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First let me confess to some crimethink. I am planning to build a desktop in the coming summer, hoping to jump on Broadwell-E and Pascal. In preparation, I shelled out for a G-sync monitor recently. At the minimum I thought I'd be getting the larger screen estate and higher refresh rate (not complaining about my AW18 doing 100 Hz but still..), while all my Google searches about running G-sync on an external display using a non-supported GPU (780M SLI) led me to believe that I won't get to enjoy G-sync just yet.
And indeed that was the case for my first week on the new monitor as I had to resort to using the HDMI cable (which also limits me to 1440p @ 60 Hz) . Today I got my Displayport-mini Displayport cable and rushed to plug it in. As I unleashed the 120 Hz refresh (144 is unfortunately not supported by GPU's below GTX 960), I noticed the G-sync menu options in NVIDIA Control Panel (currently on 359.06)!
I've since tested using NVIDIA's pendulum demo and the difference is noticeable when comparing G-sync vs. 120 Hz no-sync. The contrast is even greater when comparing G-sync against 60 Hz no-sync.
Maybe this is old news to some of you but for the benefit of others who might wanna know, G-sync CAN work on external monitors even with older-gen mobile GPU's!
AW18 w/ 780M: G-Sync on external monitor? Why YES!
Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by sponge_gto, Dec 11, 2015.
