Which monitor should i choose with Gigabyte G1 GTX 970? I just need one primary monitor for gaming. And I'm leaning toward the asus cause I would like to stay below the $300 mark. But is 1440p that much worth it? With the cost of fps?
Asus VG248QE or X-STAR DP2710LED PLS Panel
http://www.ebay.com/itm/X-STAR-DP2710LED-PLS-Panel-WQHD-2560x1440-27inch-Computer-Monitor-/330932578190?pt=Computer_Monitors&hash=item4d0d1e678e
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236313
the Xstar as long has as the response time is 8ms and IMO not great ... the picture quality is above average ... so the Asus ... even though it is smaller ... is a better gamer and has awesome color reproduction.
If the Xstar could match the 5ms response time ... I would pick it
Edit ... for a monitor that you will be = to or > than 2 feet away ... which is the sweet spot for a gamer monitor ... the 1440p pls will .... in a year or so they may have 4k monitors that will be even better ... but I think that 4k will find a home with PC gamers and not so much for very large TVs that you sit farther away .... When you are 8 feet away from a 1140p or even a 1080p ... pixel density becomes irrelevant ... and most people will realize this and not find the added cost worth it.
For gaming, VG248QE is incomparably better. For everything else, DP2710LED is incomparably better.
On one side, you have 144 Hz refresh rate with fast response, but crappy image quality and resolution, on the other you have a slower 60 Hz panel with good image quality and higher resolution (which makes absolutely everything other than gaming significantly more convenient).
The only correct answer is to get both. If I were to choose one, I would personally get a 1440p one simply because it's that much more convenient, and I don't really have enough games to play anyway.
I recently bought a Philips 272C4QPJKAB which probably has the exact same PLS panel, and I can say that it's fairly good.
the Xstar as long has as the response time is 8ms and IMO not great
You shouldn't look at response times in specifications, as they pretty much never reflect real-life performance. You should compare test results like ones tftcentral does.
I looked up the colour accuracy of that Asus monitor and it is very poor, average Delta E average of like 6.5, meaning very poor colour reproduction. There is much more to a monitor than refresh rate, once you have used a decent monitor you will probably not want to go back to nasty TN pannels with horrible colour reproduction.
You loose so much of the image fidelity, so much of the image is lost because the screen can not accurately reproduce the colours that compose the image, and so you get colour banding where parts of the image that are actually made out of several similar colours look the same, i.e. lots of stuff in the shadows are just black!
Also apart from actually having a good image, there is the fact that the Korean pannel which is much larger, will take up much more of your Field-of-view and therefore provide a much better experience that way. I think it would be hard to argue for that tiny 1920x1080 panel with horrible colour reproduction. You can probably get 75-90Hz I am guessing from that 2560x1440 pannel if you have the horsepower to drive it.
For gaming 1080p and 24" are optimal. 27" makes you move your eyes too much in situations when you want to have awareness of everything that happens on the screen (like taking glances at minimap in LoL). 27" may be better for casual single player stuff, but for anything remotely competitive it's a disadvantage.
I use a U2412m as my primary monitor which is a 16:10 1920x1200 monitor, it is is literally (well ok its the tiniest bit smaller) the same size vertically and a few centimetres less wide. I have no problems with this size.
So go for the Korean 27" 1440p 60hz over asus 24" 1080p 144hz for gaming?