At £331 this is not a lot of money for a whole lot of curvy 1440p gaming monitor

Image of the ViewSonic Elite XG270QC. — (Image credit: ViewSonic)

This gaming monitor is smooth, swift and suave looking. The ViewSonic Elite XG270QC comes in at a supreme sweet-spot for gamers looking for fantastic pixels per inch, at a cracking price.

This is a gaming monitor that's highly regarded by our sister site, Tom's Hardware, as "one of the best gaming monitors we’ve seen in the sub-$500 category," and right now it comes in at a totally justifiable £331.

It's not the lowest price we've seen for it, and technically it's not discounted on Ebuyer, but we've seen it elsewhere for closer to the £500 mark. And with all the features included it's certainly worth a look. It'll let you upgrade your setup to a 1440p gaming panel that's speedy enough to keep up with some pretty high frame rates.

With a 165Hz refresh rate, the ViewSonic Elite XG270QC is not going to disappoint when it comes to the breakneck speeds that a GPU like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080Ti can handle. The FreeSync and unofficial G-Sync compatibility work like a dream too, meaning those frames should be delivered to your eyeballs in a smooth fashion.

On top of that, you're looking at a gorgeous, well built, curved panel to top off your gaming setup, with great HDR image quality, and a 3ms grey-to-grey response time.

So, not only will the movement from your best gaming mouse really count for something, you'll be 360° no-scoping in style.

Having been obsessed with game mechanics, computers and graphics for three decades, Katie took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni and has been writing about digital games, tabletop games and gaming technology for over five years since. She can be found facilitating board game design workshops and optimising everything in her path.