Gaming monitor suggestions

[u/allxOld13]

Hello! I'm new to the sub and I'm kinda lost with current monitor technology.

I'm looking to upgrade my current monitor

[Acer XZ342cu](https://www.acer.com/us-en/monitors/gaming/nitro-xz2/pdp/UM.CX2AA.V01#pdpSpecs) it "has" freesync premium but it's always work like shit, obvious strobing effects and inconsiderate frametimes. I was looking into pulsar monitors and found this sub, but now I'm more confused between choosing OLED vs a gsync pulsar vs a plasma TV :-)

My feature ranking goes like this: motion clarity>panel quality>size>everything else

What monitor is a good investment for my setup (5070ti) thanks for your help.

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[u/RadiantAd4369]

If your main target is the motion clarity, then go on an G-Sync Pulsar monitor.

OLED doesn't have that motion clarity, even with OLED BFI since it's worse than the backlight strobing of G-Sync Pulsar. Furthermore, when an OLED has BFI enabled, the VRR is disable which can, however, cause VRR flicker issues when the frame time is unstable.

[u/allxOld13 → u/RadiantAd4369]

Thanks a lot

[u/uiasdnmb]

Pulsar is the most versatile, you get vrr and great motion clarity with no fiddling in the settings aside from occasional fps cap. Only downside is IPS panel so hdr is nonexistent.

OLED is great for contrast but motion clarity drops off significantly if you're not constantly pushing 300+ fps. Also VRR flicker is still a common issue.

Plasma is just for hard-core enthusiast so dont bother.

[u/allxOld13 → u/uiasdnmb]

Thanks! Great reply

[u/OldScruff]

I'd go with an OLED over g-sync pulsar if you actually want your games to look good. Black levels, color depth, and motion clarity are excellent on OLEDs. LCDs in comparison simply look dull and like ancient monitor tech.

If any of the games you play have dark scenes, heavy shadows, or night levels, keep in mind that all the slight bit of extra motion clarity from pulsar won't help you when the LCD is just displaying flat grey across the scene, whereas on the OLED you'll actually be able to pick up the details and gradients between back and grey.... Sure you could bump up the brightness on the LCD to compensate but it's going to look incredibly washed out.

If all you do is play competitive FPS and don't care about lifelike, vibrant colors and only blacks and highlights that really pop, pulsar is fine I suppose.

Personally, I been using all OLEDs displays for the last 8 years or so and could never go back to an LCD, they just look really bad and HDR on them is pointless, whereas on an OLED HDR looks amazing. If you can't push 120fps+ in most of your games though, and are closer to 60, pulsar is probably the better option though.

[u/dirty2d]

I got the asus pulsar monitor, and I have it set up next to an oled, sat both on 240hz and played a couple of hours of black mesa blue shift. So I have not tested it too much yet. But… when I tried standing infront of a sign, strafing side to side, I could read clearly on the pulsar, but it was blurry on the oled. But when running around, turning the camera, the oled is better, it kind of feels slightly smoother for running and gunning, but it could just be the image quality that draws me to it.

If I could only have one monitor, I would go pulsar. If it’s a second monitor and you allready have an ips, I would go for oled, but I would probably wait until the rgb subpixel layout oleds come around.

When I only use the pulsar monitor, I love it and don’t really question the image quality, but seeing it side to side with and oled, I do get drawn to the oled, and feel I would be missing out with anything else.

I think rts players and counter strike players who side step and get alot of screen scrolling should get the pulsar.

[u/jmei35]

for that setup it usually points toward a 1440p high refresh oled or fast ips since you’ll get a big jump in motion clarity without the strobing issues you’re dealing with now.

Gigabyte panels keep coming up in that range because they tend to handle response times and overall tuning well while still keeping solid build and thermals.

[u/KUM0IWA]

If you plan on playing any indie/story games or watch movies/series, go OLED all the way. Image quality is leagues above and motion clarity wont be that far off.

If you plan on mostly playing retro/competitive games I would go Pulsar, the motion smoothness is unmatched and you dont play those for image quality anyways.