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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX hidden away in the dark recesses of the asus rog room we have the greatest announcement of all time this is the rog enthusiast sli bridge this is the star of the show they've got four-way SLI bridges they've got two-way sli bridges they light up they've got metal finish they're on graphics cards no I'm just kidding not that at all I mean those are coming and those are cool but the star of the show here is the rog swift PG - 7 AQ the a is for 4k and for IPS and for fast response - I don't know what the a stands for I don't understand what these guys are talking about half the time but basically it's exactly the same as the PG 2 7 8 Q the previous g-sync monitor that we had that we saw from them so it's a 144 hertz 2560 by 1440 the one that I personally declared to be one of the only high-end gaming monitors that matters the one that is sitting on my desk personally right now on my gaming rig because I think it's absolutely fantastic the idea is exactly the same so we get those beautiful slim bezels we get that super flexible stand including all the adjustments that you could possibly want you got your pivot your swivel your height adjust your tilt all that good stuff but what's been updated is the panel instead of 2560 by 1440 now we get a 27 inch 4k panel it's a 60 Hertz panel because quite frankly we don't have display technology that can drive 144 Hertz 4k and when we do I'm sure a soos is going to try and figure out how to Frankenstein that into a slim bezel me a beautiful ID thing and then the other main difference is that now so it's 4k 60 Hertz it is IPS so because we don't need those lightning fast refresh rates 144 Hertz now we can go with IPS as long as the necessary work goes into making sure that it not only looks great it's a 10 bit panel so you're going to get that beautiful color reproduction with supported video cards and supported applications but you also want to make sure that it actually performs well enough for gaming so some tuning has to go into making sure that this monitor is going to make sense for gamers if they're going to go ahead and put the ROG branding on it what they're working on right now is how to get the response time dialed in to the point where it'll be acceptable and we're not really sure what the spec is going to be right now in fact we're not even going to be you're not even sure if it's going to have single DisplayPort input just like the existing rog swift or if it's going to support multiple inputs we're not sure it we're not sure a lot of things but they're aiming for five to six millisecond response times as a weighted average across the panel so this is pretty much the star of the show as far as the ROG suite goes here looks absolutely stunning although we're not really anywhere near an actual release yet I mean we're looking at what to have three to six months at least for this guy I'm getting the nod from JJ Overlook I'm here with JJ cz hi JJ hello everybody how you guys doing everybody loves JJ so uh fit oh he's taking he's taking shots at me but fortunately I didn't give him my mic so you guys didn't have to you didn't have to hear him tease me does it all the time off camera anyway guys thank you for checking out our overview of the PG 2 7 aq honestly 4k makes a ton of sense to me for g-sync because with a very powerful rig like the kinds of people who are buying $800 gaming monitors like the like the RG Swift that already exists these guys are buying high-end graphics cards in 2560 by 1440 is demanding but it's not that demanding for a high end graphics card and as long as you're running at a high enough refresh rate it's going to look kind of great regardless g-sync really comes into its own when you dip below 60fps when you would really start to feel that chug otherwise so with this guy when that inevitably happens anywhere down to around even as low as kind of like 40 to 45 maybe 43 to 45 FPS it's still going to feel very very smooth and I'm really excited for this product anyway guys a huge thank you to our sponsors phantom glass they make the best darn screen protectors out there they're Gorilla Glass 3 so they're super clear they have the same feel as your regular Gorilla Glass 3 screen on your phone they're easy to apply you actually pretty much couldn't get bubbles under them the how hard you tried you can check those out at store da phantom glass linked in the video description and a shout out for our other sponsor today HyperX without them we couldn't be here at the show so check out their YouTube channel it's youtube.com slash HyperX we'll also have those guys linked in the video description as well make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any of our CES coverage I hope you enjoyed our video here of the rog swift PG - 7 AQ the a is for awesome i guess is that what it is i'm getting the nod