Resolution, image quality, HDR, refresh rates: everything that was new… is already cheaper.
The monitor of your PC is, along with the mouse and keyboard, one of the most important peripherals on your computer, and if you carry years without changing itThe company is starting to talk about many compelling reasons to do so. Realize that in recent years there has been time to innovate, test and, above all, establish and reduce costs. It is the screen that you can get to see half a day perfectly, so even if it holds, if at some point you have considered whether there will already be something better that justifies the jump, we advance you that yes.
Reasons to upgrade your PC monitor in 2022.
Better resolution, cheaper
Asus launched its first 4K monitor back in 2013, and back then it cost a barbaric €5000. Since then, however, things have calmed down quite a bit in the price department, to the point where we can get our hands on a 4K display for 300 or 400 euros without any problem. But let’s not focus on the false grail that is 4K. For distance to the screen, on PC it has a lot of 1440p resolution makes much more sense. In this we encompass two aspect ratios, you’ll see.
When you have before you a 27-inch screen and a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels, things look very different than with a 1080p monitor. In addition, you can start from 250 euros to get one, and go up to add features and screen refresh technologies, adaptive synccolor enhancements, etc. In that same line of thinking, you could also move up to the 3440×1440 pixels to widen your view and start playing and working more comfortably.
Get the colors out of it
Lighting, contrast and color have also improved over the years. This is obvious if you compare a high-end monitor from 10 years ago with a current average monitor. If panels used to cover only the sRGB color gamutcolor space, the DCI-P3 and AdobeRGB color space are now allowed to be covered. For practical purposes, this translates into a higher and more faithful color reproduction, and this translates into a better entertainment experience and higher fidelity when working on multimedia tasks.
Let’s see those LEDs…
That of IPS or LCD as marketing brands are no longer in use. Now it’s the Mini-LED and OLEDThe Mini-LED panels replace the usual individual backlit LEDs with single backlit LED arrays. Mini-LED panels replace the traditional individual backlit LEDs with arrays of LED lights that are grouped into zones and can be switched on and off independently. With this, you can get more contrast and better brightness. In other words, HDR content looks great.
Then there is OLEDof course, and with this other technology there is also another batch of monitors already. In this case, you may not get as sharp an illumination as with the Mini-LED, but in return you will get a much more faithful black representation, which do not show halos around objects. Of course, in this case you can expect much higher prices.
Where there’s a hertz, all else be damned.
How’s your 60 Hz doing, good? We’ve had them since 2014 with 144 Hz compatible monitorsbut it wasn’t until a few years later that the trend began to make an impact on the consumer base. Obviously, competitive gaming had a major influence and, more recently, the compatibility of the consoles with high refresh rates.
Of course, 60 Hz are reasonable and still serve their purposebut nowadays the panels with better refreshments no longer include an extra tax, and that pays off. In other words, you can get a 144 Hz monitor for your 200 eurosbut you know that by balancing the balance between resolution and refresh rate, you can get 144 Hz 4K monitors, 1440p at 240 Hz, or even 1080p at 360 Hz.
On the other hand, with respect to the technologies like Freesync or G-Syncwhich ensure that the image remains fluid and smooth. tearingcompatibilities have also been democratized thanks to the VESA Adaptive Sync standard. There are still monitors with dedicated modules, yes, but again it is much easier to find these kinds of displays without raising the budget much these days.
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