Hey all, the ROG SWIFT Monitor arrived last week and let me say, this is the best monitor I have ever used for gaming by a LONG way!. G-Sync is awesome and the 2560x1440 res is a big step up from my old 1080p setup. Unfortunately my screen arrived with 1 dead pixel, I debated whether or not to just put up with the dead pixel as I waited so long for the monitor to arrive in the first place plus there is no stock left in the country to get a replacement straight away :(. Anyways in the end I decided I paid all that money, I deserve a perfect panel. So its now been sent back to the shop I bought it from and I am now waiting for a replacement Swift that should arrive sometime early Nov. SIGH, that monitor was gaming bliss and I miss her, but that dead pixel was causing my OCD to flare up! 😄

Like you say, I really hope that the next batch all the problems have been ironed out. Man if my replacement screen turns up with a problem, I will cry!
For me this monitor is the holy grail, I always dreamed about a monitor that could do 2560x1440 @ 144hz this was before Gsync was even a twinkle in Nvidia's eyes, so to have G-Sync is the cherry on the top. 4k panels, I have seen them in the shops and they are over rated... for me 60hz is a no go zone for gaming, I can't do it plus the graphics hardware to run at high frames isn't out there in my opinion.
Its not surprising ASUS can't keep up with the demand with the SWIFT, but its frustrating. However, I am not going to sit here and curse out ASUS because after all they actually were the first ones to develop this awesome panel, but yeah the fact a monitor is going out with faults isn't a good look but as long as I get a new panel with no faults I will be one very happy customer. Nov seems soo long away though:(

What's odd is there really seems to have been exceedingly limited stock in the first batch (at least in the USA)...which is also why I'm hopeful they've been correcting issues before the next batch, but that is pure speculation (hope?) without any basis on my part.

I STRONGLY agree with you though @pennyboy, as I think 1440p strikes the best hi-res balance. For the current hardware generation, 4k is simply too many pixels to drive, especially if surround, all eye candy, 120+ fps, or 3D is desirable. On top of that, reading will almost certainly require scaling of resolutions to non-4x multiples such as 1440p for the benefit of the screen (as compared to just 1080p scaling) largely limiting its additional usefulness on anything short of a considerably larger screen. That will result in the majority of people scaling to 1/4 4k resolution (in effective pixels) to keep the acuity of reading text such as during browsing.

For me, 1440p presents the best of both worlds and a great compromise between resolution, rendering power required, and readability!

I'm optimistic and hopeful that the PG278Q will satisfy those requirements just about perfectly. 🙂 Otherwise, I'd have given up on my wait weeks ago.

Do you have any flickering without G-Sync? What refresh rate are you running on your Windows desktop? Do you have fonts/scaling issues? You can test it setting desktop to 120Hz and comparing different fonts on ULMB "on" and "off" setting.