I've decided,

this morning i plugged in a regular cheap 4k monitor and felt absolutely horrified!

Okay, the graphics showed nice and clean, but it was at the power cost of a small 1900s British village! CPU cracking, GPU single-handedly responsible for a 5 degrees C increase in surrounding local areas. No! i thought, it's a bit much all in all ! Granted, if a similar result could be achieved with something i find more reasonable than it would be a no-brainer.

As it is now, for the coming year i will be a known as a HD gamer (when applicable)TMThe monitor might have something to with that fact though. This 240Hz HD 27inch HDR400 monitor released with an all too crazy price of 700 euros. This only lasted for about a year though. First 5 and now everywhere available for the more than reasonable price of 300 euros. Such a decrease in value makes you wonder if the product can be considered as a failure.

While going through my library, playing games of and old, tweaking settings i became used too, I found the new vivid coloring and the higher fps available in most games (at preferred power settings) more to my appeal than my previous 2K cinematic approach i've gotten used too. Already on 2K i was used to dropping sometimes to 48 fps, the minimum limit of G-Sync, appreciating titles now on 75 or even 90 FPS is like a treat. I'm not entirely sure about the refresh rate though, with the previous monitor reaching 144Hz i have a feeling that for desktop use there is not much difference to notice. Or it might be this subtle sense of ease i must be imagining.

The GPU seems to behave quite nicely all in all. No coil whining or other sounds of disapproving. Even on a lower level, i see the GPU usage number hover between 80 and 90% (in current day titles). Max VRAM use is atm around 10,11GB's at most in titles such as Dragon Age: Veilguard. 24GB might be ridiculous, but maybe it adds a certain smoothness to the experience.

With all this experience, i really do wonder how people manage with their 4K setup's. I know about solar power and home batteries and such.... not to mention frame gen and AI but really how do you manage. Air-conditioned rooms? Gaming that heavily relies on all graphics tools. Custom resolutions, sharpening, hardware/software modding?

How do you Do?
Is your name Sue

The truth is out! A super secret cabal or HD monitors rules the world from an underground bunker under the Vatican! In a dark room lit up only by their own glow, the monitors face each other around a featureless table, images of top secret projects, global financial markets, hyper advanced technologies and zillions of war scenarios flashing on their displays all day long as they silently determine the fate of the planet.

Either that or I've been playing Max Payne too much and that drug hallucination level hits hard.

Radio goes to around 300GHz. I got 55" 4k, but I gave it to Sue. How big is this time screen in the Vatican? Are there any aliens? What monitors do they have on a desk? -"Hi! We normally use 8k curved, but we couldn't start our engine; the alternator is silent. When we switched to HD, our Craft flew again!" The fish tank is the screen, too : ) Ultra 10k, and the window is not bad, but it gives dirty pictures sometimes.

on a sidenote..... I finally discovered the reason for the price cuts discussed in the OP

I woke up early this morning, in a state that can only be described as awake! So i ventured into the ever alluring maze called internet to visit my favorite hardware store. A quick glance over the available 240Hz Gsync 27" HD monitors revealed an average price of 200 euros, with only Asus reaching the 300 euro set price of the Sony Inzone M3 display.

So there you have it. Competition and a relentless technological progression.

Also, HDR.... all the other monitors only come with the HDR10 label, so that is no DisplayHDR VESA certification. Which probably means that windows will look all wrong if you try enable the HDR feature.

Perfectly serious, and you updated me. Thank you. In addition to the mentioned "relentless competition" " there is a "space in stores for new needs" & "money rotation" necessity. Adding Black Friday and Christmas, people skip buying in January, and this is a moment of the year when almost everything is cheaper, starting right after Christmas and lasting a whole month. Looking to get a new PC on Jan promo. Screens will dive down too. I may even hear that next month might bring us the biggest discount, because who is buying in Jan? Only those who are planning to save ahead for that time.

Why thank you good sir! This might be something to take into account for the coming years. i'm not entirely sure when i will upgrade parts but this is always good to know! Especially since i noticed that a lot of hardware outside CPU and GPU are vulnerable to huge price cuts in time

Well, at least you're not one of those people trying to band together loosely to bring back CRTs.

Better to band loosely than to lose ba(n)dly.