If you're tight on cash but want a really good monitor, this is the article for you. For putting together this buying guide we narrowed down our options to displays that give you the best experience for the lowest possible price.
Best Budget Gaming Monitors 2020
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Daniele 00
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AOC 24G2 24". I had it, sent back 1 week later. Couldnt setup its extreme vibrancy... I dont wanna be blind.
But the reason I sent it back was bleeding on the borders of monitor. Where is the B A S I C quality control ? The icons that I had on the monitor corners, but also these on the left / right edge were less coloured than these in other part of the monitor.
Monitor lottery u say? really? NOPE. This company has ZERO quality control. How can u sell such trash ?
But the reason I sent it back was bleeding on the borders of monitor. Where is the B A S I C quality control ? The icons that I had on the monitor corners, but also these on the left / right edge were less coloured than these in other part of the monitor.
Monitor lottery u say? really? NOPE. This company has ZERO quality control. How can u sell such trash ?
QuantumPhysics
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It really is still a lottery for all monitors though. I bought the 27" version (27G2U). First one had two dead pixels and bad IPS glow, second one had zero dead pixels and significantly less noticeable IPS glow. AOC are far from the only manufacturer with these issues (speaking from prior experience of Samsung, BenQ, LG and Asus). I agree it would be nice that instead of the 4K hype or refresh rate p*ssing contest, I'd rather they produce one single basic monitor that actually got the basics right first without needing to gamble each time, tightened up tolerances for IPS Glow / backlight bleed, or at least admitted dead pixels are indeed a fault and not hide behind bullsh*t "ISO 13406-2 permitted defect" 'standards'. But that's industry-wide, not AOC specific.
Having said that, I'm pleased with it. The AOC 24G2/27G2 have excellent response times and high contrast (measured 1300-1500:1 in multiple reviews which is excellent for IPS considering some premium double the price 1440p's like LG 27GL850 can be as low as 850:1) and they've received a lot of praise overall in many of the more serious in-depth reviews (and comment section). Freesync works fine even on nVidia's with no flickering. I can't see any perceivable ghosting / inverse overdrive artifacts. The stand is excellent (full HAS + pivot, very stable on the desk). And unlike Viotec, for those of us who live outside the US, AOC are actually available to buy.
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Nice budget monitor. Would you also recommend the 2080ti as the best budget card?
I feel like there's a lot of cheaper 2560*1080 ultrawides that offer a nice compromise for gamers who want that form factor but don't have the hardware to push more than 1440p.
I would like a gaming screen in the 16:10 (or 8:5) format.
I use my pc for so many different things. Gaming, programming, video editing, music making and so on.
Cant really find any so I use a older but slower screen.
Had 16:9 before but it was a big upgrade when I switched.
I use my pc for so many different things. Gaming, programming, video editing, music making and so on.
Cant really find any so I use a older but slower screen.
Had 16:9 before but it was a big upgrade when I switched.
Nobina
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tomkaten
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=)) In his defense, the title reads "budget". Budgets can be low or humongously high.
QuantumPhysics
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Absolutely.
tomkaten
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Daniele 00
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""excellent response times"" ? Man, we have to stop to claim that a monitor without strobing are responsive. They are not. They have blur. I dunno if you play videogame or not. But any videogame which involve to rotate camera (the vast majority... maybe except Rts? whatever that's not the point) will show Blur if you dont have a monitor capable of good strobing. Strobing is a tecnique that introduce a black frame in between each frames, so to reduce the perceived blur. Does Aoc 24g2 has strobing? it does but it sucks... its implementation isnt good enough. So Aoc 24g2 is not responsive enough to remove blur from videogames. Let's stop to claim that such monitors are "responsive", because this is missleading to many players who will end up buying "responsive" monitors such 24g2, when they are not responsive enough to play fast paced videogames. They are not responsive enough if u want to remove blur from gaming!
I had a 2010 older flicker "not free" monitor before. 120hz 22inch viewsonic with strobing (always strobing... flickering), "3d ready". It broke after 10 years and more, so I had to replace it. I bought a aoc 24g2, and I started to miss my old flicker "not free" monitor ! too much blur ! let-s stop to say that 24g2 it is responsive, because it is not enough. Later I replaced the aoc 24g2 with a dell tn 24inch 144hz. Teorically dell 144hz tn has a little faster response time of the ips 24g2. But it is still not responsive enough to remove perceived blur from videogame, because this model dell tn 144hz doesnt have strobing.
Do we want responsive monitor to play videogames without blur? so that we can focus clearly on our target even when we'r moving around with camera? than our monitor need a good strobe backlight. Anything without a good strobe backlight it IS NOT responsive and shall not be called so. We need, for example, a good ulmb monitor.
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