Freesync grrr

Chuchino

Chuchino

Chuchino

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Hi folks,

New poster but have been reading a few times a week for a few months and figured I'd sign up.

Im in a bit of a quandary, I'm moving to a new house and can finally have a decent office space where I can game and play about in my lab. With that said I've slowly been upgrading my PC for a while and now want to invest in a new monitor for my main rig. My old monitor is going to my nuc which is just a web browsing/coding box which I run my arduino and pi projects.

Problem is, I've got an nVidia 1080ti but all the monitors I'm interested in seem to be Freesync. I was told to avoid Freesync if I have an nVidia card. Which makes sense with nVidia have their own technology for this, i guess.

Really wished some of the samsungs offered their superwides in gsync, but also read LG may release a large gsync monitor later in the year.

Wondering whether I just get an el-cheapo monitor for now and then upgrade later in the year to something a bit more fancy.

Grateful for comments and experiences with super-wides. Reason for the large monitors is I'd like to make better use of having multiple windows open on a big screen as opposed to having multiple monitors.
 
I've just recently bought a s/h 100Hz Gsync UW monitor (Acer X34) and can honestly say it has been a revelation.

Gaming is just soooo much more immersive it's not true.

Even browsing is enhanced being able to have two windows open at once.

I honestly wish I'd gotten one years ago.
 
GSync would be ideal but you can still use a Freesync monitor with your Nvidia card at the quoted speeds (144Hz etc) you just wont have the luxury of adaptive sync at lower frame rates but with a 1080Ti I'm not sure that will be an issue unless you're looking at 4K screens. You could always upgrade to an AMD card when they have something worth upgrading to and then have the best of both worlds.
 
It sounds like there's something missing in the Gsync models you're looking at? Can you be more specific in what that is or what your requirements and preferences are in a monitor?

For instance, I have the LG 34GK950F paired with a 1080Ti. If I was predominately a gamer this wouldn't make any sense. However, I spend just as much if not more time working on my main screen as I do gaming. The crippled features of the 950G (Gsync model) ruled it out after speaking with several gamers I know (mainly playing Destiny 2). They found any advantages offered by Gsync to be minimal to indistinguishable at higher (85+) FPS. I've not used Gsync before so I can't provide an accurate comparison but with Destiny 2 running at 90-144 FPS I have nothing to complain about (no screen tearing). Your mileage may vary though depending on how fussy you are. If the G model offered identical features to the F apart from the "adaptive sync" technology then the G would've been the obvious choice (price difference wasn't a factor for me).
 
Bugbait said:
It sounds like there's something missing in the Gsync models you're looking at? Can you be more specific in what that is or what your requirements and preferences are in a monitor?

For instance, I have the LG 34GK950F paired with a 1080Ti. If I was predominately a gamer this wouldn't make any sense. However, I spend just as much if not more time working on my main screen as I do gaming. The crippled features of the 950G (Gsync model) ruled it out after speaking with several gamers I know (mainly playing Destiny 2). They found any advantages offered by Gsync to be minimal to indistinguishable at higher (85+) FPS. I've not used Gsync before so I can't provide an accurate comparison but with Destiny 2 running at 90-144 FPS I have nothing to complain about (no screen tearing). Your mileage may vary though depending on how fussy you are. If the G model offered identical features to the F apart from the "adaptive sync" technology then the G would've been the obvious choice (price difference wasn't a factor for me).
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It's a mixture of things really. Games, Streaming Sky GO/other TV platforms, Photo editing. specific apps would be: Destiny 2, Divinity 2, Quake Champions, Pillars of Eternity, Photoshop, Lightroom, Hyper-V to name some. I write python and ruby frequently and it's always useful to have multiple windows with that not to mention when using my VM's in my labs for schools etc. I'm not a hardcore PC gamer and generally play when my friends do. Most of my games are on console through the PS4 or Xbox One.

I really liked the larger samsungs primarily because I'd have enough space to have 2 or 3 windows open and multiple task something which I cannot do as I've only got a single monitor which I'll re-purpose for something else.
 
If the budget allows then the LG 34GK950F seems to fit your requirements IF a wider colour gamut is something that's important for you, i.e. Willing to pay extra for. I've only encountered some tearing (more blinking) in very specific scenarios with very rapid lighting effects in Destiny 2. Not sure how much better this would be in Gsync though.
 
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