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

You must be able to get your money for this monitor as its never been working 100% scince you have had it,and now that you have had 4 of them and your still not happy I can't understand why there has not been a refund.
 
I'm guessing you tried different PC/graphics cards and cables etc? I know from experience that display port cables can be really flakey sometimes. You can have 2 identical looking one but for some reason one will cause issues, even though it works fine on a different monitor :/

I've also experienced the same thing with HDMI, but it's not as common.
 
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Purchased the Swift yesterday, and just this morning I got it delivered. First impressions of the monitor... it seems to constantly turn itself on and off every 30 second or so and sometimes more frequently. Whats going on? It seems broken on arrival, I'm shocked. I use 350.12 and MSI GTX 970.
So far first thing I noticed, it says build date of october 2014. Is it a bad thing that I didn't get one from dec or post 2015?
Anyways so far, no backlight bleed and no dead pixels, thats the only positive here. Colours look really good, blacks are fantastic. Viewing angle is average, but what do you expect for a tn and 27'.
How bad is it that I got a october 2014? This really sucks, its not like I had a choice, this is simply what they delivered to me. I was surprised since everyone was saying how the Swift is sold out everywhere anyway. Obviously it wasn't.
 
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PullTheTricker said:
Ok this is NOT good so far. Purchased the Swift yesterday, and just this morning I got it delivered. First impressions of the monitor... it seems to constantly turn itself on and off every 30 second or so and sometimes more frequently. Whats going on? It seems broken on arrival, I'm shocked. I use 350.12 and MSI GTX 970.

So far first thing I noticed, it says build date of october 2014. Is it a bad thing that I didn't get one from dec or post 2015?

Anyways so far, no backlight bleed and no dead pixels, thats the only positive here. Colours look really good, blacks are fantastic. Viewing angle is average, but what do you expect for a tn and 27'.

How bad is it that I got a october 2014? This really sucks, its not like I had a choice, this is simply what they delivered to me. I was surprised since everyone was saying how the Swift is sold out everywhere anyway. Obviously it wasn't.

Edit: With g-sync turned off, the led is white, but then constantly goes orange and white again turning on and off the screen.
When gaming, and g-sync turned on, it doesn't do it at all. Only on desktop it seems.
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If the turning off and on issue is definitely the screen and not related to something like a dodgy extension lead (I'd be surprised, but I have to check), then I'd suggest calling 01442 265 548 at the earliest opportunity to arrange a door-swap RMA with us.

There shouldn't be any issue with the monitor being dated Oct 2014 rather than 2015.
 
Is the monitor turning itself on and off or is it just constantly losing signal?

Are you using the original cable that came with the panel?
 
Ye its not the cable. I tested that allready. I have a gold plated display port capable of 4k and 144Hz. Also I don't use any extensions, the cable is only 2 meters long.

Anyways, I am impressed with the image quality of the Swift I have to say though, compared to my BenQ XL2420G, both G-Sync monitors. Swift has very very nice colours, red colours especially, blacks are good, panel uniformity was also good.
 
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Ye its not the cable. I tested that allready. I have a gold plated display port capable of 4k and 144Hz. Also I don't use any extensions, the cable is only 2 meters long.

Anyways, I am impressed with the image quality of the Swift I have to say though, compared to my BenQ XL2420G, both G-Sync monitors. Swift has very very nice colours, red colours especially, blacks are good, panel uniformity was also good.
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All display port cables do 4k or 144Hz dude even the cheap £2 ones :p

Hope you get this sorted and don't go through all the headache I did.
 
^^ Not all cables are stable with 4K/144Hz - try a cheapy one at much beyond 2m and chances are you will find black rectangles appearing on the display, intermittent display timeouts, etc. especially if your using a GPU with a weak displayport "drive" (like my laptop).

I've got a pile of ~13 random displayport cables here - half of them do not work with my laptop at 120Hz on a 1920x1080 display, only 3 of them work with my laptop and a 4K panel, quite a few of them do not work fully stable with the 4K panel or 1920x 120Hz with my gaming PC - not tested with the Swift at 144Hz as I just used the one that came with it.
 
BTW anyone know how to turn off the burn-in pattern on the Swift (which comes on when in standby)? When I first switched it on I was able to get in to a menu where it had the option, but I just can't get to it any more :/

There must be some key combo I can't figure out.
 
I didn't even have time to get on my pc all day. Anyways, solved my issue and it happend to be a dumb mistake of my own after all, lol, sorry bout that Asus. :D

Anyways, been gaming all evening on it. I'l give the Swift an 8/10 for objectively, but emotionally, i'l give it a 10/10. I'm totally in love with the Swift.
Literally the only downside is agressive coating for me personally, THATS IT!
I'm comparing it to my BenQ XL2420G, and the Swift is miles ahead in picture quality. Definitely loving mine atm. No backlight bleed and no dead pixels. Hopefully it lasts for many years, since I hear october build date ought to have issues at some point, but I hope not.
 
Are the vertical stripes across the screen normal when using 3D vision (and also in object trails in 2D)? That didn't happen on my old 120hz BenQ.
 
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Received this on Wednesday and it is working perfectly. The build date was February 2015. At first I thought there was a dead pixel in the top left corner but discovered it was only on Battlefield 4 and is a bug many have reported. Fingers crossed it stays this way as it is a great monitor.
 
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