Can anyone speak to refurbished monitors quality from woot? High chance on receiving a horrible blb monitor? Thats a fantastic price and I'm in the market for a gsync monitor.
Nevermind, it sold out.
G-Sync is the god-level gaming upgrade.
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Can anyone speak to refurbished monitors quality from woot? High chance on receiving a horrible blb monitor? Thats a fantastic price and I'm in the market for a gsync monitor.
Nevermind, it sold out.
Was it brand new or refurb? Hoping those high refresh VA monitors hit by like the end of the year..
Not a lot to choose from right now..
Brand spanking new.
I wouldn't go near the refurbished ones with a 1000ft pole personally. It's hard enough getting a decent build on a brand new one.
I'll probably just end up going with a 24" 1080p GSYNC until the bigger/higher res monitors come with better QA.
I've got an open-box Asus PG279Q coming tomorrow. Amazon Warehouse list every little scratch and dead pixel, so I know it has neither of those, but if it's returned, I'm betting it has some other issue that they just don't list. Packaging is damaged which is why it was knocked down, so I'm hoping I get lucky.
Word of warning - I did this too and got sent a PG278Q in the 279 packaging. I'm guessing people are running a scam by keeping the 279 and sending back a 278, and Amazon don't check close enough to realise it's the wrong (TN-based) model and they just stick it on Warehouse.
Just picked up an LG 34UM88C-P, and even though it is listed on AMDs website and various retailers as having 75HZ Freesync, I am maxing at 60HZ.... This is super disappointing. Is it worth going through the hassle to send it back and find a monitor with 75Hz? Or is there a way to get 75Hz out of this monitor?
Love my AOC G2460PG. Took a while to get the colours right, but it looks fantastic and is one of the cheaper (if not, the cheapest) g-sync monitors out there. Aesthetically I'm not over the moon about the green stripe, but that's hardly anything to get worked up about.
Got one last week from Amazon Warehouse and it has a stuck pixel, was not impressed as I chose one that was listed as pristine with damaged packaging so be aware there might be other issues with it.
Nice. I just ordered one from Newegg. I really hope to keep this one...
Did you have to mess around with colour profiles (I hate using these) to get the colours right? Or just OSD? Mind posting your settings?
Everything was done through the OSD. Here are my settings:
Contrast 55
Brightness 100
Gamma 1
Overdrive Light
R 57
G 60
B 62
I don't mind burning my eyeballs out so these settings work great for me. Everything is very colourful and vibrant.
I arrived at these settings using this site's calbration as a base: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/aoc-g2460pg-g-sync-monitor,4005-3.html I found colours looked too muted though, which is why I dialed up the contrast. Gamma 2 I found to be too washed out. And I prefer my monitor to be a bit colder than warm, so I bumped up the blue by 1.
mixmixmixmix
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I have a BenQ XL2420G I picked up in the fall. I really do love this gsync tech. My eyeballs would bleed a little with heavy screen tearing games (Shadow of Mordor I'm looking at you). The monitor was expensive but after my korean 1440p IPS broke I went back down to 1080p and am frankly happy with it. Not all games could scale to 1440p and keep up a solid framerate. 1080p gsync @ 144 is a blessing. PC GAMING!!!!!!!!
Thanks I'll check this out!
Well cock, I thought if they listed every imperfection they would have at least checked it. Oh well, I'll annoy them until they send someone to pick it up if it's not up to scratch when it comes.
Kabuki Waq
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maybe they improved the quality of monitors since launch. I'm hoping
They did, they change the model numbers to reflect the improved one too
http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...-monitors-subjected-to-ips-glow-and-backlight
Atraveller
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Check for backlight-bleed, every PG279Q has it, but some I've seen are ridiculous.
SinSilla
Member
The 34UM has an official freesync Range of 48-60hz? At least thats what it says on the US LG product page.
http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34UM88C-P-ultrawide-monitor
The 34UC88/98 on the other hand have an official Range of 48-75HZ, this is as well on the LG US Homepage.
I know the lower limit can be modified, i don't know if your panel can be overclocked to 75Hz though.
That was the plan, but I;ve got the wrong power lead!
Kabuki Waq
Member
good to know plan on building a new pc end of October. maybe price will go down a bit too.
Sigh, why can't they offer this in Europe too? I am also one of the affected owners.
Atraveller
Banned
Try only turn off G-Sync for borderless window?
So funny story, I went out last night and got drunk to the point where I don't remember coming home. When I took delivery, I was balancing on that line of hungover and still being drunk. Now that I've had a nap, I discovered the power lead was in the box all along...
Anyway! Panel looks great from backlight bleed and pixels, clocked up to 165Hz fine too. Its a bright day and there's only Venetian blinds in that took so its still too bright a day to say the backlight perfectly finez but I'll look tonight.
Anyway! Panel looks great from backlight bleed and pixels, clocked up to 165Hz fine too. Its a bright day and there's only Venetian blinds in that took so its still too bright a day to say the backlight perfectly finez but I'll look tonight.
Yeah no dice. Not sure what's the problem, maybe the refresh rate or whatever. I will just deal with the window bar at the top.
Definitely worth it still. FastSync is only really for generally hitting 2-3 times above your refresh rate consistently, which I can only do that on one game I play frequently (CSGO).
I also don't experience 144fps+ constantly on some games with everything maxed.
I'm kind of not so impressed with G-Sync. I bought the Acer 27" 144hz IPS and I can barely notice a difference. Yeah, when I move windows around inside of Windows, they're more smooth, but I don't think I'd ever consider this a "godly" upgrade and have a bit of buyers remorse. I'm glad I didn't drop $1300 on a 34" with G-Sync like I had originally planned to do.
While G-Sync is great, I think the reason it impresses people is because typically they go from 60hz to a 144hz+ G-sync monitor, and the real game changer is the high refresh rate. If I turn G-Sync off and play something in borderless window or cap framerates properly with Rivatuner, it tends to be a nearly identical experience for the most part.
G-sync just takes out a lot of the tinkering or fiddling with v-sync issues in games so it's an exceptionally nice thing to have alongside a high refresh rate, which is the real "god-level" gaming upgrade imo.
DonMigs85
Member
An Anandtech editor said the same thing as well - when you already have a 144Hz display, G-Sync is more of a cherry on top.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9097/the-amd-freesync-review/5
I went from 60Hz to 144 + Gsync, I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but it really isn't that noticable. I play mostly Overwatch and Dota2. :|
crazepharmacist
Member
Are there any HDR G-sync monitors?
Have you tried going back to 60fps in Overwatch?
What's the benefit of borderless window vs full screen?
Borderless windowed let's you alt+tab painlessly
DonMigs85
Member
I've heard it can impose a slight performance and input lag penalty, at least for the Dolphin emulator.
Prophet Steve
Member
And applies Windows triple buffering.
They were asking about the benefit
Perhaps I'm mistaken but doesn't that do nothing when you use gsync.
Nope, it will create display lag regardless of your monitor.
This MAY not be the case for Windows Store titles now, IIRC.
I wouldn't call it a benefit, It applies a form of v-sync ("real" triple buffering). Combined with an fps limit it can be a really effective solution.
No point in doing it for g-sync users that I know of really unless you just like playing games in borderless window (or like some input lag).
Yeah I just meant in terms of benefits.
There are no HDR computer monitors, G-sync or otherwise.