ASUS ROG PG278Q Swift G-Sync Monitor Review

[Dicehunter]

I asked them yesterday, albeit on FB and they said they were expecting stock on the 28th July? Perhaps there all sold I was just confused at how you knew more than the OCUK guy.

JR

The pre-orders are incoming on the 28th and if you didn't already pre-order 1 then you will have to wait for the 2nd shipment in late august.

 

[JR23]

It's also about £50 cheaper at Scan. I did email OCUK about price matching and they said they can't lower the price.

While I appreciate having £50 it's nice to be able to walk back into OCUK's store and say this is poop gimme my money or give me another unlike Scam who take 3 weeks and about 10 phone calls to sort out a Faulty on arrival product, either they or their system is pathetic.

The pre-orders are incoming on the 28th and if you didn't already pre-order 1 then you will have to wait for the 2nd shipment in late august.

Sounds fair thanks for confirming that, i'd sooner impulse buy when they have stock than ponder over a pre-order for weeks. Who knows their prices might fall in line with scam too.

JR

 

[Boonstick]

While I appreciate having £50 it's nice to be able to walk back into OCUK's store and say this is poop gimme my money or give me another unlike Scam who take 3 weeks and about 10 phone calls to sort out a Faulty on arrival product, either they or their system is pathetic.

Yeah I've stopped ordering from them for the same reason.

 

[Dicehunter]

Same here I haven't ordered from scan for a good year now due to the appalling handling of my RMA.

I bought a keyboard from them and within the warranty it failed *Razer* and I shipped it back to them and they said they never got it even though a scan employee signed the DPD drivers electronic gizmo.

I even asked the driver for a description and he said it was a man in a scan uniform inside the loading dock.

Then they said they couldn't find it, The bullshit coming from their mouths was amazing.

All in all it took around 3 months to sort it out and because they took so long the warranty had run out but they did find a replacement for me eventually after I hounded them with legal action for trying to con me.

And that's why I don't shop with scan, That's 1 company I hope goes out of business, They are utter shit.

 

[metalgun2000]

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.

It's the drivers. Ever since I moved from the previous to 337.88, the artifacting has been in unigine valley only during certain scenes.

Thanks again Tom. I've been waiting for this panel ever since I heard about it last year. There's is one thing that concerns me but it's minor in the grand scheme of things, can you disable the red LED in the base? It wouldn't tie in very well with the green and black of my G1 rig. I went through a lot of effort to get everything to match. Either way it's definitely going to be mine and I don't think I'm getting rid of the PB278Q either.

 

[giggleooza]

How is the Asus ROG Swift PG278Q ? I've read it's the only 1440 p monitor available right now for gsync http://toptenmonitors.hubpages.com/hub/G-sync-monitors

 

[Warchild]

To Quote McDonald's about now..

I'm Loving it!

Pricy but I think was a worthy investment. I'll be using this for a long time.

 

[Dicehunter]

To Quote McDonald's about now..

I'm Loving it!

Pricy but I think was a worthy investment. I'll be using this for a long time.

I was tempted but to be honest the whole G-Sync thing put me off, I don't like the idea of being locked into 1 GPU vendor.

Now a 1440P panel with 144Hz minus G-Sync then yes but after trying G-sync for myself at a mates house I'm really not sold on it.

And by the way can I have some of your internetz please, You surely don't need 500MB

 

[Warchild]

I was tempted but to be honest the whole G-Sync thing put me off, I don't like the idea of being locked into 1 GPU vendor.

Now a 1440P panel with 144Hz minus G-Sync then yes but after trying G-sync for myself at a mates house I'm really not sold on it.

And by the way can I have some of your internetz please, You surely don't need 500MB

Yeah I understand what you mean. Personally (and you can call me fan boy whatever...) I always said I would never go back to AMD after such a bad series of cards that I purchased for myself and my gf. Local store were great in helping us change them for different models. But kept running into driver problems and artifacts. I know, I know.. drivers are great now, but when I have rarely had problems with Nvidia, why change right? Over the past years I went from GTX 260SLI, 680SLI, 780SLI.. so im not really upgrading often. Got the 780s purely because of second hand purchased from a guy who bought the 290X and regretted it

And thanks for reminding me. My company upgraded my speed a little more. Perks of the job when you work for them.

 

[Amr0d]

I was tempted but to be honest the whole G-Sync thing put me off, I don't like the idea of being locked into 1 GPU vendor.

Now a 1440P panel with 144Hz minus G-Sync then yes but after trying G-sync for myself at a mates house I'm really not sold on it.

And by the way can I have some of your internetz please, You surely don't need 500MB

Why do you want to remove one of the best features from something just because you don't like it? Simply don't use it. Or just get an AMD graphics card and you have your monitor minus G-Sync and finally you can see all this tearing again

And if you don't like the idea of being locked into one GPU vendor you should think about Mantle, Tress FX, PhysX etc. You won't have all features in one rig.

 

[barnsley]

And if you don't like the idea of being locked into one GPU vendor you should think about Mantle, Tress FX, PhysX etc. You won't have all features in one rig.

Those are nothing like G sync. Gsync means you have to actually chuck out more money (i.e. a g sync monitor/module) to get one and if you decide to get an AMD card you're stuck with an expensive, not fully usuable monitor.
I'm fine with not getting a product that doesn't let me go for what I want. If the next gen of AMD card is a real cracker it'd be a shame for me not to be able to get one. It'd be the same if AMD did that.

If they both take up freesync (which is supposed to be a standard now) then I'll be happy.

 

[Dicehunter]

Why do you want to remove one of the best features from something just because you don't like it? Simply don't use it. Or just get an AMD graphics card and you have your monitor minus G-Sync and finally you can see all this tearing again

And if you don't like the idea of being locked into one GPU vendor you should think about Mantle, Tress FX, PhysX etc. You won't have all features in one rig.

I never said I wanted to remove G-Sync, No idea where you got that idea from, Your missing the point.

I just wouldn't pay extra to have a piece of my monitor that can only be used with Nvidia GPU's.

I always buy the best single GPU on the market and just say next round the best GPU is AMD then if I bought this swift monitor I would be left with a monitor I paid +200 over a normal monitor because of G-Sync and couldn't use G-Sync.

I'm waiting for a universal type of G-Sync/Free-Sync.

Anyway,

One thing I find quite annoying about this monitor is the price in the UK, In the UK it is £695.99p.

Asus announced that in the US it will cost $799.99 which if you convert using the current exchange rates comes out to £476.26

Quite a difference, If I end up wanting one I might ask my cousin in New York to buy 1 and send it over, Will still cost less after shipping etc...than the UK price.

 

[Damien c]

The price is the only thing putting me off this monitor at the moment.

I do want to get either a 144hz or a 4k monitor, and after looking at the review of this I am leaning more towards this but the price is rediculous.

 

[Iken]

Yes, the price is to high.

 

[BARRYWB]

ASUS ROG PG278Q Swift

TTL.
Great review was impressed with the monitor. Now I know it’s a games monitor but I would like to know how it handles blueray movies and basic window stuff i.e. word/excel.
Any information?
Keep up the good work
Barry

 

[JR23]

As I expressed on the forums a while ago I was having great difficulty deciding what monitor to go with from my Dell U2713H, deciding between the LG 34UM95, a 4k panel and this was not easy. This review really helped and I ended up purchasing one last week, having just got it set up properly yesterday I have to say I am massively impressed.

Straight away I loved how it came fully assembled in the box and the whole assembly feels and looks like some serious quality. Turning it on for the first time I was concerned that I was going to really notice it was a TN going backwards from IPS but I was massively surprised by the uniformity, blacks and colour reproduction. While the whites are slightly tinted the blacks look beautiful and flat. The overall static picture quality is definitely on par with my Dell, i'm sure you would notice side by side but as a gamer or general user they genuinely have negated the usual TN problems very well.

All I have done with it so far is watch Heaven and Valley but the advantages of G-Sync and the added refresh rate are immediately obvious. The transitions between scenes and the inherent frame drop that comes are dealt with amazingly making the huge FPS range of 50-140 all look super smooth. It's not the shear refresh rate that impresses the most but just the refinement that comes with G-Sync, teamed with nVidia cards the overall package is magnificently slick and worth the added cost IMO. I'm not trying to disagree with Barnsley's sentiment that it should be available for everybody, it really should, PC gaming genuinely needs the experience as I think it would genuinely change peoples perception of rigs high or low end.


Not trying to recommend this to death or anything but just wanted to share my impressions and thank Tom for the review.

JR

 

[Izotope]

Nice review. A friend of mine recently purchased this monitor and said it's performance is amazing. I would love to get one later on once price goes down.

 

[Warchild]

I stand by JR on this one. Ok the price was steep, but I feel that the Swift exceeds my expectations greatly. Even if i disregard the Gsync feature, the quality of the picture including black/grey is excellent.

 

[dipzy]

Reveiw was good. After a long consideration, i have decided to drop my Asus 29" ultrawide and the ROG Swift. I cannot wait, also give me reason to upgrade lol
I cannot wait to experience 144hz and Gsync

 

[Mullet]

After RMAing my U2713HM Dell panel I had to weigh up a number of considerations. (No laughing at the first)...

1 - KVM switch compatibility to enable me to switch between my gaming rig (Project Up people!) and my Dell work laptop docking station.
2 - The need for great gaming.... I spend a good few hours a week shooting at things so wanted a panel that was good at this
3 - Looked good and coordinated well with my rig (kidding)
4 - Offered good warranty

OK.... so I am still working on point 1.

The panel arrives tomorrow.... so I will share thoughts once I have it set up....