Lord Farquaad
This review is for the VG278Q monitor. It is a HUGE improvement over my 60Hz monitor. I wont ever go back to anything below 144Hz. There arent any dead pixels or issues with the monitor thus far. I just received it in the mail yesterday and like many reviewers have said this thing is BRIGHT out of the box. After looking up some settings that other users have found success gaming with, I was able to find something that was pleasing to my eyes. I try to remember to update this in the future after Ive had some more use out of the monitor. If youre looking for a relatively affordable 144Hz monitor, look no further. I spent a decent amount of time researched various monitors before I decided to buy this one and I am extremely happy with my purchase. I have yet to play Fortnite with it but the quality of gameplay on CS:GO is so much more smooth compared to the old 60Hz Sceptre monitor I was using. Update: Still love the monitor. I found some settings on tomshardware forum that are to my liking. Here there are: Cinema Mode Contrast 83 Saturation 42 Color temp - User mode - All colors set to 83 Skin tone - Natural Sharpness 50 Trace free 40 ASCR ON (Adjusts brightness according to content - if you like your monitor to be brighter just turn this off and adjust brightness) I have the monitor hooked up with a DVI-Dual Link cable to my GPU. *Update 11-18-18* My monitor started to go black for a split second every once in a while. I did some research and found a few different avenues to trouble shoot. The first was the possibility that my DVI-D cable was bad. So I purchased a new cable, tested it, and the problem persisted, only more severely. So I returned that cable and went back to my original cable. I decided maybe I should try using the Displayport 1.2 cable. I purchased a VESA certified DP1.2 cable and plugged it in. I didnt experience any issues with the original screen going black problem. Now I had a new issue, the colors are TERRIBLE! Even with tweaking the settings that are necessary to get a good picture on this monitor, it did nothing! Ultimately I switched back to the DVI-D cable I was using originally. Hopefully the problem doesnt get any worse or persist at all. If it does Ill have to do some more research and development. I deducted 1 star from the monitors rating due to its inability to provide quality picture via the DP1.2 port. Also, when I alt+tab out of a game, everything is magnified when using the DP. This is not the case while using Dual Link. Hope this helps someone!
