Cheapest 27-inch monitors in SA

1080P is nice if you have bad eyesight, but i would think 2560 x 1440 is the minimum res required to actually get value out of a 27inch in terms of screen real estate. Pity those have become so damn expensive lately.
 
Zyzzyva said:
1080P is nice if you have bad eyesight, but i would think 2560 x 1440 is the minimum res required to actually get value out of a 27inch in terms of screen real estate. Pity those have become so damn expensive lately.
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Yes agreed, anything lower than 2560 x 1440 144hz is bad value and not worth paying for.
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
Yes agreed, anything lower than 2560 x 1440 144hz is bad value and not worth paying for.
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Yeah, although for most people 144hz isn't really needed. Thats nice to have, but low res and not much space to work is a more fundamental issue day to day.
 
None of the monitors in the list are 4K.

I got my 27" around 7 years ago from Makro when it was on special.
The Dell P2715Q. This was a 4K screen. Think it cost me between 7 and 8K back then

If 5.5" smartphones can have 4k resolutions then to me it is strange that 4K is not the standard in 27" screens.
 
Zyzzyva said:
1080P is nice if you have bad eyesight, but i would think 2560 x 1440 is the minimum res required to actually get value out of a 27inch in terms of screen real estate. Pity those have become so damn expensive lately.
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I don't like QHD. It's like we had HD then 4K and then gone backward to QHD. So many gaming monitors is that format. 4K for productivity is o much nicer.
 
Zyzzyva said:
Yeah, although for most people 144hz isn't really needed. Thats nice to have, but low res and not much space to work is a more fundamental issue day to day.
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People`s standards are different, for me at least 144hz is needed for a work monitor, less might be acceptable for a dedicated entertainment monitor. But then 1080p is not going to look great on a 27" entertainment 1080p monitor, so it fails in that regard. The monitors in the list to me is only good enough maybe as a fast food menu displays.
 
skimread said:
I don't like QHD. It's like we had HD then 4K and then gone backward to QHD. So many gaming monitors is that format. 4K for productivity is o much nicer.
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Really? QHD is already tiny at 100% Scaling on 27 inch. Not sure I could use smaller for productivity. I sold my 4k 27 in favor of high refresh QHD 27.
 
Brawler said:
Really? QHD is already tiny at 100% Scaling on 27 inch. Not sure I could use smaller for productivity. I sold my 4k 27 in favor of high refresh QHD 27.
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Maybe your viewing distance from the screen is greater making it look tiny. If the text is too small you can set your windows setting to scale the text so the text also looks better as more pixels are used to draw it.
 
I'm looking for one. For gaming and working. I do coding and spend many hours at the screen so need something fairly gentle on the eyes.
 
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