When do you think there will be available budget G-sync monitors?

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Aiiiii

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Something like 60ghz budget version. Nothing too fancy. I'm just wondering, cos I can't spend 1k $ on a monitor. How many months do you think? Just curious. ^^
 
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Long time can mean anything from 6 months or less up to 10 years and more, depending of your definition of "long time". Any numbers you could give me? ^^
 
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Yea man but there are a lot of gamers. And gaming industry is huge. I mean dedicated graphics cards are used mostly by gamers for example, right? They release all kinds of GPUs these days, low budget, high budget, gaming specific, etc. And make a lot of money out of it. So it's not like this is tech that will be used by very little people and would not make it worth to make it mainstream. Like double CPU systems for example what are only used by relatively small group of movie makers, game makers, etc and not general population. I think you are being little too pessimistic, no? =/
 
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Someone Somewhere

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It's proprietary. Won't work with AMD cards. That's a big chunk of the market cut off to start with.

Also, the gaming market isn't necessarily as large as you might think. Many of the higher end GPUs are produced as spinoffs from the workstation/server market. GK110 hit servers long before gaming builds, for example. The whole reason the Titan was named that is that there were something like 20k of those GPUs in a supercomputer called the Titan.
 
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Well, if I would have to guess I would say around 12 months from now. Maybe 18 or something. But I'm 100% sure it will happen eventually. Saying that it will never happen is indeed unrealistically pessimistic.

G-sync technology is still very young. Currently all the released monitors are overpriced to milk the most possible money out of people who will buy them on release, plus there are not that many competition on market currently since tech is very new and not many companies makes them yet, so these who do are in good position to overprice them. But later in 2014 they will release many more G-sync monitors and there will be many companies that will make G-sync monitors and market will get more saturated. Plus everybody who would want to get them on lunch would have already spend the money and big hype will settle down. So I'm sure in a year or so time prices will drop lower. Then, once the money from rich people will be milked out, they will start to make cheaper and cheaper G-sync monitors with less Ghz, smaller resolutions, etc for budget prices to get some money out of people who can pay less.

This is how market works. Companies need to maximize their earnings. If they release budget versions too soon or lower prices too early then they will lose money. But once the hype goes down and sales settle down prices are lowered, budget versions are made and products goes on sale to squeeze as much money out as possible. So 12 to 18, maybe 24 months maximum for very cheap budget versions to come out.
 
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IMHO, there will not be a time when G-Sync is sufficiently cheap that they cost the same as comparable monitors without. That's my definition, for the moment.

However, a similar approach might be added to an actual standard. If that happens, then it will become commonplace. Otherwise, people will avoid paying money to nVidia where possible.

Also, it's Hz, not GHz. None of these monitors are pushing 60 billion frames per second.
 
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Himson Li

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Bingo!

People must bear in mind there is an early adopter tax for Gen. 1 products. Cheap versions will eventually arrive if Gen. 1 does not encounter a Waterloo defeat.

Since the NVIDIA G-sync DIY kit for the ASUS VG248QE were sold out, I think a lot of enthusiasts after Gen. 1 G-sync. G-sync's future is bright.
 
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