Shrinking monitor size? Going from IPS/VA to TN?

[FL630]

Has anyone done this? How did you find it?

I've got a 32" panel from my graphic design days which I'd like to change for a 144hz panel to game on. 32" is a little too big, so I'm not looking to go there. However, 27" 144hz panels with the spec I'd like are a bit out of my price range. My idea spec is 27" (or equiv 21:9), 144hz, IPS, 1440p, G-Sync.

So, two things...

24" monitors, how do they feel when you've "gone smaller", too small? Cramped? Do you regret the lack of real estate to do things beyond internetting and gaming?

Secondly, is TN that bad? I've got a VA panel now, colours are good but not calibrated as we speak. I've never really used a TN panel (apart from in the days before I know what good colours and TN/VA/IPS meant) so cannot comment on what it's like.

Monitor prices are insane these days, so I've got to make that compromise somewhere...

 

[FL630]

Thanks @hornetstinger, the colours on my current Samsung 32D850 are really nice, I'm so used to it I'm sure I'd be disappointed in TN.

Another "downgrade" to my ideal spec... Lack of G-sync? Is it the be all and end all? Something that really makes a difference such as 60hz Vs 144hz?

Perhaps I should buy a freesync panel and go team red

 

[FL630]

I've read a lot recently about IPS QC problems, it's interesting that you can go blow £1000 on a screen for it to be terrible, yet it's somehow allowable by them?

I've been looking into the latest Samsung Quantum Dot 144Hz panels, they look perfect if it was only for the fact they had G-Sync, which naturally they do not.

Basically unless an incredible deal appears with a 144hz 1440p 27" G-Sync with great colours, I'm going to be making compromises. Unless I jsut get a cheaper 24" 144Hz and save a few quid and have most of the bits I want, just smaller with less accurate colours.

What makes it harder is that it's not like you can try any of these before you buy to see how you like them, it's quite an expensive gamble!!

 

[FL630]

Just out of interest, is there a piece of software out there that can replicate a screen size on a larger monitor?

I know I could run programs in a window (and get the measuring tape out), but I wonder if there is a more elegant solution?

 

[FL630]

The former, @aatu

It's just trying to find out how a smaller monitor would look in the programmes that I run daily. Unless I go out and buy a monitor it's almost impossible to tell and I assumed that this sort of program might exist, even if my googling turned up no suggestions.