Brightness = 0
Contrast = 50
Colour temp is user 100,100,100
I view a lot dimmer than most people (dark man cave!)
Contrast = 50
Colour temp is user 100,100,100
I view a lot dimmer than most people (dark man cave!)
Is this worth getting if only using a single high end GPU? What if your FPS won't always keep up with the 144 Hz refresh rate?
Also, is the visual quality noticeably lower than an IPS panel?
I wonder if this could be ordered from Best Buy and returned to their store.
Is this worth getting if only using a single high end GPU? What if your FPS won't always keep up with the 144 Hz refresh rate?
Also, is the visual quality noticeably lower than an IPS panel?
I wonder if this could be ordered from Best Buy and returned to their store.
If you are using the G-sync feature, the big advantage is you do not need high FPS for it to be great. It was specifically designed to run good 40-144 FPS. @144 FPS, you'd likely just use the ULMB mode.
I've had mine since Saturday.
Getting mine from Amazon on Thursday, and my 9/80 schedule has this Friday off for me. Also got a PS4 coming from the Newegg BTC deal recently. It's going to be a good old fashioned gamer weekend for me. :awe:
Bearing in mind BrightCandle's experience, have you noticed yours getting warm?
I see overheating around 24.5-25.5 C. It is happening quite a bit, so I am going to go and get the monitor returned its most likely a faulty unit.
While playing a game just now (Deus Ex: Human Revolution), the monitor was not warm to the touch on any portion. I don't know what the framerate is because I don't use monitoring tools, but it's fairly high, and I am running at 144hz with G-Sync.
The next big thing to watch is actually media players that take advantage of G-sync and can play say 24p video at 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144 Hz. Some people wondered why there is a change refresh rates option, one reason is that set to 120 Hz it can play 30fps- and 24fps-video without temporally displacing frames.
I believe the minimum refresh rate G-sync supports is 30Hz.
Have you tried other resolutions, I'm curious how the drivers handle (scaling).
1. What kind of resolutions are available in windows resolution settings.
2. Do you get the same options in whatever games you've tested?
3. How does 1920x1080 compare to 1280x720 stretched to a 2k screen, which one is better? A common opinion is that 720p video looks just as good as 1080p even up close, though it may be due to generally higher compression on higher resolutions, and bitrates and stuff.
The next big thing to watch is actually media players that take advantage of G-sync and can play say 24p video at 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144 Hz. Some people wondered why there is a change refresh rates option, one reason is that set to 120 Hz it can play 30fps- and 24fps-video without temporally displacing frames.
1. Both Windows and nVidia expose 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x768/800/960/1024, 1360x768, 1366x768, 1600x900/1024/1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1080/1200/1440, 2560x1440
2. In addition to those, games expose 800x600. I don't think I'll see the need to use a lower resolution in games, because G-Sync does seem to alleviate scenes with naturally lower framerates.
3. My SD videos (640x480 ish) look worse than on my 1920x1200 Dell U2410; you can notice more artifacts. My 1920x1080 videos look the same as my other monitor, and better than 1280x720 videos. I'm not sure if I understood this question right.
As for G-Sync with video players, most won't use it by default because G-Sync only works in exclusive fullscreen mode, while most players actually use a borderless windowed mode in "fullscreen". However, I think this is preferable, since when I tried enabling exclusive fullscreen mode in Pot Player, it seemed to make the quality worse. I believe G-Sync doubles some frames to meet the minimum refresh rate for the monitor, which is higher than 23.976, which is not ideal. The videos stuttered.
In my profiles, I disabled G-Sync for my video player and browser (because of streaming videos). It really does suit games though. If your videos are higher than 30fps, then G-Sync would be better.
Thank you for the detailed response, i was hoping to see 1280x720 on there, 'cause hight and width doubled it amounts to exactly 2560x1440 or 4 times the resolution. It's basically a second 'native' resolution to the monitor. Cutting resolution down to a quarter basically requires roughly a third of processing power to achieve the same frame rate. So one could go from the mighty 780 ti to a Geforce 660 (2880 to 960 cuda cores respectively).
Sorry, I forgot about that. Windows 8 doesn't allow (by default) 1280x720 only because it uses a minimum vertical resolution of 768. Games allow 1280x720 though.
I see overheating around 24.5-25.5 C. It is happening quite a bit, so I am going to go and get the monitor returned its most likely a faulty unit.
How's your RMA process going?
I haven't started it yet! Weather has been cooler, had no issues this last week. I know I need to do it but I haven't tried yet, no conspiracy or issues just busy working.