Not a big budget in mind, this is what I am looking at.
Acer Nitro KG272 S3 27" FHD VA 180Hz
The price in AUD, which is $127 USD before tax.
I am currently using a 3050 laptop / 5600H connected to my 1080p/60hz Acer from 2014. What I like about this monitor is it looks exactly the same and is the same size, it will be swapped with the existing VESA mount.
I cannot find any official documentation, some websites don’t list it as HDR10 at all, I also find that regional variants can be very different. Some information shows this to be IPS, but I also can’t find that out for sure, I also don’t understand if that would be better/worse for high refresh rate. I am also on the assumption that 180Hz is really 165Hz with a possible OC I won’t be using.
I will be playing at 1080p and can handle my games at 120+, the HDR10 will be a boost. I had thought that HDR400 was the dodgy spec, but now I am reading negative remarks about anything below HDR600, I thought HDR10 was genuine 10bit.
This is the best price in my regional stores and can be picked up locally.
In the listing, it specifies 250 cd/m² which I assume is important.
you might want to check the exact laptop model’s specs. Occasionally the display outputs are limited to 60 Hz for silly reasons (generally them being wired to the igpu instead of the stronger nvidia gpu).
At least some years ago this seemed to be a fairly common thing over at pcmr sub.