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in the market for a 2560x1440 high refresh rate monitor that

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doesn't need to be overclocked and also happens to feature g-sync ultra low

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motion blur and 3D Vision welcome to my

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review of the only choice for someone who wants all of that stuff the ASUS Rog

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Swift pg278

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Q Cooler Master V series semi modular

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power supplies feature 80 plus gold efficiency and their gold guarantee

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5-year warranty click now to learn more ASUS was wise to go with an Rog inspired

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design for this monitor physically and ergonomically it hits all the right

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notes for a top-of-the-line monitor for me right now the stand has the full

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gamut of adjustments 12 CM of height adjust 60° of swivel 25 de of tilt and

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90° pivot with a vas am mount in the back just in case none of that is enough

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for you the styling is also spoton with aggressive rear vents a cable management

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hole in the stand a disable red LED ring

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around the base and that's it no goofy

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stuff around the screen itself no touch of color or whatever that nonsense just

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a super thin matte black bezel that ensures that all of your attention is

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devoted to the screen where it's supposed to be even the menu buttons are

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actually really good something I wasn't expecting given how much I disliked the

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ones on the pb287q this is the fastest

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to navigate onscreen display that I've ever used I still don't like the rear

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shortcut keys because I can't tell which is which when I can't see them from the

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front but the joystick combined with the super Snappy responsive menu is a dream

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to use mind you unlike other high-end monitors the Swifts menu doesn't have a

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bunch of options in it like volume adjust picture in picture and like a

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whack ton of inputs to choose from and when we flip the monitor over at the

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back that reveals the reason in the back you'll find a DC power jack for the

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included power brick a DisplayPort 1.2

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input and a dual USB 3 Port Hub that I

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really wish was on the base and that's it because of the g-sync module which

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only supports one input this monitor doesn't have an extra HDMI input for

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your game console it doesn't have weak sauce built-in speakers it expects you

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to game on a PC with a proper pair of headphones or speakers the way that gay

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Ben intended so far if the product wasn't even good I got to say I like its

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attitude but but does it suck is it not good no no it doesn't suck I find that

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27in displays with a 2560 X 1440 resolution hit that perfect pixel

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density sweet spot where the image looks sharp but screen elements aren't too

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small to be usable forcing you to use Windows's still terrible built-in

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scaling that causes blurry text in many applications that combined with the

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solid contrast and acceptable color reproduction makes the monitor good

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enough for me to legit use as a daily driver something that I haven't been

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able to say about any of the 4K TN monitors that I've used so far due to

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their lackluster contrast and need for scaling or Ben Q's highend XL series

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monitors due to their 1920 x 1080 resolution now to be perfectly clear it

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is not Flawless switching from the PA 279 Q monitor that I use at home to this

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was very noticeable contrast and colors are not as good and viewing angles while

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good for TN are still TN with horizontal

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color shift being difficult to notice in day-to-day use but vertical color shift

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being very noticeable especially on white backgrounds with my head

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stationary the top of the screen has a slight green cast and the bottom does go

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a little bit pink but yeah nothing is perfect and the tradeoffs that you have

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to do with this monitor are just part of life and at least you're getting a lot

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to like about the display in return the maximum 144 HZ refresh rate and 1

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millisecond rated response time makes more of a difference to the perceived

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responsiveness of your PC than you'd imagine both inside and outside of games

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and along with the headline g-sync feature you get stereoscopic 3D Vision

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support and ulmb or ultra low motion

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blur support along with other nice touches like the built-in Crosshair

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overlay although you're basically a butthead if you use that for competitive

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play and the near instant power on with

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no splash screen ASUS I wanted to take a

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moment to let you know I noticed and appreciated the emission of this

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entirely unnecessary delay between pressing the power button and using my

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PC thank you all right on to the gaming experience let's start with a quick

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refresh of what gsync is for those of you who haven't seen my original

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coverage of it here and that was a pun by the way normally Gamers have two

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options number one is running without vsync which causes visual anomalies

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called tears whenever a new frame is output by the graphics card while the

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monitor is in the middle of a refresh almost all games do it but in some it is

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especially annoying number two is to enable V where tearing is eliminated

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because the graphics card is forced to wait until the next fixed interval when

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the monitor will refresh to Output a frame this causes stuttering during FPS

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dips and for me an intolerable amount of latency between when I execute an action

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and when I see it on screen I never game with vsync on gsync eliminates the

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issues associated with both of these options by letting the graphics card

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tell the monitor when to refresh that means a more responsive gaming

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experience with without visual artifacts this is next level stuff guys and the

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experience is truly awesome you just turn it on in the driver to override

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other vsync options and it's Off to the Races if you're a gamer and you want the

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best monitor on the market today to play your games this is it period I did most

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of my testing in Tomb Raider 2013 since I happen to be playing that game right

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now and even though this monitor wouldn't be all that suitable for

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professional color work using it recreationally I really didn't feel like

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I was having the TN experience the way I normally do with high refresh rate

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monitors in every scene from vibrant outdoor jungle locations to darken tombs

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where monitors with poor contrast will make it difficult to make out details

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the Swift excelled I also need some time to fire up a bunch of other stuff for my

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steam Library just to try it out frame rate drops below 30fps are still very

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noticeable because even with g-sync on you will experience stutters when you

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dip that low but per the suggestion in the reviewer's guide I actually tried

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using GeForce experiences game settings Optimizer for the first time ever since

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it's designed to keep your FPS above 40 by default and honestly it actually

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worked pretty well it made smart decisions for me that were similar to

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what I would have input and while I'm still going to do it manually because

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I'm a control freak um it did work surprisingly well for a quick I don't

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feel like dialing in all my games right now solution so that's it I think this

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technology is great and basically everyone else agrees and over the next

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few years availability of g-sync and competing Solutions will improve Pro and

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prices will fall until it's ubiquitous because it's just pling better than the

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old way of doing things but that's all hypothetical future stuff this is the

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summer of 2014 and this is the ultimate gaming monitor if you don't want to wait

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another year at least for a gaming experience that is truly much better

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than what everyone else has right now but there's a catch I did most of my

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playing on a GTX Titan and I'd recommend at least a GTX 770 for medium settings

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on Modern games or at least one GTX 780

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for high in modern games if you want to take advantage of the high refresh ress

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of it at 1440p which combined with the Swift

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high- price tag makes this a very expensive upgrade one that's going to be

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hard to convince people to invest in you see gsync has to sell itself to Gamers

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based on the absence of annoying crap

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that we've all spent years getting used to and putting up with rather than by

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delivering some shiny new thing for us to drool over it reminds me of the

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upgrade to SSD as long as you're still using a hard drive it might seem

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extravagant and unnecessary to spend that kind of money on something with so

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little storage that doesn't increase FPS directly but then you eventually take

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the plunge and once you get used to it it drives you bananas whenever someone

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puts you in front of a system with a hard drive in it and that's exactly what

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g-sync is like looking at tearing just feels stupid to me now that this

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solution is available even the ultra low blur mode which is an official version

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of the low persistence backlight strobing Hack That folks have been using

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on light boost monitors just doesn't get my attention at all it's cool how much

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crisper moving images look you can actually read text while dragging it

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across the screen but in game it wasn't that noticeable to me and since you have

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to pick between that and g-sync I'll take g-sync every time it's a truly

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nextg experience and from what I've seen so far ASUS's first product to deliver

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this technology to the market is a slam dunk even aside from the fancy

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technology let's say you're running an AMD card and you're not looking to change graphics cards cards right now

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you should still be looking at this monitor versus the

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xl2720z from Ben Q for its higher resolution if you've got enough shiny

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pennies to afford it guys thanks for watching this video like it if you liked

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it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment let me know are you shopping for

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a gaming monitor what's on your short list always with our videos guys there

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