Hey, I want an OLED gaming monitor for competitive gaming as much as the next person. But those cost serious dosh. If you're on a more stringent budget, you might want to check out this gaming monitor over at Newegg.
I've been updating our gaming monitor deals page this morning as Newegg's Fantastech sale kicks off, and this one stuck out to me. The ASRock Phantom PG27FRS1A, a 27-inch, 1080p, 280 Hz gaming monitor. Only $115 right now. That's $75 off the asking price.
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A pretty solid deal. This price would usually only get you a 24-inch monitor with equivalent specs. I'm not the biggest fan of going lower than 27-inch, so that's out for me. But 27-inch works a treat—big enough to see what's actually going on but not so large that 1080p looks poor for a lack of pixels. That's the thing to consider here, you want to maintain a good pixel density. This model hits a PPI (Pixel Per Inch) of 81.59. You could do better, but you could also do much worse.
The other benefits of this ASRock monitor mostly come in the form of speed. Refresh rate and response time. It's rated to 280 Hz, which is excellent. That's a genuinely top-notch figure for competitive play and it's handily paired with a 1 ms response time from this screen's VA panel.
You might have a tough job keeping this monitor fed with 280 frames per second in the latest games. That depends on your graphics card—though in those cases, it has FreeSync Premium support to keep screen tearing at bay.
We've had some experience with these ASRock panels before, including the stand bundled in the box. It's a pretty basic affair: it'll tilt, it'll swivel, it'll stay mostly out of the way. That's good enough at this sort of price. The port selection on the underside is also kept to a minimum with merely the required inputs: 2x HDMI 2.0 and 1x DisplayPort 1.2. There's no USB hub, but that's fair enough for the money.
Altogether, it's a pretty good price for what is quite a lot of gaming monitor for the money. It's also the sorta price to get me excited for the coming Black Friday. If you can wait for that, I'm sure we'll see more like this coming our way soon.
Check out Newegg's 27-inch gaming monitors here
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