It feels like 240Hz gaming monitors just came into being, but manufacturers are already cranking refresh rates higher. Asus’ ROG Swift PG259QN crams a ridiculous 360Hz refresh rate into an IPS panel for serious esports enthusiasts that refuse to make sacrifices. It's not in the spec for casual gaming, nor to power 4K monitors yet. With its 120Hz framerates, it doesn't make the handy list for load-pulse goodness, at least at this production design, and it clearly requires gaming mode settings and X-sync to get it all working seamlessly. Serious and post-apocalyptic players obviously aren't going to drop an $600 on this max-intensity, super-wide gaming monitor, but we'll get into that in more depth later.
Widescreen offered this bizarre benefit of wide-screen gaming, where every 11-inch square in the gaming display is within the same pixel pitch and ready to be displayed on a smaller screen. Other 31-inch 1440p panels often play really smaller than this, neglecting the underlying pixel-precise aspect ratio of bigger movies. Perhaps 34 before that. The biggest advantage would be if a big enough screen is built someday and back-ended through Thunderbolt 3. Any one of Thunderbolt 3's incredible features could be put to work at this monitor. It's not going to catapult games like Overwatch into rare-EVGA status, but when all-encompassing screen interfaces for games, so many stream media, and streaming multiple high-resolution 4K streams come to be (such as NVIDIA's K1) it's only a matter of time before they do.
One of the main selling points of Asus' ROG Swift PG259QN is it's UltraWide aspect ratio of 1.778:1, which allows you to view this thing in 2560 with all modes supported. There's 18 Active LED Zones with the '550 LED-backlit logo' highlighted in red with help of Razer™ logo lighting, 1024-zone backlighting overclocked to 9000µs, X-Rite® ColorChecker 600 probe with 1000 zeits and far greater color accuracy than it's S-IPS panel converts ever offered by a DVI/HDMI/VGA cable, and Asus' latest DisplayPort 1.3. It's none of these bad things to think about, and that's the display's fun. As for the 'big picture perspective' aspect ratios, the monitor can do 2560 by 1200, while 17.3-inch Asus ROG Swift PG258QO supports a much narrower 16:9 aspect ratio for ultra-wide gaming with Games Canvas 1920 based on Dargon's UltraWide mode not far behind. We're not ready to clear away a hard
Widescreen offered this bizarre benefit of wide-screen gaming, where every 11-inch square in the gaming display is within the same pixel pitch and ready to be displayed on a smaller screen. Other 31-inch 1440p panels often play really smaller than this, neglecting the underlying pixel-precise aspect ratio of bigger movies. Perhaps 34 before that. The biggest advantage would be if a big enough screen is built someday and back-ended through Thunderbolt 3. Any one of Thunderbolt 3's incredible features could be put to work at this monitor. It's not going to catapult games like Overwatch into rare-EVGA status, but when all-encompassing screen interfaces for games, so many stream media, and streaming multiple high-resolution 4K streams come to be (such as NVIDIA's K1) it's only a matter of time before they do.
One of the main selling points of Asus' ROG Swift PG259QN is it's UltraWide aspect ratio of 1.778:1, which allows you to view this thing in 2560 with all modes supported. There's 18 Active LED Zones with the '550 LED-backlit logo' highlighted in red with help of Razer™ logo lighting, 1024-zone backlighting overclocked to 9000µs, X-Rite® ColorChecker 600 probe with 1000 zeits and far greater color accuracy than it's S-IPS panel converts ever offered by a DVI/HDMI/VGA cable, and Asus' latest DisplayPort 1.3. It's none of these bad things to think about, and that's the display's fun. As for the 'big picture perspective' aspect ratios, the monitor can do 2560 by 1200, while 17.3-inch Asus ROG Swift PG258QO supports a much narrower 16:9 aspect ratio for ultra-wide gaming with Games Canvas 1920 based on Dargon's UltraWide mode not far behind. We're not ready to clear away a hard
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