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as well as hyperx hidden away in the dark recesses of the ASUS Rog room we
have the greatest announcement of all
time this is the Rog Enthusiast SLI
bridge this is the star of the show they've got four-way SLI Bridges they've
got two-way SLI Bridges they light up they've got finish they're on graphics
cards no I'm just kidding not that at all I mean those are coming and those
are cool but the star of the show here is the Rog Swift pg27 AQ the A is for 4K
and for IPs and for fast response to I
don't know what the a stands for I don't understand what these guys are talking
about half the time but basically it's exactly the same as the
pg278q the previous g-sync monitor that
we had that we saw from them so it's so 144 HZ 2560 X 1440 the one that I
personally declared to be one of the only high-end gaming monitors that
matters the one that is sitting on my desk personally right now in my gaming
ring because I think it's absolutely fantastic the ID is exactly the same so
we get those beautiful slim bezels we get that super flexible stand including
all the adjustments that you could possibly want you got your pivot your swivel your height adjust your tilt all
that good stuff but what's been updated is the panel instead of 25 60 x440 now
we get a 27in 4K panel it's a 60 HZ
panel cuz quite frankly we don't have uh display technology that can drive 144 HZ
4K and when we do I'm sure ASUS is going to try and figure out how to
Frankenstein that into a slim bezel your
beautiful ID thing and then the other main difference is that now so it's 4K
60 HZ it is IPS so because we don't need
those Lightning Fast refresh rates 144 htz now we can go with IPS as long as
the necessary work goes into making sure that it not only looks great it's a
10-bit panel so you're going to get that beautiful color reproduction with
supported video cards and supported applications but you also want to make
sure that it actually performs well enough for gaming so some tuning has to
go into making sure that this monitor is going to make sense for gamers if they're going to go ahead and put the
Rog branding on it what they're working on right now is how to get the response
time dialed in to the point where it'll be acceptable and we're not really sure what the spec is going to be right now
in fact we're not even going to be we're not even sure if it's going to have single DisplayPort input just like the
existing Rog Swift or if it's going to support multiple inputs we're not sure
we're not sure a lot of things but they're aiming for 5 to six millisecond
response times as a weighted average across the panel so this is pretty much
the star of the show as far as the Rog Suite goes here looks absolutely
stunning although we're not really anywhere near an actual release yet I
mean we're looking at what you know 3 to 6 months at least for this guy I'm
getting the nod from J over look I'm here with JJ see say hi JJ hello everybody how you
guys doing everybody loves JJ so uh they
love you oh he's T he's taking he's taking
shots at me but fortunately I didn't give him my mic so you guys didn't have
to you didn't have to hear him tease me he does it all the time off camera
anyway guys thank you for checking out our overview of the pg27 AQ honestly 4K
makes a ton of sense to me for g-sync because with a very powerful rig like
the kinds of people who are buying $800 gaming monitors like the like the RG
Swift that already exists these guys are buying high-end graphics cards and 2560
X 1440 is demanding but it's not that
demanding for a high-end graphics card and as long as you're running at a high
enough refresh rate it's going to look kind of great regardless gsync really
comes into its own when you dip below 60
FPS when you would really start to feel that chug otherwise so with this guy
when that inevitably happens anyone down to around even as low as kind of like 40
to 45 maybe 43 to 45 FPS it's still going to feel very very smooth and I'm
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pg27aq the A is for awesome I guess is
that what it is I'm getting the nod