Asus ROG Strix XG27UQ review
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Loobyluggs
Why don't you chill, I was humorously making commentary on companies who make all tech products look like toys, when they cost $1,000+
geogan
What is a Xanax? Sorry I am not from USA so I am not constantly bombarded by drug company propaganda and advertising like you Americans are (I was shocked by amount and scale of it on TV over there when i saw it on holidays there once). Seriously and epidemic of drug advertising over there - never saw in my life before some advert listing 100 possible symptoms and telling you to buy X drug if you have any of them. And also drug aisles in supermarkets the size of entire aisles - crazy. If you grew up in that society you probably don't notice how bad it is (indoctrinated to it).
ChisChas
Asus ROG have their particular kind of styling, probably most of those who could afford to buy a monitor at this price level would happily do without the more lurid design elements. NVidia have given us such meagre performance increases that there's been no point in producing a 4K 144Hz until now (with the 3080 cards out this Autumn).
Having owned a Dell U2711 1440 for 10 years, I'll be grateful for a good 4K 144Hz upgrade and I'll switch off all the lurid lights etc. Of course it will be overpriced but like I can do anything about that, lol. I've made do with a pair of 780's (partly out of protest on NVidia prices) and unless the miners disapear and most of us refuse to upgrade, NVidia won't be lowering their prices.
The perfect 4K gaming monitor at a sensible price won't be making an appearance and I paid £900 ten years ago for my Dell U2711 1440 but I bought it for my office so that helped 😉
ChisChas
Have you read/watched any of the reviews for the new MSI P75 Creator laptop with its mini-LED 1000 nits 17" screen? I was going to wait for this but bought the new XPS 17 4K Infinity Edge with 500 nits instead. The reviews seem to be a bit mixed but this is, I believe, the first mini-LED screen. The problem is perhaps the cost of these 4K 144Hz monitors & of the graphic card required making the joint cost very expensive so few sales = little motivation to invest in new screen technology?
I run my Dell XPS screen at 60% brightness, what will we do with 1000 nits?
yasamoka
You're missing the point - you aren't supposed to be using any of these high brightnesses potentially available to you for the entire display unless you're working under the sun.
They're for HDR - parts of the display at a time.
nevcairiel
I have no idea where you are getting your information from, but there is zero HDMI 2.1 information on that page, not even any hints to it. And, again, that screen is just too big.
geogan
No. Never heard of it. Not interested in laptops. interesting though. Also MicroLED is not the same as MiniLED
You don't see 1000nits on your entire screen. That is only supposed to be for tiny specular highlights like a reflection on chrome surface of sun - no more than 1% of screen. Similarly you also don't see 500 nits on your Dell all over. Brightness level you set your screen at is meaningless - would need a meter to read foot-lamberts reading at some white point to see how bright it actually is. And it changes depending on coverage of white - eg may only do 500nits at 3% white and only 250nits at 100% coverage.
SamuelL421
The xb321hk is probably the best screen I've owned. Acer had some serious quality control issues though... my original screen flickered, had stuck pixels, and eventually died. In their defense, Acer did replace the panel + control boards and the repaired screen is flawless. Now if only they would release an update with 120/144hz, higher bandwidth DP and HDMI ports, and true HDR.
ChisChas
Thanks for this but having read numerous laptop reviews on various tech websites, I'm aware of this information. The nits spec is just a spec to confirm the maximum potential brightness of any screen if the matter being displayed on it 'provokes' the screen into producing that level of brightness. It was interesting to watch the YouTube video of the CES 2020 when the MSI P75 with the mini LED screen was being talked about, the screen was demonstrating impressive levels of vividness.
This review is on a gaming monitor so I didn't think there was any point of talking about it being used outside, as some do with laptops etc
ChisChas
Aware of this, I was referring to the spec level of brightness generally. One of the reviewers of the MSI P75 with the mini-LED screen made the point that he found the screen generally too bright for day to day use.
You say you're not interested in laptops, do you not use a laptop? Even with Noctua fans, I find my gaming rig too noisy for non-gaming use. Certainlt too noisy for music listening with my Chord Hugo 2 & Focal Utopia (open back) headphones 🙄
Dragam1337
Tbh all screens marketed as "gaming monitors" has quality control issues... but not because the manufactores arent aware of it, but because they think the dumb 15 year old kids usually buying things marketed as "gaming" wont notice the issues... and they probably dont. Only issue is that these higher end gaming products arent being bought by 15 year olds, thus it gets noticed. Had 3 pg27aq before the xb321hk, 2 of which were defective aswell. And by defective i mean they had backlight issues and dead pixels.
geogan
No I don't use laptops for anything serious. I have one crappy €200 Acer I bought to connect to OBDII port on car, that is all - and even that doesn't work right since i bought it - Windows problem connecting to network.
ChisChas
I have got some saved reviews of the original Asus ROG 4K 60Hz gaming monitor, I think it was listed in the UK at £1,800? So this screen at say £900 is a more palatable price, without poring over both reviews I'm not sure the other aspects of the spec are the same? One thing is certain, I need to upgrade my ancient 780's which scream like babies when playing most modern games so noise has become an annoying issue. I much prefer not using headphones so hearing the enemy creeping up on me has become a problem lol.
I've been saving (had long enough to) so it's a new 4K monitor & a 3080 Ti custom, long overdue upgrades on my part. Having had a 3K MSI laptop and now a 4K Dell XPS, I sure do notice the difference when I game on the 1440 Dell U2711 27" monitor but I rember how wonderful I thought it was when I played the Crysis games, I'd like to be wowed again by 4K gaming image quality.
Fediuld
AOC CU34G2X. 3440x1440, 144hz, FS, 1ms, 1500R curve for $449/£480 the 100hz version is cheaper.
Loobyluggs
I've spent the last few days randomly checking out what monitors are on the market, but one thing stood out to me - where are the 16:10/1.6:1 ratio monitors???
I know Dell have a few (non-gaming) and in general, there are none that support all the stuff that 16:9/1.78:1 ratio monitors have access to, like high refresh rates, gsync/freesync - so what gives?
I want the golden ratio, not squishio-vision for my desktop. Can anyone help me? Which manufacturer did I miss?
richto
DSC is effectively LOSSLESS compression though.
Dragam1337
And dlss is lossless upscaling...
Yeah, im gonna skip on everything that aint raw native image.
yasamoka
Why are you even mentioning DLSS in this context?
richto
Better not play any computer or console games at all then because they will all have compressed graphics assets and video.
DSC has no visible picture impact.
Loobyluggs
Hmm, gonna need a citation on that.
Compression is compression. If you are compressing something that is already compressed...
