It doesn’t matter how powerful your gaming PC is. If your run-of-the-mill monitor can’t keep up with what GPU and CPU can put out, all that extra power will just go to waste. On the flip side, buying a four-figure ultra-wide 4K display with a 300Hz refresh rate won’t do anything to help with making Cyberpunk 2077 run better on your student laptop. You need a monitor to match the specs of your rig, while keeping an eye on your budget too. This here is a moderately priced gaming monitor that can still provide you with a pretty stellar experience. It’s kind of right in the middle of what’s possible with a gaming monitor.
Right now, Amazon has the Samsung Odyssey G5 G53F gaming monitor on sale for a hefty 36% off. Normally, you can find this monitor going for an even $250, but right now, that discount has taken off a good $90. That means you only need to spend $160 on this display.
Specs Deep Dive
This version of the Samsung Odyssey G5 measures across at 27 inches with a resolution of 1440p. In my opinion, that’s a perfect pairing. Any more detail at that screen size will mostly go unnoticed by eyes, but definitely noticed by your bank account. Not worth the push up to 4K, and 27 inches is still plenty big for desktop gaming when you’re right in front of the screen.
The Samsung gaming monitor is working with a refresh rate of 200Hz for ultra-smooth gameplay. I’m of the mind that 60fps is plenty fast, if you can bump that up to 120fps then cool but reaching for anything above that is wasted effort. Additionally, it supports a fast response time of just 1ms. You’re actions will feel light and snappy as opposed to some slower displays that make it feel like you’re literally dragging your character through mud. Plus with AMD FreeSync Premium support, you can forget about any choppiness, screen lag, or image tearing when running games at reasonable settings for your PC configuration.
Color looks great with the screen brilliant visual and support for HDR10. You get brighter highlights and nuanced details in dark areas like shadows. No straining your eyes to see if there is or is not an item you can collect in that weird corner. The Black Equalizer helps amplify this as well.
The current $90 discount brings the price of the 27-inch QHD Samsung Odyssey G5 gaming monitor down to just $160 which also represents the displays lowest price yet since having been listed at Amazon. For these specs, that’s quite a steal at this price point.
