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

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New panels are all 1080p though... meh. Nothing is going to pique my interest now until next gen DP 1.3 21:9 panels materialise, but I suspect it will be well in to 2017 before we see any G-Sync variants of those... and at a price I shudder to imagine!
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Waste of time waiting for DP1.3 21:9 screens.

X34 at a constant 100hz is smooth as silk.

I've tried a friends 144hz screen and could not tell the difference with the extra 44hz, other than it looking really square! :p (16:9)

Main objective is maintaining a constant 100hz with future titles which full fat pascal next year should do nicely with future games at this res (I'm hoping).

My next screen I'll be upgrading to is 21:9 OLED (same res as X34 or higher), now that will be worth waiting for (and quite some time too!)
 
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I just wanted to mention an issue here incase anyone else happens to come across it.

I received the XR341CK a couple of days back. On trying it out first time it worked absolutely fine. Later on in the evening I had turned my PC off a while. When I went back to it later, the PC would not power on at all. I switched it off at the wall and then back on and it did power on but kept turning off again after a few seconds.

My first thought was christ sake, the PSU is on the blink.

However I hooked up another old 1440p IPS monitor I had and the computer worked fine.

Went back to the new ACER and it actually booted up fine, and was working no problem. I shut the PC down through windows, and then turned it back on and this issue was back again. My computer kept shutting off after a few seconds. I also noticed this time there was a weird beeping sound coming from my computer. Certainly not a motherboard error sound. It was something else.

At that point I unplugged the displayport (PC end) to minidisplayport (monitor end) cable and the sound stopped. If I plugged it back in, the beeping was back.

I also noticed that my motherboard was behaving as if the CMOS battery was dead too. The bios was resetting each time, forcing me to enter setup and put everything back. (Using Asus z97 Pro Gamer + 4790k + Kingston RAM at 1600 + x2 r9 290 in crossfire)

So I ditched that cable and used an older displayport to displayport cable and so far it's working fine.

Maybe just a dodgy cable, but I have never encountered a dodgy cable causing such behaviour and sounds before. I still have no idea where that weird sound was coming from.

Otherwise the monitor is great. No significant backlight bleed issues compared to some of the earlier monitors I have seen. I replaced the Phillips 40 inch 4k monitor with it, which is also great, but not for my main gaming rig.
 
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nlyh said:
So I ditched that cable and used an older displayport to displayport cable and so far it's working fine.

Maybe just a dodgy cable, but I have never encountered a dodgy cable causing such behaviour and sounds before. I still have no idea where that weird sound was coming from. .
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So did you use the cable supplied with the monitor or a different one? Because not all DP cables are the same even when they claim to be.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
So did you use the cable supplied with the monitor or a different one? Because not all DP cables are the same even when they claim to be.
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I did not use the cable supplied with monitor as it was too short. I already had the dp to dp (one that works with acer now) and dp to mdp cable (one causing the issues).

Strangely that "bad" cable works with other set ups no problem.
 
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I just ordered an X34 from here (Overclockers UK) and the manufacture date is November 2015. I won't be able to test the monitor until Wednesday but what are the odds that it will be perfect (100hz, minimal scanlines and BLB, no coil whine)?

Thanks, I'd love to hear your personal experiences with this monitor.
 
George3011 said:
I just ordered an X34 from here (Overclockers UK) and the manufacture date is November 2015. I won't be able to test the monitor until Wednesday but what are the odds that it will be perfect (100hz, minimal scanlines and BLB, no coil whine)?

Thanks, I'd love to hear your personal experiences with this monitor.
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Mine is November build date and is perfect so you should be good
 
i have a fury strix and im tempted by the XR34 , ive always went with bigger hz on monitors as my main use is games my monitor atm is an aoc 1920X1080 144hz .

i was wondering if anyone had made a similar change in the past and noticed any great difference with the difference in hz going from 144 to 75 etc

appreciate any feedback :)
 
nlyh said:
I did not use the cable supplied with monitor as it was too short. I already had the dp to dp (one that works with acer now) and dp to mdp cable (one causing the issues).

Strangely that "bad" cable works with other set ups no problem.
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In order to work correctly with Freesync (and Gsync?) you'll need a certified cable as indicated on the official DisplayPort site. The non-certified cables have trouble with adaptive sync as well as the higher frequencies of 4k resolutions, apprarently. I had one that displayed ok but wouldn't allow Freesync to be enabled at all. Once I got a certified cable all was fine, the cable that comes with the monitor works fine too but as you noticed its a bit on the short side.
 
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