DeepCool LS720 (LCS) review
Fractal Design Pop Air RGB Black TG review
Palit GeForce GTX 1630 4GB Dual review
FSP Dagger Pro (850W PSU) review
Razer Leviathan V2 gaming soundbar review
Guru3D NVMe Thermal Test - the heatsink vs. performance
EnGenius ECW220S 2x2 Cloud Access Point review
Alphacool Eisbaer Aurora HPE 360 LCS cooler review
Noctua NH-D12L CPU Cooler Review
Silicon Power XPOWER XS70 1TB NVMe SSD Review
Review: Asus RoG Swift PG27UQ Finally 4K G-SYNC 144Hz Gaming!
A product that has been discussed about a lot has got to be the Asus RoG Swift PG27UQ. This NVIDIA GSYNC enabled monitor offers 4K and 144 Hz HDR gaming. We tested the gaming monitor as quickly as we could to see if this screen was worth the very long wait.
Read our review right here.
Review: MSI B450i Gaming PLUS AC - 08/09/2018 01:31 PM
Small and petite, we review the new the MSI B450i Gaming PLUS AC review, based on the new B450 chipset it is aimed at for Ryzen processors, and in specific the new Ryzen 2000 / Zen+. And with a 17x17c...
Review: MSI Radeon RX 570 and 580 MECH 2 8G OC - 08/09/2018 08:59 AM
Join us as we review the MSI Radeon RX 570 and 580 MECH 2 OC with 8GB graphics memory. This all-new two slot cooled mainstream graphics card series will allow you to play your games in both the Full H...
Preview: Threadripper 2950X and 2990WX (specs and unboxing) - 08/06/2018 03:01 PM
AMD making Ryzen Threadripper Gen2 today goes on pre-order. AMD will release four new models, in this little preview we'll haev a look at the precise specifications, and of course we'll show a littl...
Review: Corsair SPEC Omega RGB - 08/03/2018 01:40 PM
We review the new Corsair SPEC Omega RGB chassis and give it thorough test. The SPEC Omega RGB (and cases like it) aim to continue the more recent push toward a more diversified system. Read the rev...
Review: MSI B450 Tomahawk - Value At 109 USD - 08/02/2018 08:46 AM
In this review we check some armory from MSI, the B450 Tomahawk, based on the new B450 chipset it is aimed at for Ryzen processors, and in specific the new Ryzen 2000 / Zen+. The new B450 series chi...
wavetrex
Senior Member
Posts: 1473
Joined: 2008-07-16
Senior Member
Posts: 1473
Joined: 2008-07-16
#5573089 Posted on: 08/12/2018 06:30 PM
The big elephant in the room is that it's currently impossible to play AAA games at their max quality on 4K / 144Hz with current GPUs. SLI/Xfire is nearly dead, so putting two of them will still not hit the target.
Price or no price, this display is released too early.
And by the time the next gen GPUs will be common in enthusiast PC's, there will be many other offers with similar capabilities, without the horrendous price.
I'm personally waiting on the next Ultra-Wide resolution, possibly something like 4096x1756 pixels ( True 4K 21:9 ) @ 200Hz (I'll settle with Ultra-Wide UHD as well (3840 x 1646) @ 200Hz).
Currently using an ASUS PG348Q which was very expensive at the time, but still less than half of this one's price ! And it's bigger... 34". I will never go back to standard Wide (16:9)
The big elephant in the room is that it's currently impossible to play AAA games at their max quality on 4K / 144Hz with current GPUs. SLI/Xfire is nearly dead, so putting two of them will still not hit the target.
Price or no price, this display is released too early.
And by the time the next gen GPUs will be common in enthusiast PC's, there will be many other offers with similar capabilities, without the horrendous price.
I'm personally waiting on the next Ultra-Wide resolution, possibly something like 4096x1756 pixels ( True 4K 21:9 ) @ 200Hz (I'll settle with Ultra-Wide UHD as well (3840 x 1646) @ 200Hz).
Currently using an ASUS PG348Q which was very expensive at the time, but still less than half of this one's price ! And it's bigger... 34". I will never go back to standard Wide (16:9)
alanm
Senior Member
Posts: 11268
Joined: 2004-05-10
Senior Member
Posts: 11268
Joined: 2004-05-10
#5573120 Posted on: 08/12/2018 08:33 PM
I'm personally waiting on the next Ultra-Wide resolution, possibly something like 4096x1756 pixels ( True 4K 21:9 ) @ 200Hz (I'll settle with Ultra-Wide UHD as well (3840 x 1646) @ 200Hz).
Currently using an ASUS PG348Q which was very expensive at the time, but still less than half of this one's price ! And it's bigger... 34". I will never go back to standard Wide (16:9)
May not have to wait long. Samsung is expected to begin manufacturing 5120x1440p 120hz ultra-wides next month. 49". Despite the massive sounding number of pixels, its less pixels than a 4k display, so should be easier to run.
I'm personally waiting on the next Ultra-Wide resolution, possibly something like 4096x1756 pixels ( True 4K 21:9 ) @ 200Hz (I'll settle with Ultra-Wide UHD as well (3840 x 1646) @ 200Hz).
Currently using an ASUS PG348Q which was very expensive at the time, but still less than half of this one's price ! And it's bigger... 34". I will never go back to standard Wide (16:9)
May not have to wait long. Samsung is expected to begin manufacturing 5120x1440p 120hz ultra-wides next month. 49". Despite the massive sounding number of pixels, its less pixels than a 4k display, so should be easier to run.
Aitortxo
Member
Posts: 43
Joined: 2004-08-15
Member
Posts: 43
Joined: 2004-08-15
#5573200 Posted on: 08/13/2018 04:19 AM
and that bezel...
and that bezel...
Denial
Senior Member
Posts: 13756
Joined: 2004-05-16
Senior Member
Posts: 13756
Joined: 2004-05-16
#5573289 Posted on: 08/13/2018 01:20 PM
I'm not saying the thing is worth the money but I don't know how you can sit here and claim this monitor is a cash grab. I keep seeing people say you can get 65" TV's for this price - but 65" TVs are actually easier to manufacture (due to density decrease in both backlight and pixel layout). You can cut defect TV panels and reuse them for other devices (these are all the black friday TV's). The market for TV's is significantly larger so your R&D costs are spread out over millions of TV's vs tens of thousands of these monitors. TV's aren't hitting sub 10ms input latencies @ 144Hz so you not only have a higher tolerance rate for the panels required but for all the other electronics as well. TV's don't have a $2000 Arria 10 GX 480 G-Sync module in them (It's been rumored that Nvidia is paying about $500 for these).
So yeah, while I don't think the feature set here matches the cost of the monitor (mostly because a lot of this tech is going to get replaced) I also don't think ASUS/AU Optronics or Nvidia are making much off these things. AU is probably making the most - for ASUS it's probably more about the branding and for Nvidia it's about selling high end GPU's to power it.
Audio is for the ears, not for the eyes, there is huge difference. Audio has also been around a lot longer then monitors. Simply no comparison at all and kind of slight on this forum to suggest that price is legit for something that in all purposes is just a cash grab.
I'm not saying the thing is worth the money but I don't know how you can sit here and claim this monitor is a cash grab. I keep seeing people say you can get 65" TV's for this price - but 65" TVs are actually easier to manufacture (due to density decrease in both backlight and pixel layout). You can cut defect TV panels and reuse them for other devices (these are all the black friday TV's). The market for TV's is significantly larger so your R&D costs are spread out over millions of TV's vs tens of thousands of these monitors. TV's aren't hitting sub 10ms input latencies @ 144Hz so you not only have a higher tolerance rate for the panels required but for all the other electronics as well. TV's don't have a $2000 Arria 10 GX 480 G-Sync module in them (It's been rumored that Nvidia is paying about $500 for these).
So yeah, while I don't think the feature set here matches the cost of the monitor (mostly because a lot of this tech is going to get replaced) I also don't think ASUS/AU Optronics or Nvidia are making much off these things. AU is probably making the most - for ASUS it's probably more about the branding and for Nvidia it's about selling high end GPU's to power it.
Click here to post a comment for this news story on the message forum.
Senior Member
Posts: 2694
Joined: 2004-02-02
But to be fair, the world of HIFI, even high end products often have less than stellar components matching the price. A lot of it is downright snakeoil.