why no talk about the Acer XF270HU?

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why no talk about the Acer XF270HU?

It seems to be the sort of step up in specification a lot of us been waiting for...

27" 2560x1440
IPS panel
144Hz
Freesync (40-144Hz range)

(dull design though, although this is subjective and hardly a deal breaker)
 
Cos the Asus MG279Q is pretty much the same thing but slightly more features. Both have had terrible quality control issues. I know cos I was looking at buying this monitor but bought the Asus instead. I had to RMA the first one due to very bad backlight bleed. This one has been working well thus far.
 
Thank you, don't know how I missed those threads.

Oh no though, this was about to be my number one Black Friday target.
 
I had one of these a few months ago but was bitterly disappointed.

It's build quality is poor for a £400 monitor. It wobbles and doesn't feel strong at all. It's riddled with firmware bugs (e.g the blue RGB value not updating when you change it despite it actually making a change, cannot change overdrive settings in Freesync mode, brightness resets when changing certain settings etc). Also had a bright piercing blue light right on the front of the monitor which drove me over the edge. The new revision might fix some of these issues though.

I also doubt it has a good overdrive implementation on this monitor. When I compared it to the Asus MG279Q side by side I noticed the Acer had noticeably more blurring in Testufo and games. Not a great deal more, but it was noticeable and games (mostly fast paced shooters) just didn't feel as pleasant as they did on the Asus.

It's hard to overlook issues like build quality after spending £400 on a monitor. Apart from the Freesync range the Asus MG279Q is the better monitor IMO.
 
Smoogels said:
I had one of these a few months ago but was bitterly disappointed.

It's build quality is poor for a £400 monitor. It wobbles and doesn't feel strong at all. It's riddled with firmware bugs (e.g the blue RGB value not updating when you change it despite it actually making a change, cannot change overdrive settings in Freesync mode, brightness resets when changing certain settings etc). Also had a bright piercing blue light right on the front of the monitor which drove me over the edge. The new revision might fix some of these issues though.

I also doubt it has a good overdrive implementation on this monitor. When I compared it to the Asus MG279Q side by side I noticed the Acer had noticeably more blurring in Testufo and games. Not a great deal more, but it was noticeable and games (mostly fast paced shooters) just didn't feel as pleasant as they did on the Asus.

It's hard to overlook issues like build quality after spending £400 on a monitor. Apart from the Freesync range the Asus MG279Q is the better monitor IMO.
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This. I was close to buying it for £500+ on release, glad I stayed away. Went with the Asus MG279Q which had bad backlight bleed on one corner, not to mention it turned out to be poop vs my Dell P2715Q so sent it back. Had my Dell P2715Q for two years now and was thinking to give Freesync and 144Hz a go, but could not live with the drop of IQ.
 
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