Question Should I get a gaming monitor or a TV ?

[Sym166]

Hi,

Looking for recommendations for a monitor or tv. I have seen starting thread about that so I will post my answers for it..

1. What Is Your Country Of Origin?

UK

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

Games, movies, coding (screen split)

3. What resolution and screen size do you want?

3840x2160. Around 43" Not smaller and maximum couple inches bigger.

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

144hz max

5. How much are you looking to spend?

Up to 1000£

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

Any, whatever is best (performance and built quality)

7. Brands Not Preferred (state reason why)

-

8. Are You Buying More Than One Monitor?
No

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

No idea. xfx rx 6800 swft 319 16gb

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

DisplayPort preferred

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

Primary and only

12. Is This A Secondary Display For A Laptop?

No. However, I also own ps4 and maybe will upgrade for ps5 in future.
At the moment I am running on DELL, this one below
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/del...onitors-monitor-accessories#techspecs_section

After 2 years it is time to change for something better. This one is power hungry, response time isnt great and performance watching movies or youtube content became weird. Image stutters often, not smooth and so on. Its great for office stuff and coding but thats about it. I need something really good, especially for smoothness watching videos or youtube.

I have seen asus rog swift monitor with great parameters and incredible 0.1 ms response time but this one is over 1000£. Thats why I started to think, maybe a really good oled tv with gaming features is an option? Some of them have built in support for streaming services which is great. But when it comes to tv's and comparing them to gaming monitors, I am an idiot to be honest... So please give me some recommendations. Yes and no's also will help.

 

[lvt]

Any high quality computer monitor can be a good TV screen, but the vice versa isn't always true.

 

[Sym166]

Yea, I can see after some further research. Its really hard to find one with bigger refresh rate. If it has, then 2500£+... Way too much.

Anybody use one of these and can share experience?

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https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...1ms-freesync-wide-mo-00l-gi.html?gad_source=1

or

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/iiy...44hz-0.4ms-va-monitor-g4380uhsub1/version.asp

or

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors...+-+PLA_Gaming+Monitors&gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds

Last one from samsung works as smart tv as well + that amd freesync premium for my amd card

 

[Lucky_SLS]

Yea, I can see after some further research. Its really hard to find one with a bigger higher refresh rate. If it has, then 2500£+... Way too much.

Anybody use one of these and can share experience?

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https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...1ms-freesync-wide-mo-00l-gi.html?gad_source=1

or

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/iiy...44hz-0.4ms-va-monitor-g4380uhsub1/version.asp

or

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors...+-+PLA_Gaming+Monitors&gad_source=1&gclsrc=ds

Last one from samsung works as smart tv as well + that amd freesync premium for my amd card

All 3 panels are VA. You need to be sitting straight. if you are off axis, you will see a difference.

I have the Neo G7 monitor. the miniled is not that mind boggling as this version got 360 backlit zones. for a 43", 360 zones is a bit 'meh'. In a dark scene, you can see the zones turning on/off as you move the cursor.

This OLED can be a good choice:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product...-3440-x-1440-240-hz-curved-monitor-45gr95qe-b

 

[kerberos_20]

All 3 panels are VA. You need to be sitting straight. if you are off axis, you will see a difference.

i have VA panel, i dont need to sit straight, no diff watching from any point of view? alto blacks gets smashed if i watch from below....it had 1300$ price tag when it was shiny new (2017), year later dropped to 800$..same year i bought it
its QDLED btw

 

[bill001g]

First before you get real far in this project even with a 4090, which you can't even get for the list price of $1600, it will not do 4k at 144p in pretty much any game unless you do silly stuff like render at 1080 and upscale it.

If you take something like cyberpunk and turn everything up a 4090 struggles to get even a solid 60fps at 4k.

So even if you were to buy some $5000 monitor you are not going to have anything that can feed it a signal.

I would at least cut back to 120 rather than 144, there are many cheaper options. The key difference is a tv tends to not have things like display port input. Also many tv have software in them that will do things to sharpen video or duplicate frames. It is extremely rare for tv vidoe content that is 4k to be over 60fps unless you are encoding it yourself. You need to be sure you can disable this software or you will see input lag.

 

[Sym166]

So definitely TV isnt a good option. Thanks guys for explaining with details, appreciate! The one from the link above looks really decent. But the refresh rate is like wow. And it is a little bit pricey, but...I believe like someone said above, I dont think we have PC on the market that can run games in 4k at 240fps, unless you play some old game on 4k resolution. Anyways, I will save that LG in my bookmarks and just wait for a bargain