Asus Swift PG278Q 27" Gsync 144Hz WQHD is here!

[Fasttrak]

Had to run up to San Jose for a team meeting this morning. Our offices are down near the Brokaw Fry's just off the I880. We got out early so I run over to the Brokaw Fry's and see what they have for monitors, my current one is dying and needed replacement.

Looking around I see a tag but no monitor for a 27", GSYNC capable, WQHD monitor with a steep price but no brand name listed and nothing on the shelf to show the product. It takes a while to wrangle some one over to that section and get some assistance. Young guy, he knows of 47Ronin servers, and is charged up that they just got this monitor in and none on display yet.

He goes in the back room and brings out the biggest damned box I have ever seen for an LCD monitor. Turns out it is a the new Asus GSYNC monitor we had been talking about at the beginning of the year and it looks good. Needless to say one of them followed me home and is not residing on my desk :-P

Holy shit is this an upgrade to my old Dell 2405FPW, that sucker put in some hard years labor but always treated me well. This new monitor is pretty damned big, pretty damned bright and the few benchmarks I ran looked good, like real good.

 

[FuZion]

I fucking hate you!! I've been trying to get my hands on one for months now!! Did fry's have anymore in the back!??!? How is the g sync running on it in your opinion?

 

[Snowman]

INFO!! PLEASE!! : ) GRATS FAST!!

 

[Fasttrak]

Yeah, he had another box, but that one had a very slight dent in the corner and the kid just said, "Here, let me grab the other box, it doesn't appear damaged." :-P This thing is effing amazing, it is not even so much the color gamut, pixel tracking or raw DPI of WQHD but the blacks on this thing are pretty damned black. Having even those small shadowy zones going that much further into the black it makes the highlights around pop even more. It is extremely well built, the stand is impressive, very balanced up\down slider, spring loaded. I like the base, very low and out of the way and very rigid, no bouncing or flexing. The front bezel is damned small and makes the screen appear to float more than anything I have had in front of me. The screen controls are kind of weird, sit behind the bezel and you access blind. A couple hours pushing my system in Dragon Age Inquisition and it is pretty damn amazing, only three more inches than my old monitor but this seems so much bigger.

I also dumped the computer branded speakers as none never impressed me for what they cost. Had quite a few over the years including the med Klipsch and some other large builds with four speakers, most died after a couple years with the amp dumping a channel. This time around I decided to get some studio quality speakers, these have built in amps for each channel and are usually a high quality silk dome tweeter and what ever sized mid driver. They are built on stout cabinets for tight sounds and no wheezing, and the better ones have some impressive wattage and sound level output. For the computer I was looking for something at the smallest end, The small studio's are the four inch driver with tweeter, not many of these are even considered studio quality, alot of them are built cheaply. Upon listening to quite a few I settled on a 5" driver sized cabinet. This offered excellent sound quality at a size I was willing to live with on my desktop, perfectly matched to this new 27" monitor. What a difference a good, bi-amped speaker can produce as compared to the crappy computer speakers, even those pricey Bose.

 

[v.Kamikaze]

price?

u selling ur old dell? i need a spare for my test bench, that i rarely use these days, lol.

 

[Fasttrak]

price?

u selling ur old dell? i need a spare for my test bench, that i rarely use these days, lol.

Probably not, Kami, it would cost a bit to ship and has recently begun having issues with the panel. Will probably do the same for this old LCD so I don't have to interrupt my setup when working on some one else's computer.

They had it for $799.99, pretty much the going rate for it right now. Not cheap but then again, that old Dell cost almost double this Asus

 

[FuZion]

Which fry store is this? If they won't ship it my gf lives in cali I'll tell her ass to go pick it up. Info please <3

 

[Fasttrak]

Fry's off Brokaw Ave San Jose Ca

Just go to your local Fry's, have them look it up and tell you the surrounding stores availability.

Just noticed you're in Va, probably no Fry's..

 

[FuZion]

I'm in PA now but yeah, no fry's on the east coast really. Micro center, but they fucked over when I bought the asus monitor from them 2 weeks ago when they apparently had "stock" on there website and I bought one and they never shipped it a week later so I called they told me it was a mistake and that they never had stock to begin with but they still took $868.00 from my bank account and didn't give it back until I called them. Fucking assholes. And that's while amazon and newegg went in and out of stock with it and I just said fuck buying from newegg or amazon because I already purchased from microcenter yeah.. never buying from them again.

Sorry for typo's my S5 loves to put random words instead of actual ones sometimes

 

[Fasttrak]

I'm in PA now but yeah, no fry's on the east coast really. Micro center, but they fuckede over when I bought the asus monitor from them 2 weeks ago when they appear entry had "stock" on there website and I bought one and they never shipped it a week later so I called they told me it was a mistake and that they never had stock to begin with but they still took $868.00 from my bank account and didn't give it back until I called them. Fucking assholes. And that's while amazon and newegg went in and out of stock with it and I just said fuck buying from newegg or amazon because I already purchased from microcenter yeah.. never buying from them again.

That is actually an illegal tactic for merchants, they are not supposed to charge for the goods until it is being shipped. Not surprised, Micro Center up here always makes me feel dirty shopping there.