Its not Free-Sync ^^^^^
Its £456.
No is not. You looked at the wrong monitor.
XL2730Z is fantastic
Its £456.
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Next Gen Display Experiences! HDR Polaris graphics
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No is not. You looked at the wrong monitor.
XL2730Z is fantastic
This..
Mine goes 35-144 more than enough range. It's even better now lower range with the added LFC. No tearing below the refresh rate.
Is there a HDR standard at the moment? How many bits are we talking? NVidia cards can do 12bit colour depth. This sort of thing has come a long on drivers for a while. I would assume it'd be down to drivers and connection bandwidth?
If i'm looking to spend £300 on a GPU i'm not going to spend near £500 on a screen am i? 
If 1440P Free-Sync is around the £400+ mark its really defeating the objective of it
As i said in the thread i linked, people who don't spend mega £ on GPU's to drive 1440P at high frame rates to keep the game smooth are also not going to spend mega £ on a screen.
If some of those £250 1440P screens were Free-Sync a lot of them probably would upgrade their 1080P screens because they wouldn't need mega £ GPU's to drive them smoothly.
Instead what they have done is make it a feature only for some of the expensive screens where pepole don't actually care as much.
I can see screen vendors having exactly the same greed Derp thinking with HDR.
If 1440P Free-Sync is around the £400+ mark its really defeating the objective of it
As i said in the thread i linked, people who don't spend mega £ on GPU's to drive 1440P at high frame rates to keep the game smooth are also not going to spend mega £ on a screen.
If some of those £250 1440P screens were Free-Sync a lot of them probably would upgrade their 1080P screens because they wouldn't need mega £ GPU's to drive them smoothly.
Instead what they have done is make it a feature only for some of the expensive screens where pepole don't actually care as much.
I can see screen vendors having exactly the same greed Derp thinking with HDR.
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I know that - I mentioned it in my post. I was just pointing out a good monitor for gaming and other tasks that is in your budget range.
If you want a 1440p monitor designed specifically for gaming then good luck trying to find one under £400.
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I did 27" 1440p 144hz Freesync is worth it my opinion. It's still cheaper than the competition.
HDR display same what I paid for this BenQ XL2730Z I'll be happy.
27" 1440p 144hz Freesync is worth it my opinion. It's still cheaper than the competition. HDR display same what I paid for this BenQ XL2730Z I'll be happy.
The saying "you get what you pay for " comes to mind..
Considering HDR monitors dont even exist and this is just another of many 'promised' capabilities that may or may not transpire, then no, I'm not at all 'excited' about it at the moment.
I'll be excited for it when it actually becomes available and the results are there to be seen.
I'll be excited for it when it actually becomes available and the results are there to be seen.
Yes, there is a standard agreed upon now.
10-bit color.
90% P3 color gamut
1000 nits brightness
Yeah my bad
The saying "you get what you pay for " comes to mind..
Well, there are a lot of good 1440P screen for around the £250 - £300 mark, not one of them Free-Sync, well, one, with a useless range.
it seems to me they are trying to use it as a feature to drive sales of very expensive screens, which is really cynical and completely flawed, people who spend that kind of money on screens are more often not looking for Free-Sync than those in the lower price bracket.
If i'm looking to spend £300 on a GPU i'm not going to spend near £500 on a screen am i?
If 1440P Free-Sync is around the £400+ mark its really defeating the objective of it
Although I want to see it as cheap as possible of course, I think this isn't necessarily true.
A monitor can last you 3 GPU changes easily. So I think people may be inclined to spend up to double what they'd spend on a GPU.
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or 540~ nits with better blacks
Someone posted Nvidia's HDR SDK the other day on this forum (Sorry, I forget who) and to my surprise, it caused a 980Ti to output HDR to my 55EG960V-ZD.
Sorry to sound like a broken record then, but if it's just 10bit that the GPU has to render and chuck out, that's nothing special, nor taxing for it surely?. The rest is just monitor right? It just seems to be that we need the game devs to get on board and the monitor tech at hand.
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Would you really consider a 60hz monitor for gaming? Because those are the only 1440p monitors available for under £300. The Acer XF270 is one of the cheapest 1440p 144hz monitors out there, and as an added bonus it's an IPS monitor.
So something that doesn't exist (HDR monitor) dictates your purchasing decisions?
Yes. I like to get on the bus that is leaving, not the one that is arriving. Given I expect to want a HDR monitor when available, it makes sense to get a card that will support it.
Everything's about the monitor as far as I understand. Not really sure what was ever stopping modern GPU's from being able to process this in general, it was mainly about the application actually outputting the full HDR signal and having a display that could display it.
The vast majority of PC gamers(and gamers in general) get along with 60hz displays just fine.
That's not gonna be here for at least another year or two, and I'm not even talking about affordable here, just here. Meanwhile new GPUs will be out and you will be able to cycle through other cards at that time if you really want it - all the while enjoying extra performance now. But making a decision based on things not being able to affect you yet? It's not that great of a decision. It's like opportunity cost, except in this case it's opportunity enjoyment.
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Yeah my bad
Well, there are a lot of good 1440P screen for around the £250 - £300 mark, not one of them Free-Sync, well, one, with a useless range.
it seems to me they are trying to use it as a feature to drive sales of very expensive screens, which is really cynical and completely flawed, people who spend that kind of money on screens are more often not looking for Free-Sync than those in the lower price bracket.
The thing is, and I'm probably not alone here, I don't change a monitor as often as I change a GPU. It's the same reason I'll pay a bit more for a case or PSU, they're things I expect to last. I could buy a £25 case and a £35 PSU, but I'd rather get something decent as I'll probably want it to last. RAM I'm more likely to upgrade with a motherboard so I might buy the £100 set rather than the £250 set. I might buy the £300 CPU instead of the £800 CPU for the same reason.
A GPU is only half of the story, the monitor is the other half. No point paying a chunk of money for one if you cheap out on the other, in my option. A £500 4K gaming display with a £75 GPU seems like it wouldn't be getting the most out of the monitor. I suspect that reversing it is also true.
Also remember that unlike GSync Freesync doesn't increase the price by more than a few pounds.
You seem very interested in my purchasing decisions. I expect HDR monitors to start appearing before the year is out. I currently have an R9 285 and buy a graphics card not more often than once every two years, generally when I want access to new features. So yes, it makes sense for my next purchase to be a current gen card.
Again you repeated explicitly the same unintelligent thing: "making a decision based on things not being able to affect you yet? It's not that great of a decision." I know something is coming and I plan for it. One wonders how you make it through the year and stay employed if you actually act the way you profess that I should.