Wiluven wrote:I need some professional help from you folks as I simply can't decide what monitor(s) to go with. I'm not a first person shooter type of gamer but I will load up a Royale type game or Overwatch occasionally but most of my gaming is Witcher 3 style games.
Exactly the same for me. I play fast shooters sometimes (OW, CS:GO), but ~80% of the time, I play other games. Be it Witcher 3, Skyrim, Dragon Age, Dishonored, Alan Wake, etc, etc. For these typed of games, image quality is nice to have. And G-Sync was a very big upgrade for me, because I always want to use vsync in games to get the smoothness and tear-free image, but I can't stand the input lag of vsync, and the stutter you can get when your FPS gets lower than the Hz of the monitor. G-Sync solved all those problems of vsync, and I'm having lots of fun with it. Some people might not care though; if you always play vsync OFF in games and don't care about tearing, then g-sync is not a must. But for me it is though.
I'm using an IPS 1440p G-Sync display (ViewSonic XG2703-GS), which has the same panel as the PG279Q and the XB271HU. Even though it's the same panel, it seems to be calibrated a bit better out of the box compared to the Asus and Acer. But otherwise, same thing pretty much.
These monitors are really good for the type of gaming I do. Unless you get a unit with lots of backlight bleed (there were QA issues with these monitors.) The pcmonitors.info video review of the XG2703-GS includes a section that shows the pros and cons you get compared to TN monitors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYKUFNSya_Y
However, there's also another option now that seems rather good. A 165Hz G-Sync VA panel, the LG 32GK850G. It's 1440p 31.5". The video review is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENM8o_rIA8
The written reviews with all test results in measurements are linked to in the video descriptions. But the video reviews are a bit more "hands on", and they discuss the pros and cons of
modern IPS and VA panels vs TN panels, which are worth knowing before you buy. (The first video for example shows why viewing angles are important even if you're sitting right in front of a monitor, and it also shows how IPS glow looks like.)
(I always link to pcmonitors.info reviews because IMO he is an extremely trustworthy reviewer.)