Freesync with an nvidia card

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Leotheluck

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Hello, i'm going to change my computer really soon but the problem is that i have already a lg 34uc79g screen which has 144hz and that is ultrawide so my question is, do i have to buy an amd card that has freesync( if yes ill take rx480 xf) to get the ultrawide aspect and the 144hz or will i still get the ultrawide aspect and the 144hz with nvidia cards that normally use gsync? ( if i can do that i'll take one or two 1080)
 
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13thmonkey
you may still be able to upgrade, reuse disks, case etc. tell us what you've got and a budget (when the time comes) and there might be a nice cheap performance bump available.

Freesync like Gsync holds the frame refresh on the monitor until the GPU is ready with a new frame, i.e. the GPU triggers the refresh. Normally the GPU and the screen work independently with the GPU frantically making frames as fast as it can, and the monitor just showing whatever is in the buffer (which can be a split of two frames).

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it will work with an nvidia card, and at that resolution and frequency, today, it might be faster (depending on budget), but you'll not have free sync working.

Current AMD cards will possibly struggle, BUT AMD might (might) be releasing the 490? 5XX's soon, so wait.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/55638/amd-teases-next-gen-radeon-rx-series-vega-coming/index.html

Does freesync matter, I'm using G-sync and like it, can I tell the difference (I don't know). Freesync has less of a range of operation I thought, 40-75Hz perhaps?

However, you comment 'i'm going to change my computer...' why change, why not upgrade, you'll get more for you money than going new.
 
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Leotheluck

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I'd really like to upgrade it but can't do it because i made the bad choice of taking an alienware x51, now i'll make my own pc to be able to upgrade it, however if i follow your comment, what does freesync do then?
 
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13thmonkey

13thmonkey

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you may still be able to upgrade, reuse disks, case etc. tell us what you've got and a budget (when the time comes) and there might be a nice cheap performance bump available.

Freesync like Gsync holds the frame refresh on the monitor until the GPU is ready with a new frame, i.e. the GPU triggers the refresh. Normally the GPU and the screen work independently with the GPU frantically making frames as fast as it can, and the monitor just showing whatever is in the buffer (which can be a split of two frames).

 
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