AOC C3583FQ is a 35 inch 160Hz VA Panel with FreeSync

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Coming back to subject: The monitor market is finally providing some interesting options in this size and resolution but the prices are still high. AOC C35 will fight with Acer Z35/XZ35 and Benq XR35 (already avalaible 1099 euros) all sporting the same 2000r 2560x1080 21:9 VA panel. (AU Optronics AMVA3?¿?¿?) The only differences between them are Hz boost, more in G-Sync (200) than FreeSync (160) and Adaptative-sync support (Benq XR35 has not), brand name and price. There is no valid reason to buy the BenqXR35 apart to have the stubborn decision to be "agnostic" in relation to the adaptative sync thing and to stay in the tearing monitor era. Once tried an adaptative sync featured monitor nobody want to come back to a monitor who lacks a tearing solution. The adaptative sync monitor war just started a few months ago and the first chapter is about to finish (DP1.2) in the next months. That's the war...and Nvidia has a huge advantage in dedicated market share (+80%) and the forecast is not bad for them so Nvidia is "forcing" dedicated GPU customers to make an important decision: To be tied to Nvidia GPUs in the long run buying a monitor who uses his proprietary adaptative sync G-SYNC or choose a monitor who sports the free adaptative sync VESA DP 1.2 optional feature only avalaible in AMD GPUs as FreeSync. AMD announced recently it will expand FreeSync support to HDMI in 2016 opening a new "battle front" in the monitor war but i don't think this will be enough to win this "war" cause even HDMI 2.0 is limited to 4K 60 like DP 1.2. The new battle will be in DP1.3 with increased limits at 4K/120 or 1440p/240. This monitor war is exposing once more the lack of GPU power needed to move so much pixels very soon with an increased refresh rate limit.. There is no single GPU able to guarantee right now 4K/60(or 3440x1440/100) gaming in all the 2015 AAA titles. Multi-card solutions could be a solution but their future is an enigma until the first batch of DX12 appear in a few months and we will be able to see what game devs do with theorical multi-card advantages in REAL games. Nvidia Pascal and new AMD flagship will be able to handle 4K/60 gaming in 6-9 months (?) just in time to see the new raised limits to 4K/120 in DP 1.3 let us in hands of DX12 multi-card promises.