** ASUS DO IT AGAIN: IPS, 144Hz & FREESYNC!!! Asus MG279Q thread **

So the monitor has arrived but I haven't had the time to fully go over everything but here's what I've found;

- The settings out of the box are terrible but the ones on tftcentral will fix that plus some personal tweaks.
- There is some IPS glow in the bottom right hand corner but doesn't seem excessive.
- No dead pixels

Once I've played some games and taken some pictures I'll post back.

So far I'm very happy with the monitor.
 
Ali_Carns said:
So the monitor has arrived but I haven't had the time to fully go over everything but here's what I've found;

- The settings out of the box are terrible but the ones on tftcentral will fix that plus some personal tweaks.
- There is some IPS glow in the bottom right hand corner but doesn't seem excessive.
- No dead pixels

Once I've played some games and taken some pictures I'll post back.

So far I'm very happy with the monitor.
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Having got mine Thursday, I had/have all of the above. If you turn the lights off, put a black screen on, and look through a camera, and turn brightness above 60, you can notice it.

I play games with the light on, rarely with an entire black screen, looking directly at said monitor and not through a camera, with brightness at 40. Make of that what you will :rolleyes: ;)
 
Ok. I took the plunge and picked one of these up. First impressions are as others have noted, needs settings tweaking as it's very bright out of the box, no dead, stuck or bright pixels. Little bit of IPS glow in lower right corner but nothing that has bothered me in normal use, I watch a film on it in a dark room last night and I didn't notice it at all.

I had a Acer XB270HU(dead pixels/backlight bleed) and ASUS ROG Swift(fuzzy text) before this, both were faulty. I know I'm using a Nvidia card with this monitor and some will say it is pointless(I may move to a AMD card soon) but the selling factor to me was 1440p, IPS, 144Hz for just over £450(from elsewhere). The G-Sync equivalent monitor is now £740!! I've been playing games at 144Hz with Nvidia's adaptive V-Sync turned on and well to me and my eyes, it's beautiful. Also nice and smooth with no noticeable motion blur :) So far very happy.

Here is a picture but it's put a haze-like appearance on the screen as the sun was shining into the room. So this picture does the monitor no justice. I will try and get some more later on.


 
Andy321 said:
Ok. I took the plunge and picked one of these up. First impressions are as others have noted, needs settings tweaking as it's very bright out of the box, no dead, stuck or bright pixels. Little bit of IPS glow in lower right corner but nothing that has bothered me in normal use, I watch a film on it in a dark room last night and I didn't notice it at all.

I had a Acer XB270HU(dead pixels/backlight bleed) and ASUS ROG Swift(fuzzy text) before this, both were faulty. I know I'm using a Nvidia card with this monitor and some will say it is pointless(I may move to a AMD card soon) but the selling factor to me was 1440p, IPS, 144Hz for just over £450(from elsewhere). The G-Sync equivalent monitor is now £740!! I've been playing games at 144Hz with Nvidia's adaptive V-Sync turned on and well to me and my eyes, it's beautiful. Also nice and smooth with no noticeable motion blur :) So far very happy.

Here is a picture but it's put a haze-like appearance on the screen as the sun was shining into the room. So this picture does the monitor no justice. I will try and get some more later on.


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Thanks for posting Andy.

Monitor looks brilliant!

I don't think your crazy to have the screen with an NVIDIA card, I've got a Radeon R9 290 and even I'm looking forward to 1440p, IPS, 144hz and very low input lag.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm almost 'glad' for a less than perfect Freesync implementation so I don't have to feel locked into one GFX vendor.
 
TerminatorUK said:
Thanks for posting Andy.

Monitor looks brilliant!

I don't think your crazy to have the screen with an NVIDIA card, I've got a Radeon R9 290 and even I'm looking forward to 1440p, IPS, 144hz and very low input lag.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm almost 'glad' for a less than perfect Freesync implementation so I don't have to feel locked into one GFX vendor.
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Yes I totally agree. If you buy a G-Sync monitor you feel obliged to stick with Nvidia as you have paid the extra premium for G-Sync. Where as with this monitor being around £250 less than it's G-Sync equivalent, I don't mind using a Nvidia card with it as I feel the monitor alone is worth it just for the 1440p/IPS/144Hz, also have the added bonus of Freesync if I choose to change to a AMD GPU later down the line. Having had the Acer XB270HU, ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q and now playing games on this monitor, I personally don't feel G-Sync is worth the extra premium that it's costs in the equivalent monitor.

Also I forgot to mention that included in the box with this monitor was a game code for the choice of either Assassin's Creed Unity, or Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry which makes it even better value! I got my monitor from elsewhere so I can't say if OCUK one's have this as well.


Here is another picture. The room is a lot darker now. I'm only using a camera phone so the colours don't "pop" on the picture like it does to the naked eye.

 
Andy321 said:
Also I forgot to mention that included in the box with this monitor was a game code for the choice of either Assassin's Creed Unity, or Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry which makes it even better value! I got my monitor from elsewhere so I can't say if OCUK one's have this as well.
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They do, I got one in the box too.

I have some (typically crummy) pictures of the Asus plus a couple of random monitors pulled from my too large collection. Hooked it up to my laptop for this and was immediately greeted with an error from the NV control panel (laptop has optimus graphics) that the DP cable was defective and no refresh rates beyond 60Hz were available. Every cable I tried did the same :(

But I did get some pics, more for size comparison than image quality.

Asus vs BenQ BL3200PT. The issue with whites not being quite right is visible here.
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Asus vs Samsung 305t+ (30", 2560x1600, SPVA, wide-gamut)
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Asus vs Dell 2707WFP (27", 1920x1200, SPVA, wide-gamut)
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For me the big drawback on this monitor is the 90Hz limit on FreeSync. Seems a bit silly on a 144Hz monitor.
We know FreeSync can do 144Hz, the BenQ does it and FreeSync apparently supports right up to 240Hz. Is it the IPS screen that does it? Seems odd if the screen can do 144Hz...
 
Nexus18 said:
It is down to the scaler, Asus could have gone with 40-144hz fs range but according to their tests, 35-90 was the better range
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I've read this, but I don't know what is meant by 'better range'... losing so much on the top end for all those people who have uber GPU set-ups and will be jumping on to the Fury and getting frame rates about 90FPS in many games, it seems strange to limit the monitor at the top end in this way... unless it is simply a technical limitation and couldn't be done. If done by choice though, I'm not sure I understand the reasoning. It's a premium monitor aimed it people with premium set-ups isn't it?
 
IIRC, the asus rep said that from their reports etc., the majority of people dropped to sub 40 a lot more than maintaining 90+ fps and as a result, going below 40 didn't provide as good of a gaming experience or something along those lines.

At first I thought great with them choosing the 35-90 range over 40-144 but now I'm not so sure, I am still in 2 minds about it but I would still probably edged towards the 35-90 range for these reasons

- in pretty much all the new games, I struggle to keep a constant 60 fps without dropping quite a few settings and even then, I still get FPS drops to sub 40 i.e. gta 5 in grass areas

- to achieve a constant 90+ fps in the newest and upcoming games with max settings (excluding aa), you will need a pretty beastly dual GPU setup, something that I never intend on doing

- people have mixed feelings on free/g sync 90 VS free/g sync 120+ but overall, it seems like the majority have a very hard time noticing the difference between 90 and 120/144 free/g sync

- easy enough to keep to <90 FPS, just dial up the AA/DSR/VSR or use a frame cap via afterburner/rivatuner
 
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TerminatorUK said:
Did you screen arrive passenger - can we see some photos? :D
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Oh I will give some pictures :rolleyes:

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After only 30 minutes in to the test screen dies! And this was not the one from the "first batch", I did 144Hz test and it was fine! It has on a box "QC passed" :) :) :) omg...:mad:

When it worked (over DP 144Hz 1440p) colors were good except black which is dark grey. IPS glow it was present and if you have it, it is a bad news, 'cause all the colors change in affected area, from blue to green - green to yellowish and so on. So for photo editing(which is crucial for me) this is no go.

Gaming experience mediocre, when camera starts to panning at 80 freetrace(racing mode) it's very blurry. So not for FPS/racing games really! I thought that "4ms" would be fine. So careful guys, first test it then make your decision.

I will not take much time about ASUS and return policy, IT WAS HELL :mad:
that's why I didn't post right away...

For premium price faulty "QC PASSED" product, ASUS never again...

P.S.
the picture above was pictured when the monitor was only plugged with power cable so no video card connection or any other cable was plugged in.
 
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Unlucky passenger :(

I said before and I'll say it again, etailers need to step up and do something about the awful QC for some of these monitors, simply unacceptable especially for £500+ screens...

Seems like I am just destined to buy the samsung 34" VA.
 
I got something similar with it attached to my laptop, which has NVidia graphics. Only 60Hz and 90Hz were available to select, although 90Hz just resulted in a black screen. Very odd indeed.

On a similarly strange note, I've come across yet another issue. I've been playing videos with the MG279Q and BL3200PT in clone mode for comparison, and the Asus is showing weird behaviour with some of them. These shots are from the 'Wonders of Nature' video that comes as a demo on some new Samsung tablets.

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On the blue scene there's a load of what looks similar to compression artefacts on the Asus which are not present on the BenQ. I set the AMD colour controls to default and cycled though all the image presets on the Asus to eliminate any chance my fiddling with settings had caused it, but it won't go away. In the sunrise scene there's a much higher degree of banding on the Asus, although my tablet's camera struggled to capture it all that well.

I'm sad to say this is the last straw and I'll be contacting OCUK tomorrow to send this thing back, its quality is not what I expect for almost £500.
 
i have no picture quality issues at all , i think its great , colors are awesome and games are smooth at 120hz (nvidia gtx680) . but if it says 144hz on the box , then i would like to be able to select it , but im not . strangely enough , asus would not put displayport cable into the bundle , got just hdmi and Dp to miniDP cable.
 
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