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

Fruitbooter said:
OCUK should open them up and do some QC checks before sending them out as there are clearly common problems with them but you seem to get a few which are fine...
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Most of them are fine out the box, aside from some issues which in themselves aren't unusual for gaming and/or 144Hz panels. Some seem to not stand upto 144Hz use over time.

So far fingers crossed the only "issue" with mine is the "screen door" effect at 144Hz in certain games which isn't apparent at all at 120Hz even to close inspection. If it continues to work perfectly fine as a 120Hz panel I will be very happy.
 
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Does anyone have this monitor working with AMD cards? Because it seems to hate them.

I was running 2 x 290s and couldnt go above 120hz. If I tried 144hz, the screen looked like death.

I just changed the 290s for a 295X2, and guess what. Now I can't even run above 60hz without display link failures, and black flickering. So I am stuck at 60hz....

/slitswrists
 
wunkley said:
Sorry to hear about your swift probs. don't want to make you feel worse, but I tried the eizo you're getting about 6 months ago. Sent it back as it was terrible, had a 2 inch brighter strip down the right hand side (not light bleed, a different specific problem) and had awful ghosting and trails in games.

After reading up on the issues it sounded like this eizo is plagued with issues, unless you get lucky.
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With th Eizo FG2421, my findings are similar to yours (some times a 1" wide band of lightness depending on what the background image is doing and just
too ghosty for a gaming monitor and the 240Hz while seems faster makes weird jittery images especially in FC4. Also there is some crosshatching in some
scenes (still ok nothing as bad as screen wide vertial bands on the Swift)

While not "terrible" it just doesn't cut it as a gaming monitor, maybe they are trying to sail by on the good contrast (which i do not like it is just too inky!).

I have found out that I actually prefer the look of TN panels (probibly just because they are fast ignoring that fact that they have bad viewing angles - not that it matters!)
Buying monitors without ever seeing them is such a gamble.

I am trying one more monitor that I will have to stick with as I am at the end of my whits. The BenQ XL2420Z. Then in a few months ill try nab a working swift / an acer equivalent...
 
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For anyone who wants to know what pixel inversion looks like, if it has not already been posted on here, here it is right in the TFT review, i am surpised they never mentioned it in the article (atleast i cannot find it in there).
Now imagine that covering 1/2 the screen when looking at the sky when any horizonal movement, or NPC in game.
Look in the overshoot area you will see vertial lines...

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WesleyBurns said:
With th Eizo FG2421, my findings are similar to yours (some times a 1" wide band of lightness depending on what the background image is doing and just
too ghosty for a gaming monitor and the 240Hz while seems faster makes weird jittery images especially in FC4. Also there is some crosshatching in some
scenes (still ok nothing as bad as screen wide vertial bands on the Swift)

While not "terrible" it just doesn't cut it as a gaming monitor, maybe they are trying to sail by on the good contrast (which i do not like it is just too inky!).

I have found out that I actually prefer the look of TN panels (probibly just because they are fast ignoring that fact that they have bad viewing angles - not that it matters!)
Buying monitors without ever seeing them is such a gamble.

I am trying one more monitor that I will have to stick with as I am at the end of my whits. The BenQ XL2420Z. Then in a few months ill try nab a working swift / an acer equivalent...
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Hi mate. So you actually got the Eizo 2421 yesterday?? And you found exactly the same issues as me? That sucks. That monitor really does have problems.

Christ almighty, buying a proper functioning monitor is hard these days isn't it. I remember when dead pixels was all you had to worry about!

Interesting what you say about the Eizos contrast too. For a VA panel with 5000:1 contrast ratio, I too wasn't that impressed with the black levels, but I put it down to maybe my whole panel just wasn't right. Maybe not. I genuinely found my dell 29 superwide ips to be as good contrast and blacks wise, and the Rog Swift is not far behind.
 
Hi, yes i tried it out yesterday, It's ok I think TN monitors do the job better and i think its place may be irrelevant with the amount of gaming monitors out now vs its price too.
However I am still yet to try the BenQ and i will report back, but yes, the AG coating + its high contrast ratio is TOO inky for me as i said before.
 
This fence is starting to hurt my bum. Do I send this Swift back and get something later on, or keep it and take a very expensive gamble? This is driving me nuts!
 
Diddums said:
This fence is starting to hurt my bum. Do I send this Swift back and get something later on, or keep it and take a very expensive gamble? This is driving me nuts!
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What issues, if any, are you having with yours? The only quibble I have is the minor inversion thing, very rarely in a few games. It sounds like there are different levels of severity of this (I get no really obvious vertical lines or anything like that). Touch wood I think I struck lucky with mine.

They come with a 3 year warranty, so if you're having no problems, just enjoy the best gaming monitor on gods green earth, and shut up :)
 
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WesleyBurns said:
I sent my 2nd Swift back today. The vertical pixel inversion was just too apparent in Far Cry 4 (Sky scenes and peoples faces (blues/oranges/browns), I quit the game and raised an RMA. You Tube videos look like interlaced video but vertical! Now how did that pass Development/QA? ANY horizonal motion even in Windows causes this to happen (Title bars especially)

I won't be getting another one. If in six months the problems are gone, fine but I would imagine there will be some competition by then. I am going to be trying an Eizo FG2421 (24" I KNOW! But now that I have seen what a rog swift can do when it works (my 1st one before it died) and just how blurry an IPS 27" is The Eizo MIGHT fill the gap if it is good as it says it is)
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jh30uk said:
The Eizo is said to be the best but 24" 1080p is hard to go back to.
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The Eizo is a dog compared to the swift, it's by no means a bad monitor but it's nowhere near as good (yes, I had one before). The black crush really annoyed me after a while.
 
wunkley said:
What issues, if any, are you having with yours? The only quibble I have is the minor inversion thing, very rarely in a few games. It sounds like there are different levels of severity of this (I get no really obvious vertical lines or anything like that). Touch wood I think I struck lucky with mine.

They come with a 3 year warranty, so if you're having no problems, just enjoy the best gaming monitor on gods green earth, and shut up :)
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I haven't opened it yet, my wife bought it for me for Xmas. I'm just a bit anxious as there are tons of reports of them going wrong, and according to various forums, Asus seem to have very firmly planted their head in the sand about it, which doesn't really inspire confidence.
 
Diddums said:
I haven't opened it yet, my wife bought it for me for Xmas. I'm just a bit anxious as there are tons of reports of them going wrong, and according to various forums, Asus seem to have very firmly planted their head in the sand about it, which doesn't really inspire confidence.
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Ah, I see your dilemma. Nothing worse than having something sitting there for ages for a lovely christmas pressie, only to open it up and then find its faulty.
Dare I suggest spoiling your christmas surprise and opening and testing it out now?
If it's all good, and you have an iron will, then box it back up for christmas.

It really is a fantastic monitor for gaming. And It really is worth the 'risk'
 
ancientmariner said:
I disagree, at over £600 combined with the horrendous support from asus and the escalating numbers of issues with this monitor. it is too big of a risk. For me anyway.
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Fair enough. But these days it seems buying any monitor is a risk. I tried the eizo 2421 as mentioned above. Awful, and sent it back. The latest lg 34 inch superwide is another monitor I nearly bought, but it is plagued with chronic levels of backlight bleed and general quality control issues.
I seem to have struck lucky with my swift (so far anyway) so there you go.

Honestly though, I think buying pc monitors is a shocking state of affairs these days. The level of quality control is downright pathetic, and it seems like a lottery as to whether you get a panel that is as it should be. And they're not cheap are they!

I genuinely don't understand these manufacturers business models either. The amount of returns they must be getting these days due to poor build quality and faults must seriously **** up their profits, no? Surely it's in their best interest, and the bloody customers, to do proper quality control of their products?
 
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@ wunkley, Was your Eizo made in Germany, Norway or Japan (sticker on rear)?

There is a massive thread on hardforum about them as well as the Rog Swift, yes many did get a batch batch but the Jap ones are said to be less prone to all the issues like crosshatching on screen and that gap at side of screen you had and a few other issues.

Someone else above said "the black were too inky"

He must be brainwashed into seeing LCD Greyish Blacks as that is what all monitor/TV manu's are aiming for, ie Plasma Blacks and LCD cannot do it, CRT and OLED sure.

Also on the Rog Swift he said the viewing angles do not matter, that's correct as you look at it straight on not side on but the colour shift is very evident if you move your head a few inches off centre, in fact one of worst I have used but then again is a larger screen than most.

It would appear to me by reading both massive threads and owning a Rog Swift for 1 week that both have major Q/A issues but the Rog Swift will never have non washed out colours or good blacks esp in a dark room when I play game most of my games ie Batman etc, it is just passive for me in a bright natural daylit room but the coating still get glare/reflection and AFAIK its the reason you see a pattern on the screen if you look (lines or crosshatching similar to the EIZO) but not a fault like the Eizo just the type of coating.

I nearly bought an Eizo twice (once here in the MM and other on Bay) both used and both Jap and claiming to be flawless but 24" 1920x1080p today for me is still going backwards.
 
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I've had my Swift for two weeks now and have no problems with it.

It's an excellent monitor and there is no way I could go back to 1080p.

Using a single Titan to power it - what a card this has proven to be, given I bought it back at launch and it is still able to breeze through everything.

- Matt
 
Diddums said:
I haven't opened it yet, my wife bought it for me for Xmas. I'm just a bit anxious as there are tons of reports of them going wrong, and according to various forums, Asus seem to have very firmly planted their head in the sand about it, which doesn't really inspire confidence.
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There is no way I would wait till Xmas to open it, I know it has a warranty but the sooner you find/report any fault after purchase the better, saying it was boxed for months probably makes them believe you were using it and faults were not there at new but appeared alter.

Again none of that should matter but just my opinion.
 
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