I'd say the opposite. IMO there is no reason to ever choose IPS panels for gaming, now. Cheapo IPS panels (as used in 'gaming' screens) don't have sufficiently better colour reproduction than the better 8bit TN panels now. Response time and trailing are more problematic. IPS glow on cheap IPS panels is usually horrendous, and backlight leakage is frequently much worse. Yeah, viewing angles remain immeasurably better, but what use is that for gaming below ~34" ? I still really want more high performance VA panels, as they don't suffer from glow, are potentially much more responsive than IPS, and have vastly better blacks and contrast than either TN or IPS .. but I suspect we must wait for the seemingly delayed DP1.3 for more of those (the 144hz 35" 2540x1080 VA panel seems like way too low PPI).
ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q 144hz 2560x1440 IPS G-Sync.
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I'd say the opposite. IMO there is no reason to ever choose IPS panels for gaming, now. Cheapo IPS panels (as used in 'gaming' screens) don't have sufficiently better colour reproduction than the better 8bit TN panels now. Response time and trailing are more problematic. IPS glow on cheap IPS panels is usually horrendous, and backlight leakage is frequently much worse. Yeah, viewing angles remain immeasurably better, but what use is that for gaming below ~34" ? I still really want more high performance VA panels, as they don't suffer from glow, are potentially much more responsive than IPS, and have vastly better blacks and contrast than either TN or IPS .. but I suspect we must wait for the seemingly delayed DP1.3 for more of those (the 144hz 35" 2540x1080 VA panel seems like way too low PPI).
When there's a controller / scaler specified for it. Which if it hasn't happened yet probably means DP1.3.
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Lol, you must have been living under the rock. Check the official thread of this screen here, plus other retailers removed it from selling.
Yup it is all down to opinion and fair enough if people still prefer TN, although people who have had both the swift and acer have much preferred the acer when it came to colours, image quality etc. (although I imagine that could be largely due to the better anti-glare finish) and have had no issues with the motion and responsiveness.
There are still mixed opinions on VA VS IPS, been reading a few threads lately and it seems 50/50 as to what people prefer between those 2 panels.
I would much rather have VA too, unfortunately only really Samsung seem to be interested in that panel tech. though and unfortunately their motion isn't great when it comes to dark shades and bright backgrounds.
I could never consider TN because of the contrast shift unless I was using a <24" monitor.
I am well aware of the issues but that is largely down to acer's terrible QC and build quality, not the panel.
Unfortunately, most of the issues with backlight bleed on a variety of monitors these days is all just down to their chassis assembly.
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Strangely, Samsung have now been out of the high performance (refresh / response) monitor market for 2 years now. Maybe they'll return with DP1.3. Maybe.
AUO and Sharp make a ton of high refresh VA panels, but they're huge ones for the high and ultra high end TV market. Atm, there's only the (Sharp) panel in the Eizo (that can boost to 240hz) and the (AUO) Benq 35" ultrawide.
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When can we expect HDMI 3.0 and Display Port 1.3 on GFX cards/monitors?
A few monitors with DP1.3 were announced for Q2 '15 at the end of 2014. As we've yet to see anything with DP1.3 at Computex, I'm guessing that means nothing before beginning of Q4. Spec's been decided for a while, it's a question of controllers/scalers now.
I would guess that most of the newer high-end AMD / NVIDIA cards will be able to upgrade their DPs to DP1.3 via firmware / driver. I assume the 3xx series will suport it natively - certainly Fiji will. --- I was wrong, 3xx series are the first and only cards to support DP1.3 apparently ... unclear which will support it though.
HDMI 3? Not for ages. SuperMHL will probably be on Arctic Islands, perhaps Pascal. It'd be nice if Fiji had SuperMHL, but I don't suppose it will.
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Can someone elaborate why the sudden need for displayport 1.3? I thought thats for 4K 144Hz. No such monitor exists yet, so whats the point?
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It's a lot of money though...£670!
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I hope it has the same sort of I/O as the MG279Q (freesync version). The Acer Predator XB270HU would be perfect if it had an additional 2 HDMI for plugging in other devices. If this has the DP and 2 HDMI at least...
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It has one DP1.2 port and nothing else, it's G-sync.
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On that photo above it says HDMI?
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The press release says it has extensive connectivity options including DP and HDMI
It better do. These G-sync monitors with only one displayport feel like a ripoff to me. It's like modern day phones releasing without microSD slots (which I've ranted about a lot), not everyone cares but for a lot of us it's a kick in the teeth. If I pay £500+ for a monitor, I expect to be able to use it with everything. It's be silly if a cheap £100 monitor could beat it in that respect. Of course there would be no G-sync through HDMI, I'm okay with that. But at least include it for other devices that don't use/need G-sync.
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For real, I see no reason why a G-Sync monitor can't include other input types, if anything I'm glad the Acer went back with issues just for the fact this Asus has a HDMI too (hope that's not a press release error) and that will be useful to me as along with a gaming PC I have an amp with all last gen and current gen consoles attached so this will allow me to centre all gaming to the same monitor and have the my current monitor off to the left for my Mac mini.
Really hope this isn't too far off and has less issues.
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If I had that amount of backlight bleeding in the picture I'd send it back
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-rog-swift-pg279q-wqhd-144hz-ips-panel-and-g-sync.html
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asus-rog-swift-pg279q-wqhd-144hz-ips-panel-and-g-sync.html
That looks more like IPS glow, which is a problem on black/dark screens but only really noticeable when viewed from angles like that.
Also, I bet the brightness of the screen is set to 100% for that photo, which will make glow a heck of a lot worse than having a normal brightness of about 10-30%
Also, I bet the brightness of the screen is set to 100% for that photo, which will make glow a heck of a lot worse than having a normal brightness of about 10-30%