Now is a great time to grab that screen upgrade you’ve been considering but couldn’t afford until now, as this gaming monitor deal enables you to bag a 180Hz Asus screen for just $99.99. That’s a saving of $79 compared to the MSRP listed on Asus’ website, and it gets you a fantastic spec for this low price, which remarkably includes Asus’ Extreme Low Motion Blue (ELMB) tech.
The Asus TUF Gaming VG249Q3A also has a 180Hz refresh rate, which is even faster than the 165Hz offered by our current favorite budget option on our best gaming monitor guide. What’s more, it’s backed up by an IPS screen with a 1ms gray-to-gray (GTG) response time. In our tests, we’ve found this tech is generally much quicker to respond than competing VA panels, making it ideal for playing first-person shooters at 180fps.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned ELMB tech improves that sense of responsiveness even more, by reducing perceived motion blur via cleverly strobing the backlight between frames. We’ve found this tech works really well in our tests, as we found in our Asus VG27AQ review.
The VG249Q3A also has full support for AMD Freesync Premium, meaning it will precisely line up its refresh rate with the frame rate in your games on AMD GPUs, putting a stop to irritating problems with image tearing. Its 1,920 x 1,080 resolution is also ideal for the 23.8-inch panel, meaning the image won’t look as pixelated as the same resolution on a larger screen, while also meaning you won’t need to buy the very best graphics card to play games at a decent frame rate.
You also get a decent array of ports, with a pair of HDMI 2 inputs enabling you to hook up your PC as well as a game console to the same screen, and there’s a DisplayPort 1.2 connector as well. You even get a pair of basic 2W stereo speakers, although you’ll want to buy a set of the best computer speakers if you want some proper bass.
If you want to take advantage of this deal, just click on this link here to take you to Best Buy, where you can pick up this monitor for just $99.99 at the moment.
You can also check out our VA vs IPS feature for more detail about the underlying tech in this screen’s panel, where we explain how VA and IPS screens work and explore their impact on gaming performance.