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AMD Freesync Monitors & Reviews Thread

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Well that was sort of painless. I called BenQ about the firmware update and they even told me they would send me a UPS shipping label.

Sweet.
 
RaulF said:
Well that was sort of painless. I called BenQ about the firmware update and they even told me they would send me a UPS shipping label.

Sweet.
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Good on them. :thumbsup:

It can't be cheap to ship a monitor, hope you saved most of your packaging!
 
RaulF said:
Well that was sort of painless. I called BenQ about the firmware update and they even told me they would send me a UPS shipping label.

Sweet.
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This might be worth it's own thread to let everyone know how it goes. Hopefully it will be a quick turn around.
 
Eymar said:
Nice overdrive is fixed. If Fury is a match for 980ti and XF+FS works by release time then this is most likely next monitor.
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Agree, only thing I'm iffy about is the limited freesync range and no motion blur reduction. Based on the review it seems freesync isn't really needed over 90hz.

I wonder if anyone else will release a competing 27", 1440p, ips, 144hz, freesync monitor.
 
First 3440x1440 IPS or *VA freesync that's not actively bad gets my money. I hope that that ASUS is a good example of how much extra performance can be gotten out of panels and they can do something similar for the UM95's panel.
 
ImDonly1 said:
Agree, only thing I'm iffy about is the limited freesync range and no motion blur reduction. Based on the review it seems freesync isn't really needed over 90hz.

I wonder if anyone else will release a competing 27", 1440p, ips, 144hz, freesync monitor.
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The BenQ freesync monitor has motion blur reduction, but you can't use motion blur reduction and freesync (or gsync) at the same time.

If you go back to vsync, you'll be able to have framerates of 144hz, 72hz, 36hz, 18hz.... and so on. Ultimately not much better than just staying at 60hz. 90Hz is tempting though, since the first drop would be to 45hz which is still pretty smooth and within range of most systems to achieve.
 
Reads like a very good review, might be on my shopping list this autumn.

It's actually pretty amazing how fast AMD caught up with FreeSync and monitor availability, even though they were late to the party. The best thing is that FreeSync holds to it's name, the similar Acer G-Sync screen is whooping 200 pounds more expensive.
 
a good quality 1080p low response time 30 - 75 hz monitor under $200 would be the way to promote freesync. Would cover the majority of the market most likley. All these costly monitors don't matter to most.
 
Azix said:
a good quality 1080p low response time 30 - 75 hz monitor under $200 would be the way to promote freesync. Would cover the majority of the market most likley. All these costly monitors don't matter to most.
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Since it's being marketed for gaming I doubt we'll see <120Hz for a while. Right now they start @ $226 without VRR. It might be a while before VRR becomes the defacto standard so it's on everything.
 
ImDonly1 said:
The review is out
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_mg279q.htm
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The Asus ROG Swift PG278Q and Acer XB270HU (IPS panel) showed very low lag at all refresh rates, since they do not have a scaler at all because of the NVIDIA G-sync module. If you are gaming at 144Hz then there's next to no signal processing lag at all which is great news. For 90Hz and below when using FreeSync there is a moderate lag of about 13 - 14 ms signal processing. Should be ok for most people although those playing very competitive games might find it a little high.
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is that a full frame of latency?
 
Acer XG270HU and Asus MG279Q both are missung ulmb, leaving only the BenQ XL2730Z (which has other issues). Kind of a pathetic situation right now for these freesync monitors. Very sad considering HBM amd cards coming out soon.

Looks like Acer XB270HU is still the easy king?
 
ComputerGuy2006 said:
Acer XG270HU and Asus MG279Q both are missung ulmb, leaving only the BenQ XL2730Z (which has other issues). Kind of a pathetic situation right now for these freesync monitors. Very sad considering HBM amd cards coming out soon.

Looks like Acer XB270HU is still the easy king?
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Which issues are those? If you're referring to the overdrive + Freesync issue, they resolved that in the latest firmware.
 
Elfear said:
Which issues are those? If you're referring to the overdrive + Freesync issue, they resolved that in the latest firmware.
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I have not taken a close look at it, but the tftcentral had listed some issues. Even if those are all resolved with the latest firmware, its still a TN panel compared to the IPS panel of the Acer XB270HU.

So right now the choice seems obvious, the due to the stupid prices on nvidia cards I keep my eyes open to AMD options.
 
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