The Worlds first monitor with Republic of Gamers branding is the PG278Q Swift, and we take a look at what it offers.
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ASUS ROG PG278Q Swift G-Sync Monitor Review
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The Worlds first monitor with Republic of Gamers branding is the PG278Q Swift, and we take a look at what it offers.
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
You now have ALL the Hz, It must "hurt" so good...... ^_^
Great video, Acer are about to release their 4K 1ms monitor with G-Sync built in but only in 60Hz at £120 cheaper than this.
Will be interesting to see how it measures up to this one.
Great video, Acer are about to release their 4K 1ms monitor with G-Sync built in but only in 60Hz at £120 cheaper than this.
Will be interesting to see how it measures up to this one.
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Strong review Tom it did come over better than the 4k review again the only thing which would of been nice is to see the live FPS during the benchmarks just to give an idea of what your seeing. Presumably it was sort of 90-110 area and not actually 144?
Also you've made my life EVEN harder, seriously gov right now call it, stay U2713 or go ROG Swift or LG/Dell 3440x1440 IPS or sit around waiting for better 4k stuff. Seeing this has convinced me I might not need IPS, it looks so good on the desk but I feel like I just want more real estate to work on.
JR
Also you've made my life EVEN harder, seriously gov right now call it, stay U2713 or go ROG Swift or LG/Dell 3440x1440 IPS or sit around waiting for better 4k stuff. Seeing this has convinced me I might not need IPS, it looks so good on the desk but I feel like I just want more real estate to work on.
JR
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
At the moment you will be paying a premium for the ROG branding, Give it a few months and other vendors will bring out this exact screen but without the ROG theme for a lot less money.
I would be happy to pay for it as my desk will look that good, that really doesn't come in to it. My question is sub £1k single monitor setup for a pair of 780's, gaming and CAD work, ROG swift, 4k competitor or 3440x1440 IPS but it must be a substantial upgrade over a U2713.
JR
SuB
The Webmaster
Wow, send me your wage packet please.
Hi Tom,
First of all thanks for doing this review, i have been dying to take a look at the monitor up close specially i wanted to see the glow effect of the ring base. Awesome stuff explaining the color on the ring.
Now on to the main stuff, i am actually confused at something. You enabled V-Sync ON on sleeping dogs. This confused me as i know that what V-Sync does is that it brings the frame rate down to 60Hz using software. I thought G-Sync would not require enabling V-Sync since without V-Sync the graphics card throws everything at the monitor. And if we enable G-Sync ON from the NVIDIA console the monitor will auto adjust the frames, since one frame might be at 30Hz and the other might be 100Hz, thus G-Sync on will dynamically calibrate the monitor. I am not sure if i am right, but can you clarify on this mate.
I am sorry i am gonna boar you, but i am gonna buy this. So i am also confused on the part where you had to increase the monitor refresh to 144Hz manually, shouldn't it do that automatically?
If you can clarify these questions, cheers to ya mate!
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Awesome! though i didn't experience G-Sync shouldn't higher refresh rate be the whole point since motion gives rise to more frames and more tearing, just to be clear games in really good Cards have frame rates of more than 60. What will happen when a frame of around 80 hits the monitor. Will it give rise to tearing, think about it!
First of all thanks for doing this review, i have been dying to take a look at the monitor up close specially i wanted to see the glow effect of the ring base. Awesome stuff explaining the color on the ring.
Now on to the main stuff, i am actually confused at something. You enabled V-Sync ON on sleeping dogs. This confused me as i know that what V-Sync does is that it brings the frame rate down to 60Hz using software. I thought G-Sync would not require enabling V-Sync since without V-Sync the graphics card throws everything at the monitor. And if we enable G-Sync ON from the NVIDIA console the monitor will auto adjust the frames, since one frame might be at 30Hz and the other might be 100Hz, thus G-Sync on will dynamically calibrate the monitor. I am not sure if i am right, but can you clarify on this mate.
I am sorry i am gonna boar you, but i am gonna buy this. So i am also confused on the part where you had to increase the monitor refresh to 144Hz manually, shouldn't it do that automatically?
If you can clarify these questions, cheers to ya mate!
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Awesome! though i didn't experience G-Sync shouldn't higher refresh rate be the whole point since motion gives rise to more frames and more tearing, just to be clear games in really good Cards have frame rates of more than 60. What will happen when a frame of around 80 hits the monitor. Will it give rise to tearing, think about it!
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You need Vsync on in the games to enable G-sync.
Tearing is the display of part of a frame caused by the graphics card pushing frames at a different rate to which the monitor can accept them. It's particularly noticeable when panning the field of view because the part of the new frame being displayed at the top does not align with the old frame below. Hence V-sync, 'vertical' synchronization is used to prevent this from occurring, very simply it ensures that only whole frames are sent to the monitor. But in order to achieve this V-sync matches the GPU output to the monitor input, consequently you may well be creating more frames than are displayed and if the same frame is displayed twice this can be perceived as stuttering.
This is where G-sync varies as it matches the monitor input to the GPU output, meaning you always see the same amount of frames as you are rendering. Tearing is still eliminated in the same way as only whole frames are sent but the GPU influences the rate instead of the monitor. This is useful for both high and low FPS scenario's as no frames are wasted and no stuttering should be introduced.
JR
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Amr0d
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If I want to switch from a Dell U2312HM to the ROG Swift, is there any big difference in the Panel? I am using IPS for a long time now and I am curios if the Swift will be better or at least the same quality. The monitor really fullfills any of my needs, like USB 3, 1440p and small bezel but the only thing for me to worry was the TN panel.
IPS will always look better than TN - but obviously this has size and a higher resolution so you cant really compare them like for like.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
The last batch has sold out at OCUK and the next one comes in at the end if august FYI.
QuietOne
always shouting
Cheers for the heads up, Dice. High demand for 'em then.
Mysterae
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Another good review Tom, yet people aren't listening about 4k. Some people are going to get hardware butt-hurt and or ruin their eyesight when using that resolution in such a small screen. Yes, 27" is too small for 4k, fact. Yeah you can change text size, but that defeats the purpose somewhat.
One thing I would have liked to have seen you do is what Nvidia did - have two screens of the same resolution side by side displaying the same feed - one screen G-Sync and the other not with V-sync turned off. Run a demo of something that shows a wide range of frames per second, from the low 20's to over 100. Then record this with your camera but don't upload it to youtube as they fubar it as you say; instead put the file in your downloads section for us to view offline.
Regarding the screen, as fz2011 has already asked, why does the refresh rate have to be manually selected? Sounds a bit counter-intuitive, unless the panel forsakes something else for that high frequency.
Another video where I notice Valley is artifacting - and it's not just your system! I've been testing recently and I'm getting the same, even at stock clocks. Unigine Valley is borked, whether it be drivers, SLI or that time of the month, some thing's gone awry.
One thing I would have liked to have seen you do is what Nvidia did - have two screens of the same resolution side by side displaying the same feed - one screen G-Sync and the other not with V-sync turned off. Run a demo of something that shows a wide range of frames per second, from the low 20's to over 100. Then record this with your camera but don't upload it to youtube as they fubar it as you say; instead put the file in your downloads section for us to view offline.
Regarding the screen, as fz2011 has already asked, why does the refresh rate have to be manually selected? Sounds a bit counter-intuitive, unless the panel forsakes something else for that high frequency.
Another video where I notice Valley is artifacting - and it's not just your system! I've been testing recently and I'm getting the same, even at stock clocks. Unigine Valley is borked, whether it be drivers, SLI or that time of the month, some thing's gone awry.
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