matched to an RTX3080Ti...and it's purely for gaming, so the burn-in issue isn't a worry (along with the 3-yer burn-in warranty).

Edited by mmm-five on Friday 12th May 12:55

I have its (non-OLED) predecessor, AW3821DW attached to an RTX3060Ti and I have never been disappointed. I love the ultrawide and if you are using it for work stuff as well it's as good as two side by side screens (albeit narrower ratio) but takes up less space.

Agree with the above, the decision will really be based on budget and input.

[pills]

Another vote for ASUS, I've got a VG27AQ which I highly rate for gaming.

[Lucas Ayde]

Ive got the G9 Odyssey (not the Neo) and it's pretty great. Good refresh rates and general specs. The Neo which came after it has better HDR performance but seems to have suffered quite a few issues. The Odyssey version also had issues early on but these seem to have been sorted and I have no complaints with mine.

Actually, it's really useful as a general monitor as it basically is the equivalent of 2x 27" 1440p screens but with no bezel in the middle. You can even run two inputs simultaneously to make it act like two seperate monitors (Picture by Picture mode).

[ilikepeas]

Do you want its refresh rate to match the laptop's?

[donkmeister]

Lucas Ayde said:

Ive got the G9 Odyssey (not the Neo) and it's pretty great. Good refresh rates and general specs. The Neo which came after it has better HDR performance but seems to have suffered quite a few issues. The Odyssey version also had issues early on but these seem to have been sorted and I have no complaints with mine.

Actually, it's really useful as a general monitor as it basically is the equivalent of 2x 27" 1440p screens but with no bezel in the middle. You can even run two inputs simultaneously to make it act like two seperate monitors (Picture by Picture mode).

I have the 49" Odyssey and whilst it is an awesome monitor, I've had little success gaming with it.
In MS FS2020, the settings that people were using to change the FOV for wideboi screens appear to have been removed, so you have a weird stretch towards the edges of the screen. I think I found this with Kerbal and Beam too. Other games simply letterbox the screen, defeating the point of 32:9 aspect ratio... I realise that this is game dependent so maybe everything you play has worked flawlessly, but it's certainly worth anyone considering a G9 to check the games you like work properly in 32:9 before spending lots on a monitor.
However, the picture quality is superb and refresh rate is great. I also like being able to do PBP to have two machines side by side.

[Lucas Ayde]

donkmeister said:

Lucas Ayde said:

Ive got the G9 Odyssey (not the Neo) and it's pretty great. Good refresh rates and general specs. The Neo which came after it has better HDR performance but seems to have suffered quite a few issues. The Odyssey version also had issues early on but these seem to have been sorted and I have no complaints with mine.

Actually, it's really useful as a general monitor as it basically is the equivalent of 2x 27" 1440p screens but with no bezel in the middle. You can even run two inputs simultaneously to make it act like two seperate monitors (Picture by Picture mode).

I have the 49" Odyssey and whilst it is an awesome monitor, I've had little success gaming with it.
In MS FS2020, the settings that people were using to change the FOV for wideboi screens appear to have been removed, so you have a weird stretch towards the edges of the screen. I think I found this with Kerbal and Beam too. Other games simply letterbox the screen, defeating the point of 32:9 aspect ratio... I realise that this is game dependent so maybe everything you play has worked flawlessly, but it's certainly worth anyone considering a G9 to check the games you like work properly in 32:9 before spending lots on a monitor.
However, the picture quality is superb and refresh rate is great. I also like being able to do PBP to have two machines side by side.

You can't expect everything to support full 32:9 (or even 21:9 regular ultra-widescreen) .. that's just the nature of games. You just have to accept that a lot of games will be in 16:9 with pillarbox bars at the sides in which case it plays like a quality 27" 1440p monitor with up to 240Hz refresh. I don't see that as an issue.

I guess some might want absolutely everything to be in 32:9 to fill their screen just like when 16:9 TVs came out, some peeople really, really wanted the picture to fill the whole screen regardless of that it usually came from a 4:3 source. In that case, 32:9 monitors are unlikely to fill that wish for quite some time as its up to games to support such aspect ratios and many don't even support 21:9.

However, the 32:9 ratio is 100% supported and useful as a desktop which makes it worth it for me. 32:9 gaming (where supported by the game) is a great bonus. It definitely adds immersion to FPS games. Of course it's 90% of the number of pixels of a 4K screen so you need a decent GPU to drive the monitor anywhere close to its full potential. Luckily it has gsync/freesync to help with games that can't maintain 5120x1440 at 240Hz ....

[3xAAA]

Thanks for the suggestions I'll take a closer look at them.

If it makes any difference my graphics card is a GeForce RTX 3060 (laptop version), does this limit me in any way?

[CheesecakeRunner]

My son got one of these for his birthday…

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B3JPFGHX?psc=1&r...

Only 1080p but will do 120hz refresh rate with his Xbox Series X. Apparently he can now kill people in Apex Legends and Fortnite much quicker. Picture quality isn’t as nice as the 4k LG screens I use, but they’re twice the price and aren’t anywhere near as fast.

( https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B088M5S7NH/ref...)

[dalzo]

3xAAA said:

Thanks for the suggestions I'll take a closer look at them.

If it makes any difference my graphics card is a GeForce RTX 3060 (laptop version), does this limit me in any way?

If you’ve got a 3060 then I’d avoid any 4K monitors, higher resolution will eat your frames on certain games. I’ve got a 2070 super currently and went for a sweet spot of a 1440p monitor with high refresh rate.

offspring86 said:

I've had the VG24VQR for almost a year. Managed to pick it up on a deal on Amazon at £159. Been extremely impressed with it (no speakers on mine though).

I think the vqr is the newer version of mine. That is some price you got it at, I really need a second monitor and I think you’ve just convinced me on what to get.

Edited by dalzo on Saturday 13th May 20:49

[donkmeister]

Lucas Ayde said:

donkmeister said:

Lucas Ayde said:

Ive got the G9 Odyssey (not the Neo) and it's pretty great. Good refresh rates and general specs. The Neo which came after it has better HDR performance but seems to have suffered quite a few issues. The Odyssey version also had issues early on but these seem to have been sorted and I have no complaints with mine.

Actually, it's really useful as a general monitor as it basically is the equivalent of 2x 27" 1440p screens but with no bezel in the middle. You can even run two inputs simultaneously to make it act like two seperate monitors (Picture by Picture mode).

I have the 49" Odyssey and whilst it is an awesome monitor, I've had little success gaming with it.
In MS FS2020, the settings that people were using to change the FOV for wideboi screens appear to have been removed, so you have a weird stretch towards the edges of the screen. I think I found this with Kerbal and Beam too. Other games simply letterbox the screen, defeating the point of 32:9 aspect ratio... I realise that this is game dependent so maybe everything you play has worked flawlessly, but it's certainly worth anyone considering a G9 to check the games you like work properly in 32:9 before spending lots on a monitor.
However, the picture quality is superb and refresh rate is great. I also like being able to do PBP to have two machines side by side.

You can't expect everything to support full 32:9 (or even 21:9 regular ultra-widescreen) .. that's just the nature of games. You just have to accept that a lot of games will be in 16:9 with pillarbox bars at the sides in which case it plays like a quality 27" 1440p monitor with up to 240Hz refresh. I don't see that as an issue.

I guess some might want absolutely everything to be in 32:9 to fill their screen just like when 16:9 TVs came out, some peeople really, really wanted the picture to fill the whole screen regardless of that it usually came from a 4:3 source. In that case, 32:9 monitors are unlikely to fill that wish for quite some time as its up to games to support such aspect ratios and many don't even support 21:9.

However, the 32:9 ratio is 100% supported and useful as a desktop which makes it worth it for me. 32:9 gaming (where supported by the game) is a great bonus. It definitely adds immersion to FPS games. Of course it's 90% of the number of pixels of a 4K screen so you need a decent GPU to drive the monitor anywhere close to its full potential. Luckily it has gsync/freesync to help with games that can't maintain 5120x1440 at 240Hz ....

Oh I agree completely; I bought it primarily to work on, and I have found it a boon for video editing too as I don't have to jump from monitor to monitor. I just think it's worth people knowing that not all games support 32:9, after all the OP asked for a gaming monitor recommendation and the USP of our chunky screens is not supported by all games. Better they are aware and can check their games of choice are known to play nicely.

[3xAAA]

Thanks for the replies, everyone, I've not got around to buying a monitor yet, but I see the Asus VG279Q1A has been recommended a few times in this thread.

I've been doing some research, and the VG279QM seems like a slightly better model (280Hz) refresh rate, but now I'm reading that for 27" I really want to look at 1440P monitors.

The VG27AQ looks a good shout, although the price is getting expensive now (£328 each, and I need two of them).

Will my GeForce RTX 3060 (laptop version) run 1440P OK (Windows, native go pro footage, BF5 etc.)?

[donkmeister]

3xAAA said:

Will my GeForce RTX 3060 (laptop version) run 1440P OK (Windows, native go pro footage, BF5 etc.)?

Without even breaking a sweat.

I've driven a 5120*1440 screen with integrated graphics no problem. So am RTX3060, even laptop version will have no trouble.