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as much as I hated seeing my trusty LG ultra-wide go it was actually a Christmas present for my parents a few years ago blue sky was demanding something a bit more extravagant not just 1080p at 75 Hertz so I gave the ultra wide to my brother and purchased one of these an asus rog swift PG 278 q are at around six hundred US dollars or so it's not on the cheap side but as you'll see shortly nothing about this spec sheet is cheap either first and foremost this is a 1440p display spanning approximately 27 diagonal inches yielding a pixel per inch density of around 109 you won't see much in the way of pixels past around two feet of clearance making it a sweet spot for both gamers and content creators with this two gtx 1080s blue sky could have handled a 4k display and no problem but I'd much rather trade in the additional PPI for a superior refresh rate that's exactly what the 270 AQR brings to the table 165 Hertz insane to say the least now they do have 240 hertz monitors on the market but most are 1080p on account of the pixel refresh demand at higher resolutions so it all comes down to preference this is the sweet spot for me now back to build quality my first impressions right out of the box we're literally all positive and I'm not just saying that because I bought this with my own money the monitor ships preassembled which is nice and sports an extremely organ on expand but if that doesn't suit your fancy the chassis also supports evasive mounting systems if you do choose to keep the stand you'll find a red halo ring at the base courtesy of the ROG color scheme 120 millimeter height adjustment mechanism extremely smooth by the way 180 degree pivot 60° swivel left and right and 20 degree tilts up 5 degrees down you'll also find a cable management guru for routing various cables a nice touch perhaps the only downside here on behalf of its versatility the stand is quite large meaning that you won't be able to position your monitor as far back as you might want it isn't insanely heavy though which seems to conflict with its build quality which I find to be excellent usually those go hand-in-hand but in this case it's not a very heavy monitor so things balance out in my book connectivity options range from HDMI 1.4 no 2.0 here and DisplayPort 1.2 you'll need to use DP if you want anything about 60 Hertz is 1440p by the way along with two USB 3.0 ports headphone jack is also onboard no DVI though it wouldn't make much sense on this anyway 278 QR is also rocking a 1 millisecond response time which implies lightning-fast color changes for each pixel common measurements and display response time vary from gray to gray and black to white etc where pixels must shift from one color to another there there are different ways that they do this there is technically no industry standard but I do have a video explaining the difference between input lag and response time those are often confused you can check it out in the card right here needless to say you will not see any bit of ghosting I'm not going to put my mark on that but I haven't seen any ghosting so far on this monitor navigation is on point as well you'll find a single joystick at the back followed by a few dedicated hotkeys for integrated software then to improve your visual experience I don't use them but I do thoroughly enjoy navigating the menus asus has made it very simple and the script up front is subdued against the monitors thin bezel nothing ostentatious and just you know disruptive so now let's talk about the display itself how good does this thing look in person well there are few things we should get out of the way first my first thought was wow this is overexposed brightness levels will require a bit of tweaking out of the box as well contrast and white balance this however is typical of most monitors what I do like to do since I don't have any fancy hardware is hold a white piece of paper next to a blank white page on screen and adjust RGB values accordingly for brightness and contrast calibration pull up a window with very fine text can tune to the point where writing is explicit and legible this can all be done within the on-board menu just use the joystick around back to navigate black levels are decent we're looking at a thousand to 1 contrast ratio typical of most LCDs a downside here though this is a TN panel you can purchase the IPS equivalent which cost you an additional 150 US dollars as of right now but like I always say it just comes down to preference you could spend a bit more for an IPS display which really won't look much different when you're sitting in front of it I've compared several IPS and TN panels I can only really tell which is which when I'm sitting at the thing from anything more than about a 30-degree angle from head-on though as long as the screen isn't too wide colour reproduction is fairly consistent between both TN and IPS displays at least nowadays by the way this is coming from someone who literally just switched from IPS to TN about two days ago it's not as big a deal as you might think for FPS and racing gamers especially this one will do just fine while many will swear by IPS technology TN panels can also offer a decent color reproduction if calibrated correctly so it will admittedly require a bit of patience most TN panels nowadays are pretty good just don't sit SuperDuper close to the screen or colors we'll be all out of whack I should emphasize though this by no means is a negative for a suit they still do offer an IPS counterpart the next thing I want to briefly discuss before and this review is a g-sync I have never seen it in person before ever not until now the purpose of Nvidia g-sync much like freesync is to synchronize screen refresh rates with frames being sent from onboard graphics vsync we'll do this natively to eliminate tearing but may induce stuttering g-sync takes things a step further but in the expense of Weltman added expense personally I don't see a difference when I game even in high refresh rate first-person shooters and that's for what these monitors were intended so in a nutshell this is an excellent monitor despite hefty price tag although if you're not into the whole g-sync and 165 Hertz refresh marketing ploys you can buy the 144 Hertz counterpart for significantly less but this is still one you should consider my big three or Asus LG and Acer and you can find what you're looking for from one of these three companies you'll be good to go and if you've got the computer horsepower to back up the high refresh rate and resolution the PG 278 QR it's a long name is a swift buy get it because it's the rog swift come on if you liked the review give this one a thumbs up thumbs down for the opposite or to just hate everything about light be sure to click Subscribe but if you haven't already now I'll catch you in the next video this is some of our studio thanks for looking with us I don't even plan to say that looking with us met this you