This is a repost from Tom's
 
TLDR: Monitor way too big, too bright, hot glowing colours, hurts my neck and eyes. Feels too zoomed in.

I have returned mine and I have never been SO conflicted with a piece of hardware before in my life. Usually I love or hate something, but here I was torn.

Have you ever gone to the movies and only the front row seat is open and you end up watching the movie but your neck is craned up, and you feel too "zoomed in" on the action? That's how I felt with the PG279Q, as no matter how far I pushed it back it felt too big and even though I lowered it as much as it would go on the stand my neck was back and I was looking upward to the center of the screen, causing neck aches and eye strain.

Colours way too hot. UI elements especially "Glowed" REALLY bright constantly making me blink.

I tried to follow every Calibration suggestion I could find and it was always too washed out, too bright or too dark.

All four corners had incredible amounts of either light bleed or IPS glow that was really distracting.

I did love the feel of gaming with G-Sync with FPS hitting around 100 to 120 in modern games at 1440p, and textures, blacks, lighting effects seemed so gorgeous, so this is why I was torn. But the pros were too minimal.

I just don't get the desire for 27 inch monitors for desktop gaming. If I wanted a TV I'd buy a small OLED Television.

Anyways just curious if you had a similar experience to me? Or maybe I'm just getting too picky in my old age.
 
Edit:  I ordered this for my next attempt.
 
https://www.bestbuy.com/s...D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
 
  Keep in mind that I am still going from 21.5 to 24 inches so there is a small screen size upgrade.  It hits every need for me except for IPS.  But if the Asus represents how glowy and bright IPS looks like today I don't want it lol
 
 

I have had a 278 series 27" for a for over 2 years runs with no problems .. I have a 1080 Ti and I only run display port..solid monitor to me 144 Hz  1mm time... 

Sorry to hear but it's whatever you are comfortable with.  The one you chose is the younger sibling to the 27" I have.  Both same screens but just different in size.  You'll have slightly more DPI than me though.
 

flyinion
If I was going to buy another monitor to go with or replace my Asus it would probably be the new LG 27GN950 when it finally becomes available https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27gn950-b-gaming-monitor

 
Ok now you got me interested!  Do we know what the price on that thing will be?

 
This has got me wondering,  will all monitors from now on be all 27" as the smallest? I think I'll feel lost if they don't make 24/25 inches anymore.
 
By the way, I know the cry also seems to be "24 inch is too small for 2k/4k"     Windows 10 scaling works perfectly fine.  I rescaled my desktop/browser on that 27 inch I was testing to exactly how I had it on the 24 inch.
 
Modern AAA games are really intelligent at scaling their text and UI so am wondering why people feel 2k on a 24 inch is too small?

GTXJackBauer
 
 
 
 I think the biggest out there is a 49" by Samsung 

Heh again coming back to what I'm saying about gamers wanting living room televisions on their PC desks :)
 
Could those issues you described with the Dell be colour banding?
 

 
Oh yeah I can see it clearly.  I have a tiny spot on this old 21.5 Asus but that is massive. Ugh.
 
And that does look sweet now that I see the curved.    I was looking at the 32 inch LG curved they have at Best buy and it was insanely gorgous but of course the thing in my mind is "Anything can prop up a good 2D image but how does it game in moving 3D?"

 
By the way this is what Asus PG279Q screen looked like in terms of the bleed.  Not sure if it was backlight bleed or IPS glow but here's a photo.  Of course the photo exaggerates how bad it is but shows where it was happening.
 

Yeah that's definitely backlight bleed and that's really bad.  I wonder if Asus is trying to offload all the returned ones as new or something.  However, I wonder if part of it is people having the brightness and stuff cranked way too far because new monitors and TV's always come in nuclear display mode out of the box.  Mine has maybe a couple slight spots of bleed at the top and bottom edges but just a slim line.  It's also calibrated to a 140 or 150cd/m (forgot which I used) brightness level though.

yaggaz
 
By the way this is what Asus PG279Q screen looked like in terms of the bleed.  Not sure if it was backlight bleed or IPS glow but here's a photo.  Of course the photo exaggerates how bad it is but shows where it was happening.
 

GTXJackBauer
Yeah wow horrible.  Wouldn't be surprised if they recycle these bad bleeding returned monitors as new back into supply to just get rid of them.
 
It boggles my mind the cost for these screens and the issues that come with them.

Yeah I'm sure there is some type of customer who just likes the size of the screen and colours and doesn't game so they probably don't care about the bleed.  Us picky gamers of course won't stand for it