You should check out these hi-tech monitors if you have an expensive gaming PC
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Indeed, these technologies are designed to make your games perform smoothly by making your monitor and graphics card work together to produce a frame-rate they can agree on, and stick to it so there's no variation.
"Great!" you say, "where can I buy one?"
Not so fast. Monitors with these technologies are much more expensive than monitors without. Think hundreds of dollars extra, especially for the 4K models.
Why are they good?
Without these technologies, some games can stutter slightly, especially when games play under the coveted 60 frames-per-second (fps). That stutter is just noticeable enough to be annoying. (If you want to see the frame-rate of your gameplay, you can download a small and free app called "Fraps" that will show you.)
"Great!" you exclaim again. "I plan on playing game over 60 fps!"
If you can play games at over 60 frames-per-second, monitors without these special NVidia and AMD technologies might not be able to keep up with the sheer number of frames your graphics card is producing, which can lead to "screen tearing."
For example, if your graphics card plays a game at 90 fps on a screen that has a refresh rate of 60Hz (essentially 60 fps), it could look like this:
Notice how the wall looks jagged when I move quickly in "Battlefield 4." That's not a good look, especially when you've just spent a lot of money on a high-end gaming rig.
Should you get a "gaming" monitor with this tech?
If you like video games a lot and you spent a lot of money on a gaming computer, it's certainly something to consider. Without it, you might be disappointed with the fact that you spent so much on a computer and end up with stuttering or screen tearing in games.
You're basically going to run into some sort of unwanted distortion unless you somehow achieve the nominal 60 fps at a constant rate, which is very hard to do without the proper computer parts and the G-Sync of FreeSync tech.
That said, it's not essential for your enjoyment of the game you're playing. I never found that I enjoyed my games any less without a G-Sync monitor. It simply makes it look "better."
If you're a casual gamer, or you're on a tight budget, it's absolutely not worth the extra hundreds, and you'll do just fine with a regular monitor. Simple as that.
Let me at least look at them!
For you NVidia users out there, here's your choice for G-Sync monitors.
And for the AMD loyalists looking for FreeSync, this is you're choice.
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