I need some no BS advice. I’m looking to buy a new computer screen for my 12 year old boy for Christmas. I’m on a budget because I just bought him a miroku 12g for his birthday so my wallet is pretty empty. He enjoys his gaming but he’s not running a super high spec computer or playing overly demanding games. As a computer competent but not overly tech minded bloke I’m struggling to cut through all the BS about what’s good, and what’s not, and what’s just hype/marketing/wank…
He wants something around 27", preferably curved screen. This is what a quick stroll through HN turns up on the floor. Sales people starting pissing in my pocket…
I know some of you guys are computer geeks, so give it to me straight. Help me out here please
I have played some games on a curved screen and some games showed a slight difference but in my honest opinion there wasn’t much difference, but that could just be my ageing eyes lol.
I think for the same money you could get a really good quality screen or a bigger one. But as @juststarting said get on whirlpool and they should be able to help.
You know what I mean, I am not talking about technical difference. I am talking about, I asked for curved, I got not curved. I asked for a puppy, I got socks.
I used to play a fair nit of Battlefield and ran 2 GTX 690 cards which could run 3 displays at Hi Res. So it was a very surround experience. I didnt play the game like that however it just wasn’t as good. I would play with two screens one for the gaming action and one for some other function of the game or Teamspeak.
So I am not a big believer in the curved screen I would go with a screen that has good contrast Black is the hardest colour for the screens and one that has a high scan rate. Sorry no help at all.
Best to find out the game he really wants to play. The box will have minimum requirements, recommended requirements and maximum requirements. From that you can get a good idea what you are after.
@Bent_arrow
OK, this is not technical advice or anything like that but if you are looking at monitors don’t buy from Harvey Norman as they are usually dearer than else where.
Use this link and search for what you want. It is basically a search engine that looks at all of the online shops and gives you the price for the item you are looking for. https://www.staticice.com.au/
In a former life I used this site a lot to find the cheapest place to buy all of my parts to build computers, it has saved me countless dollars.
For an example looking at the prices that you put up and picking one at random, Harvey Normans price for a LG MP58 Full HD IPS Monitor is $397. Staticice showed me a list of places that was as cheap as $319 for the same thing. Then by clicking on the price it takes you to the store and you can see it for your self.
The trick is postage, that’s where you can either save money or cost you more. Using the same list there is one for sale for $349 in NSW from PC Market and they have free delivery. That’s $48 worth of ammo for you
In my very limited experience that’s a great approach for working out what performance you need out of the PC your going to buy, but not so helpful for the specs of the screen…
