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Hey i was thinking about buying the Asus ROG Swift pg278q to use as the screen for my Asus G750JZ laptop but what i'm wondering is it worth it and will i be able to drive it smooth?

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Is it worth it? That's up to you. Will it run smooth? Yes.

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Hey i was thinking about buying the Asus ROG Swift pg278q to use as the screen for my Asus G750JZ laptop but what i'm wondering is it worth it and will i be able to drive it smooth?

I want one of those monitors too but they're not available yet. I think your G750JZ could run it smoothly as the 880m is based on the GTX 770. Plus the 880m has G-sync which is one of the main reasons to buy an rog swift pg278q. It should be fine :)

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Is it worth it? That's up to you. Will it run smooth? Yes.

I doubt it will run that smoothly it's a 880(M) on a 1440p screen.

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Is it worth it? That's up to you. Will it run smooth? Yes.

 Not necessarily. It's max GPU horsepower, being an 880M, is on part with say a 770? 

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Hey i was thinking about buying the Asus ROG Swift pg278q to use as the screen for my Asus G750JZ laptop but what i'm wondering is it worth it and will i be able to drive it smooth?

 

It should run ok. I'd normally recommend more gpu power to run 1440p but g-sync supposedly works its magic best at 40-60 fps.

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well the Asus G750JZ is one of the most powerfull gaming laptops on the marked and Asus says themself that it can drive a 4K screen but all i wan't to know is it worth buying now or will it be shit to play games with? since 4K is to much in too the future in monitors on pc

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well the Asus G750JZ is one of the most powerfull gaming laptops on the marked and Asus says themself that it can drive a 4K screen but all i wan't to know is it worth buying now or will it be shit to play games with? since 4K is to much in too the future in monitors on pc

You won't get 60+ fps on maximum settings, but that's exactly what G-Sync is made for so...

Smooth? As smooth as it can be thanks to G-Sync...

Your GTX 880m will definately be the bottleneck

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well i gues Asus know what they are doing when they made my laptop compatible with 4K monitors so i doubth they would make it laggy when it run one

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well i gues Asus know what they are doing when they made my laptop compatible with 4K monitors so i doubth they would make it laggy when it run one

Yes, marketing...

 

It supports a 4k monitor, doesn't mean that there will be any sensible amount of fps when gaming ;)

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true but isnt that what the G-sync is for?

Yeah it is. It should be fine as g-sync works best at 40-60fps

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There is a difference with "supporting 4k" and "gaming 4k".  Just because a monitor has G-sync doesn't give you reliable gaming performance on a higher resolution.  If your GPU can't even push 30fps on a 4k monitor, G-sync would be considered useless.  That was a marketing statement for people to assume it could run 4k gaming, which reliably it can't.

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Hey i was thinking about buying the Asus ROG Swift pg278q to use as the screen for my Asus G750JZ laptop but what i'm wondering is it worth it and will i be able to drive it smooth?

Lol if an 880M is anything similar to a 770 then it cannot drive many games at 144 fps at 1440p

 

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then i gues there is no reason to think about buying any 4K screens before in a couple of years 

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then i gues there is no reason to think about buying any 4K screens before in a couple of years

They're good for anything other then gaming, plus you can always downscale to 1440p or 1080p when playing games, just won't look as good as a native 1440p or 1080p monitor.
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I thought I'd throw this out there. The ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q seems to utilise quite a good colour accurate TN panel according to TFT Central. Although I guess for $800 - $1,000 you'd kind of expect that. However, in spite of that I would go for the PA279Q because it's about the same price and utilises an IPS panel. :)

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I thought I'd throw this out there. The ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q seems to utilise quite a good colour accurate TN panel according to TFT Central. Although I guess for $800 - $1,000 you'd kind of expect that. However, in spite of that I would go for the PA279Q because it's about the same price and utilises an IPS panel. :)

But does it have a 144hz refresh rate? And G-sync? There is no better option between TN or IPS, it's simply a trade off.
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But does it have a 144hz refresh rate? And G-sync? There is no better option between TN or IPS, it's simply a trade off.

No. But I am not a gamer instead a video editor and so I don't need those features. I think this is a very subjective thing. I'm not trying to start a debate it's just my preference like you would have yours. If you would go with the PG278Q then I'm happy for you. :)

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No. But I am not a gamer instead a video editor and so I don't need those features. I think this is a very subjective thing. I'm not trying to start a debate it's just my preference like you would have yours. If you would go with the PG278Q then I'm happy for you. :)

Yeah sorry didn't mean to sound like I was arguing, I've already pre ordered the PG278Q but could arrive as late as the end of next month. I've always found frame rate to be the most important, I tried the PB278Q but ended up selling it cause the 60hz wasn't enough.
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Yeah sorry didn't mean to sound like I was arguing,

No worries mate. Tis all good. Text doesn't really showcase a persons true emotions so things can often be taken the wrong way.

I've already pre ordered the PG278Q but could arrive as late as the end of next month.

Well you should do a review of it once you had it for a bit and let everyone know what you think. I would love to read it if you did. :)

I've always found frame rate to be the most important,

Well this is something I don't get, however, I'm not a gamer so it wouldn't really concern me. To me, if I could run a game smoothly at 25-30fps I'd be happy :).

I tried the PB278Q but ended up selling it cause the 60hz wasn't enough.

Hmm...fair enough. :)

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so should i go for buying it or just wait some years?

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Well this is something I don't get, however, I'm not a gamer so it wouldn't really concern me. To me, if I could run a game smoothly at 25-30fps I'd be happy :).

That would be fine if there was a proper motion blur, like in movies...

Sadly for games, there isn't, there is motion blur but it's inaccurate so our brains don't interpret it like with a movie...

That's why we all want higher framerates for games.

(Games could make a proper motion blur, it'd be taking too much time however...)

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