- Dec 16, 2008
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Hi guys let me begin with this. Following is my personal experience and it could be from misguided expectations or simply incorrect usage of hardware (totally possible) but it is what it is and I have to talk about it.
Last Christmas I got a gaming monitor ASUS PG278Q. Even before purchasing I knew (I freaken KNEW) what TN and IPS is and some other standards are and because I had many monitors before I have pretty good understanding of what good monitor is and how it should "look" like. But this time around for some reason I decided to take a dive into unknown.
In my mind I really thought after looking at many reviews saying this is best TN there is and it's almost like IPS and G-Sync is amazing and .... basically this PR on this unit got me.
Just FYI before I had NEC EA244WMMi triple setup and I simply love them (still do I still using them) and after unpacking and looking at this Gaming PG278Q I almost lost it. I mean colors and viewing angles are really big downgrade but I said to myself this is TN, just wait to see gaming performance and this G-sync thing that will make everything super smooth and nice.
Guys I have this monitor for like 6 months now, I still can't figure out what a hell this G-Sync does. I mean other than having it on in Nvidia control Panel and having this red light on the bottom I have nothing to even see that it;s indeed working. What does it do again ? I mean for real, is there a application that will kinda do this 3D roughing so I can manually turn on and off G-Sync to see what exactly does it do because in the game I don't see it. I mean I tried to turn in off , then on , when on full screen only, then full and window. I don't see any difference. Like at all.
In my head I though G-Sync will make my gaming experience smooth , don't get me wrong I am on Dual GTX 980 (not ti) with 5930k CPU so it's pretty high end system, but having this smoothing out vs not having g-sync, I simply don't see it in ANY games. I wonder may be it's not working or I am doing something wrong or like I said before I expected too much ?
I'll tell you this much. my wonderful NEC with IPS panel and (I think) 6ms latency vs this 1ms and 144 refresh rate (I don't even get that on my dual 980 so who cares about 144 , unless you downgrade graphics) I have to say that 1ms thing ... I don't see it ... liek at all, and G-Sync, damn thing looks Identical on both monitors, yes NEC Capping at 60 fps but even at mid 80s on ASUS I do not see a thing that I can say with confidence YES I see a difference.
Can anyone put me in to the right direction about having G-Sync tested, like on/off "THERE! YOU SEE THAT'S WHY YOU SPEND$800 dollars !"
Because honestly I feel like a dummy with 1ms vs (I think it's 6ms min and 14ms max) I see nothing even in FPS games, G-Sync is a shame I don't see it and flickering ..... WHAT FLICKERING ? And I am not even talking about colors or viewing angels.
P.S.
After looking at my NEC monitor I kinda remember it's not low and but it's certainly not high-end it's about $400 when I got it and it's like more for business and stuff than gaming but colors are amazing on it. I feel like an idiot again after looking at NEW IPS Gaming Monitors by Acer and ASUS because I again think oh this IPS panel is great and totally worth $850 .....
Last Christmas I got a gaming monitor ASUS PG278Q. Even before purchasing I knew (I freaken KNEW) what TN and IPS is and some other standards are and because I had many monitors before I have pretty good understanding of what good monitor is and how it should "look" like. But this time around for some reason I decided to take a dive into unknown.
In my mind I really thought after looking at many reviews saying this is best TN there is and it's almost like IPS and G-Sync is amazing and .... basically this PR on this unit got me.
Just FYI before I had NEC EA244WMMi triple setup and I simply love them (still do I still using them) and after unpacking and looking at this Gaming PG278Q I almost lost it. I mean colors and viewing angles are really big downgrade but I said to myself this is TN, just wait to see gaming performance and this G-sync thing that will make everything super smooth and nice.
Guys I have this monitor for like 6 months now, I still can't figure out what a hell this G-Sync does. I mean other than having it on in Nvidia control Panel and having this red light on the bottom I have nothing to even see that it;s indeed working. What does it do again ? I mean for real, is there a application that will kinda do this 3D roughing so I can manually turn on and off G-Sync to see what exactly does it do because in the game I don't see it. I mean I tried to turn in off , then on , when on full screen only, then full and window. I don't see any difference. Like at all.
In my head I though G-Sync will make my gaming experience smooth , don't get me wrong I am on Dual GTX 980 (not ti) with 5930k CPU so it's pretty high end system, but having this smoothing out vs not having g-sync, I simply don't see it in ANY games. I wonder may be it's not working or I am doing something wrong or like I said before I expected too much ?
I'll tell you this much. my wonderful NEC with IPS panel and (I think) 6ms latency vs this 1ms and 144 refresh rate (I don't even get that on my dual 980 so who cares about 144 , unless you downgrade graphics) I have to say that 1ms thing ... I don't see it ... liek at all, and G-Sync, damn thing looks Identical on both monitors, yes NEC Capping at 60 fps but even at mid 80s on ASUS I do not see a thing that I can say with confidence YES I see a difference.
Can anyone put me in to the right direction about having G-Sync tested, like on/off "THERE! YOU SEE THAT'S WHY YOU SPEND$800 dollars !"
Because honestly I feel like a dummy with 1ms vs (I think it's 6ms min and 14ms max) I see nothing even in FPS games, G-Sync is a shame I don't see it and flickering ..... WHAT FLICKERING ? And I am not even talking about colors or viewing angels.
P.S.
After looking at my NEC monitor I kinda remember it's not low and but it's certainly not high-end it's about $400 when I got it and it's like more for business and stuff than gaming but colors are amazing on it. I feel like an idiot again after looking at NEW IPS Gaming Monitors by Acer and ASUS because I again think oh this IPS panel is great and totally worth $850 .....
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