ASUS TUF Gaming VG32VQ: World’s 1st display with concurrent motion blur reduction & Adaptive-Sync

Well, don't buy computer enthusiast stuff from them- they are the world's #1 camera store for a reason, and it's not for selling gaming monitors ;).

Unfortunately B&H is the best source for a lot of things, because Amazon frequently doesn't stock monitors themselves, and instead rely on marketplace sellers to do it, which is really spotty. And because it's a (somewhat) lesser known source for PC stuff, it often has stock when Amazon and/or Newegg and others have been mobbed to the point of showing 1-2 month shipping dates.

I'd never buy anything from B&H. They've got a crap return policy.

I don't know what this means. They have 30-day unconditional returns, with a 15% restocking fee on some opened items. Whereas Newegg has 15% restocking fee on ANY opened item.

Yeah sure they're not as good as Amazon, but nobody is, and Amazon is absolutely awful at keeping high-end gaming monitors and many other electronics products in stock.
 
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My take coming from an Acer XB270HU IPS. Haven't bought a monitor since 2014, nothing worth moving to imo.

System- 9700k overclocked to 5Ghz and Titan V @ 2.1Ghz

All testing with Freesync/ELMB enabled.

Freesync/ELMB implementation-
9/10 in games, motion blur is gone and no tearing, holy moly it's nice. Freesync every bit as good as gsync imo, even did the nvidia Pendelum Demo to test it.
8/10 When scrutinizing in testufo.com because ghosting trails are slightly present, but... not an issue in game.

Image Quality/Color- Colors every-bit as good as my Acer IPS. Contrast is 2200/1 with ELMB, measured with i1Display Pro. Images pop significantly, blacks are actually black not cloudy like ips. Not used to this because contrast was much less with the Acer IPS.

Luminance- 177 cd/m2 at max brightness, bright for ELMB which is great.

Input Lag- Don't have a way to measure input lag, but didn't "feel" any, I used Racing mode which "Reduces input lag for real time racing and fast gaming experience."

Monitor size x resolution. Looks great to me, the curve is immersive, as well as the size compared to 27" (there's a joke in there somewhere).

Speakers- Sounds like your playing out of headphones sitting behind your monitor. Man they're bad.

Bottomline- I recommend it. The IPS and TN panel would likely perform better with ELMB but the contrast is hard to give up now that I've seen it, especially in games, very pretty. I would pay double for it.

More to come. Let me know if you have questions.
 
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So as usual Amazon was the smart way to go.

Your new estimated delivery date is: Friday, August 16, 2019

Only two days behind and it has an actual return policy.
 
My take coming from an Acer XB270HU IPS. Haven't bought a monitor since 2014, nothing worth moving to imo.

System- 9700k overclocked to 5Ghz and Titan V @ 2.1Ghz

All testing with Freesync/ELMB enabled.

Freesync/ELMB implementation-
9/10 in games, motion blur is gone and no tearing, holy moly it's nice. Freesync every bit as good as gsync imo, even did the nvidia Pendelum Demo to test it.
8/10 When scrutinizing in testufo.com because ghosting trails are slightly present, but... not an issue in game.

Image Quality/Color- Colors every-bit as good as my Acer IPS. Contrast is 2200/1 with ELMB, measured with i1Display Pro. Images pop significantly, blacks are actually black not cloudy like ips. Not used to this because contrast was much less with the Acer IPS.

Luminance- 177 cd/m2 at max brightness, bright for ELMB which is great.

Input Lag- Don't have a way to measure input lag, but didn't "feel" any, I used Racing mode which "Reduces input lag for real time racing and fast gaming experience."

Monitor size x resolution. Looks great to me, the curve is immersive, as well as the size compared to 27" (there's a joke in there somewhere).

Speakers- Sounds like your playing out of headphones sitting behind your monitor. Man they're bad.

Bottomline- I recommend it. The IPS and TN panel would likely perform better with ELMB but the contrast is hard to give up now that I've seen it, especially in games, very pretty. I would pay double for it.

More to come. Let me know if you have questions.

What happens if your framerate dips too low like around 70-80 how does the ELMB work? Does it strobe at 70-80Hz and give you a ton of flickering or does it just turn off if you drop below a certain framerate?
 
Ya and when the frame-rate drops and the strobes get further apart, the controller has to dynamically adjust the voltage to the LED's in real time to keep a relatively consistent brightness level/and or adjust the pulse length.

Sounds easier said then done. I'm curious to see how well they've implemented strobe+VRR. Especially at this low of a price. I'd buy one to test but I can't do below 4K resolution anymore.
 
What happens if your framerate dips too low like around 70-80 how does the ELMB work? Does it strobe at 70-80Hz and give you a ton of flickering or does it just turn off if you drop below a certain framerate?

I don't notice any change, and don't have a way to check. The brightness was constant at all framerates.
 
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Ya and when the frame-rate drops and the strobes get further apart, the controller has to dynamically adjust the voltage to the LED's in real time to keep a relatively consistent brightness level/and or adjust the pulse length.

Sounds easier said then done. I'm curious to see how well they've implemented strobe+VRR. Especially at this low of a price. I'd buy one to test but I can't do below 4K resolution anymore.

Add me to that list. It's something that I wouldn't mind seeing in a 38" 3440 x 1440 (don't need 4k).
 
So can you adjust the panel brightness while using ELMB mode? If so, then I'm in. How's the color accuracy of this monitor? I see its 72% NTSC so that should take it to being sRGB and not wide gamut.
 
My take coming from an Acer XB270HU IPS. Haven't bought a monitor since 2014, nothing worth moving to imo.

System- 9700k overclocked to 5Ghz and Titan V @ 2.1Ghz

All testing with Freesync/ELMB enabled.

Freesync/ELMB implementation-
9/10 in games, motion blur is gone and no tearing, holy moly it's nice. Freesync every bit as good as gsync imo, even did the nvidia Pendelum Demo to test it.
8/10 When scrutinizing in testufo.com because ghosting trails are slightly present, but... not an issue in game.

Image Quality/Color- Colors every-bit as good as my Acer IPS. Contrast is 2200/1 with ELMB, measured with i1Display Pro. Images pop significantly, blacks are actually black not cloudy like ips. Not used to this because contrast was much less with the Acer IPS.

Luminance- 177 cd/m2 at max brightness, bright for ELMB which is great.

Input Lag- Don't have a way to measure input lag, but didn't "feel" any, I used Racing mode which "Reduces input lag for real time racing and fast gaming experience."

Monitor size x resolution. Looks great to me, the curve is immersive, as well as the size compared to 27" (there's a joke in there somewhere).

Speakers- Sounds like your playing out of headphones sitting behind your monitor. Man they're bad.

Bottomline- I recommend it. The IPS and TN panel would likely perform better with ELMB but the contrast is hard to give up now that I've seen it, especially in games, very pretty. I would pay double for it.

More to come. Let me know if you have questions.

Nice. The biggest thing is how bad is the strobe cross-talk? Usually slow VA transitions hurt there.

If you go here:

https://testufo.com/photo#photo=toronto-map.png&pps=960&pursuit=0&height=0

Can you read "Union Station" clearly on the rail-road tracks? Check the top of the screen, the middle and the bottom of the screen and please report back which area is the clearest.

So 177 max brightness is fairly low considering it's a dedicated strobing monitor. You can or cannot turn off ELMB?
 
So can you adjust the panel brightness while using ELMB mode? If so, then I'm in. How's the color accuracy of this monitor? I see its 72% NTSC so that should take it to being sRGB and not wide gamut.
Yes brightness can be adjusted in ELMB. I'll have to run the i1 display software again and report back the results, it will be a screenshot.

ELMB can be turned off and the monitor is much brighter with it off.
I used to run 120 CD/m2 so 177 is great for me.
 
Yes brightness can be adjusted in ELMB. I'll have to run the i1 display software again and report back the results, it will be a screenshot.

ELMB can be turned off and the monitor is much brighter with it off.
I used to run 120 CD/m2 so 177 is great for me.

Good! My Samsung will NOT allow you to adjust the brightness with ULMB enabled which is stupid. I typically run 100 cd/m2. So long as I can get it down to that then I'm happy.

Just ordered the last one from Amazon (sorry folks). Looking forward to it. Not sure what I'm going to do with my Sammy - maybe sell it? We'll see how the Asus turns out.
 
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Just got it. It's a complete piece of shit. With ELMB, there's this nasty visual artifact whenever anything moves that's actually worse than motion blur. It almost looks like rescaling an image with linear filtering. Already got an RMA number. Mine also has basically a crater in the bottom right hand corner of the screen the backlight's so bad. Man monitors fucking suck.
 
Just got it. It's a complete piece of shit. With ELMB, there's this nasty visual artifact whenever anything moves that's actually worse than motion blur. It almost looks like rescaling an image with linear filtering. Already got an RMA number. Mine also has basically a crater in the bottom right hand corner of the screen the backlight's so bad. Man monitors fucking suck.

Wow. This is disappointing. Where'd you get it?
 
Just got it. It's a complete piece of shit. With ELMB, there's this nasty visual artifact whenever anything moves that's actually worse than motion blur. It almost looks like rescaling an image with linear filtering. Already got an RMA number. Mine also has basically a crater in the bottom right hand corner of the screen the backlight's so bad. Man monitors fucking suck.

LMAO! Yea man I had this thing pre-ordered but then backed out because I am way too spoiled by my C9 OLED and 4k144hz Nitro. VA is hot fucking garbage!

I am with you now, not ONE MORE FUCKING DIME to these POS display makers until they start giving us EXACTLY what we want! So what do we want, I'll fucking tell ya:

32" - 36" 4k120hz+ with 1000LED or a million FALD lighting
32" - 36" OLED 4k120hz+

Other than that they can go get fucked! Not buying this shit anymore...fuck that!
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What I Must have is:

- VRR variable refresh rate in a wide range

- Low input lag gaming / HDMI 2.1 QFT quick frame transport

- 120hz or greater refresh rate

- good color saturation

- AT LEAST ~ 3000:1 contrast ratio and the accompanying black depths of a VA gaming panel (both 3x greater than non-fald ips and TN)


- larger than 27 ' and similar display's ~ 15" vertical height

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What I'd like while still being realistic in 2019 - 2020 is:

a real form of HDR 1000 using FALD etc and no edge/local dimming B.S...

specifically a 43" 120hz + VRR QFT , HDR dual layer lcd as per pixel backlight at over 1000nit, and with HDMI 2.1 inputs and capability.

- $2000 or a lot less depending on the tech (HDR 1000, HDR 600/400, OLED/FALD/neither)

OLED might be a decent option if it had all of the other modern gaming features (it doesn't) ...
... I'd rather have 18000 - 3000 nit pixel level dual layer LCD backlight for HDR and no 600nit ABL and burn in usage restrictions for a computer display.


A dual layer gaming LCD / TV would be several years out yet, and micro led even farther so this is what it is.

I'm still interested in the 43" asus/acer 4k 120hz ones as an upgrade from my 32" gaming display once they release 1000nit models.. UInfortunately no FALD though.

... FALD IPS is like 8000:1 to 11,000:1 in HDR... FALD VA should be coniserably more. I really wish that the 43" models coming out were at least FALD even if they have a slight glow or dim halo exacerbated in HDR from the low density.
 
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I understand that we want top-notch displays, but at $465 shipped, I'm not sure what more y'all want. I mean... I want to have an OLED that only costs that too, but remember that top-end CRT monitors cost several *hundred* dollars when they were around (and even then we're only talking stuff like 19-inch Trinitrons), and the top-end ones over a couple grand. If you want the equivalent of that then you're going to have to pay. There's really nothing else to say.
 
LMAO! Yea man I had this thing pre-ordered but then backed out because I am way too spoiled by my C9 OLED and 4k144hz Nitro. VA is hot fucking garbage!
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For the money, and assuming you get a good one (that's the big IF :D ), they're pretty good for what they are. I'm currently rocking a Samsung CFG73 24-inch. Color primaries are accurate, contrast is a little over 2000:1 while still retaining spot-on gamma tracking (2.2), all while being pretty darned accurate with grayscale. It compares close enough to my old Trinitrons that I'm happy with it. I'd love to have another FW900 but this thing is as close as I'll get, while being compatible with newer tech.
 
Nice. The biggest thing is how bad is the strobe cross-talk? Usually slow VA transitions hurt there.

If you go here:

https://testufo.com/photo#photo=toronto-map.png&pps=960&pursuit=0&height=0

Can you read "Union Station" clearly on the rail-road tracks? Check the top of the screen, the middle and the bottom of the screen and please report back which area is the clearest.

So 177 max brightness is fairly low considering it's a dedicated strobing monitor. You can or cannot turn off ELMB?

On my Sammy, with ULMB enabled at 120hz, I can read all text on that map at 960px/sec just fine. I can read it all the way up to 1920px/sec (it's as fast as I can go without feeling dizzy).
 
Nice. The biggest thing is how bad is the strobe cross-talk? Usually slow VA transitions hurt there.

If you go here:

https://testufo.com/photo#photo=toronto-map.png&pps=960&pursuit=0&height=0

Can you read "Union Station" clearly on the rail-road tracks? Check the top of the screen, the middle and the bottom of the screen and please report back which area is the clearest.

So 177 max brightness is fairly low considering it's a dedicated strobing monitor. You can or cannot turn off ELMB?

Yes it can be read, it is clearest in the middle of the screen.
 
It goes back on Monday. I'm going to get some camera footage of the ELMB artifacting so people can see just how bad it is. It's so horrible it'll easily show up on camera.

Gotcha. Hope mine is okay. If not, I guess I'll be sending it back too, for a refund and not an exchange. It only takes one time to be bitten by the QC lottery to not want to play...
 
My monitor doesn't have artifacting. What options are you running in the display controls i.e. GameVisual, BLF, VividPixel, Freesync, ELMB, ShadowBoost.

GV - Racing Mode
BLF - 0
VP - 0
FS - On
ELMB - On
SB - None
 
My monitor doesn't have artifacting. What options are you running in the display controls i.e. GameVisual, BLF, VividPixel, Freesync, ELMB, ShadowBoost.

GV - Racing Mode
BLF - 0
VP - 0
FS - On
ELMB - On
SB - None

Sorry but I don't believe you when you say you don't have artifacting. Someone else responded on my video and said that they notice the artifacting too. It's more or less noticeable depending on the game you play.
 
Welp that about does it for this monitor. I think it's safe to say this turd is flushed and we can move on to the next scam.

 
Between here, reddit and YT there are two people saying ELMB is great and two people saying it produces major artifacts. I'm thinking that the monitors with artifacts are either defective or have some setting or combination of settings that's bugged. Someone should try contacting Asus to see if it's a known issue.
 
Between here, reddit and YT there are two people saying ELMB is great and two people saying it produces major artifacts. I'm thinking that the monitors with artifacts are either defective or have some setting or combination of settings that's bugged. Someone should try contacting Asus to see if it's a known issue.

The far more likely scenario is that the people saying there are no artifacts just don't have the visual acuity or observational skills to see it.
 
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The far more likely scenario is that the people saying there are no artifacts just don't have the visual acuity or observational skills to see it.
That's possible. Maybe if you and Stryker could post a photo or video of the UFO test at the ghosting setting we could compare the two to see if there are any obvious differences between the monitors.
 
That's possible. Maybe if you and Stryker could post a photo or video of the UFO test at the ghosting setting we could compare the two to see if there are any obvious differences between the monitors.

The UFO test sadly isn't a very good test for it. It seems to show up the most blatantly with dark color textures with a lot of detail in them. Nazjatar in World of Warcraft looks like complete shit with it on for example.
 
Looks like your monitor is busted, or something wrong with your settings. I've checked multiple source material and no problemo. Either that or your visual accuity is just sooo extraordinary lmao
 
The far more likely scenario is that the people saying there are no artifacts just don't have the visual acuity or observational skills to see it.
Just totally unwilling to even consider it might be an issue with your sample, or poor configuration! Written off immediately as a flaw with every sample of the screen despite other people having no such issues and claiming it’s a scam or implying Asus are just out to get us all.

Just return it already and get something else :)
 
Just totally unwilling to even consider it might be an issue with your sample, or poor configuration! Written off immediately as a flaw with every sample of the screen despite other people having no such issues and claiming it’s a scam or implying Asus are just out to get us all.

Just return it already and get something else :)

Poor configuration. So dumb. I'm using the same settings as Stryker. There actually aren't any options that would have an impact on this issue anyway.
 
Looks like your monitor is busted, or something wrong with your settings. I've checked multiple source material and no problemo. Either that or your visual accuity is just sooo extraordinary lmao

Did you check Quake 3? Sonic in a Genesis emulator? Nazjatar in WOW? Yeah exactly.

When are people going to get that you can't just open Fortnite and call it a day when testing how these monitors handle motion?
 
Poor configuration. So dumb. I'm using the same settings as Stryker. There actually aren't any options that would have an impact on this issue anyway.
Of you’re using the same settings as someone whose sample is fine then that suggests maybe you’ve got a broken sample or there’s something wrong with your system. So dumb
 
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