ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM

Do we have a ETA on stock yet and the amount of them? I would pre order but I don’t want to get burnt like last time with the LG pre orders.
 
The Asus is much brighter overall but as per the review it has its own issues. The monitor doesn't track the EOTF well resulting in loss of detail in some scenes - the monitor looses detail in bright scenes and crushes black detail in dark scenes and the colors in HDR are worse than the LG and look a bit bland

 
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Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM Review - TFTCentral

The new 27" 1440p OLED monitor from Asus with 240Hz refresh rate, a custom heatsink and 1000 nits HDR brightness
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(and yes, Asus told me i could publish earlier than originally planned 5pm given early "leaks" from HUB and HDTVtest today)
 
It has shipped :eek:

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Baddass said:
Shameless plug for the TFTCentral review if anyone would care to help support the site, you can get early access now ahead of it's full go-live:
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Asus ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM Review - TFTCentral

The new 27" 1440p OLED monitor from Asus with 240Hz refresh rate, a custom heatsink and 1000 nits HDR brightness
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(and yes, Asus told me i could publish earlier than originally planned 5pm given early "leaks" from HUB and HDTVtest today)
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Really fantastic review. Thanks for your work.

Can I ask one question though:
How did you check/verify that there's an active fan in the pg27aqdm?
Are you 100% sure that there's a fan in there?
The teardown shown here doesn't show an fan but just a heatsink: https://youtu.be/GJLfh-xHbOw?t=803
Comments on reddit about the pg27aqdm are also mostly saying it's fanless. Although there's some owners that say they hear "something" when they put their ear to the top back of the monitor.
Asus advertises the heatsink but not a fan.

I'd be really interesting in getting a definite answer to this since this would be a deal breaker for me while I'm very much set on buying this monitor.
 
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peahead said:
There is no fan built into this model just a nice chunky heatsink.

https://youtu.be/GJLfh-xHbOw?t=804
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that's the same video linked above, but it's not possible to tell from that video if it's amongst the rest of the bits, they don't tear it down that far. while it might not be cooling that section where the HS is, it could be somewhere else.

if you press your ear up to the back of the screen and everything else is silent you can here something, but it's super quiet. I think it's somewhere within the mess of components shown in that tear down, but they don't go in to enough detail to see it i don't think. Also sanity checked with Tim at Hardware Unboxed and Adam at PCmonitors who thought the same...but again it's so quiet it's very hard to tell for sure. I've asked the Korean reviewer for clarity from their tear down too
 
Baddass said:
that's the same video linked above, but it's not possible to tell from that video if it's amongst the rest of the bits, they don't tear it down that far. while it might not be cooling that section where the HS is, it could be somewhere else.

if you press your ear up to the back of the screen and everything else is silent you can here something, but it's super quiet. I think it's somewhere within the mess of components shown in that tear down, but they don't go in to enough detail to see it i don't think. Also sanity checked with Tim at Hardware Unboxed and Adam at PCmonitors who thought the same...but again it's so quiet it's very hard to tell for sure. I've asked the Korean reviewer for clarity from their tear down too
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Thanks for explaining your detailed impressions.
This issue is very interesting. Since only that one asian reviewer actually opened the monitor it's hard to know for sure wether the noise is from a fan or just humming/buzzing of electronics.
Adam at PCmonitors who thought the same
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That's weird because that's in contrast to what he says in his video review where he clearly states it's a fanless cooling solution: https://youtu.be/NmhM1S1fOWg?t=589

One worry with the fan would be that it gets noisier over the years since especially smaller fans tend to wear over the years in my experience in contrast to electronics noise.
I've gone to great lengths to reduce the mechanical components in my PC and everything else that creates sound in addition to minimising the noise floor of my room.
So a monitor with an active cooling solution or other other audible noise production would defeat that purpose.

Thanks for investigating an definite answer to the question of the fan.
 
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