Best 1440p Monitor

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Hi all,

I currently have a main display which is the AOC AG271QX.

I’m not ready to go 4K just yet so I am after a very good 1440p 144+ for the next few years.

I play a lot of games, mainly FPS but my current monitor lacks vibrant colours where the blacks look slightly grey and it can be fairly off putting considering the horsepower of my PC and the max settings I like to play on.

Could anyone recommend a good 1440p 27 inch monitor? I play in a room which isn’t very bright. I am looking to purchase soon as I want to take advantage of any Black Friday deals that may be soon to come.

Thanks in advance :)
 
The LG 27GL850, Dell S2721DGFA or any other monitor with the same nano IPS panel is probably the best. Check out Hardware Unboxed monitor reviews.
 
fs123 said:
The LG 27GL850, Dell S2721DGFA or any other monitor with the same nano IPS panel is probably the best. Check out Hardware Unboxed monitor reviews.
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Eyeing up that Dell myself.

It seems all the other options have fairly serious flaws, whereas the LG "nano-IPS" screens (inc the Dell) are brilliant all-round, with the one flaw of having appalling contrast and really bad (dark grey) blacks.

The only other choice is to start thinking about TVs, but then you don't get 1440p, only 1080p or 4k. The former being useless at 27" or higher, and the latter needing far too much GPU horsepower for my liking.

So really all roads lead to that Dell.
 
Thanks, both of these seem good candidates and currently have nice discounts as well.

Leaning towards dell because it isnt g-sync so would be compatible on AMD.

Gone with the dell, the poor contrast ratio and blacks, from what I understand the contrast ratio is IPS standard, its rated as poor as now days people also use VA and OLED screens, and it is poor vs those, but if you used to IPS anyway, according to the rtings reviewer its not abnormal for that. On the blacks similar thing, IPS historically are not great for blacks but also HDR makes the blacks worse on this screen, HDR can be turned off.

This seems to be one of the few good options for 1440p at the moment, I see the market is moving away from 1440p and it seems to be 1080p or 4k mostly, and if you want proper HDR you need to spend big and go with at least 4k? I did find a HDR10 compliant screen but it was ultrawide and VA. I am not about to stick a £1000+ 50 inch tv on my pc desk. So I guess HDR is still a for the future thing for me.

The review for my current screen rated the contrast ratio at 480:1 so for me the 900:1 rating for this screen is actually an improvement. So its about perspective really, what it is been compared against.

What am I gaining?

The Dell compared to my current screen.

Higher contrast ratio
Fake HDR, from what I understand HDR400 can still make colours more vivid and feel better, but contrast ratio improvements are not there. So I expect it will be like the old days of enabling software HDR via reshade.
VRR for AMD and Nvidia
I lose DVI and VGA, Gain an extra HDMI.
Gain working DP (hopefully), on current display my DP is buggy so I had to use DVI-D instead.
The DVI-D on current screen is only used because the DP is broken, and VGA is connected to xbox 360 but now I have a Series S to play my favourite 360 games it wont likely be needed in future and I do have other monitors with VGA ports if it does get needed again.
USB 3.0 instead of USB 2.0
Line out in addition to just headphone out.
 
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max2dapower said:
Could anyone recommend a good 1440p 27 inch monitor? I play in a room which isn’t very bright
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That would prefer VA panel, whihc has the way highest contrast of LCDs.
Though not without its own problems in horizontal gamma shift of dark shades (called black crush) and slow compared to other pixel transitions in dark shades.

And it's harder to find VAs with as wide colour space as in IPS panels.

This would have pretty large gamut at 90% of AdobeRGB.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aoc-...een-led-backlit-gaming-monitor-mo-057-ao.html
This would be another, though at 90% of DCI-P3 its gamut doesn't cover as much.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ved-led-backlit-gaming-monitor-mo-00r-ms.html



chrcoluk said:
Gone with the dell, the poor contrast ratio and blacks, from what I understand the contrast ratio is IPS standard
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Usual contrast of IPS panels is litle better than in TNs.
Contrast of that early LG 27" 2560x1440 Nano-IPS panel is just poor for IPS.
4K Nano-IPS panel in 27GN950 has fixed that achieving usual 1000:1.
 
EsaT said:
That would prefer VA panel, whihc has the way highest contrast of LCDs.
Though not without its own problems in horizontal gamma shift of dark shades (called black crush) and slow compared to other pixel transitions in dark shades.

And it's harder to find VAs with as wide colour space as in IPS panels.

This would have pretty large gamut at 90% of AdobeRGB.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aoc-...een-led-backlit-gaming-monitor-mo-057-ao.html
This would be another, though at 90% of DCI-P3 its gamut doesn't cover as much.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ved-led-backlit-gaming-monitor-mo-00r-ms.html



Usual contrast of IPS panels is litle better than in TNs.
Contrast of that early LG 27" 2560x1440 Nano-IPS panel is just poor for IPS.
4K Nano-IPS panel in 27GN950 has fixed that achieving usual 1000:1.
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Thanks then that really should have been explained better in reviews, its just a vague "poor blacks".

Any reason why they can fix on 4k panels and not 1440p? I expect its the lazyness again, thinking it only matters for 4k users.

I am not interested in a 4k display at the moment.

My current ips has 480:1 contrast ratio.

You know of a 1440p 27 inch IPS screen with better blacks than nano IPS, at least 2x HDMI, VRR, HDR, and not the horrible LG red design with external power bricks? Plus has to be sub £400.

I see there is a LG 27GN850-B which is a newer 1440p variant, does that have the same black fixes?
 
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Any reason why they can fix on 4k panels and not 1440p? I expect its the lazyness again, thinking it only matters for 4k users.

My current ips has 480:1 contrast ratio.
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Possibly it's about improvement over time with something in structure of LCD matrix related to achieving that fast response time.
Gaps between LCD cells are rather thick.
https://i.rtings.com/images/reviews/monitor/lg/27gl850/27gl850-pixels-large.jpg

That's one sucktastic contrast.
Must be ancient panel or completely whacked up settings.
 
It was measured by a different reviewer, so its possible its down to measurement differences, but you can look it up as well if you want, my current display is a benq gw2765ht.
 
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