Items tagged with Monitors
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 05, 2025
We've been praising continued price drops on OLED displays for quite some time now, mostly in the TV arena but more recently in the realm of gaming monitors, too. Almost overnight (it felt that way, anyway), monitor makers began embracing...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 26, 2025
Can you imagine splurging on a big and beautiful quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) monitor, only to turn around and intentionally test its mettle against burn-in over a 12-month period? It's not something the average consumer should do, and...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 17, 2025
If you're ready to take in the plunge into OLED territory for your next gaming display, we have some great news—Amazon has slashed pricing on several models. Among the deals we found is an Alienware model with a QD-OLED panel that's been...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 10, 2025
It's not too often that monitor makers transparently list where they sourced the display panel for any given model, though there are exceptions from time to time. One such exception is GameMax with the introduction of its new Vision...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 17, 2025
Though we're only midway through January (and just scratching the surface of 2025), it feels like the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season is now a distant memory. Be that as it may, there are always deals out there, even now with...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jan 07, 2025
Gaming isn't the only thing on HP's mind right now, but the company is certainly making a push in that direction at CES 2025 with both new, powerful gaming systems sporting the latest hardware as well as a whole suite of new and refreshed...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 01, 2025
ASRock is racing into the new year with a couple of high-speed 27-inch flat-screen gaming displays under its Phantom Gaming brand, the PG27FFX1B and PG27FFX2A. In addition to being the same size, both new monitors also sport a...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 30, 2024
We're now just a week away from the next Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, an annual expo for product manufacturers to show off their latest creations and concepts. Not everything shown off at CES will come to fruition, but one...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 13, 2024
AOC (the display maker, not the politician) is out with yet another gaming display, the Agon Pro AG326UD, which it claims "sets a new standard" in the realm of monitors. That amounts to some heavy marketing hyperbole, though we'll give the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 12, 2024
Display makers are continuing to find ways to innovate, hence why we've seen technologies like OLED, mini LED, variable refresh rate support, and other features trickle into the mainstream arena over the past several years. As it applies...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 10, 2024
Anyone can piece together a PC setup, whether it entails rolling your own rig (otherwise known as the DIY route) or going with a pre-built. The trickier part is matching parts and accessories to whatever theme you have going, be it copious...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Dec 02, 2024
This year has brought some pretty darn decent deals on potent new PCs and powerful parts. We hope you aren't planning to hook up that new thousand-dollar graphics card to your terrible ten-year-old 1080p monitor, though. There's nothing...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Nov 26, 2024
Samsung is reportedly on track to release the world's first and fastest 27-inch OLED panel with a 500Hz refresh rate. This display (pun intended) of one-upmanship over current refresh rate champs from the likes of LG and ASUS will likely...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Nov 22, 2024
Regular readers probably think of Gigabyte primarily as a purveyor of motherboards and graphics cards. In the last few years, though, the component vendor has been positioning itself as a provider of premium PC display panels, and it has...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Nov 19, 2024
TCL has been having a fantastic year so far, not merely in terms of earnings, but in showcasing industry firsts. At one of its conferences this week, TCL unveiled plans to mass produce inkjet printed (IJP) display panels, including a...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 18, 2024
LG is leaning heavily into support for the DisplayPort 2.1 specification on its new UltraGear GX7 (model 27GX790A) gaming monitor with an OLED panel, and for good reason. It's a fast 27-inch monitor with a blistering 480Hz refresh rate and...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 13, 2024
At what point does the refresh rate of a gaming monitor reach diminishing returns, or otherwise become inconsequential? Ask any monitor maker and they'll tell you, 'Get out of here with such silly questions, gaming peasant!'. Okay, they...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Nov 12, 2024
Have you ever read a monitor review or looked at monitor specification pages and wondered what all the terms meant? In this article, we're going to go over display basics, explaining the core specifications of monitors and what you should...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 12, 2024
Back at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of the year, you may recall that MSI unveiled a monstrous 49-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor with a 5120x1440 resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. Well, more recently, MSI teased an upgraded...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 30, 2024
Following an initial unveiling at Computex earlier this year, ASUS has released its ZenScreen Smart MS27UC, which if the somewhat clunky name doesn't give away, is the company's first ever Google TV-powered smart monitor. That basically...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 24, 2024
For those of you who follow display technologies, you know that OLED is basically the gold standard for overall image quality, and that will probably remain the case until micro LED (not to be confused with mini LED) breaks into the...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 23, 2024
It was really on a short time ago when OLED gaming monitors were relatively few and far between. You could still make that argument today, though the landscape is changing with a steady influx of options. One of those is AOC's new Agon Pro...
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