ASUS ROG 27" G-GYNC 144Hz 1440p monitor to release next month

Just a lil update, today I will cancel my pre-order. Dice and WYP, you're both right. Yesterday I just went on an impulse buy, it could be an amazing monitor but to be fair the last game I really played was Watch Dogs and that was on release day.

Now after thinking about it, I can't justify £700 for a monitor which I won't really benefit from. When the reviews are out and it's been out for a while, I might get one to go with my new build.
 
Premiums in the price tag here are pre-ready-to-go GSync (remember the module is circa £200 as it stands). 144hz, 1440p, VERY slim bezel (if it truly is only 6mm) and of course ROG branding...

Take out the GSync module, and it's ~ £500, rog branding, and we're down to ~ £400...

premiums boys, premiums.

Nice that it's first of a generation, but c'mon Asus.. silly price..
 
That origional article is complete tosh

In the origional article it tries to make out that the price is almost reasonable by comparing it to a monitor of higher quality (although designed for a different user).
He also says that you would need 2 780ti's or similar to drive this, which is crazy considering TTL just made a video on that ASUS 4K monitor which had an average frame rate of 80 FPS (without AA), you could probably max this out with 2 770's or 280X/7970's.
£670 is too much for a TN panel.
 
When tearing bothers you so much that you spend more time tweaking settings to maintain 60fps with reasonable visual quality, I think it is. G-Sync removes wasted tweaking time and allows you to focus on the game. Just set it to a setting that gives reasonable framerates and never worry about dropping to 30fps. You guys on this forum are really downplaying it's benefits...
 
SeeThruHead said:
When tearing bothers you so much that you spend more time tweaking settings to maintain 60fps with reasonable visual quality, I think it is. G-Sync removes wasted tweaking time and allows you to focus on the game. Just set it to a setting that gives reasonable framerates and never worry about dropping to 30fps. You guys on this forum are really downplaying it's benefits...
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Some of us might actually even have it. Besides why support tech that only caters to the few?
 
You act like there's some sort of barrier to entry. Buy and nvidia card if you don't already have one, and get a gsync monitor of your choice. Then enjoy your games.
 
SeeThruHead said:
You act like there's some sort of barrier to entry. Buy and nvidia card if you don't already have one, and get a gsync monitor of your choice. Then enjoy your games.
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It's not about playing it down, it's more to do with Paying silly money for a technology you don't need to buy.. when VESA and AMD have already declared working free versions.

...I like breathing but I'm not to happy to pay for the privilege
 
I guess it depends on how much it's worth to you. Free sync isn't actually a working tech you can buy right now. It will likely be more than a year before you can buy some comparable to the swift. And a free sync monitor that's 1440p and 144hz is not going to be much cheaper than this any time soon.
 
SeeThruHead said:
You act like there's some sort of barrier to entry. Buy and nvidia card if you don't already have one, and get a gsync monitor of your choice. Then enjoy your games.
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That logic..

There is a barrier to entry. You proved yourself wrong only a few words after you state there is not. Nvidia are making this an IP and locking it down so only Nvidia cards can run it. Look at what AMD has done... They got Freesync which is the same but any monitor or card can run it provided it supports the new standards. Enjoy your games without premiums!
 
SeeThruHead said:
I guess it depends on how much it's worth to you. Free sync isn't actually a working tech you can buy right now. It will likely be more than a year before you can buy some comparable to the swift. And a free sync monitor that's 1440p and 144hz is not going to be much cheaper than this any time soon.
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I guess my real point is that VESA (the industry standard) are already in the process of making their AdaptiveSync available to all Display Port connections from here onwards.. without the need to have a £200+ G-Sync add on or the need for a specific GPU brand.. so that said why pay for something that's going to be the new norm.
 
As far as I'm concerned its the HDDVD vs blueray arguement. Don't bother with it now as the more easily available one will win out ( in this case its the one that doesn't require it to be a specific GPU brand).
 
It's got *nothing* to do with playing it down, it's a legendary thing, and when it becomes a free, STANDARD thing in VESA, great. But it's not worth paying £200 for right now. Just isn't worth it, if you want it because your frame rate is sub-60fps, put the £200 + the price of a G-Sync monitor towards getting a BETTER GPU!!

Paying that much money for something that's on the horizon to be completely FREE is ludicrous. There's no two ways about it.

Believe me the Tech, I'm not doubting, it's excellent and it's about damn time someone sorted out the issue, but charging the earth for the privilege when it's already on it's way to being a free thing.. seems just so.. underhanded at this point.
 
SuB said:
It's got *nothing* to do with playing it down, it's a legendary thing,
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yeah cause this obviously isnt just a hardware version of one of nvidia's previous software features. nvidia likes money, just look at the titan Z. they will make something good then make it 1.5-2X the price of manufaturing.
 
I don't understand the whole sync argument here. Having a 1440p 144hz panel is pretty special and that's clearly where the inflated price comes from. For a long time there has been the 1440p 'master race' and the 120hz 'master race' each putting forward their clear argument for superiority over 1080p 60hz and now both master race camps can be satisfied.

And for when your graphical cojones don't weigh up against your monitor buying epeen G-sync can step in to resolve the problem smoothly. It's clearly not the focus of this monitor but just a sensible hardware feature that makes running 1440p at high refresh rates that bit more achievable.


For what it is with the figures and the branding I personally think the price makes sense and i'm sure people will buy the hell out of it and rightly so. I don't see how nvidia are tech blocking here merely because they have managed to get their exclusive solution to market first.

JR
 
JR23 said:
For what it is with the figures and the branding I personally think the price makes sense and i'm sure people will buy the hell out of it and rightly so. I don't see how nvidia are tech blocking here merely because they have managed to get their exclusive solution to market first.

JR
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IF (if...) it was about £150 less I'd agree with you. However it is not. Heck if it was less I'd have probably pre ordered one :')




This is Alienware level pricing. Simply because its got ROG instead of an Alien logo its got people oogling to get one. Wake up sheeple ;)
 
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