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AMD freesync coming soon, no extra costs.... shocker

tommybhoy said:
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Wish they'd release it already just to put an end to the 13 months of trolling.:rolleyes:
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Sorry Tommy, just seen this and get it off ya chest bud. Don't bottle it up and let it all flow out. My shoulders are broad and can take it :D

I love this tech (or G-Sync at least) and find it very interesting. I hope Freesync (when it finally sits on users desks) does just as good a job and I can't see any reason why not.
 
Gregster said:
Sorry Tommy, just seen this and get it off ya chest bud. Don't bottle it up and let it all flow out. My shoulders are broad and can take it :D

I love this tech (or G-Sync at least) and find it very interesting. I hope Freesync (when it finally sits on users desks) does just as good a job and I can't see any reason why not.
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It's beautifully ironic really given his trolling in the 970 VRAMgate thread.
 
humbug said:
Nice, love the Red detailing :)
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Pity its a TN panel , The Acer 1440p IPS is the one i'm waiting for, i wonder if it will be avaliable in both g-sync and freesync, i could never go back to a TN panel and whilst the Rog swift's specs look good the panel looks dreadful and at that price its just not worth it .
 
darket said:
Pity its a TN panel , The Acer 1440p IPS is the one i'm waiting for, i wonder if it will be avaliable in both g-sync and freesync, i could never go back to a TN panel and whilst the Rog swift's specs look good the panel looks dreadful and at that price its just not worth it .
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No i agree completely about TN panel's, since going IPS i'm never going back to TN.
 
I had to go back to my IPS for a couple days whilst waiting for my Swift to be replaced.

Just yuck.

I'll believe it when I see it - when the day comes where an IPS is sufficiently preferable as a gaming monitor. The next 2 or 3 months should tell.

Rusty0611 said:
It's beautifully ironic really given his trolling in the 970 VRAMgate thread.
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Sadly being ignorant isn't against the rules. It's sad when the only thing one can do is pick holes because they know nothing else.
 
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Everywhere I look around I seem to see reports of replacement Swifts, in the Anandtech review, which basically said the screen flickers below 40-45fps/hz range, a lot of the comments are of people who have gone through anything from 2 to 5 screens. People on OCUK with lots of issues as well.

Issues with new tech on a sensibly priced screen is one thing, huge number of issues on a premium model where they are gouging the living hell out of everyone is unacceptable. Anandtech points out that the same size/res will get you an IPS panel at half the price and that the $800 cost is ridiculous.

It really is about users who will just pay what is asked rather than be sensible. If people simply came out and said no to the Swift at £600-700 range, it would drop. Companies more and more just chance a big price on launch and see if anyone will just pay it anyway, they do and it ruins it for everyone as the company then finds no reason to drop the price. That screen absolutely doesn't cost anything near that price, they are making a disturbing margin on it and all because some people have no self control.

The Titan-Z was Nvidia taking their Titan pricing another step further, at least people finally baulked at the price... Nvidia not that long after dropped the price by what, $1000..... we have absolute proof that if you tell a company where to go stick their stupid prices they will back down and drop the price yet people still just give in.

Swift should have been in the £400-500 bracket, absolute max AND the seeming quality control issues shouldn't have been nearly as bad as they were. Even in as much as the backlight not being particularly uniform, for an utterly outrageously priced premium screen it's offering the calibration of a crappy out of the box £200 TN panel.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Everywhere I look around I seem to see reports of replacement Swifts, in the Anandtech review, which basically said the screen flickers below 40-45fps/hz range, a lot of the comments are of people who have gone through anything from 2 to 5 screens. People on OCUK with lots of issues as well.

Issues with new tech on a sensibly priced screen is one thing, huge number of issues on a premium model where they are gouging the living hell out of everyone is unacceptable. Anandtech points out that the same size/res will get you an IPS panel at half the price and that the $800 cost is ridiculous.

It really is about users who will just pay what is asked rather than be sensible. If people simply came out and said no to the Swift at £600-700 range, it would drop. Companies more and more just chance a big price on launch and see if anyone will just pay it anyway, they do and it ruins it for everyone as the company then finds no reason to drop the price. That screen absolutely doesn't cost anything near that price, they are making a disturbing margin on it and all because some people have no self control.

The Titan-Z was Nvidia taking their Titan pricing another step further, at least people finally baulked at the price... Nvidia not that long after dropped the price by what, $1000..... we have absolute proof that if you tell a company where to go stick their stupid prices they will back down and drop the price yet people still just give in.

Swift should have been in the £400-500 bracket, absolute max AND the seeming quality control issues shouldn't have been nearly as bad as they were. Even in as much as the backlight not being particularly uniform, for an utterly outrageously priced premium screen it's offering the calibration of a crappy out of the box £200 TN panel.
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Only it's not up to you what is sensible, as you're nothing to do with the industry. For what it's worth I was a total of 48 hours without my Swift. Hardly worth crying about when the RMA procedure is so painless.

Wind bag.


Seriously though, how can someone so pent up over the state of the market last so long without actually buying anything?

Don't you get bored of moaning?
 
I could not game on the current IPS monitors. Sure for slow games it was great but the colour bleed I got from the Dell, as well as the input lag, and the slow 60Hz refresh rate (muchos tearing) really made me appreciate TN.

IPS with 120Hz and G-Sync still wouldn't get me to trade in my Rog Swift but maybe a 100Hz+ 4K G-Sync/Freesync (whatever comes first) would tempt me. Ohhh and 40" please....My eyes are old :D

@Rusty and Silent - Tommy is using me as his anger vent, which is cool and all gravy to me :D
 
Gregster said:
I could not game on the current IPS monitors. Sure for slow games it was great but the colour bleed I got from the Dell, as well as the input lag, and the slow 60Hz refresh rate (muchos tearing) really made me appreciate TN.
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Like anything it depends on the quality of the screen, colour bleeding is a sure sign of a bad screen.

As for input lag i don't get any, thats a myth today from early IPS screens that defiantly did suffer from that, today they are just as fast as TN Panel's, mine is 5ms, it was the fastest at the time and matches a lot of TN Panel's today, now they are still keeping up with 2ms ones available.

Actually Apple used my Screen for the iMac so it must be good.

60hz is true, but the screen tearing again it depends on the quality of the screen, i play BF4 at 90 FPS locked and get very little tearing, if i allow it to run at 120 FPS yes it gets a little worse, but at 90 it's pretty good.

there isn't really any performance disadvantage with modern IPS panel's while the Image quality is still gorgeous.

I don't like the unnatural Green hue of TN Panel's, the colour it's self is also washed out, the blacks are gray and the whites are a lighter gray.

A TN Panel looks like a water colour to the IPS oil painting.
 
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