Best calibrating I can do is with the icc profiles Badass kindly has on his website.
The Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q – a 27” 1400p 144Hz Monitor with G-SYNC
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Best calibrating I can do is with the icc profiles Badass kindly has on his website.
Well to be fair I would think both would need be done fully to decide which is best, but at end of the day its your eyes that decide which you prefer.
I would deff buy a Spyder or such to use a LCD long-term.
Seen some really night and day difference after someone doing a good job with one, out the box settings and menu presets are not always the best.
I would deff buy a Spyder or such to use a LCD long-term.
Seen some really night and day difference after someone doing a good job with one, out the box settings and menu presets are not always the best.
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So after playing with it disabled it is soooo niceIf I'm getting frame drops I don't notice it. The crosshair is really nice but I hope they include more options as the ones they have are to big for my liking. All I need is a red dot.
Think tonight I will try ULMB mode.
Really glad to hear! I thought that was the issue. I think Nvidia themselves should make it clearer on their own website what the correct way to enable G-SYNC is. It isn't immediately obvious that you should disable in-game VSync.
Soldato
Really glad to hear! I thought that was the issue. I think Nvidia themselves should make it clearer on their own website what the correct way to enable G-SYNC is. It isn't immediately obvious that you should disable in-game VSync.
Do you think you will be getting a model to review anytime soon?
Well I butchered my wall mount as I hate the Asus stand!
Love it floating in front of me, little close in the pictures, moved things around a bit now I am sitting here but you get the idea
That is my Dell 30" moved over to the right.
One good thing with this new Asus is the LED power light is really dim! I have a thing about power lights and put black tape over them if they are too bright, the APC UPS under the desk is normally lit up like a Christmas tree!
Love it floating in front of me, little close in the pictures, moved things around a bit now I am sitting here but you get the idea
That is my Dell 30" moved over to the right.
One good thing with this new Asus is the LED power light is really dim! I have a thing about power lights and put black tape over them if they are too bright, the APC UPS under the desk is normally lit up like a Christmas tree!
Caporegime
Great stuff guys
We have a G-Sync owners club in the GPU section if any of you would like to add your monitor to that? You could give some tips as well for others there
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18612525
We have a G-Sync owners club in the GPU section if any of you would like to add your monitor to that? You could give some tips as well for others there
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18612525
Soldato
I'm just finishing off my review of the Samsung U28D590D then I'll be getting straight onto reviewing the ASUS.
Thanks! My only recent experiences with TN are from work and those are some old crappy 22" Dells (1680x1050). I'm ok with them but when trying to watch a co-worker's display it is sometimes annoying. For gaming I don't think I'd mind the viewing angles too much but for desktop use perhaps as I don't know how a much larger TN display would perform.
I no longer do any truly color-critical work so I think I'll be ok with the image quality otherwise, especially since the Swift is truly 8-bit.
Well I butchered my wall mount as I hate the Asus stand!
Love it floating in front of me, little close in the pictures, moved things around a bit now I am sitting here but you get the idea
That is my Dell 30" moved over to the right.
One good thing with this new Asus is the LED power light is really dim! I have a thing about power lights and put black tape over them if they are too bright, the APC UPS under the desk is normally lit up like a Christmas tree!
Which Dell model is that? And how would you compare the Asus to it regarding image quality, viewing angles and responsiveness?
It is the old Dell 3008WFP and the only games I have played on it are racing games and mmos.
Although the response is pretty good it has quite a lot of input lag (like 30ms+) so is rubbish for FPS.
I don't view my screens from anything but straight on, if I stand up and look down on them the TN looks crap and the IPS still looks fine but no surprise there.
Image quality both are great but the colours on the IPS are quite a bit better.
Even calibrated with a very good colorimeter if I move the same image from screen to screen the difference is clear.
For a TN though it is impressive and way better than my old Asus VG236H, not so washed out.
I am very happy with it
It is the old Dell 3008WFP and the only games I have played on it are racing games and mmos.
Although the response is pretty good it has quite a lot of input lag (like 30ms+) so is rubbish for FPS.
I don't view my screens from anything but straight on, if I stand up and look down on them the TN looks crap and the IPS still looks fine but no surprise there.
Image quality both are great but the colours on the IPS are quite a bit better.
Even calibrated with a very good colorimeter if I move the same image from screen to screen the difference is clear.
For a TN though it is impressive and way better than my old Asus VG236H, not so washed out.
I am very happy with it
Thanks! That's the exact Dell model I have been using for years now and I haven't been all that bothered by the input lag to be honest. Then again I'm not a hardcore gamer (don't play much online). I do want to give all this new high refresh rate etc stuff a go and see what kind of difference it makes.
Do you feel the higher refresh rate is nicer in regular desktop use?
Is there any noticeable shifting when facing the screen straight on and moving around a bit in your chair?
Would you say there is a big difference in blurryness in games?
Also does the Asus have a scaler or are you using GPU scaling with it? I find the Dell scaler gives far superior results to GPU scaling mostly because of the sharpness control in the display (even when it's set to default which doesn't look like it adds any sharpening at all), do you notice any difference in for example 1080p res?
Soldato
For 60hz users this will be a massive upgrade, ULMB/GSYNC excluded. When I went from 60hz IPS to 120 TN it was night and day in games.
The Asus can only scale via GPU, looks just fine watching a 1080p movie in full screen, I wouldn't and haven't ever set a game resolution to anything but native res though so not tested that.
Although I have had the 30" Dell since release I bought a Asus VG236H ~5 years ago now to get 120Hz for gaming.
It is smoother for desktop use and you can tell when you drag windows about fast but it won't change your life, I still find 60Hz on the Dell just fine for every day use.
Gaming wise it is a night a day difference, I just loaded up BF4 on the Dell and it is pretty much unplayable due to how laggy and blurry it looks compared to the Asus, but it was the same with the older 120hz Asus.
G-Sync seems to work really very well, FPS was dropping down but I couldn't really tell except for the FPS Display.
I couldn't pick just one of them though, the Dell is just so damn nice looking and these Asus screens are blazing performance and still good looking.
Although I have had the 30" Dell since release I bought a Asus VG236H ~5 years ago now to get 120Hz for gaming.
It is smoother for desktop use and you can tell when you drag windows about fast but it won't change your life, I still find 60Hz on the Dell just fine for every day use.
Gaming wise it is a night a day difference, I just loaded up BF4 on the Dell and it is pretty much unplayable due to how laggy and blurry it looks compared to the Asus, but it was the same with the older 120hz Asus.
G-Sync seems to work really very well, FPS was dropping down but I couldn't really tell except for the FPS Display.
I couldn't pick just one of them though, the Dell is just so damn nice looking and these Asus screens are blazing performance and still good looking.
When you mention moving the cursor around, You know that judder can be down now to mouse hz with ULMB? If you look up the blurbusters article on mice they actually call for a 2000hz mouse if motion on monitors keep improving.
So if you are running usb at 250/500hz time to move up to 1000hz and install the usb patch.
So if you are running usb at 250/500hz time to move up to 1000hz and install the usb patch.
Soldato
What settings in nvidia contro panel did you run for ULMB baddass?
Right after my stuttering problems this morning. I had another go this evening now I had time to play. After I reinstalled drivers there was no difference in BF4. Then I turned off Deferred Anti-aliasing and Bam all stuttering gone. Even with 2 780's I think i was gpu bottlenecked and it was causing some stuttering with deferred AA on. Good thing is, even with Deferred AA off, the image is still pretty sharp at 1440p. Sometimes it was so smooth I swear you could actually notice the terrible BF4 netcode more.
Need to try some more games and see if I can get crysis 3 to not sutter, might just need to turn a few settings down from ultra.
Need to try some more games and see if I can get crysis 3 to not sutter, might just need to turn a few settings down from ultra.
Soldato
To be fair I dont think you need to run any AA with this monitor in BF4. I'm running everything on low except mesh and it still looks amazing.