The Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q – a 27” 1400p 144Hz Monitor with G-SYNC

whyscotty said:
I thought it was confirm at $799 USD = £478 Plus taxes/import?


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Yes for US market, which could be £799 GBP, Asus set the price, so it is upto them.

I've told them £599 is the target, realistically I think UK price will be higher!

Its not a straight conversion, it never is, shipping charges between hubs, shipping charges to distributors, shipping charges too Etailors/resellers, so it all adds up and then they might decide in the UK it can fetch a higher price than other regions and as such set the price on that.
 
This will sell, regardless of the price point, at present its the only 1 close to release that can offer that rez/hz, (without going overseas) While I appreciate costs of shipping and whatnot, even if the exchange rate isn't a straight conversion(you are right, it never is) something that really should be around 500/550 going for anything near £799/£699 would be almost spitting in the face of its customers.

I've never been a fan of asus, so many negative experiences so wouldn't be shocked if they chucked a massive premium on this.
 
delpy8 said:
Are they not a part of Acer/benq?
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BenQ, yes. Not sure if there is a remaining link to Acer ... historically there was.

It's difficult to imagine who else would be producing the panel. Asus no doubt paid a premium to be first, but if it is AUO, there's absolutely no way BenQ and their other customers won't be launching designs based on it immediately after Computex at latest, as I said before. Asus wouldn't be able to buy enough of the panels or sell enough of the monitors on their own for the panel maker to justify producing them if there weren't other customers.

Re: pricing of Asus products. Their laptops and graphics cards are generally speaking of high spec, performance and reliability and therefore reasonable value. Their monitors, and gaming monitors particularly, have almost always cost more and performed less well than the competition, for no reason other than the name. Stuff carrying the RoG brand has always been OBSCENELY priced. Imo, £500 is acceptable for first to market .. £600 is moving closer to robbery when there is every reason to suspect that other monitors based on this or similar panels will be cheaper, better featured and ultimately perform better.
 
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delpy8 said:
Are they not a part of Acer/benq?
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they are linked to BenQ, yes. that doesnt mean other manufacturers can't use AUO panels. Many do. BenQ no doubt will be working on a similar model, but there are some limitations at the moment with G-sync implementation and scaling support
 
Baddass said:
they are linked to BenQ, yes. that doesnt mean other manufacturers can't use AUO panels. Many do. BenQ no doubt will be working on a similar model, but there are some limitations at the moment with G-sync implementation and scaling support
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One would expect BenQ to do as they usually do ... produce several different monitors based on one panel. One would probably be a G-sync model with very basic features ... another would presumably be one without G-sync and with more connectivity and scaling features ... and perhaps a third base model with basic connectivity, limited or no scaling and no G-sync.
 
looks a very nice monitor this one, but at that possible price, i don't think it will persuade me to swap from my dell 30" just for the extra mhz.
 
As always, early adopters will pay a premium, at £600 ill be an early adopter, at more than that then ill be tempted to wait to see what benq anounce or keep waiting on 4K
 
If ASUS decide to screw us and charge a penny over £600 they can do one

will get a benq 1080p g-sync and wait for other manufactures to offer 1440p
 
I didn't know Benq made G-Sync monitors if so do Overclockers stock them? I thought there was only 1 G-Sync monitor available which is an Asus 1080P for around £430 which not many people seem to have purchased?
 
To add to chorus £600 will be my limit, for large concerns the cost difference between euro and us distro is pretty negligible. Any above £600 is shameless profiteering cause they think the can get away with it, and maybe they can. ^_^
 
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