timppu: Call me odd but I don't see that much of difference with monitors. I've gotten some monitors from e.g. my workplace, sizes are 24" 28" and 32" and also bough a couple cheap 28" monitors that were on sale, and I don't really care much which I am using. They work fine enough for generic computer use, work and playing games, I've never thought "god this is awful, I can't really play games or watch Youtube on this monitor, it is horrendous!".
Especially since your PC apparently is older and you play games like Gothic and Age of Empires, I wouldn't really fret whether it is VN or TN or OLED or whatever it may be. Size is probably more important to you, as she said as well.
I personally don't want OLED monitors because they have that freaking burn-in feature which is a definite no-no to me for computer use (since you tend to have the same taskbars etc. at the same places etc.), and OLED tends to also become dimmer over time. Maybe it doesn't matter and the monitor will get broken anyway before that becomes an issue, but still I don't like the idea of the screen becoming dimmer or having burn-in with heavy use. Sounds like a plasma TV to me! (never had a plasma but always heard old plasma TVs became quite dim).
I don't think new monitors are 1920x1080 anymore, even the smaller ones. The two cheap 28" monitors I bought are also something higher, maybe 1440 or whatever might be. That doesn't matter to me, I still use them as 1920x1080 monitors.
I have one older 32" monitor from my work that seems to be resttricted to 1920x1080 which is why no one wanted to use it at work so I got it home (it would have been recycled otherwise). I think it is a fine monitor for my use and I like its big size.
The only odd thing was that at times it did have some odditity with colors or something. For instance here in GOG.com forums with the light theme, when I read messages on this forum with black text on grey background, the letters seemed odd, as if each letter had white outlines or something? It made the text a bit harder to read, compared to my other monitors or the laptop screen.
Then, yesterday, that problem somehow went away? The only things I did was to download updates for Windows, AND in the monitor settings I changed the refresh rate from something like 59.9997Hz to 60Hz. Now that GOG forum text is fine as well? WTF does it have to do with the refresh rate? I was certain it was some HDR odditity (but the monitor does not even support HDR so it coulnd't be that) or the color calibration is somehow very off... but not it seems fine?
Damn technology, always messing up my brains.
I still find new 1920x1080 monitor on sale on Amazon but you got to basically go the cheapest possible and even then they are often random''no name'' brands that you don't hear anything about or they're legit good brands just not ones really talked about in the western part of the world but still good ones.
Another factor to note they often have both modern and now obsolete connectors like VGA for example alongside hdmi. or HDMI with dvi and VGA hook-ups
the one thing to note though they are rarely game focused but eh they are better then most monitors I have had as I basically went strait from VGA to HDMI no in between recently
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Anyway I can say if looking for a durable monitor Sceptre is very durable as I can vouch that while doing home repairs my 34 inch ultrawide curved monitor somehow got knocked down and quite abit of sharp even heavy stuff fell on it. .. aside from like 4 scratch's on the screen its still perfectly fine. The only con for me to it and apparently most monitors new a days I hear they almost all use barrel jack connector for power rather then a standard power supply connector .
