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Post by BH Vfw. Lotharludwig on Jul 29, 2014 11:36:01 GMT -6
Well I sold the new bumper pool table that no one would play on... and bought a new monitor. I got bit in the butt when I wrote a review online at AMAZON about the table and how disappointed I was in the bumpers which were more plastic than rubber, and the balls hardly came off them all. The first guy that called about the table quoted the review back to me... DOH! didn't know that I was the one that wrote it. SOOO... being the hypocrite that I am, I deleted the review. Now... if I was a REAL hypocrite, I would have copied it and rep-posted it after I sold the table... but I didn't do that. I was content with the knowledge that AMAZON quit carrying/selling that make/model of the table. It's a shame because if they had put real rubber bumpers on it and tightened up the assembly process they would have had quite a nice product. OH WELL...
I bought the BENQ GTG XL2720Z 144hz 27" monitor... and coming from a 60hz I am very hopeful that some of the game lag will go away... maybe not, but it's something that would help a lot. Most of the guys here that I have spoken with told me that they were on 120hz and I was one of the last holdouts on 60hz... so maybe I will get a little more out of it.
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Post by Hawkeye on Jul 29, 2014 15:19:04 GMT -6
....I was one of the last holdouts on 60hz... so maybe I will get a little more out of it. Not the last. But 27" just isn't big enough for me....I gotta have at least 32". I never see any....there seems to be a brick wall after 27" for 120 Hz and greater, and they never seem to break it. |
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Post by BH_Fw_Wingover on Aug 2, 2014 8:31:27 GMT -6
Well somebody sold the table to you first, and now you sold it to someone else. Happens all the time. Caveat emptor.
When I bought my house the previous owner had repainted the house with a thin coat of paint and had not prepped the walls. It looked great for a couple of weeks and then the paint started peeling - all of it. I won't mention the leak into the walls that was not discovered until the rainy season a few months later. He had painted over that too. Our house inspector missed it. (hope this won't happen to you FireCage)
If someone's life depended on it that would be another story but it doesn't so it's not. Congrats on your new monitor.
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 2, 2014 8:17:53 GMT -6
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Post by BH_Fw_Wingover on Oct 2, 2014 10:10:31 GMT -6
Wow. Beautiful stuff. Is that the latest card?
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Post by BH Uffz. Belfast on Oct 2, 2014 12:17:42 GMT -6
Nice parts Hawkeye top of line I have Asus p8Z77 WS motherboard with 32 gig ram,that I built 2 years ago.I like Asus stuff my daughter has one of their laptops.When I did build went with Evga 780 with 4gb.I also put in I7- 3770k processor. You can build system and 8 months later there is something faster more memory.Seems like as soon as you get build done it is already ancient.Like you choices I know Evga has Titan series 1,099.00 for card.I put in Corsair 32 gb Vengence Lp I have always had good luck with Corsair and my board is made for overclocking.I keep getting blue screen saying memory management error when I finally figured out what it was it turns out it was bad stick of memory. Corsair made it good but small things can reek havoc.I think I paid 350.00 for memory just one of those pieces that got by.Your card and monitor seems top notch.
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 2, 2014 15:57:51 GMT -6
Latest card....maybe right now. But it is not the only card with G-Sync capability. The point is what G-Sync does that the current V-Sync in the game does not. From my understanding, which is admittedly lacking, is that with V-sync enabled right now, the video card game frame rate can only run at the max monitor refresh rate (which would be true of any technology), or fractions there of. Say if your card could give you 130 fps, but your monitor's max rate is 60 Hz, and you have V-sync enabled (like most do to eliminate tearing), the game would never run at higher than 60 fps; but if you used higher settings and your card's ability to render dropped below 60 Hz to say 51 fps, the game would then run at 30 fps due to V-sync needing to have even multiples and then rendering each frame twice. I don't know what happens in every situation but I think tearing is still possible. Apparently G-Sync causes the monitor to refresh at whatever rate the card can deliver, up to it's max rate of say 144 Hz, or whatever; then possibly the card would deliver that rate if it could deliver more. I think the main advantage is no tearing ever, and of course no blurring due to the monitor's higher refresh rate capability and the video card's ability to sync to the monitor (or vice-versa?) at the exact refresh rate that the video card can deliver. That is to say, if you were flying over a detailed city at high resolution and your card's frame rate dropped to 51 fps or whatever, the monitor would run at 51 Hz or whatever....while the other guy's might have to drop to 30, or less. I don't know, just watch this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgquRkMHgwE |
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Post by Hawkeye on Nov 15, 2014 8:24:15 GMT -6
Update: Apparently that ASUS monitor (ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q 144 Hz) is like gold right now. NOBODY has them available for their "normal" price; only resellers who have a few and I have seen the price anywhere from well over $1,000.00 to over $2,000.00, and some of those are "remanufactured". You can find it listed at Newegg for it's normal price at $799.99, but of course none are in stock and they give no idea when, if ever, they'll get some. I've had an auto-notify active at that site for almost a couple of months now, and nothing. Yesterday I did a wider search and found nothing in stock of course, but this one site was taking "pre-orders". They have orders in to ASUS for a total of around 255 units, and at this time have received pre-orders for 187 of those. They're charging $777.47 and that includes shipping. They claim the due-in date is late November and beginning of December ("this may be adjusted"). They don't charge you until it actually ships. The price is not absolutely guaranteed but if it changes you do not get charged and can refuse the order with no fees charged. Anyway, this is the site: www.shopblt.com/I was pretty suspicious at first, but the farther this has progressed the more legitimate it seems to be. Here is the main info the latest order confirmation I've received: Item Unit Extended Qty ID # Description Price Price --- -------- -------------------------- ------------ ------------ 001 BXN4321 27IN 2560X1440P 144HZ RR 777.47 777.47 G-SYNC MONITOR 1MS (NO RETURNS OR EXCHANGES) MFG #: PG278Q ETA TO WAREHOUSE: 11/21/14 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Purchase Sub Total: $777.47 Shipping: 0.00 Handling: 0.00 Sales Tax: 0.00 Order Total: $777.47 If any of you guys are interested or looking for one of these monitors you might want to check out that site. However be warned this is not a recommendation at all since I've never dealt with this company before so you'd have to make your own judgment. All I can say is that they do have a secure server check-out and the whole process so far has every indication of being from a legitimate company that intends to fulfill these orders. I'll keep you updated on any developments. If I end up actually getting one of the monitors, I will at that time also purchase a G-Sync capable video card, probably an MSI GTX 980 series. I'm not sure what I'll do with my 32" 1080p 60 Hz monitor or my GTX 680 2GB card. They are both in perfect working order and have been extremely reliable for me. |
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Post by Hawkeye on Nov 29, 2014 14:55:36 GMT -6
Received updated "ETA into warehouse" of 12/01/14. Pretty much expected this, surprised that they even showed a date that soon. More "updates" expected. No surprise there since nobody but scalpers selling them at extreme prices seem to have any. I'm pretty far down the list anyway so a lot depends on the number they receive. I still feel like I'll get one sometime in the future at the normal price.
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Post by Hawkeye on Jan 18, 2015 12:24:10 GMT -6
Final update:
I finally cancelled my order; I suppose it was too good to be true. Each time a "due into the warehouse" date would come, they would send out another email and simply advance the due-in date by two weeks. By the time the date got advanced to the beginning of February, I had had enough. So I was unable to get the ASUS ROG Swift 27" monitor for the "normal" price anywhere.
Although I was looking forward to the performance increase of having a 144 Hz refresh rate, I still had reservations about going from a 32" screen to a 27" one. I especially didn't want to finally receive a 27" unit, only to find out that a 32" one becomes available later. So I will just wait and hope that ASUS or somebody else decides to market one soon.
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Post by BH_Fw_Wingover on Jan 18, 2015 18:05:45 GMT -6
I'm sure you are not in the mood of receiving platitudes but, when a door closes, another one opens.
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Post by Hawkeye on Jan 19, 2015 7:49:36 GMT -6
So I hope. I'm not exactly suffering right now though, so it's not a problem  |
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