the hotly anticipated ASUS rog swift
pg279q is it a worthy successor to the pg278q
the monitor that i declared to be the best gaming monitor yet
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
little bit here the swift pg279q is even better than its
predecessor in almost every conceivable way with the only trade-off being
marginally slower pixel response times due to its use of an ips or specifically
ahva but i'll use the broader term for the rest of this video panel instead of
the tn panel in the 278 model so if you
want the best of the best 16x9 1440p
display look no further but for the folks who
think that tldr just isn't enough to go on to make an informed buying decision
and the ones that watch our videos to drool over the tech porn as much as
anything else let's get into what makes the swift pg279q special and where it
falls in the rest of the competitive landscape first the physical tour if
you've seen the previous rog swift you've pretty much seen this one sex
horrifically slim bezels with even the logo adorned chin bar being skinnier
than the side and top bezels of the monitors of days past a sturdy and
flexible stand design that allows tilt swivel pivot and height adjust an
intuitive menu system with a handful of quick access buttons and a joystick for
the meat and potatoes of the osd options seriously i cannot emphasize enough how
much of a relief this was coming from the abominable on-screen controls of the
acer predator x34 and an aesthetic that
with the optional red ring and rog logo
lighting effects enabled looks sufficiently gamery without being a
complete eyesore if your gaming rig happens to also be in the middle of your
living room so yeah they didn't change much about the exterior but why would
they i already loved everything about the predecessor from the outside with my
one complaint being the while very good considering it's a tn
panel the tn panel that just couldn't deliver the color performance and
viewing angles of an ips display and that's where the pg-279's upgraded guts
start to come in the 27 inch 1440p panel
has been changed out to ips and on top
of that the 144 hertz maximum refresh
rate that made the original swift such an amazing gaming display assuming you
had the kind of hardware horses to push that kind of frame rate in your games
has been upgraded and through a setting in the on-screen menu can be pushed even
further so with NVIDIA's g-sync variable refresh rate technology you can run your
display at anywhere from 30 to 165
hertz depending on the frame rate that your game is being output at and that's
not the only thing that comes with the newer g-sync implementation now to
accompany the displayport 1.2 port there's a secondary HDMI 1.4 port if you
have a game console or a laptop or some other device that you want to be able to
switch to on the fly because even though
these other devices might not be capable of outputting games at higher than 1080p
60hz there are benefits to using a high
performance display backlight bleed was a non-issue on my sample the measured
total display leg with my leo bodner tester was 12.5 milliseconds on the 60hz
HDMI input a very fine result the motion
blur or ghosting in the normal default
overdrive setting was the best i've ever seen on an ips display with moving
images especially at the high refresh rates like 144 and 165 hertz almost
being eerily clear and thanks to the ips
panel color reproduction was nothing short of awesome with a stellar contrast
ratio and color accuracy across the board coming in below a delta e of five
with both gamma and white point being within acceptable margins right out of
the box with no adjustments made other than to overclock the panel to 165 hertz
before running my tests flipping awesome but something to
consider is that getting the panel overclocked to that level isn't a guarantee
first of all you will need to abandon all hope of running ultra low motion
blur backlight strobing since that only operates at 120 hertz or lower with
g-sync disabled second you'll need a gtx 960 or newer
maxwell architecture card from NVIDIA with owners of older NVIDIA and AMD
graphics cards for the most part limited to 144 hertz and finally while i can't
comment on whether this will be an issue for this monitor because i only have one
of them mine worked fine and they don't seem to be available to the public at
the time of recording this video it was pointed out to me that some users are
not getting the full advertised 100hz overclock on their acer x34 predator
displays so there might be some variability there which i guess raises
the question does it actually matter anyway from my experience no not really
i mean overclocking the x34 predator from 60 to 100 hertz takes it from just
an ultra wide with g-sync to the kind of thing that dreams are made of
overclocking the pg279q takes it from wicked amazing fast to wicked amazing
slightly faster if you're playing easy to drive games
like team fortress 2 or cs go at 165 freaking FPS or if you have some kind of
like liquid nitrogen cooled space age machine that can run newer aaa games at
that kind of a frame rate while maintaining decent settings because that
is kind of the point of a g-sync display right smoother animations even when the
frame rate dips a little bit allowing you to turn up eye candy like lara
croft's pair for a better gaming experience
so the last thing then to talk about is price it's not cheap but honestly i
think ASUS pretty much nailed the positioning of this product it's about a
hundred and fifty dollars more than its tn film predecessor but you get an ips
panel slightly faster refresh rate and an HDMI input it also costs about a
hundred dollars more than the ips panel equipped acer xb270hu
that we reviewed back here but offers a faster refresh rate and an HDMI input
and also to my tastes a superior aesthetic design
so simply put then it's expensive but for competitive gamers who don't
care about ultrawide note that i am not one of them and i prefer the predator x
34's curvy sexiness if not its price
it's the best gaming monitor ever this
is the kind of gear especially if you're coming from run-of-the-mill 60 hertz
equipment that actually makes it easier
to track opponents and nail head shots well done ASUS you've upped the ante
let's see how long you can hold the crown
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