Doubt about monitors

[Simone45]

Hi.
I was looking at some monitors to buy but i have a doubt, do top monitors make sense only if you play a lot and if you have very performing PCs or could they also have advantages in everyday use?

 

Let me explain better, if we take two 1440p 144hz monitors, one however is a top type like the LG 27GL83A and the other is the Samsung C27JG52 obviously in gaming with a good PC I would see a lot of differences, but in everyday use for example in watching a movie or a tv series or just surfing on google (tired eyes) would I have any advantage? would the 200 euros more be justified?

 

Thank you.

[RAS_3885]

2 hours ago, Simone45 said:

Hi.
I was looking at some monitors to buy but i have a doubt, do top monitors make sense only if you play a lot and if you have very performing PCs or could they also have advantages in everyday use?

 

Let me explain better, if we take two 1440p 144hz monitors, one however is a top type like the LG 27GL83A and the other is the Samsung C27JG52 obviously in gaming with a good PC I would see a lot of differences, but in everyday use for example in watching a movie or a tv series or just surfing on google (tired eyes) would I have any advantage? would the 200 euros more be justified?

 

Thank you.

The primary benefit a high-end PC is going to provide is the ability to more easily push higher frame rates to take advantage of high refresh rate monitors.

 

The other features a high-end monitor provides (color accuracy, panel type, ports/connectivity, viewing angles, brightness, or HDR capability to name just a few) are really independent of what you have the monitor plugged into, for the most part. A bright, HDR-certified monitor with great color accuracy will work just as well for movie watching and picture/video editing plugged into a laptop as it will plugged into a powerful editing workstation. I'm not talking about the ability to actually edit video, just the picture quality the monitor is providing.

 

With that said, depending on your use case certain features may be more important to you than others. For gaming most people will prioritize refresh rate and response time. For content creation maybe it's color accuracy and viewing angles that are more important, and 60 Hz is more than enough. It's easy to spend just as much on a gaming-focused monitor as it is a content creation monitor (if not more), but for them to have a focus on dramatically different feature sets.

 

Point is, find out what matters to YOUR use case in a monitor and buy the nicest one you can afford. Most every monitor out there will do perfectly fine for simply browsing the web and watching Youtube.