Items tagged with Monitors
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 fortunately there's no need to either, because it's already been done as part of an...
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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 marked down a generous 28% (versus MSRP) to a new all-time low price, and it also...
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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 GMX32UCDM, a 31.5-inch gaming monitor that's built around a third generation Samsung...
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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 holidays having already come and gone. We've rounded up a few that caught our...
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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 Omen gaming monitors. Let's dive in and see what HP's brought to the...
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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 blistering-fast 520Hz refresh rate. They also both utilize In-Plane Switching (IPS) panels...
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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 product that almost definitely will is what LG is calling the "world's first...
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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 company a pass since it's fleshing out a suddenly expanding market of OLED...
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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 to gaming monitors, the next point of emphasis appears to be dual refresh modes...
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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 RGB lighting, silent or quiet operation, an all-white (or mostly) aesthetic...
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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 wrong with an FHD screen, but display technology has come a long way even since...
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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 bring in more 500Hz (and faster) options in 2025 for competitive gamers needing...
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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 garnered itself a following among gamers for its reasonably-priced screens with...
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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 14-inch unit for laptops and another 21.6-inch for professional applications, among...
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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 QHD (2560x1440) resolution, and in theory, the DisplayPort 2.1 connector should...
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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 probably wouldn't be as crass in their answer, but the latest evidence that...
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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 look for when shopping for a new display. Most of the information and...
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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 variant with an even faster 240Hz refresh rate, the MPG 491CQPX, and that has...
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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 means no dedicated PC is required for basic chores like browsing the web or to log...
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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 mainstream. Supposing you're ready to bite the bullet on an OLED upgrade, now is a...
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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 AG346UCD, a 34-inch monitor with a QD-OLED panel that the company is calling a...
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It was not all that long ago when you could bemoan the lack of OLED monitor options, with a comparatively small list of models that would shrink even further if leaving out exorbitantly priced displays. Well folks, as Bob Dylan famously said, the times, they are-a-changin', and in a good way. OLED monitor shipments...
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