joaompp :
http://www.amazon.com/VG278HE-27-Inch-Screen-LED-lit-Monitor/dp/B00906HM6K/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1401734365&sr=1-1&keywords=Asus+VG278H
Asus 27in gsync $372. Wow, expensive and takes oodles of cash...ROFLMAO. That is far less than the $650 I paid for my dell 7yrs ago and it's a 24in. I'd say Gsync is already cheap right now, and by xmas these will have another 10 models to compete with. It will be called cheaposync by then...LOL. Clearly there will be many models within reach of most buyers. My only hope is that someone puts out a 1600p 27in+ but that's hard to find in anything these days.
The only monitor you linked, and it doesn't have Gsync, it's just a 144hz 3D monitor. Considering you can get the same 27in monitor, albeit with 60hz instead of 144hz, for $240, there's a $130 price difference, and that's at discounted prices, the one you linked actually started off at $480 dollars upon release, not including the extra you'd have to shell out for glasses.
So let's do the math shall we?
Same shitty TN panels, probably start off at 60hz, 1080p monitors without it probably cost $150-250. Probably with Gsync...going to hit $350-450 depending on size.
Want to bump up to 4k? Samsung and Asus both have panels around ~$650 now, with Gsync, expect another $200-300 markup.
AND to top it off, you still HAVE to have a newer nVidia GPU.
Yes many manufacturers are making monitors with Gsync, not because it's going to be earth shattering or amazing, but because they know nVidia has the GPU market share and that fanbois will buy the crap just because of the label. They're making them because they're pretty much guaranteed to sell, and that these monitors will have a significantly higher profit margin.
OOPS, I believed amazon...LOL. That's just what comes up with g-sync search. It doesn't matter though, they won't be severely overpriced any more than one with Freesync will due to a SCALER being updated in those just like with the gsync module. It will be no different. You pay for bleeding edge more than the same without, wow, shocker. As the list of one coming shows there are many and that will lower pricing fairly quickly.
You haven't seen it, or you wouldn't be saying bad things about it. You act as though it is fake, while NO review site has said that after seeing it. ZERO. Hate NV much? The tech works. You don't need glasses for Gsync, just 3d crap which I find pointless as I've said already (I don't like 3D anything, most don't which is why it was absent from the show floor this year).
You need a monitor and AMD recent card also. How is this different? My 5850 won't be running on whatever AMD puts out and neither will my monitor. So AMD sucks too? Every thing you said applied directly to AMD's version also. New monitor, new card, price hikes. I won't be buying it due to being a fanboy (radeon 5850 here...LOL). I'll buy it because it's the best solution and will be a year early if not more. By the time xmas rolls around (or after I buy my Maxwell) I'll have a bunch of options while you wait I guess for what you think will be FREEsync. $20 says it's nowhere near free either.
Scratch that, $1m says it won't be free
Also as NV couldn't get scaler people to make a move, there is no guarantee ANY of them EVER will for AMD, especially if gsync takes off and NV licenses it out after they perfect it for more monitors (there is a reason they went with ONE to test on from Asus). Even if they do it, they'll charge for it since the R&D certainly isn't free and something tells me it isn't easy or we wouldn't be having this conversation because it would have been done YEARS ago right? If it was easy they would have rolled it out to all monitors even with gsync. So the fact that NV had to do it per monitor it seems, will mean you're going to pay period.
You don't think the end of stuttering, tearing and lag is earth shattering? Smooth as butter gaming isn't nice? You must be joking. Review sites completely disagree with you. They won't all be TN panels either. But as a gamer, IPS has it's problems and that is why TN panels are the gaming models. Anandtech called it a "GAME CHANGER" and they hate Nvidia. Tomshardware said similar, pcper, etc. The list of people saying it rocked is long. Find me a review of the technology that says "this crap sucks". Just ONE of someone who USED it or saw it at the shows in action.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7436/nvidias-gsync-attempting-to-revolutionize-gaming-via-smoothness
"NVIDIA ran through a couple of demos to show the benefits of G-Sync, and they were awesome."
Anandtech has no NV love.
"I can't stress enough just how smooth the G-Sync experience was, it's a game changer."
"The combination of technologies like GeForce Experience, having a ton of GPU performance and G-Sync can really work together to deliver a new level of smoothness, image quality and experience in games. We've seen a resurgence of PC gaming over the past few years, but G-Sync has the potential to take the PC gaming experience to a completely new level."
"It's sort of ridiculous and completely changes the overall user experience. Drops in frame rate no longer have to be drops in smoothness. Game devs relying on the presence of G-Sync can throw higher quality effects at a scene since they don't need to be as afraid of drops in frame rate excursions below 60 fps."
I hate quoting Anand Shimpi these days, but jeez. He's pretty clear what it does and what a dev can do while working with it is pretty awesome.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/g-sync-v-sync-monitor,3699.html
Title of the page? "G-Sync Technology Preview: Quite Literally A Game Changer"
"Even before we jump into the hands-on testing, we have to commend the creative approach to solving a very real problem affecting gaming on the PC. This is innovation at its finest."
"The impact varies by title, but once you see it, you cannot ignore what was going on previously that you were subconsciously disregarding."
So everyone is wrong...We should all believe the AMD fanboy
I could keep going but you should get the point. Even an AMD Portal site like anandtech couldn't get over how great it was. You can hate on NV all you want, hate on the cost, blah blah, but the tech works and unlike AMD at this point, is PROVEN in real world gaming and very flexible as they showed while lowering fps and still running smooth etc while the same machine with it off was a mess. I might wait for IPS (but I have some pro needs) to see how that pans out but if it doesn't I can see myself perhaps going with a high end TN model as they get better and better. Either way I can't wait for smooth gaming and a longer life card due to that effect as my next gpu ages. As anand said, it looks like you're seeing 60fps constant even when you know you're not. Even if all it did was allow devs to throw tons of effects at the screen without worrying about dips, that would be probably enough for me and it is clearly much more than that already.
