Hey guys just installed my PG329Q which I purchased to replace my PG279Q which had started developing some issues such as temporary image retention and flickering at the top of the screen.
I was hesitant to go with another Asus monitor and was also contemplating jumping up to 4K. However, I just can't be bothered with the amount of hardware needed to run 4K for gaming, at a decent frame rate. After doing some research and wanting to stick with an IPS panel, I decided to go with the PG329Q.
Out of the box , the colours are very saturated. And the default brightness is set to 90, It's a very bright panel, and I've settled now on having it at around 40 brightness which I find to be very comfortable.
I'm not sure if I got lucky or if Asus' Quality control has just gotten better. But I don't have any significant backlight bleed/glow on my panel.
One of the things that popped up in reviews for it, was that to get the most out of the monitor, you really need to do some proper hardware calibration. Thankfully my friend has an I-1 display pro plus and let me borrow it.
After going through the calibration process, the monitor looks much better than it did out of the box. One thing I did find though, was that the sRGB mode of the monitor does lock all the controls, which is something I was aware of. But I found that the brightness seemed a little too low with that setting.
In SRGB mode, the brightness is set to about 37. Well, I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I ended up lowering the brightness to 40 and finding it OK. Maybe my eyes just needed adjusting, or maybe I was just running too high a brightness setting on the PG279Q?
I've turned all image enhancing properties off, such as enhanced black levels etc etc. I haven't tried ELMB-sync, and will probably leave it off as I don't play many FPS these days.
So far I'm very pleased with the monitor and. Now that my eyes have adjusted to the calibration. Which appeared at first to have a slightly yellow tint, I would say that I'm satisfied with my purchase and I'm actually pleasantly surprised that even at 32 inches 1440P, still looks very crisp and is not stretched or pixelated.
I would also suggest turning down the saturation to either 40 or 35, The default setting is just far too vibrant and actually very uncomfortable to look at (unless you're into that sort of look).
I should also note that the monitor comes with software Which allows you to adjust things like brightness, RGB, saturation and stuff like that which came in very handy when I was doing through the calibration process.
I was hesitant to go with another Asus monitor and was also contemplating jumping up to 4K. However, I just can't be bothered with the amount of hardware needed to run 4K for gaming, at a decent frame rate. After doing some research and wanting to stick with an IPS panel, I decided to go with the PG329Q.
Out of the box , the colours are very saturated. And the default brightness is set to 90, It's a very bright panel, and I've settled now on having it at around 40 brightness which I find to be very comfortable.
I'm not sure if I got lucky or if Asus' Quality control has just gotten better. But I don't have any significant backlight bleed/glow on my panel.
One of the things that popped up in reviews for it, was that to get the most out of the monitor, you really need to do some proper hardware calibration. Thankfully my friend has an I-1 display pro plus and let me borrow it.
After going through the calibration process, the monitor looks much better than it did out of the box. One thing I did find though, was that the sRGB mode of the monitor does lock all the controls, which is something I was aware of. But I found that the brightness seemed a little too low with that setting.
In SRGB mode, the brightness is set to about 37. Well, I'm sure you can imagine my surprise when I ended up lowering the brightness to 40 and finding it OK. Maybe my eyes just needed adjusting, or maybe I was just running too high a brightness setting on the PG279Q?
I've turned all image enhancing properties off, such as enhanced black levels etc etc. I haven't tried ELMB-sync, and will probably leave it off as I don't play many FPS these days.
So far I'm very pleased with the monitor and. Now that my eyes have adjusted to the calibration. Which appeared at first to have a slightly yellow tint, I would say that I'm satisfied with my purchase and I'm actually pleasantly surprised that even at 32 inches 1440P, still looks very crisp and is not stretched or pixelated.
I would also suggest turning down the saturation to either 40 or 35, The default setting is just far too vibrant and actually very uncomfortable to look at (unless you're into that sort of look).
I should also note that the monitor comes with software Which allows you to adjust things like brightness, RGB, saturation and stuff like that which came in very handy when I was doing through the calibration process.