There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
THAT being said. 27" 1440p 100Hz+ VA or IPS 4ms(5ms is okay) Gray to Gray is what I plan to get when I get more money sometimes in the future. That's my sweet spot for monitors. I don't have specific favorites.
I cant really say if id prefer +$200 on a GPU or G-Sync tho, but having used it I'm not sure id want to go back.
My problem with it is usually that I'm on a budget. I'd rather get a card capable of pushing more frames per second to get closer to the cap of the monitor since once you exceed that, G-Sync or FreeSync doesn't matter. On your monitor, that would admittedly be very hard. A consistent 165 FPS at 2K requires a lot of graphical power to push, but on the other side.
There's two sides of the argument in my view since I'm usually on a tight budget. 1: Buy a monitor that will last you a long time, and invest a bit more so that the G-Sync can help cover tearing until graphics cards get to where they can drive 2K 165Hz on Max Settings in demanding games with ease[[165FPS 1% lows, might be a while for something reasonably priced]]]. 2: Be willing to put the extra money into a better graphics card to start which is more capable of getting more frames, possibly deal with some tearing until better GPUs come out.
So TL;DR: I prefer framecount over tearing[To an extent]. It's fine if you prefer smooth frames over more frames, or just have the money for both.
In this case, i can definitely feel the effect of Gsync, game can drop from 144fps down to 80ish at times and without GSync you can definitely feel a loss in smoothness when scrolling the screen.
However if your game actually makes full use of your GPU and will allow you to run at 144fps then yeah i could see investing more in GPU power. but keep in mind this monitor is 2560x1440 which isn't exactly the easiest resolution to maintain 144fps with in modern games.
One small issue i will note is that i run my monitor @ 144hz instead of the @165hz overclock mode. I'm not sure exactly why, but it may be due to the mode the GPU is in when booting, but it would have issues detecting the display during the boot process until windows actually loaded and the GPU driver kicked in.
Again, I'm not sure if this was specific to my monitor/gpu or not. but it works fine to switch it back once your in Windows.