The 42" and 48" don't look curved. As much as I want a big OLED panel for gaming, I can't see buying a flat monitor again. I had a 32" flat for a couple of years and it never felt right. I finally got annoyed enough to replace it with a curved 32" Dell gaming monitor and it instantly felt like the "fix" I had been looking for. Due to my nearsighted vision, I think 27" is about as big as I would go with a flat panel at this point. Otherwise, I just have to push it back far further on the desk, which defeats the purpose of buying a big monitor for gaming.

If Asus don't do their pricing competitively enough, they'll concede a lot of sales to LG and their 42" C2 OLED.

rm082e:

The 42" and 48" don't look curved. As much as I want a big OLED panel for gaming, I can't see buying a flat monitor again. I had a 32" flat for a couple of years and it never felt right. I finally got annoyed enough to replace it with a curved 32" Dell gaming monitor and it instantly felt like the "fix" I had been looking for. Due to my nearsighted vision, I think 27" is about as big as I would go with a flat panel at this point. Otherwise, I just have to push it back far further on the desk, which defeats the purpose of buying a big monitor for gaming.

And i wouldn't ever buy a curved monitor... and asus apparently reckons that most wont.

Curved is a terrible gimmick on std aspect ratio displays. But useful for ultra-wides.

Those 42 or 48" ones look promising. But now after over a year on 34" 1440p ultrawide, I came to really like this aspect ratio (and the slight curve) especially since I keep it quite close to me. With these big bois I'd have to put it considerably more back, I think, but that would negate the size increase. Oh well, good thing they will be crazy expensive, so it that will keep me from jumping on too early.

um seeing there ROG swift price are outragous already this would probably be even more so, hell even TuF series is maybe not to same extent. willl to bet 4k 49~55" LG Oled which are 999~1400$? will way less then this I was looking as Asus montiors again cause that what i have, and I notice only 4k monitors in my price range are TN and even those are expensive. Monitor are way to expensive when you can get 55" UHDTV and get same experience now. as far as 60hz goes.

alanm:

Curved is a terrible gimmick on std aspect ratio displays. But useful for ultra-wides.

Can't say it's terrible on my G7, actually i like it , and I'm not going back to flat ever again.

RavenMaster:

If Asus don't do their pricing competitively enough, they'll concede a lot of sales to LG and their 42" C2 OLED.

almost the same panel. Asus is sourcing the G1 series panel in the 42" variant. Asus contracted ($$) for 40% of completed order before LG is releasing the 42". this bit me in the butt in summer after the 48" C2 (and the Gigabyte version) came out i knew there is a 42" and i wanted it. i had to dig (inside contacts) before i found out why. the good news is the "evo" panel is better when LG releases it's 42" OLED gaming monitor it will be the newer panel and will be a hell of a lot less than ROG (and technically better).

tsunami231:

um seeing there ROG swift price are outragous already this would probably be even more so, hell even TuF series is maybe not to same extent. willl to bet 4k 49~55" LG Oled which are 999~1400$? will way less then this I was looking as Asus montiors again cause that what i have, and I notice only 4k monitors in my price range are TN and even those are expensive. Monitor are way to expensive when you can get 55" UHDTV and get same experience now. as far as 60hz goes.

or up to 120Hz on LG, Samsung, and Sony the 42" form factor rules however as it will provide coverage eyeball to eyeball w/o a curve (and the distortion curves make for productive work like spreadsheets etc...).

alanm:

Curved is a terrible gimmick on std aspect ratio displays. But useful for ultra-wides.

No way. Maybe too much of a curve is a bad thing... but it you sit centered with your monitor in a pitch black room, the curved actually looks more square than the flat. For any other angle but centered though obviously they are a no go.

tsunami231:

um seeing there ROG swift price are outragous already this would probably be even more so, hell even TuF series is maybe not to same extent. willl to bet 4k 49~55" LG Oled which are 999~1400$? will way less then this I was looking as Asus montiors again cause that what i have, and I notice only 4k monitors in my price range are TN and even those are expensive. Monitor are way to expensive when you can get 55" UHDTV and get same experience now. as far as 60hz goes.

OLED TV's do 120Hz since 2019, in 4K actually, if you have HDMI 2.1 video card. LG OLEDs since 2021 all come with "gaming" centered features like pop up Gaming Info panel that shows refresh rates, lets you choose options, enable gaming mode, shows if you running gsync or freesync, let you enable or disable gsync or fresync and so on And since 2019 it was already gamy enough, im using 2019 OLED C9 for my PC monitor, its 55inch, has Gsync, doesn't have freesync, nor gaming info panel, but i have HDMI 2.1 48gbp, can enable 4K/120 + 4:4:4 + 12Bit [all the panels since then and until 2022 were 40gbps so that means 10bit in 120hz mode], i have VRR, GSYNC, auto Low Latency mode, Game mode, all 4 HDMI ports are 2.1. But the New EVO panel............. I think this years LG C2 with evo panel is a reason to upgrade, but it doesnt have heatsink, the model higher up has both evo+heatsink, if the price is right i may upgrade to that one on black Friday or maybe even early on when they have introductory sales for new products. BTW Samsung showed a 55inch PC QD-OLED monitor, its curved, and i mean Samsung curved so its a huge curve, can spin like pic monitor so you can change orientation, imagine 55inch TV vertically and the QD-OLED sound like a better option over OLED even EVO OLED panels

You end up paying a massive premium for an alternative to hdmi and a childish casing. LG's 42 c1 is a day 1 buy on my end.

IceVip:

You end up paying a massive premium for an alternative to hdmi and a childish casing. LG's 42 c1 is a day 1 buy on my end.

Yeah, the "GAMER!!!!111" look of asus monitors is a huge minus for me aswell... seriously, do they think children / teens are the ones who can afford products like this? It's adults who have the pockets for these products, so they ought to make a product which appeals to adults, not ADHD teens...

Dragam1337:

Yeah, the "GAMER!!!!111" look of asus monitors is a huge minus for me aswell... seriously, do they think children / teens are the ones who can afford products like this? It's adults who have the pockets for these products, so they ought to make a product which appeals to adults, not ADHD teens...

It really is a shame because some of asus' rog monitors are factory calibrated to damn near perfection. Why go the extra length when it won't even end up in the right hands. I'd gladly pay the premium if only the whole monitor didn't scream "gaming", because ill do everything but that on it..