The Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG, one of the dual-mode gaming monitor pioneers, has hit its lowest-ever price

Sharp 4K and accelerated 1080p successful 1 amazingly well-priced monitor

High-resolution monitors person go a batch cheaper implicit caller years, successful opposition to a astir interior constituent types, which are presently successful a contention to spot who tin plunge america into fiscal destitution the fastest. It wasn’t that agelong agone that the 4K, 160Hz, 27in sheet of the Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG would enactment it retired of scope for anyone who didn’t person entree to a sovereign wealthiness fund, yet present it is, discounted to conscionable £319 / $299. That’s lone astir fractional what it would outgo to bargain a caller graphics paper susceptible of really moving 4K games.

I tested the Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG backmost erstwhile it emerged 1 of the archetypal dual-mode monitors – or, astatine least, 1 of the archetypal dual-mode IPS screens. If there’s a crippled wherever you’d worth smoothness implicit sharpness, you tin flip the XG27UCG from 4K/160Hz to an esports-spec 1080p/360Hz, trading pixel density for perchance treble the disposable frames-per-second. I besides kept it connected my table for respective months aft that portion went live, partially due to the fact that Asus forgot to inquire for it back, and partially because… well, I liked it.

When I archetypal tried it retired successful 2024, the XG27UCG was £413 / $499, and successful the UK specifically it's present dropped to a caller all-time terms low. The aforesaid was astir existent for the US, but literally arsenic I've been penning this post, it's crept backmost up from $299 to $333. Damn it all. That's inactive a heavy chopped from the database price, though.

UK deal:

US deal:

Frankly, adjacent if you ne'er prosecute Twitchy Headshot Energy Drink mode, the XG27UCG is inactive a precise respectable 4K show that ne'er feels compromised for having a 1080p broadside gig. I recorded it covering 99.5% of the sRGB colour gamut and hitting a opposition ratio of 1041:1, some bully by LCD/IPS standards, and ne'er saw overmuch successful the mode of ghosting oregon unintended blur. It’s not arsenic slick successful question arsenic a bleeding-edge G-Sync Pulsar model, but past that’s 1 country of gaming monitors wherever we’re not apt to spot 4K displays astatine sub-$300 prices for a while; indeed, each the motorboat monitors for Pulsar instrumentality to 1440p.