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Feature: Displays for today
Best gaming monitor 2018: Top 1080p, 1440p and 4K HDR displays
Finding the best gaming monitor for you and your budget is one of the most important parts of any PC. Whether you're simply looking for a new screen or learning how to build a PC from scratch, a good monitor can be utterly transformative, whether it's a boost in image quality, refresh rate or resolution. The problem is that there are just too many of…
Prepare to be blinded by Philips’ 1000nit 4K FreeSync 2 monitor
Who knew late April was the time for oodles of monitor announcements, eh? Well, if yesterday's news of the FreeSync 2-equipped AOC AGON AG322QC4 didn't make your eyes pop out of their sockets, then the jumbo Philips 436M6VBPAB almost certainly will thanks to its blinding max brightness of 1000cd/m2. This giant 43in VA panel is the first of a new line of Momentum monitors from Philips, and is the first…
Feature: Cheap and cheerful
Given they share all but three of the same letters, you'd think the AOC G2460VQ6 would be pretty similar to the G2460PF I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. To some extent, they are - both share an almost identical outward appearance with an understated red stripe down the lower bezel, and each has a 24in TN panel that supports AMD's adaptive frame-rate technology, FreeSync, which…
Feature: In sync with your budget
Take one look at the AOC G2460PF’s price of £170 (at time of writing) and you’d probably think it was a pretty standard kind of display. After all, 24in Full HD monitor prices often start around the £100-200 mark, and you can find several screens around the same £170 mark that don't have anything to shout about other than a mildly adjustable stand. AOC's G2460PF, however,…
Feature: 33 million pixels...
Yes, yes, I know 8K gaming is an utter irrelevance. Frankly, 4K remains a niche gaming resolution. But hang with me. 8K monitors are popping up from major manufacturers and with them the build-it-and-they-will-come logic of gaming at a preposterous resolution of 7,680 by 4,320 pixels. The fact that gaming at 8K isn’t really viable with current hardware is, up to a point, a separate…
Feature: Not as spectacular in practice as it is on paper
Behold the stunning breadth of its super-wide proportions. Marvel at the lustrous sheen of its impeccable anti-glare coating. Is LG's new 38-inch, 21:9-aspect FreeSync-capable masterwork not every gamer's ultimate fantasy? You'd think so. But it just goes to show how complex the monitor market has become, especially for we gamers, that the LG 38UC99 falls surprisingly short as a gaming companion. There's a broader lesson…
Feature: Who needs display tone mapping, anyway?
This didn't go too well for AMD's FreeSync technology last time around. But lo, a shiny new version of FreeSync is inbound. Give it up for FreeSync 2: This Time It Actually Works. OK, that's a little unfair. But hold onto your mechanical keyboards, folks, because FreeSync 2 is as much about streamlining the PC for HDR support (and indeed making AMD your weapon of…
Feature: A very naughty monitor...
27-inch IPS LCD panel? Check. 144Hz refresh rate? Yep. Some kind of frame-smoothing adaptive sync technology? Present and accounted for. 2,560 by 1,440 pixels? Count 'em. A price you can afford? Bit borderline, but that was inevitable. Is Asus's new MG279Q therefore the perfect LCD panel, the one we've all been waiting for, the veritable messiah of PC monitors? I've been eyeballs-on. All will now…
Feature: There's a ghost in the machine...
It feels like whole months since there was a good old fashioned fisticuffs between AMD and Nvidia. They do so love a PR punch up. But this one's a bit different. Nvidia's G-Sync technology versus AMD's FreeSync isn't the usual trench warfare over fractions of a frame per second. It's much more interesting than that. It's all about something called dynamic or adaptive refresh and…
Feature: Get to know your G-Sync from your FreeSync...
We've done IPS panel tech. We've done high refresh. So let's wrap up the holy trinity of gaming-relevant monitor technologies of late. It's time to talk frame syncing or adaptive sync. Probably better known via brand names like Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync, frame syncing technology is all about getting your games running smoother and without any nasty screen tearing. But here's the twist. It…
Feature: LG's got the bends
I've been dreading this moment for some time. But inevitably, inexorably, irresistibly it's happened. LG has announced a curved LCD monitor. Specifically, we're talking 34-inches of bent IPS panel in the super-wide 21:9 form factor that had me gushing like an idiot the other week. Admittedly I haven't seen it first hand. But curved HDTVs are an appalling gimmick conceived to exploit the most base…
