Our recommendations for the best 1440p gaming monitors you can buy right now cover five categories, covering medium refresh rates, high refresh rates, 32-inch monitors, budget options and HDR options (if any).
The Best 1440p Gaming Monitors: Early 2022
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Nintenboy01
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Using a 27GL850 I bought in late 2020 until it breaks. No real complaints with it other than the FakeDR.
Nobina
Posts: 4,504 +5,507
I bought the 27" Gigabyte M27Q TS recommended. I came from an old 24" 1080p 60Hz monitor that only had a VGA connector. Switching to 170Hz from 60Hz was huge, as someone that used to play a lot of Counter-Strike, high refresh rate was the main thing I wanted and I was not disappointed. I wasn't so impressed with the overall sharpness of a 1440p resolution, I guess a slightly bigger screen negated higher resolution. One thing that I noticed is that text in some places looks blurry and has sort of a red outline. I ran ClearType but it seems it doesn't affect text in 3rd party programs. Thought either the monitor or the cable was defective. It's only recently I found it uses GBR instead of RGB which explains the issue. Somehow I skipped that part when watching the review. It's not a big deal, so far I've had only a web browser that shows blurry text in inactive tabs. Other than that it's an overall great monitor. High refresh rate trumps higher resolution in my opinion and I would recommend that feature to anyone.
Irata
Posts: 2,288 +4,002
Really looking forward to your review of the AOC Agon HDR screen. The 1440p plus HDR and high regresh combo sounds really interesting if the price is right.
Raendor
Posts: 36 +27
You say S2721dgf has terrible contrast ratio, while you top 1440p MSI choice is only slightly better in terms of contrast 1000:1 vs 1050-1100:1. It’s quite inconsistent to praise monitor with similar ips panel while criticizing the other with both in the same class. Don’t forget about worse QC of msi compared to dell monitors.
StrikerRocket
Posts: 225 +186
A slight mistake in the description, the MSI MAG274QRF-QD is a 165Hz monitor, *not* 144!
I bought one at the beginning of 2021 and I've never been so happy with my purchase! Allows using my GTX 1080 to its fullest performance and is way cheaper than a new graphics card, which would be a waste on a 60Hz screen, so. Games are so smooth with a HRR monitor, and this one has wide gamut for creation content AND they added a sRGB clamp mode! YEAH! What else could you desire?
Excellent all-rounder.
EDIT: contrast ratio is decent for an IPS panel, almost 1100 on my sample, and for trained eyes, the difference is noticeable.
I bought one at the beginning of 2021 and I've never been so happy with my purchase! Allows using my GTX 1080 to its fullest performance and is way cheaper than a new graphics card, which would be a waste on a 60Hz screen, so. Games are so smooth with a HRR monitor, and this one has wide gamut for creation content AND they added a sRGB clamp mode! YEAH! What else could you desire?
Excellent all-rounder.
EDIT: contrast ratio is decent for an IPS panel, almost 1100 on my sample, and for trained eyes, the difference is noticeable.
