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And here I am using a seven year old Vizio TV

How do you like gaming on it?

Is Freesync on 1080ti working flawlessly with this monitor?

Does the panel exibit a lot of backlight bleed?

@i_build_nanosuits
So yeah, I had a few hours to play with the monitor and while gameplay is literally AMAZING, it did have some issues with G-Sync out-of-the-box.
Mainly, I had to increase the maximum refresh rate of the monitor by 1Hz using CRU because some games caused the monitor to blackscreen when FreeSync, 144Hz and HDR were ON simultaneously. It works perfect now so far though, for both Fullscreen and Windowed applications!

The monitor was detected automatically by Nvidia driver as "G-Sync Compatible" but it's not verified yet, probably because it barely launched. With this trick all games seem to work without issues now! And the gameplay is REALLY buttery smooth, I gotta say you did not exaggerate when you described the feel of 144Hz + G-Sync of your monitor It's just amazing.

The colour reproduction of this panel is also top-notch for a gaming display, it's something that really stands out because this monitor is feature-packed and is aimed at gamers.
It has a panel advertised as 10-bit, but in reality it's 8-bit with FRC (Frame Rate Control) and it has significantly better colour reproduction than the other monitor I have which is old, but also IPS and it was aimed at professionals at the time

One other thing - It has a great feature that makes FreeSync just as good as G-Sync called LFC (Low Framerate Compensation) which effectively increases FreeSync range that's 48-144Hz because when FPS dip below 48, it starts refreshing the monitor twice as fast to 1. get into FreeSync range again and 2. increase smoothness and eliminate tearing and stuttering. Never happened to me so far on the 1080Ti, but some game may push it at some point to that limit
Here's a short description of LFC: https://www.amd.com/Documents/freesync-lfc.pdf

As for the bad - Backlight bleed is unfortunately fairly visible in one corner of the monitor (the one where you usually have your Start Menu in Windows). It's not visible when playing games (only on black loading screens) but it bothers me a little.

The problem is that I can obviously return the monitor for a replacement, but AFAIK due to limited availability the next delivery to our retailers will be in a month. So the store will most likely offer me a refund, playing the waiting game for the next delivery or choosing something else. And all the choices in this price range are VA panels that have similar features sized at 27", 31.5" with 144Hz or 34" Ultrawide 100Hz... They're better for watching movies than IPS but have poorer colours.
 

I repeatedly "flamed" Nvidia for having a huge G-Sync tax, but the fact that I can now use a FreeSync monitor with an Nvidia card and still benefit from VRR (variable refresh rate) is just amazing.

I'm very glad I got the 1080Ti instead of a Vega 64!

Btw. Linus posted a review of this monitor on LMG Floatplane exactly the same day as it was delivered to me So I watched it on the very same monitor, haha.
It should be on YouTube in a few days, he recommended it and praised the colours of the panel which is the same thing that I can do

EDIT: One more thing that I'm yet to figure out about this monitor, when using 144Hz, display information looks like that:


But when I tune the refresh rate down to 120Hz, color bit depth is not shown as 8-bit with dithering, but as 10-bit.
8-bith with dithering is most likely 8-bit + FRC (which is a type of dithering used to produce colours that are enough for a HDR certification) but it is advertised as 10-bit and you can indeed enable 10-bit but at 120Hz. I didn't notice any colour difference though.

@Morgan MLGman yes i have IPS glow/lightbleed on my monitor as well, it's been there since i got it and i think most of them exibit some...but the reality is usually you only see it when there is nothing going on the screen...mine is pretty bad actually, but it's not an issue while gaming so i'm fine with it...it's ok. It's the little trade off to have outstanding colors that really pop.

Glad Freesync work well...i know about LFC it's doing the same thing the Gsync module is showing frames twice to simulate 24FPS for example the screen refresh at 48hz and show the frame twice...

So you're getting the flawless experience now, you see EVERY frame your PC is pushing out...it's a good feeling knowing you finally get all the performance you paid for out of your machine... no screen tearing what so ever, make games look sharper in motion and smoother...it's incredible...animations feel like real life smooth...

@i_build_nanosuits Yeah, you were totally right about the experience! It's amazing and the smoothness is just breathtaking sometimes.

Can you try to take a picture of that backlight bleed? I don't know how much is "acceptable", it's not a big issue to me but I wanted to know if mine is particularly bad (of course I know that it looks worse than it is on pictures). My older IPS monitor is lit by CCFLs and not by LEDs and it doesn't have ANY backlight bleed because of that, and I cannot compare them directly. It's hot and draws a lot of power as a trade-off though.

I considered a VA panel because it's good for watching movies but I put gaming as the #1 priority and I'm not disappointed, the colours are simply put amazing

I haven't personally seen G-Sync in action but I suppose it can't be much better than the experience I'm getting, I can't imagine to have the game play any smoother than it already does on the Aorus monitor!

I'm yet to grasp all of the features of this monitor as it has quite a few useful ones (like on-screen display that works even in games that block RTSS OSD natively because it's rendered by the monitor itself) and thanks to the software that can manage every setting of this monitor I can actually bind features to key combinations on my keyboard so I don't even have to alt+tab to enable some features.


I think I can honestly say that only now my PC and all the work and money put into it can give me back the experience that I wanted from it when playing games

@Morgan MLGman Yes i will take a picture tonight...
If you play a darker game like maybe doom or something...does it interfere with your gaming, do you notice it much?
For me personally it can only get a little annoying if a game gets very dark with very little lighting then i notice it...the blacks on my monitor aren't excellent i must admit...it has great colors, but the blacks kind of sucks IMHO...my oculus rift for example is doing a much better job at accurately displaying very dark scenes.

@i_build_nanosuits Correction: HDR does not work in all games with FreeSync (G-Sync) enabled... I thought I fixed it but it seems to work in some games, while blackscreen in others... So it means I won't be using it at the time, FreeSync > HDR to me  
It's the most basic HDR certification and when I enable it in Windows it doesn't really look any better to me honestly so it's not a huge trade-off
Especially that we know that using HDR in games on Nvidia's 10-series cards causes a performance hit.

It's nice that I can be fully sure if FreeSync is working or not - my monitor can display its current refresh rate on-screen when playing games so I can compare the refresh rate number to the FPS, I also downloaded the G-Sync Pendulum Demo and it's a huge difference compared to V-Sync On/Off setting. Also, it's not stuck at 144Hz when FreeSync is enabled so that's a quite clear indicator if VRR is working or not, haha