Considering a New Monitor, Have Questions

[Gmr_Chick]

Hey everyone. I'm currently rocking the Aorus CV27F monitor. While I really love it (and have for two years), I've recently started to consider going a tad bigger, and I'll explain why. I'm nearly legally blind in my left eye, and my right eye is only marginally better. I have extreme difficulty seeing anything farther than 5-10 inches away from my face, and so I have to greatly increase the size of text. I've got Windows scaled to about 165%, but the problem is a lot of programs then become difficult to use/close because the window is bigger than my monitor. The red X and things like that are "off stage" sort to speak. To use any programs, I have to scale Windows back down to 100-125%, strain my eyes to see anything, and then once I'm done with a program, rescale Windows back up to 165%....It's a pain in my ass to say the least.

I do a lot of gaming as well. In games like Star Wars Battlefront II however, I can't see targets that are a great deal away, even with the brightly-colored indicators over their heads. And it really, really irritates me.

And now to my questions.

I'm interested in the 32" monitor class, but wonder about the picture quality difference between 1080p and 1440p. The way I have everything scaled up in Windows, would programs "fit" on a 1080p screen because the monitor is bigger, or would a 27" 1440p monitor be a better choice?

My Aorus monitor is curved, and curved monitors supposedly help to reduce eye fatigue...but being that my left eye is "stuck" off to the side and I can't see out of it anyway, would it matter if my next monitor was curved or not?

Since I have an Nvidia GTX 1660 Super but know my next card is going to be AMD, I'm looking at Freesync monitors that are also G-Sync Compatible. I tried running G-Sync on my current monitor and noticed quite a bit of flickering, especially on dark backgrounds.

My budget is $430 USD and as far as refresh rate goes, between 120 and 165hz. Thank you for reading

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Uh oh! That sounds similar to my school buddy, who now is lucky to see many things with a magnifier. I don't think he can see with a small monitor! Even when it's possibly mostly with reading.

It will be sad, if he can't do Halo CE custom map-making!

 

[AsRock]

Not to sure about curved monitors helping but what helped me eliminate eye fatigue was to use a 40" screen, never happened again ( 13 year later).

 

[eidairaman1]

Id Look at NEC

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

Not to sure about curved monitors helping but what helped me eliminate eye fatigue was to use a 40" screen, never happened again ( 13 year later).

The curved ones, seem unreliable! I have one that's been sitting, but when I used it to plug in my spare video card, a GeForce GT 640, before retiring it permanently, to flash a valid VBIOS back to my Radeon RX 5600XT, after a mea culpa, I saw a line! It was a vertical line, IIRC.
They seem more likely to fail out of the blue.

 

[Space Lynx]

I'd say try both ways. I think a 32" 1080p will scale fine personally, in fact you most likely won't have to scale it as much as 27 1080p so it will work out perfect... 1440p scaling will be no different imo, you will still have to scale quite a lot...

but if it were me, you can't go wrong with these two:

https://www.costco.com/lg-ultragear-32%22-class-fhd-gaming-monitor.product.100682236.html

and no you don't have to be a costco member to buy that, and they have a very good 30 day return policy. $199 shipped. pretty good deal.

if you want to try 1440p I'd say here:

https://www.costco.com/acer-nitro-32%22-class-qhd-freesync-curved-gaming-monitor.product.100669390.html

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Did a bit more browsing and stumbled upon this one from MSI:

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Rapid-IP...ld=1&keywords=MSI&qid=1625185507&s=pc&sr=1-28

Any thoughts? It's listed as a 30" but is technically 29.5", and classified as an ultra-wide. Still, I figured it 's a nice "Goldie Locks" type of monitor -- not too big, but a bit bigger than my current one.

 

[Space Lynx]

Did a bit more browsing and stumbled upon this one from MSI:

https://www.amazon.com/MSI-Rapid-IP...ld=1&keywords=MSI&qid=1625185507&s=pc&sr=1-28

Any thoughts? It's listed as a 30" but is technically 29.5", and classified as an ultra-wide. Still, I figured it 's a nice "Goldie Locks" type of monitor -- not too big, but a bit bigger than my current one.

it's possible this would work, its actually similar to 24" 1080p monitors, but since its ultrawide, you can probably scale it higher in windows easier. thats just my gut feeling though.

 

[qubit]

I'm really sorry to hear about your vision. Mine's not too fantastic either.

Given how you have to zoom in all the time and the kind of vision that you have, resolution won't make much difference, but size will.

I think your best bet is to get the largest 16:9 monitor that you can afford, regardless of brand or other features. You'll then have to zoom less and also less often.

Imagine a hypothetical scenario where you had a 100 inch screen, everything would look so big that you'd probably hardly ever have to zoom at all. While we can't go that big, you can see how buying the biggest monitor that you can will reduce that frustrating zooming that you have to do.

Hope this helps.

 

[AsRock]

I'm really sorry to hear about your vision. Mine's not too fantastic either.

Given how you have to zoom in all the time and the kind of vision that you have, resolution won't make much difference, but size will.

I think your best bet is to get the largest 16:9 monitor that you can afford, regardless of brand or other features. You'll then have to zoom less and also less often.

Imagine a hypothetical scenario where you had a 100 inch screen, everything would look so big that you'd probably hardly ever have to zoom at all. While we can't go that big, you can see how buying the biggest monitor that you can will reduce that frustrating zooming that you have to do.

Hope this helps.

Funny you say that and there might be a issue. It would depend on the quality of the panel. I am long sighted i cannot read ingredients on most packets, how ever i can read text smaller < 3 feet away on my current screen with 100% scaling which is smaller.

I think panel quality has to come in as well. but as you know once you go passed the 32" prices get crazy.

EDIT: maybe a good IPS panel.

 

[Hyderz]

sorry to hear about your eye problems, hope you can find the best monitor for your eye
and your gaming hours be long and fun without the eye strain