With the imminent arrival of the Amazon Prime Day PC deals this month, now is a great time to swat up and get all the information into your eye balls. And while you might be able to save a chunk on one of the best gaming monitors then, you'll likely find a good offer right now.
When looking for one of the best gaming monitors, you'll have to address some big, but exciting, questions. How fast do you want it to be? Do you want the biggest resolution going? How about HDR? And so on. In truth, it's nigh on impossible to meet every single desire in just one of the best monitors for gaming and you can't get a single beast that will tick every single box yet. Even the top monitor on this list, the Asus ROG Swift PG279Q, isn't without its faults: it's pricetag being its main one. However, it does pair a native 144Hz refresh rate with an IPS screen. So long as your PC can handle it, you can play games at up to 144 frames per second (fps) and still see everything, clear as day, from most angles.
But you must also think about what games you play. For story-driven thrill seekers like myself, you may prefer a crisper picture at 4K HDR 60Hz to a faster refresh rate—the latter being more essential to those who play online, fast-paced multiplayers, or even competitively. Oftentimes, that's the trade-off when you want to play games at a higher resolution. To help you keep the compromises to a minimum, we've arranged this carefully curated list, starting with the best gaming monitor and ending with a close tenth.