Suggestions for a new monitor?

[Ambarian]

Okay so I've bought my gaming rig (In Sig) and I'm happy with what I've got, but next up, for a decent visual experience, is obviously the monitor.

I have no clue about any of the jargon surrounding monitors like 1080, 1440, 4k, 8k, UHD, refresh, gsync etc, and I probably wouldn't gain much understanding if someone tried to explain it either.

All I can say is my current monitor is an ASUS VG248QE 24 Inch FHD (1920 x 1080) Gaming Monitor I got from Amazon 4 years ago and has done its job well to date.

What I'm looking for is recommendations (And the whys) of some decent monitors that would do well for gaming, and actually show off what my rig is capable of.

I've budgeted £500 for the monitor, but I'm willing to hold off a month or two to save a bit more and go up to £700 if needs be. But it all depends on how good it is.

Any help here is most appreciated.

 

[TheReflex]

What kind of gaming do you do? Recommendations would be different depending on whether you'd play, say, RPGs/RTS like Baldur's Gate or Crusader Kings, or FPS like Call of Duty.

For the former, I'd go 4k like the Dell S3221QS.
For the latter, the new generation of 34'' Ultrawide QHD 144Hz monitors is a good pick. The Gigabyte G34WQC is a strong contender

 

[Quartz]

For the latter, the new generation of 34'' Ultrawide QHD 144Hz monitors is a good pick.

This. Make sure you get one that is listed as 'GSync-compatible'. This will give you the benefit of variable refresh rates which will make your gaming experience much smoother and less stuttery at lower framerates.

 

[EsaT]

I have no clue about any of the jargon surrounding monitors like 1080, 1440, 4k, 8k, UHD, refresh, gsync etc, and I probably wouldn't gain much understanding if someone tried to explain it either.


I've budgeted £500 for the monitor, but I'm willing to hold off a month or two to save a bit more and go up to £700 if needs be

Making people not understand what they're buying is precisely the job of marketing.
I mean wouldn't it be easy to understand resolution of monitor, if they were listed like this:
1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160 and 7680x4320
First one is that "Full" HD (more like FoolsD, being worser than previous standard 1920x1200) with UHD being pixel dimensions doubled in 3840x2160...
Which really isn't 4000 pixels even horizontally despite of that 4k marketing. (same for that last "8k")
As you might now notice marketing also even changed from counting vertical pixels to horizontal pixels to get bigger marketing numbers.

Refresh rate is maximum number of different frames/images monitor can show per second.
60Hz is that traditional number in LCDs.
That's still good for slow paced games.
But for fast paced games like fps shooters you definitely want faster monitor like 144Hz one.
And while that slow monitor can't ever give faster frame rate than that maximum, faster monitor can work perfectly with lower framerate input.

That's where feature called variable refresh rate comes into play:
It basically makes monitor change its refresh rate dynamically on the fly according to input signal framerate.
What you want there is FreeSync or at most Gsync compatible.
Only GSync is getting ball and chain into your ankle for marriage to always paying what Yakuza-Jen wants you to pay.

£500 gets excellent 2560x1440 144/+Hz monitors.

Again for 3840x2160 (that 4k/UHD) that price gets only low refresh rate 60 (or maybe 75) Hz monitors.
And actually higher refrash rate models have been MIA for long time with good option(s) surfacing really only recently.
With availability of course being bad:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lg-2...nc-compatible-led-widescreen-g-mo-15w-lg.html