ASUS ROG Strix XG27AQDMG: What Real Users Say

Thank you for sharing your experience. Been sitting in my Amazon Cart until I'm satisfied with reviews.

Just keep in mind guys, rarely ever is a happy person going to post on Reddit how his monitor has 2k hrs and still no issues — these issues are very low percent of all monitors sold.

This is the best reviewed 1440p OLED monitor from Monitors Unboxed tier list due to its brightness and glossy WOLED panel. Downsides are that for a few more dollars you can normally get any of the other 1440p OLEDs offering a 360hz refresh rate, and this monitor lacks HDMI 2.1 if you fancy console gaming.

Ya I got the same and returned in 2 days, got new Tandem OLED now LG 27GX700A-B.

I maybe ASUS bought a ton of low grade panels. I've had a Sony WOLED for five years and the uniformity (while not amazing) is rock solid. I can't go back to LCD damnit.

I would get the Tandem OLED version, it's a long term investment and it's only 120 euro more. I think it's worth it — also the True Black coating is really nice.

Unplug it from the power cord for an hour. Turn back on, do a pixel cleaning, enjoy your monitor. More than 1000h and only one time this happened and I fixed it like that. It's a firmware bug.

0 problems with mine so far, make sure you are on the latest version of the firmware that's available.

Jesus, everybody is going to have an OLED. Why did I buy mine last year lol.

Had this monitor for a week and returned it because of the insane color banding at low refresh rates. Gamma shifts a lot with refresh rate (at 60Hz the whole picture is washed out), which makes the banding very apparent. This monitor IMO is unusable with VRR or fixed refresh rates below 240Hz.

This is not normal with WOLED (in my experience) but I guess could be normal with Asus WOLED. I have an LG 39GX900A which has literally 4500 hours on it working from home and gaming. With a dim gray screen I see some lines but absolutely nothing that bad.

Congrats! Welcome to the club. Make sure you update firmware to 104. Let me know if you run into anything you need help on. It took me a while to work out the little eccentricities of it.

I've had mine for 2 and a half weeks and already racked up 160hrs of usage, no problems at all for me. Seems like you probably just have a defective unit. Maybe try running pixel cleaning a couple of times — I saw that helped for people having banding and image retention out of the box.

If you value glossy this is a good pick.

Have mine a year now too and zero problems with it.

SDR and HDR are both noticeably brighter on the Tandem model, especially HDR. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 is GORGEOUS on the Tandem OLED.

More than one year, no issues at all.

I've had this monitor since november last year and I mostly do like it, but it does have some problems with gray and some other colors creating "waves". It's not always visible, but especially while playing BG3 in dark areas these waves are very visible.

I returned it! The colors had a lot of issues and add to that the flickering. Got an MSI QPX, no issues whatsoever even though I paid $300 more.

Got the same monitor, been using it for 2 months now. All in all, the monitor is mid to decent anyway. It was my first OLED monitor and I've got better colours on my IPS monitor unfortunately, however the OLED wins in other areas.

So it seems like this monitor is nothing but trouble. Got it. Super disappointed cuz it seems to fill everything I want.

530 hours in, no issues.

I just got this monitor a few weeks back and I fucking love it.

I don't know what kind of perfection people are looking for, all the negativity for a product that is actually pretty good for its price range. I have the monitor for like a year now and I can easily say it's pretty damn good, especially right now that it is around 560. The main issue for me was also the flickering on Tarkov but every OLED has that, it's totally fixable through the settings. The monitor is crazy good especially if you upgrade from IPS or TN panel.

I have it. It is fantastic.

The black crush and banding was VERY bad when I tried it. But hopefully the Tandem models are much better, though I don't have first-hand experience.

I got mine 3 weeks ago and love it. I have VRR on and only see a slight flicker in some loading screens. Don't even have anti-flicker enabled yet. The brightness is more than enough. Had to lower it a little since the bright whites were scorching my retinas. Had zero issues with black crush. And text looks fine to me.

I have a feeling this is Asus related and not a product of OLED in general. I have had multiple Asus monitors and every single one has had some issue out of the box. I've had my MSI QD-OLED for 2 years, an OLED travel monitor for 3 years, have multiple OLED TVs for between 3-5 years and have yet to have any issues. Typical modern Asus for ya.

Here are my two XG27AQDMG's. Left one has 924hrs, Pixel clean: 457. Right one has 3730hrs, Pixel clean: 1672, 106 firmware. Auto-hidden taskbar, white wallpaper, pixel clean interval at 8h. Both still looking great.

This is not an isolated case, search on the internet a little bit and you will see that it is quite common with this monitor. Bad luck seems to be waaaay more common with this panel.

I had this monitor and sold it after a month, out of all the OLED monitors that I've owned before, this has the worst text clarity despite it having the so called Clear Pixel Edge, that makes text even worse.

Just picked one up today. I've been comparing it side by side to my 4k144hz IPS monitor and I think I'm going to stick with the OLED!

Have the AQDMG and everything is great except near blacks show vertical banding — that's the only real issue I have with this monitor. If the Tandem has fixed that issue then it's worth it for that alone.

I would pay for the longer lifespan alone since I keep my monitors for a long time. Then you also get better coating, colors, and brightness with the Tandem.

6000 hours no issues, just RMA it and get a new one lol.

I had high hopes for this monitor but returned it after a week. Mine had awful near-black gradients at lower refresh rates. Also text looks awful.

I had this monitor but it had annoying uniformity issues so I returned it and got the XG27ACDNG instead, which is much better in uniformity. I also believe that WOLEDs have more issues in this regard.

I had the same image retention problem and it is really bad. Every time it happens it lasts longer. I have owned the monitor for two years now and it happens every once in a while. I've done updates and every other method in the book. The permanent fix is to sell and buy some other brand.

I got this monitor for around 1 year and 4 months. Apart from the single dead pixel that came with it which I already accepted, it still works like a charm. The big difference is I don't turn off the monitor after PC shutdown and it is always plugged in.

Got mine almost a year ago when it came out, bought it at my local MC. I have around 800 hours on it since then, and I love it! Only issue is that it does not display anything when I turn on my PS5 but there is sound, so I have to unplug and replug the HDMI almost daily now.

Mine is at 5855 hours, 833 pixel cleans and 5% grayscale or any other solid does not show any obvious degradation.

I have this same exact monitor. Mine is 14 months old. Used daily-ish, couple hours a day with gaming, work, all sorts of stuff. Mine is immaculate. Asus must have two different panel providers or something, because I bought my wife a matching one and hers is immaculate as well.

The AQDMG has firmware image retention issues. That plus new firmware features plus better panel longevity will contribute to better burn-in resistance on the Tandem. It also has better colour gamut and a more glossy True Black coating.

My Asus XG27AQDMG also arrived today. I had the MSI MAG 271 QPX QD-OLED for a week before, but due to severe discomfort I switched to the Asus. I have to say, so far I'm disappointed. The colors are nowhere near comparable to those of the MSI QD-OLED. I've already tried several settings, but I'm still not convinced. My IPS monitor from MSI has nearly the same good colors — except for the black levels.

Had mine for about 9 months with heavy use and had no issues — looks amazing and picture is insane. I always turn the monitor off after use and perform cleaning regularly. Couldn't be happier with the monitor, use it for both PS5 and PC.