Conclusion

One of the better models in the company's arsenal at this conservative price point is the GE2788HS-B2.

There are a myriad of decent monitors available to the consumer for under £200. iiyama aims for this price point with a slew of screens that have various resolutions and features.

One of the better models in the company's arsenal at this conservative price point is the GE2788HS-B2, priced at £170. The suffix is important as it denotes compatibility with AMD's FreeSync technology, albeit at low-ish refresh rates.

Excellent colour reproduction, solid for gaming, and presented with a decent price point, the GE2788HS-B2 is a good choice for the gamer on a relative budget.

The Good		The Bad
Solid colour reproduction Excellent uniformity Attractive price Good for most games		Viewing angles not great

iiyama ProLite GE2788HS-B2

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I wonder where the extra cost for freesync is coming from? From my limited understanding (as someone wants a freesync monitor and has done a bit of reading up on it) it something standard off the shelf monitor chips support as its just an improvement of an existing technology to reduce refresh rates on laptops to save power. If so I wonder who is charging the premium - the chip makers or iiyama?

Currently £186.38 on Amazon.

cheesemp
I wonder where the extra cost for freesync is coming from? From my limited understanding (as someone wants a freesync monitor and has done a bit of reading up on it) it something standard off the shelf monitor chips support as its just an improvement of an existing technology to reduce refresh rates on laptops to save power. If so I wonder who is charging the premium - the chip makers or iiyama?

Are these both new monitors?

You can get a freesync monitor for under £100 (http://www.ebuyer.com/720608-aoc-g2260vwq6-21-5-lcd-full-hd-monitor-g2260vwq6), so i can't see component cost as an issue here. It would make more sense if there was a £10 discount on an old -b1 model as it lacks the freesync of the update.

Either that or they are playing with pricing, and hence us.

The specs say 55 to 75 Hz, is that the fixed frequencies it will lock to?

Tarinder, if you hover over the Freesync on-off toggle in Radeon Settings -> Display it should tell you the range reported by the monitor (mine says 40 to 144). It is really hard to tell from the specs on low end monitors what the Freesync range is, could you include that please? I assume this will go up to 75Hz, but that means it would need to go down to 75/2.5 = 30 Hz for Low Framerate Compensation to work.

No G-Sync, no Me-Sync! (I just don't like AMD GPUs)

Posted by cheesemp - Fri 16 Sep 2016 16:15

Posted by excalibur1814 - Fri 16 Sep 2016 19:38

Posted by Tarinder - Fri 16 Sep 2016 20:01

£169.99 at Scan - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-iiyama-g-master-black-hawk-ge2788hs-b2-freesync-tn-panel-1920x1080-1ms-300cd-m-hdmi-dvi-vga-2x-25

Posted by DanceswithUnix - Sat 17 Sep 2016 10:00