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I am going to buy a GTX 1080, and I am looking for a monitor but right now the only affordable 1440p monitor I see is Acer XG270HU. But as it's a Freesync monitor... so will a Nvidia GPU work with a Freesync monitor. What will be the drawbacks?

 

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As far as I know you can still use the monitor, but the frames won't adaptively sync. 

I am not aware of any drawbacks apart from that...

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Yeah there are no draw backs besides not being able to use the adaptive sync. It will just perform as whatever refresh rate it's rated at

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2 minutes ago, Fattedd said:

As far as I know you can still use the monitor, but the frames won't adaptively sync. 

I am not aware of any drawbacks apart from that...

*Noob Alert* What is adaptive Sync?  

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5 minutes ago, ManuBhai said:

*Noob Alert* What is adaptive Sync?  

basically freesync, the monitor syncing its refresh rate with the rate the gpu is putting its frames out

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5 minutes ago, ManuBhai said:

*Noob Alert* What is adaptive Sync?  

Generic term of G-Sync or Freesync.  If I remember correctly, monitor actually communicates with GPU, and adjusts frames to output of GPU which should in theory prevent tearing, and stuff.  

 

Here, this should be helpful.  I'd imagine AFAP did a G-Sync video as well.  Long story short.  Freesync is a universal standard, not so much Nvidia. 

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7 minutes ago, ManuBhai said:

*Noob Alert* What is adaptive Sync?  

its what free sync and g-sync are lol. but yeah that video

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13 minutes ago, ManuBhai said:

Hi!

 

I am going to buy a GTX 1080, and I am looking for a monitor but right now the only affordable 1440p monitor I see is Acer XG270HU. But as it's a Freesync monitor... so will a Nvidia GPU work with a Freesync monitor. What will be the drawbacks?

 

 

tell me if it works at the desired refresh rate without the adaptive sync :D.

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On 10/29/2016 at 10:47 AM, IAEInferno said:

tell me if it works at the desired refresh rate without the adaptive sync :D.

It will. It will behave like any other monitor, apart for the Freesync/G-sync part not being used.

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