ASUS ROG SWIFT PG248Q Gaming Monitor Review

1. Introduction2. ASUS ROG SWIFT PG248Q3. On Screen Display Menu System4. ASUS ROG SWIFT PG248Q Analysis5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

There are faint grey icons on the right-hand bottom corner of the screen to tell you what the buttons hidden behind do.

The first button above the power button calls up the GameVisual presets. These include Scenery Mode, Racing Mode, Cinema Mode, RTS/RPG Mode, FPS Mode, and sRGB mode. Their titles are fairly self explanatory of what their intended usage will be.

The GamePlus widgets are even more focused on gaming than the GameVisual presets. You can add in crosshairs, start a timer, show your FPS, and put a Display Alignment graphic onscreen.

The latter includes lines on all four edges that you can use to ensure two screens are precisely next to each other pixel for pixel – but only two ASUS screens with this feature.

There are four different crosshair types available. Timers can be set up to 90 minutes.

The main menu is called up by pressing the joystick. At the top is the overclock setting, which when enabled allows you to choose 160, 170 or 180Hz options.

There are blue light filters available with four strengths, to protect your eyes from harm.

The Color option is where you find Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Color Temperature and Gamma, although not all options will be available, depending on how you have set up the monitor elsewhere.

Brightness and contrast are percentage sliders from 0 to 100 per cent, Color Temperature includes three presets and a user mode, which allows you to adjust R, G and B values manually, but doesn't tell you what these represent in K terms. Gamma options include 1.8, 2.2 and 2.5, with 2.2 being the default.

The Image menu lets you Overdrive the pixel response rate, a mysterious option that we didn't see any noticeable benefit from. There's Adaptive Contrast Control, with configurable Strength and Limit, plus a Dark Boost that makes blacks blacker.

The ULMB (ultra-low motion blur) mode reduces tearing in a similar fashion to NVIDIA G-Sync, but only works at certain refresh rates (not 60 or 144Hz) and isn't as good as G-Sync or compatible with it.

You can change the input via the main menu, and in System Setup you can alter things like OSD position and transparency, or change the menu to Chinese to annoy a friend.

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