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Black Friday is now but a wistful memory of spectacular deals now dearly departed. Actually, it isn't. Cyber Monday is keeping the good time deals rollin', including gaming monitors.
So far this deal season, we've seen some outstanding offers on everything from high-refresh 4K panels to our favorite 34-inch ultrawide form factor and from OLED models to big old TVs.
A monitor is, of course, one of the best long-term buys you can make for your PC. While monitor technology does progress, it's usually not like a GPU where next year's model could make the pixel pumper currently in your PC instantly seem like very old news.
A good gaming monitor today will still be a good gaming monitor next year. And the year after that, too. Right now, our favorite form factor is 34-inch ultrawide with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels. Plus at least 144Hz. Happily, prices kick off at $250 among our current deals.
We also retain a soft spot for plain old 1440p and 27 inches, and prices in that category start even lower, from $170 in fact. Of course, if you've got a bigger budget, then a whole world of OLED and big screen opportunities open up, but for a lot less cash than is normally the case.
- We'll carry on curating the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals all the way through the sales season.
Below is a constantly curated list of the best gaming monitor deals which we'll keep updating as we go through Cyber Monday and beyond. And when we're not at it, our sleepless deal bots are always scouting for us.
CYBER MONDAY GAMING MONITOR DEALS - QUICK LINKS
- 1080p: Acer Nitro KG241Y | $109.99 @ Amazon
- 1440p: Acer 27-inch | $169.99 @ Newegg
- 4K: Gigabyte M28U | $444 @ Amazon
- Ultrawide: LG Ultragear | $249.99 @ LG
- Amazon: LG's OLED monitor for $779.99
- Best Buy: Samsung's 240Hz monitor for $219.99
- Lenovo: Lenovo's own ultrawide for $349.99
- Newegg: Asus TUF Gaming 27" 1080p for $139.99
- Dell: Awesome Alienware OLED for $799.99
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We've lost a few of the best gaming monitor deals from Black Friday. But arguably the best deal in terms of overall value remains. It's the ASRock Phantom PG34WQ15R2B which I reviewed back in Feb and sits on my office desk to this very day.
It's not perfect. An IPS rather than VA panel would be a bit better for pixel response. But $289 for a 34-inch ultrawide that's good for both 165Hz and 550 nits is an absolute steal. It's a great all-round monitor for the monitor with lovely colors, decent response and plenty of high-contrast punch.
Silly-fast 1080p panels aren't normally my bag. But to paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson, when you absolutely, positively got to kill everyone on the screen, accept no substitutes. You need a 500Hz monitor. Well, probably. Bleeding-edge esports is basically beyond my pay grade.
All I know absolutely for sure is that this monitor is normally a whole lot more expensive. So, if you do want 500Hz, here's a rare chance to grab it at an eye-popping discount.
34-inch ultrawides remain our favourite gaming panel form factor. So give it up for this new addition to the deals page from MSI. At this low price point it's inevitably a VA panel rather than IPS. But it's good for 144Hz and 300 nits, which is reasonable. It also makes for an interesting value comparison with the Asrock Phantom below and its 550 nits and 165Hz for $289.
As ever, you pays your money and you makes your choice. But it's certainly great to actually have choice at this accessible price point.
Yep, it's another 34-inch ultrawide. But this time, it's got an IPS rather than VA panel. IPS tech almost always costs more than VA. But that seems doubly so for our favorite high-refresh gaming monitor form factor. IPS is so much more expensive.
Usually, that is. This AOC model for $370 does still come at a premium over comparable VA models in our deals lists. But it's a pretty sharp price for an IPS model. Anyway, it's nice to see an IPS option that isn't $500-plus.
Behold the Z-EDGE UG34W, all 34 inches of it with an IPS panel, 400 nits brightness, 165Hz refresh and 1ms response times. And all for just $299.99. What a deal, right?
Well, it might be. But it's awfully hard to know, coming as it does from an obscure brand with little to no provenance. Of course, you can't be totally certain that a monitor from a big, well known brand isn't going to be a dud, too. After all, Samsung has released several high-end panels in recent years that suffered from some shockingly bad bugs and flaws, to give just one example.
But this all comes down to the law of averages. Both Amazon and Newegg are rammed with cheap monitors from no-name brands that offer apparently great specs for the money, but amount to something of a dice roll when it comes to the actual performance and quality of these monitors. There may be some hidden gems among them, but for the most part they are cheap for a reason. And that's why we tend not to include them in our curated list of the best Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals.
If you want a lot of IPS ultrawide gaming monitor for not a lot of money, this MSI MAG401QR could be worth a look. It's unusual in coming in at 40 inches while offering the same 3,440 by 1,440 native res as the usual 34-inch suspects.
That's not necessarily great for pixel density. But it does mean you won't need a $2k GPU to get half decent frame rates. This is perhaps not the best pick as a monitor that's mostly going to be used for work with the odd gaming session thrown in. But if you're usage balance is the other way round, well, this is a load of IPS gaming monitor for the money.
Alienware's gaming monitor with a ridiculous refresh rate has the deepest savings today. You save $300 on a monitor with the ability to hit 500Hz, a ridiculously high number that few other panels can produce.
I think this is where the PC gamer's dilemma really matters: Do you want a high refresh rate (and therefore high frames per second) or do you want a high resolution? Personally, I like a good balance if my graphics card can run it. I'm playing games at 4K at around 144Hz. To me, 500Hz is overkill. But I am not a Counter-Strike player. Maybe you are. And in that case, a 500Hz monitor might be the kind of thing you pick up now so you don't have to consider an upgrade for many, many years.
Let's talk about going from 1080p to 1440p with a monitor like the Acer Nitro here. It's not a massive upgrade in screen resolution like a 4K upgrade would be, but it's the kind of thing you'll immediately notice. Everything will look sharper at the cost of demanding more from your graphics card. I think the trade-off is worth it, especially when the 1440p monitor prices are so low now.
The Acer Nitro has a 170Hz refresh rate, too, so it's also an opportunity to discover what playing games at that speed is like. It's difficult to describe what it's like when your monitor can show you a lot more frames per second than you're used to because you can kind of feel it as you play. It's the sensation of going from 30 fps to 60 fps but more intense. Competitive gamers gain the most out of it, but that isn't to say it isn't fun to play something like Diablo 4 with the same level of smoothness.
That you can achieve both of these things for under $200 now is pretty cool. If you're still gaming on 1080p, I'd seriously consider jumping up a resolution tier for your next upgrade.
This killer deal on Alienware's 34-inch OLED monitor is still going. This is a PSA for both of us because I've been eyeing this thing since this sale started last week. I run two monitors (one 4K, one 1440p in vertical orientation) and I think I'd prefer having a big ultrawide monitor instead. The dual monitor life is sweet, don't get me wrong, but Windows is all kinds of funky when it comes to having two mismatched displays. It can make alt-tabbing take longer and you might have to chase your game window down as it tries to decide which monitor to show up on.
The solution is to embrace the one screen lifestyle, but go big. You won't find another monitor as capable as this one for under $1,000 right now. It is our favorite gaming monitor for its beautiful glossy screen, its high 165Hz refresh rate, and actually impressive HDR output. Unless you want to wait and pay more when the sale ends or when eventual upgrades arrive, there's simply no better monitor to buy right now.
How much should you spend on a monitor?
Tyler W here, subbing in with a brief story: In 2020, I spent $500 on a monitor, and just over two years later, it was $200 cheaper. I love my Acer display and it's still my main monitor, but I sure bought it at the wrong time. As a result, I'm now bitterly opposed to the idea of spending more than around $300 on a new monitor.
So I definitely wouldn't buy that same old Acer Predator model, which has gone for as little as $278, for $682 today from a third-party Amazon seller today. You and I were never going to fall for that, but the first point to this story is that there are still people out there trying to take advantage of uninformed shoppers. Boo. Be sure to check price histories on a site like CamelCamelCamel.
Meanwhile, this year's new Acer Predator X27U 1440p display is a whopping $799.99, but it has a reason for the high price: an OLED panel. The X27U has been this price since early October, but did genuinely sell for $999.99 not long before that, so, sure, it's actually a deal. Not one I'm buying, though!
I have an OLED TV and yeah, it's got a beautiful, high-contrast picture, but an IPS monitor is plenty good enough to stop me from spending $800 just to have the latest and greatest. And given the framerates I'm getting on my mid-range rig, I also remain happy with 1440p, so I don't feel in any rush to go 4K, either.
I don't want to understate the importance of a good display to a PC gaming setup—go for that 4K beast if you have the GPU to drive it—but if I were buying a replacement monitor today, I'd probably go with something like the 31.5-inch Acer Nitro for $300.
One day I'll have an OLED display, and a 4K one at that, but they're super new, and will likely be way cheaper in a few years time. When you can get one for $300, I'll recommend it.
It's all over for another year... except it's not really. Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren't the only times you'll find discounts on a host of PC gaming paraphernalia and we'll still be keeping tabs on the top display discounts on our Cyber Week gaming monitor deals page.
