Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I’m finally buying a new monitor – ASUS @ Computex 2024”.
I have a bit of a confession to make, despite having a pretty cool computer, there’s something I’ve neglected a little bit. My monitor I’m running the same, monitor since like 2014, and it’s just always been. I don’t know, is this really good enough to upgrade uh? You know another 100 HZ, another 50 HZ a couple more pixels, but seriously today. I think this has changed. I’M at the Asus booth at computex, 2024 and they’re, showing off the Rog Swift, OLED, PQ 27 AQ DP, a 1440p OLED 480 HZ monitor honestly.
I’M just kind of at a loss for words. They had it running the New Horizon game, but we turned the FPS counter on and I was like uh it looked great. The pixels were clear, but it was running at 80 FPS. I think they need a little bit better computer for this, but this game, the finals, I lowered, all the settings.
I turned on dlss frame gen and I think we’re at 450. Fps now close, I don’t know how well this is going to come across on camera, but with the response time of OLED pixels and this refresh rate. This is actually nuts look at that text. Glacier lacoin Cafe.
I think it’s getting a little bit screw because dlss frame gen, but I promise you it is astonishingly, smooth even the gun. You might recognize this display because we did see it at CES briefly, but at that time they were only showing blur Busters because it was such an early sample. But now we can actually game on it right now, we’re just playing a 1080p, definitely not as sharp as it could be like.
If I go in here and go, you know, let’s, let’s turn up the settings now I want my my OLED premium, viewing experience. We can have that now we’re down to like 300 FPS, but the game looks a lot better and man. I I think I have found my new monitor.
I’Ve been an ultra wide person for like 10 years and I think it’s time to change, naturally being OLED. It does have HDR features, I mean they’re, saying at a 3 % window, it’s around 1,200 nits 10 % window around 800 nits and a full screen you’re around 275. It’S not the brightest thing we’ve ever seen, but that is also still pretty bright.
Now, with HDR enabled calibrated and in the game, this is what I’ve been missing and it’s still like, because it’s OLED don’t get me wrong, even though we’re only getting 100 something FPS right now it looks smooth, that’s because the pixels can refresh so fast that it Looks clear at least you can definitely tell if you move around really fast, that the frame rate is not quite there, but if you had a faster computer or running a game that runs a little bit better, it’s pretty much the Best of Both Worlds, you’re, not What what are you losing here – maybe Peak brightness or you know when they have a QD OLED version of this? Naturally, let’s look at the clarity in a m uniform test. Oh my God. This might as well just be a printed piece of paper.
That’S like rolling past is this actually insane, but I’m sure you’re going to ask it’s expensive right. It’S definitely not cheap. They are targeting the same as the last generation around $ 1,000 and they’re looking to release this early Q3, so we’re getting very close, but for the amount of display that you’re getting for the money, it’s not a cheap product, but this ticks practically every box. The only one that I can see left is CET, which I’m sure this time next year. That’S probably what we’ll be looking at. I don’t know if I can wait, though, just like you can’t wait for this Segway to our sponsor.
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Let me take the bloody thing. Apart, I want to see how it works and they were like. Oh, oh, you might break it, but today they’ve agreed to let us take it apart.
Oh well, that wasn’t that hard, I’m trying to figure out how many pixels are on an individual panel, so the pixel pitch, which is the distance between each of these tiny little pixels, which is its own LED, is 0.78 MM. We have seen tighter ones, but still very cool, but it’s exactly 10x 10 panels. So if I count this there’s 10 and then this way twice as wide 10, this way 100.
That means how many pixels are on this: let’s do the math 83,000 pixels on this individual panel. 83,000. Leds, that’s a lot of LEDs, as you might have seen already. There is actually two individual pcbs there’s just a little tiny gap between them.
Naturally, that would create a tiny bit bigger space between the pixels than you know say in the middle of one of the pcbs, so they compensate for that by calibrating the display and increasing the brightness along that edge so that that Gap kind of disappears. Obviously, if you go really close, you can see it, but at a normal viewing distance they kind of just fade away. I’M kind of surprised at how simple it is, though it’s these two connectors and then magnets and pins it just clicks on. Can I put it on? Oh, I got a little dirty, okay, gently, very close l behind the sides, that’s actually so easy wo and then on the inside.
We can get a bit of a sneak peek at the PCB behind this unit, not unlike a more commercial tiled display, it’s just all, connected together with ethernet. That’S how the signal gets to the individual sections and then broken out into the individual panels. It’S very a commercial style still, but then just distilled down into a much much easier form factor there. We go ah look at that. There’S our ethernet! So there’s like a PCB the cables labeled to go to the PCB there’s a little power supply. So it’s not power over ethernet, there’s, definitely power wires in here it’s less complicated than I thought.
I was expecting this to be like a whole operation, but it’s just a it’s just a fancy vacuum like I mentioned before 4K, but the peak brightness is 1,600 nits. It’S 97 % DCI, P3 color gamut coverage to Asus million to1 contrast ratio, which sounds a bit strange right, like olev the big thing with microed is you can turn off an individual pixel or LED for that matter. So in theory, it’s it’s infinite to one, but maybe I guess there’s just a little bit more reflection when the display is off so they’re, like a million to one close enough, but my God just look at the thing from this distance. Can you see the lines Dennis it’s kind of hard to see sometimes like it’s there, you can see the line, but you just you just walk back this way and it all just melts into one giant really bright.
High contrast display. I found one more monitor that you’re not going to believe it’s not this one though it’s in here see it’s an OLED on an AO, but not just any OLED. It’S a flexible OLED on an AO. I don’t know why, but I like it and I, like you, so get subscribed and see you later. .