This sounds useless to someone who bought hardware ensuring fps stays above or at monitor refresh rate. Maybe I'm wrong??
$800 for a 24" 120Hz with gsync?
Keep in mind, these are not the prefab G-sync monitors. These are the DIY kits. Even though you are buying the monitor with it installed, it is installed by the places selling it to you. The ones assembled with G-sync should be much cheaper.
These guys are probably pricing it this high for a few reasons:
labor
warranty issues
damage done while installing these modules. If they mess up a few while installing it themselves, they have to cover those costs from others sold
its Christmas time
its brand new and are taking advantage of us
I imagine they will. No good to make a product and then price it out of affordability.I hope that the ones coming from the manufacturer will be much more reasonably priced.
The 300 USD is shipping your monitor to those locations to have them install the module and then for them to ship it back to you.
It's done this way because people are most likely to be totally incompetent and trash their monitor. When (not if) that happens, Nvidia doesn't want the bad PR.
What I'm saying is there is no such hardware configuration where you can maintain 60 fps at all times.
I'd definitely wait for it to working on more than this monitor though. Perhaps, one of those new Dell 4Ks will get support (or even better one of those just announced LGs!).
Sure there is. You just turn down your in-game settings
I tend to have a wee bit of an addictive personality, and playing BL2 with G-Sync's creamy smoothness fed that tendency in wonderful and dangerous ways. That's probably why this G-Sync write-up here is conspiciously late, and it's definitely why my Christmas shopping was a perilously last-minute affair. I played through the rest of the Tiny Tina DLC, burned through the Headhunter packs, and found myself pondering another play-through when I finally had to stop myself and focus on Yuletide cheer rather than looting another bandit. Borderlands 2 offers very immediate feedback; it doesn't use double- or triple-buffering, which is why its FCAT and Fraps results closely correlate. The speed and fluidity of that game on this G-Sync display is like a combo meth/crack IV drip. I could probably make "faces of G-Sync" a thing, if others are affected by it like I am.
Seems like it offers a benefit at low FPS like many have suspected. Kinda meh at high FPS compared to a 120/144hz monitor.
So it's a nice option if you want to crank IQ for single player games and keep things smooth under 60fps. Most people like me will be just fine without it. I tend to lower IQ settings to make things easier to see in my multiplayer games and thus get higher FPS.
No vsync lag would be the benefit there, also when unable to maintain fresh which is going to be pretty hard for 120/144 users without sacrificing IQ and having a stretched out the cpu. You wouldn't have to worry about buffering support increasing input lag or tearing.
Competitive MP games are getting smarter about people turning down settings to gain advantages.
The biggest benefit for me personally is high IQ and low power usage, low input lag, and no tearing.
THe Asus 144hz TN panel is actually very good. It has probably one of the best ANSI contrast rates out there of any monitor, very good gray scale and better than advertised colors WHEN CALIBRATED properly. THe only downside IMO to this monitor is off angle viewing.....but to me that's never an issue....I don't view my monitors from an angle, but straight on.Scan.co.uk have the Asus monitor with modules prefitted for a grand total of £441. It's a ludicrous markup on an otherwise bad monitor and it is just too expensive IMO. But they have them in stock.