Asus RoG SWIFT PG27AQ 4K IPS G-SYNC Gaming Monitor - CES 2015
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus techtips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom glass visit
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as well as hyperx hidden away in the dark recesses of the ASUS Rog room we
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have the greatest announcement of all
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time this is the Rog Enthusiast SLI
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bridge this is the star of the show they've got four-way SLI Bridges they've
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got two-way SLI Bridges they light up they've got finish they're on graphics
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cards no I'm just kidding not that at all I mean those are coming and those
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are cool but the star of the show here is the Rog Swift pg27 AQ the A is for 4K
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and for IPs and for fast response to I
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don't know what the a stands for I don't understand what these guys are talking
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about half the time but basically it's exactly the same as the
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pg278q the previous g-sync monitor that
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we had that we saw from them so it's so 144 HZ 2560 X 1440 the one that I
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personally declared to be one of the only high-end gaming monitors that
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matters the one that is sitting on my desk personally right now in my gaming
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ring because I think it's absolutely fantastic the ID is exactly the same so
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we get those beautiful slim bezels we get that super flexible stand including
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all the adjustments that you could possibly want you got your pivot your swivel your height adjust your tilt all
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that good stuff but what's been updated is the panel instead of 25 60 x440 now
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we get a 27in 4K panel it's a 60 HZ
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panel cuz quite frankly we don't have uh display technology that can drive 144 HZ
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4K and when we do I'm sure ASUS is going to try and figure out how to
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Frankenstein that into a slim bezel your
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beautiful ID thing and then the other main difference is that now so it's 4K
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60 HZ it is IPS so because we don't need
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those Lightning Fast refresh rates 144 htz now we can go with IPS as long as
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the necessary work goes into making sure that it not only looks great it's a
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10-bit panel so you're going to get that beautiful color reproduction with
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supported video cards and supported applications but you also want to make
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sure that it actually performs well enough for gaming so some tuning has to
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go into making sure that this monitor is going to make sense for gamers if they're going to go ahead and put the
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Rog branding on it what they're working on right now is how to get the response
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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
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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
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existing Rog Swift or if it's going to support multiple inputs we're not sure
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we're not sure a lot of things but they're aiming for 5 to six millisecond
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response times as a weighted average across the panel so this is pretty much
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the star of the show as far as the Rog Suite goes here looks absolutely
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stunning although we're not really anywhere near an actual release yet I
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mean we're looking at what you know 3 to 6 months at least for this guy I'm
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getting the nod from J over look I'm here with JJ see say hi JJ hello everybody how you
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guys doing everybody loves JJ so uh they
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love you oh he's T he's taking he's taking
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shots at me but fortunately I didn't give him my mic so you guys didn't have
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to you didn't have to hear him tease me he does it all the time off camera
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anyway guys thank you for checking out our overview of the pg27 AQ honestly 4K
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makes a ton of sense to me for g-sync because with a very powerful rig like
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the kinds of people who are buying $800 gaming monitors like the like the RG
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Swift that already exists these guys are buying high-end graphics cards and 2560
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X 1440 is demanding but it's not that
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demanding for a high-end graphics card and as long as you're running at a high
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enough refresh rate it's going to look kind of great regardless gsync really
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comes into its own when you dip below 60
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FPS when you would really start to feel that chug otherwise so with this guy
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when that inevitably happens anyone down to around even as low as kind of like 40
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to 45 maybe 43 to 45 FPS it's still going to feel very very smooth and I'm
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really excited for this product anyway guys huge thank you to our sponsors
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of our CES coverage and I hope you enjoyed our video here of the Rog Swift
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pg27aq the A is for awesome I guess is
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that what it is I'm getting the nod