Samsung 32D850D Vs Swift

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So I have a 1920x1200 fell monitor its served me well, I'm looking at a ethier the monitors said in the title but as I've got a 780ti and also looking to SLI gsync doesnt seem useful to me also for the price different and size would the samsung be worth it

What opinions and 144hz vs 60hz
 
Depends on how heavy a gamer you are, FPS gamer? Do you play BF4 etc? If so then 120Hz @ 2560 x 1440 with the ROG will feel better than any 1080p 120Hz screen.

What you have to decide is whether you think the ROG is worth the extra £200.
 
I recently went from 1440p@60 via 4K@60 to the ROG and it is like night and day, I have become a converted 120hz gamer, gsync being an added bonus, I couldn't now go back to regular 60hz
 
So I have a 1920x1200 fell monitor its served me well, I'm looking at a ethier the monitors said in the title but as I've got a 780ti and also looking to SLI gsync doesnt seem useful to me also for the price different and size would the samsung be worth it
I've used the Swift and currently own a BenQ BL3200PT, which uses the same panel as the Samsung. And to be honest I'm not sure there is a clear answer here. It really comes down to how picky you are about image quality.

The Swift will give you a more fluid display, but compared to the Samsung you'll have to trade away basically everything to get it; colour vibrancy, viewing angles, black depth, contrast, size, etc. The TN panel n the Swift is good as TN goes, but it isn't even in the same league as the AMVA panel in the Samsung.

I personally don't rate the Swift at all and for my use (general desktop work, video and mid-paced gaming) the BenQ is far better. But everyone is different so my advice is, if you can afford it, order both the Swift and the Samsung and just DSR back whichever one you like the least.
 
I wasn't fully sold on g-sync and 144hz after using 60hz IPS, VA etc. Now i am though as the swift head on offers a fully calibrated image as i want (no dodgy colours or gamma which i wrongly associated as a TN thing) and when playing far cry 4 using x3 sli the high frame rate makes it so smooth to aim on joypad or mouse. I accidently locked the fps max to 85fps and could notice the difference straight away as it felt more sluggish. G-sync means not having to worry about v-sync lag or any frame fluctuations, just enjoy the game.

I would say to fully enjoy this monitor to it's potential SLI on powerful gpu's is a must otherwise you may as well use a 60hz low lag display. Though on games that run on only 1 gpu g-sync means you can maximise your max frame rates and not worry about dips under 60fps like dead rising 3. For me 32" would need 4k as the PPI would be too low but that's just me. You can also overclock to 144hz with a button on the monitor on a 60fps locked game or one that has no in game option of 144hz and this also makes things feel slightly nicer and any stutter from badly made games is lessened as well due to the faster update, a bit like tearing being far less on 144hz even with lower framerates.
It also doesn't hurt that the swift has excellent response times, extremely low input lag and the ULMB mode for easy to run games.

I have no regrets at all and even prefer the screen to my IPS 1440p as i got sick of IPS glow and cloudy backlights on virtually every monitor. I prefer TN now sat head on as the colours are as accurate and so is gamma and greyscale for gaming with all the benefits TN brings. It's such a joy to have perfect black screen uniformity and no dark scene detail sapping glow in the corners. I am now keeping this monitor until i return again to 4k down the line.
 
Seems like a no brainer just stuggling wih it being nearly double most comparable monitors and that samsung for fps with that lag is y going to be he best
 
Why not ask yourself this. Would you kick yourself if sometime in the new year someone released a 120/144hz AHVA / IPS type panel monitor (the panel reportdly does exist in an AUO lab somewhere), and you just dropped £600 on a TN panel ROG swift? Because I thought about it and just couldnt do it :p

Also id have to sit that thing next to my Asus ProArt and it sure as eggs would look pretty nasty next to that.
 
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When you say used, how well calibrated and fettled with was it?
Only had it on loan for a couple of days and as I was comparing it to two other monitors (the BenQ and a 28" 4K Samsung, I've forgotten the model number now) that hadn't been calibrated so I didn't do any calibration beyond tweaking the settings by eye.
 
There are a couple of peculiarities to configuring the ROG, it needs some gamma adjustment via NVCP to get the most

If you only used the on monitor settings then you'll not have seen the best it has to offer
 
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