AMD's CES Freesync Announcement / Event

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A handful of freesync monitors announced from LG, viewsonic, Samsung and BenQ, seems that there is a fairly wide range of sizes and resolutions to pick from :D

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...l-out-freesync-monitors-launching-this-month/

However looking in a couple of places it seems like AMD have said nothing about Iiyama freesync monitors, including the one already being sold that was supposed to get the freesync upgrade.
 
the ones listed at 75hz intrigues me lol
and benq has had plenty of practice doing gamer screens be great to see how that compares to the asus

normally their looks suffers a bit but performance is the best
 
very much interested in the 21:9 75hz models.. so much in fact that my green jealousy might be turning into a red rage due to not having the cash to purchase all this god awwsome stuff, wink wink nudge nudge.
 
Apache14 said:
A handful of freesync monitors announced from LG, viewsonic, Samsung and BenQ, seems that there is a fairly wide range of sizes and resolutions to pick from :D

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...l-out-freesync-monitors-launching-this-month/

However looking in a couple of places it seems like AMD have said nothing about Iiyama freesync monitors, including the one already being sold that was supposed to get the freesync upgrade.
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I have just mailed both OCUK and Iiyama regarding that monitor. Now to await for their replies. I am pretty certain I won't be getting much information from either side right now.

Gibbo has said us people who purchased it whilst it was advertised will be sorted one way or another. Which is great, but at the moment, I don't know how it will happen, who it will happen through or when it will happen. Which doesn't look good considering it was described as the first available Freesync monitor.

Not really any value in being the first available freesync monitor, if any resolution to activate it happens after the other monitors have been released.

It's annoying as hell, mainly because the not knowing and there being no rush to even let people know. I don't know where I am supposed to find out what's going to happen or anything. Iiyama are not going to announce it won't have Freesync if that happens to be the case, because as far as they are concerned they have never told customers they would do it in the first place, it was OCUK that publicly announced it. So how do we know for sure how/when this is supposed to be happening. It's not likely that OCUK will release an announcement regarding it.

The only thing I can do is bombard both companies support teams until I get a definitive answer, something I would rather not have to waste my time on. Unfortunately, I see no other way of knowing.

A very decent monitor, but given the circumstances of purchase and the current searching for information is just making it everything one great big chore. I guess I just have to try to not get too attached to it, because if I am not satisfied with the outcome, I will be claiming a full refund.
 
I would say if Iiayama don't come through with a Freesync update that OCUK will keep those who purchased on during the affected dated would get a free replacement.
 
ICDP said:
I would say if Iiayama don't come through with a Freesync update that OCUK will keep those who purchased on during the affected dated would get a free replacement.
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That's exactly what Gibbo has said would happen, but the problem is. Finding out the information needed to know which route I have to go with it. At present, I don't know if OCUK will have to deal with it, Iiyama deal with it, when it will happen. I don't know how we will find that information out short of bombarding customer support for both companies.

It's quite clear it's not going to be the first Freesync monitor available, because the chances of getting it all ready for freesync and back in my hands before the other monitors a released before the end of this month are pretty much slim to none at this rate.
 
Your best bet if you want a quick resolution is to send it back now for a full refund and then re-buy when something is confirmed

Presumably if the iiyama is firmware upgradeable then it would be quicker to get one from stock when theyve already been upgraded rather than sending it away and waiting in a queue anyway, if they even decide to go ahead with it
 
I presume the concept of the Iiyama screen is if you absolutely had to have a screen then and there for some reason, existing one broke or whatever, it gave you a path to have a screen and freesync in the future, I don't think it ever seemed about making certain you have the first freesync screen available, more a way to not lose out on it.

Either way, the BenQ certainly looks interesting, the viewsonic... which panel manufacturer is actually making 1080p 27" screens, while we have 1440p-2k res in tablets and 4k at 24" and up... 27"/1080p is pretty much the only screens I can think of that are trying to get worse DPI and for no apparent reason.

Bit disappointed that only 1 27"/1440p/144hz screen was announced. A part of me is tempted to get a 28" 4k that is only 60hz.... at least I'd be trading lower refresh for significantly increased res, anything lower than 4k and I don't want to make that trade off.

There will be more screens, unfortunately things take time, in another year every new screen will be dp 1.3 and everything will support it most likely, just that point in time where loads of screens were being made where freesync just missed the inclusion as a feature.

If the BenQ is below £400 I'm going to get one straight off, if not I'll likely wait a few months, hope another 144hz/1440p is launched and prices drop further still.

Disappointed that Samsung stuff all seems to be 60hz, they went strong into 120hz screens with some awesome and very high quality(at the time) TN screens when most other stuff was garbage by comparison.
 
InHartWeTrust said:
It's 2560x1080, on this big of a screen that resolution is going to look like dirt.
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chaparral said:
i can think of a reason why anyone would want 2560x1080 on a 34"
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You have to remember the aspect ratio, it's adding horizontal pixels, not vertical so you get some silly diagonal numbers but it ends up the same ppi. It's instead of having 2x 1080p 23" screens alongside each other having 1.5 screens without the bezel.

It's only at 34" you start to stretch the resolution more compared to a normal 23" panel. At 34" it's a waste but at 29" it's effectively easier and bezel free way to do eyefinity/surround effect.


https://www.sven.de/dpi/

and http://www.displaywars.com/29-inch-21x9-vs-34-inch-21x9

1080p 16:9/23" gives 95.78 ppi
1080p 21:9/29" gives 95.81 ppi
1080p 21:9/34" gives 81.72 ppi

If you compare this to all 16:9 screens
1080p 23" 95.78 ppi
1080p 27" 81.59 ppi
1080p 34" 64.79 ppi

So 21:9/29" is sensible for 1080p and equivalent to 1080p/23". 34" 21:9 is effectively equivalent to 27" 16:9. We mostly think about 1080p in regards to 16:9, and 34" screen with that res/aspect ratio is going to be god awful, with the wider aspect ratio it isn't close to as bad, it's not great and I wouldn't do it but I don't think it will look terrible.

To me when you consider changing screen at the very minimum I would want to maintain the ppi I have now, if I could improve it, great though there is a maximum you can really see at the 1-2 ft range.

Monitor makers are retarded though, freesync finally adds a good way for the screen and gpu to talk to each other, something you would think should have been thought of like... I don't know.... 40 years ago as a standard feature. Two parts of a system working together, nope, industry has survived on them barely communicating and basically not moving forwards.

Hell switching modes on my monitor, if I want to play in 3d or even check the damn refresh rate(as too many games randomly switch the screen from 120 to 60hz without telling you) is a pain we are basically in the past year alone getting screens with extra buttons to make some of this crap easier... it's insane. Freesync/adaptive sync and god damned usable UI on monitors that can change between modes with a single touch of a button should have been features for the past 20 years. We've been at 1080p/23" for so long as standard and rather than go with a bunch of bigger higher res panels, they are making more 1080p/27" models than 1440p/27" models... the industry is mental.

Honestly by this point we should really have moved on to where most 23-24" panels were 1440p and all 27" screens were, with 4k starting to become more common at 27-30" screens. Instead we seem to have a bunch of 1080p 27" screens, a bunch of 4k 24" screens, and a couple of 27" 4k screens...seriously, monitor makers are all mental.
 
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