OCUK Stocks Sub-100 Pound FreeSync Monitor

[WYP]

AOC has brought FreeSync into the mainstream, with two 1080p panels which will be priced at under £130. How about a Sub £100 FreeSync monitor?

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[dwatterworth]

Could see this panel exploding in the affordable e-sports area, maybe shifting demand on the lower end GPU market?

 

[barnsley]

Could see this panel exploding in the affordable e-sports area, maybe shifting demand on the lower end GPU market?

For competitive games like Counterstrike you need a higher refresh rate than 60hz (as you also need a high fps).

 

[TPC]

I've actually drooled about that monitor already. I can already feel my wallet getting emptier.

 

[AlienALX]

Yay.

My only complaint about Freesync was that at first it wasn't free. What I mean is some one like say Samsung were selling a monitor the same as the one without it for more money.

It's nice that it has settled and is being taken seriously enough. At the end of the day all you really need to do to enable it is just stick the right port on the monitor and you're laughing.

 

[The_Mard]

Heyyo,

Could see this panel exploding in the affordable e-sports area, maybe shifting demand on the lower end GPU market?

Probably true since the AMD R9 380 is quite inexpensive and can still provide great performance for 1920x1080 resolutions.

For competitive games like Counterstrike you need a higher refresh rate than 60hz (as you also need a high fps).

Yes and no... a higher refresh rate definitely gives you a little bit of edge by having less ghosting and less blur when you spin fast, but it doesn't automatically make you a better gamer.

Back in the days of early CSS with that poop netcode that had serious interpolation issues? Having a tick rate of 100 and setting your up and down matching to 100 and having your framerate dip below 100 fps? Yeah that made a difference... nowadays with the much fixed up netcode brought along since Orange Box's Source Engine update and CSGO having better hitboxes? 60fps with a tick rate of 60 does fine.

I'd say having a 7.1 surround headset that can give more accurate indication of footstep direction would give you even greater edge than a high refresh monitor when the average gamer only uses stereo speakers or headphones.

My only complaint about Freesync was that at first it wasn't free. What I mean is some one like say Samsung were selling a monitor the same as the one without it for more money.

Hmm, that could also just be Samsung thinking "more features = higher price" is my guess. Adaptive sync is all the craze these days and I can see Samsung wanting to literally cash in on it.

Tbh makes me sad that Sharp never thought to venture into Adaptive Sync desktop monitors... instead they decided to just close their doors on TV sales. Maybe different manufacturing equipment is needed? I'm not sure... but Panasonic made that change to try and save their panel division by making GSync monitors when I've previously never heard of a Panasonic consumer desktop monitor and only production-quality monitors with crazy price tags.


For the article... this part here:

These monitors show that what FreeSync will be in the future, a normal feature for monitors which does not have a hefty price premium. With Intel now looking to adopt the VESA Adaptive Sync/FreeSync standard and such affordable monitors coming out with FreeSync capability it would not be much of an exaggeration to say the G-Sync may be starting to lose the battle against FreeSync.

For me? Thats another yes and no tbh... I don't know many people who use the HD Graphics for actual gaming... especially the i7-5775c and the i5-5675c which would be the most suitable iGPUs for gaming right now from Intel. It's still cool they are planning to add AMD's FreeSync, but I don't think it will make a massive insane impact on the sales of FreeSync monitors. It'll definitely help though.

I still think AMD should work with FreeSync monitor manufacturers to have a "dummy proof" system in place that has a popup with an option to detect FreeSync Monitors and their specific variable refresh range and set AMD's Frame Rate Target Control max FPS to match the monitor's VRR... but at the same time, I think AMD sees the current VRR maximum not matching the monitor's maximum refresh rate as a weakness since even the monitor manufacturers don't openly advertise their VRR.

 

[AlienALX]

Tbh makes me sad that Sharp never thought to venture into Adaptive Sync desktop monitors... instead they decided to just close their doors on TV sales. Maybe different manufacturing equipment is needed? I'm not sure... but Panasonic made that change to try and save their panel division by making GSync monitors when I've previously never heard of a Panasonic consumer desktop monitor and only production-quality monitors with crazy price tags.

Just the typical "Hey look ! we have something new so are going to up the prices !"

Freesync was supposed to be absolutely free. Designed to work with DP and some form of HDMI IIRC and that would be pretty much any modern monitor that supports it.

Logically there is nothing to stop it working on my G-sync monitor tbh. I have the right DP connector at the right spec it's just either the module would lock it out or AMD wouldn't add it to their list because it's G-sync.

Shame. I'm certainly not about to go and throw another 525 notes at a monitor for Freesync though they can sod off.

I've been misled and conned into buying numerous so called wonder products over the years. Bit wise to it now.

 

[realneil]

I'll think of it as a step in the right direction. Adaptation usually takes a little time to happen, even if the product idea is a good one.

The prices are good enough and will only get better with time.

 

[shambles1980]

crt still better

 

[The_Mard]

Heyyo,

Just the typical "Hey look ! we have something new so are going to up the prices !"

Freesync was supposed to be absolutely free. Designed to work with DP and some form of HDMI IIRC and that would be pretty much any modern monitor that supports it.

Logically there is nothing to stop it working on my G-sync monitor tbh. I have the right DP connector at the right spec it's just either the module would lock it out or AMD wouldn't add it to their list because it's G-sync.

Shame. I'm certainly not about to go and throw another 525 notes at a monitor for Freesync though they can sod off.

I've been misled and conned into buying numerous so called wonder products over the years. Bit wise to it now.

It's up to the manufacturer is my guess. The main issue with having both on the same monitor is the Scalar. NVIDIA provides one for GSync and my guess is it's locked off to the manufacturer to modify it to work with FreeSync... so that would mean the manufactuer would have to frankenstein a monitor with both an NVIDIA Gsync Scalar Module and their own scalar for FreeSync compatibility and have some kind of toggle that will disable one or the other... that's probably the only actual way it could happen... so it would definitely bump the price up by another $100 or so just to add in a second scalar to the monitor.

crt still better

No doubt eh!? I had an old Dell I think it was an 19" CRT with I think a screen resolution of 1280x1024 that had a maximum refresh rate of 75 Hz or 120 Hz lol I can't remember. It was one of the fancy ones that had three CRT that split the monitor horizontally into three sections so each section had its own refresh. There was a very hard to see horizontal line in two spots where the outside CRTs met but yeah, that monitor was awesome for CSS.

 

[realneil]

crt still better

Yeah, as a boat anchor.

 

[shambles1980]

if they werent so huge id still use a crt lol.
better picture, better colours, better refresh rate, better viewing angles, better darkness (black) and proper light gun support that actually still works even if you side step to the left 1mm without noticing.

all i want is a slimish crt 1080p 120hz monitor.. all they give me is flat panels that i have to sit in a specific spot to play a game because if i lean back id have to turn the brightness up lol.

(thinking that the best you can get though is a 28" 80hz sony 900 thingy, but much better than any flat panel of similar spec.)

 

[NeverBackDown]

Freesync was supposed to be absolutely free. Designed to work with DP and some form of HDMI IIRC and that would be pretty much any modern monitor that supports it.

Logically there is nothing to stop it working on my G-sync monitor tbh. I have the right DP connector at the right spec it's just either the module would lock it out or AMD wouldn't add it to their list because it's G-sync.

I've been misled and conned into buying numerous so called wonder products over the years. Bit wise to it now.

AMD has nothing to do with deciding if its GSYNC compat or not. It's supported on the DP standard. Nvidia chose to lock it out through GSYNC. So yes there is something stopping it from working on your GSYNC monitor.

If you were wise you would realize that none of these monitors are being hailed as a "wonder product". Literally dozens of other freesync monitors out that do the same thing as this one. Only thing special about this is it's super cheap which probably means a TN panel and a weaker scalar that only allows a small range of FS operation.