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hey guys and welcome back to hardware unbox so one of the questions that I often get asked is what is the best monitor you can buy at the moment for gaming or what monitor delivers the ultimate gaming experience of course there are a lot of choices for monitors out there at the moment and that makes picking one variant as the best for gaming a pretty tricky task for k5k and even 8k display through the top of the resolution charts at the moment but every day PC gamers would struggle to hit 60fps at these resolutions we know how important getting 60fps is for PC enthusiasts ultra-wide pounds or personal favorite of mine I love gaming on my 13 44 by 14 48 0 2 X 34 but the increased resolution over 1440p the high price of these models and the additional width doesn't necessarily make it the right choice to everyone however there is one type of monitor though that ticks nearly every box for high quality PC gaming when it provides a good mix of resolution and high refresh rate while still being realistically usable on today's most popular gaming hardware and of course talking about the latest 27-inch 1440p IPS monitors that hit a whopping 165 Hertz with support for adaptive sync these monitors hit the mark in many respects and today we're going to explore what sort of gaming experience you can expect with such a feature Laden display but first let's quickly talk about display Hardware there are a number of 27-inch 1440p 165 Hertz monitors on the market most of them are pretty expensive but most use the same AU Optronics a hva panel with a hva being the company's proprietary IPS technology it's a pretty confusing name actually has nothing to do with vertical alignment VA technology so it's pretty much the same as some of the IPS panels that you've seen before the panel has a 1000 to 1 contrast ratio for millisecond response times 315 it's of peak brightness and from my experience with one fantastic viewing angles and color performance they can be calibrated to me srgb standards I happen to have one of these pounds in for testing inside the viewsonic XG two seven zero three - GS thankfully you won't have to hear me say that product name too often it's a bit of a mouthful like most monitors but yeah it's one of the cheaper options that use via HIV opener I was talking about before when I say cheap though I do mean seven hundred US dollars so it definitely sits towards the top of monitor pricing before you jump into the comments in protests saying that's not a cheap monitor because I agree with you it's not hugely cheap up against other 1440p options but it's worth noting that a top-end 34 inch IPS ultra wide will set you back at least twelve hundred dollars while a 4k IPS panel with g-sync is no less than eight hundred and eighty dollars and for those of you who interest in the new HDR displays coming in the future and yes I hope to take a look at some of those soon expect them to be even more expensive and the good thing I guess is that most people buying an Amana probably won't think of upgrading again for many years so if you're after the ultimate monitor experience I guess $700 well it isn't too much to pay if you're going to be using it throughout the next couple of years so you're probably wondering why I'd recommend a 1440p high refresh monitor over something lower resolution or cheaper now it stems from two aspects current PC hardware and the longevity of moderns which is something I touched on a little bit before when you look at the most popular graphics cards in systems being built today the nvidia geforce gtx 1060 and the gtx 1070 are right at the top of the charts the gtx 1060 is a great card for 1080p gaming but those people interested in going above that resolution are looking at the gtx 1070 as a baseline plus I figure that most people looking to drop 700 US dollars on a monitor are probably going to have at least a gtx 1070 in their gaming rig anyway or at least that's what I'd recommend before going and dropping that much cash with the gtx 1070 chosen as our baseline GPU platform let's take a look at how performs at 1440p of course you can go back and look at our previous coverage of GPUs at 1440p but here's a summary of what to expect note that for the following tests I did actually use a system with the geforce gtx 980ti in it along with the horizon 7 1,700 X processor Steve decided that he needed all of our gtx 1070 s for use in another project so I was stuck with the older gtx 980ti for these tests but you know the performance between the two GPUs is roughly equivalent anyway so it's pretty much exactly the same as what you'd expect so let's start with Battlefield one multiplayer set to ultra detail settings which you can see runs pretty well on the gtx 980ti at 1440p hitting upwards of 75 FPS for the most part during this match with a high refresh panel 75 FPS does feel more fluid than 60 FPS which can lead to a small advantage I guess in a fast shooter like Battlefield and of course if you reduce some of the quality settings pushing well into the hundred FPS own is more than achievable even with verizon Deus Ex mankind divided runs pretty well at 1440p with the ultra pro so particularly have an adaptive sync monitor but it does only hit a 52 FPS average during the built-in benchmark so there's not much of an advantage to grabbing a higher fresh monitor at these frame rates however dropping the quality preset too high which doesn't have much of an effect on image quality does lead to a much better result pushing above the 60 FPS mark fallout 4 is a game I played a lot of but it does have some performance issues things like random framerate drops and other stutters and hitches are common throughout the game but you can get some of those issues fixed simply by setting the shadows to medium which is what we did for the rest of this test and this leads to a great result here comfortably sitting in the 85 to 100 FPS zone not the best optimized title all the most visually impressive but it's a good look at house of all the titles currently running the GTX 980 I and 1440p prey is a modern title built using CryEngine so it's no surprise runs pretty well on this sort of gaming hardware when you aren't playing in a grass field physics laid in the sandbox this is a title that runs spectacularly at 1440p regularly hitting above 100 FPS in a less intensive parts of the games and more like 75 FPS in the larger area so you'll definitely benefit from having a model that pushes above 60 Hertz when you're hitting things like 100 FPS why does the Tomb Raider when set to DirectX 11 mode and without super sample anti-aliasing leads to a decent 1440p experience in the geothermal valley with frame rates hovering around the 60fps 3 my capture alone switch into the high preset delivers around 10 extra frames per second which adds the fluidity of the game on high refresh monitors though naturally can push the total down even further if you really want to deliver huge frame rates - which is the reason all the title now been still pretty intensive to roam this is again that only hits around 40 FPS on ultra settings while using my 34 40 by 1440 Predator X 34 monitor but when switching over to this 1440p display we're seeing around a 60 FPS average disabling hair works improves performance significantly and how a lot of you guys out there love to disable all your game works features straight out of the box for only a minor quality decrease while dropping the detail preset down to high as well pushes the average frame rate into the 80 to 90 FPS so another sort of frame rate zone that will benefit from that higher refresh rate monitor watch dogs - is the most intensive title here running it around 40 to 50 FPS using the ultra preset 1440p however this can be pushed into the 60s with that using the high preset and even further up into the 70s PS own using medium preset not the best showcase of what 165 Hertz Mario can do at 1440p with this hardware there not every game is going to dominate with high frame rates at ultra detail settings in general what you would have seen throughout our testing is the gtx 1070 or in our case the gtx 980ti is well suited to gaming at 1440p an ultra detail things the GPU sits at around 60 FPS in most modern triple-a tiles but if you're willing to sacrifice a few settings your framerate can push well into the 80 to 100 FPS zone more powerful graphics cards like the GTX 1080 or GTX 1080i I imagine a lot of people out there building high-end systems using those cards over the 1070 especially if you're thinking of purchasing at $700 well those cards in high frame rates more often at high detailed levels and can benefit more from 165 Hertz display at resolutions higher than 1440p such as 4k or 34 40 by 1440 ultra wide it's unlikely you be consistently hitting 60fps at ultra detail settings particularly at 4k and the game of the prefers performance of a resolution this is why 1440p such an attractive option you'll still get high quality gaming experience with increased detail over 1080p but unlike with even high resolution actually possible to hit high frame rates on popular graphics cards like the gtx 1070 and that's something we've demonstrated I guess throughout this video with this in mind it makes sense to get the most out of gaming at 1440p and that starts with a high refresh monitor if you use a gtx 1070 or better a standard 60 hertz 1440p display it's likely not making the most of your hardware if the game runs out well above 60fps like praying ultra quality settings your experience on a 60 Hertz monitor will be nearly as smooth or as fluid as on a monitor that pushes above 60 Hertz the difference in me going to 100 Hertz is massive and clearly noticeable while gaming is something you really have to try yourself to fully understand but once you experience it it will definitely be craving high refresh rates over higher resolutions at 1440p there are several options for hive and 60 Hertz monitors the most common use in older 144 Hertz TN panel while newer options use the 165 Hertz hhv-8 IPS panel that I discussed earlier the superior quality of the IPS display a 21 Hertz higher refresh rate introduced around $150 price premium but if you want the best quality in terms of contrast viewing angles and colors there's no doubting that you'll get that with an IPS panel rather than a TN and the additional refresh rate is a nice bonus to have it's for this reason that 1440p models at 165 Hertz are the ultimate option for gamers right now at least in my opinion that's what I'd recommend if you ask me what the best gaming monitor is right now do an especially good choice if you plan on keeping this type of minor for several years because as higher performance graphics cards become more affordable you'll be able to upgrade your GPU for a reasonable price and come closer to hitting 165 Hertz limit on these displays in the meantime you still get the benefit of high refresh rates where your current hardware and in-game graphics preferences allow I hope this video has given you a good idea of what to expect while gaming on a 1440p 165 Hertz monitor with reasonably affordable hardware like the gtx 1070 and why I reckon this is the best gaming modern option right now if these sorts of monitors are of interest you can check their prices in description below particularly for the ViewSonic to 7:03 SGS which we use for all of our testing and I'll catch you in the next one you