ASUS ROG Strix XG27ACS Gaming Monitor – 27″ 2560×1440
ASUS ROG Strix XG27ACS Gaming Monitor – 27″ 2560×1440, 180Hz (Above 144Hz), 1ms (GTG), Fast IPS, Extreme Low Motion Blur Sync, USB Type-C, G-Sync compatible
Versatile Connectivity
Connect your devices with ease thanks to the extensive connectivity options, including a Type-C port* supports DP Alt mode for video out and power delivery, DisplayPort 1.4 for high-resolution and high-refresh-rate connections, and HDMI 2.0 port for connecting consoles and other multimedia devices.
AI-Powered Advantage
With AI-powered GamePlus technology, the monitor analyzes the scene on-screen in real-time and adjusts the GamePlus crosshair to enhance targeting accuracy. Additionally, Dynamic Shadow Boost brightens dark areas without overexposing bright areas, providing a clear advantage in low-light environments.
Compact Design, Ergonomic Comfort
This monitor boasts a compact footprint, saving valuable desk space. It also features a convenient phone holder on the stand, allowing you to easily keep your phone within reach and charge it simultaneously via the Type-C port. The ergonomically-designed stand provides tilt, swivel, pivot and height adjsutment, ensuring you find the perfect viewing position for all-day comfort. Additionally, VESA compatibility lets you mount the monitor to the wall for even greater flexibility.
| Weight: | 7.31 kg |
| Dimensions: | 5 x 34 x 60 cm; 7.31 kg |
| Brand: | ASUS |
| Model: | XG27ACS |
| Colour: | Black |
| Manufacture: | Asus |
| Dimensions: | 5 x 34 x 60 cm; 7.31 kg |
ecently purchased the ASUS monitor from Amazon, and I’m very impressed with its performance. The display quality is superb, offering sharp and vibrant colors that make everything from work tasks to gaming a pleasure. The setup was straightforward, and the monitor’s sleek design adds a modern touch to my workspace. It also comes with several useful features, including adjustable settings and multiple input options, making it versatile for different needs. Overall, it’s a great value for the price, and I highly recommend it!
My very first complaint is about Amazon warehouse, I bought the monitor in the condition like new and was with missing display port and HDMI 2.1 cables, was nothing in description about it, in fact the monitor was in perfect condition but big disappointment with the missing cables, tried to contact Amazon customer service but was not able to talk with a real person, the only information I got is Amazon don’t replace missing parts and I can return it.
And the only reason I took Amazon warehouse was because the delivery time was way more fast, basically paid full price with missing cables anyway at least arrived in 3 days in Galway Ireland.
About the monitor itself, image quality is great but not out of the box I spent long time finding the way I liked.
After the adjustment image is beautiful and is what I expected.
My biggest complaint about this monitor is the dark scenes and black quality, ok I know is not a OLED display but the dark scenes in this monitor is big disappointment for me.
I’m using in my setup two monitors and my 32 inches 1440p VA panel monitor has better dark scenes than this monitor.
Performance is very nice 160HZ and very fluid, and don’t feel input lag.
Looks very good with my playstation 5.
For desktop applications like video editing, Microsoft office, Photoshop, blender, unreal engine and visual studio is what I expected and I few less the problem with the black colour.
For reading web pages content, PDF, Microsoft office absolute no problem.
Build quality and design is ok, the front of the monitor is very neutral and actually liked it and the back of the monitor face my wall.
I have mixed of feelings with this monitor, part of me really liked but as I said is big disappointment with the dark scenes.
The reason I decided to take this monitor is because I’m going to use for work, college and gaming and IPS display is more reliable for desktop applications, I’m afraid of burn in after few years if I take a OLED display.
I have two options return it and spend 500+ in OLED display or keep it , still don’t know if I’m going to return or not.
This monitor was everything I was hoping for and more. I work from home and this saves having 2 separate screens and multiple windows, I can have them all in the same place with no bezels getting in the way. With the added bonus of I didn’t realise it has built in speakers. Not the cheapest monitor out there but well worth the money if your spending hours sat in front of it.
The build quality is solid with hard plastics and not many unnecessary flourishes or RGB lighting. A couple of minor features that don’t matter like a phone holder in the base and a low watt USB C port which will only matter to a small number of people.
Before I get to complaints I’ll finish off this review here but saying it works very well and is a good price. If you want better you’ve got to go OLED (VA panels have their own issues that I think make it not worth the middle ground).
I do have a couple of issues though. One is major and prompted me to return my first order. Only highlighting these so much incase any of these are something that would be a dealbreaker for you.
– IPS backlight. You expect bleed with these kinds of screens but the issue I have had with both of the panels I bought is the bottom of the screen being significantly dimmer than the top. Wouldn’t be a huge issue except the taskbar is at the bottom, and the white text is a bit harder to read. Doesn’t affect games at all but if you use PC desktops for work and play it might be annoying.
– Coil whine. Whenever you turn it off/on, change settings on the monitor itself, or it changes resolution there is high pitched coil whine. Both units had it so it might just be inevitable for this model. Doesn’t whine at all during use or while it’s off so it’s not a big complaint.
– HDR support is in name only. It’s 50 nits brighter than the default. In my experience what this translates to is a washed out look for mostly dark games, but a slightly better look for bright games as it’s able to push the brightness of the brighter elements. It’s an IPS panel so it is extremely limited in what benefit you’ll get from it so beware any screen that says “HDR 400”. OLED is going to give you what you need but those are 3-5 times the price of this monitor.
– Grainy coating. A matte anti glare coating is applied to the panel and is very standard for IPS panels like this. Some people have said it is excessively grainy meaning solid white background look bad. I don’t notice it too much but I have medical issues with my eyes so I don’t notice it as much. It isn’t really much different from other budget IPS displays though so bare that in mind.
– Height adjustment is quite low even at max height. Doesn’t give much flexibility.
I didn’t have the colour accuracy and temp issues that another reviewer had but each unit can vary in quality. Some have complained about the consistency of ASUS QA.
Bought this recently to upgrade from a 1080 to 1440. The quality of the product was fantastic, no dead pixels, easy to setup, the colours are really vibrant. I also didn’t realise it had it’s own speakers built in, but I mainly use a headset but a bonus to have. Would highly recommend!
The 380hz is amazing feels smooth when gaming. works well with gsync even though not officially supported. Easy to put together and setup in settings Unfortunately came scratched on the base plate but not Asus or the monitors fault it’s Amazon’s delivery service as the foam was broken on arrival (update contacted Amazon but they said there’s nothing they can do to replace the part/item) hence me not leaving a negative review as nothing Asus could have done and it is a excellent product. But the monitor itself is great for the price of 319. And materials feel solid and not light or cheap.
Fantastic monitor for the price. While it’s not a top end OLED, for the money spent the features are great, it looks fantastic and gives you everything you need in a good gaming monitor. 180hz is more than enough for a non competititve gamer, 1440p is ideal for anyone not shelling out thousands on the absolute top end GPUs, Variable refresh rate works well, and customisation options are great too. Highly recommended. Search the monitor model code on youtube for more details before you purchase to make sure its right for you.
Honestly, I didn’t expect “too much” from this monitor, I thought it would do everything well enough that it advertised but not exceptionally.
I am truly very impressed though with what this monitor has delivered. The colours are some of the most vibrant and vivid that I have seen from an IPS display, furthermore the menu offers virtually every setting you need to adjust colours to your liking, especially the individual RGB saturation sliders.
It feels extremely responsive, and I believe after watching a review it statistically delivers one of the lowest response times on the market for IPS (around 4-5ms gtg on overdrive level 8).
USB-C is also very helpful, however it won’t charge a laptop so bear that in mind, it only offers 15w PD.
Overall, I’m more than happy with this monitor, and would highly recommend it.
If your playing horror games that rely on darkness and shadows then it has the appropriate filter and functions to get the most out of the graphics without having to tweak in-game quality.
If your playing fast-space games like racing titles, Spiderman, Ballistic-NG then it has the option for anti-blur, a vivid filter to brighten up the picture.
It has HDR for games that use it like Horizon Zero Dawn.
The high refresh rate gives you zero lag response time. The lower resolution compensates for high refresh rate so you dont need a high end GPU to get the most out of it. It has G-Sync which gives more cooperation between your CPU, GPU and the monitor, everything works in tandem with each other.
It can be overclocked for more increased refresh rate but I personally dont see the point in 170fps if the technology isnt there to maintain such a high frame rate, this may make the monitor run hot, it has a built-in fan for that reason. Use with caution.
My only advice is to not have this monitor close to your eyes if you lack the space, hence why I have it on the wall, if its too close, the bright picture, vivid colours can potentially give you headache or eyestrain. A wall mount is recommended, I couldnt fully enjoy it until it was on the wall.
It also has built-in speakers but they are very tinny and lack bass, they sound like speakers that came from a PSP device. Not very good but I suppose they are a last resort if you dont have speakers.
The control buttons are easy to navigate too as it has like a litle nub you can push around to go through the settings.
Was using a 4K 60Hz monitor for years. As much as I loved the clarity of 4K but it was just too demanding on my GPU on some games. 2K and higher refresh rate seems to be the way forward
HDR (High dynamic range)
ULMB (Ultra-low motion blur)
1ms response time
G-Sync
I like this monitor for how large it is (“27), it helps with organizing and doing work as you can easily have a word tab open on one side and resources on the other side. Its very easy to read and the brightness is more than good. I have no bleed on this monitor from the LCD which is an issue with some monitors. You are able to toggle the refresh rates on this monitor natively which is useful to conserve its life.
However, dont get this monitor just because of HDR, the feature is underwhelming and the screen appears too bright and the colours too contrasted. The other features like ULMB help with competitive gaming as they reduce blurryness.
The only strange issue that I cant resolve with this monitor is sometimes on bootup, the monitor appears darker for some strange reason. I suspect that sometimes on bootup ULMB is turned on without any previous input and it turns back off when you restart your graphics with (Win + Ctrl + Shift + B). This isn’t really an issue for me and it only happens maybe once every few months.
The stand of this monitor is very sturdy and offers a wide range of movement, you can rotate it 90 degrees if you’d like depending on what suits you. I think the weight of the stand removes the need of a VESA mount (which it also has) as its unlikely to knock over, The stand is really heavy. I didn’t buy this monitor out of vanity looks but theres RGB lights on the back if you are into that which you can customise.
The settings on this monitor are standard and there’s a few buttons on the back to make navigating somewhat easier. Most of the settings are useless to be honest with some lacklustre filters and scope and red dot settings, the only game that I could see you using these in would be EFT (Escape from tarkov) but these are really not needed. The filters themselves take time to navigate to and they are bad in my opinion. The ULMB is a solid feature on this monitor but by turning it on, the monitor gets darker (to be expected as ULMB inserts black frames). I think the feature is very solid and with combination with the pre-sets you can make in the menu, it helps with when you want to use it.
The beauty panel on the back covers the connectors which there are plenty of, there’s also a USB hub integrated within the monitor for cable management which is highly appreciated! I highly recommend this monitor but for the price you’d want to buy it on amazon warehouse or find it on a cheaper website.
Great product!
– The monitor is very large, so make sure you have the space. It takes the entirety of my deck, and the thing is HEAVY so if you’re looking at mounting it, it’s likely that the majority of mounts won’t work.
– There’s a lot more games that don’t support 32:9 that do, so you will end up playing games with black bars. A large amount of AAA games support 21:9, so you’ll still get the ultra-wide experience.
– Get a copy of DisplayFusion Pro; you’ll need it. Managing windows to snap into different locations will be difficult without using a software like this. There’s a lot of sales on this application, as usually it can cost 30. G2A have licenses for 15.
– Get a hand. Putting this monitor in place is difficult work, so a spare person will help a lot.
– If you’re looking at playing games at the ultra-ultra-wide resolution to take full advantage of the screen real estate, understand that it’s graphically intensive. I’m currently using a NVIDIA 2070 SUPER, and anything below this would struggle massively. Yes, it’s an expensive upgrade, but it’s a big monitor, and the graphics card is going to have to output to this.
– Colour on this monitor is good, but not stupidly accurate for things like print/design. Keep this in mind if you’re looking to do design work, but most people won’t notice this.
– It’s FreeSync 2, meaning that it passes some of the feature set needed such as HDR. The darks look brilliant, the brights look decent. It’s not 1000 nits, meaning it’s not completely true HDR, but it’s really good.
– No. There’s no VGA, no DVI. It’s not the standard anymore, so please don’t expect it. Converting the cable will impact performance, so look to upgrade your video output (graphics card) if you want good quality high performance video out.
– I’m happy to answer any questions you have on it. I purchased it, and I’m not selling it.
– The back of the stand has a metal post, meaning you can’t push it all the way back. This is expected, and the weight of the monitor needs some serious grounding.
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On the whole, the effect while using this thing for gaming is stunning. I upgraded from three old 28″ 16:10 HannsG affairs, with fluorescent lamps. I was worried that as this single screen wouldn’t be as tall or wide, the effect would be diminished – far from it. Having no bezels separating your screens is what really makes the effect, and this thing does it in style.
I’m using it with a GeForce GTX1070, and it seems to make use of G-Sync with no issues; the on-screen refresh rate counter happily goes up and down when gaming, proving that the feature is working. For anyone not in the know, nVidia gave up on G-Sync as a walled garden, and made it compatible with FreeSync earlier this year. All you need are the latest drivers, and a 10 series card or higher.
There is also a ‘panel’ feature, where input from different sources can be fed to different sections of the screen. I haven’t tried this yet, but I have no reason to believe it doesn’t work. At any rate, you will need to connect using DisplayPort to make use of as much refresh rate as you can.
Picture quality is immense, but it did take a bit of fiddling with Windows settings to get that I needed to leave HDR turned off to get full access to the monitor’s image settings. On that subject, there was no disk in the box, so I looked what software was available online. There is no driver as such, but there is an application called Asus DisplayWidget that contains all the OSD settings, to save you having to mess around with the hardware buttons etc. This would be a great addition, only it doesn’t work properly; repeatedly, when changing settings in the software, the display would glitch out and go pink, meaning I had to disconnect and reconnect to get it to reset. It’s supposed to start with Windows, which it does, but it can’t be opened. You need to quit it then restart it. In the end I gave up on it, and decided to stick with the OSD. This is really my only quibble, but I guess it’s an additional feature, so giving it 5 stars anyway.
It’s a lot to fork out for a monitor, but so far, I haven’t regretted it.