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Darkpilgrim

Darkpilgrim

Darkpilgrim

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Heya,
I'm looking to get a new monitor main use will be gaming but i am unsure whether to go for a 1440p or a 1080p 144hz?
I'm looking for about a 27" and my budget is around £300

Any advice is much apericated
 
On that budget, I'd be tempted to wait for cheaper 1440p/144hz screens. For gaming, refresh rate is awesome REGARDLESS of frame rate. 144hz screens are significantly more responsive with significantly less motion blur than a 60hz screen. They should really bump up minimum refresh rates to 75-85hz, there is just no reason for 60hz at all, it sucks.

Even on desktop scrolling a web page is so much nicer at 120hz over 60hz.

If you need a screen today, I'd go with a 144hz screen, if you can wait or find a great deal on a 1440p/144hz screen that might be the way forward.

Though depends on what you have now I guess, if you have a 24"/1080p/60hz, then a 27"/144hz/1080p is still a nice upgrade for you and way cheaper. If you have a 1080p/120hz+ screen I'd probably wait till you can afford a 1440p/144hz.
 
Yeah higher refresh can be nice and I agree even in general windows GUI activity such as drag/drop it's much more pleasant to use but colours typically suffer especially bad when you consider TN panels aren't the best for colour to begin with but are usually the panel tech used in high refresh monitors.

I've got a 60 and 120Hz monitors, both Benq and typically find myself using the 60Hz simply as general picture quality is that little bit better, both are calibrated by the same Spyder 3 pro. Oddly if I switch my 120Hz monitor down to 60Hz I find it far less brutal on the eye so it's very possibly just my panel/monitor that's got this issue.

Personally I'm after something similar to you Darkpilgrim and currently sitting waiting, I'm aiming for a 30"+ screen so might be a while especially as I want an IPS or VA panel.
 
I was asking the same question op and decided to give 144h 1080p a try because I prefer smooth gameplay to higher res. I didn't spend the extra on both 1440p and 144hz because at 1440p it will be very hard to get 100+ fps unless you have a monster setup and you will be having to upgrade more often. Not worth the extra cost imo.
 
I just now noticed my browser seemed funny scrolling, checked refresh rate and 60hz....

set that bad boy back to 144.
 
I would go take a look at some in a store just to see which suits your eyes best, people swear by either but i think its very much a personal preference. I would prefer the extra pixels if i had to choose but maybe soon you wont have to choose between them.
 
I'm in a similar situation 27" 1080p monitor (LG 27MP65). Had 2 of them but 1 died so currently just using one. I think I am going to wait a bit longer to see what comes out but might grab one or the other if I see a good deal come by.
 
DSR is good, but its never going to be as good as the actual resolution, it can't magically increase pixel density of a monitor, it does, however, add a very nice dynamic to games, especially older ones that support higher resolutions.

Where I can I DSR upscale to 5K on my swift :)
 
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