Looking for upgrade.

[Digital X]

Currently have an Acer XB270HU. It's served me well but I'm in the market for something just a little bit better with more screen real estate.

I have been looking at 34" ultra wide and even 49" super ultra wide but it will hang off my desk a little, but I'm not too worried about that.

I'd say my budget is around £800, Birthday end of the month plus payday so will likely treat myself.

I have considered the following:

1. Acer Nitro EI491CRPbmiiipx (FreeSync 2 but I have a RTX 3080 so not sure what happens there)

2. ASUS ROG Strix XG43VQ (More sensible on the screen size)

3. Samsung Odyysey G9 (the 120hz 5120x1440 one, Will be nearly £100 over but might be worth it.)

Would like this monitor to hopefully be the "end all" for the time being.

Edit: Should note I mainly play games (simulators and rpg's) and make music now and again.

 

[Mormegil]

I think all of the monitors you’ve listed there are Freesync Premium or Premium Pro.

I’ve been reading into this a lot myself as I’m hopefully about to take delivery of an RTX 3080 based system myself and want a monitor upgrade over my dated 29” samsung ultra wide. From what I can glean from the internet freesync premium and above play quite nicely with g sync GPUs as long as the settings are right. The issue seems to come in when the output is at the frequency range of the monitor, particularly on the low and and the compensation kicks in and doubles the frame rate artificially to please the monitor. Hovering around this point, going back and forth between compensation on and off gives a flickering. Although I’m far from an expert and I may be getting the wrong end of the stick.

The original freesync specification caused major issues with this kind of thing but premium and premium pro are supposed to have made extra accommodation within the spec to alleviate this.

I’m very close to pushing the button on an XG43VQ as it seems to have everything I want without being bloody huge to be blunt, the 49” monitors are just information overload for my poor aged brain

Hopefully this helps a little and maybe someone with one of the monitors on your list with a G-sync card can provide a more personal insight.

 

[Cavallino]

I think all of the monitors you’ve listed there are Freesync Premium or Premium Pro.

I’ve been reading into this a lot myself as I’m hopefully about to take delivery of an RTX 3080 based system myself and want a monitor upgrade over my dated 29” samsung ultra wide. From what I can glean from the internet freesync premium and above play quite nicely with g sync GPUs as long as the settings are right. The issue seems to come in when the output is at the frequency range of the monitor, particularly on the low and and the compensation kicks in and doubles the frame rate artificially to please the monitor. Hovering around this point, going back and forth between compensation on and off gives a flickering. Although I’m far from an expert and I may be getting the wrong end of the stick.

The original freesync specification caused major issues with this kind of thing but premium and premium pro are supposed to have made extra accommodation within the spec to alleviate this.

I’m very close to pushing the button on an XG43VQ as it seems to have everything I want without being bloody huge to be blunt, the 49” monitors are just information overload for my poor aged brain

Hopefully this helps a little and maybe someone with one of the monitors on your list with a G-sync card can provide a more personal insight.

Hi bud, how did you get on with the ROG 43”?