[CES2015] ASUS MG279Q 2560 x 1440 Gamer 120Hz IPS 5ms GTG

I got this monitor on Friday and thus far have been very pleased with the purchase. The smoothing effects of Freesync and the higher refresh rate on older games is awesome. I have some bleeding on the bottom left corner, but it is not awful (especially compared to my last IPS).

I do have one oddity though. In Total War Rome II and The Witcher 2 I noticed some kind of very fast strobing effect where the screen will get a lot brighter and dim when Freesync is enabled. It is not happening all the time, but I have not been able to figure out what it is or what is causing it. When I have disabled Freesync totally I have not the issue in either of the games. Has anyone experienced anything like that?
 
Why is the MG279Q higher contrast than Acer? Would an new batch acer be the same contrast? I don't understand why as they have the same panel, is it possible for the manufacturer (asus vs acer) to make the panel higher contrast? I don't understand why it is higher, other than the revision of panel. If I bought an acer to replace my MG279Q just to get Gsync... do you think the contrast / image quality would be a downgrade?
 
xBanzai89 said:
I do have one oddity though. In Total War Rome II and The Witcher 2 I noticed some kind of very fast strobing effect where the screen will get a lot brighter and dim when Freesync is enabled. It is not happening all the time, but I have not been able to figure out what it is or what is causing it. When I have disabled Freesync totally I have not the issue in either of the games. Has anyone experienced anything like that?
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I sat down last night to look into the issue I described above more as to what is triggering it and if anyone else is experiencing within the realm of Google. When I have AMD's 15.6 Beta driver installed if my FPS goes below 35 for a sustained period of time the screen gets very bad light flickering. Disabling Freesync on the fly makes the light flickering stop, but if I re-enable Freesync the issue comes back. From my googling I have seen people mention flickering on both Gsync and Freesync if it falls below the range that it can perform, but I was not imagining the issue to be this bad.

Though I did try both the 15.4 and 15.5 beta drivers and neither of these drivers exhibited the light flickering issue when my FPS goes below 35. I never saw any flickering if my FPS managed to spike above 90. No idea what part of the 15.6 drivers are causing this, but I am going to stick with 15.5 for the time being.

Is anyone else on 15.6 experience a similar problem that I did? Given a different driver is allows Freesync not to exhibit the flickering I do not think it is the monitor or my GPU causing the problem.
 
xBanzai89 said:
I sat down last night to look into the issue I described above more as to what is triggering it and if anyone else is experiencing within the realm of Google. When I have AMD's 15.6 Beta driver installed if my FPS goes below 35 for a sustained period of time the screen gets very bad light flickering. Disabling Freesync on the fly makes the light flickering stop, but if I re-enable Freesync the issue comes back. From my googling I have seen people mention flickering on both Gsync and Freesync if it falls below the range that it can perform, but I was not imagining the issue to be this bad.

Though I did try both the 15.4 and 15.5 beta drivers and neither of these drivers exhibited the light flickering issue when my FPS goes below 35. I never saw any flickering if my FPS managed to spike above 90. No idea what part of the 15.6 drivers are causing this, but I am going to stick with 15.5 for the time being.

Is anyone else on 15.6 experience a similar problem that I did? Given a different driver is allows Freesync not to exhibit the flickering I do not think it is the monitor or my GPU causing the problem.
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hmm I haven't noticed this myself, have you tried enabling vsync?

Oh sorry, just noticed that a different driver version fixes the issue. I am using 15.6 beta myself.

If it's working fine on the 15.5 driver then I wouldn't worry about it too much. 15.6 doesn't bring anything new to the table apart from some fixes for the Batman game.
 
So I picked one up. Waited till Fry's had them in stock so if I had any issues I could return it. Well right away, I had issues. Screen kept going black for 1 second, then coming back. There was no rhyme or reason for why it would do this. It would do it randomly, sometimes seconds apart, sometimes 10 minutes apart. Sometimes, I would boot up with it and would get nothing at the Windows screen, then I would get a flash. Sometimes it would wake up, other times it would not. I tried multiple drivers to no avail. After hours of trouble shooting, I determined that there is an issue @ 144hz with it. @ 60hz, I have no issues at all (other than being a slide show as 60hz is in FPS games) but as soon as I punch it to 144hz, the black screens start appearing. I am running over display port w/ the cable supplied. I tried other frequencies as well and the only one that works properly is 60hz. With my QX2710 over DVI-D, i have no issues running up to 110hz so I have no idea what the issue is.


Needless to say, I am done fucking with it. Ive spent way too much time trying to figure out what the problem is. I have never spent so much time trying to make a monitor work either. Im returning it and will wait for a more refined product. To boot, the IPS glow is horrid. I have owned about 5 IPS panels over the years and none have been this bad. I can see glow even in a partially lit room from all 4 corners (with the 2 bottom being the worst). For the cost of this thing, I would expect to not have any issues.

I might just go with a BenQ XL2430T in the mean time and save a few bucks. I hate TN panels, but screw it. Im not sure if I just got a bad monitor, or if my hardware does not want to play well with it. Either way, I dont want to take a chance on another one.
 
Just got my monitor. Hooked it up and ran some panel tests to see how it fared. I found 2 dead pixels and some backlight bleed on the bottom right corner.

I'm going to run it some and see if the pixels decide to turn on. The backlight bleed is so far minimal and does not seem like it will be disruptive.
 
00Dan said:
Just got my monitor. Hooked it up and ran some panel tests to see how it fared. I found 2 dead pixels and some backlight bleed on the bottom right corner.

I'm going to run it some and see if the pixels decide to turn on. The backlight bleed is so far minimal and does not seem like it will be disruptive.
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I had one and sent it back already, wasn't even going to give it a second try. I had terrible color banding and I stopped counting dead pixels around 90 because my eyes started to hurt, there were blobs of dead/stuck pixels the size of my fingertip. Apparently I got the worst of the worst but you shouldn't see shit liek that for a $600 monitor.
 
So I just got my 2nd(!) rma back and the monitor has a big piece of debris under the screen in the middle. I knew asus qc was bad, but this is pathetic now. Is it possible to exchange this for a benq xl2730z at newegg, or do i have to keep rmaing?
 
Just got mine last night from the $50 off sale at Newegg. I knew going into it that I'd be entering the panel lottery from reading all the reviews on Newegg. It was going to be replacing a PB278Q gen 2.

I'm happy to say that I got lucky, only 2 dead pixels on the panel, both in the upper right hand corner of the screen so not noticeable at all. Tried running UDPixel for a few hours, but it didn't fix them.

I'm not going to bother RMAing, I'm very happy with it even with the 2 dead pixels. If I had more I probably would, though.

The only other problem I have now is that my 2nd screen is only 60Hz...so it looks like a slideshow now when I use it!
 
00Dan said:
Just got my monitor. Hooked it up and ran some panel tests to see how it fared. I found 2 dead pixels and some backlight bleed on the bottom right corner.

I'm going to run it some and see if the pixels decide to turn on. The backlight bleed is so far minimal and does not seem like it will be disruptive.
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Next day followup: I have tried some gaming and found the backlight bleed to be far more disruptive than I initially evaluated. I have requested a replacement and will post again once I receive it.
 
Got the replacement in today.

Ran some test images and found 3 dead pixels, all along the right edge of the panel. The 2 dead pixels on the previous panel were in the middle of the screen, so this is at least less noticeable.

There is still some backlight bleed in the bottom right corner, although less severe than the first panel.
 
xSneak said:
So has anyone received a panel with no dead pixels or garbage under the panel?

Here's my monitor i was complaining about earlier. http://imgur.com/a/vkr9F
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Mine has no dead pixels or dirt under the panel. Backlight bleed is present, but not very severe. Even if there were dead pixels, they're so tiny with this DPI that I wouldn't return the monitor for it. Dirt under the panel is another story...

A friend of mine has the Acer G-Sync version, and no dead pixels or dirt under his screen either.
 
doz said:
So I picked one up. Waited till Fry's had them in stock so if I had any issues I could return it. Well right away, I had issues. Screen kept going black for 1 second, then coming back. There was no rhyme or reason for why it would do this. It would do it randomly, sometimes seconds apart, sometimes 10 minutes apart. Sometimes, I would boot up with it and would get nothing at the Windows screen, then I would get a flash. Sometimes it would wake up, other times it would not. I tried multiple drivers to no avail. After hours of trouble shooting, I determined that there is an issue @ 144hz with it. @ 60hz, I have no issues at all (other than being a slide show as 60hz is in FPS games) but as soon as I punch it to 144hz, the black screens start appearing. I am running over display port w/ the cable supplied. I tried other frequencies as well and the only one that works properly is 60hz. With my QX2710 over DVI-D, i have no issues running up to 110hz so I have no idea what the issue is.


Needless to say, I am done fucking with it. Ive spent way too much time trying to figure out what the problem is. I have never spent so much time trying to make a monitor work either. Im returning it and will wait for a more refined product. To boot, the IPS glow is horrid. I have owned about 5 IPS panels over the years and none have been this bad. I can see glow even in a partially lit room from all 4 corners (with the 2 bottom being the worst). For the cost of this thing, I would expect to not have any issues.

I might just go with a BenQ XL2430T in the mean time and save a few bucks. I hate TN panels, but screw it. Im not sure if I just got a bad monitor, or if my hardware does not want to play well with it. Either way, I dont want to take a chance on another one.
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nope your right. I own and had replaced several xb270hu. There is no escaping the horrid IPS glow and the bottom 2 corners seem to be the worse. Really crappy black levels on the corners , however Gsync rules and so does 144hz IPS especially when calibrated with my i1display pro. I could care less about the stand and bezel and got it for the same price at the MG279Q
 
SRTie4k said:
Just got mine last night from the $50 off sale at Newegg. I knew going into it that I'd be entering the panel lottery from reading all the reviews on Newegg. It was going to be replacing a PB278Q gen 2.

I'm happy to say that I got lucky, only 2 dead pixels on the panel, both in the upper right hand corner of the screen so not noticeable at all. Tried running UDPixel for a few hours, but it didn't fix them.

I'm not going to bother RMAing, I'm very happy with it even with the 2 dead pixels. If I had more I probably would, though.

The only other problem I have now is that my 2nd screen is only 60Hz...so it looks like a slideshow now when I use it!
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i put my primary screen on 120hz and my second on 60hz. Own two XB270HUs anyway since they are the same panel i thought i would mention if you want your video card to run high clocks all the time and use adaptive power, you will have to leave it 120hz/60hz. Anything higher on both monitors will result in adaptive sync not working. I like saving 70+116 watts an hour. Measured with KW meter
 
00Dan said:
Got the replacement in today.

Ran some test images and found 3 dead pixels, all along the right edge of the panel. The 2 dead pixels on the previous panel were in the middle of the screen, so this is at least less noticeable.

There is still some backlight bleed in the bottom right corner, although less severe than the first panel.
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It's not backlight bleed that you have, it's IPS glow and all IPS panels have it.
 
doz said:
So I picked one up. Waited till Fry's had them in stock so if I had any issues I could return it. Well right away, I had issues. Screen kept going black for 1 second, then coming back. There was no rhyme or reason for why it would do this. It would do it randomly, sometimes seconds apart, sometimes 10 minutes apart. Sometimes, I would boot up with it and would get nothing at the Windows screen, then I would get a flash. Sometimes it would wake up, other times it would not. I tried multiple drivers to no avail. After hours of trouble shooting, I determined that there is an issue @ 144hz with it. @ 60hz, I have no issues at all (other than being a slide show as 60hz is in FPS games) but as soon as I punch it to 144hz, the black screens start appearing. I am running over display port w/ the cable supplied. I tried other frequencies as well and the only one that works properly is 60hz. With my QX2710 over DVI-D, i have no issues running up to 110hz so I have no idea what the issue is.


Needless to say, I am done fucking with it. Ive spent way too much time trying to figure out what the problem is. I have never spent so much time trying to make a monitor work either. Im returning it and will wait for a more refined product. To boot, the IPS glow is horrid. I have owned about 5 IPS panels over the years and none have been this bad. I can see glow even in a partially lit room from all 4 corners (with the 2 bottom being the worst). For the cost of this thing, I would expect to not have any issues.

I might just go with a BenQ XL2430T in the mean time and save a few bucks. I hate TN panels, but screw it. Im not sure if I just got a bad monitor, or if my hardware does not want to play well with it. Either way, I dont want to take a chance on another one.
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The problem could have been the display port cable. If you look around black screen issues at 144hz have usually been solved by changing the cable. And since the monitor worked perfectly at 60Hz leads me to believe this was the problem.
 
UnrealCpu said:
i put my primary screen on 120hz and my second on 60hz. Own two XB270HUs anyway since they are the same panel i thought i would mention if you want your video card to run high clocks all the time and use adaptive power, you will have to leave it 120hz/60hz. Anything higher on both monitors will result in adaptive sync not working. I like saving 70+116 watts an hour. Measured with KW meter
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The monitors have the same panel but that's it. You can't really compare them at all after that. They whole inner workings of the monitors are completely different. It doesn't have adaptive sync.

IPS glow seems to be a problem with every IPS panel. You look at Dell, LG, AOC, Samsung, it seems to be pure luck if you get an IPS monitor with minimal IPS glow. Every IPS monitor has it, it's just a question of how bad.

I think the big problem people have with these 144Hz IPS monitors is that for the price they were expecting no IPS glow at all, which is impossible I think as it's just the nature of the technology like TN monitors will always have colour shifting.
 
reaper12 said:
The monitors have the same panel but that's it. You can't really compare them at all after that. They whole inner workings of the monitors are completely different. It doesn't have adaptive sync.

IPS glow seems to be a problem with every IPS panel. You look at Dell, LG, AOC, Samsung, it seems to be pure luck if you get an IPS monitor with minimal IPS glow. Every IPS monitor has it, it's just a question of how bad.

I think the big problem people have with these 144Hz IPS monitors is that for the price they were expecting no IPS glow at all, which is impossible I think as it's just the nature of the technology like TN monitors will always have colour shifting.
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I am talking about adaptive power management in the video drivers.
 
Also why cable DisplayPort -> mini DisplayPort works only if also HDMI is plug it in, if only DisplayPort > nosignal?
 
xXxDieselxXx said:
I had that problem with my GTX680 once I got the 980Ti I was able to get 144Hz so I believe it's your GPU.
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Wierd, I have SLI with MSI 770 Gaming OC. But still wandering why display port cable not work... if not connect HDMI.

And did you have color shift between upper and lower part on center? White color is good in upper part but on lower.. it's dims.
 
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I picked up this monitor and a new 290x to run it. Been having issues with 'displayport link failure' errors followed by the monitor turning black then dropping to 60hz. I haven't been able to narrow down whether it's my new gpu, monitor or the cable. I've tried the cable that came with the monitor and a monoprice cable.

Has anyone had any luck installing the asus official driver for this monitor? It's listed under windows 8, but I assume it should work on 8.1.

Errors aside, my monitor has no dead or stuck pixels and minimal backlight bleed. The good ones are out there folks.

Side note... sometimes I think newegg/asus just takes faulty products that people send in for rma and resends them out hoping the wear the consumer down enough to where they will accept someone else faulty product.
 
reaper12 said:
The problem could have been the display port cable. If you look around black screen issues at 144hz have usually been solved by changing the cable. And since the monitor worked perfectly at 60Hz leads me to believe this was the problem.
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Could have been... But @ $600, why should I have to purchase a DP cable? Why is the one that came with it not usable? I honestly have a feeling you are right, but I wasnt about to wait for a cable just to troubleshoot a problem that should not exist and deal with the ridiculous amount of glow that thing had. It was HORRID.
 
doz said:
Could have been... But @ $600, why should I have to purchase a DP cable? Why is the one that came with it not usable? I honestly have a feeling you are right, but I wasnt about to wait for a cable just to troubleshoot a problem that should not exist and deal with the ridiculous amount of glow that thing had. It was HORRID.
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That's the problem with DP currently, its like when HDMI first came out with all the handshaking issues. Swapping out cables seems to solve most of the connection issues. The cable ASUS supplied would probably work fine with some other setup.

It's not a problem specific to this monitor. Neither is IPS glow, in fact this monitor has amazing contrast ratio for an IPS monitor, but, as you found out, buying an IPS monitor these days has a certain amount of luck attached. Chances are that you will get a monitor with minimum IPS glow, but if you are unlucky then its RMA time!!
 
Yeah, I really dont know if it was a cable issue. Like I said, I have owned IPS panels for about 5 years now and IPS glow has never bothered me until this panel where in a lighted room, it was noticeable. That is not acceptable IMO.
 
I have ordered a second replacement monitor (my 3rd in all) which will be arriving tomorrow. The backlight bleed on my current monitor is still quite distracting in dark scenes and games, which I find unacceptable for a $600 monitor. Additionally, this current monitor also has some intermittent banding along the left most edge of the screen.

I will report back on the quality of the third monitor tomorrow. If the third time is not the charm, I will be seeking a refund and searching for a different model.
 
00Dan said:
I have ordered a second replacement monitor (my 3rd in all) which will be arriving tomorrow. The backlight bleed on my current monitor is still quite distracting in dark scenes and games, which I find unacceptable for a $600 monitor. Additionally, this current monitor also has some intermittent banding along the left most edge of the screen.

I will report back on the quality of the third monitor tomorrow. If the third time is not the charm, I will be seeking a refund and searching for a different model.
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That's unlucky with the banding.

But, you are never going to be happy with an IPS monitor. Because what you are seeing isn't backlight bleed, it's IPS glow and all IPS monitors have it.

If you are using any IPS monitor in a very dark room, the IPS glow is going to be annoying.

I hope the third one is better. :)
 
SandroX said:
Hm, not undestand, with TFT Central setting it's so dark... white color is not white, more like gray... what I do wrong?
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Not sure what to say then. Download their ICC profile for the monitor and try that.

IT definitely was better for me. But, remember not all monitors calibrate the same, so it might not do anything for you.
 
reaper12 said:
Not sure what to say then. Download their ICC profile for the monitor and try that.

IT definitely was better for me. But, remember not all monitors calibrate the same, so it might not do anything for you.
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I'm not sure is all good with my copy. I have same thing like TN panes have, when upper part of panel is more slightly, but good visible, dart. In my case it's in lower part of panel. I will refund it.
 
reaper12 said:
That's unlucky with the banding.

But, you are never going to be happy with an IPS monitor. Because what you are seeing isn't backlight bleed, it's IPS glow and all IPS monitors have it.

If you are using any IPS monitor in a very dark room, the IPS glow is going to be annoying.

I hope the third one is better. :)
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It certainly looked like backlight bleed. If it was IPS glow, it was among the strongest I've ever seen.

Anyway, my 3rd monitor (the 2nd replacement) came in today. I hooked it and and immediately unhooked it and put it back in the box. The LCD panel had become separated from the frame along the right edge. Backlight bleed and extreme clouding were present throughout the entire panel. I didn't even bother to check for dead pixels.

Needless to say, the third time was not the charm, and I have finally requested a refund instead of a replacement.
 
Anyone try playing ps3 or xbox games on this? Trying to get a monitor for both PC and consoles...wondering if it looks horrible lol
 
I have a question about the input lag. What do you do with 60 fps locked games. You can not run 144hz in those games correct? Is the input lag terrible?
 
I did an asus rma on my monitor and it arrived at their facility on monday this week. It is still under the status of repairs in progress today. How long is it going to take for them to send me a replacement?
 
I just moved from NY to FL with the monitor in its original packaging to keep it safe and when I arrived and unpacked, a small black dot appeared at the top left corner of the screen, right at the bottom of where the forward arrow appears in Chrome when maximized. The spot is about .5 mm wide and it moves if I move my head, which leads me to believe it's a speck of dust or a packing Styrofoam granule that's sitting in front of the backlight's reflector. Is there any way I can get rid of it on my own?

Oh, and I tried that AB test and scored 21/25 at 13 ms, so I guess no freesyncing for me :( On the upside, the blur tests at 144 Hz are quite clear without the Acer's strobing option.
 
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