I’ve been itching to test ASUS’s new flagship 27-inch 1440p OLED because it has a mode that can run at 720Hz. That number still doesn’t sound real, but after spending a bunch of time with it, I’ve got a lot of thoughts. Before we even get into refresh rate, the coating on this thing is wild: it’s the clearest, most anti-glare finish I’ve ever seen. You can blast the panel with brutal ambient light and the black levels basically don’t move—almost zero glare, and it kind of looks fake. It’s also my first tandem OLED review, and the brightness jump is actually meaningful (over 330 nits), not the usual tiny bump. In the main 1440p 540Hz mode, it’s just ridiculous—smoothness, motion clarity, responsiveness, and overall image quality are on another level, especially if you’re coming from 240Hz (and especially non-OLED). The 720Hz mode is the real curiosity, but it drops all the way to 720p. Yes, the pixel scaling is technically perfect, but in real games it looks rough: textures, model detail, and even perceived render distance just fall apart, and long-range fights start feeling like you’re playing Tetris. In Valorant, 720Hz is genuinely mental if you can hit 720 FPS, but I kept coming back to 1440p 540Hz because it feels like ~85–90% of the smoothness with way better clarity—honestly the mode you’re buying this monitor for.