Not my intention to be rude, but there is a lot of misinformation around when it comes to computer monitors. Every person and every need are different but there are some things that are simply the truth and many people fall for marketing gimmicks.
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Pixels on a 1080p 32" monitor will look gigantic and that’s a fact. Whether that’s an issue for some or not, that totally depends on the distance you sit from it, the intended usage (movies, games, mostly text, photo editing, etc.).
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Refresh rates higher than 60Hz are great and there’s no denying that, but you need to have powerful hardware to support the higher frames or you are better off spending that money on a better panel. Some gamers prefer higher refresh rates than color accuracy or contrast. I tend to gravitate towards a balanced monitor that can do most things acceptably, instead of doing one thing amazingly and being horrible at everything else. Many gaming monitors use TN panels, which you may know as those monitors in old laptops that “invert” colors when you look at them from above or below, simply because TN panels have quicker response times. Suffice to say that TN panels are awful for virtually everything else.
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Resolution is another thing, I know I wouldn’t offer my dad who is almost 80 a 4k monitor because he would surely go blind trying to look at miniature text or trying to adjust scaling. However, 4k monitors have the advantage of perfectly downscaling to 1080p as there is no calculation or approximation needed. One pixel at 4k becomes 4 pixels at 1080p. You practically have one monitor with two very useable resolutions if you go 4k. In contrast, 1440p monitors need to approximate to other more common resolutions if you upscale/downscale, causing the image to look weird.
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Finally, aspect ratio means how square or rectangular (wide) a monitor is. It’s just the shape of the panel itself.
It really pays off to read and investigate on different technologies and marketing lingo before buying a monitor. Luckily there is something for everybody nowadays.
PD: I bought an LG27UL650 today, which seems to hit all the right boxes for me. I will use it in 4k as my home-office monitor and at 1080p for FS2020 and other demanding games.