ASUS ROG Swift PG279QZ 27" WQHD 1440P IPS 165Hz DP HDMI Ergonomic Eye Care G-Sync Gaming Monitor

This monitor is exactly what I expected it to be minus a glaring flaw : the VESA mount is recessed. This caused a compatibility issue with my VESA stand. Instead of installing the adapter onto the back of the monitor and then sliding it onto the stand, I had to attach the adapter onto the stand and while holding the monitor in the air, attach the monitor to the adapter. This was all because ASUS wanted to make the back perfectly flush when using their stand. This docked the rating by a star. One other thing everyone should do is disable DisplayPort Deep Sleep. If youre running a multi-monitor setup, this will cause Windows to shift everything to one monitor (in my case - my secondary monitor) and then shift it all back to the primary monitor. I keep my system tray on my secondary monitor and with Deep Sleep enabled, I had to keep moving the system tray back over when the monitors would be woken up from sleep. Disabling that setting fixed my issue.

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I did decent research before pressing the "proceed to checkout" button and decided I would give Asus a chance since many blogs/webpages stated the QZ must had some QC improvements over its predecessor (the PG279Q), particularly over the backlight bleeding. The display is very nicely designed and it looks very sturdy, regretfully, I turned it on and my dark wallpaper allowed me to see an uneven black background right away, more pronounced over the right side. I usually play games that tend to be on the darker side (i.e. space themed, diablo, etc.). Even if you are not focusing on the edge of the screen, why would you have to play for something that was not QCed properly? I decided I may wait until Asus comes out with a newer panel or announces their QC issues have been resolved. I am not sure if I will attempt to buy another display (despite Amazons awesome return policy). Despite the backlight bleeding distraction (which may be more relevant to some customers), the colors reproduce very nicely (as you would expect from an pseudo IPS monitor). So, it will up to you if you are ok with the bleed; or you may get lucky and receive a flawless display, the odds were not in my favor in this case.

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