I agree. And I cannot understand why someone who has a 120hz/144hz monitor, going to splash money to buy a 60hz monitor that will allow him not to have the sync side effects.
I run without sync on my 120hz monitor, and haven't experience any tear etc since 2011. (when bought the monitor).
Not issue with my GTX570s (2 sli), or the 7950s, nor with the GTX780 I have currently.
What 60hz monitor? Allof the gsyncmonitors announced so far are 120hz+
Most people talk about 60hz because to show up as big a difference as possible Nvidia showed all demos on their 144hz screens being used at 60hz........
At 120hz the maximum difference between g-sync/non g-sync halves, at 144hz it's even less. Not a single Nvidia demo used 144hz on ASUS's leading brand 144Hz screens......... because if you have a frame rate/monitor running beyond 60hz the benefit is minimal, or non existent.
This is the main thing, I'm interested in the tech but at no stage have thought it would be particularly applicable to me, running higher refresh and high frame rate freesync/g-sync will be limited.
I also don't fancy spending, particularly on an overpriced monitor, on a new monitor with SO many good things coming monitor side in not too long. 4k at sensible prices, OLED's, etc.
For the probably majority of guys that would spend £400+ on a high end screen to replace their current £400 high end not to old 144Hz screens, how many are gaming at or below 60hz anyway? at 60fps plus, blurring is a much MUCH bigger deal, somewhat dealt with currently with low persistence modes, but they are quite flickery and suffer from panel reactivity problems still, particularly on higher quality panels as IPS/MVA aren't there yet for high refresh.
OLED will bring high quality screens with the potential for 144hz and above, with brilliant blacks, brilliant colour reproduction and exceptional low persistence.
I'm still waiting on OLED, and hope it won't be more than 18-24 months now, freesync/g-sync will just be icing on the cake of my next monitor, not the reason for buying it.