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At CES Acer announced the similar XB270HU with G-SYNC. Both monitors arrive in March.
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At CES Acer announced the similar XB270HU with G-SYNC. Both monitors arrive in March.
I've wanted a decent WQHD panel for a while now. My reasoning was that a card to drive a 4K monitor wasn't likely to be in my practical budget for a while to come, but I'd appreciate a little extra screen real estate. However, it's been so long waiting for a suitable screen that didn't break the bank (and intensly annoying when lots of laptops were sporting WQHD when I couldn't get it for my desktop!), 4K is likely to come along at a similar time. The problem is wanting WQHD + IPS + decent response time (good enough to do some light gaming on). Most of the IPS/WQHD panels I've seen reviewed say suitable only for RTS etc. not FPS games.
When the Acer XG270HU is available in matte black I'd be interested especially being a TN panel should hopefully be in my price range whereas IPS isn't.
I'm tempted to buy one of these, even though I don't really care about variable sync, just to rub nVidia's nose in it that I'm not going to support their proprietary, over-priced, locked in junk.
I got really excited, then it said it's a TN panel, patience is a virtue... :(
Still waiting for Intel to announce they are supporting FreeSync. It sounds like it would help with smoothness at low frame rates, so seems quite applicable. I suspect they will adopt it quite quietly though.
Why does the Nvidia g-sync monitor (Acer XB270HU) have a much better panel specification than the AMD Freesync variant (Acer XG270HU)?. The g-sync variant has an IPS panel, much richer colour reproduction and wider viewing angles, whereas the AMD Freesync variant just has a basic TN+ film panel (who cares about a 1ms response time if it has a lower quality panel?).