Amid soaring PC hardware prices, gaming monitors are getting cheaper and cheaper. Here’s why, and what to buy

Amid soaring PC hardware prices, gaming monitors are getting cheaper and cheaper. Here's why, and what to buy

Hello, good local-time-zone-adjusted afternoon, and let’s just say it’s been a while. But I come back to you now at the turn of the technological tide. Well, sort of. Sadly I’m not here to predict an end to the ridiculous AI-fuelled chip crisis. That whole mess has a couple of years to run, surely.

Instead I speak of screens, where there is actually some very good news. In short, have you seen how cheap PC gaming monitors are? I mean remarkably, almost stupendously, cheap. I’m talking £60 / $60 for an entry-level 1080p panel with triple-digit refresh rate, sub-£200 / $250 for high-refresh 4K gaming. Heck, even OLED monitors now start with a “2” in both currencies.

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