I agree with Southernorth. As someone who has used a Samsung 24cfg70, Dell s2417dg and the LG 34uc79g. I can tell you that you should go with your heart and take opinions with a grain of salt even mine.
Saying that though it's better to read the the experiences of those who have had the monitors more so than those who haven't.
Specs on paper is not everything for instance, the Samsung has a much higher contrast ratio being a va panel but looking at the LG side by side, you would think it was a match and that goes with the black level too. The LG was favored by everyone who saw it.
People keep harping on about the low ppi on this forum of the LG. It is fine for gaming and the contrast, color and black level are kind of more important as they really produce an amazing picture not to mention ultrawide adds so much more to the experience.
There is a caveat though. The ips panel is not the fastest and some trailing is visible sometimes.
The Samsung is great as well but it's weakness is smearing when displaying dark shades. It has trouble on dark grey shades in some games. I also had the 27 inch version and that was not as nice as the 24. Even though it has a lower ppi like the LG it somehow looked worse to me.
The Dell is the best gaming monitor I have owned to date for pure gaming being the fastest for pixel transition, the smoothest with no trailing, ghosting or smearing. It is truly a superb gaming monitor. The only weakness that I can see is slightly higher gamma which can in most cases be rectified with calibration.
All these monitors are great. I would recommend the Dell as you have a gtx 1080 and 165hz with Gsync is fabulous.
Saying that though it's better to read the the experiences of those who have had the monitors more so than those who haven't.
Specs on paper is not everything for instance, the Samsung has a much higher contrast ratio being a va panel but looking at the LG side by side, you would think it was a match and that goes with the black level too. The LG was favored by everyone who saw it.
People keep harping on about the low ppi on this forum of the LG. It is fine for gaming and the contrast, color and black level are kind of more important as they really produce an amazing picture not to mention ultrawide adds so much more to the experience.
There is a caveat though. The ips panel is not the fastest and some trailing is visible sometimes.
The Samsung is great as well but it's weakness is smearing when displaying dark shades. It has trouble on dark grey shades in some games. I also had the 27 inch version and that was not as nice as the 24. Even though it has a lower ppi like the LG it somehow looked worse to me.
The Dell is the best gaming monitor I have owned to date for pure gaming being the fastest for pixel transition, the smoothest with no trailing, ghosting or smearing. It is truly a superb gaming monitor. The only weakness that I can see is slightly higher gamma which can in most cases be rectified with calibration.
All these monitors are great. I would recommend the Dell as you have a gtx 1080 and 165hz with Gsync is fabulous.
