ASUS Breaks Boundaries with Bigger and Faster Gaming Monitors

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In a media gathering event held at its Philippine HQ, ASUS showcased its newest lineup of gaming monitors which focused on faster speeds and larger screens combined with innovative display technologies, all designed to up your gaming experience to the next level.

These trends pushes ASUS’ development of its new monitors by adding features such as 0.5ms response time, HDR, FreeSync 2, and IPS displays with high refresh rates.

Faster Gaming Monitors Now A Reality

vg258qrThe new VG258QR and VG278QR both boast 165Hz refresh rate and 0.5ms response time.

vg279qThe VG279Q on the other hand, uses an IPS panel and has 144Hz refresh rate, a feature that’s unique to it.

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These monitors are also equipped with Radeon FreeSync, to eliminate scree tearing and Extreme Low Motion Blue (ELMB) to minimize blurring in fast-paced titles. There’s also ASUS MOBA Mode, which highlights health bars on select MOBA games.

Bigger, Crisper, and Powerful

The new ROG Strix XG32VQR now incorporates HDR 400, and boasts 144Hz refresh rate, 125% sRGB, and AMD’s FreeSync 2 HDR Technology. All these features go hand-in-hand to deliver rich in-game colors plus wide black and white tones, along with tear-free visuals.

ASUS’ first Dual Full HD (DFHD) LCD monitor, the ROG Strix XG49VQ, boasts a resolution of 3840×1080, enough for three sources to be plugged in and displayed on the screen. A content creator’s dream, it features a panel rated to have a 90% DCI-P3, 125% sRGB, and DisplayHDR 400, resulting to excellent colors and richer contrast. FreeSync 2 HDR also eliminates screen tearing on fast-paced games.

Pricing and Availablity

The ASUS VG258QR, VG278QR, and the VG279Q are already available from partner retailers and are priced at PhP16,580, PhP17.770, and PhP22,510, respectively. The ROG Strix XG32VQR is priced at PhP35,850, and the ROG Strix XG49VQ will retail for PhP65,270 when it becomes available in stores by April 2019.

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Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.

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Emman Tortoza

Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.

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