Price is one of the last elements we take into account when we evaluate a new product. We’d rather spend a little more get a lot more in terms of features and performance. But Sceptre’s X270W-1080p is selling online for as little as $300, and that earns it more than a highly qualified buy recommendation—especially if you’re a gamer with a fast videocard and you’re looking to move up from something a lot smaller.Now don’t get the wrong idea: This is not a great monitor by any stretch of the imagination; it suffers from many of the typical shortcomings we’ve seen with other twisted-nematic panels. While testing using DisplayMate Multimedia with Test Photos, for example, we encountered color-tracking problems where blocks of what should have been the same color exhibited variations in tint depending on where they appeared on the monitor.The X270W-1080p also had difficulty differentiating shades at the highest and lowest extremes of both the gray and color scales—the top and bottom four to six shades blended into contiguous blocks. It also did a very poor job rendering readable text in challenging combinations: dark blue fonts on a black background, white text on yellow or gray backgrounds, and green text on yellow were all completely unreadable.