XG2530 RMA and New Monitor Offer

[boykale]

Hello everyone. As I mentioned in my previous topics, I just bought a Viewsonic XG2530 and RMA'd it to store due to defect. Then I got 2nd unit and the second one had also defect. Therefor I sent the 2nd unit to ViewSonic service. The service offered me XG2730 as XG2530 is out of stock. However I am not sure what to do as the XG2730 is a 2K monitor.

I was thinking to refund my unit and buy XG2402 as I play competitive games. And now the new unit XG240R is also available in my country. If I get my money back, I can buy XG240R with that money which I paid to buy XG2530 as the price of XG240R is now same with XG2530 that I bought 2 months ago.

I have no idea about gaming performance of XG2730 in term of overdrive, motion clarity, input lag, image quality etc. compared to XG2402 and XG240R.

If I buy XG2730, I am also not sure whether if I can maintain 144 fps at 2K resolution with competitive and other games I played like Apex Legends, Battlefield V, Rainbow Six Siege, Fortnite, PUBG, Black Ops 4 etc. I heard that 1080p on 2K monitor looks worse than 1080p on 4k monitor. So if I have to lower resolution to 1080p with this 2K unit in order to maintain 144 fps, I don't want to have that kind of problem.

What woud you do if you were in my situation?

PC SPEC
GeForce RTX 2080 Duke 8G OC
Intel Core i7-9700K
MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Plus
Gskill 16 GB (2x8GB) SniperX DDR4 3200MHz CL16 1.35V

[Chief Blur Buster]

How aspiringly/professional of a gamer are you? Or mainly play casual competitive?

If you ever plan to play professionally / sponsored -- stick to 1080p and possibly stay at 240Hz. The numbers could be worth it for you -- New NVIDIA study says you win more with 240Hz on an RTX card.

If not, and you're a visual quality gamer, that can be a toughie. It depends on your priorities. The XG2560 is another great choice since it has native GSYNC by NVIDIA in that monitor.

Excluding GtG factors, motion clarity will be more or less dictated by frame rate; the higher the frame rate, the less display motion blur you will get (for a flickerfree non-strobed mode). 240fps has half the motion blur of 120fps on a 240Hz monitor. If motion clarity from high frame rate is important to you, definitely stay at 240Hz. But if you need spatial clarity instead of motion clarity, then XL2730 is beginning to look attractive.