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the hotly anticipated ASUS rog swift

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pg279q is it a worthy successor to the pg278q

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the monitor that i declared to be the best gaming monitor yet

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let's find out

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so for those of you who have got other to do i'm going to cut to the chase a

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little bit here the swift pg279q is even better than its

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predecessor in almost every conceivable way with the only trade-off being

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marginally slower pixel response times due to its use of an ips or specifically

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ahva but i'll use the broader term for the rest of this video panel instead of

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the tn panel in the 278 model so if you

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want the best of the best 16x9 1440p

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display look no further but for the folks who

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think that tldr just isn't enough to go on to make an informed buying decision

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and the ones that watch our videos to drool over the tech porn as much as

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anything else let's get into what makes the swift pg279q special and where it

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falls in the rest of the competitive landscape first the physical tour if

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you've seen the previous rog swift you've pretty much seen this one sex

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horrifically slim bezels with even the logo adorned chin bar being skinnier

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than the side and top bezels of the monitors of days past a sturdy and

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flexible stand design that allows tilt swivel pivot and height adjust an

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intuitive menu system with a handful of quick access buttons and a joystick for

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the meat and potatoes of the osd options seriously i cannot emphasize enough how

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much of a relief this was coming from the abominable on-screen controls of the

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acer predator x34 and an aesthetic that

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with the optional red ring and rog logo

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lighting effects enabled looks sufficiently gamery without being a

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complete eyesore if your gaming rig happens to also be in the middle of your

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living room so yeah they didn't change much about the exterior but why would

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they i already loved everything about the predecessor from the outside with my

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one complaint being the while very good considering it's a tn

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panel the tn panel that just couldn't deliver the color performance and

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viewing angles of an ips display and that's where the pg-279's upgraded guts

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start to come in the 27 inch 1440p panel

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has been changed out to ips and on top

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of that the 144 hertz maximum refresh

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rate that made the original swift such an amazing gaming display assuming you

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had the kind of hardware horses to push that kind of frame rate in your games

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has been upgraded and through a setting in the on-screen menu can be pushed even

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further so with NVIDIA's g-sync variable refresh rate technology you can run your

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display at anywhere from 30 to 165

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hertz depending on the frame rate that your game is being output at and that's

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not the only thing that comes with the newer g-sync implementation now to

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accompany the displayport 1.2 port there's a secondary HDMI 1.4 port if you

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have a game console or a laptop or some other device that you want to be able to

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switch to on the fly because even though

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these other devices might not be capable of outputting games at higher than 1080p

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60hz there are benefits to using a high

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performance display backlight bleed was a non-issue on my sample the measured

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total display leg with my leo bodner tester was 12.5 milliseconds on the 60hz

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HDMI input a very fine result the motion

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blur or ghosting in the normal default

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overdrive setting was the best i've ever seen on an ips display with moving

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images especially at the high refresh rates like 144 and 165 hertz almost

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being eerily clear and thanks to the ips

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panel color reproduction was nothing short of awesome with a stellar contrast

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ratio and color accuracy across the board coming in below a delta e of five

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with both gamma and white point being within acceptable margins right out of

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the box with no adjustments made other than to overclock the panel to 165 hertz

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before running my tests flipping awesome but something to

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consider is that getting the panel overclocked to that level isn't a guarantee

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first of all you will need to abandon all hope of running ultra low motion

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blur backlight strobing since that only operates at 120 hertz or lower with

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g-sync disabled second you'll need a gtx 960 or newer

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maxwell architecture card from NVIDIA with owners of older NVIDIA and AMD

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graphics cards for the most part limited to 144 hertz and finally while i can't

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comment on whether this will be an issue for this monitor because i only have one

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of them mine worked fine and they don't seem to be available to the public at

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the time of recording this video it was pointed out to me that some users are

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not getting the full advertised 100hz overclock on their acer x34 predator

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displays so there might be some variability there which i guess raises

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the question does it actually matter anyway from my experience no not really

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i mean overclocking the x34 predator from 60 to 100 hertz takes it from just

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an ultra wide with g-sync to the kind of thing that dreams are made of

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overclocking the pg279q takes it from wicked amazing fast to wicked amazing

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slightly faster if you're playing easy to drive games

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like team fortress 2 or cs go at 165 freaking FPS or if you have some kind of

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like liquid nitrogen cooled space age machine that can run newer aaa games at

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that kind of a frame rate while maintaining decent settings because that

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is kind of the point of a g-sync display right smoother animations even when the

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frame rate dips a little bit allowing you to turn up eye candy like lara

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croft's pair for a better gaming experience

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so the last thing then to talk about is price it's not cheap but honestly i

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think ASUS pretty much nailed the positioning of this product it's about a

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hundred and fifty dollars more than its tn film predecessor but you get an ips

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panel slightly faster refresh rate and an HDMI input it also costs about a

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hundred dollars more than the ips panel equipped acer xb270hu

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that we reviewed back here but offers a faster refresh rate and an HDMI input

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and also to my tastes a superior aesthetic design

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so simply put then it's expensive but for competitive gamers who don't

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care about ultrawide note that i am not one of them and i prefer the predator x

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34's curvy sexiness if not its price

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it's the best gaming monitor ever this

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is the kind of gear especially if you're coming from run-of-the-mill 60 hertz

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equipment that actually makes it easier

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to track opponents and nail head shots well done ASUS you've upped the ante

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let's see how long you can hold the crown

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