Monitors: Educate me, please

My knowledge is not terribly deep, but I believe I have some answers for you.

I have not personally experienced any artifacting from response rates. TN panels are the quickest, often touting 1ms response whereas IPS panels usually log in at 4-5ms. The slower the response, you may experience "ghosting"... trails behind very fast moving objects on screen as the response time tries to keep up with the object's movement. The difference between the two types of display, however, are striking. TN panels tend not to be as bright and color rich as IPS panels, and they are not capable of a very wide viewing angle, so you must be centered in front of the display.

Refresh rates are inherent in the capability of the display you buy. IMO, there is a little obsession with higher refresh rates these days mostly because the tech is available to go well beyond 60 fps. But here's the thing: TV and movies we all grew up on are 24 fps, and no one I've known has ever complained. The gold standard for monitor refresh has been 60 fps forever until the tech could achieve more. If 24 is the norm, 60 must be lights out, right? If 60 is great, who needs 100, or 120, or 144? The fact is we don't see in fps, so it's highly subjective. Many people CAN see a difference, but mostly when two displays are side by side, and not so much otherwise.

I would recommend you select a 1440p monitor capable of better than 60fps because of the high speed games you prefer. You might want to select one that comes with G-sync for Nvidia. The minimum card for high performance at that spec would be a GTX 1080. The larger the display (32" vs 27" for example) will not affect your experience or place a greater demand on your card. The amount of pixels displayed won't change, they'll just be the tiniest bit larger on a larger diplay. TN vs IPS is really a tough call. A lot of people can't detect ghosting very well either. (That appears to include me, lol.

I think you will find you can come in well under $1k and hit all those marks. Don't hesitate to look into these issues and draw your own conclusions!

Hope it helps.

That mon looks like aces to me. I especially like the comment, "5ms {response time}, but if you tell the difference between that and 1ms especially with 144 fps possible and gsync capability your a bot."

Sounds like that covers the one issue I couldn't answer for you. I think you're golden IMO.