I'm currently using an old Dell U2412 M ( 1080p, 60Hz, IPS) paired with an i54690K and GTX 970 for both gaming and photo editing. I had hoped to do a significant system refresh and move up to 1440p but for budget reasons I've decided to stay at 1080p for the forseeable future. I'm hoping to upgrade to the likes of a 1660 super or used GTX 1070 and I was thinking about changing my display to the ASUS TUF VG249Q https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...klit-widescreen-gaming-monitor-mo-0at-as.html Obvioulsy the 144HZ and 1MS are going to be better, but I'm just wondering am I going to notice any other general differences in terms of actual image quality and rendering, especially given that my current display is much older tech?
Dell U2412M is 1200p, not 1080p... I'd say that the Dell is a really, really good IPS screen for its age so I'm not sure how much of a difference you'll see in terms of image quality, colour accuracy and so on. Moving to a higher refresh screen will be pretty sweet for gaming, although that ASUS is Freesync rather than G-Sync so I'm not sure if it'll play nice with Nvidia cards for variable refresh rate goodness.
You're right, I probably should have been more specific. I guess I always think of screens in terms of 1080 or 1440. The Dell ( at least in terms of photo editing ) certainly is a strong performer, and is that's part of the reason I've kept it so long! But I suppose the primary motivator for this change will be the gaming side of things ( although obvioulsy colour accuracy etc is also important, hence going for another IPS panel) I'm lead to belive that the Freesync should work ok with Nvidia cards, but I may be wrong. Are there any other monitors in the £200 price range I should be looking at? There doesn't seem to be a huge selection on 24" IPS 144Hz displays!
From memory Nvidia 10 series and onwards are Freesync compatible. What that actually gives I don't know. It's one reason for me to consider an upgrade from 970 to 1070 on 1080
