Samsung's elite curved gaming monitor has dropped down to it's lowest price yet for Prime Big Deals Day.
This week is Prime Big Deals Day. Despite the name, it's actually two days. On both October 7 and October 8, you can save huge swaths of cash on a bunch of cool tech or home goods, and that included PC gaming accessories. If you've been on the hunt for a new gaming monitor, now might be the time to pull the Hall Effect trigger you have mapped to "Add to Cart." Samsung's curved Odyssey G5 gaming monitor has dropped in price by $100. The 27-inch model is down from $300 to $200, while the 32-inch has gone from $330 to $230.
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The way we perceive the world around us is not on a flat plain. Heck, we even describe it as the world around us, not in front of us. So when we simulate worlds through the games we play, why not aim for a more immersive experience? Monitors like this are awesome to play pretty much anything on but where they really shine is anything that's first-person. When I initially got my curved monitor, first thing I played was the updated version of Portal with RTX and oh boy was that thing a beaut.
The Samsung Odyssey G5 curved gaming monitor comes in either a moderate 27-inch or large 32-inch screen, each with a curvature of 1000R to help fill your peripheral vision with the visuals from your game. Enjoy a better-than-HD resolution of 1440p which packs in 1.7 times the pixel density of 1080p HD displays. HDR10 allows for vibrant colors with deep blacks and luminous whites, portray a wide depth of color and brightness.
The screen has a refresh rate of 165Hz to help maintain smooth gameplay with fast frame rates and the 1ms response time will keep your character feeling snappy. Seriously. I'd been playing Hollow Knight: Silksong through Game Pass and my Xbox on a TV from 2017 then switched over recently to my PC and a similarly-specced monitor and wow what a difference. Input lag I had thought was just normally going completely away. I felt like I was cheating. It was just like that episode of Samurai Jack when Jack is training with the rocks strapped to his wrists and ankles. You know the one I'm talking about.