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how much of a difference can your monitor make to your PC gaming I need an acronym we're here take a look an Nvidia g-sync technology this is a new approach from Nvidia that basically says we're going to take the video card that you have in your gaming PC and we're going to allow to talk to one of a handful of new monitors that have Nvidia technology built into it and what it basically does is it takes the refresh rate of the monitor and the frame rate from the video card in your computer and allows those two to sync up so basically your computer no matter how powerful the video cards in it will only kick out a full frame of new mana mayshen when the monitor is ready to receive a full frame what that does is that eliminates what we call tearing where you sort of see a half drawn a frame on the screen so that this kind of you see the whole picture but this sort of some horizontal lines across it worked a little bit out of sync so the in effect is without that tearing the image will seem smoother you almost get the illusion of having a higher framerate than you actually do from the game so the first thing we do is enable g-sync right here we've got a really big powerful main gear desktop computer with three nvidia geforce gtx 980 graphics cards and it pretty much the high end graphics card we're gonna see a pendulum swinging here and this monitor is the non g-sync one and you're gonna be able to see this very obvious tearing back and forth here as the frames being written by the computer are not exactly in sync with a refresh rate of the monitor and over here on this side it looks completely smooth so even though the frame rate is exactly the same on these this looks nicer and smoother and almost like you have a more powerful computer driving it and I can even spin the camera around here and you can see that effect happening on the pillars here as well here very smooth and here you get a little bit of a tearing right there so it's much more interesting to see this in a game we can throw out the built-in benchmark and Metro last light a very challenging PC game to run even now and you're gonna be able to see a couple of examples even though we're running this at very high detail levels at 2560 by 1440 resolution I would look up here at this sign right behind these soldiers here and as we look at it on the on the regular monitor you're gonna see some of those horizontal lines and if we look at it on the G sync monitor you're not gonna see that if you look at a lot of TV reviews it's similar to something that they called Agenor kind of video smoothing or sometimes a soap opera effect on TVs it's often overdone here in a game it actually just makes a game look nicer and smoother so in order for this to work you have to have a fairly recent Nvidia graphics card a GTX series and you need to have in a g-sync compatible monitor and you can find that in the description of the Vanar we have an Isuzu model right here and there'll be a big sticker on it that says g-sync and of course they cost more than regular monitors they'll be up to you to decide whether or not this smoother look is worth it it'll be really interesting to see what happens when they start building this into more monitors and even laptop display I'm Dan Akron and that is look at videos vsync technology