Stunning 240Hz 32-inch 4K OLED monitor is star of Asus's Gamescom product splurge

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Asus has unleashed a splurge of premium new kit at the Gamescom show in Germany. The highlight has to be the Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM gaming monitor, a 4K 32-inch OLED beauty. Asus also announced 34-inch and 49-inch OLED panels, plus motherboards, Wi-Fi routers and plenty more.

Asus reckons this is the world's first monitor of its type and intriguingly the PG32UCDM uses Samsung QD-OLED panel technology rather than the LG WOLED alternative. Thus far, Asus has been in camp LG for its OLED gaming monitors.

Specs wise, Asus is claiming 1,000 nits peak brightness in a 3% window, with 250 nits full screen sustained brightness. That's very much in line with existing QD-OLED monitors, such as the Alienware 34 AW3423DWF, so it's good to see the tighter pixel density of 4K on a 32-inch panel hasn't nerfed the brightness.

For refresh you get 240Hz and Asus quotes response at what is quickly becoming the customarily fast 0.03ms time claimed by many OLED gaming monitors. Throw in USB-C with 90W power delivery, DP 1.4 and HDMI, plus a KVM switch and you have one heck of a package.

Asus is also claiming exceptional cooling thanks to a custom heatsink plus a novel graphene pad that covers the entire rear of the QD-OLED panel. It's good enough that the monitor doesn't need a fan. 

Another interesting feature is Uniform Brightness. It's an OSD setting that ensures that the panel's brightness doesn't jump around, for instance as you resize a bright coloured window on the desktop. It's something many OLED monitors suffer from and can be very distracting.

The only problem is that achieving uniform brightness inevitably limits overall brightness. It's a feature likely aimed at day-to-day computing rather than gaming and HDR video. But it