Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2024: cheap screens for 4K, ultrawide, 1440p and high refresh 1080p

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Black Friday isn't technically until Friday, but Amazon has already kicked off its mega sales bonanza and there are already some brilliant gaming monitor deals to be had. With Amazon Prime Day just barely in the rearview mirror, retailers ramped up deals to get ahead of competitors and get you to pick yourself up a deal a little early. From basically the start of November, we saw some pretty great sales on the best monitors. With the holidays just after it, Black Friday is one of the biggest deals events of the year, and that's usually for good reason.

Here, we have curated the best deals currently available and, most importantly, what their usual price is and if they're in stock. It can be easy to get caught up in the price of all those deals during Black Friday that you forget what they're worth year round so this should help prepare you for the big day and give you the best deals to keep an eye on. As well as that, it should help you decide which kind of monitor is right for you and your setup.

It's all well and good buying a 4K 120 Hz gaming monitor if you're running an RTX 4090, but pair that with even a rock-solid mid-range card and you won't get very far. It's all about finding that sweet spot.

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For most mid-range PC setups, we recommend 1440p at 144 Hz or higher. That's a good blend of clarity, fidelity, and speed to keep most gamers comfortable, no matter what they play. The other option, for the more competitive gamer, is a 1080p 240 Hz gaming monitor. You'll be choosing speed over fidelity, but if you're largely playing Valorant or CS2, that's your best bet.

If you can afford to, and your GPU can take it, ultrawide gaming monitors offer a sublime experience. They're engrossing and even serve to benefit your competitiveness in some games that support ultrawide aspect ratios—you often literally have a wider view of the playing field than those playing 16:9.

Finally, 4K is where it's at. These days you can buy a fast 4K monitor that can also claim to offer an excellent picture quality—you can have your cake and eat it. It's an expensive venture—you not only need a 4K monitor but a 4K-capable graphics card—but it really is a gorgeous resolution to game at.

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We've added a new "price watch" qualifier to all our individual deals, making it easy to see whether a price has gone up 🔼 or down 🔽 since we last checked it out. It's important to note that any deal in this guide (even if it's slightly risen in price) is still one of our top picks, as we only show you deals that are actually worth buying.

What are the best Black Friday gaming monitor deals in the US?

1080p: ASRock Phantom Gaming | $100 @ Newegg
1440p: ASRock Phantom PG27Q15R2A | $143 @ Newegg
4K 144 Hz: Gigabyte M28U | $330 @ Amazon
Ultrawide: LG UltraGear 34GP63A-B | $240 @ Amazon
OLED: MSI MAG 321UP | $700 @ Amazon

Amazon: All the Amazon Black Friday monitor deals
Best Buy: The full list of Best Buy's Black Friday monitor deals
Newegg: Every Black Friday monitor deal at Newegg

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor

1. Can you afford an OLED?

2. HDR is a nice-to-have not a need-to-have

3. How many screens do you want?

4. What's your GPU?

5. Don't go unnecessarily chasing refresh rates

Black Friday gaming monitor deals: 1080p

Black Friday gaming monitor deals: 1440p

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Acer KA272U |27-inch | 1440p | 100 Hz | IPS | $199.99 $139.99 at Best Buy (save $60)
If you're on the tightest of budgets, this will get you a decently sized 1440p monitor for a real bargain price. It's even got a higher-than-60 Hz refresh rate. Okay, 100 Hz isn't spectacular, but it is still notably smoother than 60 Hz. It's also not the brightest screen, rated at 250 nits peak, but the compromises will have to come in somewhere. If you want something brighter, the $145 ASRock below is a true winner.

Black Friday gaming monitor deals: 4K

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Samsung Odyssey Ark 2nd gen | 55-inch | 4K | 165 Hz | mini-LED | Curved | $2,999.99 $1,799.46 at Amazon (save $1,200.53)
Do you need the Ark? Probably not, but damned if it isn't at least worth a look nonetheless. This screen offers something few others do, probably for good reason. It's absolutely massive, curved out the wazoo, ready for HDR to the extreme, built with Mini LED tech, and runs at 165 Hz. It's something different, and that's why it bears mentioning that it's pretty much always on sale.

Price check: Best Buy $1,799.99 | Walmart $1,799.48

Black Friday gaming monitor deals: Ultrawide

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LG UltraGear 34GP63A-B | 34-inch | 3440 x 1440 | 160 Hz | VA | Curved | $399.99 $239.99 at Amazon (save $160)
At its current price, this LG ultrawide is a genuine bargain. By comparison, Alienware's fancy QD-OLED 34-inch panel is around $800 even on sale. This LG matches its size, resolution, aspect ratio and refresh rate for less than one-third of the price, although of course, it is a VA panel, not an OLED. It's also not the brightest gaming monitor ever, but it is a very good deal.

Price check: LG $239.99

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Samsung Odyssey G5 | 34-inch | 3440 x 1440 | 165 Hz | VA | Curved | $549.99 $295.02 at Amazon (save $254.97)
34-inch ultrawide 1440p gaming remains one of our firm favourites. It's a great compromise between lots of detail and decent frame rates. This Samsung panel gives you all that with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels, 165 Hz refresh and 1 ms response. It's not the brightest at 250 nits. But if you can live with that, it's an awful lot of monitor for the money.

Price check: Best Buy $299.99

Black Friday gaming monitor deals: OLED

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MSI MAG 321UP | 32-inch | 4K | 165 Hz | QD-OLED | $829.99 $699.99 at Amazon (save $130)
What a difference a letter makes... especially when it comes to gaming monitors. The code names given to monitors are often impenetrable, but the difference between this MAG 321UP and the MAG321UPX is that this one has a 165 Hz refresh instead of 240 Hz. That's the only difference between this and the more expensive one. If you're not concerned about the refresh rate difference (and do you have the hardware to hit a matching 240 fps otherwise?) then this is where the smart OLED money is spent.

Price check: Newegg $699.99

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Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ | 49-inch | 5120 x 1440 | 144Hz | QD-OLED | Curved | $1,099.99 $899.99 at Amazon (save $200)
It's not been around for long but the Aorus CO49DQ already has a decent discount, and it's a lot of monitor for the money as we found in our review. Those rocking the RTX 4090 might be better off with the higher refresh rate of the Samsung Odyssey G9 G93SC, but the rest of us can take advantage of this very wide, very pretty looking panel for a bit less.

Price check: Best Buy $899.99

Our magic price searching bots are all over the web, tracking down the best prices all the time. That means this list will be regularly curated multiple times each day.

Black Friday gaming TV deals

Our magic price searching bots are all over the web, tracking down the best prices all the time. That means this list will be regularly curated multiple times each day.

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Black Friday UK gaming monitor deals — UK Quick Links

1440p: AOC Q27G2S/EU | £220 @ Amazon
4K: Asus Tuf VG289Q | £200 @ Amazon
Ultrawide: ASRock Phantom 34 inch | £310 at Scan

Amazon: Tons of deals on gaming monitors
Currys: Up to £150 savings on gaming monitors
Argos: HP Omen 165Hz IPS 1080p for £149

Black Friday gaming monitor deals in the UK

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Alienware AW3225QF | 32-inch | 4K | 240 Hz | QD-OLED | £989.01 £834.98 at Dell (save £154.03 with promo code AFF5MON)
The gorgeous Alienware 32-inch OLED is currently the screen attached to the PC Gamer test rig, and it's a stunner. The panel is gorgeous, with a slight curve, and a tight pixel pitch thanks to its 4K native resolution. It was only the price which stopped it taking top-spot in our best gaming monitor guide, and with the current Black Friday discounts it's as cheap as it's ever been.

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MSI MAG 321UP | 32-inch | 4K | 165 Hz | QD-OLED | £949 £798.00 at Amazon (save £150.05)
What a difference a letter makes... especially when it comes to gaming monitors. The code names given to monitors are often impenetrable, but the difference between this MAG 321UP and the MAG321UPX is that this one has a 165 Hz refresh instead of 240 Hz. That's the only difference between this and the more expensive one. If you're not concerned about the refresh rate difference (and do you have the hardware to hit a matching 240 fps otherwise?) then this is where the smart OLED money is spent.

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Black Friday gaming TV deals in the UK

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When is Black Friday 2024?

Black Friday will officially take place on November 29, 2024. The sales will continue after Black Friday into Cyber Monday, on December 2, and likely for the week after that and well into the rest of December for many.

However, the deals are well underway already, so there's no need to wait until the day itself to snag yourself a bargain. Being such a choreographed event, some retailers try to get there early with great deals and you might be able to snap up an early deal if you get there quick enough.

Will prices drop any lower?

There are always reasons to hold off on making a new purchase whenever you are thinking about making one. Whether it's the potential for a new generation of techie goodness on the horizon—either cutting prices on existing models or delivering tangible higher performance—or because there might be an imminent sale like Black Friday looming.

When picking Black Friday gaming monitor deals we take all of this into consideration, and where we think prices on something might significantly drop even further we simply won't recommend it. But all of the products here we either believe won't significantly drop much further in terms of their pricing, or are just good deals that we wouldn't hesitate recommending if you wanted to make a purchase today.

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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.

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