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As a 27-inch display, the Asus Rog Swift PG27AQ ships in a fairly large box, with the typical Asus marketing information along the bottom, listing its main features.
The panel is connected to the stand when you remove it from the packaging, but it can be removed to attach a monitor arm, and up to three PG27AQ displays can be run at 4K resolution simultaneously. If you have the necessary graphics card power on hand that is.
Along with the usual quick-start guide and software CD, you get a number of cables – HDMI, DisplayPort and a USB 3 uplink cable.
The PG27AQ uses an external power supply that takes a 3-pin power cable with the “cloverleaf” layout.
The panel itself has a number of logos showing that it’s a G-Sync monitor with 4K support. A nice way to make your friends jealous.
Both the plastic rim around the stand and Republic Of Gamers Logo on the base light up in red by enabling a setting in the OSD. It’s just a small cosmetic touch that serves no purpose at all, but something some users will no doubt appreciate.
The panel around the bezel is quite thin, no more than a few centimetres. At the back you can see a long gap used for cable management.
The screen pivots 90 degrees.
It tilts back 5 degrees, and forward 20 degrees, as you’d expect from a high end display.
And can be lowered 120mm.
The screen can be rotated horizontally, 60 degrees in either direction.
Underneath the display, the array of ports seems quite slim, compared with some displays. On the left-hand side, there’s a 3.5mm audio output jack, and the connector for the power supply.
The G-Sync module is limited to a single DisplayPort input, and Asus has added a second HDMI port. But that’s still only two, a problem that won’t go away for G-Sync any time soon.
There’s also a pair of USB 3 ports with an uplink port.
As expected, there’s support for Kensington locks.
And at the bottom a service port, used for updates, but it is unlikely that Asus will allow users to do this procedure, as they say it’s for their engineers only.
Identically to other ROG displays, the PG27AQ has a number of triangular buttons on the rear of the panel, with a red joystick at the top that’s used for navigating the OSD.
Asus isn’t entirely alone here, since some other manufacturers also offer a great OSD control system. Philips helpfully included a small joystick at the back of the BDM4065UC (review HERE) and BenQ has a USB remote control on some of its displays, such as the BL3201PT (review HERE).
But not all display firms have realised that great OSD controls make displays less frustrating to use. Until they do, Asus’ efforts with its ROG Swift displays really stand out.
