Good 24 or 27" monitor for gaming and general use?

Don't much care about price, but I'm looking to buy a new 24 or maybe 27" monitor. Prefer IPS I guess, although I'm not sure if there are issues with them for games. (My TVs are 8MS MVA/PVA/whatever and are great for gaming, but I know some monitors can have weird/unexpected issues)

Dell's Ultrasharps monitors look like probably great choices. I've had great luck with several of their older monitors, including two from the S series, but I'd prefer IPS on the Ultrasharps.

Nvidia's G-Sync sounds awesome, but I'm not sure what supports that yet, and I don't want to compromise other aspects of the monitor's image quality or performance to get it.

Any thoughts?

 

I have the Ultrasharp U2412M on my desktop, and I'd recommend it. It's technically e-IPS, with the main differentiators from regular IPS being that it's 6 bits per color rather than 8, and thus is not as good of a color spectrum, and it's a fair amount cheaper. The other primary benefits of IPS, like the viewing angle, it still has. In practice, this works out to the U2412M e-IPS being about $300 on sale (the lowest I've seen is $280), and the equivalent regular IPS (can't remember the model number, but Dell has one) being about $500, perhaps a bit lower on sale. For me, the compromise made sense.

I have no complaints with it for gaming, including first person slasher games such as Chivalry. I'm also partial to the fact that it's 1920x1200 rather than 1920x1080, but that may or may not matter to you.

At work I have a Dell ST2220, and it's not nearly as good as the U2412M. General screen quality, color, etc. For some reason they also put a glossy bezel around the matte display, which while not nearly as bad as a glossy display, still adds in a small amount of reflection. The ST2220 also lacks the flexibility in display angles that the U2412M has. The 2412M (and as I understand it, most if not all other Ultrasharps) give you all sorts of ability to move around the screen. While I don't actually adjust it that often, it would be nice if I could increase the height of the ST2220 by a method other than putting it on phone books - but on that monitor, it isn't possible. The HP LA2306 I had before that was much better.

I have heard good things about several of the 24-27" IPS monitors from Korea. The brands are no-names in North America, and the connector options are limited, but some of them apparently are excellent for the price. I'm not familiar enough with them to recommend specific models, though.

 

I use the U2412M's on >4 monitor setups where I'm not being that discerning but want decent display quality. I've had zero major issues.
The U2713HM's I use as general purpose single to quad monitors (three on my gaming rig). Again, no major issues. I'd recommend them to anyone. The H may be preferable for 'pros' (as they call themselves but for anyone else the HM should be fine for general purpose use.

 

If you are used to VA TVs, and only getting a monitor for game/movie, i would say get a VA panel monitor.

The difference of native contrast is pretty big, IPS may disappoint you (complete dark room movies/game, else is ok). Though VA do not have 1440p/1600p panel.