Even though it’s terribly easy to overlook, the stand can be an integral part of a monitor. Adjustability is ultimately what will determine if you get the best possible view, and whether or not the monitor will get in your way. Nearly every monitor on the market includes a stand. But most of those stands …
Choosing an entry-level monitor can be just as difficult as choosing any top-shelf monitor. Because you still have to make decisions about how much you want to spend on various features. Do you want G-Sync? It’ll probably cost you something like $80. Likewise, if you don’t want a feature, knowing that can save you some …
Finding a good gaming monitor is getting easy. As the performance capabilities of monitors have rapidly improved over the past ten years, gaming features have been getting cheap. And as a result, monitors that used to cost upwards of $2,000 are now available for a small fraction of that price. On one hand, that means …
Four or five years ago, gaming monitors were pretty expensive. Picking up a single gaming feature, like 144Hz refresh rate, might have tacked-on more than $100. Using anything besides TN panels was virtually impossible. Other panel types had miserable gaming performance, and were grossly more expensive. But time has a way of working things out. …
People who don’t play PC games only need simple monitors. That’s because outside of PC gaming, content rarely exceeds 30 frames per second. The same is true for virtually all other aspects of a monitor’s performance. Nobody cares about the difference between 5ms response time and 1ms response time, unless you’ve got the niche needs …