If you win the IPS lottery, it's not too bad. Prefer IPS over TN or VA any day of the week.
Better than tn or va panels
Wrong.
When you're playing older games on PC, do you have a second monitor that's not ultrawide you play on, or do you look for fixes? Or is it not as much of an issue when it's not supported as I think it is?
Why IPS over VA?If you win the IPS lottery, it's not too bad. Prefer IPS over TN or VA any day of the week.
But as has been said, once you go ultrawide, be it 2560x1080 or 3440x1440 you will never go back to 16:9.
I even went back from ultra wide 21:9 3440x1440 to regular 1440p in order to hit a constant 100+ FPS. Feels good man.
I'd say it is. Games look a lot sharper and have a lot more clarity. The PPI isn't much bigger but the amount of info you see is greater if that makes sense.
Just using my 1440p monitor for work is a godsend. 1080p monitors are so cramped now. I want a 2nd one.
my 1440p monitor for work is so much better than my desktop I had at my actual office, working from home is actually much easier for me with all the screen space.
Absolutely. For PC I prefer it over 4K.
No scaling issues with UI, super crisp image, lets you push much higher framerates than 4K while driving the panels native resolution.
Wrong.
I got a PG279Q and it's amazing. I had a Dell S2716DG (TN) before, now it's my wife's.
Monitor manufacturers often ignore VA because IPS and TN panels are cheaper to produce. A good VA panel will always be better than both because it's the only type of panel that can have a bit of everything. Good VA panels have good color accuracy, good black levels, good contrast and good response times at the same refresh rate of IPS and TN panels.I have my previous monitor yeah, it's a really good Acer Predator. 1440p144hz (165hz with an overclock) IPS panel with Gsync. But if there's a fix for ultrawide I prefer to use that so I'll try and find them, even if it means some modding.
Thankfully more and more games support it these days, and a lot of older games have mods/fixes for the games, though HUDs can be stretched of course.
Maybe it's a preference thing but for me modern IPS panels are the gold standard. TNs are great for super high refresh rates but colour accuracy is just awful in my opinion. VA panels are a step up in that department but suffer in viewing angles.
Modern IPS panels have low response times, great viewing angles and fantastic colour accuracy. You just have to deal with the lower contrast and perhaps some light bleed depending on quality control. So if that's super important to you then sure, go VA. But for me, especially since I work on my screens as well, IPS are great.
That's because going from SD to HD is 6x the pixels. That isn't a fair comparison at all of course. And I guarantee if you go and toggle between 4k and 1080p on a game that supports native 4k, you will notice.My eyesight must not be that great, as not even full 4k is that much of a difference to me honestly. I mean, it is somewhat crisper but not to the level that the jump from SD to HD was.
That's because going from SD to HD is 6x the pixels. That isn't a fair comparison at all of course. And I guarantee if you go and toggle between 4k and 1080p on a game that supports native 4k, you will notice.
And it's $800 CAD