£350 for a 1080p/1440p 144Hz monitor, suggestions?

[Phantomx60]

Hello, I'm looking to buy a monitor for my first PC build, I was hoping for it to be 1080p or 1440p (if there are any), 24"/quick response time/accurate as possible colours. I'll mostly be doing work or gaming on it, getting back into editing pictures, so that too.

My budget is £350, any suggestions?

[Chief Blur Buster]

Since you want to do graphics work, that definitely means you probably want to have IPS rather than TN.

But high-Hz is a good move, makes gaming much more pleasant.

That budget is difficult for 1440p, it won't allow a wide-gamut 144Hz IPS monitor, since the LG 27GL850-B is almost twice that budget.

Even cheaper 1440p 144Hz IPS tends to bump above that budget at about £400, such as Pixio PX7 or Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD.

However, I just noticed Acer Nitro VG270UP is on sale (144Hz 1440p FreeSync) at under 350 quid (as of May 14th, 2020). As a bonus, that model has optional Visual Response Boost (a motion blur reduction mode) as well as FreeSync.

It might not be as good as the fastest "1ms IPS" panels that have recently come out (noticeably clearer 144Hz that look as clear as a TN panel), but at high frame rates, generates far clearer motion than any 60Hz IPS panel ever invented.

Now, if you need to play professionally in esports, you may need to go 1080p to get the framerates high enough, since 240Hz has visible benefits over 144Hz -- Doubling frame rate (during double refresh rate) will approximately halve display motion blur (assuming GtG is far faster than a refresh cycle), if you hate LCD motion blur and don't want to use a strobe-backlight mode.