Good monitors for gaming

[Tim]

Hello.

I'm not sure what to do here. I play mostly BF4, and more modern games.

Which is better, and why?
1080p @ 120-144hz or 1440p @ 60hz?
Links, as always, are appreciated.

This will be on an i7-4790k with a GTX-980

Thanks

 

[Squeetard]

Lightboost or gsync monitor.

I've got the Asus VG278HE and I love it.

The ASUS ROG Swift is the king of gaming monitors now if you can afford it. 1440p with both lightboost and gsync.

 

[Tim]

I'm not sure lightboost or gsync will do me any good at 1440p. A single GTX 980 isn't going to drive frame rates high enough for that.

 

[taq8ojh]

You are asking the wrong question.
Do you want good colours or completely rubbish colours and high refresh rate?
As in, do you want IPS or TN based monitor?

 

[Tim]

I ended up buying a 28" Samsung 4K monitor. It's a TN panel with a 1ms GTG response time, and it's 4k at 60hz (not overclockable, I tried). I'm very please with how it looks, and I can scale games down to a lower resolution when needed with no problems. I immediately noticed a huge difference playing Battlefield 4 at 1440p on Ultra settings. Coming from a cheap 1080p 5ms 60hz monitor, my gameplay seems to have been elevated. The only thing that I didn't like was the monitor was insanely bright out of the box. Some adjustments fixed that.

This was just the upgrade I needed.

Thanks to those who responded.