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We Looked At 276 Gaming Monitors. Here’s What We Learned.

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2 minutes ago, porina said:

How do we define gaming monitor? Really.

 

IMO I'd call 144+ Hz displays as niche of "high refresh rate" gaming monitors but they certainly aren't the only gaming monitors. Not every game requires high refresh for a competitive advantage. There's plenty of 75 Hz models which are still a nice noticeable upgrade from 60 Hz.

 

I'd go for a different definition: a monitor is a gaming monitor if the manufacturer calls it one. Yes, that includes 60 Hz models.

We define it as that, these days 144Hz being to go to even for cheap entry. Previous it was 120Hz and they got replaced. They're nowhere near niche now, 240Hz I can see but 144Hz is quite common. Obviously you can game on any monitor but doesn't really mean 'gaming' grade by standards. 

75Hz meh they're kinda useless, as I said 144Hz is so cheap nowdays that makes no sense to get anything worse these days if you're buying a new monitor. 

That definition is terrible. They put gaming tag on anything. 60Hz is not a gaming grade monitor. 120Hz+ is. 

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7 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

"IPS is expensive"

 

Right...then how come I was able to find a 25" 2560x1080 75Hz freesync IPS display for $189 AUD/$179 discounted? My old 27" 1080p 60Hz TN screen (which is far flimsier than the ultrawide) cost $255 4 years ago...

You answered your own question.

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16 minutes ago, dizmo said:

You answered your own question.

Which means it only pretended to be one.  Classic sophistry.

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31 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

What actually makes a monitor be classified as a gaming monitor?

It's not an official thing like a monitor certified for FreeSync.  There is no "Consortium of Gaming" that gets to decide that (but that would be sort of cool if that existed and they cracked down on the abuse of the word, so some crap company can't call a 60Hz panel "Gaming" and junk), so it's more like branding that happens to sometimes line up properly with the product features.

 

I would narrowly define gaming monitor as a monitor with features that make it superior for gaming over some basic plain-vanilla 1080p TN panel (see: any cheap monitor anywhere).  So under that idea a barebones entry-level gaming monitor could be a 75Hz panel (IPS ideally, maybe TN), while a mid-range gaming monitor must have adaptive sync (Free or G-Sync) and starts at 120Hz through 144Hz (could be TN panel on the cheaper side but should be bigger than 20" then), and ideally could have 1440p resolution, but 1080p 144Hz is fine.

 

While the high-end of gaming monitors retain adaptive sync, start at 144Hz IPS through 240Hz TN, should have zero-bezel (or minimal bezel), start around 24" to 32", and include ultra-wides and 4k (not that they are easy to run games at nor can they do >60Hz yet, but a 4k with adaptive sync only fits in this niche).

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5 hours ago, dizmo said:

You answered your own question.

Point was: They are no longer expensive.

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9 hours ago, porina said:

How do we define gaming monitor? Really.

 

 

It says so in the product title.

 

I don't see a single other definition that makes such a peripheral unique to "gaming". 

 

 

To the thread in general:

 

and?   I mean really and?  money is the king spec behind most sales for the vast majority of shoppers. 

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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3 hours ago, imreloadin said:

And here I am using a 10 year old Vizio TV xD

Probably still better than this:
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1024x768 85Hz TV/Monitor from the early 2000's (used originally with a Celeron D 2.4GHz desktop), and in use until I got the 1080p screen mid-late 2014 (well before getting my GTX 970).

And yes, I still used it as a satellite for my then new screen in early 2015 (best I ever had S-Video look).

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