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

Hey guys, I take it the up coming Asus version will use the same panel? Really fancy one of these monitors but can't decide whether the quality is good or bad. There seem to be a lot of mixed opinions. Very much on the fence.
 
Don't have any pics but I can tell you it looks ******* epic, I'd imagine it could give it a bit of an edge having the extra FOV.

The 34" ultra wide fills your field of vision left to right sitting 60/80cm back from the screen really really nice.

Doesn't seem to be any problems reported from this latest batch so far.
 
Are they actually two different batches? Mine arrived Oct 24th/25th I think, I can't imagine that these are all that different already?
 
colinmcr said:
Hey guys, I take it the up coming Asus version will use the same panel? Really fancy one of these monitors but can't decide whether the quality is good or bad. There seem to be a lot of mixed opinions. Very much on the fence.
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Much like the Acer and Asus 27" you will see similar issues on the Asus 34" as this. I guess with the extra time Asus should not have the blue banding and sleep issues you would hope but Acer have been dealing with these problems.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Don't have any pics but I can tell you it looks ******* epic, I'd imagine it could give it a bit of an edge having the extra FOV.

The 34" ultra wide fills your field of vision left to right sitting 60/80cm back from the screen really really nice.

Doesn't seem to be any problems reported from this latest batch so far.
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Awesome :D

Probably harder for you to say after shelling out the pennies but was it worth £1000 to you?

I really want one and know i wont need another monitor for a LONG time if i get it. Just hoping the one 980TI will run the games i play above 60fps (witcher, gta, bf4 etc)
 
Tbh probably not no, I'd say it's worth around the £700 area, but that's the price for owning arguably the best gaming monitor at this time. (Linus)

As for your Ti, should do a lovely job of UWQHD, I'm currently running a heavy O/C on a TX and I've not seen a drop to 60fps in any AAA game yet, BF4 bumps along at 90/100fps (capped) and FO4 70/80FPS (AA Applied in both), G sync makes everything over 40FPS feel like 100 anyway so no need to worry with your setup with a mild O/C you'll only be a handful of frames behind my GPU.

Edit: You have SLi? Don't even need to ask then when both cards are working :-)
 
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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.
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OK so I've tried this again after defaulting the display to 60Hz and tried using a different HDMI cable, this one being 2.0. Both of these shouldn't make a difference and neither have.

Anyone experiencing something similar or have any ideas?
 
The problem with the G-Sync module is it has very limited scaler functions. Under the nVidia control panel I can't select the monitor scaler at all where with my other DP connected monitor I can select either the GPU or monitor to do the scaling.

I suspected it may turn out to be a "feature" of the X34 G-Sync module.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Tbh probably not no, I'd say it's worth around the £700 area, but that's the price for owning arguably the best gaming monitor at this time. (Linus)

As for your Ti, should do a lovely job of UWQHD, I'm currently running a heavy O/C on a TX and I've not seen a drop to 60fps in any AAA game yet, BF4 bumps along at 90/100fps (capped) and FO4 70/80FPS (AA Applied in both), G sync makes everything over 40FPS feel like 100 anyway so no need to worry with your setup with a mild O/C you'll only be a handful of frames behind my GPU.

Edit: You have SLi? Don't even need to ask then when both cards are working :-)
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Awesome stuff, may hang fire until it reduces a bit :D

I don't im afraid, i need to change my sig haha. I've just got a Gigabyte G1 on the MM so hoping this will power me through :D
 
For the previous request for a game picture on the X34


How about a screen shot as I took one this morning playing FO4 - Workshop

 
Watlinguk said:
Awesome stuff, may hang fire until it reduces a bit :D

I don't im afraid, i need to change my sig haha. I've just got a Gigabyte G1 on the MM so hoping this will power me through :D
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Watlinguk said:
Mann that does look exceptional, im stupidly jealous and considering a mahussive overdraft spend :D
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Yeah will be fine on a Ti, plenty of Vram as well.

Do it you know you want too, it's only money worry about it later :-)

Little note OcUK only had 22 monitors left last Friday morning and I had one of them, they won't be on there much longer. Next batch will probably be another 3 weeks.
 
sewerprat said:
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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Thanks for the reply, Interesting about the bleed/glow on the Dell as this is why I sent my one back.

I'm still on the fence as what to do next but the X34/XR34 are looking more favourable each day and the Dell U3415W less so. The only thing which is stopping me jumping in on the X34 is the price which IMO is a bit too high, XR34 is probably my limit for what I would consider for a monitor.
 
Razor Time said:
Thanks for the reply, Interesting about the bleed/glow on the Dell as this is why I sent my one back.

I'm still on the fence as what to do next but the X34/XR34 are looking more favourable each day and the Dell U3415W less so. The only thing which is stopping me jumping in on the X34 is the price which IMO is a bit too high, XR34 is probably my limit for what I would consider for a monitor.
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same here, its the reason i went with the xr34 and the change went towards a fury, no regrets so far its a cracking monitor
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Yeah will be fine on a Ti, plenty of Vram as well.

Do it you know you want too, it's only money worry about it later :-)

Little note OcUK only had 22 monitors left last Friday morning and I had one of them, they won't be on there much longer. Next batch will probably be another 3 weeks.
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haha i really want to, im not sure how i would sneak a 34" monitor into the house without the wife questioning it but i can deal with that on the day haha
 
nox_uk said:
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
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Makes me even more pleased I have the Freesync then, besides the price gouging on Gsync :)
 
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