Man you have patience. I'd be sweating and running to the nearest PC shop for the cable about now.
Same here haha
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** THE FIRST FREESYNC MONITOR ARRIVES AT OcUK!! **
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Same here haha
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Man you have patience. I'd be sweating and running to the nearest PC shop for the cable about now.
No time I go work soon.
That's what CCC video settings is for
This BenQ now has zero processing, has does my TV if I choose it to do so.
AMD have a lot cool built-in video processing..
My delivery is in next couple mins.. CANT wait!
Ok, I'll make this a little bit easier for you Shankly, I've seen from other threads where you get ripped quite a lot for not knowing what your talking about, this is going to be simple...
Unless you watch a video at the panels native res, the video will look like ****, its a grainy, sometimes blocky mess. No fannying around with CCC will fix that. Also, watching the video, the colour shift is god awful. To fix the video you need proper scaling and processing, the Swift and this BenQ are the same.
It's a simple heads up for people jumping straight to 1440p with these TN panels that they might not think about.
Soldato
Bah, bah,bah
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Yep, we have yet another "product expert" in the house who have no hands-on experience with the said product
It's funny how he's trying to discourage people from getting these monitors, rather telling people to check "if" those "issues" really exist or not after getting them, and send them back if they do
Soldato
Am right any displayport should work so long as its 1.2 or higher?
Hi there
FREESYNC update, I can't test it!
Spoken with AMD and they gave me this official response:
AMD is very excited that monitors compatible with AMD FreeSync™ technology are now available in select regions. We know gamers are excited to bring home an incredibly smooth and tearing-free PC gaming experience powered by AMD Radeon™ GPUs and AMD A-Series APUs. We’re pleased to announce that a compatible AMD Catalyst™ graphics driver to enable AMD FreeSync™ technology for single-GPU configurations will be publicly available on AMD.com starting March 19, 2015. Support for AMD CrossFire™ configurations will be available the following month in April, 2015.
It seems BenQ and OcUK have jumped the gun a little with getting physical stock, so enjoy the monitors for their performance be ready to download the FREESYNC driver on the 19th, so not to long to wait.
In the meantime I shall ask AMD if they can maybe help OcUK with getting a BETA driver.
FREESYNC update, I can't test it!
Spoken with AMD and they gave me this official response:
AMD is very excited that monitors compatible with AMD FreeSync™ technology are now available in select regions. We know gamers are excited to bring home an incredibly smooth and tearing-free PC gaming experience powered by AMD Radeon™ GPUs and AMD A-Series APUs. We’re pleased to announce that a compatible AMD Catalyst™ graphics driver to enable AMD FreeSync™ technology for single-GPU configurations will be publicly available on AMD.com starting March 19, 2015. Support for AMD CrossFire™ configurations will be available the following month in April, 2015.
It seems BenQ and OcUK have jumped the gun a little with getting physical stock, so enjoy the monitors for their performance be ready to download the FREESYNC driver on the 19th, so not to long to wait.
In the meantime I shall ask AMD if they can maybe help OcUK with getting a BETA driver.
Soldato
Hi there
FREESYNC update, I can't test it!
Spoken with AMD and they gave me this official response:
AMD is very excited that monitors compatible with AMD FreeSync™ technology are now available in select regions. We know gamers are excited to bring home an incredibly smooth and tearing-free PC gaming experience powered by AMD Radeon™ GPUs and AMD A-Series APUs. We’re pleased to announce that a compatible AMD Catalyst™ graphics driver to enable AMD FreeSync™ technology for single-GPU configurations will be publicly available on AMD.com starting March 19, 2015. Support for AMD CrossFire™ configurations will be available the following month in April, 2015.
It seems BenQ and OcUK have jumped the gun a little with getting physical stock, so enjoy the monitors for their performance be ready to download the FREESYNC driver on the 19th, so not to long to wait.
In the meantime I shall ask AMD if they can maybe help OcUK with getting a BETA driver.
No problem! I can wait, need to order DisplayPort cable anyways..
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Caporegime
I knew something was a miss when there were zero reviews.
2 weeks wait for a driver when they've already had 3 months without one isn't great but I'll enjoy 1440p 144hz till then. Hopefully it works flawlessly when released.
Oh wait, crossfire freesync isn't coming till April...
What a ******* joke, I may as well return it as by then there'll be cheaper alternatives.
This is the reason AMD simply can't compete with nvidia, always playing catch up taking forever to release stuff.
2 weeks wait for a driver when they've already had 3 months without one isn't great but I'll enjoy 1440p 144hz till then. Hopefully it works flawlessly when released.
Oh wait, crossfire freesync isn't coming till April...
What a ******* joke, I may as well return it as by then there'll be cheaper alternatives.
This is the reason AMD simply can't compete with nvidia, always playing catch up taking forever to release stuff.
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Caporegime
And I knew posts like this is coming the moment Gibbo posted.
Typical
Well when you buy a monitor advertised for freesync and they said the omega drivers supported freesync what do you expect?
I can't see it being long before I go back to nvidia at this rate, shame because the 295x2 is working flawlessly but they just can't release drivers fast enough for crossfire.
Soldato
MAN, MAN ignore me... It does come with DisplayPort cable LOL 
I thought it was HDMI cable haaa
I thought it was HDMI cable haaa
I so want to make fun of this, but I will try to remain sensible.
It is a bit of mess to be left in for sure, but I'm sure that when things get sorted out it will have been worth the wait.
I got to have a play on a friends GSYNC setup yesterday and all I can say is WOW, I will certainly be looking into funds for a new monitor in the near future.
Assuming that Freesync works as well then it will have been worth waiting all this time for.
It is a bit of mess to be left in for sure, but I'm sure that when things get sorted out it will have been worth the wait.
I got to have a play on a friends GSYNC setup yesterday and all I can say is WOW, I will certainly be looking into funds for a new monitor in the near future.
Assuming that Freesync works as well then it will have been worth waiting all this time for.
Soldato
I thought everyone was saying all that was needed was a monitor to use FreeSync? AMD late again shocker...
Caporegime
Hi there
FREESYNC update, I can't test it!
Spoken with AMD and they gave me this official response:
AMD is very excited that monitors compatible with AMD FreeSync™ technology are now available in select regions. We know gamers are excited to bring home an incredibly smooth and tearing-free PC gaming experience powered by AMD Radeon™ GPUs and AMD A-Series APUs. We’re pleased to announce that a compatible AMD Catalyst™ graphics driver to enable AMD FreeSync™ technology for single-GPU configurations will be publicly available on AMD.com starting March 19, 2015. Support for AMD CrossFire™ configurations will be available the following month in April, 2015.
It seems BenQ and OcUK have jumped the gun a little with getting physical stock, so enjoy the monitors for their performance be ready to download the FREESYNC driver on the 19th, so not to long to wait.
In the meantime I shall ask AMD if they can maybe help OcUK with getting a BETA driver.
Freesync was meant to be in the Omega driver apparently?
AMD in another late shocker.
Caporegime
And I knew posts like this is coming the moment Gibbo posted.
Typical
Why wouldn't they?
It's another case of AMD not being ready.
How many times will they be given a free pass?
In fairness guys, look around, you won't find FREESYNC monitors IN STOCK nearly anywhere else worldwide.
I am a good buyer, I have stock now, OcUK first in the world with stock, I am amazing, AMD are just sticking to their scheduled launch date which was not in a public domain.
So don't give them to much of a hard time.