Sub £250 IPS

[EdwardBrown]

What is the best >=26 inch vesa mountable ips monitor available?

 

Non-essential things:

 

Curved = Good

>1080p = Good

Adobe RGB = Very Good

Slim Bezel = Good

>5ms response = Bad (but may be acceptable)

Good contrast ratio =  a must.

[don_svetlio]

response time is useless - your mouse has 20-30ms response time so the screen won't make a difference.

Anyway, if you are using an AMD GPU you can get a 1080p Ultrawide screen with Free-sync for that kind of money

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

response time is useless - your mouse has 20-30ms response time so the screen won't make a difference.

Anyway, if you are using an AMD GPU you can get a 1080p Ultrawide screen with Free-sync for that kind of money

A monitor's response time and a mouse's "response time" aren't even remotely the same thing, so it makes even less of a difference. 

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

A monitor's response time and a mouse's "response time" aren't even remotely the same thing, so it makes even less of a difference. 

I mean that, if he is playing CS:GO 1, 2 or 3ms more won't really make much of a difference considering things like input delay on the peripherals or the speed of his Internet. Monitor refresh rate is important there. response time - not so much. The reason I know is because I've tried both 6ms, 4ms and 22ms - there is no difference.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

I mean that, if he is playing CS:GO 1, 2 or 3ms more won't really make much of a difference considering things like input delay on the peripherals or the speed of his Internet. Monitor refresh rate is important there. response time - not so much. The reason I know is because I've tried both 6ms, 4ms and 22ms - there is no difference.

Yes, the response time on a monitor is a useless statistic, but it has nothing to do with the input delay or how fast a monitor responds to an input. It's to do with how fast the pixels change colour, which can cause some ghosting at high response times. Still, the statistic is useless for a variety of reasons and is just a marketing statistic really, 

 

What I meant is that the delay of an input from a mouse or keyboard is completely unrelated with the response time of the monitor, as they are measures of completely different things. If it were the input delay or processing delay of the monitor, then it would be related. 

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

Yes, the response time on a monitor is a useless statistic, but it has nothing to do with the input delay or how fast a monitor responds to an input. It's to do with how fast the pixels change colour, which can cause some ghosting at high response times. Still, the statistic is useless for a variety of reasons and is just a marketing statistic really, 

 

What I meant is that the delay of an input from a mouse or keyboard is completely unrelated with the response time of the monitor, as they are measures of completely different things. If it were the input delay or processing delay of the monitor, then it would be related. 

I agree - I was just trying to make a point as to why 2ms less response time is useless when buying a monitor as the OP seems adamant about sub-5ms.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

I agree - I was just trying to make a point as to why 2ms less response time is useless when buying a monitor as the OP seems adamant about sub-5ms.

It's a prime example of the reason the statistic is quoted. "Gaming" monitors are always plastered with the 1ms response time marketing, leading people to assume more than that is bad. 

 

Doesn't help that the "response time" name is kind of a misleading name for it.