Monitor help please

spreadwell

I hope I have put this in the correct section, so I am looking for a monitor that is 1440p and must work with an Xbox One S but also be able to work if in the future I get an Xbox series X, I am not worried about 4k but it should have a good response time, and headphone jack, Vesa mount, 27inches, IPS or VA depending on which is best, HDMI, and be about £300, oh and is 120Hz for good FPS

Many thanks

gefnew

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spreadwell

I forgot to mention is that I want someone to say here's a monitor and it will definitely work with an Xbox One and has what you were asking for at the price you listed, because I got an ASUS ROG Strix XG27WQ and the picture was blurry and awful, I also heard VA monitors have naturally occurring blur.

MattMattMattUK

spreadwell said:

I hope I have put this in the correct section, so I am looking for a monitor that is 1440p and must work with an Xbox One S but also be able to work if in the future I get an Xbox series X, I am not worried about 4k but it should have a good response time, and headphone jack, Vesa mount, 27inches, IPS or VA depending on which is best, HDMI, and be about £300, oh and is 120Hz for good FPS

Many thanks

spreadwell said:

I forgot to mention is that I want someone to say here's a monitor and it will definitely work with an Xbox One and has what you were asking for at the price you listed, because I got an ASUS ROG Strix XG27WQ and the picture was blurry and awful, I also heard VA monitors have naturally occurring blur.

If it works with anything it will work with an XBox Series S/X. Usually if a monitor is blurry with a console it is because the input resolution does not match the native resolution of the console, eg. 1080p feed to 1440p monitor. A Series S will almost always look slightly blurry on a 1440p monitor though as it generally renders in a 720-1080 window and pushing that to 1440p is always going to soften the image. If you are only using a Series S then a good 1080p monitor would be far cheaper than a 1440p monitor and would likely give you a better overall result.

At the 300hz price point you will not get a good enough 1440p monitor, you certainly will not at 4k, you would be far better off at 1080p, but 120hz whilst using a Series S is not worth worrying about.

For consoles I have them all running through a 4k OLED TV and that is brilliant for deep blacks. 

Personally I have one of these for gaming and editing, but that is with a PC and a RTX 3080.
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-32-4k-uhd-gaming-monitor-g3223q/apd/210-bdxs/monitors-monitor-accessories

forgotmyname

High FPS you want VA,   Bright picture with accurate colours you want IPS.  Which is best YES!....

Best at what?  They will all be a compromise even £1000 monitors will have some compromises.

HDMI, why only HDMI? No display port?   Playing games on a 4K TV makes me feel sick very quickly, I can detect the
shimmer which is not there with a decent monitor. But this can depend on the game/content. No issues watching 4k
shows using the same hardware.

spreadwell

Hi guys thanks for the information, we did try the settings so the issue seemed to be the monitor we bought, I have been looking at the LG UltraGear Gaming Monitor 27GN800-B which seems to do the job at a good price, what do you reckon?

MattMattMattUK

spreadwell said:

Hi guys thanks for the information, we did try the settings so the issue seemed to be the monitor we bought, I have been looking at the LG UltraGear Gaming Monitor 27GN800-B which seems to do the job at a good price, what do you reckon?

I have to ask, why 1440p and why a monitor? Again, with a Series S you will get better value for money at 1080p and will not see a drop in any quality, also, why not just plug it into a TV, that is what it is designed for. 

spreadwell

MattMattMattUK said:

spreadwell said:

Hi guys thanks for the information, we did try the settings so the issue seemed to be the monitor we bought, I have been looking at the LG UltraGear Gaming Monitor 27GN800-B which seems to do the job at a good price, what do you reckon?

I have to ask, why 1440p and why a monitor? Again, with a Series S you will get better value for money at 1080p and will not see a drop in any quality, also, why not just plug it into a TV, that is what it is designed for. 

It's because I want a monitor that can do a lot more than my TV and 1440p is future proofing somewhat, it was not just designed for a TV though it was designed for both.

forgotmyname

I have a 1440p monitor and it works for me but as mentioned if most of your content is 1080p or even 4k then its scaleable
the 1440p is not.  You either stretch/shrink the image to use all the pixels or have blank bands or worse still parts of the image
missing.

Mixed reports on whether the console can actually do 120hz at 1440p. Depends on the game. Defeats the object a little if you
need to run it at 1080 to get 120hz in your game.

MattMattMattUK

spreadwell said:

MattMattMattUK said:

spreadwell said:

Hi guys thanks for the information, we did try the settings so the issue seemed to be the monitor we bought, I have been looking at the LG UltraGear Gaming Monitor 27GN800-B which seems to do the job at a good price, what do you reckon?

I have to ask, why 1440p and why a monitor? Again, with a Series S you will get better value for money at 1080p and will not see a drop in any quality, also, why not just plug it into a TV, that is what it is designed for. 

It's because I want a monitor that can do a lot more than my TV and 1440p is future proofing somewhat, it was not just designed for a TV though it was designed for both.

You would probably be better to just upgrade the TV if it does not do something. 1440p is not really future proofing, 4k is. As Forgotmyname says also, 1440p performance on consoles is hit an miss, XBox Series consoles technically support it, but it is hit and miss, PS5 does not support it at all.

If you are chasing 120Hz then 1080p is the resolution you need on consoles, but even then a 4k TV using the console's native upscaler would give you better image quality. However the reality is if you want solid 120Hz, and especially at 1440p or 4k then you need quite a powerful gaming PC, or you need to drop other settings considerably, well below console settings. 1440p made sense as a PC stopgap because GPUs were not powerful enough to push to 4k, PC games can render at 1440p natively, however it is not where consoles are designed for, even if the Series consoles do technically support it.