*CRISP* 720p on 1440p monitor? (ROG SWIFT)

[DICKTracy]

Hello! This is my first post on the forums so please be gentle!

I'll try keep it short,

Essentially I'm planning to get the ASUS ROG SWIFT when it comes out (unless someone else comes out with something better around the same time, but I don't see that happening). I was thinking about trying to game at 720p on it because of the perfect 1:4 pixel mapping. However, I managed to to get a hold of a 1440p monitor and try running CS:GO at 720p on it, but it didn't look nearly as crisp as I thought it would look, in fact it seemed noticeably blurry. I figured that the resolution wasn't getting scaled as I thought it would by the monitor (apple 27 inch in work).

I was wondering if there has been any word as to whether the SWIFT will have any such feature quite common for gamers to do this in online gaming, and the fact that the SWIFT is geared at gamers (ROG)...

Or does anyone know of any monitors that currently perform this perfect 1:4 scaling?

[boniek]

+1 wondering the same

[Haste]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

This is an excellent question.
We don't know yet the answer.

I would advise to post your question in the following thread: http://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=387
That thread is monitored by an Asus representative and is your best chance to get an answer.

[TheRulesLawyer]

I really hope them manage it on the QHD and especially the XHD monitors. They should also be able to enable higher refresh rates with the bandwidth issues that XHD has.

[DICKTracy]

They should also be able to enable higher refresh rates with the bandwidth issues that XHD has.

Yeah this would be awesome but I think the bottleneck here would be getting panels that can react fast enough to make use of the bandwidth.

[DICKTracy]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

This is an excellent question.
We don't know yet the answer.

I would advise to post your question in the following thread: http://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=387
That thread is monitored by an Asus representative and is your best chance to get an answer.

Cool, I'll copy it to that thread now

[TheRulesLawyer]

They should also be able to enable higher refresh rates with the bandwidth issues that XHD has.

Yeah this would be awesome but I think the bottleneck here would be getting panels that can react fast enough to make use of the bandwidth.

From what I've read elsewhere the panels themselves are faster than 60hz. However the input side of things is a big issue. People wanting 1080p @ 120hz on a 4k panel is probably a very small market. Sounds like one of those things where you may be able to overclock. For instance, the samsung 4k panel on the front page right now is said to be a 1ms panel. Even allowing for marketing lies, that's a fairly fast panel.

[boniek]

They should also be able to enable higher refresh rates with the bandwidth issues that XHD has.

Yeah this would be awesome but I think the bottleneck here would be getting panels that can react fast enough to make use of the bandwidth.

From what I've read elsewhere the panels themselves are faster than 60hz. However the input side of things is a big issue. People wanting 1080p @ 120hz on a 4k panel is probably a very small market. Sounds like one of those things where you may be able to overclock. For instance, the samsung 4k panel on the front page right now is said to be a 1ms panel. Even allowing for marketing lies, that's a fairly fast panel.

I thought pixel repsponse time has nothing to do with it's overclockability. Korean PLS monitors have a lot more than 1ms and they overclock. More estabilished brands with PLS panels rarely overclock if at all.