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

JamesMay said:
Linus praises every single product he "reviews". Linus doesnt buy his own products thus he HAS to be positive in order to keep recieving them.
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I kind of got that impression. That bald dude genuinely seems to give an honest opinion and he did not rate it at all. I was honestly going to plow a grand on this monitor at the end of the month but i may even invest into another 1440P monitor to tie me over until alternatives/cheaper models become available
 
Watlinguk said:
I kind of got that impression. That bald dude genuinely seems to give an honest opinion and he did not rate it at all. I was honestly going to plow a grand on this monitor at the end of the month but i may even invest into another 1440P monitor to tie me over until alternatives/cheaper models become available
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My impression was he liked the monitor itself but he didn't get on with the 21:9 ratio.
My suggestion would be to go for it tbh :)
 
Had mine now for nearly 24hours and loving it, granted you have to work a little to get 21:9 to work in some games but when you do there is defiantly no going back! Even the Mrs was taken aback when she sat down to use it today, thought I was going to get a little grief from her tbh so Result :D

Tested Fallout4,BF4,FarCry4,Batman AK,Risen 3,Witcher 3 and Dying Light the immersion you get from the extra screen width is amazing, add in Gsync and 100Hz and for me its worth every penny :)
 
This was what tipped me in the end, my eyes had adjusted to 40/50fps @ 60hz using 4k, when I booted up the X34 there was colours I'd never seen before, could never go back to a TN panel it felt washed out almost black and white, refresh rate at 100hz felt over double the speed of 60hz honestly didn't think I'd tell then the fps shot up to 70/80fps, the extra smooth frames and colour matched the sharpness of 4k and the UW tipped me over the edge, 4k is dead to me as well.
 
To put things into perspective, gsync does work really well in correlating refresh rate with the on screen frame rate for smoothing your gameplay experience, but generally speaking, monitor progression primarily relies on increasing resolution, providing greater colour depth and a higher refresh rate. Its debatable whether there is a peak of a refresh rate past which it doesn't become noticeable, but I wouldn't know.

Now the two components that allow this to happen is allowing more bandwidth in the IO, as well as more gpu horsepower to push content to fill those pixels. For example, with the bandwidth of displayport 1.2 (17.28gbit/s) we have monitors either:

Maxed @ 3860 x 2160 TN and 60Hz refresh with gsync
Middled @ 3440 x 1440 IPS, sacrificing pixels but pushing the refresh rate to 100hz gsync, albeit in a more favoured 21:9 ratio
Basic @ 2560 x 1440 IPS with the pixel reduction allowing upto 165Hz refresh as seen with the acer 279q

With the Next standard of display port 1.3, finalised over a year ago to
provide 32.4gbit/s of data, I expect to see a similar three categorised trend with

Max 7860 x 4320 (TN?)@ 60Hz refresh with gsync
Middled 5120 x 2160 IPS (ultrawide) or 2880 (normal 16:9) @ 100Hz gsync
Basic 3840 x 2160 4k IPS @ 144hz or greater with gsync obviously.

Though with current Maxwell GPU hardware resulting in inevitable 980/Ti/Titan SLI configurations to run the middle and max panels of displayport 1.2 and still struggling to push the game fps to the refresh rate limit of the panel, I would expect upcoming Pascal to easily reach those limits and provide respectable frames over the basic and possibly mid spec of displayport 1.3.

What do you guys speculate? Thanks for reading
 
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I'm really considering this monitor over the ROG ips gsync , a few questions though .

I have the 40in philips 4K screen that i do like but it just seems way to big when gaming online with FPS (cod) (bf4) and i seem to die more cus of the screen size and maybe also the imput lag . Im itching for a Gsync , now im near to the end of building my project with 2 x 980ti sc under water . will i beneifit with the gsync and 100hz and the 21.9 wide seeing more around me rather than having the 4k philips 16.9 ?

I will sell the philips if i go for this to fund most of the cost of this Acer . to many problems with the new ROG IPS .

oh and im about 3ft away .
 
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Biggest improvement for fps gaming is the refresh rate. 4k is nice but the stutter and input lag of 60fps really let's any screen down even with g-sync.

I'd get the swift or Acer predator with 100hz. 60-100 is a big improvement 100-144 is some improvement but 60-100 is more noticeable.

You will really notice what I'm talking about when you try a 100 or 120/144hz screen, really makes a difference for fps games. I cannot play 60fps shooters, just horrid. You will feel the same way after a short while with high refresh rate.

I get way more kills with my 144hz screen than my 4k, it is far more enjoyable. 1440 is still very nice and won't give you any problems with spotting people etc.

1440-4k is really not a huge resolution change, I find it hard to notice other than jaggies.
 
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Metalface Mark said:
Ive got from a 144hz gysnc to this and to be honest i cant tell any different, both look smooth as silk. I only use one 980ti although im considering a second.
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I can tell a difference from 100-120 but its not massive. Mainly on fps games it feels slightly less smooth.

love the monitor but unless it was a solid 100hz it would annoy me. 80fps is about my limit before it becomes unplayable. Now make the thing 34" 2560x1440 144hz with no curve and id buy it.
 
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wunkley said:
Best quote from the video by a mile, and the best summary of this monitor ever....

"If you're going to blow thirteen hundred bucks on a monitor, the ****** better be perfect".

And it's clearly not perfect is it.
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Is there such a thing as a perfect monitor though?
 
'Perfect' : make (something) completely free from faults or defects; make as good as possible.

Don't see why people have such a hang up about the word perfect. Or seem to think that monitors should get some special dispensation. If we stopped buying the fAulty turds, the lazy manufacturers might sit up and take note.
 
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