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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

Their problem is that the alternative they've given to you turn out to be one of the best gaming monitors available and, as such, it is pricey.

See I know they could have gone for a better or different ideas but they simply went for "buy a more expensive product that does exactly the same thing you wanted originally with virtually no difference other than tiny differences and brand logo". They could have offered me something to go with my delivery or money off some piece of hw in the future, anything that keep me with them or hold out till Jan but they aren't making any sort of effort towards keeping me on their side other than "pay us more or refund and jog on". I mean yeah it's a good monitor but the best doesn't really mean the best to me personally, I've got a GTX Zotac 980 and GTA V doesn't run absolute buttery smooth and I'm not even running it at max, what's going to happen if I over splurge on that other monitor?, because I get the huge feeling that it won't give me night/day differences than simply going for the one I originally went for and then of course I dislike colour banding with a burning passion.

This is why I went for the AOC model because it wasn't too cheap but also wasn't too expensive, a friend of mine tells me to splurge on my monitor like I splurge on my GPU but I don't see how that's at all valid since splurging on my GPU so far hasn't given me AAA success with all that power and a very expensive monitor is unlikely to give me huge advantages either. All I want is that GSYNC tech and a monitor that's not got colour banding issues like my current one.

I get what you mean and I agree that Scan has screwed up with you. And given that the Swift has a 2560x1440 res., your card will suffer even more despite the G-Sync.

But I have to agree with your friend. There are three components on every PC that no one should skimp on but most do: Monitor, keyboard and mouse. And the reason is very simple, they will be your tools when using your PC. With a bad monitor you may end with red eyes, with a bad keyboard your wrists can suffer and if a mouse is not comfy... well, it will always feel odd. And they usually also last longer than your average PC.