Customer Ratings & Reviews

I game a ton so I would say this monitor is nice and all but if you game too much this monitor might have some defects because all is good with the monitor but for the hours of gaming I have the monitor lost a few pixels on the screen while I only owned it for not even a year yet (a pic of one of the missing pixels it’s hard to see which is the bright side but a colorful game it can be seen easily)

All in all amazing monitor hands down. It has done all the justice needed for me and fits nicely in my setup. My only concern is the manufacture defect of the monitor flickering after having it for some time. I use it regularly for work/personal use and every now and again my screen starts to flicker, don't know what the cause of this is but after some research, came to see it wasn't only me and it only happens to the higher refresh rates then makes its way to all of them.

The monitor came crooked so I will have to mount it. And there is a dead pixel.

It's a solid gaming monitor for the price with some minor quality issues and it's features are adequate

Great monitor for the sale price of 169.99. I definitely wouldnt pay more than that as these have light bleeding in the edges when scenes are dark or games/movies in 2:35/1 known issue if you read reciews everywhere. But other than that its nice. The speakers are a joke. My laptop speakers sound better. Just dont bother with them Asus

Pretty much good for price. Respond time is quick.

BOTTOM LINE: The TUF adaptive-sync gaming monitor raises the value proposition for budget-savvy consumers by offering excellent PQ with fairly extensive image adjustment options, as well as a healthy array of gaming-related features including FreeSync Premium, G-Sync, ELMB, & console-friendly inputs with stereo speakers all on the same panel. Users should find out-of-the-box PQ excellent though color accuracy is just a tad off--I suspect most people will probably find something they like in one of the several available presets, but just a few small adjustments elevated image quality substantially. Style is a suitably "gamerish" yet still professional-looking aesthetic with sharp angles, limited bezels, & geometric control cutouts (on the back); however, the budget-oriented price means no additional gamer-centric flourishes like headphone hangers, RGB lighting, or built-in USB hubs. DESIGN & PRESENTATION: Unboxing was a bit more of a chore than I would have expected because the handhold cutout flaps in the sides of the box face downward into the foam rather than upwards--this means that trying to remove the shipping foam from the carton doesn't flatten the cardboard cutout flaps, it drives them deeper into the foam cushioning; I believe one person mentioned they had to destroy the sides of the box just to get the monitor out! However, once freed from its cardboard prison, the user is presented with fairly minimal assembly demands. The base features textured rubber feet w/rows of raised nubs--I thought maybe they were Velcro tabs, but they are rubberized, & in practice they keep the monitor from damaging & sliding around on my very slick office desktop. A single thumbscrew at the bottom of the base is all that is required to secure the wide V-shaped base into the support arm. The vertical support features a handy rectangular cutout for cable management. There is a power-brick, but it is mercifully small--about the size of a modern USB-C laptop charger. The bezel is fairly thin along the top & sides with just enough height in the bottom bezel for a tasteful "ASUS" logo; no other branding/printing is visible from the front making for a streamlined & uncluttered look. The stand offers side-to-side swivel & vertical tilt, but no height adjustment, nor does it rotate so you cannot use the TUF in portrait mode. There is no VESA mounting plate on the back to use with other desk or wall mounts. Tabletop real-estate is minimal; the entire stand is only 8.5" front to back; the legs extend beyond the front of the panel by only 3" while the rear extends about 4.5" beyond the back of the panel--this is a welcome change from the hugely over-engineered stand on my Alienware panel that requires nearly a foot of clearance from the back of the monitor. Connectivity includes a headphone jack, one DisplayPort, & two HDMI connections. Two incredibly small cutouts along the bottom edge mark the locations of the internal speakers while a single LED on the bottom lower-right of the monitor indicates power & signal status. Strangely, the controls are set back a bit from the right edge so that you have to reach around just slightly to the back of the monitor in order to hit one of the four large trapezoidal buttons (controlling Exit, GamePlus, GameVisual, & Power functions) & the irritatingly small 4-way joystick/menu button stalk. A few dimly printed button icons line the side of the monitor's frame to suggest which button/control does what, but in practice you can't see them from the front & kind of have to navigate by feel anyway. It doesn't work all that smoothly in practice because you can't really tell where you're reaching until you start finding some of the buttons & then hope you aren't accidentally pressing the wrong one (which happened to me A LOT)...thankfully, once you do hit one of the controls, an on-screen display pops up corresponding to the general location of the buttons behind the monitor's frame so you can adjust your finger position accordingly. OPERATION, PQ & PERFORMANCE My main monitor is a 35" curved ultrawide, but it's a monitor only--using the TUF made me remember just how nice it is to have a monitor with built-in speakers, especially for browsing webpages or accommodating some light background music. But don't plan on hearing anything from more than a foot away or playing games/movies with complex soundtracks or subtle sound cues because the speakers simply don't have any oomph at all. My Win11 PC recognized the max refresh rate & G-Sync compatibility right away--I was mousing in Windows at 165Hz & gaming was blissfully, buttery smooth. I was curious about ELMB as I had never used it before, so I turned off FreeSync at the panel & deactivated G-Sync in Windows, then activated ELMB from the panel's menu. Supposedly, the backlight will strobe between screen refreshes to reduce motion blur, but the panel immediately took a nose-dive in brightness once ELMB activated & the function apparently only works at fixed refresh rates. I much prefer a more brilliant picture & appreciate smoother motion even when framerates start to drop below fixed refresh (or vary wildly), so I kept this function turned off--YMMV. I found the little 4-way navigational joystick on the back a bit difficult to locate in the blind & to press inward as a menu "button" too (especially compared to the four other gigantic buttons on the back); but once you finally bring up the main OSD, the joystick does let you navigate intuitively (up/down/left/right) through sub-menus & adjustment options rather than limiting you to just two controls & then constantly having to press an enter, exit, or back button to move between functions. The main "Gaming" menu includes settings for panel overdrive, turning FreeSync & ELMB on & off, activating GamePlus features (onscreen crosshairs, timers, an FPS counter that seemed locked to screen refresh & nothing else, & DisplayAlignment for multi-monitor setup), GameVisual (color profiles), & a 3-level ShadowBoost function that progressively blows out contrast & shadow detail to help illuminate dark/hidden game objects/features. In addition to control over sharpness (VividPixel), a dynamic contrast setting that I ended up leaving alone (ASCR), and a Blue Light Filter that reduces emitted blue light emissions, ASUS offers 7 color presets, though none were quite ideal/hit near 6500K neutral right out of the box. Note that some PQ adjustments are unavailable depending on the profile. For example, ShadowBoost is unavailable in "Scenery" & "Cinema"; Saturation & ASCR are disabled in "Racing"; sRGB defeats Saturation, Skin Tone, Color Temp, Brightness, Contrast & ASCR, etc. NOTE--if you want to make color/PQ adjustments on this panel & still have the maximum number of picture controls & functions available, use either the "RTS/RPG" or "FPS" presets & customize/tweak from there. That said, only minor adjustments to color settings (my calibration was R-100, G-94, B-93) at the default 100% brightness & 80% contrast produced a PERFECT 6500K color temp at 154.6 cd/m^2--I have never before hit exactly 6500K in a consumer monitor & the results were definitely stellar! Of all the other presets, "sRGB" came closest to ideal at 6728K with just a slight cut in red & very slight boost in green, but brightness & contrast were locked & produced a significantly dimmer image overall. The other presets seemed pretty reasonable, with color temps ranging from 6750-6900K, and almost all featuring a slight cut in reds plus slight boosts in either blues or greens...I imagine most people will hang out in one of those presets. However, "Cinema" produced a DEEP cut in reds and a HUGE boost in blues producing a rather unnatural-looking picture with a color temp of 8726K. The "MOBA" preset actually removed all blue elements from the image entirely (I'm guessing that helps/makes sense to MOBA players???). There is probably just enough here to slightly intimidate anyone with a plug-and-play mentality or who just wants to set-it-and-forget-it without investing a bunch of time ambling through menus & sub-menus to achieve ideal PQ; but I appreciated the flexibility & deep customization options.

This is a great monitor for gaming and comes out of the box with the cables and accessories you need to get up and going with most any gaming PC setup! Some adjustments to the color and brightness are needed to make this monitor really shine, but at the price it is worth it. Accessories: This monitor comes with an HDMI and Display port cable. The Power cable is not bulky, and it is easy to cable manage in the setup. Monitor and stand build quality: This is above an entry level monitor in build quality and features. Thin bezels complement this monitor. The stand is metal and feels super premium. The movement is very smooth with tilting, but you must hold the stand in place when raising the height of the monitor as it is very lightweight and the whole assembly will raise up when trying to adjust the stand height. I did end up installing this on a NB North Bayou Gas Spring monitor arm desk stand to clean up the looks and it attached with no issue, looking great! Color/brightness quality: Out of the box, the color and brightness are honestly complete garbage. The screen out of the box is very dim and the colors are greatly oversaturated, especially red. With adjustments, the brightness did get up to the advertised 250nits and the colors were able to be balanced so everything turned out generally very nice looking. The whites still have a slight yellow hue, but nothing that disrupts the gaming experience too much. Screen performance/refresh: The monitor was tested with an I9 109000 CPU and a GeForce GTX 1660 Super GPU. The response time on this monitor as advertised is excellent. The UFO test showed no screen tearing, and I am getting full 144FPS-165FPS on some AAA shooters. The addition of having both AMD Free Sync AND Nvidia G-Sync with this monitor is going to be a winner for a lot of customers! Altogether, I am happily keeping this monitor as part of my dual monitor setup. I would give it 4/5 stars as it does take some tweaking to really get the colors and brightness looking the way they should, but the gaming experience is excellent!

This is a very good 27" gaming monitor. It includes 2 HDMI ports, a display port and an audio jack for headsets. It is very responsive, I've had no blur or ghosting. There is ample adjustments to color and brightness. The ultra low blue light makes it easy on the eyes. The shadow boost really helps to see in the dark while not washing out anything else in the game. The game plus hotkey gives useful in game enhancements to help practice your skills, they include crosshairs, a timer, FPS counter and a display alignment. There are 7 preset display modes for different types of gaming and one for cinema. A hotkey on the back of the monitor can switch between them. I did need to do quite a bit of adjusting to color, contrast and brightness to get a decent picture. The control for adjustments is a thumbstick on the back of the monitor. The speakers are acceptable but not great. I don't use them as my computer has much better audio, but it nice to have the option. This monitor is VESA mountable. I'm attaching photos to show the difference shadow boost makes during both gaming and a show. Along with a couple from the back of the monitor.

Got this for around 200 dollars, and about 2 months in I will say that it has been quite good. Build quality feels great, screen size is excellent, and it runs everything smoothly. If you need something for the job, this is a good pick!

The built in speakers are great! The response rate is perfect on all my games and the display has a good color contrast to make it pop. The only feature it is missing is the ability to raise and lower the entire display. I really enjoyed that with my last monitor but settled for this one because of the great price and built in speakers. Highly recommend.

Bought this for my son and he likes the brightness and refresh rate compared to a large screen tv.

Very great monitor. While it’s resolution limit is 1080p the 144hz is a great addition to your gaming experience. 9/10z

I switched from using an all-in-one desktop to using my laptop with a monitor. I wanted a monitor that had built in speaker(s) so I wouldn't have to have separate speakers on my desk. This monitor was a good price with sound. From what I found built in sound comes at a high price. This sound isn't great but it gets the job done. Monitor is good and I'm happy with my purchase.

In my opinion the monitor has offers great graphics quality for the price, and it is also very light weight. The resolution refresh is high compare other brands and models, so I enjoyed using it. One thing I wish is for the manufacture to offer more color options.

Pros - Monitor is quality made Good for fast paced FPS games ( No Ghosting or fps lag) Good for movies and videos Good for Simple photo editing Good for all Video editing Price Cons - Not the greatest color matching for Pro Photography editing

Great monitor for its price point definitely a good monitor to start on but will be upgrading

Beautiful monitor! I use it almost everyday with my PS5 and the quality is great!

Great quality, great for ps5. Saw a big difference from old monitor.

Built in speakers are good have if you are not using head phones. I felt it it should have more sharpness in pictures or sure options are are there to improve it.