I want a new toy and the only piece of kit I can reasonably upgrade in a way that I would notice without spending silly money is my monitor...so that's my target for a new toy.
The problem is that what I know about monitors is out of date, so I'm going to ask for advice on here.
My current monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster B2430. 24 inch, 1920x1080, 60Hz. Nice quality and still perfectly functional, but a bit dated now.
Graphics card is a 1070 Ti with superb cooling that boosts to silly levels. At stock volts, it's limited only by power draw and if I feed it max power it outperforms a 1080. I run it at stock, but I did overclock it just for benchmarking as a "How high can you go?" thing. CPU is an i7-4790K, so between the two I think I can go a bit higher than 1920x1080. 2560x1440 looks like the best bet for me.
Size-wise, I think ~28 inches would be the best size. I think more than that would probably be too big and less than that would probably not be quite the upgrade I want.
G-Sync would be nice, but I'm not convinced it's worth the extra ~£200 it costs.
I don't know how much difference refresh rate makes, so I can't make a good decision on that. TN? IPS?
I want no dead pixels. If I have to pay extra for a monitor that works properly, i.e. all the pixels work, so be it.
My sensible budget limit is ~£300 because this is just a toy I don't really need, but that's not set in stone either way. I'm tempted by that remarkably cheap AOC monitor that's selling like hot cakes (£200 for a 32 inch 2560x1440 monitor!), especially after reading reviews of it that say it's surprisingly good and far better than the price implies, but the size puts me off.
The problem is that what I know about monitors is out of date, so I'm going to ask for advice on here.
My current monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster B2430. 24 inch, 1920x1080, 60Hz. Nice quality and still perfectly functional, but a bit dated now.
Graphics card is a 1070 Ti with superb cooling that boosts to silly levels. At stock volts, it's limited only by power draw and if I feed it max power it outperforms a 1080. I run it at stock, but I did overclock it just for benchmarking as a "How high can you go?" thing. CPU is an i7-4790K, so between the two I think I can go a bit higher than 1920x1080. 2560x1440 looks like the best bet for me.
Size-wise, I think ~28 inches would be the best size. I think more than that would probably be too big and less than that would probably not be quite the upgrade I want.
G-Sync would be nice, but I'm not convinced it's worth the extra ~£200 it costs.
I don't know how much difference refresh rate makes, so I can't make a good decision on that. TN? IPS?
I want no dead pixels. If I have to pay extra for a monitor that works properly, i.e. all the pixels work, so be it.
My sensible budget limit is ~£300 because this is just a toy I don't really need, but that's not set in stone either way. I'm tempted by that remarkably cheap AOC monitor that's selling like hot cakes (£200 for a 32 inch 2560x1440 monitor!), especially after reading reviews of it that say it's surprisingly good and far better than the price implies, but the size puts me off.
