Acer Announce 35" Predator Z35 with G-sync, ULMB and 200Hz refresh rate

gee, some people are just never happy are they?!? :p

Acer are limited by the available panels. there aren't any 3440 x 1440 panels which support anywhere near that refresh rate. in fact the only 35" panels available are 2560 x 1080 at the moment. for desktop use, maybe thats too limiting, but this isn't a desktop monitor. For gaming, it isn't that big a deal for many users and there are added benefits of the very high refresh rate, G-sync, ULMB offered here
 
This is a daft 'because we can' monitor to me. 200hz is totally pointless and 1080p at that size is just a step backwards for many gamers these days
 
That looks an incredible screen for competitive gamers not every one wants high resolution for games just means lower fps and besides there isn't a method of transferring enough information at 3440x1440@ 144hz let alone 200!!
 
I have serious difficulty believing that a refresh rate overclock of nearly 60Hz over what the panel was designed for won't have some very unpleasant side effects. I suspect most people will end up running it in 144Hz mode.

Think I'd rather have the BenQ for £300 less with no G-Synch, especially as they don't have a reputation for quite such epically bad quality control and customer service.
 
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there isn't a method of transferring enough information at 3440x1440@ 144hz let alone 200!!
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I'm pretty sad that AMD chose not to include DP1.3 on Fiji .. but maybe none of the controllers / scalers are anywhere near ready yet on the monitor side.

Originally the first DP1.3 monitors were meant to appear at the end of Q1 or beginning of Q2 this year.
 
Off-topic I guess, but with all of these new monitors and panels popping up, when are we getting OLED? or at least something that produces proper black? As in, you can watch it in the dark, and it's not grey/has bleed through.

I want the blacks and colour reproduction of plasma/crt back on monitors :(.
 
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Off-topic I guess, but with all of these new monitors and panels popping up, when are we getting OLED? or at least something that produces proper black? As in, you can watch it in the dark, and it's not grey/has bleed through.

I want the blacks and colour reproduction of plasma/crt back on monitors :(.
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2017 at the earliest I'd guess. As I said the other day, LG are still milking IPS in the monitor space, and for larger (than mobile/tablet) panels, high end TVs have a way bigger market and margins than monitors. AUO are nowhere near producing bigger OLED panels. Samsung won't re-enter the non-mobile OLED space until 2017, and again that'll likely be with TVs only.

VA are already pretty good for blacks.

I think VA with QD filters will be the next major improvement in entertainment / gaming monitors for PC that hits (relatively) mainstream (like 144hz is now). Philips finally launched their first one (which I assume is probably VA - all the TVs with QD filters are VA), though it seems a fairly cheap affair.
 
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Asus monitors

Seems Asus have also been touting there new monitors @ IFA2015
Looking interesting come December time :)
 
Monitor companies in providing something stupid at a stupid cost. The biggest issue is some idiots will buy it further encouraging companies to keep charging stupid costs for stupid screens.

How many people will run using g-sync at above 144hz to begin with? 1080p on a ludicrously large screen. They never learn, but neither do users who willingly buy new shiny overpriced things.

I got a new 27" 144hz freesync 1440p screen for a grand total of £270 by waiting a few months. £500 was and is obscene for such a screen when a 27" 1080p, or 27" 1440p 60hz screen is available for a reasonable amount more than 24" versions of the same screen. If people didn't accept the £500 price on that, and the manufacturers were forced to sell them at a more sensible lets say £300-320, then the next model up would be £450 instead of £700, and this screen might be $600 instead of $1100. Oh well.
 
Refresh rate is good, however for £900 I would much rather get the X34, which is going to be the closest to perfect (or the most well balanced, however you choose to view it) we can get at the moment.

100Hz, GSync, and 1440p UW sounds perfect enough to me.
 
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Refresh rate is good, however for £900 I would much rather get the X34, which is going to be the closest to perfect (or the most well balanced, however you choose to view it) we can get at the moment.

100Hz, GSync, and 1440p UW sounds perfect enough to me.
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Agreed tbh, it'd be worth giving up the extra (and possibly superfluous extra 100hz) for the extra detail/real estate :cool:

I'm just wondering IF you get the extra inch or it's just using a slightly different way of measuring it
 
I think you do get the extra inch. The BenQ variant uses a VA panel (and thus not 34" LG IPS panel Dell, Acer and LG use), and the curve on the tftcentral image looks really, really aggressive in comparison to the ones seen on the 34" models, which leads me to believe it's larger and needs the more aggressive curve.
 
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