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Monitors can be broken down into several categories, classified by price range and intended use, from gaming and entertainment to business use, to professional grade displays for photo and video editing. 

For many buyers, the first consideration will be the price above all else. While high-end displays will often be priced at $1,000 or higher, you can still find plenty of decent mid-range monitors for less than half that price. Business users will often benefit from features like built-in USB hubs that allow peripherals to be connected to the monitor instead of the PC tower, and power-usage profiles that help companies manage their electricity costs across an entire computer-using staff.  


For anyone working with photo and video, clear and accurate images are a must. To get truer colors, most photographers and graphic designers opt for a monitor with In-Plane Switching (IPS), a technology which offers clearer detail and a wider color gamut. Larger monitors also provide wide canvases for the digital artist to work on, or to display their work.

Gamers and home-theater enthusiasts will want a monitor that does more than offer bright colors and sharp details—they also need a display that can handle the fast moving images of games and movies without blurring and smearing across the screen. For these users, we recommend finding a monitor with a faster response rate, which is the time (measured in milliseconds) it takes for a pixel to transition from one color to another or to transition from black to white. You may also want to find a display that goes beyond the two-dimensional—3D capable displays offer an immersive aspect to games and films that normal displays cannot match.