This Samsung ultrawide gaming monitor is at its lowest price ever at Amazon—it's less than you mig

The answer is ultrawide. Assuming the question is 'how do I balance game performance with resolution, refresh rate, and immersion?' These wider-than-thou gaming monitors push resolution without going overboard and demanding a high-end graphics card. And I've just spotted a classic at its lowest price in a year at Amazon.

The Samsung Odyssey G5. We've written about it many times in the past (, , ), though most of the time it's been on sale for around $300. Not today. You can pick up the G5 over at right now. You can also grab it over at Samsung .

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According to pricing history over at (which you should absolutely use if you're surfing Amazon for deals this month), that's the lowest price all year, and a huge drop on its lowest price previously. We haven't seen this sort of drop since this time last year.

This gaming monitor has been around for a while but it's still really capable. It's a 34-inch (21:9 aspect ratio) VA panel, which means you aren't getting the color depth of a IPS or OLED, but you benefit from a high contrast ratio. The brightness of this particular panel is probably its weakest feature, at only 250 nits, but it makes up for that somewhat by the sheer value and bonuses like a 1 ms response time and FreeSync Premium support.

It's curvy, too. The 1000R rating, contrary to what you migh think, is more curvy than the usual 1500R or 1800R you tend to find on a gaming monitor. If it's your primary monitor and you're not planning to dual-wield, that should make for a pretty immersive experience. Though if you want to stack another monitor alongside this and have the bezels line up... eesh, that might be tough without an equally curvy screen alongside it. Even then, that's going to be a little claustrophobic.

But hey, as a primary gaming monitor, this ultrawide offers some stupendous value. You can just about get a cheaper ultrawide with gaming chops for less in the Gigabyte GS43WQC, , but it has a much lower refresh rate at 120 Hz out of the box. Still, looks like you don't need to spend anything near to a fortune for a little ultrawide action.

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