Desktop Computers

Springbok said:

Great news, unless you're a schmuck like me who retardedly paid the Gsync premium a year ago

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There are gsync variants of monitors in production with up to a $400 premium, plus I know at least one of the "approved" monitors is $150-200 more than its freesync equivalent. I wonder what's going to happen in these cases. The gsync boards have already been paid for by the manufacturers, so it's not like they can just slash the prices, but will there be enough uninformed purchasers to not make the models a complete flop?

TLDR: On par with 1070ti for $350. No good for 4k, passable 1440p, good 1080p HRR. Can't handle stable 60fps in bfv with rtx-low on. Bit of a power hog compared to previous gen equivalent.

daly said:

@Dom you seem well versed with monitor knowledge. Do you know what the actual difference would be between the new gsync certified monitors versus ones not certified but turned on manually?

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Well, certified ones are going to be ones they have manually tested to meet:

Announcing G-SYNC Compatible Monitors and BFGD Pre-Orders

G-SYNC Compatible testing validates that the monitor does not show blanking, pulsing, flickering, ghosting or other artifacts during VRR gaming. They also validate that the monitor can operate in VRR at any game frame rate by supporting a VRR range of at least 2.4:1 (e.g. 60Hz-144Hz), and offer the gamer a seamless experience by enabling VRR by default.

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That a monitor is not certified could mean that it fails that criteria, or that they just haven't tested it yet. (most likely case) In practice, it likely won't mean much of anything to most end-users unless they fall into sync range issues which haven't really been a problem since the early days of freesync.

Edit: Also to note. Most gsync monitors technically don't even pass their own certification standards as there has been endless amounts of flickering/pacing issues with windows10/drivers and gsync for over a year now.

daly said:

@Dom you seem well versed with monitor knowledge. Do you know what the actual difference would be between the new gsync certified monitors versus ones not certified but turned on manually?

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This is what a bad one can look like. Outside of universal problems like this though, there shouldn't be any difference. Freesync is Freesync, and a certified good monitor isn't going to be any better or worse than an uncertified good monitor when it comes to its VRR capabilities (other than different ranges which is also not related to the certification)

Argarth said:

Yeah, some of the commentary in that video is a little misleading. How on earth do they know that monitor is going to behave the same way with an AMD card? They didn't even test it, and if it did behave that way/couldn't be resolved, it would be straight back to the vendor for mine.

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Because the things that are causing that are faults in the monitor itself that makes it react that way to the syncing. It wouldn't matter what card is used. If you look at comments on the video on reddit etc... people are pointing out the actual monitors they are as they're already well-known problem monitors.

Goatface said:

I am having a run of bad luck and money is tight. My ancient 10 year old PC died along with my laptop.
Can anyone help with bargain basement motherboard-cpu-ram setup
Not gaming. Just surfing, downloading and running plex. Need onboard video as
Video card crapped out a while back too.
Will this psu still work with modern motherboards?
BFG Tech BFGR650PSU 650W ATX12V V2.0 / EPS 12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply - Newegg.com
Live out in sticks so no shot of getting anything local
I just don't know what is good cheap and cheap garbage anymore

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The psu will work.

I have an old 5870 laying around that would work for just basic usage If you're Canadian and would be willing to pay for shipping