DELL Alienware 360Hz Gaming Monitor 24.5 Inch

I researched all currently available monitors and TVs using rtings dot com. I'm quite pleased with the monitor thus far. No dead pixels. Easy and intuitive menu. It's a graphical powerhouse at a fairly modest price. Pros: When it first arrived I compared it to my prior LG 60 Hz LCD TV using the human benchmark website. No other gear was changed so it reflects just the monitor. With the 60 Hz TV I was getting 230 ms average and 200 ms fastest reaction times to click my mouse after the human benchmark website turned from red to green. When I switched to this new monitor I got an average reaction time of 165 ms and my fastest reaction time was 97 ms. These tests were both done with my Logitech G203 gaming mouse set to 1000 Hz polling rate. So my average reaction time went down by a whopping 30% and my fastest reaction time decreased by over 50%. My new averages are better than 90% of human benchmark users and I'm not even a competitive gamer. Other than above, resolution is quite good for the screen size, the screen size is perfect for my 3' deep desk, the aesthetics are very nice, it is a very nice looking monitor with a good stand and decent cable management. Using my old LG TV in World of Tanks, I could see that my trusty EVGA Geforce 1070 GPU was giving me around 320 +/- 50 frames per second typically at low or minimum graphics settings, which I always use to reduce unnecessary clutter, and even though the TV was incapable of displaying most of the frames being output, getting a 360 Hz monitor made sense to me. Plus it future proofs my setup for the foreseeable future. G-Sync works seamlessly with my GPU. Cons: Text clarity isn't as perfect as say an iMac due to iMac screens having double the pixel density of other brands, but for my purposes the text clarity is totally functional and I don't even notice it. Price is a little higher than some budget gaming monitors but this is a significantly better monitor, in my view, so worth the money for a better gaming and all around monitor. Contrast ratio is a weakness of IPS monitors in general but this model has among the highest contrast ratios of IPS monitors, which was another factor that sold me on it. If you want really good contrast you need to look at other types of panels. FYI: I needed to update my old gpu driver before this monitor would work in my system, due to my gpu's age I guess, which triggered some distress initially since I mistakenly thought the monitor was dead out of the box. I don't fault the monitor for this since it works flawlessly after updating the gpu driver. resolving this required access to a second display that my gpu driver already supported.