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Pay extra for G-sync?

ElPolloLoco561
By ElPolloLoco561
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Hello Linus people, I am deciding whether I should get a high refresh rate monitor (144 hz) for 200$ or pay another 100$ for G-sync. I have an RTX 2060 and a Ryzen 7 2700, I am pulling usually over 100+ frames. Is it true that you cannot really notice screen tearing at high fps? Is screen tearing just a natural part of PC gaming? Please help me decide I would greatly appreciate it, also my current monitor is 60hz from 5 years ago.

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You could just get a Freesync monitor, Nvidia cards since Pascal now work with that with adaptive sync feature too.

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You don’t need g sync per se. Free sync now also works with Nvidia cards 1xxx series and up. 
 

With some monitors it is still, hit and miss.

 

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Okay, so adaptive sync is what I should look for? I'm choosing between https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824236994?Item=N82E16824236994 (G sync) and https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824737005 (Free Sync it does have AMD Adaptive Sync). Sorry I probably should have posted this at the start.

 

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