If you've been thinking about buying yourself a new gaming monitor, but you don't have big bucks to spend, then we've found a deal that's perfect for you. Right now, you can buy a 27-inch Samsung Odyssey gaming monitor for just $149.99, saving you a massive $80 on the usual price, and landing you a decent-size screen that even has a fast 180Hz refresh rate.
You don't often see 27-inch screens from the Samsung screen is so tempting. Usually priced at $229.99, the Samsung Odyssey G3 G30D is substantially larger than the 24-inch s you usually see in this price range, and it also s many top gaming features.
At the top of that list is undoubtedly the 180Hz refresh rate, which is really fast for a 27-inch screen at this price. Even if your graphics card is outputting super-high frame rates of 180fps, this screen will be able to refresh in time with the action, making for smooth motion. There's also for AMD Freesync, which enables the monitor to synchronize its refresh rate with fluctuations in the frame rate from your AMD GPU.
In our experience, you can also often enable Nvidia G-Sync on these monitors that variable refresh rates, but the Samsung G30D isn't officially listed as being G-Sync compatible, so there's no cast-iron guarantee here.
Meanwhile, the VA screen has a stated contrast ratio of 3,000:1, and in our tests, we've found that VA screens do indeed offer much higher contrast than rival IPS s, making for deep blacks and punchy colors that are ideal for single-player cinematic games and watching movies. On the downside, as we explain in our IPS vs VA feature, they're not as responsive as IPS screens, so this isn't an ideal monitor if you only want to play fast-paced competitive first-person shooters.
The other factor to note is that the 1,920 x 1,080 resolution has a lower pixel density on this 27-inch screen than on a smaller 24-inch , which makes pixels look a bit chunkier. On the plus side, though, this also means you don't need to splash out on the best graphics card possible in order to play games at decent frame rates at the screen's native resolution – at 1080p, a much cheaper GPU will be up to the job.
You also get a choice of both HDMI and DisplayPort inputs on the screen, meaning you can plug both a PC and a console into it without having to swap cables, and you even get a properly flexible stand, rather than the fixed stands you sometimes see on budget gaming monitors. The G30D stand is not only height-adjustable, but you can also swivel, tilt, and pivot it, even setting it up in portrait orientation if you want.
To take advantage of this deal, you just need to click on this link here to take you to the Samsung store, where you can pick up the 27-inch G30D for just $149.99, saving $80 (35%) on the usual price.
If you have more money to spend and want an even bigger, wider screen, you can also check out our new Lenovo Legion R34-30 review, where we put this 180Hz 34-inch monitor through its paces.
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