Save £100 on this 31.5-inch IPS 1440p LG monitor

Monitors keep getting bigger and bigger, and for those of us whose first PC gaming experiences were on a 14in CRT goldfish bowl at 320x240 that’s a really good thing. We know someone who has a 43in 4K monitor on his desk just inches away from his nose in a way that is both likely to ruin his eyesight and looks like it’s about to fall on him. But that’s graphic designers for you.

Moving on, this bargain LG screen (which goes by the snappy name of the 32QN600-B) is available from Laptops Direct for £229.97, surely the site should change it's name?

Those 31.5 inches are a very decent slice of desktop real estate, and the QHD resolution means you’ll have enough pixels to do it justice. It’s an IPS panel, with an E-LED backlight, and slightly skimps on the inputs, with one HDMI (according to Laptops Direct - LG’s site says it has two, both 1.4) and one DisplayPort 1.2.

There’s a headphone out, Freesync, and the whole thing is topped off with HDR10. Some would sneer that it’s ‘only’ 60Hz... but how many FPS do you want, anyway? It’s not like any of us have the RTX 3080s we ordered.

LG’s been making some pretty nice screens lately, and its CX range of OLEDs regularly top lists of the best TVs for gaming. This isn’t quite up to those standards, but then it’s a fifth of the price thanks to this deal.

Ian Evenden has been doing this for far too long and should know better. The first issue of PC Gamer he read was probably issue 15, though it's a bit hazy, and there's nothing he doesn't know about tweaking interrupt requests for running Syndicate. He's worked for PC Format, Maximum PC, Edge, Creative Bloq, Gamesmaster, and anyone who'll have him. In his spare time he grows vegetables of prodigious size.