My first monitor

Sneblot

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Ever since I built my first pc I've been using a 22" 1080 monitor which was given to me by a friend, how ever like a lot of people I am now working from home. 22" was alright for the games I play, (RTS like CoH, FPS like Destiny 2 and City sims) how ever I am finding that it's just not wide enough for my work, at work I have two 27" Dell monitors, I'm not sure what the model number is.

However I don't have space in my home office for two 27" monitors so I was thinking of going down the ultrawide route. However I genuinly don't have the first idea of what I'm looking for when it comes to monitors.

Here are a few which are with in my price range for a decent monitor, I'm willing to spend a little bit over £650 but I'm not wanting to go crazy so sub £800 would be for a good monitor. As I've had my current gifted monitor for nearly 10 years. Any help or other suggestions would be appreciated.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £3,088.86 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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Well first things first
Ips - color accurate best viewing angles
Pva/va - semi accurate good viewing angles
TN - not accurate bad viewing angles

Refresh rate higher fast response if FPs matches or higher

Forget dynamic contrast means sod all.

Resolution - high better depending on GPU power for games at least

Would suggest 32" or more for 4k 3840*2160 27" is little to small to get full experience.

HDR better colours between light dark in same scene

Im bit of a monitor hoarder got 8 gsync displays
However I love and hate ultra wide
When it works it's cool but most of the time it fails.

Not used me Acer x34 in over a year after paying £1200 on it.

Trouble is lot of games don't work well with UW.
Especially old games and some multiplayer games like overwatch.

If it doesn't work you get a 16:9 display with massive side bars. You can tweak config on most games to support 21:9 some work flawlessly most have drawbacks like cropping images / zooming
Some have no fix.

Of your happy to tweak configs for games go ahead. I used to but cba anymore as some game updates revert your changes.

For clarification and for people who say I've not tried it I have the following screens

Asus pg278q 1440 144hz
Asus pg27aq 4k 60hz
Acer x34
Acer 27 240hz 1080p
Samsung 32" 2560*1600 old

4k 60hz and 1440p 144hz gets most use depending on game. But I hate TN has to be va ips now days
Acer x34 has been gathering dust probably will sell it one day...
 

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Thanks for the detailed respone, my GPU is currently a vega 56, though I'm looking to upgrade my pc come november time so that will change, which could be green or red, I have read that most of the more recent freesync monitors also now support gsync in one way or another.

I'll have to have a look into the main games I play and see if they support UW, otherwise I think it's two 16:9 panels.
 

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Sneblot said:
Thanks for the detailed respone, my GPU is currently a vega 56, though I'm looking to upgrade my pc come november time so that will change, which could be green or red, I have read that most of the more recent freesync monitors also now support gsync in one way or another.

I'll have to have a look into the main games I play and see if they support UW, otherwise I think it's two 16:9 panels.
Click to expand...
Here's one example
http://www.mystgraphics.com/OverwatchForumImages/MaximizingPerformance/Screenshot21-9Comparison.jpg

Blizzard zoom in 21:9 so your lose vertical space so you actually lose picture
 
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