You Can Save $200 on Samsung’s Elite Gaming Monitor Today

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Looking for an awesome gaming show to lucifer your powerful desktop? The 32-inch type of nan Samsung Odyssey G8 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is currently marked down from $1,300 to conscionable $1,100. Only nan beefiest gaming rigs tin dream of powering its 3,840 x 2,160-pixel solution astatine nan afloat 240-Hz refresh rate, but those who tin will beryllium hard-pressed to find thing stronger.

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Odyssey OLED G81SF 4K 240Hz Gaming Monitor

I sewage to walk immoderate clip pinch nan 27-inch type of this sheet and was highly impressed pinch its unthinkable image quality, whether watching movies aliases playing games. A large portion of that is nan QD-OLED panel, which is tin of producing perfectly acheronian achromatic levels, arsenic good arsenic bright, vivid colors.

While streaming services mightiness person limits erstwhile it comes to utilizing that benignant of screen, astir video games tin return advantage of a sheet for illustration this without immoderate other work. The consequence is immersive, lifelike scenes, peculiarly successful much cinematic and elaborate games. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 connected a surface for illustration this is simply a uncommon delight, disposable only to those pinch thousands to spare connected their conflict station.

Even my supercharged gaming desktop, which features Nvidia's top-end RTX 5090 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) couldn't get anyplace adjacent to 240 Hz successful immoderate crippled pinch nan settings turned up. You'll apt request to move nan value down, aliases trust heavy connected multi-frame generation, successful bid to scope 200+ FPS astatine 4K successful modern titles.

In fact, I wouldn't moreover see utilizing this show unless you're connected an RTX 3000 Series GPU aliases newer, nan first procreation to support nan HDMI and DisplayPort connectivity needed for 4K astatine 240 Hz. Thankfully, nan G81SF does support some FreeSync Premium Pro and Nvidia G-Sync, truthful AMD users connected Radeon RX 6000 Series aliases newer cards mightiness springiness this a look arsenic well. Anything older than that and you're amended disconnected checking 1 of our different favourite gaming monitors.

If you've sewage nan scratch, and nan rig to match, this Samsung is perfectly 1 of nan astir premium gaming monitors available, and a noticeable discount to help screen nan costs of a GPU upgrade is peculiarly welcome.