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When To Upgrade Display?

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Currently I have an Acer V226HQL. It's suiting me very well, even after almost 5 years of constant use and a couple of moves. Mainly just curious, when do most people upgrade their monitors to newer models. It seems to me that up until recently, that answer was "when the old one stops working." But now with the prevalence of higher resolutions and 144Hz it might be time to put the old back in the box and set the new on the desk.

 

I'm upgrading my pc soon, and I don't really have any plans to upgrade my monitor unless it breaks. I was just wondering if most people got more or less than 5 years out of a decent LCD monitor.

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I had a 24" 1080p60 for ~3years then went to a 1080p144 and after another ~3 years to a UWQHD. 

So yeah, about time ;)

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If you don't care about HDR, then now is a good time to upgrade.

 

If you do care about HDR, then by the end of this year or early next year. There will be many new monitors with HDR10 support released by the end of the year.

 

Here is a list of some of the known ones:

 

Asus PG27UQ, Acer Predator XB272, LG 32UD99 (just released), Samsung CHG70, Samsung CHG75, Samsung CHG90, BenQ SW320, Asus PA32U.

 

The first two on the list will be 4K, HDR, 144Hz, quantum dot, IPS, with a huge pricetag.

 

I'm still using an Acer HN274H 120HZ 27" monitor I bought in 2011, and I plan to upgrade to the Samsung CHG75 when it releases later this year.

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Short answer: when it dies.

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14 hours ago, huilun02 said:

A better question to ask is "What to upgrade?"

I see in your profile that you are using an FX-6300 and GTX 750 Ti

You are also using a strange 500W PSU and have no SSD

 

General rule of thumb is to spend about as much on the monitor as you do on the graphics card.

Unless you are going for a specific performance requirement.

Currently that is my set up, but I'm planning to upgrade soon. The PSU came with the barebones pc so that's why its weird.

Once I upgrade I'll either be spending around 300 most likely for my GPU

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EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

Silence will fall.

 

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... im kinda.. well... a yearly man :$ dont even think i had my xb280hk 4k monitor 10 months before i got my x34a xD

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