Sorry for necroing my own thread, but in case anyone's interested: I ended up going for a
https://www.dell.com/za/p/dell-s3222dgm-monitor/pd?ref=PD_OC
which I got for a good deal.
I also bought a 'North Bayou Double Extension Swivel Monitor Mount' to mount it on my desk. It's a beast of a mount, and can deal with even heavier monitors easily.

So far I'm incredibly satisfied! It's probably going to have black smear, but I'm nowhere near having a pc that can rock games at that resolution, or such a high frame rate (based on the monitor's response times, I don't think the black smear is going to be much of an issue at 60Hz-100Hz) For now it's making for an incredible work station. I can't wait to do a bit of programming!
It's a bit of a shame that I'll have to stick with retro for now, but at least Caesar 3 has never looked this good!
https://imgur.com/a/2bx2mrI

Unfortunately it doesn't have HDR support, but I'm not too bothered by that. Besides, the brightness is excellent. In fact I'm only running it at half brightness at the moment. It does have Freesync though, which I definitely wanted.