Aalistor said:
ubercake said:
The
ASUS VG248QE is "the" gaming monitor for right now. 144Hz and 1ms response.
I know this thing's picture quality is crap (as is all 144HZ 1ms TN panels). Is there any happy medium between smoothness/response, refresh rate, and picture quality?
I have to disagree. From a gaming standpoint, the monitor has all the contrast you want. This is very important when picking out enemies in shadows, for instance, in a game like BF4.
If you're shooting for color accuracy, viewing angles and not concerned with gaming performance so much, expensive IPS monitors are the way to go. If you don't care about contrast but want accurate colors, cheap (<$500) IPS monitors do the trick.
From the standpoint of gaming performance, nothing is going to beat a high refresh, low response time TN panel. Especially if you have a video card that pumps out frame rates well beyond the 60fps mark. The offer far less noticeable tearing, little to no motion blur, good contrast and little to no input lag. All things competitive gamers look for. Where they are lacking is in the viewing angles and color accuracy categories. From a viewing angle standpoint, I'm not sure I know anyone who games on a monitor while sitting at some angle to the side of it. They sit right in front of it. In my opinion, unless you are presenting something that needs to be color accurate to a group of clients standing around a monitor, viewing angles are not so important when it comes to gaming. From a color standpoint, I would definitely trade color accuracy for contrast any day when it comes to gaming. Cheap IPS monitors show shadow areas with far contrast making it hard to pick out enemies hiding in shadows or indoors.
We can't yet have our cake and eat it too. I would like colors like those on an IPS monitor with all of the performance benefits the TN monitor has to offer, but no one makes anything like this yet.
If you're not really competitive about gaming or you're primarily playing MMORPGs or RTSs, an IPS might be the way to go, but if you want one with good contrast, you'll definitely be paying at least $600 for this type of monitor, but you'll also get a 2560x1440 resolution out of it. These are all limited to 60Hz out of the box.
What is exciting is there will be G-sync monitors out later this year with higher resolutions. They will eliminate blur, tearing, input lag, and so on altogether and be offered in higher resolutions than the usual 1080p. They'll work as 144Hz monitors for any GPU not using G-sync, but with Nvidia cards like yours, you'll be able to take advantage of the G-sync technology. You might consider waiting.