Gaming monitors: the best monitors for gaming - buying tips and market overview

Gaming monitors

Be in the picture while gaming

A good monitor can sweeten the gaming experience, but also things outside of games. Many of you may have postponed buying a graphics card a long way off and now have some money on the high edge - a new monitor could be a sensible thing that you could treat yourself to now. Because graphics cards are still extremely expensive compared to what you got for your money nine months ago. This has to do with several factors that we have already addressed several times - most recently in a purchase advice for graphics cards two weeks ago - and through which the demand for graphics cards is higher than the supply from AMD and Nvidia.

Table of contents

Page 1 Monitors: Be in the picture, size and more 1 Be in the picture when gaming 2 Size, resolution and aspect ratio Page 2 Monitors: Pixels need power 1 Pixels need power Page 3 Monitors: panel types and gaming Features 1 panel types 2 gaming features Page 4 monitors: OLED it be? OLED panels for gaming 1 OLED it be? OLED as a gaming monitor Page 5 Monitors: Market overview with 60 models 1 Market overview: Gaming monitors from 24 inches Page 6 Image gallery for "Gaming monitors: The best monitors for gaming - Buying tips… Unfold A good monitor is an investment for many anyway Years and offers a better picture thanks to crisper colors and better contrasts than a cheap model. There are several options for which features you allocate your budget to: display size, resolution, picture quality and gaming features. In our special we explain what you are looking for You should pay attention when buying a monitor, explain some technical features and also go into OLEDs. We have also summarized 60 monitors in a market overview.

Size, resolution and aspect ratio

A decisive factor when buying a monitor is the size of the display. Depending on the location, the monitor cannot exceed certain dimensions, and speakers should not be forgotten when planning. Nowadays a gamer monitor should offer at least 24, better 27 inches as the diagonal. With 27 inches we recommend at least WQHD (2560x1440 pixels), with 24 inches you can get by with Full HD (1920x1080 pixels). UHD or 4K (3840x2160 pixels) is currently the finest resolution, but such monitors still cost noticeably more, and the gaming features that we will later mention as a topic are much rarer and also very expensive with 4K monitors compared to WQHD or Full HD. You cannot automatically tell the size of the monitor from the resolution - of course there is more choice in 4K for monitors from 27 inches than for monitors with only 24 inches, since the extremely high resolution makes more sense with larger diagonals. But just as there are monitors with 4K and a size of only 24 inches, there are also 32-inch monitors with only Full HD.

LC Power is still quite new in Germany when it comes to monitors - the widescreen Model LC-M34-UWQHD-144-C has a good price-performance ratio. Source: LC Power The aspect ratio for monitors that has been used for many years is 16: 9, just like for TV sets. This means that the display has a width of 80cm and a width of 45cm, for example. Because if you take the 80cm and 45cm times 2, you get 160 and 90 - divided by 10 you can see: it is 16: 9. Since almost every halfway complex game also appears on game consoles and there, in turn, a TV set is used instead of a monitor, the aspect ratio of 16: 9 is also the focus when developing PC games. But there are also monitors with an aspect ratio that offers a particularly generous width.

In some games, this can be an advantage, as you have a wider field of vision in a shooter, for example, or simply more terrain in a strategy game at the same time in the picture. However, the PC then of course also has to display more pixels compared to a 16: 9 monitor, which otherwise has the same number of pixels in height - this then costs a correspondingly high level of performance. With a very wide monitor, which is comparable in height to a Full HD monitor, a PC has less to do than with a 16: 9 4K model. We take a closer look at the effects of the resolution on the next page.

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