ASUS ROG Swift PG278Q is a gaming monitor made by ASUS and it is the first WQHD monitor with 144Hz. refresh rate, 1ms. GTG response time and Nvidia G-Sync. It is specially made for gamers.

 The monitor has a resolution of 2560x1440 or 1440p. The monitor measures at 27 inches. It has a Twisted Nematic (TN) panel with excellent color reproduction and color depth nearly same as an IPS display. It has 16.7 million real 8-bit colors. It features flicker free and trace free technology. It has 5-way OSD Navigation. The stand is stylish and also has a red LED at the bottom. The stand also has tilt, swivel , 90 degree pivot, height adjustment and VESA wall mount. The monitor has a super narrow bezel which allows more screen real estate without having a huge monitor. The slim bezel also helps a lot in multi-monitor setups. The monitor's ultra fast 144Hz. refresh rate results in buttery smooth gameplay without any stutter what so ever while moving the screen around in games and overall makes the game more responsive.

The monitor's 1ms. GTG response time terminates motion blur. The display is gorgeous to look at and the color is accurate and image quality is crisp. The monitor has an ergonomic feel to it and the stand is also very ergonomic. 

The monitor also has advanced connectivity with smart cable management. Nvidia G-sync technology terminates screen tearing without any frame decrease if you have a G-sync compatible GeForce GPU. It also has Ultra Low Motion Blur (ULMB) and Nvidia 3D vision technology. The ROG Swift PG278Q is a flagship monitor from ASUS so it also costs quite a lot. But it's worth every penny. The features that the monitor comes packed with makes this one of the best gaming monitors available yet.

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The Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 is based on Nvidia's maxwell architecture. The biggest impovement of the Maxwell architecture from it's predecessor the Kepler architecture is power saving. The GTX 960 is the successor to last year's GTX 760 which was a Kepler based GPU.

The GTX 960 requires a 400W. recommended power supply and a single 6 pin power connector is required to power the card. The card has a maximum TDP of 120W. It comes with many Nvidia exclusive features like Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) , MFAA ,VXGI and Nvidia G-Sync. 

Dynamic Super Resolution allows you to play on a higher resolution even on a 1080p. monitor. As a result you can get upto 4k quality images on a 1080p. monitor. MFAA or Multi Frame Anti Aliasing gives you better anti aliasing like MSAA without sacrificing frame rates. MFAA gives you a 30% boost on performance compared to MSAA with nearly the same graphics. G-Sync allows you to get rid of screen tearing without any noticable frame decrease. G-Sync also requires your monitor to be G-Sync compatible. The GPU then transfers the produced number of frames to the monitor for it to display thus eliminating screen tearing.

GTX 660 vs GTX 960 Benchmark

 The Nvidia GTX 960 has 1024 CUDA cores. The reference model of the card has a base GPU clock speed of 1127 and a boost clock of 1178. It has a texture fill rate of 72 GigaTexels/s. It has a 2GB GDDR5 memory and 7.0 Gbps memory clock. It has a 128-bit memory interface and a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s. It also features GPU Boost 2.0 which automatically increases the clock speed while running cool. It has support for Microsoft DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4. The card supports upto 2-way SLI. The card launched at a $200 price point. Various non-reference versions of the card have also been released. The card was released on 22 January, 2015.

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