** POTENTIALLY THE BEST GAMING MONITORS YET!! ** Acer 34" Ultra-wides

Watlinguk said:
Really sorry to be a noob peasant but is this screen an ultrawide 1440P screen or an ultrawide 4K screen please?

Really want to buy this if its the 1440P as i know one 980TI should run fine and dont want to have to buy 2!

Also does the 75hz/100hz have that smooth feel still after going from 60hz to 120hz that was an amazing smooth increase!

Regards
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Technically it's ultrawide 2K, but it's actually 4K across and 2K up if you want to look at it that way.

75hz is a very noticeable increase from 60hz, 100hz is a huge difference from 60hz. I very much doubt you'd notice going from 120 to 100hz, you might notice from 120 to 75hz but it won't be as bad as you think.

I went from 144 to 75hz and I was pleasantly surprised how smooth it was.
 
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Spec-Chum said:
Technically it's ultrawide 2K, but it's actually 4K across and 2K up if you want to look at it that way.

75hz is a very noticeable increase from 60hz, 100hz is a huge difference from 60hz. I very much doubt you'd notice going from 120 to 100hz, you might notice from 120 to 75hz but it won't be as bad as you think.

I went from 144 to 75hz and I'm was pleasantly surprised how smooth it was.
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Ahhh brilliant, i just remember that feeling going from 60hz to 120hz and i was giggling all day haha! Was an epic increase
 
Ok so what stupid obvious mistake am I making, I can't seem to get the monitor speakers working. I can see Acer X34 in the sound control panel I can click test and see the green bars light up but no sound coming out the monitor. Have plugged in to the back of my SB Z soundcard next to the headphones but nothing, also tired on broad but no good either.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Ok so what stupid obvious mistake am I making, I can't seem to get the monitor speakers working. I can see Acer X34 in the sound control panel I can click test and see the green bars light up but no sound coming out the monitor. Have plugged in to the back of my SB Z soundcard next to the headphones but nothing, also tired on broad but no good either.
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The sound will come through the displayport cable buddy, not a line out/headphone jack.

Make sure the the acer is the default sound source in Windows.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
SuperSharpness"

can't be the Freesync monitor only surely?
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Freesync supports more than g-sync. I saw a list on one of the monitor review sites a while back - can't remember which one though :( It's probably how g-sync can reach 100Hz on these things - doesn't have to worry about other signals getting in the way or having to even bother monitoring them!

Nox
 
IMO this monitor needs a sharpening filter. I manually add sharpening through Sweetfx as is, but there's a very, very noticeable drop in image quality without it.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Ok so what stupid obvious mistake am I making, I can't seem to get the monitor speakers working. I can see Acer X34 in the sound control panel I can click test and see the green bars light up but no sound coming out the monitor. Have plugged in to the back of my SB Z soundcard next to the headphones but nothing, also tired on broad but no good either.
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Well the sound should go via the HDMI/DP connectors by default so disconnect any other external sound cables and also check the volume in the monitor menu.
 
I have similar issues to most other X34 G-Sync owners, with a single dead/stuck pixel too right in the middle of the screen. It's small though and only noticable on black or very dark grey backgrounds.

I have another problem though and haven't been able to find anyone else who has reported the same issue.

The issue is when I use an external device via HDMI, such as PS4 or Sky box.

When I select 1:1 as the wide mode in the OSD, the image appears as expected (black bars at either side and on the top and bottom). In this case it also maintains the 16:9 aspect ratio as expected.

However, when I change 1:1 to Aspect, the image fills the screen vertically as expected, but looses it's 16:9 aspect ratio. It still displays black bars on either side as it should, however the picture is stretched slightly, so instead of it being 16:9, it looks more like 17:9 or 18:9, like this option in the OSD hasn't been calibrated properly by Acer or something.

Is anyone else having this issue? My previous monitor was the dell u3415w and this uses the same LG panel and doing this it would interpolate the image to fill the screen vertically, but still maintain a 16:9 ratio.

Please can someone else test this on their monitor and see if they have the same issue of slight stretching of a 1080p 16:9 picture from an external device like a console when switching wide mode from 1:1 to Aspect in the OSD? As I haven't heard this problem raised by anyone else I am thinking it may just be my monitor that has this issue.
 
Razor Time said:
Sewerprat - how are you finding the acer compared to the Dell?
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The X34 had a lot less blb or glow in the corners than the Dell did. It was horrendous on the Dell, but that might have been one of a few bad ones rather than a general issue.

The X34 is better calibrated out of the box in my opinion despite the Dell have a piece of paper in the box showing that the screen had been calibrated after assembly and signed off by someone.

One thing about the Dell that I much prefered was the stand. The stand was much smaller and because the base was flat, it could overhang the back of the desk to create more space. That isn't an option with the X34 and it's stand takes up a lot of space (at least 30cm depth, maybe more?). The X34 can be mounted though so you wouldn't be obliged to use the existing stand.

Obviously being overclockable to 100fps and having G-Sync are the two things that really sets the two monitors apart, and in my opinion those two things are worth the premium over the Dell
 
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