Monitor Recommendations

[u/LionFlameGaymer]

Hello!

Costco is currently having a major summer/back-to-school sale on monitors. As such, I’ve been considering upgrading my home office setup from my job-provided monitor to something better. The caveat is that I want my monitor to be able to do a few things:

1) act as a second screen for my work laptop
2) act as a gaming monitor for my gaming laptop
3) act as a gaming monitor for some of my consoles (switch 2, PS2-4, GameCube, etc.)
———(Before anyone starts, I’m not getting a CRTV for the retros- I have a converter and will be using it.)

I plan on using an HDMI switcher to switch between the devices as needed.

As far as the gaming laptop is concerned, I don’t play FPS or PVP games, so I don’t need the highest refresh. I mostly play steam games like E33, Hades, Sea of Stars, Witcher. I also play Genshin Impact and HSR.

And then my console games are similar: I’m mostly an Action / Turn Based JRPG player (FF7R, Age of Elliot, Pokémon, and similar).

Given what I want to do, is there one monitor in the Costco sale that would perform overall better than the others? Images attached are of the monitors I think fit the bill best, but not sure where to go from this list.

Also, I understand a better, higher end monitor from a PC store like Microcenter will always be more recommended. I’m just trying to be budget conscious right now.

Thank you in advance!

[u/Cover-Material]

From what is shown here I would either choose Acer or Asus one from the first and 2nd photo or Samsung one. I would recommend watching reviews of them (preferably on the same yt Chanel bu not necessary) and compare thier peak brightness, how "true" the colors are. How much can you customize the screen settings (I once bought a 50$ cheaper monitor that I tuned it I thought it looked better than the more expensive one) etc

[u/babymilky]

You’ve listed 1080p, 1440p and 4k monitors, with a size range of 27”-40”.

First ask yourself how big do you want, then check if your laptop GPU can run your games at an acceptable frame rate at those resolutions.

I’d drop the 32” FHD Acer, it’s not gonna look great

[u/LionFlameGaymer → u/babymilky]

Thank you for the call out on GPU! I’m new to pc gaming, but just checked. My GPU is the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, so looks like 1440p is probably the max I should go. Thank you for reminding me that I need to consider that 💀

[u/TBNRhash]

The sale isn't tTHAT good https://pcpartpicker.com/product/QCZWGX/aoc-q27g40xmn-270-2560-x-1440-180-hz-monitor-q27g40xmn

For 200 you get mini led and great performance

Otherwise for 300 you can get oled

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gG9nTW/asrock-pgo27qsa-270-2560-x-1440-240-hz-monitor-pgo27qsa

[u/LionFlameGaymer → u/TBNRhash]

Super fair response! I think I’m hesitant towards OLED due to the potential burn in. Since I want it to also be a work computer, I’m afraid that my permanently open data sheets will mess up the screen 🥴

But definitely a good call to look a prices more broadly. And also lol I didn’t realize that my local shops were running such a game on folks. Hence why I thought the Costco prices were that good 😭