The gaming PC market is in a truly horrible place. The memory crisis is sucking up tons of hardware, and causing memory, SSDs, and even graphics cards to surge in price as a result. Yet, the one single positive of the last six months of PC gaming is that monitors have only gotten cheaper.
If you fancy making an upgrade to an OLED gaming monitor, you can pick up a 27-inch 1440p Samsung one for just $300, almost half of its retail price.
Though we’ll get to its downsides, the upside of OLED gaming monitors is evident the second you turn them on. They offer great color reproduction, excellent contrasts with true blacks, and superb image quality. In fact, swapping to an OLED gaming monitor is arguably the greatest upgrade I’ve made to my gaming setup, making all my games look so much better.
And you aren’t lacking on other specs either. 180 Hz is a strong refresh rate, and the 0.03 ms response time is super snappy too. Though you can technically get a 4K gaming monitor for less cash (like this Acer Nitro IPS one for $180), my money would be spent on this OLED here. A 4K resolution requires beefy graphics hardware, and even if you can run it, I’d often take 1440p on the lush OLED screen and enjoy superior frame rates instead.