Best gaming monitor under 300

Several main sizes

• 29‑30” (21:9)—This format is a 24” monitor that is “stretched” horizontally. Due to its low height, it seems small and is more suitable for multitasking in an office or studio, as gaming immersion suffers, and most TV shows are displayed with black borders on the sides;
• 34‑35” (21:9) — The “big” ultrawide is very comfortable for any job and gives you a great sense of immersion in sims, racing and third-person games. Keep in mind that higher resolutions additionally load the video card, and in some first-person shooters, the edges of the frame are blurred and distorted by distortion. And yet such https://thetimes.digital/games/best-gaming-monitor-under-300/ will not fit on every table;
• 49 inches (32:9) - this format is more like two 27-inch monitors connected without a visible joint. The huge structure (1.2 meters wide!) requires a lot of space, but is surprisingly versatile. Most models allow you to simultaneously display images from two different sources or up to 8 windows, in each of which it will be quite convenient to work. The latter, however, loads the processor and RAM.

Don't skimp on G‑Sync or FreeSync

G‑Sync and FreeSync technologies dynamically sync your monitor's refresh rate to your game's frame rate. Their support is especially important for high-frequency monitors connected to medium-sized computers.

On the other hand, if the monitor is initially very fast (this mainly applies to TN + Film models with a frequency of 180-240 Hz), then there is no point in modes with a “black frame” insertion. The visual difference is not so big as to additionally strain our visual apparatus with you.

G-Sync & FreeSync

As an added bonus for players, monitor manufacturers use adaptive sync technologies: Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync, each of which we got to know in detail earlier. The main task of both is to synchronize the frame rate generated by the GPU with the screen refresh rate, eliminating horizontal tearing of the image and providing a higher smoothness of the picture compared to the usual V-Sync.

The difference between the offerings of the two sworn competitors lies in the operating frequency range (G-Sync has a wider one), the image output latency (as a rule, FreeSync has less), and, of course, work with certain GPU models. In addition, the work of this technology in the “green” is ensured by a special hardware module, which must be used in the monitor without fail, which leads to a significant increase in the cost of the finished product. Add to this the royalties (royalties) of Nvidia, and we get a clear answer to the question of why it is so expensive.

With a sufficiently large discrepancy between the hertz of the monitor and fps in the game with an advantage in any direction, the effect of “tears” (tearing) and microdelays (stutter) appears.

Tearing occurs when the video card sends frames to the monitor randomly. Since the picture is not displayed all at once, but line by line from top to bottom, in the event of a collision, the monitor first displays one image, but drops it halfway through and ends with a fragment of the next frame, on which the objects have already moved.

Gaming computers and monitors: see Wikipedia