Once you’ve decided on a size, there are many other important aspects of your next monitor to consider. Some of these things can be more for certain uses – for example, gamers often care more about high frame rates than office workers do.
Solution: The more careful you are, the more you will benefit from higher decisions. That will allow you to have application windows that take up less space but still exist. Most media today are standard 1080p (1920 x 1080), 1440p (2560 x 1440), 4K (3840 x 2160), or 5120 x 2160). There are even some new 6k monitors out there with a resolution of 6144 x 3456.
To update the estimate: This means how many times the display can refresh the image per second, measured in Hertz (or Hz). A higher refresh rate makes all movements and animations look smoother because you see more detail. For productivity, 60 HZ is probably enough, but gamers will usually want a panel that can go at least 120 or 144 Hz. 240 Hz has become the new standard for high-end monitors, but now there are even worse models that go up to 500 HZ and beyond. You’ll need a powerful enough computer that can handle a high frame rate to use high refresh rates, and you usually have to enable this feature in your application’s display settings.
Panel type: Monitors usually have a type of LCD (Liquid-Crystal Display) Panel. Three of the most popular options – twisted nematic (TN), vertical uniformity (VA), and in-plane switching (IPS) – are LCD technologies, and they all use TFT (Thin-Film-Film-Transistor) as well. Each is popular for different reasons: IPS for color, VA for contrast, and TN for speed with high refresh rates and response times. IPS has become unique because of its fast refresh rate. Mini-LED uses an advanced backlight solution that uses multiple light bulbs to control pixels more accurately and efficiently. These are usually the lightest monitors you can buy. Oled panels (light-emitting diodes) Take that too, which allows the monitor to control individual pixels, including changing them completely to create a greater contrast. This is very popular with sports watchers, especially. You have to think about what is most important to you (big color? Small form factor?
NVIDIA G-Sync / AMD Freesync support: In a task-specific way, these two features allow monitors to adjust their frame rates according to the games they play. This reduces screen tearing without affecting performance. IG-Sync is made by Nvidia and Freesync is from AMD, and while Freesync Monitors can work with most Nvidia Graphics cards, they also work with AMD cards, so make sure everything you have is compatible when you buy.
HDR support: This is not essential for productivity, but if you watch a lot of media or Play games, it becomes more and more nice to have it. Just for TVs, HDR vastly expands the range of colors the screen can reproduce, resulting in clearer images. But you have to be careful, as most monitors will say they have HDR, as the display needs to be very different and very bright to create an HDR Effect strong enough to notice. The ProvelHdrHR 400 certification, for example, means that the display goes up to 400 Nits. That’s not bright enough to create any meaningful sense of HDR. In almost all cases, the display needs to use mini-led or oled. Mini-LED can be very bright, more than 1,000 numbers in HDR. The catch is that you need to make sure it has enough shading areas, maybe more than 2,000. A few hundred shading areas won’t do. Oled does not soften the contrast like LIDED, but Oled has the advantage of each pixel being lit individually, which increases the contrast significantly. They still need to be bright, however, perhaps, at least up to 1,000 nits in HDR.
Port Availability: An important but easy-to-follow aspect is what kind of ports the controller has for connecting your devices. It usually comes with one or two HDMI inputs, as well as a display input, which will cover most needs, but it’s always a good idea to check what your setup needs. More expensive monitors can act as USB HUBS, allowing you to connect all your peripherals and accessories directly to your Monitor. Alternatively, check out our excellent USB Hub guide if you need to expand your computer’s port options without paying for an expensive monitor.
Built-in replacement for KVM: KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) is a device that helps you easily switch your monitor, keyboard, and mouse between different computers or input sources (such as a gaming console). If you have a single setup for both work and personal computer, or computer and computer and gaming, having a KVM switch built into the Monitor means you can easily switch everything between your two devices without needing an external KVM switch.
