ASUS ROG SWIFT PG35VQ

JediFragger · 27 Jun 2019 at 08:48

Nice one BA! Tasty milk

edit - Just about what we expected and tbh having personally owned a variety of VA screens I'd still go IPS every day of the week

MikeLoader · 27 Jun 2019 at 12:18

What a letdown, and once again VA shows what garbage it it. Real POS for a monitor. And as I got the PG279Q - IPS the other day I will never buy anything other then IPS!
It's like g-sync. Once you experiance it you never back down. IPS is the only way now!
I frikking love the PG, and can easily say that it's the absolute best hardware upgrade I have ever done. IPS or nothing!

Baddass · 27 Jun 2019 at 13:06

MikeLoader said:
What a letdown, and once again VA shows what garbage it it. Real POS for a monitor

Yeah I’m not really sure that’s what the tests and review conclude :rolleyes:

Legend · 27 Jun 2019 at 13:07

It's the price which has got so many people riled up, and rightly so I think. Were this priced somewhere around the £1500 mark, they'd be flying off the shelves and Asus couldn't make enough of them. Clearly, where they've positioned this, they aren't particularly interested in selling it in great numbers... perhaps they can't, due to production costs etc. Another big contributing factor is that we've known about this monitor for over 2 years now... so this does have a psychological impact on price perception.

2080Ti sales were not what Nvidia expected, this is well documented... I cannot believe Asus think that the same mindset which has people questioning a £1K+ GPU purchase is not going to apply with a £2700 monitor lol! Therefore I'm quite certain this monitor is a showboat halo "look at what we can do" product, not for the masses. Give it a few years and this spec will be commonplace and affordable. The upcoming Acer X35 and Agon models will undercut it also, but will still be crazy money of course.

JediFragger · 27 Jun 2019 at 13:11

Also the thing is a lot of people are gonna be buying these not realising what VA is like, gonna whack it upto 200hz straight away see all the smearing and send it back under DSR/faulty! Must have factored that into the pricing

Baddass · 27 Jun 2019 at 13:15

Oh I agree the price is very high, and for most people it won’t be something they would be willing to spend all that money. It’s not “value for money” I don’t think. But that doesn’t mean it’s a crap screen like some people like to jump in and say. Actually it’s a very good screen

MikeLoader · 27 Jun 2019 at 13:55

Baddass said:
Yeah I’m not really sure that’s what the tests and review conclude

LOL, well I should have said: VA still - almost - is POS in every way

JediFragger · 27 Jun 2019 at 14:24

MikeLoader said:
VA still - almost - is POS in every way

Can't agree with that, the LG 32" Gsync VA I had was excellent with no smearing BUT I did limit it to 120hz to fully minimise the impact

Baddass · 27 Jun 2019 at 15:32

MikeLoader said:
LOL, well I should have said: VA still - almost - is POS in every way

i still don't agree with that. A VA panel, especially the one in a high end model like the PG35VQ, is significantly better than an IPS panel in some ways. not in others, but you could just as easily call a good IPS model POS

MikeLoader · 27 Jun 2019 at 16:48

Baddass said:
i still don't agree with that. A VA panel, especially the one in a high end model like the PG35VQ, is significantly better than an IPS panel in some ways. not in others, but you could just as easily call a good IPS model POS

Fair enough, but they still seems so slow and have bad viewing angles vs IPS. Annyword on IPS - 32 4k gaming screen ?

MikeLoader · 27 Jun 2019 at 16:52

JediFragger said:
Can't agree with that, the LG 32" Gsync VA I had was excellent with no smearing BUT I did limit it to 120hz to fully minimise the impact

Yeah to each of their own. I liked it first but after seeing that smear in dark games, it was all I ever see. So definetly no VA for me, as long as they aint way way faster that is

Btw, I also tested it at 120hz, and it still was very smeary :/

kazuya1337 · 27 Jun 2019 at 17:29

Viewing angles being an issue on a gaming monitor :rolleyes:

MikeLoader · 27 Jun 2019 at 18:57

Well I have used TN before and of course it's doable, but all that colour shift sucks. I guess anyone would agree with that. The LG850 - VA was of course better there, but still. So it's really nice to have this IPS and it's just perfectly even. Who would argue with that, I cant belive

Legend · 27 Jun 2019 at 20:20

The VA panel in the LG 32GK850G-B was somewhat of an aberration... I've yet to come across a VA panel that did it so well. They got the magic sauce right there, it was just a shame the PPI @ 32"/1440p made everything so soft. I had to return mine as a result. If they can get other VA panels working as well though, and at higher resolutions (32" 4K would be nice, or ultrawide... basically, anything an equivalent size or bigger with a higher PPI) that would be very interesting indeed.

MikeLoader · 27 Jun 2019 at 21:37

Legend said:
The VA panel in the LG 32GK850G-B was somewhat of an aberration... I've yet to come across a VA panel that did it so well. They got the magic sauce right there, it was just a shame the PPI @ 32"/1440p made everything so soft. I had to return mine as a result. If they can get other VA panels working as well though, and at higher resolutions (32" 4K would be nice, or ultrawide... basically, anything an equivalent size or bigger with a higher PPI) that would be very interesting indeed.

Yeah that low PPI did bother me very much. And the strange pixel structure on VA dont makes it better to :/
If I go 32 IPS or some super juice VA - thats fast as IPS (if they ever come) I definetly say 4k for that size!

Vega · 28 Jun 2019 at 08:00

Especially when you have to use said monitor on the desktop. 1440p@32" on desktop looks pretty terrible.

MikeLoader · 28 Jun 2019 at 11:06

Vega said:
Especially when you have to use said monitor on the desktop. 1440p@32" on desktop looks pretty terrible.

Yeah it's downright aweful. Have to sit 10 meters away atleast and it still doesent help :/
1440P is for 27 only

JGF111 · 29 Jun 2019 at 00:10

@badass Can you confirm that the monitor automatically turns the FALD on when an HDR signal is detected? And does it turn the FALD back off if it wasnt on to begin with (once the HDR signal has ended)?

SeanDrake · 29 Jun 2019 at 07:50

So while looking at the hyper expensive monitors coming out on the various companies sites I noticed Samsung have a new 4K qled TV coming out this year aimed at gamers with hdr10+ FALD, 4k@ 120hz refresh, 8ms response time and FreeSync allegedly for around £1500.

So given that tech like freesync is appearing in tv’s and they all ready have much better implementation of HDR and consoles are advancing to a point where users are looking for features in tv’s like fast response times etc. Are we heading towards a time when the line between tv’s/monitors becomes blurred and could this be one reason companies like Acer an ASU’s seem determined to milk pc owners for the maximum amount, because if Samsung/LG can bring the economy of scale of tv’s to the PC market then I don’t see how the smaller manufacturers survive in any meaningful way.

Baddass · 29 Jun 2019 at 08:36

JGF111 said:
@BadAss Can you confirm that the monitor automatically turns the FALD on when an HDR signal is detected? And does it turn the FALD back off if it wasnt on to begin with (once the HDR signal has ended)?

It definitely turns it on as soon as an HDR input is detected. I’m 99% sure it turns it back off again once you’re back to normal input, if that’s the setting you had it at before