The speakers aren’t much cop, either: the pair of 2W speakers are tinny and a little too quiet, and are only good enough for basic media duties – not for gaming. Those colour temperature, accuracy and gamma levels were maintained with the screen at maximum brightness and with the panel at half its original brightness levels, so you’re going to get consistent colours no matter how bright the panel is. The 165Hz refresh rate and 1440p resolution are the Asus’ key gaming attributes, and elsewhere the VG27AQ delivers solid hardware. It uses IPS technology, and it only uses 8-bit colour – fine for gaming, but not quite good enough for work. The 1ms response time is good, too, and easily fast enough for competitive play. If you are investing in a gaming screen like this with a high refresh rate and added ELMB-sync feature, you are going to want to ensure your system and graphics card can deliver in that upper 100 – 165Hz range really anyway to get the most out of the screen in terms of frame rate, motion clarity and also response times. Brightness ELMB-Sync Mode (Adaptive=sync OFF) Brightness Setting

The 2,560 x 1,440 resolution is good. It’s high enough to deliver loads of real estate for gaming, and the 27in diagonal delivers a crisp density level of 109ppi. That’s solid – far better than the 82ppi on 27in screens with 1080p resolutions. While technically part of the entry-level TUF line-up, the screen does offer an attractive, yet simple design which will be familiar to those who have used some of the existing ROG Swift range of screens. It may be in the TUF brand, but it still features a range of additional gaming extras from within the OSD menu too. TUF Gaming VG27AQZ je 27-palcový displej WQHD (2560x1440), HDR IPS s ultrarychlou obnovovací frekvencí 165 Hz* určený pro profesionální a náročné hráče. Má špičkové specifikace, to je však pouhý začátek všeho, co VG27AQZ nabízí. Viewing angles of the screen were very good as you would expect from an IPS-type panel. Horizontally there was very little colour tone shift until wide angles past about 45°. A slight darkening of the image occurred horizontally from wider angles as you can see above as the contrast shifted slighting. Contrast shifts were slightly more noticeable in the vertical field but overall they were very good. The screen offered the wide viewing angles of IPS technology and was free from the restrictive fields of view of TN Film panels, especially in the vertical plane. It was also free of the off-centre contrast shift you see from VA panels and a lot of the quite obvious gamma and colour tone shift you see from some of the modern VA panel type offerings. ASUS Extreme Low Motion Blur provides a 1ms response time (MPRT) to eliminate smearing and motion blur. It also makes moving objects appear even sharper, so gameplay is more fluid and responsive.

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Enhances the colour of your opponents' health/mana bars, so that you can simultaneously respond and be the first to destroy the opposing team's main. Luminance uniformity of the screen was good overall, with the top right hand corner showing the only significant deviance on our sample. In that corner the luminance dropped down to 102 cd/m 2 in the most extreme example (-18%). Overall, 80% of the screen remained within a 10% deviance threshold of our centrally calibrated point which was good.

Elsewhere, though, the VG27AQ suffers in predictable areas. The Asus uses its Racing mode by default, but the other display modes are worse and so not worth using. The FPS, RTS and RPG options are very bright, but with poorer Delta E figures and warmer colour temperature results – so images look a little too red and oversaturated.inch QHD (2560x1440) IPS gaming monitor with ultrafast 165Hz refresh rate designed for professional gamers and immersive gameplay For those who are interested in Motion Blur Reduction + Variable Refresh Rate aka VRR STROBING here is a list of monitors that support it. The list will be updated from time to time. Elsewhere, this fast, smooth screen has a versatile size and resolution, and great colour quality. Its contrast is more middling, but it’s still good enough for gaming in that regard.

The Asus’ default brightness level of 277 nits is fine, but not outstanding, and the screen’s peak brightness level of 354 nits is better – but nothing particularly special. Spectral distribution graph showing calibrated Racing mode at 6500k (top) and Blue Light Filter Level 1 mode (bottom)

EXTREME LOW MOTION BLUR SYNC

Note 2: The Acer XB270HU was later updated to include a 120Hz mode, which will produce a slightly darker maximum luminance