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The ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q is a 27-inch QHD gaming monitor. It is highly responsive and supports G-Sync.
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Pros
Pro Exceptional motion handling
The monitor displays clear motion without blurring or ghosting effects because the ASUS PG279Q features some of the finest motion handling capabilities.
The ghosting effect is eliminated by the panel’s full pixel response time of 4 ms, which allows each pixel of the ASUS PG279Q to change their color within only four milliseconds. This prevents rapidly moving objects from leaving trails on the screen.
Moreover, the panel doesn’t have problems with motion blur, as Nvidia's ultra low motion blur feature deals with the artificial motion blur effect efficiently.
Additionally, the overall motion looks smooth and fluid because of the monitor’s native refresh rate of 144 Hz, which ensures that the panel refreshes every seven milliseconds.
Motion handling is critical in competitive gaming, where the trails of ghosting or motion blur can affect your performance and especially when you're trying to land that perfect shot.
Pro Good picture quality
In terms of picture quality, the ASUS PG279Q is one of the best gaming monitors money can buy, as its premium-quality AHVA panel offers native contrast ratio, peak brightness, gamma response, and color accuracy that only a handful of other gaming monitors can match.
It displays beautiful, well-balanced images with deep blacks, accurate colors and realistic intermediate tones. The dark scenes look truly rich and intense thanks to the monitor’s native contrast ratio of 1131:1, which manages to push the monitor’s blacks to a fantastic level of only 0.06 nits. Only the best panels on the market can match such performance. Colors pop and look vibrant because the PG279Q can go up to 350 nits of brightness.
The color representation is flawless, as the monitor’s average color error dE of 1.6 ensures that the color inaccuracies are so small that the human eye can’t spot them. Finally, the mid-tones look life-like as the monitor’s gamma is only 5% off from the ideal value.
Pro Made with gamers in mind
The monitor comes with a bunch of gaming-specific features that might improve your in-game performance.The crosshair is arguably the most useful feature; it creates a static crosshair on the display which you can edit its size and position. The crosshair is a handy feature as it allows you to no-scope your enemies in multiple games. The monitor also has an built-in timer which will help you keep track of your gaming sessions and not miss important events in real life. Finally, the monitor offers an integrated FPS counter.
Pro Responsive
Only a couple of gaming monitors can match the responsiveness of the ASUS PG279Q because of its amazingly low input lag of only 3.25 ms. Because of that, the monitor offers lag-free gaming experience.
The input lag is an essential parameter for a gaming monitor because it tells how much time a monitor needs to process a frame generated by a computer. Overly long input lag makes your actions feel delayed in fast-paced games.
Pro Can be overclocked
You can overclock the native refresh rate of this monitor from 144 Hz to a whopping 165 Hz. It will reduce the overall display lag and improve motion handling.
The overclocking procedure is straightforward and is carried out in the OSD menu. It poses no threat to your hardware.
Pro QHD works good for gaming
This monitor features QHD resolution, which is arguably the best currently available resolution for gaming because it offers a good balance between in-game field of view, aspect ratio, and overall performance.
Compared to regular FHD monitors, QHD monitors offers a larger in-game field of view as it has more pixels to display the image. In some games, this will give you an advantage compared to your opponents who play in smaller resolutions.
Just like FHD monitors, QHD ones also support the 16:9 aspect ratio which means that you will be able to run almost every existing computer game without having to deal with the annoying black bars on the sides of the screen.
Performance-wise, QHD resolution doesn’t put that much pressure on your graphics card compared to UHD, which requires you to run more than twice the pixels of the QHD.
Cons
Con Difficult to unleash its potential
You’ll need a very beefy gaming rig to run the latest AAA titles at the monitor’s native QHD resolution at 165 Hz.
If you are planning to replace your old FHD monitor with a 144 Hz QHD monitor, it’s advisable to research if your gaming rig is powerful enough to maximize the potential of this monitor.