Monitor help

literalG · January 25, 2017

I am having a problem looking for a good monitor to buy for my build (listed below)

I have found a good curved monitor for a decent price by Samsung (Samsung C27F591 27") ,

the thing is is that it has freesync and im not sure if it would be effective since i have a Nvidia graphics card?

wanted to know if any of you guys could tell me more about freesync and recommend any other monitors up to £300

going to be using the monitor for: gaming; adobe editing; 3D designing

specs:-

CPU - i7-6700k

GPU - GTX 1060 6GB OC

NoxiousOdor · January 25, 2017

15 minutes ago, literalG said:

I am having a problem looking for a good monitor to buy for my build (listed below)

I have found a good curved monitor for a decent price by Samsung (Samsung C27F591 27") ,

the thing is is that it has freesync and im not sure if it would be effective since i have a Nvidia graphics card?

wanted to know if any of you guys could tell me more about freesync and recommend any other monitors up to £300

going to be using the monitor for: gaming; adobe editing; 3D designing

specs:-

CPU - i7-6700k

GPU - GTX 1060 6GB OC

The monitor would be fine but you won't benefit from freesync at all. Freesync is AMD's system to sync monitor refresh rate with the AMD gpu. Nividia has a similar system called G-Sync, for the most part it works pretty much the same but unfortunately it is more expensive and generally only found on very expensive monitors. If you don't mind having a feature on your monitor that you cant use it might not be a bad choice or if you want to use the freesync it has you could also look into getting an AMD gpu.

HelplmChoking · January 25, 2017

So that's a VA panel which is better than TN,the colour quality of IPS. Then, as has already been mentioned, you won't benefit from Freesync because Nvidia refuse to allow you to use a cheaper system when they can make you pay for their own one. Depending on the games you're planning on playing, 1440p is likely going to be nicer at 27", especially for the creative stuff as you'll get a sharper image, although your 1060 won't be quite as happy with it.