Best cheap gaming monitor for a budget-friendly setup

PC gaming isn’t really a budget-friendly hobby.

While console gamers can use the family TV, for a PC you often need a dedicated monitor, which can add to the cost of an already pricey setup. It’s possible, however, to get the cost down by selecting budget-friendly components, and a monitor is one of the prime candidates for this.

At its simplest, a monitor is a device for displaying the video output of the computer’s graphics chip, and there are various technologies that can achieve this. High-end monitors can support display enhancements such as HDR or extremely high framerates, 4K or higher resolutions and come in enormous sizes that rival TVs. At the lower cost end of the market, you can still get a 1080p panel with a 60Hz refresh rate that’s perfectly