I would have a good read of this thread before considering the rog swift:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1509599/official-asus-rog-swift-pg278q-owners-club/1360
The monitor is riddled with bugs and poor quality control issues going on that thread. Reading it you find more users have issues with it than don't and the funny thing is the stock levels are so low on the monitor that most people are finding what is in stock most of the time are newegg open box units because so many are returning them. :sneaky:
- Many units with dead pixels, bright pixels and even clusters of one or the other collected in a single area side by side.
- Pixel inversion issues resulting in dark vertical lines appearing when the image on the screen is not static.
- Some units run excessively hot.
- Units with noticeable backlight bleeding.
Not an issue, but because the panel is TN and given its size, I see user accounts that they do see vertical colour shift in normal use sitting in front of it.
I think this monitor is a lemon/rushed to market. I don't ever see as justified for any TN monitor, but an monitor with quality control like that manifesting in those sorts of issues is ridiculous. More so considering its Asus and their warranty/RMA support is some of the worst in the industry. Good luck RMAing one of these back to them.
Nvidia needs to get experienced quality monitor manufacturers like Dell, Eizo and NEC on board producing gysnc panels. The swift seems to be just another TN for Asus they slapped together and put a gsync module in. Crappy quality. :thumbsdown: