Need a new monitor recommendation :)

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Need a new monitor 24"+ size. Budget $500 max. Need a USA retail monitor no foreign or marketplace monitors please. Prefer matte panels. I want game graphics to pop and be well defined. I am doing graphic design so color acc is important. 1080p minimum can't run 4k i prefer ultra graphics. I use a gtx 780 but upgrading to 980ti in the spring. Has to be below 5ms. I play mostly solo games like heavily modded fallout/skyrim, bioshock. I currently use a 25" hanspree tn but its meh and starting to have backlight issues when turning on. Thanks everyone!

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Got to recommend Asus PB monitors for graphic design. Great colour accuracy.

One PB278Q http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236294, or two PB238Qs http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236292.

I own one of the latter, and the 6ms response time isn't a problem. Gaming on it is fine, and the colours look fantastic. You'll get more screen real estate with the two 1080p panels, compared to the single 1440p panel, and multitasking will be easier, but, since you're getting a 980Ti, you might want to go 1440p and take advantage of it.

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You can drive a 4k display no problem man, you can't play most games at 4k, but you can just run the games at 1080p for the time being, otherwise a 4k display is going to greatly improve your productivity since you can fit so much on the screen, granted it's a bit small for 4k but just scoot it a bit closer to yourself and you should be fine.

this monitor has 99% SRGB, and is a 4k IPS free-sync display, it is $550 however, but certainly worth spending the extra money on, anything else you get is going to run about $300 or so that's 1440p/IPS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025233&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

1440p IPS 100% SRGB $320
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-pb258q

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Are you currently running a 4k monitor at a non native resolution? There is no way I can run it at 4k at max graphics with 60 fps

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Has to be below 5ms anybody using benq gaming monitors with Photoshop? I have a spider calibrator anyone calibrate one for color?

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Why would I not run a 4k display at 4k?

I meant more in game you can just alter the resolution to 1080p or 1440p since it's still 16:9 and scales perfectly with those, at least untill you get a Fury, or 980 ti, though with that one you might as well go AMD and get access to free-sync.

But any source games or indie games you'd be able to run at 4k most likely

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So no bars , stretch or distortion with running at 1080p?

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It's not like a 21:9 display, or 16:10, it's the same ratio, so it scales perfectly, a 4k display is basically just 4 1080p displays with no bezel, so you get a ton of screen real estate, though at 27" you'll want to move a bit closer than you may normally have a monitor.

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At this point I simply refuse to buy anything except FreeSync/Gsync, even if it means 60-75hz because of budget. Just saying. :)

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Thanks if I can get 60hz constant I'm buying it. The only thing I don't understand is the specs say 48-60hz so does it only get to 60 with freesync or does it stay at 60 with freesync disabled? Anyone know the answer I'm clueless when it comes to the variable refresh rates. If I'm 80% gaming (fallout 4) and 20% design does it make sense to go benq?

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The adaptive refresh rate will work from 48-60Hz, so as long as your fps in game is above 48fps you'll see the benefits

What do you mean go benq?

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144hz gaming monitor from benq. I'm confused still on a nvidia will I get 60hz or 48hz?

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Eh, it's probably going to be a TN panel, which doesn't have too great color reproduction

also
"All GeForce GTX 600 and 700 series GPUs can support 4K resolutions through DisplayPort. The NVIDIA driver automatically detects 4K 60Hz tiled format, so no special user set up is required. "

so you should be set on running 4k

The monitor will run at 60hz, it's just that normally how fast it refreshes is fixed.

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But don't worry about the adaptive sync since it won't work with your nvidia GPU, because nvidia hates freedom lol, you'd have to wait until nvidia supports free-sync, or until someone hacks the drivers so it thinks it's a mobile G-sync display(which is just free-sync)

So if you ever upgrade to a Fury, or something newer you'd be able to use the adaptive sync on the display.

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Bought an Acer XB270H G-Sync monitor for $399 yesterday. The colors and contrast blow so im going to need to get a dell ultrasharp for color work. I went through 3 monitors and returned them all until this one. Once I used ips 1140p tn and 1080p 144hz tn i realized there is no one monitor for my budget that will do everything %100 IPS looks good games play poorly, TN with 100% rgb could not calibrate to %100 and had poor performance at 1440p (gtx970sc). TN 144hz with gsync looks the worst but plays like butter I will never go back to 60hz no G-Sync. The latency or perceived latency seems like 0ms on the gsync monitor (tests at 25ms) compared to my 10ms latency gtg 1ms panel without g sync. This games at 100% now i need to design at 100%. Im going to get a 24" for color accuracy probably a slow ms dell ultrasharp. I cant see spending $799 for what i need i rather spend 600 on two monitors. Thanks for the advice. Also EVGA sent me a gtx 970 when i rma'd my gtx 780 :) free vram!!!