Asus is chasing the Elgato with its secondary touchscreen

Asus’s latest gaming monitor is a little smaller than usual. Rog Strix XG129C, Announced on Fridaya 12.3-inch IPS touchscreen, designed to act as an adjunct to a larger main screen, similar to the 14.1-inch secondary screen in 2020. Asus Rog Zephyrus Duo 15. It is a slightly smaller competitor to Xenon rim from Corsairwhich has a 14.5-inch screen, but with the same 720p resolution.

Asus says the XG129C covers 125 percent of the sRGB color gamut and 90 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut. It also comes with a one-year subscription to the device monitoring tool AIDA64 Extremewhich usually costs $65. Besides serving as a performance monitor for your computer, side displays like this can also be useful as an extension to your streaming or editing setup, just like Elgato’s Stream Deck.

Alongside the small XG129C, Asus also announced the ROG Strix OLED XG34WCDMS, a 34-inch RGB Tandem QD-OLED gaming monitor. It features a 280Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 3440 x 1440 pixels, and according to Asus, it covers 99 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut. Asus has not officially announced pricing for either monitor.