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Doesn’t...doesn’t everyone use that? It’s a perfectly useable word, and easily gets OPs point across.

Well, technically, my card never gave out it was just super slow. Triple A games at 720 low could maybe, maybe, get upper teen, lower 20 fps. The worst part was when I bought big games like monster hunter world when they went on sale, knowing full well I couldn’t play it until I got a better gpu. Had that in my library for months before I could play it edit: and your 550 ti was way more than double the performance of my 5570. So take that. My card sucked more

I’m seeing all these people saying that’s it’s time to upgrade their 1060s/1080s to a 20 or 30 series card, while I’m sitting here, having upgraded my only pc from an AMD 5570 to a 2080 ti last year of course that’s an extreme, but I don’t think every generation or every other generation is worth upgrading from. How often do you guys upgrade?

Oooooohhhhhhh, i guess i never realized the "brought to you buy". That makes so much sense. Now i feel dumb lol

This has confused me for a while, and ive always forgotten to ask, and finally remembered today. In the TechLinked channel, in nearly every video, the host says "and now time for the quick bits" and then give the sponser of the video. But then after the sponser, they say "time for quick bits" again! im so confused. i know its a stupid post but whatever

So awhile ago I heard about something called Nvidia Optimus in laptops with Nvidia cards. How can I tell if a laptop i want will have this feature? Or do all Nvidia cards automatically have it? and does it only work with Intel CPUs, or do AMD ones work as well? Speaking of AMD, do their cards have a feature similar to this?

banned for not giving the specs of the computer your trapped in

Thanks for the info. With 10-bit color, uncompressed, DP 1.4 can only 4k 98hz, right?

So after all this time of having DP 1.4, this really is the first monitor with it? And can GeForce cards use it?

So Asus announced a 4k/120hz/Freesync 2/600 HDR/43" Monitor at CES, the Strix XG438Q. Recently, Asus announced a 4k/144hz/Freesync 2/1000 HDR/43" probably because of the unexpected competition from Acer. Physically, it looks just like the XG438Q. We don't know if this is a premium version, or if the base version has been upgraded. The thing that confuses me and what my question is about, is that Asus said that the newly announced 144/1000 nit version is the first monitor ever to have DSC. And this website (https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/asus_rog_and_amd_reveals_the_world_s_first_display_stream_compression_monitor/1) says that it's only available on AMD's Radeon Navi RX 5700 series of GPUs. I thought that DisplayPort 1.4 had DSC built in and just using the cord means it's on/being used. And does this mean that even if I get this monitor (which I probably will) my RTX 2080 ti won't be able to use the DSC? (BTW right now I have a 43" 1080p 60hz, over HDMI, so its not like I've wasted money expecting the DSC to work.

Sorry. I forgot to write my question. It's leaked that this will cost around $1299. That seems like a pretty good price when compared to the Asus pg27uq. The only real advantage that the pg27uq has is g-sync. Why is the Acer cg437kp so 'cheap'? Is there any drawbacks I haven't noticed?

This “monitor” looks perfect! I’ve been waiting for the xg438q from asus, which is 4K, 120hz, HDR 600, and freesync 2. The Acer cg437kp is 4k, 144hz, HDR 1000, and has freesync. The Acer one seems better in every way, AND it's (supposedly) cheaper than the estimated price of the xg438q. The only downsides I can see are that it doesn't have wall mounting, and it only has normal freesync, not freesync 2, which doesn't matter for me because I have a Nvidia card.( Nvidia cards can't take advantage of freesync 2, right? If you use a freesync 2 monitor, it won't be any different than a normal freesync one, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong. I would like to know. ) So hyped for this monitor. Right now I'm using a 43" 1080p 60hz with RTX 2080 ti. I love the size. Can't go smaller.

Ok thanks.

So, I've been seeing things everywhere about the 'raytraced Minecraft'. And everyone arguing that it's path tracing, not RTX. Even though it isn't part of the official RTX brand, would these path tracing games/shaders utilise the RT cores in a RTX card?

Honestly, the notch isn't that big of a deal. I have an XR and thought the notch would get anoying, especially while playing games or watching videos, but it's really no problem.

Any word on the release date of the Asus ROG XG32VQR and the ROG XG49VQ? The were supposed to be out by the end of January. Or at least a word on pricing?

I have been wondering this too. From what I have discovered, all Freesync 2 monitors also support normal Freesync. And in the big Google docs with a growing list of Freesync monitors, all Freesync 2 monitors seem to work flawlessly (after some firmware updates). I guess that because Freesync 2 monitors have better standards and bigger VRR windows , those higher standards are also used on the normal Freesync on those monitors. This is just my observations but I don't think Nvidia officially supports Freesync 2. Link to the VRR google docs. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ej9mOe5NamLldpfyFfXrqvLMZP-aG2Zi1su7QzPRNJY/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true Edit:. I have no idea how the HDR will work

Ok thanks. I did read the other posts, but a lot of them seemed to disagree on the quality of VA

What about VA panels used in high end monitors? Like the ones Asus will release later with 4k 120h hz HDR and Freesync 2. https://rog.asus.com/articles/gaming-monitors/the-43-rog-strix-xg438q-does-big-screen-gaming-with-freesync-hdr-2-at-4k-and-120hz/ Will this be fine for gaming? It's obviously directed towards gamers. BTW: Im posting this as a question not as a monitor recommendation.

Thanks again for all the info. But I have one question that I asked in another thread that was never answered. Can Freesync be used with display port 1.4 DSC ? And how exactly does the DSC work? Is the compression always on or is there a way to activate it? If the graphics card and monitor support DSC, is it on by default? It can't be used with G-Sync monitors because the module dosent support it. I want to know because without DSC, Displayport can't do 4k/120hz/10-bit/4:4:4. It will max out at 98hz with HDR on.

Ok. Thanks. Even if I'm not getting the 43", I'm probably going to wait for spring to buy a new monitor anyway.

Yeah I agree. 1440p is the sweet spot with todays hardware, but I need a 4k panel for photo editing.

Well, a single 2080 ti struggles to get Monster hunter world at 60 on 4k ultra. There are of course some useless stuff that can be turned off like motion blur *gag*

what kind of rig can even do 4k 144hz?

well, better than a BFGD I guess.