[gerbow]

If I decided not to go the ultrawide route, would the LG 27GL850 or the Gigabyte Aorus FI27Q-P be the better choice? One other thing to note, I have read reviews that say the ips panels don’t have true blacks, instead they a more of a grey unlike a VA panel. Is this the case? I thought they were supposed to be more colour accurate than VA? Excuse my lack of knowledge. I am returning to PC video editing/gaming after a long time away from it.

[PCM2]

There are multiple threads that are relevant to that comparison. This post and the linked material is well worth a read. We go to great length in our reviews to subjectively describe (and show, in the video reviews) the sort of experience each monitor provides for contrast performance. The key differences are also summarised in our panel types article. This detailed assessment is far more valuable than generic phrases like referring to dark content on IPS models as “grey unlike a VA panel”. That’s an extremely misleading way of characterising contrast on monitors and also quite untrue. What you see depends on the content you’re observing, lighting, brightness the monitor is set to, static contrast (this is where VA models have the edge), viewing distance and angle plus your eyes and brightness sensitivity. And any ‘VA glow’ or ‘IPS glow’ if you’re observing peripheral regions, which can be further affected by uniformity issues. All else being equal, the stronger static contrast of VA panels certainly brings extra depth to dark shades as we describe in reviews. But it isn’t the case that a VA model (typically with static contrast of ~3000:1 these days) displays anything close to ‘true black’ either.

[firespray34]

Hello,

I am posting my question here as I think it falls quite good under the topic, so apologies if I was wrong.

I am looking for a 27 inch not expensive monitor for work (outlook, heavy reading, word, excel spreadsheets), movies and casual gaming (playing WoW mostly, but also sometimes Destiny 2). Currently using a circa-2010 SyncMaster 23 inch FHD. My concern with buying a 1440p monitor is that text will be too small in the native resolution, but becoming blurry/grainy when scaled up. On the other hand reviews say that 1080p doesn’t look optimal at 27 inch. And then we are going to the refresh rate, where I have no idea what i am looking for. My system is i5-9600K, RTX 2060, 32 Gb RAM.

Being completely uneducated about monitors, I am not sure what I actually need in terms of max resolution, refresh rate or panel. By reading some topics here, my impression is that the safest bet is to go for a 1440p, 144Hz IPS monitor. So far have identified 2 monitors, which are at the max of my budget –

ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD
Acer VG271UP

I really don’t want to go higher in price as my idea initially was to spend half of that money (with the notion of buying just “any” monitor ofc). At the same time I am pushing my budget because I intend to stick with it for the next 10 years ideally. Am I missing any good monitors for less money that would fit my needs? My eyesight started to decline, so i would also like a monitor that will go easy on my eyes, so to say.

Thank you in advance!

[PCM2]

Hi firespray34,

I agree this is an appropriate place. You need to remember that you still benefit from the improved pixel density even if you need to use scaling (or application-specific zoom) to make text larger. Most normal text on Windows scales ‘cleanly’ so it’s still beneficial in terms of clarity to have a higher pixel density. You would, therefore, get some benefit from the 2560 x 1440 resolution. With your needs in mind and budget I agree with the path you’ve chosen to go down.

It’s always worth doing a site search for models using the facility in the forum footer, if you’ve got specific models in mind. As you do. Both monitors are discussed in various places on the forums:

VX2758-2KP-MHD (search)
VG271UP (search)

The long and short of it is that the ViewSonic is a better monitor, in my view. Quality control seems to be an issue with the Acer and the pixel overdrive tuning is less than ideal. They both use the same Innolux panel and it’s the same as used in the BenQ EX2780Q we recommend. The VX2758-2KP-MHD isn’t quite as well tuned as the EX2780Q when it comes to pixel overdrive we recommend nor does it share the same level of build quality or feature set. But the core performance isn’t a million miles away and I’ve received quite a bit of positive user feedback about it. I think it’s a good buy for the price and would suit your needs. Users often find the backlight quite comfortable, the ViewSonic has effective Low Blue Light (LBL) settings and a decent brightness adjustment range from what I’ve seen.

[firespray34]

PCM2, thank you most sincerely for the comprehensive answer!

I guess I will go with the ViewSonic, as the BenQ is on average around 100 euro more expensive in my area (selling at around 460-490 euro) and outside of my budget.

Best regards.

[Author]

Posts