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The ROG SWIFT PG258Q presents a decidedly sober appearance, for a gaming monitor.
Although the PG258Q only offers one HDMI and one DisplayPort connection, at least you get cables in the box for both, as well as for the USB 3.0 upstream. There is also a plate for the base of the stand and a selection of lenses with ROG SWIFT logo elements.
The most significant design feature of the PG258Q is the asymetrical stand, which affects a twisted appearance, with copper highlights. It's understated and stylish, whilst still doing the job of keeping the monitor stable. It has LED lighting built in that works through the included lenses to provide illuminated atmosphere.
The PG258Q is highly adjustable, with rotation into portrait mode possible, 50 degrees of swivel in either direction, 120mm of height adjustment, plus tilting 20 degrees back and 5 degrees forward.
The relatively small selection of ports is obscured by a plastic cover that needs to be removed whenever you want to plug or unplug things, which is a bit of an issue if you regularly want to access the headphone socket and USB connections. There aren't that many ports here, though, with one each HDMI and DisplayPort, USB 3.0 upstream and just two downstream, plus the aforementioned headphone minijack.
The OSD is controlled by four buttons on the rear of the screen and a joystick. The bottom button is the power button, whilst the others call up a variety of quick menus.
I’ll give this review 6 out of 10.
1) I cannot enlarge the images (using google chrome)
2) You never once mention anything about backlight bleeding.
3) It could be because the images cannot be enlarged I dont know. But how deep of a black color level can it produce?
Thanks for highlighting the issue with the images. I have fixed them.
Does 240 Hz make a huge difference compared to 144 Hz? I’m only at 75 Hz but I can tell a noticeable difference in that and 60 Hz when playing Battlerite.
Backlight bleeding is typically an issue on IPS and VA panels, not TN like this monitor.
backlight bleeding is very much a problem with TN. I’ve had my fair share of TN panels, all with backlight bleeding. Two BenQ XL2411Z and two Asus VG248QE.
I know it can happen on TN. My point is that it occurs much more frequently on IPS/VA. Out of the dozen or so TN monitors I have had over the years (and I have two right now), I’ve only had any backlight bleeding on one of them. Conversely I’ve had to RMA 3 or 4 IPS monitors just for that issue and it is much more pronounced and prevalent on IPS monitors. TN is the exception -yes it happens, just not as much. It’s not an argument whether or not backlight bleeding is bad. Because it sucks.
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Not at all. I have used both, and anything beyond 120 is unnoticeable. At least to me. Maybe for the hard core CS:GO guys it’s useful, but for frame lag, not for visual smoothness.
Gsync +144 is all you really notice.
Backlight bleed is an inherent flaw with backlit LCD technologies and it will happen to some degree regardless of the panel type, which actually doesn’t influence it at all. I assume you’re mixing it up with IPS glow, which is actually a different issue.
No review seems to explain whether or not the lighting produced by the monitor stand can be turned off.
This other “hands on” review even decides to bash anyone that would want to turn off the lighting instead of explaining whether or not it can be turned off (end of the review): http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/monitors-and-projectors/monitors/asus-rog-swift-pg258q-1327880/review
Unless the monitor is on a shelf in a shop or I want to show off to friends or something I don’t see why I would want to distract myself with light sources around the display. I similarly do not understand TV’s that feature chrome/reflective TV Stands. Why would I want to be distracted from what I am trying to watch??
I took a leap of faith and upgraded from 144 to 240. I gotta say, you
don’t feel the difference in the same way as when you go 60 to 144 you
feel it when you go back to 144 from 240. So its more subtle but
definitely would consider it, especially if you need an upgrade. Was
looking at this ASUS but the price was beyond my budget. Settled with
this ViewSonic one instead
http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/gaming/products/XG2530.php