ASUS 32" 1440P Eye Care Monitor (PB328Q) - QHD (2560 x 1440), 4ms, DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, Black

I purchased this monitor after reading the glowing Tom's Hardware review that made it sound like one of the best monitors you can buy for the money. I generally agree. VA vs IPS: One of the main things that drew me to this monitor was that it was a VA panel which gives superb contrast and much better viewing angles than TN (but not as good as IPS). I use a 27" iMac at work and my roommate’s Asus PB278Q IPS/PLS screen. Compared to those IPS screens the color is not quite as vivid and bright, but still much better than any TN panel I have used. The reason I chose VA over IPS for this 32" screen is to avoid the IPS glow. I play a lot of dark video games and while using the Asus PB278Q 27" IPS screen I noticed some IPS glow around the edges. It was distracting enough that it pushed me over to VA to avoid it, ESPECIALLY on a 32" screen where the larger angles would further increase glow. On the other hand my iMac IPS work screen is perfect in the bright office lighting. So if you use your screen in brightly lit areas I would recommend an IPS screen for the vivid colors. If you are looking for fantastic contrast and want to avoid IPS glow I would pick a VA screen. Responsiveness: I use my computer primarily for gaming so screen lag is something I worry about. I have heard stories of VA panels being slow. In short, this screen is very responsive. Moving from a TN pannel I noticed no increased screen lag. Part of the reason I picked this screen over the BenQ BL3200PT is that it has lower lag (tomshardware has the BenQ at 76 for absolute input lag vs the Asus at 41). This screen also runs at 75hz over display port which is a great addition. Color and settings: Overall the colors are very good and neutral. I never realized how off the whites on my older screens were until I compared it to the neutral white of this screen. As good as they are they didn't WOW me like the IPS screens I have used, but I think the contrast tradeoff is worth it. Overall they are still much better than any TN panels which I have used. On the topic of color I want to address the settings of the monitor. I made the adjustments that Tom's Hardware recommended BUT you should turn VividPixel off. It increases the contrast around the edges of shapes but in reality it gives everything a weird boarder. I would also like to point out that my screen has NO dead pixels and the backlighting is very uniform. The monitor is also very physically attractive and the stand is ROCK SOLID and very easy to move. Once you go 2650x1440 you'll never go back. I think that is the perfect resolution for a 32". Overall for the money (I paid $575) this is hits all of the important considerations general use, movies, and gaming.

I have always favored a better picture quality over features of a monitor, 144hz is great, gsync is cool but to me never worth the price over the same product with freesync. My first monitor was an Asus pa248q. I loved it. This was my first and only ips monitor and it was a great monitor, and it's still going strong. I started to play a lot of fast paced fps games so I decided to get a 144hz monitor. I purchased an LG 24gm77. By far the best picture quality I had come across for a tn panel. How the 144hz panel feels in game is a game changer for fps. But, once I found myself playing less and watching more YouTube and movies (Blu-rays) I kept switching back to my ips. But knowing that it wasn't on par with my Panasonic 55vt60 plasma tv I started looking into reviews which let me to this monitor. The Asus PB328Q. Coming from monitors that are 24" and going to a 32"is awesome! Ultrawide has its place but I use my PC for everything along with having a blueray player hooked up also so the 16x9 aspect ratio is perfect. This monitors color accuracy is astonishing! The sharpnessof the image, the whitest whites and very deep blacks, (Not as good as my plasma) and the contrast ratio is crazy! The 75hz refresh rate is a welcome addition. Obviously it's not as smooth in games as 144hz but to get this type of color accuracy with 144hz I would have to spend upwards of $800-$1200 and I'm not willing to spend that much. Coming from 1080p to 1440p is far better than I thought it would be. The desktop icons are not to small like I thought band everything especially when surfing the web is so much sharper! This is the perfect all around monitor. Every time your in-game or watching a movie, video or photo editing you know your seeing it as it was meant to be seen and are not missing out on anything the developers or directors put I to that game or movie. You will not find a better monitor than the Asus PB328Q for $464. I don't know why picture quality like this isn't standard!

The PB328Q is a nice 32" QHD monitor, however, it's not perfect. In fact, my first display is being returned to Amazon for a replacement. In my initial sample, the factory white balance is way off. Setting the monitor to 6500K resulted in a white point closer to 7600K. When calibrating the monitor, the only way I could get the monitor down to 6500K was to set the monitor to 5500K _and_ lowering the blue gain while raising the red. Having to heavily manipulate the color like this can cause color banding, so I decided to try for a better sample. (Update: the replacement monitor is very close to perfect with the white balance setting.) Beyond the problem with my initial sample, the AMVA LED lit screen is bright with excellent contrast, but suffers from color shift when viewed from even slight angles. This is despite the (false) Asus advertising claiming "178°/178° ultra wide-viewing-angle eliminates color shift for excellent visual performance." You can still see what's on the screen, but NOT with accurate color. It's not as bad as a TN display, but still nowhere near as good as an IPS display. When viewing the 32" screen from arms length, the color shift on the far left and right side of the screen isn't very noticeable. However, when looking at any angle, the color shifts on one or other side of the screen start to become more pronounced. Anyone needing color accuracy should either avoid this monitor (and every other TN or AMVA panel,) or make sure they are always sitting directly in front of the center of the monitor at exactly 90 degrees. While this particular issue isn't a deal breaker for me, I do with Asus wouldn't outright lie in their advertising. For non-color accurate work, the monitor excels with a great combination of resolution, size and contrast. 27 inch WQHD (or 32 inch 4K) displays tend to compress text to the point of causing eye strain for people over 30 years (I'm over 40), so the approx 92 PPI displays (24" FHD and 32" QHD) are "perfect" for us middle aged folks. 32 inches allows me to view the entire screen without having to pivot my head (barely) and is less disruptive than having multiple monitors side-by-side in order to get the same screen real estate. As a suggestion to anyone purchasing this monitor, the "VividPixel" setting of the monitor can cause colored text to distort badly. The monitor defaults to a setting of "20" (or 25?) for VividPixel. You should go ahead and change it to "0" and the distortions will be gone. For casual gaming, the WQHD resolution and large display, along with excellent contrast and good colors really brings things to life. This isn't really a monitor targeted to "FPS" and other games requiring a high frame rates, but for less "speedy" games, it's wonderful. A game such as Skyrim or Witcher 3 can really show off the large display when compared to a 24" FHD display. In these "slower" games, I haven't noticed any motion blur or lagging whatsoever. Keep in mind that this WQHD monitor has 70% more pixels than a normal FHD monitor, and that can add strain to a video card. Anything less than something in the range of a GTX 1070 is going to be struggling to pump that many pixels with a very high detail. Finally, the build quality of the monitor seems good. Unlike many other companies, Asus includes 6 foot cables of each type that the monitor supports (HDMI, DVI, DP, VGA, USB3, and analog audio.) The base seems strong and supports tilting, swiveling, up/down, and you can turn the monitor to a portrait mode (though the monitor has no way to inform the OS that the monitor has turned 90 degrees, so you have to manually reconfigure Windows to operate in that mode.) The only "flaw" in the turning of the monitor 90% is that when rotating it back, there's no way to know when you've reached the "0 degrees" point, and you might end up with your monitor crooked. It's kind of silly that the monitor rotates to about a negative 10 degrees before stopping. While I've spent the majority of this review pointing out the flaws in the monitor, it should be noted that these are all the flaws I've found (so far.) Everything else is great. The white point issue is likely a single panel flaw, and all the other issues (other than the fact that it's hard to find the "0" angle rotation point) aren't so much negatives with the monitor as they are items that a person should be aware of before purchasing ANY panel that uses AMVA (or TN-based) technology.

This is an excellent and somewhat unique display, and it perfectly suits my needs, at least until OLED displays are common and affordable. My requirements for a display, in order: -- Not IPS (IPS glow reduces perceived contrast, and seems inherent to that panel type) -- Not TN (inherently poor contrast, generally less color depth, and bad off axis view) -- 2K 1440p resolution, not 4K (to avoid GPU upgrade from my 970) -- less than 100 ppi, as Windows scaling is atrocious Cons: -- 2 dead pixels (99.9999457% of pixels work) -- Some minimal ghosting in darker scenes of games and movies, but only the keen-eyed 144Hz users will notice. Contrast is king; literally the single most important factor when it comes to image quality, not just in displays but in all imaging technology. Camera lenses are valued for the contrast of the photos they produce, and I have never once wanted to see LESS range between the lightest and darkest parts of a scene. Do yourself a favor and always demand the greatest (static) contrast ratio possible. Also, if you play games, get this version of the AU Optronics 32" AMVA panel, as it is the only one that runs at 75Hz, unless the risk of a couple of dead pixels (or more and having to RMA) really are a deal breaker for you. If so, buy the BenQ and trade less pixel response and less contrast for those 2 pixels so you can claim that you have a "pixel perfect" display.

I was previously using 3 x ASUS VG278HE and replaced the middle screen with this one. I was expecting to be blown away and am not. All 3 monitors are in SRGB mode, and the colors are quite similar. This 32" screen's resolution is marginally better that the 1920 x1080 @27", but not that much crisper. I bought this screen as a "transitional" screen more out of frustration than necessity, waiting for Acer and Asus to get their act together on QC, especially on their IPS models. This screen is very uniform (as expected), and their is no light bleed (also as expected) (Since it's not an IPS or variant thereof.) I have all three screens on 125% scaling win 7, and all looks normal. I did notice the Titans in my Nvidia panel only offer 8 bit color? Not sure about 10 bit color. The color is a little better than on my TN panels, but nothing to write home about. I want to be blown away but cannot find any monitor in 2016 that has done so. I do not think 2560x1440 is enough for a 32", I think I should have stuck to 27". I will play Doom later on @75hz, and compare to 144hz, but am not expecting to get excited. On the other hand I am happy I have not bought an IPS with all the lottery attributed to these. UPDATE 10-19 I have had this monitor for a few days now. I suppose I grateful because it is very uniform all over, but the colors are simply not as rich as I would expect them to be. It's quite sad, that the only thing I love about this monitor is that it is defect free. I also own a Sony XBR tv, and am spoiled by the deep colors the TV offers. I have no clue what panels Sony use on their high end Tv's but it makes this monitor color's look anemic and pale in comparison. Again, I think Tom's review is highly overrated. I have been studying monitors religiously for the past year, trying to find something which is problem free, offers great colors, and is also a class 1 or 2 for gaming. I cannot find anything. I have researched monitors for hours and days. No other product I have owned or wanted to buy has ever warranted this time-consuming research. IMO, a house for example is easier to buy than a monitor. UPDATE 10/24/2016 I just purchased an ASUS VA32AQ to compare. This monitor (ASUS PB328Q) is much better. The ASUS VA32AQ should be avoided. Very cheap IPS panel, with terrible contrast and color. UPDATE 11/05/2015 I have had this monitor for nearly one month now, and will give it a final rating of 5 stars. Blacks are so deep, oranges look way better on this amva than on an IPS. Greens and reds look ever so slightly better on an IPS. Uniformity on this panel is great. Whites do look more white on an IPS.

It seems to be nice and quality monitor, as long as it work. Unfortunately ,sooner or later ,you may experience some troubles with panel, bad pixels or line in another color. Warranty service is a joke. You'll get a template response and if finally they understand what is a real issue you are forced to ship it for.....repairing, at your cost of course. So, for the $450.00 you get a piece of junk named ASUS. Stay away from this monitor and the company as well. Unless you love to waste your money.

I love this display! I am a Linux user, and it just worked right out of the box, no special settings required. In fact, I kept my current monitor hooked up, and it recognized both and set up dual monitor configuration. This panel is *perfect*. No defects. No dead pixels or other quality problems. Very effective packaging with double boxes and lots of foam. I hooked it up using HDMI, and it immediately synced at 60Hz without my having to adjust a thing. Since this monitor is not 4K, there were no problems scaling. Lots of screen real estate, so I bumped up the font size just a bit as I'm older, and my eyes are not as sharp as they once were. I set my settings to force fonts to 120 DPI, and it worked extremely well, and made fonts much clearer and easier to read. If you do a lot of reading as I do, it's a very good monitor for that, as it has special settings for color and brightness so that it's easy on the eyes, and it have five presets for adjusting blue light down so that it doesn't interfere with sleep. The on screen display to configure the monitor is easy to use. It comes with cables to connect HDMI, Displayport or DVI, VGA, audio and for USB passthrough. I'm a programmer, and I play strategy games and watch videos. I can turn the monitor sideways, change the orientation to portrait, and read a *ton* of text, whether it's a book or code. Movies with a lot of dark or poorly lit scenes are amazing and show a lot more detail that my old monitor, a Samsung 22BW. Contrast is greater than on any monitor I've seen. It has a "Darkroom" mode that I didn't know about, that dims the screen perfectly for night use, and it's very easy to select in the OSD. Photo editing is a dream on this thing. The large screen area means that I can load large photos and I don't have to scroll or adjust. Colors are truly amazing. I'm a photographer, and I'm thrilled with the color accuracy. Photos that have fog actually *look* like fog instead of just washed out. The design is clean and simple and effective. The stand holds the screen firmly but moving the screen takes only the lightest touch, and it's very configurable. I like being able to lift it up so that I'm not hunched over, I can sit up straight. The viewing angle is quite good, and my family can all watch a movie together from different angles without color shift. I have ordered a faster graphics card to drive this unit, as I have a Geforce GT720, and while it works better than I expected, I have noticed that there is some stuttering on some games and on very detailed movies with action scenes. It's subtle, but it's there. The new Geforce GTX 970 should fix that. I will update this review and report on the differences. The new card will have Displayport, and I want to drive this monitor at 75Hz, as it requires Displayport 1.2 (the monitor comes with version 1.1 as default) and a high end graphics card. The manual has a list of supported cards. One slight criticism is that this monitor did not come with a manual, but I did find that online on ASUS's website support link. I didn't take any points off because manuals are pretty easy to obtain online, but this would be a problem if the display didn't function properly, and while this was not a problem for me, as the setup was a breeze, if things went wrong for some reason, it would be difficult. Not much of an issue for those upgrading from an older monitor, which is going to be the case for many. Also, once manuals are printed and shipped, inevitably something requires a change to the manual, and most manuals are now found online. If you're looking for a 32 inch monitor, and you're not sure what to get, you deserve to give this monitor a look. It's awesome.

UPDATE: Oh forgot to update. I got a new panel. This time it was double packaged (in Fedex box and then within that, the ASUS box). This one was definitely new. Keep in mind I ordered straight from Amazon both times. The second panel had, you guessed it, a dead pixel. I didn't mind it too much actually. The monitor OC'd to 75hz easily and the picture quality of movies were gorgeous because of the wider color gamut/saturation and the amazing contrast ratio. Honestly I really couldn't complain about the picture from my GTX 1070 through displayport. The reason I returned for good finally was that the input lag and ghosting is really bad. Asus claims 8 ms grey to grey, but even in game mode, I measured the lag in the high 20s, the ghosting didn't help either. I couldn't play anything too competitive. Also if hooked up my PS4 or PS3, and played a game or watched a movie, it didn't scale well. The picture was fullscreen but it looked really fuzzy and "ghosty" for lack of another word. I'm not sure if it was the VA panel or the anti -glare film they attach, but the picture again, looked "ghosty". Anyway I read numerous forums and all the amazon reviews. I didn't want to wait for the panel to develop new dead pixel and then Asus throw their nonsense 5 dead pixel limit needed requirement at me. My 2 cents, hoped it helped. Original Review: I just received this monitor and the first thing I did after reading all the complaints was to check for stuck pixels. Lo and behold I found two instantly. Then it dawned on me that the whole unboxing process felt a little weird. All the cables seemed to have been in there, but there was no instruction booklet and nothing was neatly placed. To be honest, I think Asus is repacking units that were returned because they had stuck pixels and then telling the customer to shove off when they don't meet the "3-5 stuck pixel policy." I'm going to ask an RMA from Amazon. Am not sure whether I should exchange it or return it flat-out. Everything else about the monitor seems nice, mainly the 75h refresh rate and usb ports.

Después de leer las revisiones y particularmente la de Tom's Hardware quien es la verdadera autoridad en ello, me animé a comprarlo. Un excelente tamaño, colores super vivos, contraste y brillo excepcionales, **32 Pulgadas**velocidad de refresco MUY alta (75hz por DisplayPort), un casi nada perceptible ghosting (si y solo si eres un gamer profesional), cero y lo repito CERO input lag. ¿Que más se puede pedir?. Soy jugador de PC y comparando este monitor con varios de 27 pulgadas de 144hz en verdad no se queda ni un poco atrás, de hecho se ve mejor que varios de de 144Mhz en juegos como CSGO, RUST, etc.... Resolución 2k que en mi caso la alcanzo sin problemas con una GTX 1080 OC. Para uso profesional como aplicaciones de Adobe tal vez requiera un poquito de ajuste pero con la facilidad que tienes este monitor para poder hacerlo.... es ideal para eso también. Ahh venia MUY bien empacado de fabrica y NI UN SOLO pixel muerto.

Amazing monitor! I really love this thing, everything about it is just perfect for me! I seen a lot of reports of bad pixels and defects so I was a little worried but I can't find anything wrong with mine. Maybe one dim pixel in one corner but can't really notice it? I was especially worried because I bought a 'used' one for a pretty good deal from Amazon warehouse. But other than the sketchy packaging (was packed in a super-huge beat up box!) this thing looks and works perfectly. In fact I had bought this for someone else in our office but just couldn't let it go after 'testing' it at home! I'm coming from 2x24" monitors, one was an old Westinghouse VA monitor (great color but terrible ghosting and response). The other an Asus vg24qe 144hz that I used mainly for gaming. I had installed a gsync module into it and it was awesome when playing games - but the colors were very washed out. Now with this monitor I feel like I have the best of both worlds! Excellent color and contrast - even better then the old Westy. And pretty descent gaming performance, with 75hz and reasonably good input lag. While it's clearly not as smooth as the 144hz and there is some slight ghosting, the contrast, colors and huge size make up for it big time! I play BF4, Witcher 3 and Civ V mostly and these look stunning on the huge 32" screen! I also do a lot of coding and photoshop on the monitor and it's ideal for these tasks. The 2560x14440 resolution I feel is perfectly mated to the screen size, I think the fonts would be too small for me if it was 4k and it's a lot easier on my video card (gtx 980). The look of the monitor is very professional, nothing flashy just a nice clean thin bezel design with an amazingly solid stand. It also has pretty decent speakers - probably the best monitor speakers that I ever heard! Go for it!

What an absolute sleeper of a monitor. Not very popular and I'll touch upon that at the end, but if you read the Tom's Hardware review it will tell you everything you need to know. For me even though I wanted to go 4K, I couldn't get behind it yet. I settled on this monitor because of a lot of factors -It looks fantastic, has a thin bezel and can pivot, tilt, swivel, portrait, landscape,,, you name it.. -It has a great resolution of 2560x1440, It works perfect to maintain a proper aspect ratio from 1080p (I was considering ultrawide...decided not to) and still gives you a decent crisp density without having to scale like 4K. This monitor is 92PPI @ 32" which is the same a 1080P at 24" -Colors are great, even, no bleed and if you read the tomshardware review they have already calibrated it and posted the correct settings. Done -Great refresh rate @ 75Hz, low input lag and quick pixel response all mean you can game on this IMO. I'm a casual gamer, but I couldn't stand certain monitors. It'snot a gaming monitor, but it will do you just fine All in all this is probably the best monitor you can buy. It is a great size and perfect viewing distance from an arm length away. Lots of screen real estate, great for reading, productivity and coding. Fast enough response times to game and color accurate enough to know you're very close to the real thing. There is just one thing...and yes many people bring it up and it is the quality control. I bought this monitor originally from another retailer when it was on sale and it came with a dead pixel, which I promptly returned. I bought it on Amazon afterwards and the new one was flawless. If you don't mind trying to look for the perfect one you will find the diamond in the rough and you will be glad you did.

i bought a pair of these monitors just over a year ago because the monitors i was using before were giving me headaches. I bought these because of there color reproduction, eye care and clarity . They did not disappoint. these monitors are my favorite. They are fantastic work horses. PB328Q . I like them so much i will be buying a third monitor for my desk at work.

Viewing angles are horrible. Blacks are dark green and gradients on shadows are more prominent. Otherwise brighter scenes would be okay. I do not recommend for color accuracy.