With Black Friday right around the corner, my deal of the week is a bargain price on a 4K monitor that has to be seen to be believed
Picture this: You and the LG UltraGear 27GR93U.
Price watch: 🔽
LG UltraGear | 27-inch | IPS | 144 Hz | 4K | FreeSync and G-Sync Compatible | $699.99 $429.99 at LG (save $270)
This is a fully gorgeous IPS panel at a bargain price. With G-Sync and FreeSync support, you will always net smooth frames on this UltraGear—providing your GPU is up to the task. We're big fans of LG monitors, and this is a good 'un.
Price check: Amazon $519.99
Reader, I have a confession to make: when I'm not gaming, the bit of kit I use the most is a Yoga Slim 9i laptop. I know, but it's lightweight and does everything I need in the scant few moments I'm not romancing across the Sword Coast in Baldur's Gate 3. However, one especially wild detail is that its teeny weeny 14-inch touchscreen boasts 4K UHD resolution. As part of such a small package, it's overkill for sure, but enjoying such a crisp image has got me thinking that perhaps it's time I upgrade my gaming monitor.
Enter the LG UltraGear 27GR93U, our top pick for the best 4K gaming monitor. For a start, its 27-inch display is just shy of being twice as big as my wee laptop, but the thing I really want to shout about is that it's also only $430 if you pick it up directly from LG. If you're curious about the comparison, that's $89.01 less than what it's currently going for at Amazon.
A 4K gaming monitor for less than $500 is a bargain, but the hits don't stop there as Jeremy explains in our LG UltraGear 27GR93U review. The 27-inch UHD model boasts fabulous pixel density, making for a clear, crisp image of the quality I've become accustomed to.
While it's not an all-singing, all-dancing OLED screen, this LCD monitor is certainly no technical slouch. Fresh out of the box, the colours are beautifully calibrated and you also enjoy a lightning-fast 1 ms response time for this 144 Hz monitor.
Even with the OSD menu's three response-accelerating overdrive options, those specs likely won't cut it if you're a top-of-the-pile esports player. Besides that, the build quality of the monitor's chassis leaves something to be desired; if you take pride in a shiny setup, this monitor's icky plastic is going to stick out like a sore thumb.
It's not the worst-looking frame I've ever seen, but it did leave me longing for a cleaner, chrome-ier look—so it's just as well this gaming monitor deftly handles HDR games like Cyberpunk 2077. That is to say, while this gaming monitor gets a ding for its plastic chassis, it will at least make my version of V look extra shiny on screen when I finally return to Night City to check out the Phantom Liberty DLC.
Otherwise, LG's UltraGear 27GR93U really is the perfect screen to spend perhaps a few hours too many perfecting the look of both your Rook and Inquisitor in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, not to mention marvelling at those hair physics. To paraphrase a certain hair care adage, for only $430, you're definitely worth it.
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Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending the last seven working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not writing about all things hardware here, she’s getting cosy with a horror classic, ranting about a cult hit to a captive audience, or tinkering with some tabletop nonsense.