I review screens for a living and these are the Prime Day gaming monitor deals I'd buy

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Acer Nitro XV272U | 27-inch | 170Hz OC | 1440p | IPS | $299.99$189.99 at Amazon (save $110)Coming with FreeSync Premium, this monitor will see you through whatever GPU you have. This version can be overclocked to give you up to a 170Hz refresh, and it's also an IPS. Not too shabby for that price.

Price check: Micro Center $224.99

27 inches, 170Hz refresh, a quality IPS panel and 1440p native resolution. What more do you need from a gaming monitor? In a word, nothing, especially when you can have all that for just $189.

Yup, the Acer Nitro XV272U has been given the Amazon Prime Day treatment and as someone who reviews these things for a living, I can tell you it's an absolute steal. In fact, the only problem is that Nvidia has recently decided that 1440p GPUs start at $599 in the RTX 4070.

The $399 RTX 4060 Ti is pitched as a 1080p GPU. And with just 8GB of VRAM running over a measly 128-bit bus, that's pretty much correct. Luckily, you can currently grab an AMD 6700 XT for just $299, and that comes with at least as good 1080p raster performance as the RTX 4060 Ti, plus more VRAM and bandwidth for 1440p duties.

As an overall gaming proposition, 1440p and 170Hz is comfortably preferable to 1080p at almost any refresh. Sure, if you're really serious about esports, then you're going to want a 1080p panel with a refresh high enough to give you a nosebleed.

But that's not most of us, is it? A 1440p panel scores with much more image detail, which can really help in terms of allowing more space for menus and tools in strategy games, and also allow you to see the latests graphics fests in all their glory.

You'll be grateful for the extra pixels back on the Windows desktop. Moreover, this Acer has no real weaknesses. It's rated at