Whats happened to the 165hz IPS monitors?

Calabi · 14 Oct 2016 at 11:42

I've been looking for over a month now for new stock of either the Acer Predator XB271H or ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q. I dont know whats going on, literally no stores have had any in stock the only one's available are from Italy or elsewhere.

Was the technology just too soon, and they've canned and discontinued them? Do they just not like the UK or something. Its weird because I would like to buy one, preferably with less glow and the fixed firmware.

Calabi · 14 Oct 2016 at 14:50

RidingTheFlow said:
There are quite a lot of different-sized monitors which use same G-sync module and still readily available (e.g. 21:9 ultrawides).

Well if this goes on for much longer I may buy one of them(maybe that's their plan). But I'd prefer these monitors due to their superior response times and latency's.

Overclockers and other stores have even had ETA's, which have gone and passed and then been deleted, so they must be getting contacted by them.

Calabi · 19 Oct 2016 at 23:50

phil-k said:
looks like stock is due in tomorrow

I was hoping it would be the Acer but Asus will do, as long as its good, but I wont believe it until it happens.

Calabi · 21 Oct 2016 at 16:24

Well the monitor came today, its not bad. I couldn't get it to work to start with, the screen was flickering like crazy and then turned itself off. I used the cable that came with it then it worked fine.

There's no dead pixels that I can notice so far. It also does not have the orange glow in the corners the previous monitors had. Instead it has a silver glow in the bottom right hand corner, and slight in the other corners, but its not as bad as the orange, nowhere near. I think its back light bleed or whatever, if you move head then it gets worse. Its only in really dark scenes that its noticeable, so I think I can live with it.

On another note Battlefield 1 looks amazing on it.