I want a monitor that is 27"s or bigger(for under $300) and i was wondering if this one is good? Or is there a better 27" or bigger one for the same price or lower?
Just read the reviews on newegg and you'll know wheather you want the monitor or not. Now i would not cheap out on the monitor since it is the thing that you'll be staring at for hours and hours. Asus don't make bad products and i think it's a safe purchase, things people complain about are buzzing sounds from display,stuck pixels and poor sound quality from monitor speakers (what do you expect from 10w> audio? -.-) but the concensus seem to be that it has great image quality and stuck pixels can be removed with a software, Asus has great warranty for their monitors for 36 months and that includes dead pixels..or so they say ;D. If you feel like you really really really want that big a monitor then go for it.
I wouldn't buy it because:
27" and 1080p - pixel density is too low. Only cases when it's useful: you know that you are going to sit relatively far away from the monitor and you need to compensate for it with a bigger screen size. For usual 60 cm between eyes and a monitor 80 PPI is way too low and you are going to see individual pixels.
27" and TN - larger physical size makes limited viewing angles a big problem because it becomes easily noticeable that the same color looks different in different parts of the screen no matter from which angle you look at it.
And it's not even 120Hz.
I would probably be okay with this as a secondary monitor for gaming but generally I'd go for an IPS panel anyway. I recommend looking in the direction of Koren 1440p IPS panels from ebay.