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

crinkleshoes · 4 Jan 2015 at 04:23

easyrider said:
What GFX card/S you got mate?

2x GTX970

easyrider · 4 Jan 2015 at 13:28

crinkleshoes said:
2x GTX970

What fps do you get if you disable sli and just run one 970 ? Fancy doing a test for me?

crinkleshoes · 4 Jan 2015 at 14:57

What games / settings?

easyrider · 4 Jan 2015 at 15:57

crinkleshoes said:
What games / settings?

Far cry 4 settings all high

Gazanimal · 4 Jan 2015 at 18:11

Well I bit the bullet and ordered mine today, should arrive just in time for my day off on Tuesday.

Can't wait to give it a whirl. Just need to decide which of the three 27" monitors I already have will be classed as surplus

alex_123_fra · 4 Jan 2015 at 18:37

Gazanimal said:
Well I bit the bullet and ordered mine today, should arrive just in time for my day off on Tuesday.

Can't wait to give it a whirl. Just need to decide which of the three 27" monitors I already have will be classed as surplus

Congrats. I gave one of my 27'' monitors to my wife (Asus PB278Q - 1440p). This is a PLS panel and she uses it on a desk next to me (I now use the Swift). The PLS panel picture quality is miles better to be fair and you can tell the difference when looking at the screens side by side. Her contrast is superb compared to mine. Those niggles disappear when I play at >100fps with no screen tearing though (which the PB278Q had loads of).

andybird123 · 4 Jan 2015 at 18:53

Drop the gamma in nvcp, will help loads if youve not already

alex_123_fra · 4 Jan 2015 at 19:02

andybird123 said:
Drop the gamma in nvcp, will help loads if youve not already

Wow, legend Andy, thanks. Just tried it and changing gamma in control panel is indeed far more effective than what I could achieve with mucking around with RGB and brightness/contrast settings. Should be a sticky somewhere really.

andybird123 · 4 Jan 2015 at 19:17

alex_123_fra said:
Wow, legend Andy, thanks. Just tried it and changing gamma in control panel is indeed far more effective than what I could achieve with mucking around with RGB and brightness/contrast settings. Should be a sticky somewhere really.

I keep my eye out and keep telling people

crinkleshoes · 4 Jan 2015 at 19:23

easyrider said:
Far cry 4 settings all high

OK dude... just installed it.

But first I need to figure out why my benchmarks are coming in at lower than expected. They seem to be about 10% lower than I think they should be, comparing to others.

Rroff · 4 Jan 2015 at 19:32

alex_123_fra said:
Wow, legend Andy, thanks. Just tried it and changing gamma in control panel is indeed far more effective than what I could achieve with mucking around with RGB and brightness/contrast settings. Should be a sticky somewhere really.

Sadly this panel really needs it - completely transforms it from the bleached look out the box - I resisted for a long time because I hate using software tweaks like that but the difference with a bit of driver level gamma tweaking is huge.

crinkleshoes · 4 Jan 2015 at 20:12

0.85 gamma + 60% digital vibrance seems to give a nice(r) colour balance for me.

What have you guys got it set to?

It's user preference sure... but bight be nice to get a general consensus to help others with a reasonable starting point?

Rroff · 4 Jan 2015 at 20:21

Been progressing through a few settings - for now at user color 95, 95, 100 with brightness 60, contrast 50 and gamma 0.84.

If your not too worried about fidelity and just want a colourful, vibrant display then sticking gamma down to around 0.7-0.8 area, digital vibrancy to around 60% and increasing the brightness on the panel itself to around 100 creates a fairly deep brilliant image.

andybird123 · 5 Jan 2015 at 17:55

Dont know if whyscotty checks back in on this thread at all, he could update the op with some common settings, and the main thing being the gamma adjustment

easyrider · 5 Jan 2015 at 18:53

What does 1080p look like when running a game ?

Edit....and don't sat 1080p lol

andybird123 · 5 Jan 2015 at 19:21

Not too bad considering, but 1080p at 27 inch just looks wrong up close when you are used to 1440

varkanoid · 5 Jan 2015 at 21:23

Rroff said:
Been progressing through a few settings - for now at user color 95, 95, 100 with brightness 60, contrast 50 and gamma 0.84.

If your not too worried about fidelity and just want a colourful, vibrant display then sticking gamma down to around 0.7-0.8 area, digital vibrancy to around 60% and increasing the brightness on the panel itself to around 100 creates a fairly deep brilliant image.

I was going to ask this question about what settings but brill an answer. I got a swift coming tomorrow so it will be interesting what I find.

I also wondered do people generally set it to 144mhz with g sync enabled?

crinkleshoes · 5 Jan 2015 at 21:24

Why would you set it to anything else?

varkanoid · 5 Jan 2015 at 22:41

crinkleshoes said:
Why would you set it to anything else?

I just wondered because the screen is already at 144mhz is g sync necessary.

Only reason I ask is because I used to have 144mhz 1080p and it didnt have gsync and all the games were super smooth anyway.

crinkleshoes · 5 Jan 2015 at 22:46

Smooth yes - but did you not noticed any screen tearing? (effectively more than one image on a screen at the same time - although it looks like one image cut in 2 or more).

GSync takes away the tearing... making it an even more pleasant experience.

VSync does the same, but vsync comes with input lag which isn't pleasant to use... gsync doesn't have the lag problem