How much cost will gsync add to a monitor?

[wtfpieisgood]

A question to all of you who follow monitor pricing. How much of a cost do you think the device will add to the price? Using the Asus gsync monitor could be a good reference because they released all the specs and price.

[beebskadoo]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/102877-asus-rolls-out-g-sync-upgrade-kit-for-vg248qe/page-2

According to Asus....200 bucks for the upgrade kit.

[joelthezombie15]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/102877-asus-rolls-out-g-sync-upgrade-kit-for-vg248qe/page-2

According to Asus....200 bucks for the upgrade kit.

holy crap. I could buy another monitor for that price. and still have $50 left over. No thank you. 

[Stonep11]

A question to all of you who follow monitor pricing. How much of a cost do you think the device will add to the price? Using the Asus gsync monitor could be a good reference because they released all the specs and price.

Now, alot. Later, it will be the standard.

[wtfpieisgood]

A few hundred does not seem like it would be worth it. It'd be better just to get a better graphics card to eliminate the frame rate drops.

[TheRuke]

holy crap. I could buy another monitor for that price. and still have $50 left over. No thank you. 

And you would need to get a Nvidia card!

[joelthezombie15]

And you would need to get a Nvidia card!

well im planning on getting a 770 anyway so thats no big deal for me but for others thats like $500 minimum. 

[beebskadoo]

holy crap. I could buy another monitor for that price. and still have $50 left over. No thank you. 

as with any piece of tech it will go down in price over the year but that all depends on it's adoption. What Nvidia wants to do is have vendors start implementing it as the default scaler in their monitors that way adoption is done without having to rely on as much marketing. But my guess for the rice of a G-Sync enabled 60hz  23 inch monitor will be $499 USD. that'll probably be a TN panel with very low latency. Though my prediction could be wrong and it could be a 120HZ+ panel for that price. Time will tell and we shall see

[beebskadoo]

A few hundred does not seem like it would be worth it. It'd be better just to get a better graphics card to eliminate the frame rate drops.

the drops aren't the only issue that G-Sync solves, it's also the tearing and input latency caused by Vsync

[helping]

holy crap. I could buy another monitor for that price. and still have $50 left over. No thank you. 

that's currently the biggest problem with gsync. It's not going to be adopted if it's not made cheaper since right now it's kind of a catch 22. 

 

can't afford a GPU to push decent FPS? Don't have the money for it? Here's the  350~400$ and or 200$ upgrade kit to solve that there problem for ya. 

 

 

 

 

innovatin' 

[beebskadoo]

that's currently the biggest problem with gsync. It's not going to be adopted if it's made cheaper since right now it's kind of a catch 22. 

 

can't afford a GPU to push decent FPS? Don't have the money for it? Here's the  350~400$ and or 200$ upgrade kit to solve that there problem for ya. 

 

 

 

 

innovatin' 

the way Nvidia has implemented the technology to work is necessary. i.e. Kepler cards and up because it's a hardware communication that is happening not a software, with that comes a lot less issues. it is more expensive though in general but a better implementation. 

[Purple]

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/g-sync/diy

 

$199

[DrVendetta]

Steep, but for some people it might be worth it.