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

mad_weegie · 20 Mar 2015 at 12:53

Love this monitor

Really really impressed.

** glad i had european adapter spare as it came with a 2 pin connection **

clone · 20 Mar 2015 at 13:00

Eh how come?

mad_weegie · 20 Mar 2015 at 13:07

clone said:
Eh how come?

dont know mate, just when i opened box i seen the two pin power connection. was like ****!!!! glad i keep spares lol

aint effecting performance or anything, all performing as expected

Rroff · 20 Mar 2015 at 13:12

Dicehunter said:
Anyone know if there will be an IPS version of this monitor ?

There is a AHVA version of the panel in the works so should be some I think Acer has a model expected.

Dicehunter · 20 Mar 2015 at 15:54

Rroff said:
There is a AHVA version of the panel in the works so should be some I think Acer has a model expected.

I dread to imagine the ROG tax on this when it comes out :eek:

clone · 20 Mar 2015 at 20:02

Just cant quite make myself buy this monitor don't know why, need to mull it over.

dasimpse · 20 Mar 2015 at 20:06

I would buy one no problem, But the acer looks really nice too. Just worried about issues I've heard some people say they have had with the display failing and flickering etc after a few months

Dicehunter · 20 Mar 2015 at 20:18

clone said:
Just cant quite make myself buy this monitor don't know why, need to mull it over.

Same here, The only thing putting me off is the TN panel as I'm an IPS snob

clone · 20 Mar 2015 at 20:22

Same for me mate I would love to try the ips panel as ive never had one just don't know.

llamadal · 20 Mar 2015 at 20:37

You should try it, it's an excellent tn pannel

OptimaLnrg · 20 Mar 2015 at 21:06

My monitor is still fumbling along. I don't think it's going to get worse. I can't send it back to ASUS in this state as I have heard they are incompetent with RMAs, but I am pretty damn tired of crawling under my damn desk twice a day so I may yet ask OCUK to deal with - at least I have a chance..

clone · 20 Mar 2015 at 21:13

Had no trouble with ASUS when I had to rma my monitor.

Dirk Diggler · 21 Mar 2015 at 14:48

OptimaLnrg said:
My monitor is still fumbling along. I don't think it's going to get worse. I can't send it back to ASUS in this state as I have heard they are incompetent with RMAs, but I am pretty damn tired of crawling under my damn desk twice a day so I may yet ask OCUK to deal with - at least I have a chance..

It's a 3 year on-site warranty, so you shouldn't be sending anything back.

racecarinthered · 21 Mar 2015 at 21:27

Hi - I have been researching this monitor for the past few days and am finding it very hard to come to a decision on whether to take the plunge or not.

Its clear to me when it works its basically the best FPS monitor on the market (I play a lot of CS:GO).

However I have been reading the ASUS forums and it seems many people have had serious nightmares with multiple issues on multiple monitors + horrendous customer service.
Also having read the last posts on this thread - where do we stand on warranty with OCUK? I wouldn't want to go to ASUS direct if something did go wrong.

I have spoken to another retailer (biggest - take a guess) and they cover it themselves for two years with the last year taken care of by ASUS. But they told me the stock they have is from July (my research tells me a lot of issues from this batch?)

Does anyone know for sure how the OCUK warranty that is either on site or off site (who knows at this point?) covers you, and what batch are they currently retailing?

Thanks for your help.

Mike

pmc25 · 22 Mar 2015 at 01:45

Dicehunter said:
I dread to imagine the ROG tax on this when it comes out

It'll be cheaper. No G-Synch.

PCM2 · 22 Mar 2015 at 07:08

pmc25 said:
It'll be cheaper. No G-Synch.

Nor ROG.

mad_weegie · 22 Mar 2015 at 09:52

racecarinthered said:
Hi - I have been researching this monitor for the past few days and am finding it very hard to come to a decision on whether to take the plunge or not.

Its clear to me when it works its basically the best FPS monitor on the market (I play a lot of CS:GO).

However I have been reading the ASUS forums and it seems many people have had serious nightmares with multiple issues on multiple monitors + horrendous customer service.
Also having read the last posts on this thread - where do we stand on warranty with OCUK? I wouldn't want to go to ASUS direct if something did go wrong.

I have spoken to another retailer (biggest - take a guess) and they cover it themselves for two years with the last year taken care of by ASUS. But they told me the stock they have is from July (my research tells me a lot of issues from this batch?)

Does anyone know for sure how the OCUK warranty that is either on site or off site (who knows at this point?) covers you, and what batch are they currently retailing?

Thanks for your help.

Mike

Also one thing that a lot of people forget, G-Sync does not work in window or border less window mode either , only full screen.

So if you have a multiple monitor setup and like to game in a window and browse on the other, that aint going to happen with GSync Enabled.

But still a beast of a monitor

rare · 22 Mar 2015 at 10:43

Not sure what to do, was going to go for the Benq but looking at videos of the ghosting on that screen its pretty bad. On the other hand this monitor is 100 quid dearer, seems to be hit and miss quality wise and only has one DP input. Argh.

andybird123 · 22 Mar 2015 at 10:51

mad_weegie said:
Also one thing that a lot of people forget, G-Sync does not work in window or border less window mode either , only full screen.

So if you have a multiple monitor setup and like to game in a window and browse on the other, that aint going to happen with GSync Enabled.

But still a beast of a monitor

You can have a game in full screen and a browser still open on a 2nd screen, but it does mean you have to alt-tab out of the game to browse, which some games dont like very much

mad_weegie · 22 Mar 2015 at 11:22

andybird123 said:
You can have a game in full screen and a browser still open on a 2nd screen, but it does mean you have to alt-tab out of the game to browse, which some games dont like very much

yeah but that defeats the purpose of having two monitors.