** 4K & G-SYNC FOR LESS THAN £500!! **

Hi there

The guys getting these, please confirm if you got a UK plug? I just interested if Acer did as promised and put UK plug in box?

Also next shipment is due to us late next week which will cover all backorders and leave us spare stock.
 
Mine will be here in the next hour so will let you know about the plug and once set up and fiddled about with I'll let you know if it is any cop.
 
Delivered and all plugged in an up and running.

In the box DP cable, USB cable, UK and EU power cables. The power cable is a straight up kettle lead, there are no external power supply boxes or regulators and the cable is plenty long enough. The DP cable is a little short for my setup but should be ok for most. I have a music studio workstation desk and the monitor sits up on the top shelf with the PC down the bottom so it's a little further to stretch. Manual, warranty booklet etc.

Packaging is good with nice graphics on the outer box and polystyrene encasing everything inside with poly bags and one of the soft foamy anti-static type covers over the monitor itself. A convenient plastic carry handle pokes out of the top. Weight I guess is around 10KG.



Height tilt and swivel adjustment:

Height is a simple and smooth slide up and down.

Tilt is a bit disappointing for me personally as it does not tilt forward at all (maybe the tiniest fraction) so having my monitor mounted on a higher shelf than most is not ideal but it is liveable. Rearward tilt is pretty immense but to go to the max it has to be set at the highest vertical height first.

Swivel is an odd one as it technically doesn't swivel i.e. you just turn the entire unit including the pedestal rather than the pedestal remaining still.

Rotation- it offers landscape and the full 90 degree portrait.



Screen/resolution:

Native is TINY but pin sharp, far too small for comfortable use at 2 feet. I have to scale to 150% to get it to where it feels acceptable for the desktop for everyday use. At native res, zooming to 150%-200% in the web browser is a must too. Scaled using windows does mean a little bit of blur and obvious loss of clarity to a degree but I wouldn't say it is absolutely terrible. Native res with the web browser even scaled to 200% most things are still crisp enough not to care. For example on this page the post reply button text is a little blurred and maybe the photos in Gibbo's signature ever so slightly but nothing to worry me.

The panel is excellent with no bleed whatsoever and no dead, stuck or dying pixels as far as I can see at the moment. I'll be doing a few more extensive checks for pixels issues just to make sure.

Gamma, Brightness and contrast took a bit of setting right but now that I got it it is excellent. Colour reproduction is nice and natural. It isn't the brightest of panels compared with IPS but I would say it is easy on the eye and comfortable. It doesn't have that shop mode garish oversaturated in yer face, burn the back of your retinas out look when calibrated. It is capable of going much brighter for those who want it.

Viewing angles are very good but some obvious yellowing occurs when moving my head to the left and right and top and bottom of the screen. Everything is still readable even at extreme angles.



My settings at the moment:

Acer eColour Management: User (other option are Eco, standard, graphics and movie with graphics being the brightest, movie more dull but warm, eco very dim and standard fairly bright but cool)

Brightness 34

Contrast 46

Gamma is set to gaming as this offered the best setting when using the windows calibration. The other settings (2.5, 2.2 and 1.9) I couldn't quite get it right in windows calibration slider.

Colour temp is on warm.

Overdrive mode OD is on normal but I'll wait until I get some 4k gaming going on to see how well that works.

It's likely I'll tweak it slightly and recalibrate using a meter over the coming days but even for the first quick settings it's looking really pleasing on the eyes right now.

I'll get on some games in a bit and see what they look like and how they play.




My specs for those wondering how 4k might run:

Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate
ASUS Rampage X79 Extreme Black Edition with i7 4930K and water cooled custom loop. Not overclocked right now.
2 x Inno3D Geforce GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra 6144MB SLI
Kingston HyperX Beast 32GB (4x8GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz
EVGA Supernova 1000W Gold PSU
256GB Crucial MX550 SSD
2 x 1TB Western Digital Black SATA6 Gb/s 7200rpm



Anyone questions I haven't answered, ask away and I'll answer if I can.

First impressions, for sub £500 for a 4K 2K monitor it is very, very good even before getting into the gaming and G-sync side of things where it should really shine.

Back in a bit with more on the gaming...
 
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Hi there

Well I am sticking to 3440x1440 for my work, I've tried a few of the 4k 28" and for me the text is too small, I cannot see it and making the text larger to me kind of defeats the point.

But it is gaming and films where 4k truly shines on a 28", the image quality is breathtaking and I can see the need for it when gaming, so with the G-Sync added in I can see this Acer 4k G-Sync being the best solution for gamers as the G-Sync will remove some of the necessity for requiring immense graphics power.
 
Acer have kept far to many people waiting for this, most have gone for the Iiyama or Asus now. Nice monitor though and probably worth the wait for those who haven't gone for those that waited.
 
Very welcome nails666!

OK I just spent a while checking out a few Bluray movies including The Dark Knight and Alien. Absolutely beautiful, sublime detail and colour, shadow detailing is gorgeous and it is smooth with no motion blur at all. The only thing I had to do was tweak brightness and contrast a little to get blacks to be black without losing the shadow detail. While the calibration through windoze and the monitor menu had it looking good for desktop and web I noticed right away in the movies that the black bands were aglow and blacks weren't black but dark grey. A few tweaks and adjustments and everything looked much better. If I go back to the windoze calibration I am sure the gamma, brightness and contrast will be off according to the test images but if it looks right to my eyes rather than some Microsoft test images then I would rather trust my eyes.

Gaming I played Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed Black Flag both on Ultra, everything maxed out and both played flawlessly in glorious 4K. Games have never looked better. There was no lag, no framerate issues, no tearing just ultra smooth beautiful detail. Setting the monitor to extreme mode on the overdrive settings didn't seem to make any difference to my eye but then maybe it only does something when framerates drop? The manual doesn't give any info at all on G-Sync or the OD settings.

Desktop scaling isn't an issue I am concerned about as it still looks absolutely fine when scaled or I can set the res to 1920 x 1080 but either way I'm OK with that.

Overall I am extremely pleased with the monitor so now it comes down to if it lasts or has any issues within or outside the warranty and how OCUK and Acer treat customers if they do have any problems. It seems like a solidly built monitor so hopefully there will be nothing to be concerned about, only time will tell.

I've put a wedge of foam under the back of the pedestal to give me the forward angle I need for my setup. The only other thing missing that would have been nice would have been a colour control, full white balance controls and a backlight control.
 
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If you have BF4 easy way to see how good or not the overdrive is, load up the firing range map, head to the ground floor of the building in the middle and spin around looking at the paper debris on the floor, if its good they should retain reasonable clarity in motion with minimal if any inversion trails, if its bad they'll look like there is a shadow copy of them trailing the motion.

You can also strafe back and forth looking at the stairs upto the next floor, if overdrive is bad or too extreme you'll see a noticeable inverted copy of the half height side wall.

(My AOC 4K panel falls down so badly on this it isn't funny hence provoking me into biting the bullet and buying a swift for any real gaming).
 
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Unfortunately I don't have the PC version of BF4. I got it on PS4 before I bought the new gaming rig but I may well grab a copy and replay it in 4K now that I have the option.
 
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