re: Gaming monitor recommendations

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Ultra wides are ugly as frick

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I’m still waiting for someone to expound on this nonsense

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Yea I was disappointed to read that. Is there a big difference in .5ms and 1 Ms?

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No, and those numbers are usually bullshite, requiring a display overdrive setting that makes the screen blur and ghost like crazy. Monitor advertising numbers border on useless. If you’re shopping blind, you need to look at reviews at places like TFTCentral or a handful of you tubers that do a good job on the technical side.

Since I have an EVGA 3606.do.i.have to have Nvidia gsync?

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That's the young kids saying that it's not good

I have an ultra wide as my secondary top monitor, but no way in hell would I ever play in 32:9 or whatever aspect ratio that is

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32:9 is generally called the utterly absurd "ultra ultra wide". As a general rule, "ultra wide" is 21:9.

While 32:9 has some theoretical place in gaming, in my opinion, the trade offs (particularly distortion on the screen edges) aren't worth it. On the contrary, I'm waiting for someone to change my mind that a 34" 3440x1440 144hz monitor isn't the sweetest of sweet spots for all but the most competitive of competitive gaming.

As someone who has an incredibly high end gaming desktop sitting next to me and this sitting in front of me: LINK

If I were forced to start making trade offs, I would be willing to significantly nerf my horsepower to keep my monitor.

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yes i meant since i have the 3060 evga if i had to have gsync compatible exclusively

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Variable refresh rate should work with any Freesync monitor, whether certified as gsync compatible or not. There are some rare exceptions, which is why good tech heavy reviews are important.

Eta: my monitor isn’t certified gsync compatible, but VRR still works fine with my RTX 3000 cards.

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Got ya, I did find this msi optix that has a grey to grey response time of 1 Ms

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Stop listening to them on this

My favorite reviewers don't seem to have handled that monitor, but it seems good for the price point:

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Price point is very important in monitors. It's really hard to give advice or input outside of a known price point.

OK got it narrowed to

1)LG 27GL850-B 27 Inch Ultragear QHD Nano IPS 144hz gsnyc-369 on amazon
2) Aorus fi27q 27 inch 165 hz gsync -339 on amazon
3) Gigabyt m27q 27 in 170 hz free sync- 319 on newegg...
4) MSI QHD Rapid-IPS 1 ms 165Hz Refresh Rate G-Sync Compatible 27” (Optix MAG274QRF) --376 amazon

What say the experts????

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Im just totally lost lol I just want a good gaming monitor thats has nice black levels and color contrast for 3-350 bucks

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At that price point, you would be straining to get a decent 3440x1440, so getting a solid 1440p would probably be your best tack.

Holy shite i just found the quantum dot version of the msi optix for 389 on new egg