Top 10 monitors of CES 2024
CES 2024 was a glorious show for monitors that reinforced the best trends of 2023. A new generation of OLED panels from Samsung and LG hit the show floor, and with them […]
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Asus, MSI add extra burn-in warranty coverage for OLED monitors
After we spent years looking at televisions, smartphones, and even laptops with envy, OLED panels are finally starting to show up on desktop monitor panels. Well, they are if you have a […]
AMD sets higher speed standards for FreeSync monitors
AMD’s FreeSync anti-tearing adaptive sync technology is a more popular standard than Nvidia’s G-Sync, if only because the former doesn’t require pricey additional hardware to meet its more stringent demands. But AMD […]
How we test monitors at PCWorld
If you work in an office, whether at home or on-site, there’s a good chance you spend most of your day staring at a computer monitor. And you may spend even more […]
Are ultrawide monitors worth it?
Buying an ultrawide monitor for your PC is the most dramatic choice you can make short of purchasing a full-sized HDTV and slapping it on your desktop. What is an ultrawide monitor? […]
VESA’s new HDR spec makes low-end monitors less miserable
VESA is trying to solve a big problem with its updated DisplayHDR 1.2 specification: Low-end HDR effects in PC monitors can be pretty lousy. Roland Wooster, a principal engineer for Intel who […]
TCL’s new LCD could push gaming monitors to 1000Hz
120 hertz? Kid’s stuff. 240? Barely competent. eSports players won’t take a second, super-fast glance at a new gaming monitor unless it’s 300hz, preferably 500hz and worth a mortgage payment. But a […]
Acer unveils new OLED gaming monitors and ‘smart’ monitors
If there’s one trend in PCs for 2024, it’s “AI” in everything. That’s inescapable. (Ugh.) But if there are two, then the second one is OLED monitors finally gaining steam. Case in […]
Samsung unveils OLED gaming monitors in big and speedy flavors
Samsung usually makes headlines with its Odyssey gaming monitors by being ridiculously, humongously ginormous. They’re big, is what I’m saying. But the latest two bring its celebrated OLED panels to more conventional […]
New Nvidia G-Sync monitors won’t need a separate module anymore
Monitors with Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, which syncs full frames between the graphics card and display panel to prevent tearing, are more expensive than their AMD FreeSync counterparts. That’s because full G-Sync capabilities […]
