ASUS ROG STRIX XG279Q Monitor Review
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RavenMaster
I swear they rehash this monitor every year. Same 27” 1440p WQHD IPS panel.
nodata_
Hello,
Hilbert Hagedoorn, can you pretty please post monitor settings and calibration .icc file? I'd be thankful forever 🙂
GlennB
buhehe
Jamethe80sman
I don't get this obsession with 27" monitors! 32-34-36-40inch monitors please! My LG 32" 1440p is good but I can notice that sort of old CRT block like image. Noticable on RDR2 in the snow
I just want a 32" IPS, 144Hz, 2160 or 1440p, HDR, G-Sync NONE CURVED! God I hate those things... Job done! But alwasy 27"? Tech is going backwards
asturur
I think the obsession with 27" is that on most desks a 32" is huge.
Really huge, and not many people have a gaming only desk, is usually work + desk on a room that is already shared for some other task other than working + gaming.
samir72
Too small, too expensive.
IchimA
@Jamethe80sman ....32" all the way ! but I think 32 on a flat panel with be ugly as hell .... so the curve does help ! ! !
@asturur ... my personal sweet spot is 32 , for now I own a 24" and I want to upgrade ... 27 is to little and above 32 is JUST a TV for me ... so I must stop at 32 or max 34'' ...
As you mention ... not many ppl own a PC just for gaming ... but for me ( maybe only for me ) this is my relaxation spot .. some go fishing , some hiking ... some love cars . But after work I just want an hour to play a little ( or to Acad / Catia ) on some projects.
Jamethe80sman
Jamethe80sman
geogan
Was it mentioned what sort of back-lighting tech is used on this monitor? I mean is it single backlit or edge lit? I know its definitely not proper full array back lit (even with just a few zones).
I think monitor manufacturers are really pulling a fast one for last few years... shoveling old technology (a 400 nit backlit IPS panel is donkeys years old). They used the "fast refresh" overdrive as an excuse to pull a few more years out of the old cheap tech.
By now they should be giving us a 200+ zone full array backlit panel which is at least 800 nits - or even better an OLED panel - for these sorts of prices.
To me this monitor sounds like poor colour, terrible gamma, fake HDR, fake GSync in a fancy plastic backcover which nobody ever sees up against a wall.
When will we get reasonable priced OLED or MicroLED monitors?? \rant
Ricepudding
Monitor's are in a very odd spot, least for me. there is no real change or progression right now with a lot of them. and the ones that are showing some progression although minor, are being thrown massive expensive price tags to them. This is almost the same monitor I bought 5 years ago from Asus with an extra 5 hz attached, and a feature but being sold at the same price? few other bits and bobs under the hood I understand but why are monitors being priced so highly?
TV's you see drop their prices and the cheaper models get the good stuff, Ended up getting a LG C9 for £1300, which has all the bells and whistles 120hz, 4k, OLED, HDR10. then you get stuff like this for £600 which is missing so many features, even the new LG monitor also annouced on here has less features or worse features and is currently being priced more expensive than the TV I just bought from the same company. I'd say response time is still a big thing for monitors but OLED's have done some crazy stuff with that making the normal benefit of monitor response time a thing of the past.
Even when I thought Asus was going in the right direction with the 4k 120hz monitor, a few years back now they gave it a whooping price of over 3 grand. PC market has gone a bit crazy with the "gaming" tag being thrown on to justify price. Anyway rant over, as much as this is a nice monitor the price tag is a big turn off considering you could get the same thing 5 years ago and back then it was far newer tech.
buhehe
MBTP
Great review! Liked the graphs with contrast relative to the brightness, a very important aspect that i generally don't see in monitor reviews, would be great to see results before and after calibration even thought it hasn't changed much as said.
I have problems with some IPS monitors, while they have a wide color range the colors don't look so accurate while displaying a lot of colors at the same time, i generally see a tint or some time type of color cast where it shouldn't.
I have only seen great colors with full RGB led backlights, so in general VAs are better in this area even though most monitor review methodologies don't show that anomally, primarily because the color checker does not test all the colors at the same time in different patterns using the full display area.
Robbo9999
Nice review 1USMUS, good to see the extra lengths you went to in your review re colour calibration results as well as colour analysis of the screen modes in their default state...I also appreciated the BlurBusters UFO testing - as a high refresh rate gamer myself who also calibrates his screen using a colorimeter (Spyder4Pro) I appreciate and understand the technical detail you went into in this review...this style of monitor review is definitely up-my-street!
I do have a couple of questions. I noticed there was an overclocking section in the screen menus - what kind of overclocking options does this monitor have, e.g. can you overclock it above 170Hz? I've got a TN g-sync monitor which is overclockable in the menu from the default 144Hz to 160/170/180Hz, but I've noticed both visually & through colorimeter measurements of contrast that the contrast takes a massive nosedive as refresh rate increases - is that the case with this monitor you reviewed? (In fact my monitor has it's highest contrast ratio below the default refresh rate at a refresh rate of 100Hz).
And finally, my last question, do you have much experience of different types of high refresh rate panel technology, because I want to ask what your personal impressions are regarding blurring when comparing high refresh rate TN panels vs high refresh rate IPS (ie this monitor you reviewed)? (and how about your experience with VA panels & blurring?)
milamber
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JamesSneed
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Jamethe80sman