Your upgrade to "G Sync"

foster grant · 8 Apr 2017 at 02:34

Westie said:
Love my x34..

love gsync..

Would never go back to standard crap.

Agreed

Hedge · 8 Apr 2017 at 06:35

foster grant said:
Agreed

Not really the most informative post lol.

I'd never go back to a lower refresh rate myself but I don't think it's an upgrade worth £600-1000 (for most 27' +).

We will all try and justify our purchases but I still find it difficult to comprehend how bad the monitor market is for ripping us off.

It really shouldn't have taken this long for high refresh rates to become more mainstream. It's taken me 4 years to find something at a price I could stomach which could improve upon a cheap Korean IPS.

If you ask me that's crazy.

foster grant · 8 Apr 2017 at 06:39

Well its is/was late when I posted..and i am in pain ( backs gone ) lol, so I'm gonna sit in a big chair (cos i cant lay flat) and go to sleep lol

Tute · 8 Apr 2017 at 07:10

I do love my Acer XF270HU. There's no way i'd go back to non Freesync. However nvidia are smoking something illegal if they think i'm paying nigh on £600 for a 1440p TN.

So until they support Freesync I guess i'm vendor locked. But the same would be true of gsync, and i'm not paying the premium to be locked into the standard that is losing the "battle".

It'll be some kind of silly fast Vega card for me next.

Hedge · 8 Apr 2017 at 08:14

A g sync module seems to add about £250 on average to a panel.

£250 could buy a games console or something. Instead it pays for something that irons out framerate drops and tearing. Maybe it's just me but I don't find that is an exciting use of my cash!

PCM2 · 8 Apr 2017 at 08:20

Hedge said:
A g sync module seems to add about £250 on average to a panel.

£250 could buy a games console or something. Instead it pays for something that irons out framerate drops and tearing. Maybe it's just me but I don't find that is an exciting use of my cash!

I'm not sure I agree it's quite that high, closer to +£175. Regardless, I feel the cost is easier to stomach if you're considering models that cost a lot in the first place (£500+), but for basic models that would cost ~£200 without the technology (144Hz FHD for example) it is quite a questionable premium. And of course sensitivity to tearing and stuttering varies such that some users won't want to live without it, whilst others will happily go without.

andybird123 · 8 Apr 2017 at 13:36

I couldn't go back to not having it, it allows me to run higher settings than I otherwise could and still gets rid of tearing and stuttering which become really obvious and annoying to me if I disable it

+however much it is on the monitor its still cheaper than SLI but its like having a permanent GPU boost without the extra cost everytime you upgrade