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

Gibbo said:
Glad I could help with you getting one m8, took enough time but got there in the end. Dropped you an email today if your interested in getting an Acer 4k G-Sync to review? :)
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yep thanks for the help Gibbo, and yes, will get in touch with Acer too about their screen for the near future :) cheers
 
1kiwi said:
How's the review going Baddass? Have you noticed anything unexpected while using the monitor that you can give away?
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not "unexpected" as such, but you do need to be a bit careful with your graphics card.

this is the section from the review as it stands about graphics card support:

To make the most of the ROG Swift PQ278Q you will want a suitable NVIDIA graphics card. The screen is designed in conjunction with NVIDIA and certain features including 3D Vision, G-sync and the Ultra Low Motion Blur (ULMB) mode only work with NVIDIA GPU's. You will need a graphics card from their range which supports G-sync, from the list provided on NVIDIA's website. You will also need to ensure that the graphics card has a DisplayPort output since the screen only has a single DisplayPort input. A lot of NVIDIA's graphics cards seem to omit this connection type (as it's more of an AMD connection), but some versions of their compatible cards do offer it. You can't unfortunately use regular and widely available DVI to DisplayPort adapters as they don't work when taking DVI output from the graphics card to DP input in the monitor. There may be some "active" adapters which could overcome this, but that might be hit and miss. Ensuring you have a suitable NVIDIA card with DP out will make life much easier. If you have an older NVIDIA card with DP output which does not support G-sync, you can still run the screen as normal. You should be able to achieve the 144Hz refresh rate but you wouldn't be able to use G-sync or ULMB which are linked to one another and only available on the more modern G-sync supporting cards. On another note, you might find different DisplayPort cables give you different results. Some we had lying around our lab didn't seem to work very well, but you can just use the bundled cable anyway which should be fine.
It should be noted that the screen can also be used from AMD graphics cards, again as long as you have a DisplayPort output. We had some issues though with achieving the maximum refresh rate on one of our test machines (AMD 7800 series). It seemed to accept up to 100Hz without issue, but 120 and 144Hz would return a "no signal found" message. Results may vary from one setup to another. Again, you'd probably have an NVIDIA card anyway if you were going to buy this screen since a lot of what you're paying for is the G-sync / ULMB features.
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Only DP capable of supporting this res, refresh rate and Gsync. Also I believe you can't actually have additional supports with that in place anyway
 
Yet if you google Nvidia displayport you find nothing but complaints about the RGB mode. Actually nevermind i just came across something that said otherwise so it seems DP is fine or will be sorted.


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Baddass said:
not "unexpected" as such, but you do need to be a bit careful with your graphics card.

this is the section from the review as it stands about graphics card support:
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Just reading through your post again. I do allot of work from Home and have been using a high end KVM Switch which is compatible with 1080p 120Hz monitors. I have a 2014 Lenovo Ultrabook which has a mini-display port and nvidia graphics card. Few questions:

  • Do you know of any DP hubs which would support displayport and mini displayport (assuming I would have to use an adapter)?
  • Do you think my laptop could run this monitor @ 2560x1440 @ 144Hz?
 
1kiwi said:
Just reading through your post again. I do allot of work from Home and have been using a high end KVM Switch which is compatible with 1080p 120Hz monitors. I have a 2014 Lenovo Ultrabook which has a mini-display port and nvidia graphics card. Few questions:

  • Do you know of any DP hubs which would support displayport and mini displayport (assuming I would have to use an adapter)?
  • Do you think my laptop could run this monitor @ 2560x1440 @ 144Hz?
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not sure on the hubs, but i expect it could be hit and miss. depends on the hub quality i suppose, but not got any to test myself. Regarding the laptop, i'd hope it can run the screen without too much trouble being that it's an NVIDIA card but i'd suggest trying to check the specs of the GPU to see if it can support the res and refresh rate in spec. you wouldn't be able to enjoy G-sync or the ULMB mode though if the GPU isn't a modern card which supports G-sync :(
 
Baddass said:
not sure on the hubs, but i expect it could be hit and miss. depends on the hub quality i suppose, but not got any to test myself. Regarding the laptop, i'd hope it can run the screen without too much trouble being that it's an NVIDIA card but i'd suggest trying to check the specs of the GPU to see if it can support the res and refresh rate in spec. you wouldn't be able to enjoy G-sync or the ULMB mode though if the GPU isn't a modern card which supports G-sync :(
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Thanks - I'm not interested in gaming on my laptop but I had hoped to be able to run at max res and refresh rate although I could live with 60Hz.

Edit: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nvs_techspecs.html

It's the NVS 5200M which should support 2560X1600.
 
Thanks for the update Baddass!

And it shouldent come as a suprise as this is indeed an nVidia monitor from the get go so anyone thinking about using this on any older card then the 700 aka the latest series might aswell upgrade their card or dont buy this thing at all.

And the most important part, if you are an AMD fanboy, look elsewhere ;)

I have never been this pumped about any hardware upgrade I will do, not ever so give my the thing NOOW allready, my wallet is more then ready :D
 
InSync said:
Thanks for the update Baddass!

And it shouldent come as a suprise as this is indeed an nVidia monitor from the get go so anyone thinking about using this on any older card then the 700 aka the latest series might aswell upgrade their card or dont buy this thing at all.

And the most important part, if you are an AMD fanboy, look elsewhere ;)

I have never been this pumped about any hardware upgrade I will do, not ever so give my the thing NOOW allready, my wallet is more then ready :D
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The 600 range supports it fine, I certainly don't feel the need to upgrade from 670 SLI to run this monitor (and I don't feel the upgrade to the 700 series is worth it for me personally). Supported devices: http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/g-sync/system-requirements
 
I will be getting one of these eventually, when the price is slightly saner. I will also be using it with an AMD card, because it's the 1440P @ 144Hz I want rather than G-Sync :D

Although I thought that ULMB might have worked on any graphics card, since (as I understand it) this is controlled entirely by the monitor and is mutually exclusive with G-Sync.
 
X3T said:
I will be getting one of these eventually, when the price is slightly saner. I will also be using it with an AMD card, because it's the 1440P @ 144Hz I want rather than G-Sync :D

Although I thought that ULMB might have worked on any graphics card, since (as I understand it) this is controlled entirely by the monitor and is mutually exclusive with G-Sync.
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Yeah to bad that the ULMB mode dont works with AMD, well lets hope some one will/can fix it as another said!
 
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