Finally a first sighting of G-Sync Pulsar monitor - Asus XG27AQNGV

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Great that it sounded like John had been absolutely stressing it too without any issue playing a variety of games at a variety of frame rates for any length of time.

Sounds increasingly like those few instances of overheating might just be faulty units and bad luck.

Edit: I also love how genuinely excited he is by the tech and I really liked his point that, whilst the main marketing around Pulsar has seemingly been edged towards 'Esports' games for motion clarity benefits, it's actually much bigger than that. The improvements to how any game will look and feel is substantial.

Great that Nvidia also confirmed that the Pulsar tech itself will be viable on other resolutions/refresh rates/monitor sizes - so ultrawide or 4k monitors etc. - provided they have a backlight. Unfortunately it's not going to be something that would ever work on OLED - and similarly - because of how Pulsar works, it's unlikely we'll see Pulsar on monitors that support large zoned mini-LED backlights too so we won't likely see any Pulsar monitors with real HDR anytime soon.

I think for me (depending on how it tests against my 500hz OLED) I'll end up with ideally the Pulsar monitor as my primary display - with my AW2725Q (4k 240hz 27" OLED) as the secondary display for games etc. where I benefit more from a stunning HDR picture than I do from perfect motion clarity.
 
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Yeah I remember when Gsync first came around and I was thinking how nice it would be if you could enable both Gsync and ULMB at the same time, took them quite a while to get there but they've brought top notch results.

Waiting for an ideal screen now, don't know if I want another 27", was looking at 32.. though I don't want to go too big for viewing at arms length either where you need to move your head around.

I suppose 32 might be the ideal limit sweet spot past 27" if pushed back enough on the desk or on an arm/wall mount at worst I suppose.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Yeah I remember when Gsync first came around and I was thinking how nice it would be if you could enable both Gsync and ULMB at the same time, took them quite a while to get there but they've brought top notch results.

Waiting for an ideal screen now, don't know if I want another 27", was looking at 32.. though I don't want to go too big for viewing at arms length either where you need to move your head around.

I suppose 32 might be the ideal limit sweet spot past 27" if pushed back enough on the desk or on an arm/wall mount at worst I suppose.
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I was in that boat and went for the 32. Tbh I'm not 100% sure it was worth it, for competitive FPS I feel 27 would be easier to focus with and not have the HUD elements (kill feed etc.) pushed way out of view. Definitely worth it for work though, can fit a lot more on and almost not worry about scaling.

That said, this might just be fanciful thinking, when I try a 27 again I'm sure all the benefits of the larger screen will come flooding back :D For one thing, in FPS games it does make the models you're shooting at a lot clearer which may help with tracking.
 
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I was in that boat and went for the 32. Tbh I'm not 100% sure it was worth it, for competitive FPS I feel 27 would be easier to focus with and not have the HUD elements (kill feed etc.) pushed way out of view. Definitely worth it for work though, can fit a lot more on and almost not worry about scaling.

That said, this might just be fanciful thinking, when I try a 27 again I'm sure all the benefits of the larger screen will come flooding back :D For one thing, in FPS games it does make the models you're shooting at a lot clearer which may help with tracking.
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That's the thing, i don't want to go to a bigger size and think it's too big, viewed at the same distance it definitely might be. Did you push it back more to make up for the bigger size? But then again does that defeat the purpose of getting a larger screen anyway..?

I recently got new prescription glasses a couple of weeks ago and I still haven't properly adjusted to them either :/ and I have minor essential tremors so my mouse movement isn't always so good, either way though I suppose any kind of motion improvement helps.
 
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Great that it sounded like John had been absolutely stressing it too without any issue playing a variety of games at a variety of frame rates for any length of time.

Sounds increasingly like those few instances of overheating might just be faulty units and bad luck.

Edit: I also love how genuinely excited he is by the tech and I really liked his point that, whilst the main marketing around Pulsar has seemingly been edged towards 'Esports' games for motion clarity benefits, it's actually much bigger than that. The improvements to how any game will look and feel is substantial.

Great that Nvidia also confirmed that the Pulsar tech itself will be viable on other resolutions/refresh rates/monitor sizes - so ultrawide or 4k monitors etc. - provided they have a backlight. Unfortunately it's not going to be something that would ever work on OLED - and similarly - because of how Pulsar works, it's unlikely we'll see Pulsar on monitors that support large zoned mini-LED backlights too so we won't likely see any Pulsar monitors with real HDR anytime soon.

I think for me (depending on how it tests against my 500hz OLED) I'll end up with ideally the Pulsar monitor as my primary display - with my AW2725Q (4k 240hz 27" OLED) as the secondary display for games etc. where I benefit more from a stunning HDR picture than I do from perfect motion clarity.
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As someone who loves following monitor tech, this was a real treat to watch. I bought a 4k 240hz OLED for the refresh rate rather than the benefits of OLED. I would have no problem going back to an LCD monitor if a 4k 240/360hz pulsar monitor existed. All in good time I suppose....

The prices of these first versions are not terrible. Maybe I need to have a play around with one.
 
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Perfect_Chaos said:
That's the thing, i don't want to go to a bigger size and think it's too big, viewed at the same distance it definitely might be. Did you push it back more to make up for the bigger size? But then again does that defeat the purpose of getting a larger screen anyway..?

I recently got new prescription glasses a couple of weeks ago and I still haven't properly adjusted to them either :/ and I have minor essential tremors so my mouse movement isn't always so good, either way though I suppose any kind of motion improvement helps.
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I didn't really push it back, and I don't think it makes sense. To see the display reasonably without having to use scaling you need to keep it at around the same distance. Plus in games to aim better I end up getting closer so I can accurately see the player models, again pushing the HUD further out. So I'm not sure there's a benefit to the larger size for those reasons.

Being able to use all 4k pixels without scaling on the desktop is the biggest benefit I think.
 
It's been unfortunate that people generally believe the benefit is for esports games. It's good for everyone. On a 4k screen at 120 fps, any motion above a few inches per second results in much lower perceived resolution approaching 1080p. Don't get the people who rave about 4k, then say anything over 90fps is not much of a difference :s The other benefit is not needing as much gpu power for your own ideal fps.
 
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hamza_tm said:
That's lower than the RRP I thought. Interestingly I do see the AOC site itself linking to OCUK as a vendor: https://aoc.com/uk/gaming/products/monitors/ag276qsg2

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AOC's site has always been really good at surfacing websites that have stock and the item listed, you'll often find some pretty left field suppliers on there for some of the more niche AOC monitors that are sold that you'd have trouble finding on the usual big players.

That pricing is really interesting. Really difficult to justify the Asus model being 140 quid more!
 
Yeah that's an entirely different price category IMO. Now comes the agony of weighing up whether the 25" dual mode features of the Asus are really that big of a deal...
 
Are there any important differences between the four current models or are they all technically the same just with different exteriors and branding?
 
So I know the Asus has a 25" 1080p mode as well as a native 25" mode, and a bunch of crosshairs etc. I'd strongly suspect that's the level of differences you're going to see.
 
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