Friend looking for new monitor

[meitou]

1. What Is Your Country Of Origin?
U.S.A

2. What do you plan to do with this monitor? (ex. Games, Movie Watching, Photo Editing, etc.)

Gaming

3. What resolution and screen size do you want?

2k

4. What refresh rate do you want? (ex. 60 hz , 70 hz.)

144 hz

5. How much are you looking to spend?

Doesn't really have a preferred price range, just said if he really liked a certain monitor he woudl get it. but i would assume below 700$ mark

6. Brands Preferred (ex. Samsung, Acer, Asus, AOC, HP, Viewsonic, etc. )

7. Brands Not Preferred (state reason why)

No preference, but reputable

8. Are You Buying More Than One Monitor?

Not yet, but plan to in future.

9. How Many Displays Can Your GPU Support Maximum? And what GPU and driver version are you using if applicable?

Has a 980 TI Evga

10. What Port Do You Want To Connect To (ex. DVI-D, HDMI, etc).

Display port / mini

11. Is This Monitor A Primary Display Or A Secondary Display?

Primary

12. Is This A Secondary Display For A Laptop?
No, brand new desktop.

 

[guanyu210379]

Look at these 2560x1440 144Hz IPS monitors:
ACER XB271HU
ASUS PG279Q

The only requirements from you which do not fit with the rest is...budget...

 

[meitou]

Yeah I told him to get teh swift but he said there were a lot of problems with quality control and stuff. Also why the Swift PG279Q
and not the 8

 

[guanyu210379]

All 144Hz IPS has issues with the QC (XB271HU, XB270HU, PG279Q, etc.), you just have to RMA the monitors over and over until you get a fully working one.
If you get a fully working one, you will see that your effort does worth it.

PG278Q (TN) is only about €100 away from PG279Q (IPS), I would not pick it.