The Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q – a 27” 1400p 144Hz Monitor with G-SYNC

Fruitbooter · 10 Apr 2014 at 17:32

It might be a 2015 product at this rate....

Gibbo · 10 Apr 2014 at 17:55

All they are saying is July.

Tokki · 11 Apr 2014 at 10:38

Gibbo said:
All they are saying is July.

Did they mention the price?

pgi947 · 11 Apr 2014 at 10:51

Gibbo said:
All they are saying is July.

Damnit, any word on gsync monitors from other manufacturer's? May as well play the long game now and see what everyone has to offer.

Tom B · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:23

If the delay is down to G-Sync is it possible that another manufacturer (BenQ?) will have a 1440p 144hz non-G-Sync monitor out before this?

andybird123 · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:36

Tom B said:
If the delay is down to G-Sync is it possible that another manufacturer (BenQ?) will have a 1440p 144hz non-G-Sync monitor out before this?

Very unlikely, the list of features this monitor has is *because* of the gsync controller tying it all together

PCM2 · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:38

pgi947 said:
Damnit, any word on gsync monitors from other manufacturer's? May as well play the long game now and see what everyone has to offer.

There may just be something in May. A 24" model with 1920 x 1080 resolution. Can't say any more than that at the moment. Stay tuned.

pgi947 · 11 Apr 2014 at 19:51

Oooh my birthday is in may too!

My itch for a monitor has gotten that bad that if I get drunk I fear I'll buy that 24" 4k dell unit

PCM2 · 11 Apr 2014 at 20:06

pgi947 said:
Oooh my birthday is in may too!

My itch for a monitor has gotten that bad that if I get drunk I fear I'll buy that 24" 4k dell unit

Haha. And who knows if you'd regret it?

I suppose monitors are one particular piece of tech I don't get an itch to buy. I get sick of the sight of them sometimes.

banja · 12 Apr 2014 at 00:26

Didn't BenQ announce a 27 inch Gsync monitor some time ago? 1080 though.

Fruitbooter · 12 Apr 2014 at 09:49

Taken from ROG's Facebook page yesterday -

"An update on the availability of ROG Swift PG278Q. The most recent estimate is June. As for pre-orders you can be sure that we will prompt you as soon as they go live.

ROG Swift PG278Q features super narrow 6 mm bezels, G-Sync ultra-low input lag, 120+ Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time. Simply the most advanced gaming monitor to date."

rpggamesplayer · 12 Apr 2014 at 14:43

Good cant wait to grab one of these

Just thinking will one gtx 780 ti handle it well if not it will be a expensive upgrade adding another gpu plus blocks and monitor

1kiwi · 13 Apr 2014 at 14:38

June is not that far away. I can wait.

Chaapa'ai · 16 Apr 2014 at 15:55

rpggamesplayer said:
Good cant wait to grab one of these
Just thinking will one gtx 780 ti handle it well if not it will be a expensive upgrade adding another gpu plus blocks and monitor

Some games on full max but not all. And certainly not on ULTRA in the years to come. I'm in the same boat... got my 780 GTX before I got my 1440p. Now to go SLI I need a new PSU too!

1kiwi · 17 Apr 2014 at 11:22

Might end up going AMD for this upgrade. Crossfire 290X seems to scale better and result in less frame variability going by recent benchmarks. The 780Ti SLI benchmarks are all over the place.

3t3P · 17 Apr 2014 at 12:39

AMD eh, enjoy your g-sync then....

Naaaaaaaat

Sin_Chase · 17 Apr 2014 at 12:41

1kiwi said:
Might end up going AMD for this upgrade. Crossfire 290X seems to scale better and result in less frame variability going by recent benchmarks. The 780Ti SLI benchmarks are all over the place.

Buys G-SYNC monitor....'upgrades' to AMD cards. Ok....

Tom B · 17 Apr 2014 at 13:00

You still get the benefit of 1440p at 144hz which no other* monitors offer yet.

* (ok... no monitors offer yet

)

andybird123 · 17 Apr 2014 at 13:14

1kiwi said:
Might end up going AMD for this upgrade. Crossfire 290X seems to scale better and result in less frame variability going by recent benchmarks. The 780Ti SLI benchmarks are all over the place.

the whole point of gsync is that it renders frame variability a moot point, the 290X's would need to be 30-50% faster and less variable to be able to equal the experience of gsync, so we are told based on independent people that have seen it first hand

David Bisset · 17 Apr 2014 at 13:44

It doesn't make frame variability moot, it keeps that variance from causing frame skipping but can't stop a loss of smoothness. Reduces the impact would be fair.

Though I totally agree that its nuts to go for a gsync monitor and then switch to AMD.