Buying a monitor, whether “normal” or gaming, has become a nightmare. We can find many different parameters, whether they are “certifications” or manufacturer’s own technologies. The number of stickers what we found in a monitor it only makes them grow, but do we really have to give them any attention or is it just marketing?
It happened to us and it surely happened to you, that you went to buy a monitor and found that if HDR, that, if it has such and such technology, etc. In the end, what we ultimately care about are a few parameters, we don’t care about the rest. Without a doubt, the parameter that matters most to us is the price and then other parameters.
What matters when choosing a monitor
Realistically, when we buy a component, be it a graphics card, processor, monitor, or keyboard, we look at very few parameters. It seems that manufacturers have made it fashionable to add “pluses” or features that give us exactly the same thing. A fashion that has become absurd and which only serves to make the product more expensive.
Really, when we go to buy a monitor that is close to our hearts:
- Resolution: He is undoubtedly the most important parameter and to whom we pay the most attention. In the end, this parameter greatly influences the price and our requirements.
- Price : Once we have chosen the resolution, we will look for a monitor that adapts to our budget and dot
- Connectivity: Now that we have the resolution and several models chosen, we will look for them to have HDMI and DisplayPort video connections. If it has USB, then fine, but we really don’t care, because we will rarely use them
- Refresh rate: This parameter it’s important who will play, but it is not relevant for all users. If the monitor that meets the other requirements has 144Hz instead of 120Hz, then better, but in the end it won’t matter to us
- type of panel: We can say that this parameter is correct. We could care if it was IPS, TN or VAbut it is now th at IPS Fast, micro LEDs and other strange stories have become fashionable to sell us the motorcycle
Marketing nonsense that makes the product more expensive
Something we see more and more of is a series of labels or stories that we don’t care about. In many cases, this “nonsense” only serves to sell you the most expensive product. These extras that we will rarely use are:
- HDR: It is a certificate No one understand and no one really knows what to say when buying a monitor. The truth is that for games doesn’t really matter
- Color cover: Really, when you go to buy a gaming monitor and you look at this parameter, do you know what it means? do you know how much the higher the percentage, the better, but nothing else. It is of relative importance and in many cases it remains to be seen whether this is so.
- FreeSync, G-Sync, VESA Sync: It sure sounds crazy to you that it’s here, but it makes sense. In the end they are everything the same technology with a different collar and with sequins. Theirs would be a unification of technology and a reduction to one or two variants. That FreeSync has 3 versions, G-Sync has 3 versions and VESA Sync has 2 versions, that’s a lot of variants without much interest
- They are adjustable: That it says it can be adjusted for height and viewing angle is kind of ridiculous, because is MANDATORY on all monitors
- Angle of view: Let’s see, monitors are designed to to be seen from the frontso, what do I care that it has a viewing angle of 178º?
- Compatible with Windows: Of course it’s the dumbest tag in the world The monitor doesn’t care if you’re using Windows, Linux or PepitOS, since in the end what it does is reproduce the image sent by the graphics card. totally absurd
- Without frames: It’s another one of those absurd labels that make no sense and have become fashionable. It says the monitor has no side frames, which is wrong, since there is no monitor without frames. Can you tell me it’s 3mm, but Marcos has
- What is thin: May fucked us with the flowers, of course he’s thin, above all, compared to CRT monitors
VESA ClearMR, another completely useless certification
It’s the latest certification by VESA, who is in charge of the standardization of the different technologies. They have created a certification on the clarity of a moving image On the screen. It is meant to determine if a screen is too blurry to play on.
According to VESA, this new certification would come override response time which according to this certifier is obsolete. Indicates that the pixel response times displayed on real gaming monitors are artificial. They divided it into CMR 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 categories.
They are not really wrong about the response time, but the reality will be that we will have another “sticker” that does not bring anything. Additionally, this parameter measures the number of bright pixels versus blurry pixels. But, it is not measured as a percentage, which would be easy to interpret, but rather a time range is established that we have more clear pixels than blurry pixels. For example, if we have 10 pixels of blur, we would need 650 pixels of light to receive a CMR 7000 certification.
