ROG Swift 32" PG329Q questions

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Hi,

I just got this monitor:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...atible-led-backlit-gaming-moni-mo-0b9-as.html

This is my first IPS monitor, coming from a VA so maybe I just don't know what I'm doing, but I'm not really happy with it.
For one thing, unless I turn on HDR, the colors seem oversaturated. And that's in user-mode, so none of the weird and I'd say unusable "gaming" profiles it comes with.
But, with HDR it seems to start going darker after a while, I saw it while just browsing some websites. And it stays like that, until I turn off HDR and then back on.

More than that it looks like it has quite some back-light bleed. At least I think that's it. Most notably the left and top edges look darker... and bluish on white backgrounds. Though I understand back-light bleed should be more noticeable on dark backgrounds? Dunno.

The viewing angles don't seem that great either. As I sit on my chair in front of the monitor or get up I can clearly see a change in brightness.

sRGB mode also is very dark. Is that supposed to be so? I don't know how that would be useful.

So, basically, I'm thinking of returning it and maybe getting an Acer Predator xb323ugp or even an MSI PS321QR. Thing is that it looks like they all use the same panel so I'm wondering if there's any hope that those would be better?

Pretty disappointed after waiting for a long time for this monitor to show up since I really like the specs.

 

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Nah, I didn't get it for HDR. I got it because of the size, not being curved and the refresh rate.
I was just mentioning that with HDR the colors looked better than without where they are too saturated. The red is burning holes in my retinas.
But I played some more with the saturation and maybe I got it to something tolerable without completely destroying the colors. The default where I think it was too saturated was 50, by the way.

About viewing angles, yeah, I definitely didn't see such a big change in brightness/colors when looking from above at my previous VA monitor like I see on this one.

Thanks for the answer!

 

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Yeah, 10bit works on 120Hz.

Meatball80, since you said you tried the Acer too, can you tell me how are the colors on that?
And the sRGB mode on the Acer, does it allow you to set the brightness or it locks it like the Asus?

Unfortunately I don't like how it look adjusting the gamma in Windows. It just washes out the image, it's not really brightness.
Also, I had the HDR turning down in brightness while playing too, not only when browsing.

I'm trying to return this, but having problems finding a courier to take it. Apparently DPD doesn't ship monitors (it's on their prohibited list) even though I received it through DPD. I'll try through ParcelForce which seems to accept it but will not cover it for damage. Overclockers support is not very helpful either basically saying that they don't know what to say.
I wanted to be nice and just return it under the 14 days option and pay the shipping. But I could've just as well claim that it's defective given the HDR issue. Not happy with this support.