Gaming is fun on a laptop or a PC, but it is more fun when it is on a good, large display. A high-quality TV is ideal, but there are things that monitors are inherently good at. They can render better text, finer detail, accurate colours, all while keeping the latency low. They can double as a display for work, and gaming so you do not have hop between devices. You can close to a monitor, while you need to sit at a distance when using a TV as a monitor. Monitors are used everywhere but a good monitor can be hard to come by. Fortunately for us, one of the best gaming displays around is now available at Reliance Digital and it is called the Samsung Odyssey G7.
The exact model we are looking at is the 27-inch, Samsung Odyssey G7 1000R. It is a curved monitor that runs a QHD resolution of 2560 x 1440. Right away, this is a monitor that makes regular monitors look dated. The resolution is much higher than a full HD display, and it is also a lot larger in size. Most users buy monitors that range from 22 to 24 inches, so 27 inches is a substantial change. The resolution is handy too for a gamer. Games look more detailed, and if you are sporting a high-end graphics card on your PC or laptop, you can now crank up the resolution a few notches higher. The resolution also comes handy in other applications. You can run more than a window at once. You could in fact, run two windows side-by-side, even four, depending on what you are working on. This enables you to be more productive where you spend less time switching between windows since all of them are always open and in sight. You could be gaming, while watching a show, or writing an e-mail, all at once.
The Samsung Odyssey G7 is a curved monitor, so it is not you might imagine. Don’t be mistaken. This is a good thing for larger displays where the corners get a little blurred out. The curved design ensures all the corners of the monitor at equidistant from your eyes, so there is no distortion or discolouration. It looks cool, but it’s also very impressive when you are gaming on it. Things just seem more immersive with a curved large display. There are other things the monitor does better than other monitors.
Every display has a refresh rate and for long as you can think, monitors have run the regular 60Hz. Over time, we have seen smartphones ship with 90 and 120Hz displays. Laptops too have similar refresh rates but it is hard to beat 240Hz. That is what the Odyssey G7 ships with. While it seems like only a number, it is the number of times a display refreshes, every second. So, if your device is outputting those kind of frame rates, on your desktop, your browser, or a game, you are going to experience a whole new level of smoothness. Games look better, feel more responsive and that helps, if you like playing competitive online games. All of this is possible because the monitor run an insanely low response time of 1ms.
The high refresh rates of the monitor can be taken advantage of, with graphics card synchronising technologies such as G-Sync and FreeSync. The monitor syncs its refresh rate with the output frame rate of the graphics card. Normally, monitors operate at a steady refresh rate, such as 60Hz. When a graphics card outputs frame rates higher than 60fps, you start noticing an annoying effect known as tearing. The screen is updated with a new frame even before it can complete one frame. When a monitor is connected to a graphics card supported as NVIDIA G-Sync or AMD’s FreeSync Premium Pro, it can get rid of this tearing effect altogether. That is what makes the Odyssey G7 so impressive. It was built for gamers.
Let’s not even forget about the picture quality of the panel. This is a Samsung product, and few brands can make display panels better than Samsung. The monitor runs QLED technology, which is short for Samsung’s Quantum Dot technology. This monitor Samsung claims can render 125 per cent more colours than traditional sRGB panels. You get great gaming performance but also great colours, so movies, TV shows, and graphics-related tasks look great and accurate. HDR 600 is supported too, so you see more saturated colours, and more depth just by the sheer levels of gradients across all levels of brightness. You can see details in scenes with shadows and dark areas, that you never saw before.
Not everything is about the panel though. You will not have to find stacks of books to deck up your monitor here. The Odyssey G7 ships with a sturdy stand that lets you adjust the height to your comfort levels. You won’t need to slouch into your display, like a laptop. The monitor has a Core lighting system, a circular lighting system at the back that brings life to your gaming setup. There are plenty of connectivity options too. You can use DisplayPort connectivity to make the most of your gaming performance and frame rates. There is also HDMI, even a headphone jack that you can quickly connect to. There are even USB ports that act like an extension of your PC. You can connect some peripherals quickly to the monitor rather than hunt for free ports at the back of your PC.
So, whether you are a gamer or not, whether you are gaming on a PC, laptop or even a gaming console, but want a future-proof monitor that you can use for years, the Samsung Odyssey G7 is the one for you. Head over now to your nearest Reliance Digital store and buy one. If you prefer getting it home delivered, we have it here in stock here at reliancedigital.in.
Samsung Odyssey G7 – A performance gaming monitor with a curve
