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Asus Rog Swift PG278Q

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blackened23 said:
NV Surround is fine off a single card and has been for a long time. You can do 4 displays off a single card now with NV, 3 surround 1 accessory, this has been in place since 2012 with the 600 intro. Problem is, cards don't have 3 displayports so g-sync is different.

G-sync requires displayport, and cards have 1 DP unless an AIB wants to make a custom backplate with varying outputs. 800 series may change that on the reference design, perhaps.
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Right. But back in the early days of it, Eyefinity worked from one card and had multiple displayports. Sometimes 5 or 6.

I understand nV can do it now, but AMD jumped way ahead on support of displayport a long time ago. If nV is finally ready to catch up, that's great for customers now.
 
Sounds like they're fresh off the boat, I don't see them on sale anywhere (online) either. In the states anyway. Guess that'll change in a few days.
 
jackstar7 said:
Right. But back in the early days of it, Eyefinity worked from one card and had multiple displayports. Sometimes 5 or 6.

I understand nV can do it now, but AMD jumped way ahead on support of displayport a long time ago. If nV is finally ready to catch up, that's great for customers now.
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Most only had one DP on those cards, but there were some special eyefinity cards with more.

As far as I'm aware, there are no multi-DP nvidia cards. I imagine the reason Nvidia cards did not have such cards was a lack of need. Surround never needed multiple DP ports as it doesn't support more than 3 monitors +1 extended display and DP isn't needed at all. Now that there is a need, we may see future cards having extra DP ports.
 
There is a very thin bezel around the panel. The specs like to talk about a 6mm wide bezel which is a little misleading, but not far off. The plastic bezel part along the sides is 6mm thick, but then there's also an outer plastic edge and also an "inner bezel" before you get to the actual image on the panel. Overall there is about 10mm of black edge from the very outside of the screen to where the image on the panel starts. In practice it still looks and feels very thin. The lower edge is a little thicker at about 15mm total. There is a shiny silver Asus logo in the middle of the bottom bezel but not other writing or model names on the screen itself. The panel sits almost flush with the bezel as well so it feels like it's near to you as opposed to being inset a little.
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From tftcentral
 
3DVagabond said:
I thought it was supposed to have a 6.5mm bezel? Looks to be ~2X that in the pic. Which is still quite thin, but not the 6.5mm claimed.
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I think the photo actually makes it look thicker than it actually is. The bezel is the thinnest i've ever seen on any monitor.
 
Kronvict said:
I think the photo actually makes it look thicker than it actually is. The bezel is the thinnest i've ever seen on any monitor.
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Well, think you could measure from where the actual image stops to the edge of the screen? Because in your pic it doesn't just look like it's more than 6.5mm, it is more. 6.5mm is a 1/4" (more or less. 😉)
 
3DVagabond said:
I thought it was supposed to have a 6.5mm bezel? Looks to be ~2X that in the pic. Which is still quite thin, but not the 6.5mm claimed.
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IIRC its supposed to be 6mm, of which if it looks bigger than 6mm all that means is you don't know what 6mm looks like framed around a ~27" screen.

The bottom is thicker to accommodate ASUS branding, maybe that's the eyesore you're picking up on...and I would agree that its pretty disappointing that ASUS felt the obligation to make sure they conspicuously branded their panel as opposed to maintaining uniformity, which also hurts the potential for portrait mode surround (although TN probably hurts that too much anyway)
 
bunnyfubbles said:
IIRC its supposed to be 6mm, of which if it looks bigger than 6mm all that means is you don't know what 6mm looks like framed around a ~27" screen.

The bottom is thicker to accommodate ASUS branding, maybe that's the eyesore you're picking up on...and I would agree that its pretty disappointing that ASUS felt the obligation to make sure they conspicuously branded their panel as opposed to maintaining uniformity, which also hurts the potential for portrait mode surround (although TN probably hurts that too much anyway)
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I don't understand this. Kronvict has one he can simply grab a ruler and measure it. I'm talking the side bezels and I know what 6mm is. 🙂
 
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thedosbox said:
It's covered in the TFTcentral review.
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So it's about 10mm from the edge to the first pixel.

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thedosbox said:
It's covered in the TFTcentral review. Perhaps you should read it?
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Are you his union rep.? It took more effort for you to post the link than it would have for him to grab a ruler. 😀

TFT Central said:
There is a very thin bezel around the panel. The specs like to talk about a 6mm wide bezel which is a little misleading, but not far off. The plastic bezel part along the sides is 6mm thick, but then there's also an outer plastic edge and also an "inner bezel" before you get to the actual image on the panel. Overall there is about 10mm of black edge from the very outside of the screen to where the image on the panel starts.
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So, there it is. It is not 6mm. Gotta love purposely misleading marketing departments.



I'm a bit frazzled after having to go to the article (which you must have done also) and actually had to read and quote the applicable text myself. I can understand why you didn't do it yourself after reading it. It was so hard. 😛

Just in case some people have their sarcasm meters turned off, I'm joking.
 
3DVagabond said:
I'm a bit frazzled after having to go to the article (which you must have done also) and actually had to read and quote the applicable text myself. I can understand why you didn't do it yourself after reading it. It was so hard. 😛

Just in case some people have their sarcasm meters turned off, I'm joking.
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Given you didn't understand the previous (admittedly unclear) explanation, I wasn't about to try and muddy the waters further 🙂
 
thedosbox said:
Given you didn't understand the previous (admittedly unclear) explanation, I wasn't about to try and muddy the waters further 🙂
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That wasn't there when I started my response. It took me a while. I told you it was hard and I was frazzled, but I was right, wasn't I? It is more than 6mm.
 
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