Acer XB270HU - Worlds First IPS, 1440p, 144hz, Gsync

Unlucky guys :(

I know the feeling, hook it up during the day and think all is good but come night and you see the dreaded bleed :mad:

Don't "put up with it", RMA it and if ocuk or whoever you bought it from think it is "within acceptable levels" then simply return it under ccr, you got 14 days.
 
So then - Sorry to be a negative nancy - but it looks like everyone on here that got one has dead pixels AND backlight bleed. This is just utterly, utterly ****. How can they charge so much for faulty inferior products?! It really is baffling.

A very sorry turn of events. Was half tempted by the soon to release Acer 34 inch superwide curved with gsync, but that's revealed as only 75hz now, and it's an Acer. No ta.
 
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Really feeling properly disappointed by this, as the monitor is pretty much perfect in every other way; even the design and glossy black casing isn't that bad! I'd keep it even with small amounts of black light bleed, but this has huge areas of bleed, way too much.

So what do you guys suggest in terms of returning the item. Should I go straight with DSR or is it best to RMA it as faulty with overclockers? What happens if they receive the monitor and find it not to be faulty? Can I just change it to a return under DSR?
 
Nexus18 said:
Gibbo, what do you think of my 29um65? This is at 0% brightness

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It was fine when I got it back in July but for some reason over the last week it has got worse particularly the bottom left corner.
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To me that looks absolutely fine especially as cameras always make them look worse than they are. Your at the good end, but very hard to judge from photos but we've seen ones where blacks literally look green/yellow and we take them back as faulty and then push manufacturer to replace.
 
Ive got bleed at the bottom corners but no different to my dells tbh. Going to give it a go over the next few days, loving gsync! didnt realise you had to set games to full screen haha!
 
Thought I'd give my impression of this monitor. I've had some pretty decent monitors in my time, including a Dell 3007, an Apple 27" Cinema Display, and an Apple 24" Cinema Display.

This panel is frankly amazing - no dead pixels (and my autistic traits would not let me rest easy with even one) and very minimal IPS bleed at bottom right with the brightness on 24.

Apart from the panel though, what on earth possessed them? The bezel, and in particular the buttons feel really cheap. Also, the gloss black ain't great either!

The stand is a bit of a pain, as due to the circular base I can't push it as far back on my desk as I would like - maybe I'll look into an alternative vesa stand or an arm.

All in all though, the panel is amazing, and having never experienced 144hz, let alone G-sync it really is a breath of fresh air!

Edit : as the room gets darker, then the bleed in all four corners is apparent. However it seems that this is normal for IPS panels. I can live with that - I couldn't live with a stuck pixel though!
 
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I was seriously looking at one of these but am not going to bother now.

Way too many stories regarding quality issues for the high RRP. Totally unacceptable and too much of a gamble for me.
 
Im just wondering if the grim picture drawn on these forums are due to all the happy and satisfied people having no need to go to the forums to speak their frustration so we dont hear from them at all?
 
psykix said:
Edit : as the room gets darker, then the bleed in all four corners is apparent. However it seems that this is normal for IPS panels. I can live with that - I couldn't live with a stuck pixel though!
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It isn't normal, my Asus wasn't perfect but it's a world of difference to what some of us are having here.
 
Woooop!! I'm the the Acer Predator XB270HU club :) (Will get some piccy's up when I can)

Picked one of these up from OcUK store today and I am for one a very happy customer! :)

No dead or stuck pixels at all!!..... And yes there is a little bit of back light bleed. But seriously nothing you could notice unless your sat there, in the dark with the monitor on a full black screen, taking photo's on your phone/camera with no flash ;) ...... Yes mine looks A LOT worse when I do that. But sitting in front of it now, browsing the web, playing games, it is nothing but BEAUTIFUL and I honestly don't see any back light bleed.

I also have a couple questions. I am running the monitor along side a 27" ASUS VG278HE 144Hz (which I must say now looks horrible next to the Acer :) ). If I set the ASUS to native 1920x1080 144hz and the Acer to native 2560x1440 144hz then my GPU does not downclock fully and sits at 899mhz core and 1752mhz mem. But if a set both displays to 120hz then the GPU downclocks properly. Is this normal?

Also. In nVidia control panel, the Acer is set as the primary monitor and under global settings, Vsync is set the Gsync. But what should I now do with the in game vsync setting? Enable or Disable? Is there a easy way to tell if Gsync in working while in a game? Like the ROG Swift has a light.


Thanks, Andy.
 
the gp downclocking is a bug in the drivers, according to earlier in this thread.

Having just googled about needing games to be in full screen to utilise gsync, diablo you need to enable vsync, and that enables the vsync mode g-sync. no idea about other games though.
 
Ahh ok. Thanks for the reply. So I need to be in fullscreen? Would gsync work in fullscreen windowed mode? As I tend to go for this option if it's supported by the game as I use two monitors. If it does not then I will just use fullscreen.

Also will gsync work if the monitor is set to 120hz? As that's what I have done so my GPU will downclock when on the desktop.

Sorry for all the questions, gsync is new stuff to me :)
 
I think OCUK had 150 units so there will probably be a lot of happy campers who dont post here or won't comment for one reason or another. To me with this monitor you played the lottery a bit and not without a smidgeon of warning on what to expect. £690 is even more than what I paid for my crappy Acer (£500) and if I had got anything but near perfection for that price with this monitor I would not be happy either.

To put it into perspective for £690 you are on your way to a pretty decent gaming PC. What would you do if it turned up fully specced but you could only use 15gb of the 16gb it came with ? Put up with it ?
To throw another example in the hat look at the uproar when people found out the 4gb VRAM on the 970 was actually 3.5gb plus 512k slower vram. That was only on a couple hundred quid GPU.

This is a near £700 monitor. So you have one or two dead pixels. (which could get worse). Backlight bleed (which could get worse). To these people I say you are still playing a lottery but with £700. Once you get past the period that OCUK will help you out then good luck people. Be prepared to watch your monitor go slowly across the country to its doom and you can do sod all about it.
 
Andy321 said:
Woooop!! I'm the the Acer Predator XB270HU club :) (Will get some piccy's up when I can)

Picked one of these up from OcUK store today and I am for one a very happy customer! :)

No dead or stuck pixels at all!!..... And yes there is a little bit of back light bleed. But seriously nothing you could notice unless your sat there, in the dark with the monitor on a full black screen, taking photo's on your phone/camera with no flash ;) ...... Yes mine looks A LOT worse when I do that. But sitting in front of it now, browsing the web, playing games, it is nothing but BEAUTIFUL and I honestly don't see any back light bleed.

I also have a couple questions. I am running the monitor along side a 27" ASUS VG278HE 144Hz (which I must say now looks horrible next to the Acer :) ). If I set the ASUS to native 1920x1080 144hz and the Acer to native 2560x1440 144hz then my GPU does not downclock fully and sits at 899mhz core and 1752mhz mem. But if a set both displays to 120hz then the GPU downclocks properly. Is this normal?

Also. In nVidia control panel, the Acer is set as the primary monitor and under global settings, Vsync is set the Gsync. But what should I now do with the in game vsync setting? Enable or Disable? Is there a easy way to tell if Gsync in working while in a game? Like the ROG Swift has a light.


Thanks, Andy.
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What you need to do is set both of them to 120Hz, and go to "Manage 3D Settings" in the NVIDIA control panel and set "Preferred refresh rate" to highest available, if it's not already. This gives you a desktop of 120Hz and 3D gaming mode of 144Hz. So you have the best of both worlds.

You can go around the bug by modifying your graphics card's BIOS though, it's not recommended as you can easily mess up some pixel clock timings. Desktop at 120Hz is basically the same as 144Hz.
 
HACO said:
What you need to do is set both of them to 120Hz, and go to "Manage 3D Settings" in the NVIDIA control panel and set "Preferred refresh rate" to highest available, if it's not already. This gives you a desktop of 120Hz and 3D gaming mode of 144Hz. So you have the best of both worlds.

You can go around the bug by modifying your graphics card's BIOS though, it's not recommended as you can easily mess up some pixel clock timings. Desktop at 120Hz is basically the same as 144Hz.
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Thanks for that. Yeah under Global settings "Preferred refresh rate" is set to "Highest available" I'll just run games in fullscreen from now on :)
 
I'd like to add something I've learned with this monitor, one of the games I've tried today was Cities Skylines and with the monitor at 144Hz it had a load of stuttering that wasn't there before, there is no option like a lot of games to choose the refresh rate in-game, so I went to the nVidia control panel and setup a profile just for it and put Preferred refresh rate to Application-controlled, that fixed it, I assume that makes it run at 60Hz but I dont know of a better way of doing it.
 
Andy321 said:
Ahh ok. Thanks for the reply. So I need to be in fullscreen? Would gsync work in fullscreen windowed mode? As I tend to go for this option if it's supported by the game as I use two monitors. If it does not then I will just use fullscreen.

Also will gsync work if the monitor is set to 120hz? As that's what I have done so my GPU will downclock when on the desktop.

Sorry for all the questions, gsync is new stuff to me :)
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games ran terrible for me in anything other than fullscreen.

edit: when I say terrible, not the delightful gsync smoothness I get from fullscreen
 
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