ASUS ROG Swift 32” 4K HDR 144Hz DSC Gaming Monitor (PG32UQX) - UHD (3840 x 2160), Mini-LED IPS, G-SYNC Ultimate

Tested against the TCL 32R84 and BenQ MOBIUZ EX321UX. Crushes them both. TCL 32R84 has washed out Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) windows on High Dynamic Range (HDR), stuttering video playback, a Vertical Alignment (VA) panel with a black circle following the view angle (VA glow?), and constant Linux kernel warnings. EX321UX (<= V6 firmware) sucks for black scenes due to incorrect black brightness, has wake up issues, and have flickering backlight and unpleasant SDR in HDR handling. This monitor has none of these issues. You can even keep the HDR mode on all the time and work in SDR once you get used to some minor mouse/window haloing. Its colors are the most vibrant out of the three. It has the highest brightness and most comfortable to use on screen display. It has a fan, but it's only audible in a dead silent room. It's only DisplayPort 1.4, but Display Stream Compression is not noticeable. There's an occasional bug where it sometimes become washed out after a signal interruption (like a reboot), but just reset the signal by changing the display configuration and change it back and it'll be back to normal. It's a five year old monitor alright, but it's still the HDR queen. Great for the price if you can get one used. My only real complaint is ASUS decided to ruin the frame rate monitor on the bottom by flashing their logo on it every few seconds. It would be nice to have it if it just stays solid and didn't distract you, but at least you can disable it. Use the racing preset. If only an updated version with a faster panel, more dimming zones, DP 2.1, and no fan exists with a open source release of their widget control software on Linux...

Amazon Customer · 2026-04-12 · via amazon

These are not issues I'd expect from a $3000 monitor. I've got about 3 dead pixels in the corner, but the dead-pixel policy (not to be confused for ZBD/zero bright dot) is for 3-5+. The monitor frequently won't wake up after turning on my computer. Doesn't matter if I unplug and replug the DP cable or power cord, it takes several attempts before it turns on again. I bought this monitor for both gaming (high hz) and office use (high resolution), thinking it would be good for both. In fact, it's not bad for this mixed use but I have to keep going into the settings to turn "Variable Backlight" on or off, because if you leave it on and use a dark theme app, you have will have massive amounts of miniLED backlight ghosting. i.e., the monitor will try to light up a patch of pixels around your mouse or white text on a black screen, and it looks quite bad. For gaming, the variable backlight doesn't produce any unwanted artifacts. I've yet to determine how much it improves the contrast, but black screens are noticeably darker than edge-lit monitors, so that's nice. The "OD" (overdrive) setting also produces nasty effects when scrolling a webpage if set to "Extreme". Normal seems OK. The whites weren't very white out of the factory, and the screen wasn't very bright. You have to change the "GameVisual" (why is it called that?) to something other than the default to get proper colors and brightness. Now it gets very bright -- in-game flashes of light sometimes blind me in real-life. IPS's supposedly have good viewing angles, but white screens don't appear to be perfectly uniform from edge-to-edge and the screen gets much darker if I look at even a 30 degree angle. Not a major concern since I sit center, but I'm not seeing the benefit here. All-in-all, it looks quite good in-game, but I expect perfection at this price point. Regarding the on-screen display. It's OK. If you want to display your FPS, which is the only thing I can think of that it would be good for, you have to install "Armoury Crate" (sic) but it doesn't tell you this anywhere. But every few seconds it feels the need to display an animation showing the ROG eye logo which is distracting. The monitor stand is beefy. It looks nice. It's adjustable. But way too big for my desk, so I replaced it with a monitor arm, which is kind of a waste. Update: How do I give this monitor less than 1 star? It takes about half an hour of plugging and unplugging it to get it to turn on. Not only is it not even usable, it's actively wasting my time now.

Mark P · 2021-07-09 · via amazon

4K - 144Hz - HDR1400 - 12bit Color. Mini-LED. This had all the bells and whistles I could ask for from a Gaming Monitor at a steep price. Hooked up the monitor to 3080Ti card with the provided DisplayPort cable, enabled HDR on Win11 OS and it was off to the races. Setup went smoothly without any hiccups. HDR content on this monitor is AMAZE-BALLS! Literally identical to OLED quality output - I could not tell. Monitor was perfect. No dead pixels. There is literally no Halo effect when gaming, web browsing or doing any everyday task. If anything, I had to "look" for it and even then I could not tell if there was any Halo effect at all. Fired up Assassin's Creed Odyssey (PC Game) w/ HDR enabled. Wow! The scenery is breath taking. The leather armor or pouch on the Character looked like real leather. Gold plated weapons or Gold statues looked like real gold!! Fired up a few other AAA titles and I was convinced this one is a keeper and is here to stay until 8K becomes a thing. I can live without HDMI 2.1 personally. Unlike my previous monitor (LG 27GL850) and the majority, this has a built-in Nvidia G-SYNC Ultimate Processor. I may have gotten lucky, but I could not hear any noise from the "fan" in the monitor from my normal sitting position. My brother and I both agreed it is literally whisper quiet. Based on other recent reviews (Nov2021+), my experience with this monitor is similar. ASUS must have fixed the QA issues with their first batch. What I received was a perfect monitor. If you got the money, look no further. This is the monitor to buy!

John Huynh · 2021-12-04 · via amazon

First I will start off with that I had to return mine due to the product being damaged, because As you can sort of see in the picture, I had two spots where the LEDS were stuck on and the one on the right actually had this matrix of tiny red dots around it. Unfortunately with the screen being off the camera would not focus properly with it. This effect persists at all times I initially did not noticed it when I got the product because unless you are looking for it or are on a black or very dark screen it is generally negligible. I was half tempted to keep the monitor because of how great everything else was until I remembered I had spent 3.2k on it with tax, and was not sure if with it being already damaged would that escalate, plus once I noticed it I could not unsee it. Apart from Defects this Monitor is pretty Amazing. The 1400 nits are REALLY bright. The colours in generally are fantastic and vivid. The smoothness of merely scrolling sites or windows with the 144hz was just so satisfying. the 32 inches is HUGE I have a 28inch 4k monitor which is still a little dwarfed by it. I did notice that because it was 32 inches that it was not as Crisp as my 28, but that is to be expected because of the pixel density. I know some people mention the active cooling system being loud, I personally did not notice this, but it is possible I never really put the monitor through its paces for it to kick in, due to the defect I had. I did have trouble getting the AuraSync to work trigger with the monitor, Not sure if that was also damaged, but I could never get the Back light to come on. Overall I think the Monitor is great, but for a product this expensive I think they need to be much more strict on quality control.

Dominique · 2021-06-17 · via amazon

So far the colors are really nice and vibrant when you set it out , you can't increase the sharpness which is not a big thing as there is way too many pixels that you dont need to Noise : There is a very slight fan noise , if you are wearing a headset you will not hear it. only way you could notice it if you literally put you head close to the back of the monitor. Blooming : There is a blooming effect when its a pitch dark screen , its not there if it wasnt a pitch dark screen with very little white in middle. The blooming is less noticable if you sitting in middle of the screen , its very noticable when you come back from toilet from the edges but once your back on the PC you don't notice it anymore Pricing is ridiculous though, if LG comes out with its 42 inch oled soon i would recommend that over this. if pricing is not an issue , i would wait for the ProArt UCG version which is capped at 120hz but has a newer generation of the same panel used on this one, with less blooming and better color calibration with a cost of losing 24 hz.

Abdulla Al Suwaidi · 2021-06-11 · via amazon

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