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

The green is a result of the test I believe. The other test to do is on blubusters.com and do the pixel inversion tests.

It seems like the most recently manufactured screens may behave better. Some people may have the lines but not notice - depends a lot on game. I rarely saw them on muzzle flashes in BF4 but they were really common and obvious in GW2 with lots of pale coloured spell effects.

Maybe I'll risk getting another one...
 
I don't know whether this is a monitor or graphic card issue but a couple of times now I have loaded up a game and gsync has not enabled (the red light on the monitor is not on). If I look in the nvidia control panel there is no gsync option to set so it is like it is not seeing gsync enabled monitor. A reboot resolves this.

It is rare this happens just wondered if it is a bug in the software or something.
 
I'm sure someone has answered this question somewhere in the thread, but I apologise as it's 119 pages long and I don't quite have it in me to read through the entire thing!

I'm in the market for a new monitor and was looking at this one specifically for gaming, as I have a Dell IPS for film work. I only have a single 780 and was wondering if I'd get the best out of this monitor? I don't mind not hitting 120/144hz all the time, especially as there's G-Sync though I'm not sure how G-sync works at framerates above 60? I'm interested in this monitor for the 2560x1440 plus the G-sync, which I don't think any other monitor has. I know there is a 4k G-sync monitor, but I know a 780 won't be able to adequately handle that.

Thanks for the help!
 
My ROG Swift seems to have died. Came home today, PC only having been Remote Desktoped to and everything is a blurry mess on it. My second HP IPS monitor as part of a dual display is fine.

Not sure if it is just fonts, UI elements seem okay but the cursor looks a little off. I have tired all of the following without success:

SLI On and Off
G-SYNC On and Off
ULMB On and off
Change Resolution
Change Refresh rate (Infact, 60Hz shows the problem less. Higher refresh rates seem fine.
Cycled Power.
Cycled DP cable
Cycled Windows Scaling Settings
Cycled Windows dual display setting
Rebooted system
Turned off system
Physically removed power from monitor and reapplied

At a loss.....seems like the panel/hardware is faulty.

Edit - Drew some shapes in Photoshop...edges are colour distorted/flashing and blurry. Seems super broken :/
 
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Hi,

Just sent mine back for very similar reasons - think I've just been refunded (will check and thank Bailey in a mo).

Try sticking on ULMB and at 120hz - that sorted mine out briefly (while arranging the RMA) but had hideous flickering (headache inducing! And I'm not sensitive to that sort of thing at all normally).

Considering what to go for now - another one (though they seem to be troublesome, but are excellent when working). Just seems a risk for such a high value item...

Good luck...

Rich
 
What were your similar reasons?

Very very very unimpressed at having to send an item of this value back for RMA for such a shocking failure.

The monitor looks like I am running 640x480 scaled up on a 27" monitor...that's how damn bad it looks.

Edit - Mine has failed in exactly the same ways as these have:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...ft-PG278Q-Blurry-text-and-bad-quality-overall

How common is this? Is it only a matter of time before they ALL fail in the same way? Makes me question whether I even want a replacement.
 
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Yup - exactly that. Go back a couple of pages and I've quoted someone's post as mine looks identical.

Same boat - OCUK have issues me a refund (to their credit, they arranged pick up, monitor arrived at theirs this afternoon and the refund was issued a couple of hours later). Not sure what to go for next - was assuming I'd just go for a replacement, but weighing it up a bit now.

Though there seem plenty of people on here that haven't had any issue at all - the minority with issues tend to be quite vocal!

Rich
 
WesleyBurns said:
My monitor has died today. Fonts are blurry, games are interpolated mess when there is any motion.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18635912

UMBA when it works fixes it. I am not happy at all. Will OCUK take a return on this. I do not want to get involved with Asus directly.
I have owned it since launch so about 2/3 months?
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Today.....the exact same day mine did...............:confused:

It's almost like an update was pushed out to the hardware which broke it!
 
The monitor is bad not even in windows. The monitor doesn't have firmware updates / i have not run one.

I am not happy with this for the price. I mean even ULMB isn't selectable most of the time.
 
WesleyBurns said:
The monitor is bad not even in windows. The monitor doesn't have firmware updates / i have not run one.

I am not happy with this for the price. I mean even ULMB isn't selectable most of the time.
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Oh I know it's the hardware. I spent 2 hours testing mine in every way possible.

But the same fault that many many people are reporting on multiple configurations and the same faults happening on the same day are worrying. That's not a Q&A problem...that's an inherent design flaw.

I'm reading about some people who are on their FOURTH replacement.
 
I don't want a replacement. I REALLY feel let down but this monitor, i mean 700 quid and it is just TN, i mean i liked it but this is the last straw even have to reboot it now and again because GSYNC goes off.

I'm ringing first thing in the morning and RMAing it. Really annoyed. All ready for Far Cry 4 et al and now this. 1st world problems hey :P
 
Sin_Chase said:
Without another 2560x1440 G-SYNC monitor on the market I am going to have to try my luck with another....
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You make it sound like it's a hard choice. Everything has a fail rate, so what. You were unlucky to get one that's broke, next one should work fine.

(emphasis on SHOULD - the fail rate remains the same, the chance of getting two that are broke is lower, still a chance however!!)
 
Tonester0011 said:
You make it sound like it's a hard choice. Everything has a fail rate, so what. You were unlucky to get one that's broke, next one should work fine.

(emphasis on SHOULD - the fail rate remains the same, the chance of getting two that are broke is lower, still a chance however!!)
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I fully accept products fail.

But it's a little concerning when a large amount of reported identical failures occur. It points towards a design flaw rather than an unexpected hardware failure. The Swift is not exactly a huge volume item either.
 
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